Chapter 1: Pangu Opens Heaven and Changes Fate
There, the Qíyì Túlù brought most of the five elements and the Kāi Tiān Fǔ Miǎo Cōng Qián Lian's fragments to the mountains. It fell on top of the Yù Huá Xiān Shān, where the mountain was covered with green vines and flowers, shining like clouds and brocade; there were countless tall trees, their branches twisted and curved, dancing up and down; the female Luó Sī Lán hung down, fragrant and elegant, filling the air. In the middle of Yù Huá Xiān Shān, there was a plain with a lake, its water clear and vast, with colorful lotus flowers blooming on the surface, radiating brilliant light and spraying colorful spiritual rain. Countless golden scales and turtles stood around, enjoying the spiritual rain, looking very pleased. On the lakeside, peach, plum, apricot, and osmanthus trees of various seasons were sparse and dense, their blossoms opening together; to the right, there was a forest of over a million jade bamboos, most of which were over a foot in diameter, blocking out the sky and sun, resembling thousands of acres of red clouds, dazzlingly beautiful. In the middle, there was a wide path that circled the lake to the west, with soft grass like a carpet on both sides, and rare flowers blooming profusely, making it hard to distinguish between reality and dreams, as if this were not the mortal world.
In the middle of the lake, a quaint Taoist temple called Xuānwēi floated, but there was not a single deity in the temple. Instead, there sat a young Taoist priest, twenty-seven or eight years old, on a meditation mat made of qīngtiān qióngcǎo grass. The priest wore a moon-white Taoist robe with intricate embroidery depicting the five elements and their transformations. His face was as pale as jade, his lips red, and his teeth white. However, his sharp eyebrows, which seemed to pierce the sky like swords, and his knife-sharp nose gave him an air of coldness. At this moment, a colorful cloud of celebration floated above his head, transforming into various shapes and forms. The three flowers on top of his head displayed green, yellow, and red colors, swaying gently in the cloud, creating a sense of serenity that left one's heart and soul at ease. Meanwhile, the five elements - metal, wood, water, fire, and earth - transformed into five divine lights within his chest, forming an aura that flowed continuously through the clouds.
Above the three flowers, each has a supreme spiritual treasure on it. The central lotus flower holds a white jade-bodied, cloud-patterned, eight-treasured, wordless heavenly book. On top of the left lotus flower is a precious flag, one foot seven inches in size, with a dark blue color and embroidered with lotus flowers, emitting an auspicious aura that seems to bring down heavenly flowers when gently swaying, as if the universe has turned upside down and all things are mysterious and obscure. On top of the right lotus flower is a precious map shrouded in five-colored clouds, inside which appears a square, illusory heaven and earth, with mountains, rivers, and streams clearly visible, and flowers, birds, insects, and fish also appearing and disappearing, showing extraordinary mystery.
Xuān Wēi Dào Rén opened his eyes from meditation, and saw two faint five-colored lights flashing in his eyes. As the light faded away, the auspicious cloud above his head also slowly dissipated. At this moment, Xuān Wēi Dào Rén felt that he was clear-headed and bright-eyed, and his whole body was relaxed and comfortable, obviously his Tao had made another progress. However, there was no joy on his face.
"Now, I have not only made great progress in my cultivation, but also solidified my Golden Immortal realm. However, this is not the time for me to leave seclusion. The Dragon and Phoenix Great Calamity has begun, and its influence has already affected me. If I continue to cultivate like this, I fear that I will end up falling into madness and losing my life.
Xuan Wei Dao Ren pondered: "Should I go out and take a walk? But with the Dragon and Phoenix Great Calamity unfolding, even the caves are filled with evil energy that confuses people's minds. Even after the six great saints ascend to sainthood in the future, they can only let their disciples sit quietly in the cave, reciting the Huang Ting scriptures. This is a time of intense competition among demonic cultivators, and I, a mere Golden Immortal, dare not venture out. Who knows if I will be able to return?"
Suddenly, a refreshing air came from the Qingxin Pu cushion made of Xiantian Qiongcao, and a lot of annoyance in his heart was eliminated.
