"It's time!"
Dao Lord Yuanyu sat above the River of Time. Beneath him were countless illusory universes, from the past to the future, condensing into a mighty River of Time. This river had countless tributaries, and in each tributary was an illusory figure. These illusory Dao figures that traversed the River of Time and were scattered across the parallel universes acted as fulcrum, providing Dao Lord Yuanyu with a key Dao marker.
The end of the Dao was Daira!
After Dao Lord Yuanyu condensed the Dao Seed that gathered all his Dao Principles, he kept exploring the River of Time, constantly projecting himself into the additional selves of other parallel universes. Finally, he cultivated and polished his Dao Seed, becoming the only one in all the worlds.
After this step was the end of the Dao. He had to entrust his Dao fruit to the Daira Heaven's realm of Daira.
By proving his Dao in Daira, Dao Lord Yuanyu could achieve unprecedented Dao Karma …
In this universe, he had long been at the top. In this world, there had been no traces of the existence of Celestial Lord Daira in the past 250,000 years. Even the few fellow Daoists who had achieved illusory Dao fruit and perfected Golden Immortal Dao Karma had successively dissipated in the dangerous search for the Dao of Daira. If not for Daozu's scriptures, Dao Lord Yuanyu would have thought that the Daira realm was just an illusory legend.
Legend had it that the highest of the 36 Heavens was Daira Heaven.
At Yuanyu's realm, he could already understand the true meaning of the 36 Heavens. The 36 Heavens were the 36 layers of the world in the eyes of immortals. From the mortal world that mortals saw to the world of desire that could be seen, the 36 Heavens were not layers of the immortal world, but the real world in the eyes of different cultivators.
Therefore, although the worlds ruled by the Myriad Realm were divided into five immortals, Qi Refinement, Soul Formation, Void Reversal, and other cultivation realms, in the eyes of mighty figures like Dao Lord Yuanyu, the 36 Heavens were a different world. They could more accurately divide the cultivation realms of cultivators. Of course, the 36 Heavens were slightly more complicated, and there were 12 Heavens to divide them.
The Great Void Heaven … was attached to the ground, and one could see nothing at a glance … was the Qi Refinement realm, where one's mind wandered the Great Void and saw Qi. He could feel the Qi in his body, and his mind seemed to be in the void.
Manifesting the Heavens … wind, rain, thunder, lightning, clouds, mist, frost, and snow, all gathered within … Cultivating qi into spirit, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, clouds, mist, frost, and snow could all be formed from qi. In other words, it could be seen that the essence of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning was Qi. The operation of the cardinal cardinal of heaven and earth could also be seen that it was formed from Qi. It could transform the Qi in one's body into wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. Initial refinement of magical power!
Then there was the Full Moon Sky, the Roaming Daoist Sky, the Bright Sun Sky, the Constellation Sky, the Dou Shu Sky, the Unmoving Sky, the Qiong Sky, the Inferno Sky, the Tusita Sky …
And finally … Daira!
Such a heavenly realm was known as the Exterior in Taoist Karma. It meant that the known world was the scenery outside the heart.
On the contrary, the scene in the heart reveals one's true self.
Lord Yuanyu was a Golden Immortal, a Karma Rank Lord of Dao. He was an Exterior cultivator in the Tusita Heaven, only one step away from the ultimate realm of cultivators, the end of the Dao, the Daira realm.
The Azeroth Heaven was a place where matter was unchanging and light was unchanging. It was the end of the cosmos and the beginning of light. It was a strange spacetime that encompassed everything outside of the Heavens. To put it in simple terms, it was a place that existed above the spacetime that Daolord Yuanyu resided in. It was higher than the River of Time, but it was also able to affect the cosmos downwards. Time was a place where matter changed, while the matter of the Azeroth Heaven remained unchanging.
Lord Yuanyu had been meditating for tens of thousands of years before he could vaguely sense that world.
To prove Daira, one had to find the mysterious Daira Heaven. To find Daira Heaven, one had to measure the universe. Lord Yuanyu distributed his Taoist body upstream and downstream of the timeline, expanding to the nearby parallel universe. On the one hand, he used the location of these Taoist bodies as coordinates, and through the coordinates, he could measure the point where all space-time and matter did not change.
At the same time, he kept swallowing the additional self, tracing the origin of the soul with his own homologous soul.
