Chapter 29: Chapter Twenty-Eight: Seeking Innate Objects, the Arrival of the Return-to-Origin True Monarch

Now the Five Elements Great Dao has condensed thirty Five Elements True Talismans, equivalent to thirty strands of Five Elements Law Imprint.

It is precisely the time to break through to Soul-Outsourcing Second Layer.

With a thought, Chen Daoxuan's Primordial Spirit undergoes Soul Egress.

A Great Dao Primordial Spirit, twenty thousand zhang tall, with one-tenth of its area flowing with two kinds of Primordial Spirit Radiance, manifests.

A vast, solid-as-substance Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm descends.

Within the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm, three Immortal Scripture Dharma Aspects—Five Elements Mountain, Four Symbols Mountain, and Yin Yang Mountain—each reaching twenty thousand zhang, stand unshaken.

The original Xuanwu Dharma Aspect has already become part of the Four Symbols Mountain Dharma Aspect.

Among the three Immortal Scripture Dharma Aspects, only the Five Elements Mountain Dharma Aspect is the most ordinary.

The Four Symbols Mountain Dharma Aspect manifests the Four Spirits: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu.

The Yin Yang Mountain Dharma Aspect is formed by the convergence and rotation of Yin Yang Fish, creating a scroll-like Yin Yang Dao Diagram.

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Beyond the three Immortal Scripture Dharma Aspects, in a corner of the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm, there is also a mountain-shaped Dharma Aspect, alternating between solid and void, flowing with Causality Great Dao, less than a hundred zhang tall.

It is a Causality Dharma Aspect.

Because the Causality Great Dao has only barely been initiated, over five hundred years only two Causality True Talismans have been condensed one after another.

Moreover, not only is there no Immortal Scripture guidance, there is not even any cultivation scripture.

There is not even a method to condense the Causality Dharma Aspect.

He can only use the most basic, most universal method of condensing a Dharma Aspect.

Added to that is the lack of an environment like that during the Great Dao Baptism.

This makes the speed at which Chen Daoxuan condenses the Causality Dharma Aspect relatively very slow.

Even now, it has only been condensed to less than a hundred zhang.

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Apart from these, in Chen Daoxuan's Primordial Spirit perception, one golden and one cyan Merit Lotus Pond Dharma Realm float three chi above the Primordial Spirit's head in the void.

A thousand zhang in radius.

Apart from the Merit Object at the core of the Merit Pond—a fifth-grade Merit Lotus with five grades and nine petals in full bloom—

there are also Merit Lotus Fruits upon Merit Lotus Fruits, the lowest first-grade three-petaled, the highest fifth-grade nine-petaled, spread throughout the entire Merit Lotus Pond Dharma Realm.

One can also see that the Merit Water within the Merit Lotus Pond is nearly exhausted.

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Steadying his spirit and calming his breath, Chen Daoxuan senses that trace of a breakthrough opportunity. In an instant, the twenty-thousand-zhang Primordial Spirit, the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm, and the two Merit Dharma Realms vanish without a trace within the Cuivei Immortal Mansion.

Spirit Wandering the Great Void, he begins to undergo the Second Great Dao Baptism.

The Flesh Dharma Body once again falls into a state of neither life nor death, enduring the erosion of Chang Sheng Tian Gui.

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Unlike the first Great Dao Baptism.

Although the Great Dao Primordial Spirit's Five Senses and Six Consciousnesses were sealed the moment this Second Great Dao Baptism began, unable to perceive anything,

besides the Kunlun Mirror, this time Chen Daoxuan can also sense those four Dharma Aspects, like four avatar incarnations.

Through the four Dharma Aspects, he can also sense those two Merit Lotus Pond Dharma Realms, one golden and one cyan.

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As his Great Dao Primordial Spirit silently endures the Great Dao Baptism,

Yin Yang, Five Elements, Four Symbols, and Causality—the four Great Daos—are respectively perceived by Chen Daoxuan through those four Dharma Aspects.

Chang Sheng Tian Gui, at this moment, seems to vanish.

Even in the Great Universe, there is a feeling of being in the Yuanling Realm, in the Tianling Great Realm.

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For cultivators of the Great Universe, this is an excellent opportunity to comprehend the Great Dao.

But for Chen Daoxuan, this is merely the normal environment he experiences when comprehending the Great Dao in the other two realms.

Therefore, he did not immerse himself in comprehending the Great Dao.

Instead, he commanded the four Dharma Aspects, sensing the void beyond the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm that seemed to have undergone no change.

Within that expanse of void, he searched for something.

