Chapter 5

「Heavenly Fortune Dao friend is an incarnation of a spirit treasure; we have gathered here today because of Heavenly Fortune Dao friend. Why not discuss the Dao? 」

Seeing the leaders of the three tribes cease hostilities, the Yin-Yang Old Ancestor proposed.

「Incarnation of a spirit treasure? 」

Luo Hou was also somewhat surprised, taking a proper look at Zhu Qingyun for the first time.

"There are still matters in my clan, so I'll take my leave first."

Shi Qilin had just lost face in front of everyone and suffered a secret loss, so naturally he did not wish to stay here.

Yuan Feng and Zu Long exchanged a glance, also said a couple of polite words, then left.

Since the discussion of the Dao can last as short as several thousand years or as long as tens of thousands of years, and besides Zhu Qingyun, there are currently six reincarnated bodies of Chaos Demon Gods participating in the discussion.

After this discussion of the Dao, it will likely take hundreds of thousands of years, and after the establishment of the three primordial clans, besides the number of their members, their fortune is also related to the territory they occupy.

If the two of us participated in the Dao discussion, Shi Qilin would seize the opportunity to expand his territory, and we would lose the initiative.

"Since that's the case, let me, your humble Daoist, start things off."

After the leaders of the three clans left, aside from Zhu Qingyun, the one with the lowest cultivation present, Hongjun, spoke first.

Seeing this, Daoist Qiankun waved his hand, and platforms and tea utensils emitting the aura of top-grade innate spiritual treasures appeared one after another before the assembled deities.

Accompanying his person is the innate supreme treasure, the Qiankun Cauldron, which possesses the power to reverse the innate!

Since the primordial world has only just been opened and materials are abundant, Daoist Qiankun is never lacking in spiritual treasures! Daoist Yangmei then took slice after slice of tea leaves with strange patterns and placed them in the tea ware.

These are precisely the tea trees of the supreme innate spiritual root, the Enlightenment Tea Tree!

Seeing this, Zhu Qingyun, with a flash of thought, before it had even taken form, dragged up its spiritual spring that had existed for countless tens of thousands of years, which was then swept up.

This spring water also has a great origin—it is the Primordial World's foremost holy medicine for healing wounds, the Three‑Light Divine Water!

The ever‑unnoticed Karma Demon God let out a soft "yi", and tendrils of Dao flame rose from his fingertips, boiling the tea water.

Zhu Qingyun took a light sip of the spiritual tea, but found that the legendary effect of enhancing Dao comprehension did not manifest in him.

So, has his heaven‑defying comprehension become so powerful that even the Enlightenment Tea Tree is useless? After the many deities had taken their seats, Hongjun began his discourse.

"My Dao is called Xuan; it governs creation, next oversees teaching and transformation, the gate of all marvels, mysterious and yet more mysterious, loftily reposing in the nine heavens, upon a mat of Dao truth……"

As Hongjun began his discourse, explanations of the Great Dao of Creation poured into everyone's ears.

The deities sometimes frowned, sometimes gained insight, discarding the dross and retaining the essence.

The path of the Great Dao—different routes lead to the same goal—several primordial deities, combining what Hongjun said with their own Daos, mutually verified each other and felt they had gained much! Only two individuals were particularly special in listening to the Dao! One of them was Luo Hou! As a reincarnation of the Destruction Demon God, he directly felt that Hongjun's discourse was like demonic sounds in his ears, everywhere contrary to his own.

"Mortal enemy of the Great Dao!"

Luo Hou gained a clear realization—this path is completely opposite to his understanding of the Great Dao! "In the future, I will surely do battle with him!"

Luo Hou's killing intent flickered, but seeing the Karma Demon God immersed in Dao comprehension, and realizing he had no certainty of a killing blow, he quietly concealed his killing intent.

"Then let's wait until his discourse ends, and join forces with our fellow Daoist of Karma to strike together!"

Beside him, sensing Luo Hou's killing intent and feeling his body tense, Hongjun also sensed this and secretly let out a sigh of relief.

"Why would Fellow Daoist Luo Hou bear killing intent toward me, your humble Daoist?" Hongjun, while secretly puzzled, turned his gaze toward Zhu Qingyun, who was immersed in Dao comprehension, his breath flickering uncertainly.

