Chapter 635: Achieving the Primordial Five Tai Realm! Through the Dao of All Worlds

Due to Luo Fu’s appearance, the supreme beings of the Life Forbidden Zones engaged in a restrained clash while targeting the Ancient Emperor Qilin.

Even so, this still consumed considerable life essence from these Forbidden Zone supremes; after self-decapitation, they were not truly immortal.

Instead, they prolonged their lives in a sealed state, awaiting the opening of the Immortal Path, hoping to enter the Immortal Realm and fulfill their dream of becoming immortal or achieving eternal life.

Yet even in this sealed state, their life essence—or more simply, their lifespan—continually dwindled.

This process is irreversible.

This is why the danger of the Life Forbidden Zones often stems from the environment itself, such as the arrays deployed by these supremes, rather than the supremes themselves.

But after this clash, triggered by Luo Fu,

although the small-scale dark turmoil stirred by the Forbidden Zone supremes had been quelled after numerous clans and sects activated the divine spirits of their Emperor Weapons,

in truth, this quelling was merely a process of self-preservation by the clans and sects; they did not use Emperor Weapons to directly fight the supremes, but rather employed them for deterrence, preventing the supremes from targeting their own sects and clans. As long as the supremes showed no intent to ignite a larger dark turmoil, these clans and sects possessing Emperor Weapons would never foolishly engage them.

The reason the supremes did not ignite a wider dark turmoil was purely to avoid any unforeseen accidents before the Immortal Path they awaited opened.

After all, the current time and place are not the precise moments and locations the supremes had calculated.

It is less that the supremes are deterred by Emperor Weapons reawakening divine spirits, and more that they themselves have not consumed excessive life essence to devour the myriad races, hence they are not overly brutal.

Yet this situation produced a rather absurd outcome.

The Zhetian Method itself has an extremely limited lifespan; even a Great Emperor capable of shattering star rivers and suppressing myriad paths has only a ten-thousand-year maximum lifespan.

Under these conditions, how many contemporary Zhetian Method cultivators truly understand the brutality of the dark turmoils that occurred tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years ago?

Their understanding of dark turmoils comes mostly from ancient records.

When they believe they have witnessed a dark turmoil, one can imagine the catastrophic consequences when the true dark turmoil finally erupts.

Already, heirs of clans and families possessing Emperor Weapons are beginning to boast that with Emperor Weapons guarding them, even if a dark turmoil erupts, the supremes dare not strike them—they are utterly safe.

The number of cultivators from clans and sects holding this belief is increasing geometrically.

One can only say: ignorance breeds fearlessness; only those who have truly faced a dark turmoil will realize how foolish and arrogant their current confidence will prove, and how grimly it will end.

As for the originator of all this, Luo Fu, now began his second integration of his Luotian Method.

The Luotian Method was created entirely by Luo Fu himself.

But previously, he had no deep understanding of the Zhetian System.

Remember, even in the Zhetian Universe, ancient Great Emperors needed to reach the Immortal Platform realm before they could gradually refine their own Emperor Scripture.

Although Luo Fu had once debated with the Ferocious Great Empress and obtained the Devouring Heaven Demon Art and the Imperishable Heaven Art, these techniques he merely evaluated from a low-dimensional perspective, attempting to extract their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses.

It was like asking a person with only elementary school education to grade a doctoral thesis.

Some evaluations might be correct, but most judgments would inevitably be riddled with errors, even absurd.

Cultivation, whether the Zhetian Method or Luo Fu’s newly created Luotian Method, is a continuous process of correction.

In this regard, since Luo Fu is the sole pioneer of the Zhetian Method, this may not be obvious, but among the Zhetian System’s Great Emperors, none who ultimately achieved the Emperor path failed to correct their own Emperor Scripture layer by layer at the Immortal Platform realm, altering all previously cultivated techniques to forge their own grand path.

Aside from alternative paths to Dao, no Emperor Scripture, except its creator, has ever been successfully cultivated again by another to achieve Dao.

