Chapter 1164: Longevity: My Steady Farming-Style Cultivation Chapter 1164 — One's Own Dao!

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Instantly, Xu Zhangqing came to a stop.

Before him, a background appeared.

It was a boundless, massive passage; the two sides of the passage were not walls, but layer upon layer of light and shadow.

Within the light and shadow, some scenes could be seen.

Some people were walking, some were kneeling.

Some were fighting, some were dying.

But these scenes were too blurry.

So blurry that not a single face could be made out, not a single pattern on any robe could be discerned.

Only blurry contours could be seen, acting out some story long forgotten by men.

From the depths of the passage came faint human voices.

The voices were low, like someone whispering secretly, yet also like someone reciting scriptures.

But by the time the voices reached Xu Zhangqing's ears, they had already begun to twist.

First the speech rate sped up, accelerating to a piercing degree.

Then the pitch rose, climbing to a height no normal person could possibly produce.

Finally... the human voices thoroughly turned into screams.

Those screams were sharp to the extreme, like countless mouths screaming simultaneously, yet strangely no specific suffering could be heard.

It was more like a pure sound stripped of all meaning, the sound itself screaming, rather than a person screaming.

Xu Zhangqing stood before this passage for a long time.

So long that even he himself didn't know what he was doing.

Then, he stepped inside and sat cross-legged in the depths of the passage.

The time flow in the surroundings accelerated, fast enough that even he could sense the change in time.

In this gap, the time flow differed at different positions.

The more mysterious and profound the background, the faster the time flow.

And the time flow in the depths of this passage was who knew how many times faster than the Outside.

He did not waste time, and began to cultivate.

One hundred years.

Xu Zhangqing reorganized his foundation once through.

His foundation was too mixed; although its grade was extremely high, in the end it was not his own.

Now that he had time, he began to slowly wear away, understand, and fuse it bit by bit.

Laws, Dao rhymes, and Creation were repeatedly tempered, stripping away the redundant parts layer by layer.

In a mere hundred years, Xu Zhangqing's understanding of himself rose a new stairway.

Previously, casting Shrinking Ground to Inches required locking onto a Space Node in advance — that is, a position; now with a single thought, everything within ten thousand li was in his control.

The Five-Colored Divine Light was no longer simply five colors, but mutually blended.

Red and white merged into Blazing Sun, green and black merged into Vast Sea... any two of the five colors combined could derive different forms.

Three hundred years.

Xu Zhangqing's cultivation, as a matter of course, reached Spirit Transformation Peak.

The mana in his Qi Sea was profound to an unprecedented degree.

The Seven-Colored Lotus rotated quietly in his Qi Sea, every power tempered to the extreme.

His Divine Soul had already condensed solid to the extent it could detach from his Flesh Body and act alone.

Moreover, after his Flesh Body absorbed a trace of law remnants from the passage depths.

On his bones, a layer of gray luster faintly emerged.

Placed Outside, if he threw a punch now, without any divine ability bolstering, relying solely on his Flesh Body's power, it would be enough to blast a Spirit Transformation cultivator to pieces.

Yes, blast to pieces.

However, Xu Zhangqing still felt it was not enough.

"This state" was only a single step away from breaking through to the Void Refining stage.

But he always felt there were still some places not cultivated to the limit.

The Creation Power still had room to rise.

The Seven-Colored Lotus was not yet fully mastered.

His Personal Space, though already evolved into a complete Xiao Tian Di.

Still had a clear gap from a true Xiao Yu Zhou.

Thus, Xu Zhangqing did not rush to break through, but continued cultivating.

Just like that, a full one thousand three hundred years passed.

In these one thousand three hundred years, Xu Zhangqing repeatedly integrated and restructured all his own laws, Dao rhymes, Creation Power, Five Elements Great Dao, Green Emperor Great Dao, and Creation Dao.

Ultimately, forming a brand new, uniquely his own Dao!

He named it "Yuan".

The Five Elements construct the skeleton of all things.

Creation endows all things with vitality.

How does a seed sprout?

How does a flower bloom?

How does a life come from nothing into being?

Xu Zhangqing worked as a spirit farmer for two hundred years, understanding the sprouting of life more clearly than anyone.

Creation, Order, Termination.

The three connect head to tail, forming a complete, self-consistent, endless cycle.

This cycle does not need the support of the outside world, does not need the recognition of the Heavenly Dao, and does not even need the intervention of any external force.

It operates alone within Xu Zhangqing's body, forming a world of its own.

He opened his eyes, looking down at his own hands.

In his left palm, the Five Elements Power condensed into a five-colored halo, rotating endlessly.

In his right palm, the Yuan Xu Power condensed into a pitch-black vortex, silently devouring the surrounding escaping light and shadow.

At this moment, Xu Zhangqing could clearly perceive the changes within his body.

The Qi Sea was still that Qi Sea, but the Heaven and Earth Furnace was no longer a separate Magic Treasure.

The Furnace merged with his Qi Sea, and the flames within the Furnace were no longer simple Law Fire.

Rather, it was a brand new flame catalyzed by the convergence of the Five Elements Power, Creation Power, and Yuan Xu Power.

Primordial Fire!

The Six Treasures of Creation also underwent Change during these one thousand three hundred years.

They no longer floated in the Qi Sea in the Form of separate Magic Treasures, but Transformed into six bands of light of different Colors, encircling the outside of that group of Primordial Fire like star rings.

Each band of light preserves the core Law of the Magic Treasure.

But between them, signs of fusion have already Appeared.

Just like six different pigments dripping into water at the same time, gradually blending into new colors at the junctions.

Finally, the Seven-Colored Lotus bloomed.

The Seven-Colored Lotus nurtured a Lotus Seed; in these one thousand three hundred years, this Seed Absorbed his reorganized Primordial Dao, and on its Surface emerged the contours of mountains and rivers.

The Personal Space, even more, underwent earth-shaking Changes.

Xu Zhangqing sent the Star River Tripod into the Personal Space; the complete Star River within the Tripod, taking the Tripod as its center, began to spread outward.

The originally forcibly maintained "Xiao Tian Di", under the infusion of this complete Star River, finally crossed the most Critical threshold.

Laws no longer need external force to maintain, beginning to operate on their own.

The Time Law gives the space day and night alternation, the Space Law gives the stars their own orbits, the Life and Death Law gives the living beings within the space the cycle of birth and extinction.

It is no longer a Dongtian Fudi, but a growing Xiao Yu Zhou.

And his Dao, after all these Changes were Completed, finally emerged with a complete Contour from among countless fragmented Law Fragments.

This one Dao does not bow to the Green Emperor.

Indeed, Xu Zhangqing is the Green Emperor's disciple, but the Green Emperor's Dao is the growth of all things; his Dao does not stop at growth, but also includes the recycling and rebirth after Termination.

Planting a crop of spirit rice, after harvest turning the soil and fertilizing, letting the withered roots rot in the mud and Transform into nutrients for the next crop — this is the complete Reincarnation.

This one Dao does not revere the Dao Master.

Creation is the means of creating something from nothing, the Authority of Immortals creating worlds.

However, Xu Zhangqing's Dao, from the very beginning, was not creating something from nothing.

He farms; the seeds are from the land, the rain water falls from the sky, the fertilizer is transformed from rotting dead leaves and Spirit Beast Feces.

Therefore, Xu Zhangqing merely found, within the original Order of all things, a path that lets them each return to their place and cycle endlessly!