Chapter 1138: Proving the Dao

It would take a long time for the two worlds to engage in a great war.

After all, the fusion of two worlds into a final world could not be completed in a short time, but this process would absolutely not be peaceful.

As the worlds merged, the barriers between the two worlds would inevitably dissipate slowly. This meant that others could enter each other's worlds without passing through the Chaos world.

In this way, the threshold for passage between the two worlds would be greatly lowered.

After all, entering the Chaos world required at least the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. The Great Luo Golden Immortals of both worlds were top-tier existences, and their numbers were inevitably few.

But with the barriers between the two worlds gone, theoretically, even a mortal could enter each other's worlds.

Of course, although it was theoretically possible for a mortal to cross over, it was impossible in reality. After all, how far could a mortal walk?

Even if they were fused together, the boundaries between the two worlds were still extremely distant.

It was simply impossible for an ordinary mortal.

But those cultivators might be able to.

It was just that for low-level cultivators, even if they crossed the barrier, the two worlds had not fully merged, and the origin of the laws might be different. If they were both worlds of the Xianxia type, perhaps it would still be possible.

If it were purely a technology-side world, perhaps Immortal Dao cultivators might not be able to adapt in the short term.

Even for worlds of the same type, they might need a certain amount of time to adapt.

But the stronger the person, the faster they would adapt. As long as they could adapt, the two worlds would communicate rapidly.

As for whether this communication would be peaceful or not, no one knew. He feared that at the beginning, they would still use their fists to communicate first.

But regardless, in the short term, the two worlds were still in a peaceful state, giving Su Fan and the Sword Sect a certain amount of time to develop.

Su Fan thought along the way and soon met Zhenyuanzi.

"Teacher!"

Seeing this, Su Fan bowed very respectfully. Su Fan still held the Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi in high regard.

"Hmm! Not bad."

"I didn't expect that after not seeing you for tens of thousands of years, you, Xiao Fan, have made such great progress."

Zhenyuanzi was somewhat surprised that Su Fan's cultivation had suddenly risen to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, and he could see that Su Fan's foundation was extremely solid, not the kind enhanced by using merit.

He naturally knew that his "cheap" disciple's merit was quite dense.

Under his discerning eyes, he saw the golden wheel of merit behind Su Fan's forehead.

It was so dazzling; it could be said that 99.9% of the immortals in the Primordial Three Realms could not reach this level of merit.

Of course, ever since he created the Dao of Earth Deities, his own merit had also been condensing more and more.

After all, anyone who cultivated the Dao of Earth Deities and continuously combed through the spiritual lands and veins of the Primordial World was also enhancing the power of the earth veins. This invisibly gained merit, and as the founder, he naturally would not be forgotten by the Heavenly Dao; a portion would always be allocated to him.

As time passed, the condensed merit would become more and more; this was continuous.

Unless the Dao of Earth Deities was extinguished, the merit would increase endlessly.

It was just like the Holy Elephant Clan of the Northern Sea Continent and the Six Paths of Reincarnation of the Underworld.

Originally, Zhenyuanzi's merit was already not small. Perhaps he couldn't compare to the Three Pure Ones and Nüwa, but he had more than the two Western Saints.

The Three Pure Ones and Nüwa relied on merit and the Primordial Purple Qi to become Saints. The two Western Saints did not have enough merit and could only make great vows.

And ever since Zhenyuanzi took human form, relying on the Earth Book, he had been continuously reconnecting the earth veins for the Primordial World.

Especially after the continuous great wars since ancient times, many mountains and earth veins had been severely damaged. In the ancient period, the West suffered destructive blows because Luo Hou forged the Four Swords of Immortal Execution and could not be repaired.

But the East had many of its earth veins repaired by him using the Earth Book.

Moreover, during the Investiture of the Gods, when the four Saints were destroying the heavens and the earth, he used the Earth Book to protect the Primordial land.

Otherwise, once the Saints and the Dao Ancestor refined the earth, water, fire, and wind, the human realm of the Primordial land would likely be even smaller than it was now.

This also earned him merit, just like Nüwa mending the heavens back then; both were because the heavens and earth were damaged by man, and the latter went to make amends, gaining immeasurable merit.

In terms of merit alone, Zhenyuanzi was actually not inferior. If he were to become a Saint through merit, he might even be able to become a Merit Saint.

Of course, this method of becoming a sage belongs to the weakest; although Sanqing and Nuwa also became sages through merit, they also had the Primordial Purple Qi and were connected to the Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, they are Heavenly Dao Sages, not merely Merit Sages.

The Dao Ancestor once proposed three methods for becoming a sage; the first is to prove the Dao with strength, following the path of Primordial Daluo. Of course, one directly uses powerful cultivation to sever the shackles and karma with heaven and earth, breaking through the realm with supreme magic power.

Proving to be a sage is actually not just an ordinary sage; it contains many things, such as proving the Dao through laws, the physical body reaching Primordial Daluo, or the Dao of the world, among many others.

The most difficult among them is to break all shackles with absolute strength; this is the path taken by the Great God Pangu, because once one becomes a sage, one is a Great Dao Sage.

The cultivation realm far exceeds that of an ordinary Primordial Daluo sage, almost comparable to the Heavenly Dao level.

In the ancient era, those supreme beings of the Divine Dao, such as the mysterious Three Sovereigns, all took this path, but the Three Sovereigns, without exception, all failed.

But this does not mean their strength was low; one must know that during the Divine Dao period, the Three Sovereigns, as the supreme beings ruling over everything in the Primordial world, absolutely had the cultivation of sages.

The Dao Ancestor was not the first to become a sage.

That Space Demon God became a sage before the Dao Ancestor; however, at that time, this Great Immortal Yangliu was also very low-key in the Primordial world, being one of the Five Elders of the Five Directions along with the Dao Ancestor.

Even such a sage had to bow his head, which shows the terror of the Three Sovereigns.

The Three Sovereigns must also have been Chaos Demon Gods, and they were Chaos Demon Gods who had not been killed by the Great God Pangu, so they followed the path of the Great God Pangu.

It is a pity that there was only one Great God Pangu.

But regardless, this proving the Dao with strength is the most difficult; proving the Dao through laws is relatively simpler, and a portion of the Demon Gods took this path.

Such as that Great Immortal Yangliu.

And the Dao Ancestor actually took this path as well, only he opened up a new method of proving the Dao, the method of severing the three corpses.

So Hongjun became the Dao Ancestor of the Primordial world, and his realm improved rapidly, beginning to chase after the Great God Pangu.

Then there is proving the Dao through luck, which is also a method; it was the path the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin tribes were preparing to take in the late ancient era.

This path was revealed by Luo Hou, the purpose being to make the three tribes slaughter each other.

Although this was a conspiracy, the method of proving the Dao was not fake; after all, the high-level members of the three tribes, especially the Ancestral Dragon and the others, were not fools.

However, this method of proving the Dao is also extremely difficult.

During the ancient Divine Dao period, the Three Sovereigns disdained such methods; after all, proving the Dao through this method is still very weak, and at their peak, they even exceeded the powerhouses who proved the Dao through this method.