The rigor of cultivation is no less than that of technology.

Perhaps the perception of Dao comprehension as overly idealistic creates the illusion that cultivation lacks rigor, but in truth, those who chant bonds of friendship are mostly destined to become stepping stones.

On this point, the Northern Emperor Wang Teng is clearly a typical example.

Luo Fu’s Luotian Method is a grand path perfectly aligned with himself, just as the future Huang Tian Emperor created “Body as Seed”; yet the Zhetian System, despite retaining the broad framework of “Body as Seed,” differs almost entirely from it in every other aspect.

Luo Fu’s Zhetian Method was precisely aligned with himself from the start.

It is grounded in the Dao of his Twelve Celestial Realms, and ultimately, the Dao of other shared worlds.

This ensures Luo Fu will never confine himself to any single path.

Even if the Zhetian Universe is insufficient, the Dao and principles borrowed from other universes still cannot fully encompass it.

After discarding all flashy elements, Luo Fu’s system ultimately followed the most traditional method of division.

Luo Fu’s Luotian System is fundamentally centered on the primordial qi of the Yiren World.

But in the Yiren World, due to its upper limits and the origins of Yiren—beyond postnatal Yiren created by techniques, there are numerous primordial Yiren with wildly varying, even inconceivable abilities.

This resulted in the Yiren system lacking any unified or detailed classification standard.

Not to mention unification.

Even within Daoist lineages, Zhengyi and Quanzhen follow entirely different paths; Zhengyi divides into Three Mountains, while Quanzhen’s direct branches are even more numerous.

Under such circumstances, the Yiren system offered little reference for Luo Fu’s Luotian Method.

In Luo Fu’s conception of the Luotian Method, the Primordial Five Tai realms were still too distant.

When he truly began cultivating the Luotian Method, theory became merely a guiding tool.

The division of realms quantified this process clearly.

Ultimately, Luo Fu’s hope for the Luotian Method was not merely to reach the end himself—he wished his Luotian Method to develop into a flourishing system like the Huang Tian Emperor’s “Body as Seed,” not merely a simple method for unlocking his own potential.

Thus, Luo Fu needed to meticulously divide his Zhetian Method from nothing.

The Primordial Five Tai realms are essentially similar to the sixth and seventh layers of “Body as Seed,” exclusive to the creator.

The Huang Tian Emperor did not wish successors to blindly imitate him and ultimately block their own path, so he deliberately erased the final two layers, limiting “Body as Seed” to the final stage of achieving Emperor status.

Luo Fu is the same: the Primordial Five Tai are exclusive to him alone, but beneath the Five Tai realms, the Luotian Method still requires a clear and defined path.

Thus, the Luotian Method must, like the Zhetian Method, be divided from the lowest level of the Wheel Sea to the Immortal Platform tier.

But due to differing paths, Luo Fu’s system will not fully align with the Zhetian Method, nor with the Perfect Method or the Sacred Ruins Method.

Until the Five Tai realms he previously planned, there will be no precise correspondence.

During his time at the Ancient Sacred Ground, Luo Fu discarded all external disturbances and methodically, step by step, perfectly divided his Luotian Method system.

Ultimately, Luo Fu defined the Luotian Method as Four Realms and Nine Heavens.

The first realm is Refining Essence into Qi, transforming the continuous strengthening of one’s life force into primordial qi; this realm was divided by Luo Fu into Nine Heavens, and its effect directly incorporated the Reverse Three Lives technique from the Yiren Luo Fu.

The Refining Essence into Qi realm corresponds to the Wheel Sea Secret Realm in the Zhetian System, and in the Perfect Method, it combines the Blood Mobilization and Celestial Cavern realms; in the Sacred Ruins Method, it merges the Awakening and Shackles realms.

The second realm is Refining Qi into Spirit, roughly equivalent to the Dao Palace Secret Realm in the Zhetian Method, pursuing the state where the Law possesses a spiritual essence, similar to the Transformation of Spirit realm in the Perfect Method and the Freedom and Contemplation realms in the Sacred Ruins Method.