"Never mind, never mind." Xuan Wei smiled and sighed, "Waiting in the Taoist temple is not as good as going to the great calamity to compete for the edge. If we don't seize the opportunity to snatch the heaven and earth's aura now, my heaven and earth's number will be a rootless duckweed, and it will be difficult to achieve the possibility of mixing yuan in the future. The great calamity of heaven and earth, everyone wants to fight for that line of life, regardless of right or wrong, just take your life away. If you don't kill others, others will kill you, it's not that heaven is not benevolent, but rather heaven is equally benevolent to all. Since this is the case, whether I live or die in the future depends on whether I go out and fight today. Haha, in that case, why not just go back? Go back?????"
As he thought of this, Xuanwei Dao felt a sense of relief wash over him, clearly his thoughts had become clearer and his dao had made some progress. This Xuanwei Dao was originally a person from the future, but due to a combination of circumstances, he became an anomaly in the midst of heaven and earth - the reason for the Great Way Chart's traversal into a parallel chaotic world. At the time when Pangu opened up this world, he seized most of the unmerged pre-heavenly five elements essence and fragments of the Chaos Chopping Axe and Heaven Lotus, hiding them among the mountains while also disrupting the heavenly numbers.
The Hunyuan Great Dao Map, however, had traversed through space and time, disrupting the incomplete Heavenly Way's heavenly mechanism. Its origin was damaged first, then self-destructed, suffering extreme damage. If it weren't for absorbing a considerable amount of not-yet-complete Primordial Chaos Qi and some Pre-Heavenly Five Elements Essence from Xuanwei's hand at the time, as well as three-tenths of the Opening Heaven Axe fragments and four-tenths of the Primordial Chaos Blue Lotus fragments, it would have already turned to dust. Unfortunately, despite being damaged, the Hunyuan Great Dao Map no longer bore the name of a Supreme Treasure, losing one Pre-Heavenly Divine Seal, becoming an Extreme Quality Pre-Heavenly Spiritual Treasure - the Wordless Heavenly Book. Containing forty-eight Pre-Heavenly Divine Seals, it could automatically record various Daoist methods and integrate them, extending its understanding, making it the supreme spiritual treasure for enlightenment.
Don't underestimate this innate seal, but also don't ignore the power of the wordless heavenly book. You should know that the innate objects in the Honghuang world are not just ordinary treasures, let alone innate spiritual treasures. The innate spiritual treasures are basically a combination of the primordial energy or innate essence with various heavenly and earthly spirits at the beginning of the universe, nurtured for thousands of years to take shape. According to their power, they range from one innate divine seal to forty-eight innate divine seals. After reaching forty-eight innate divine seals, they become the ultimate number of innate spiritual treasures and cannot be further enhanced. Only a few innate supreme treasures, such as the Three Treasures of the Opening Heaven, can reach the heavenly number of forty-nine innate divine seals, which is the most formidable existence among innate treasures.
However, it is also because of the power of the Hunyuan Da Dao Tu that in this world's heavenly numbers, Xuan Wei Zhen Ren is a thread of the original source of the five elements before heaven, feeling the spiritual nature of heaven and earth, the great virtue of Pangu, cultivating bitterly for ten thousand years to transform and emerge, the Dao field is located on the east side of Yu Hua Xian Mountain in Buzhou Mountain, and obtained the Golden Immortal, born with a treasure - the Wordless Heavenly Book, in Yu Hua Xian Mountain got the mountain-stabilizing object of Yu Hua Xian Mountain - Wanli Shanhe Tu, Tianhua Miao Die Qi, no matter who can't see any clues.
Unfortunately, things always have exceptions. Xuan Wei Dao Ren was very clear that he himself was an anomaly in the universe, a rootless duckweed, and the power of the Hunyuan Daotian Diagram had destroyed his own origin, disrupting the still immature Heavenly Way and Heavenly Machine. He concealed his origins, but these powers were still weaker than those of the Hunyuan Saint. After all, his true spirit did not belong to this world. When Hong Jun became a saint, he borrowed the saint's divine light to illuminate the River of Destiny, so it was naturally obvious that any non-Daluo cultivator's true spirit origin could be seen at a glance. Therefore, before Hong Jun attained enlightenment and became a saint, Xuan Wei Dao Ren had to attain Daluo and make his true spirit transcend the River of Destiny; otherwise, his anomalous identity would be exposed, which would also be the moment of his death, when both his soul and body would perish.