According to the Shanhai Immortal Sect's records concerning the depths of the Great Dao in the Great Universe,

it is actually not the mere void it appears to be.

There also exist some Innate Objects, created by the convergence of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

And every Innate Object is equivalent to an Immortal Artifact Embryo.

Possessing endless potential and boundless profundity.

Not only is it the best choice for a Lifebound Treasure, but also the best object for Heavenly Dao Harmony when breaking through to the Combined Body Stage.

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Through the perception of the four Great Daos, Chen Daoxuan knows that his current Great Dao Primordial Spirit is in an operation state profound beyond description.

In this wondrous operation state, the Primordial Spirit endures the baptism of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

But it is also in this operation state that there is an infinitely slim chance of sensing Innate Objects, of obtaining Innate Objects.

Chen Daoxuan's idea of obtaining Innate Objects is not mere wishful thinking, not a plan to rely purely on luck—he has something to rely on.

Within those two Merit Lotus Pond Dharma Realms, one golden and one cyan, the countless Merit Lotus Fruits condensed bit by bit over these three hundred years from those ninety-nine Heavenly Dao Human Dao Merit Clouds are his reliance.

There are also two fifth-grade Merit Objects, which only occupy the merit contained within two Merit Clouds.

Subtracting the nearly exhausted Merit Water, the merit contained within the Merit Lotus Fruits accumulated over these three hundred years is equivalent to nearly ninety-seven Merit Clouds.

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Chen Daoxuan did not seek an Innate Object that had been nurtured to its utmost, comparable to or even surpassing an Immortal Artifact—what was called an Innate Immortal Artifact.

As long as he could obtain an Innate Object nurtured only to the level of a Nascent Soul Departure Spirit Treasure, or even a Nascent Soul Numinous Treasure, that would be enough.

The Merit Lotus Fruits condensed from nearly ninety-seven Merit Clouds, used in their entirety, were completely sufficient for him to ascend in a single step, breaking through to Nascent Soul Departure Peak.

And through this, to obtain an Innate Object at the Spirit Treasure level, or the Numinous Treasure level.

Chen Daoxuan felt he had at least a fifty or sixty percent chance.

If he could obtain an Innate Object and refine it into his Lifebound Treasure, then when he broke through to the Combined Body Stage in the future, it would be equivalent to increasing his success rate by at least thirty percent.

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Just as Chen Daoxuan's Primordial Spirit departed his body, undergoing the Second Great Dao Baptism, and sought to obtain an Innate Object—

Outside the Xuanwu Mie Xian Zhen.

Guiyuan True Lord emerged from the Great Teleportation Array.

He directly took out the inheritance supreme treasure of the Guiyuan Fama, the Guiyuan Heavenly Seal, and summoned Xuanwu Ding Ninety-Nine.

"Ding Ninety-Nine, bring me into the Mie Xian Zhen!"

"Yes, Dharma Lord."

After Guiyuan True Lord rode the Black Tortoise True Form transformed from the Mie Xian Black Mist, arriving at the Spirit Qi Planet Array Eye where Chen Daoxuan was located.

"Daoxuan!"

A calm, solemn voice spread out.

But for a long while, there was not the slightest response, not any reaction.

Regarding this, Guiyuan True Lord pondered slightly, first using the Guiyuan Heavenly Seal to connect with Chen Daoxuan's True Inheritance Shanhai Stele, attempting to make contact.

Upon sensing there was no response.

Guiyuan True Lord then, through Xuanwu Ding Ninety-Nine, sensed the situation within the Array Eye.

But he only sensed, on that Spirit Qi Planet, within the Huang Jie Fu Di, a Cuivei Immortal Mansion in the shape of a Green Mountain.

Beyond that, nothing else.

"Mm, it seems Daoxuan has fallen into closed-door cultivation."

"I can only wait a while."

In the span of a thought, Guiyuan True Lord sat cross-legged in the void.

"Once Daoxuan emerges from seclusion, and I pass the Guiyuan Heavenly Seal and the position of Dharma Lord of the sect to him, I can head to Wuliang Xianshan to obtain the Divine Soul Opportunity, and attempt to break through to the Divine Soul Stage."

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Deep within the Great Universe, where the Three Thousand Great Daos converged, in the void where the Great Universe Heavenly Mind Consciousness resided.

Chen Daoxuan did not know that by coincidence Guiyuan True Lord had arrived at the Xuanwu Mie Xian Zhen at this very moment.

He simply began to consume the Merit Lotus Fruits accumulated over three hundred years within the two Merit Lotus Pond Dharma Realms—one golden, one azure—and during the Great Dao Baptism, began to attempt to obtain an Innate Object.