All the additional self was a higher dimension … or the projection of the innate true self into the material world. The Dao fruit was the total body of the innate true self and the material world. In order to perfect the Dao fruit, cultivators divided the Dao fruit into thirty-six or twelve heavens, which were essentially the cognitive world of the cultivator.
Daira was where the innate true self was in the material world. It was above all space-time and contained the essence of matter.
Searching for the innate true self through different additional self was like calculating the location of a light source through a projection. It was also through the traces of the innate true self in different space-time and parallel worlds to calculate the location of the innate true self.
There were many tribulations in the process. Not only did the cultivator have to constantly adjust his body and mind to the process of returning to the innate true self, it was equivalent to constantly wearing away at the self. It was more dangerous than any Inner Demon Tribulation. At the same time, he had to prevent the coordinates from falling off in the River of Time, being washed into the River of Time, or being thrown out of the River of Time in the process of searching for Daira Heaven.
There was even greater horror … his mind would fall into some indescribable dimension of the universe.
He needed to use the anchor in the material world, use the Primordial Soul Dao fruit to escape into the extreme darkness of the Mahakala Tribulation that had no time, the Heavenly Fire Tribulation that had high heat and energy active and destroyed his own Information Form, the Inner Demon Tribulation that had a large amount of accumulated information to wash the corridor of his soul, and other extremely dangerous dimensions to find the supreme and eternal Daira Heaven.
Then, he would place the Fruit of Dao in Daira Heaven, attaining Dao in Daira and becoming an omniscient and omnipotent Lord of Daira who spread across the timelines and reached the end of Dao, able to wander at will, distort causality, and create all things.
He would become a worm that sprawled across the timelines and grew in both directions!
Daolord Yuanyu had tried several times, but he had nearly died in those dangerous tribulations. He had to constantly analyze and understand himself. He had to have an extremely high level of control over himself in order to survive this dangerous activity that left his cognitive world. He had to grasp the essence of his different selves and strengthen his heart. At the same time, he also had to have a considerable understanding of the material world. This required a very high level of knowledge.
Otherwise, what the Yuan Shen saw would not be 'real'.
Once the Yuan Shen's perception fell into an unfamiliar environment, it would not be able to understand the information it sensed without sufficient knowledge. Unable to properly understand the information, it would be like a blind man touching an elephant, using its old cognitive system to forcibly understand. Then, the state of Dao in which the Yuan Shen explored Daira Heaven would become an illusion.
All perceptions would no longer be real.
Once that happened, the structure of the cognitive world (the Fruit of Dao) would have a lot of mistakes and chaos, and then it would either be Daoified (losing the self and wearing down the spirit), or demonized (the cognitive world would be completely twisted and crazy, and the Fruit of Dao would be twisted), or fall into the mortal world (the Fruit of Dao would be chaotic and mixed with a lot of wrong cognition).
The few fellow Daolords who tried to break into Daira before Daolord Yuanyu all perished at this step.
Countless other Daolords' senses and memories were mixed together chaotically. Daolord Yuanyu had either become a general, a romantic scholar, or a destitute beggar. He had different emotions and personalities. After stepping onto the path of cultivation, all sorts of fundamental differences in himself had been mixed together. Each of them was his true nature, and each of them was not his true nature.
These chaotic perceptions and memories turned into illusions and appeared in Daolord Yuanyu's consciousness.
Only then did Daolord Yuanyu realize that he had fallen into another Tribulation.
The Tribulation of Additional Self was the sequela of expanding oneself to different worlds and merging different selves. The self was a kind of information architecture, which was naturally the most stable when it revolved around a core. However, a core of the self was like a point projected by the innate self to the real world, and it was impossible to calculate the location of the innate self.
This kind of architecture was the most stable, and it was also impossible to grasp the difference between the innate self and the self.
Only through conflict could one understand the innate self more deeply, and only through different projections of the additional self could one find the location of the innate self. Therefore, the difficulty was that on one hand, breaking into Daira required the conflict of different selves, and on the other hand, the conflict was wearing down the original self of Daolord Yuanyu.
This was one of the simpler Tribulations of Daira — the Tribulation of Additional Self.
Buddhism called it the self image, and all living beings image!
Daolord Yuanyu had to abandon most of the self-structure. When faced with the conflict of the self, each self had a different personality, and each had different feelings, the best solution was to throw the feelings and personality out of the core of the self, making them an unimportant part of the self. This was relatively simple for Daolord Yuanyu.
After all, he had been cultivating for nearly ten thousand years, and the more intense feelings and personality were the feelings he had when he was young, and he had long forgotten them.