Nowadays, although my foundation is strong, I can become a Golden Immortal before the Dragon and Phoenix Great Tribulation with the help of the power of the Wordless Heavenly Book. However, during the Great Tribulation, it is impossible to cultivate, and after the Great Tribulation, wanting to ascend to the position of Saint in front of Hong Jun and attain the Great Luo Dao, it's likely to be difficult. Therefore, it's better not to take advantage of the opening of the Heavenly Great Tribulation to go out and fight for a chance to seize the momentum, so that on the day when Hong Jun merges with the Dao, I will also have no possibility of seeing through my true origin. In that case, in the Purple Mansion, I can also compete for a position.
Moreover, Xuan Wei also believed that he might not necessarily die in the great calamity. Although the Wordless Heavenly Book did not have any attacking or defensive power, the remaining fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe and the Chaotic Blue Lotus in his hand had transformed into the Heavenly Flower Banner, which was one of the Forty-Two Primordial Spirit Seals' ultimate defensive treasures. It also had the effect of reversing heaven and earth, and its power was not ordinary. The Wanli Mountain River Map was a primordial spiritual treasure born from the origin of the Jade Flower Immortal Mountain, with thirty-six Primordial Spirit Seals, making it one of the top-grade primordial spiritual treasures. Its defensive power was also quite impressive.
After thinking clearly, the Xuanwei Taoist decided to take advantage of the beginning of the Dragon and Phoenix Great Tribulation to go out and kill some people with deep karma and entangled fate, accumulate merit, condense aura, and take the opportunity to collect some protective treasures. He sat on a white jade lotus platform, drove a auspicious cloud eastward, and left. This lotus platform was formed from the seven-product lotus in the Jade Flower Mountain Lake of the Xuanwei Taoist temple, which had been cultivated since the Xuanwei's transformation was not long ago, and its power was now quite impressive. In daily life, it could be used as a meditation seat to invite auspicious clouds to carry the lotus and fly, and in times of danger, it could also summon rainbow light and auspicious energy to protect the body.
PS1: Innate Treasure: 49 Innate Spirit Seals 【Known ones include: Chaos Bell, Taiji Diagram, Pangu Axe, Hunyuan Great Tao Diagram】
Heavenly Spirit Treasure:
Top-grade 【37 to 48 Heavenly Spirit Seals】
High-grade 【25 to 36 Heavenly Spirit Seals】
Medium-grade 【13 to 24 Heavenly Spirit Seals】
Low-grade 【1 to 12 Heavenly Spirit Seals】
Among the lower-grade congenital spiritual treasures, there are those called Tianxian-grade congenital spiritual treasures, implying that they can gain an overwhelming advantage in battles against Tianxians. Mid-grade congenital spiritual treasures are called Jinxian-grade congenital spiritual treasures, implying that they can gain an overwhelming advantage in battles against Jinxians. High-grade congenital spiritual treasures are called Daluo-grade congenital spiritual treasures, implying that they can gain an overwhelming advantage in battles against Jinxians. Top-grade congenital spiritual treasures can also be divided into Teaching Master and Quasi-Teaching Master levels. The Quasi-Teaching Master level refers to 37 to 45 Dao congenital divine seals, which cannot withstand the full force of a Saint's attack. In battles at the Saint level, they can only increase combat power by a small margin and do not provide an advantage for Saints. However, in battles against quasi-Saints, they can exert a certain degree of overwhelming advantage and provide immense combat power for quasi-Saints. The Teaching Master level refers to 46 to 48 Dao congenital divine seals, which can withstand the full force of a Saint's attack and increase the Saint's extraordinary combat power. In battles at the Saint level, they also have a certain decisive role.
Congenital treasure is the most special, in the hands of a saint can produce an overwhelming advantage, if lucky, even can make play out nearly a saint's combat power, a congenital treasure self-destructing origin power may not be much worse than a saint self-destructing.
Ps2: Some people may think that the number of pre-heavenly divine seals on the Tianhua Miaozhui flag is a bit small, after all, it's almost 20% of the fragments of the Heavenly Axe. Although it lacks the pre-heavenly Dao rhyme of the Heavenly Axe????? This point will be explained later, and to reveal a little, the true power of the Tianhua Miaozhui flag is no less than that of a Sect Master-level pre-heavenly spiritual treasure.