But the third realm, Refining Spirit into Emptiness, differs greatly from the other three systems.

Whether the Inscription and Array realms of the Perfect Method, the Four Extremes and Dragon Transformation realms of the Zhetian Method, or the Mist-Feasting and Form-Shaping realms of the Sacred Ruins Method, all are fully encompassed by the Refining Spirit into Emptiness realm.

Luo Fu’s Refining Emptiness and Merging with Dao also consists of only Nine Heavens.

At the final Refining Emptiness and Merging with Dao, it is roughly equivalent to the Nine Heavens of Immortal Platform in the Zhetian Method; in the Perfect Method, it encompasses the Sovereign, Divine Flame, True One, Heavenly God, Void, Sever Self, Escape One, and Supreme realms all at once.

Even the Sacred Ruins Method, when compared to Luo Fu’s Nine Heavens of Refining Emptiness and Merging with Dao, is divided into the Golden Body, Semi-Sage, Sage Domain, Reflection, Divine Spirit, Divine General, Divine King, Heavenly Sovereign, and Primordial realms.

Before the Primordial Five Tai realms, Luo Fu’s Luotian Method differs significantly from the other three systems.

After completing the division of the Luotian Method’s realms, Luo Fu retraced his steps and gained a clear self-assessment.

His current realm is no longer vaguely equivalent to Immortal Platform level, but precisely positioned at the Fifth Heaven of Refining Emptiness and Merging with Dao.

The Fifth Heaven of Refining Emptiness and Merging with Dao in the Luotian Method is equivalent to the Saint realm in the Zhetian System.

At present, barring the appearance of ancient monsters, the Saint realm is an invincible pinnacle existence.

Of course, this assumes Luo Fu’s existence has not been detected by the Forbidden Zone supremes; otherwise, those supremes would spare no cost to capture him.

After all, in the supremes’ eyes, Luo Fu carries the secret to immortality.

Moreover, this assumption has been impossible since Luo Fu embarked on his own Luotian Method.

To Zhetian Method cultivators, Luo Fu, who cultivates the Luotian Method, constantly evokes a sense akin to the uncanny valley—a feeling of identical appearance yet non-sameness—that triggers an instinctive wariness and caution in every Zhetian cultivator the moment they see him.

This does not mean Luo Fu grows increasingly distant from Zhetian cultivators; quite the opposite, once he enters the Immortal Dao realm—the Primordial Five Tai realms after Refining Emptiness and Merging with Dao—this distinction transforms in another direction.

To other Zhetian cultivators, Luo Fu will no longer evoke the uncanny valley DEBUFF; though he still feels non-human, he will then radiate a sacred aura, like the statues of gods and buddhas in temples and Daoist shrines.

No one confuses the statues of gods and buddhas in temples and shrines with living beings; though clearly non-human, these statues inspire reverence, not fear.

The Immortal Dao realm carries such a BUFF.

Whether in Luo Fu’s Luotian Method, the Zhetian Method, the past Perfect Method, or the future Sacred Ruins Method, the Immortal Dao realm is the true watershed.

This is especially evident in the Zhetian Era.

In the Nine Heavens and Ten Worlds era, the Supreme realm equivalent to a Dao-achieved Great Emperor could live tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years—nearly true immortality.

But in the Zhetian Era, even the most powerful Dao-achieved Great Emperors, due to the heavens’ flaw, had only a ten-thousand-year maximum lifespan.

Do not compare them to the Forbidden Zone supremes; after self-decapitation, these supremes have, in a sense, embarked on an irreversible path.

Even in the future Sacred Ruins Era, the Primordial realm equivalent to a Dao-achieved Great Emperor will not be limited to mere ten-thousand-year lifespans.

Only in the Zhetian Era did the heavens’ flaw cause countless prodigies to face their deaths in despair.

But this flaw is perfectly remedied in Luo Fu’s Luotian Method.

(End of Chapter)