Therefore, when such conflicts occurred, he only needed to forget his feelings, and he would be able to marginalize most of the conflicts of the self, making them a dispensable part of the self.
He would abandon most of the feelings and personality of the additional self that had been merged. Finally, the personality that had cultivated for ten thousand years would be the most stable at the core, and it would naturally marginalize the other selves.
This was one of the simpler Tribulations of Daira!
After passing through countless strange and dangerous dimensions, the Dao bodies below him collapsed one by one. Finally, Daolord Yuanyu's eyes suddenly opened wide, and the overlapping Dao bodies and countless shadows overlapped in the River of Time, superimposing that long stretch of time and space on a single point. An illusory Dao fruit suddenly leaped out of Daolord Yuanyu's head and fell into the River of Time.
It smashed on that point.
Suddenly, the Dao Fruit opened up a boundless, endless, endless, unchanging, unchanging, supreme world!
Heaven of Daira!
The last bit of Daolord Yuanyu's consciousness and natural spirit descended, entering the core of the Dao fruit. The Heaven of Daira was within the Dao fruit. It wasn't a material world that truly existed, but a cognitive world that was developed after one's consciousness understood some of the supreme truths of the material world.
After escaping into the Heaven of Daira, the way one's consciousness understood the world underwent a complete transformation.
Daolord Yuanyu felt that the essence of the entire universe was revealed in front of him. The River of Time didn't exist, and it was just a manifestation of Yuanyu's understanding of spacetime. But now, his understanding of spacetime could no longer be expressed in such a superficial manner. He reappeared in the material world, and things appeared in his eyes. They were no longer rigid forms or Qi, but extremely rich and comprehensive states that included all futures.
He could see through their past, future, and all their attributes at a glance.
The fate of any living creature could be seen at a glance.
As far as he could see, he could even sense that his existence was extending upstream and downstream of time. He probed into the origins of the entire world and extended beyond time. After passing through countless years of time and the countless births and deaths of the Myriad World, he arrived at an unimaginably vast universe … the Primordial Universe!
In this universe, he sensed many lifeforms that were like him. If he was like a worm on a timeline, then he was brushing shoulders with countless pythons, divine dragons, and even the colossal Earthly Pythons that occupied the entire world. Daolord Yuanyu trembled and began to panic. The more he swam upstream, the more terrifying the other Daira he saw became.
In the end, he saw a giant that surpassed his understanding and imagination, a giant that encompassed all concepts and everything.
As far as he knew, the giant wielded a greataxe and cleaved apart wind, earth, water, and fire …
"Pangu!"
Daolord Yuanyu called out in terror.
Pangu was the Dao, and this was the side of the Dao that he saw. Because of his innate knowledge, he believed that the world was born from the creation of Pangu, which was why the creation of heaven and earth appeared in such a form before him. If the Grand Luo of a world believed that Pangu used the wheel to create heaven and earth, then he would also see Pangu using the wheel to create heaven and earth …
Pangu was the Dao. Daira had stood before Pangu had created Heaven and Earth, which was why Daira was referred to as the end of the Dao.
Pangu had created Heaven and Earth during the Taiji Era …
The end of time had created something out of nothing. The moment that something was born was when the Grand Change Era was about to transform into the Grand Beginning Era.
The moment when the Connate Qi was about to be born …
Daolord Yuanyu had arrived at the moment when the Grand Change Era was about to end. The Connate Qi had been born out of nothing, and his body naturally didn't have any physical substance. The Grand Change Era had been a boundless, empty universe. In fact, it wasn't even accurate to call it a universe, because there was neither time nor space. It was as if a tiny bit of elemental energy had been born out of nothing.
However, this place wasn't deserted at all. In fact, it was quite lively.
"Take a look! Take a look!" A yellow-robed Daolord Priest shouted loudly in the void. Although he couldn't see the yellow robes or the Daolord Priest, Daira was able to understand each other. All it took was a slight transformation to recognize this scene.
"A wisp of Connate Inextinguishable Spiritual Light will become your most suitable numinous treasure … in exchange for a portion of karma!" The yellow-robed Daolord Priest shouted loudly, "It's definitely worth it. Although this brother of mine was born in the End of Days, his aptitude is quite good. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to cultivate to the level of Daira. He's willing to become a numinous treasure for the immeasurable tribulations. All I ask is for the great one's protection and cover up his tracks."
