Chapter 243: Dao Foundation

However, complaining is complaining, the road ahead still must be walked.

And the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou did not force Su Chen to oppose the Dao Ancestor Hongjun; it was not a dead-end mess, and Su Chen could choose to ignore this karma.

But given Su Chen's personality, he accepted this karma.

But before that, he had to thoroughly clarify himself.

Su Chen sat cross-legged again, his mind sinking into his dantian and sea of energy.

The Hunyuan Jin Dan rotating round and round looked bizarre at this moment.

The five-colored Dao patterns surrounding the Jin Dan were still not quite perfected.

The white light representing "Gold" and the dark light representing "Water" were dim, like two sleeping young dragons, appearing out of place compared to the other three brilliantly shining Dao patterns.

The Five Elements were not full, and the five breaths had not returned to the origin.

This was originally the foundation for ascending to Jin Xian, but now, he was already a Taiyi Jin Xian with three flowers gathered at the top.

Besides the Five Elements, his Yin-Yang Dao marks had also been perfected through the tempering of the Taiyin and Taiyang origins, combining Yin and Yang in a Taiji posture.

And outside those Five Elements and Yin-Yang Dao patterns, two more domineering and profound gray Dao marks occupied the Jin Dan.

One, filled with the violent will to thoroughly shatter all things and return them to chaos, was Luo Hou's Dao of "destruction."

The other, deep and dead, as if the end of all existence in the world, the final destination of all things in reincarnation, was the Dao of "termination."

The level of laws contained in these two gray Dao marks far exceeded what Su Chen himself had comprehended, faintly suppressing the unperfected Five Elements Dao rhyme and becoming the strongest power in his current Dao fruit.

Besides this, there was also an incomplete silver Dao mark; this was the space Dao mark obtained from the remains of the Great Yang Mei.

Su Chen looked at the messy Hunyuan Jin Dan and felt a headache.

"The original intention of the cultivation path I comprehended from the 'True Explanation of Hunyuan Jin Dan' was to ascend to Jin Xian with the perfection of the Five Elements as the foundation; then use the gathering of Yin and Yang as a bridge to prove the Taiyi Dao."

"Now my Five Elements are not full, but I have first obtained this Dao of destruction and termination, forcibly opening the gate of Taiyi..."

Su Chen's brows furrowed slightly.

This was like building a ten-thousand-foot-high tower, having only laid half the foundation, yet using a shortcut to forcibly build the tower on the unfinished foundation.

The tower was high and strong enough, but in the end, it was a castle in the air; the foundation was unstable, and trying to add bricks and tiles later would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

The level of Luo Hou's origin power was too high, directly pushing his cultivation to a height he should not have reached.

If it were someone else who had obtained such a great fortune, they would likely be ecstatic.

But Su Chen saw a hidden danger in it.

If he could not complete the foundation, his future cultivation path would likely stop at the Taiyi realm, making it difficult to advance further.

To solve this hidden danger, Su Chen fell into a deep state of Dao enlightenment.

He began to re-examine everything he had learned.

The "True Explanation of Hunyuan Jin Dan" emphasized Hunyuan as one, encompassing everything, pursuing a "perfection."

The "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" secretly matched Pangu's true intent of opening the heavens, emphasizing the destruction of the old chaos and the opening of a new world, with the core being "one life, one destruction."

And Luo Hou's Dao was pure destruction and termination, drawing a period for all things, with the core being the word "death."

Between the three, there seemed to be some profound connection.

Time passed quietly in this undisturbed secret realm.

One year, two years, three years...

In the blink of an eye, another five years passed.

On this day, Su Chen's eyes, which had been closed for five years, finally opened again.

There was no longer the darkness and silence of when he first woke up, but a return to clarity, profound as the starry sky, as if he could see through the principles of all things.

"I understand."

A smile appeared on his face, and there was no more confusion in his heart.

Luo Hou's Dao was domineering enough, but lacked vitality.

If he indulged in the power of destruction and termination, Su Chen would eventually only become a second Luo Hou, and perhaps not even as good as him.

That was not his path.

His foundation was still the Hunyuan Dao of the "True Explanation of Hunyuan Jin Dan."

Whether it was the true intent of opening the heavens from the "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" or Luo Hou's Dao of termination and destruction, they could only serve as assistance.

The perfection of the Five Elements, endless life—this was the foundation he needed to pursue.

Once he found the innate spiritual objects of Gold and Water, completed the Jin Dan, and the Five Elements rotated endlessly.

By then, his Dao foundation would truly be perfect and flawless, indestructible.

With the perfected Five Elements as the foundation, using Luo Hou's Dao of termination and destruction for his own use, and then using the Dao of Yin and Yang to encompass everything, finally achieving the Hunyuan Jin Dan.

This was the true path to heaven that belonged to him, Su Chen!

Having thought through all this, Su Chen felt his thoughts clear and his state of mind harmonious; the slight stagnation caused by the surge in cultivation instantly vanished.

He rose slowly; his physical body at the peak of Taiyi Jin Xian and his magic power at the early stage of Taiyi Jin Xian had been thoroughly mastered after five years of precipitation, his aura restrained, returning to simplicity.

At this moment, he looked like an ordinary young cultivator, with no strange phenomena at all.

"Fifty-five years..."

Su Chen looked around.

This secret realm, which had once been filled with endless demonic mist, was now empty, leaving only cracked dark red land.

Luo Hou, this Demon Ancestor who had once dominated the Primordial World, along with the last traces of his existence, had completely merged into his own Dao path.

"Senior, I will walk your path in my own way."

Su Chen said softly to the empty secret realm, as if saying goodbye, and also as if making a promise.

Afterward, his heart stirred, and the phantom of the Nine Demon Tower, which had completely merged with him, flashed and vanished between his brows.

It was time for him to go out.

He wondered how Flower Fruit Mountain was doing now.

Had Sun Wukong refined the origin of the Six-Eared Macaque? Did the Buddhist Sect have new movements after Tathagata's fall? Had the Journey to the West kalpa changed...

These were all questions Su Chen was very concerned about.

Thinking of these, Su Chen did not linger.

He took a step, his figure vanished from the spot, and when he appeared again, he was already in Luowu Mountain. ===== CHAPTER 244 =====