"After finishing the Dao discussion with all fellow Daoists, we still need to find an opportunity to erase this person's consciousness!"

The way of the Great Dao must be contested! Since Hongjun sensed that Zhu Qingyun's innate spiritual treasure is of utmost importance to his future self, he could never abandon the thought of obtaining it.

Zhu Qingyun, focusing on listening to the Dao, naturally could not sense the malice hidden in Hongjun's heart.

Listening to Hongjun's exposition of the Great Dao of Creation, he absorbed it like a sponge, eagerly and thirstily drinking in Hongjun's comprehension of the Great Dao of Creation.

【You listen to Hongjun's exposition of the Great Dao of Creation; your comprehension of the Creation laws rises rapidly, current mastery, 3%!】

【You listen to Hongjun's exposition of the Great Dao of Creation; your comprehension of the Creation laws rises rapidly, current mastery, 6%!】

【You derive myriad Daos from the Way of Literature, you reverse‑engineer the Way of Literature from the Creation laws; your comprehension of the Way of Literature increases, current mastery, 19%!】

Zhu Qingyun follows the path of deriving myriad Daos from the Way of Literature, opening up the myriad heavens and worlds; as the other laws he controls improve, the Way of Literature naturally improves as well! ……

In the blink of an eye, three thousand years have passed; at this point Hongjun's exposition of the Great Dao of Creation is nearing its end! 【You listen to Hongjun's exposition of the Great Dao of Creation; your comprehension of the Creation laws rises rapidly, current mastery, 19%!】

【You derive myriad Daos from the Way of Literature, you reverse‑engineer the Way of Literature from the Creation laws; your comprehension of the Way of Literature increases, current mastery, 23%!】

Over the span of three thousand years, Zhu Qingyun has gained tremendous improvement!

His comprehension of the Creation laws has even surpassed, in one fell swoop, the fortune laws of the already‑opened great world! "My humble Daoist's comprehension of the Great Dao of Creation is thus; next, I will explain to fellow Daoists my nascent cultivation method!"

After the exposition of the Great Dao concluded, Hongjun immediately proceeded to lecture on the cultivation method of the Immortal Dao he had founded!

"My humble Daoist's method is called the Immortal Dao; cultivators of this method can attain the Great Luo!"

"The first realm of the Immortal Dao, I name it True Immortal!"

"A True Immortal can control the power of heaven and earth……"

The True Immortal is the first realm established by Hongjun; later, when the Heavenly Dao came into being and took control of the Primordial World, Hongjun changed it to Heavenly Immortal.

"The founder? Then let's first give it a listen!"

Luo Hou had just sent a sound transmission to the Karma Demon God preparing to act; upon hearing Hongjun say that, he again intended to first listen to the method Hongjun had created.

At this stage Hongjun's Immortal cultivation method is still in its infancy; thus, in merely nine hundred years he has already explained the initial four realms of Immortality—True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Mystic Immortal, and Great Luo Golden Immortal! 【You have drawn upon Hongjun's founded Immortal cultivation method, further refining your crude Martial Dao method!】

【Combining the four pre‑immortal realms of the previous life—refining essence to qi, refining qi to spirit, refining spirit to void, and void uniting with the Dao—you have divided the Martial Dao into eight realms!】

【As the creator of the Martial Dao, with the perfection of the method you automatically rise to the Martial Dao Great Luo realm!】

The Martial Dao is the path that chiefly cultivates the physical body!

After cultivating the Martial Dao to the Great Luo level, Zhu Qingyun's cultivation received a boost under this support.

Streams of innate spiritual qi entered his body; Zhu Qingyun's aura trembled slightly, and the Great Luo realm was already perfected!

Likewise, as Hongjun fully expounded the Immortal Dao method, an image identical to him emerged from between his eyebrows.

Hongjun produced a piece of jade; after the image merged into the jade and they addressed each other as fellow Daoists, it re‑merged into his body!

Hongjun's cultivation likewise broke through, arriving at the late stage of the Mixed‑Element Golden Immortal!

(End of chapter)