At this moment, a white-robed Daolord Priest walked over gracefully. When he saw the snake-shaped spiritual light, he revealed a look of delight and said, "This item is fated with Buddhism!"
"Alright! Then I'll entrust it to you, Great One! "The yellow-robed Daolord Priest wasn't dissatisfied at all. Instead, he was quite delighted.
Daolord Yuanyu … the current Heavenly Lord Yuanyu was confused. He hurriedly tugged on the sleeves of a white-faced youth who was passing by and said, "Fellow Daoist, wait!"
When the youth heard this, he stopped in his tracks and said, "Are you new?"
Heavenly Lord Yuanyu said humbly, "This is the first time this humble Daoist has come here. May I know what's so mysterious about this place? This Connate Inextinguishable Spiritual Light is … "
The youth smiled and said, "This is the end of the Taiyi Era, when vital qi hasn't been born. This is the starting point of all Daira's reversal of time and space. It's also the origin point of time in this universe. Daira has no beginning and no end. It has the same lifespan as the universe. It's the most ancient, so everyone was born here. We arrived at the time before vital qi was born. "
"Because matter was born after Pangu split the heavens in the Taiyi Era, when Yin and Yang were divided, there's no matter here. Meanwhile, vital qi was still born during the Grand Beginning Era, which is the next moment. Therefore, there's no vital qi here. Only Daira's essence, a bit of spiritual light, can exist, which is the state you and I are in now. "
"Born for the Connate, and Daira's essence is inextinguishable, so it's called the Connate Inextinguishable Spiritual Light."
"There are many potential transactions between Daira here, but because everything doesn't exist, the transactions here are only the Connate Inextinguishable Spiritual Light or Postnatal karma. In other words, it's either selling one's body or selling one's body. One is selling one's present body, and the other is selling one's future body. That Daoist just now probably has an unstable origin, so the probability of him attaining Dao is too small. Although Daira proves eternal, Daira also reverses karma, so there's still the worry of it regressing. Therefore, he sold himself to a mighty figure, turning into a Connate Numinous Treasure in exchange for protection. "
"Isn't the Connate Inextinguishable Spiritual Light …" Heavenly Lord Yuanyu was a little terrified.
The youth nodded and said, "You're right. The treasures formed by the Connate Inextinguishable Spiritual Light are Daira's true body. Daira passes through all space-time, so every time before Pangu opens the sky, all the Daira in the downstream space-time will gather here. Although the future is not fixed, Daira has no karma or calamity, so any Daira that has a chance of being born will come here. Using karma as karma … to become a Primal Chaos Godfiend. "
The youth smiled and said, "Therefore, congratulations, Daoist, for becoming one of us Primal Chaos Godfiends!"
"So … this is the origin of Primal Chaos Godfiends!" Heavenly Lord Yuanyu felt that he had to slow down when he heard such a shocking piece of news.
"What else?" The youth smiled and said, "Daoist Yuanyu, do you still think that the Primal Chaos can naturally give birth to some Godfiends that surpass the future? Then why are we still cultivating? Could it be that so many Daoists have cultivated so hard for nothing? It would be better for the Primal Chaos to give birth to a few living beings … "
"Primal Chaos Godfiends are born prenatally, and they are gods with noble roots and remarkable abilities … Actually, it's because Taiyi evolved the Absolute Beginning. When something was born out of nothing, the existence was born. We, Daira, crossed time and space to come here, using karma as the cause and creating our roots. Now, Daoist Yuanyu is also a Primal Chaos Godfiend! "
"How do you know that I'm Yuanyu?" Heavenly Lord Yuanyu was shocked at first, then he looked down at the downstream space-time. He only saw that the downstream was covered by clouds and mist. Even though Daira was standing above space-time, he couldn't see clearly. However, he could still see some things. Those things that were covered were naturally the other Daira's doing to hide them.
When Yuanyu first came to the Taiyi Era, he was just a rookie that had just vindicated his Dao. Naturally, he couldn't see through the tricks of the veteran Daira.
However, he understood that Daira was omniscient. Therefore, as long as it wasn't something that Daira was deliberately covering up, he could see through everything with one glance.
That youth was obviously not weak among the Daira's. Therefore, he could see his origin, but Yuanyu couldn't see his roots. Yuanyu could only ask politely, "I still don't know your honorific name …"
The youth nodded and smiled. "Sure, sure … I'm River Styx, and I'm also new here. I only know a little more than Daoist Yuanyu, so I came to show off. I've embarrassed myself in front of Daoist Yuanyu! "
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