A Thousand Years of Discussing the Dao

"My brother and I have both reached the realm of perfection, yet we have been unable to glimpse the threshold of the next realm. There seems to be an invisible barrier ahead, suppressing our Dao Paths and refusing to let us easily set foot in a higher realm."

"Since breaking through is so difficult, why not calm your minds and seek out your own Dao? Perhaps you'll find a way through."

Nuwa couldn't put it plainly, but Xiang Dong understood when he heard her. It was the suppression of the Heavenly Dao. At every realm, there was an invisible barrier, a bottleneck in cultivation that made it difficult for them to break through.

To shatter that barrier, two hard currencies were crucial: karmic luck and merit.

One could either gild oneself with merit in exchange for a future, or use karmic luck to break through the barrier.

But neither merit nor karmic luck was easy to obtain. That was the underlying reason Nuwa became one of the Demon Race's four emperors and created the Human Race.

In the end, it all came down to two words: karmic luck!

At the same time, it was also a disparity in information.

For reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods like Hongjun and Yangmei, the cultivation system was carved into their very bones. They also knew exactly where their own Dao lay.

The difference was that they were now in the Primordial World, and both had reincarnated to cultivate anew. They had more possibilities and no longer needed to confine themselves to one Principle or one Dao.

As for natives born and raised in the Primordial World, like Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones, the Three Pure Ones had it better. They were born with inheritances that could support their cultivation to a certain level.

But those without inheritances, like Nuwa and Fuxi, could only cross the river by feeling for stones, with no idea where the road ahead led.

They knew nothing of how to travel that road or how many pitfalls lay ahead.

This was a problem the natives of the Primordial World all faced at this stage: their Dao Paths and realms were unclear, and there was no definite system.

Although the Heavenly Dao had now laid out the clear, starlit avenue of becoming a Heavenly Dao Sage, not everyone knew how to walk it.

Thus, after Hongjun became a Heavenly Dao Sage and preached at the Purple Heaven Palace, even the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa had to fight tooth and nail for a chance to listen, creating the grand spectacle of the Purple Heaven Palace's three thousand guests.

Hongjun must have had his own schemes and selfish motives for holding those lectures, but he had indeed clarified the realms and the cultivation system. He established the system of the Immortal Dao and immortals, which gradually became an unshakable presence.

It was the equivalent of elementary school, middle school, high school, and university, and it had indeed pointed the way for all beings in the Primordial World.

But when it came to the level of Quasi-Saints and Sages, he hadn't laid everything out and explained it plainly. Behind the scenes, he had taken quite a few detours and kept a few tricks up his sleeve.

Seeing the confusion in Nuwa's eyes, Xiang Dong felt his heart stir for no apparent reason.

He remembered Pangu's words: "I'm counting on you."

Perhaps this was one of the things he ought to do.

"The road ahead is blocked because you haven't asked me."

Nuwa's face was full of surprise. Ask you? If I'm not mistaken, your realm seems to be at least two minor stages lower than mine.

"Come on, get your brother. I'll tell you about the scenery beyond the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm."

Fuxi, who had been making the most of his time in seclusion, cultivating as he absorbed the Enlightenment Tea, was interrupted and brought out just like that.

How was this any different from two bad students dragging a top student out to play?

One of them was his own younger sister. What else could Fuxi do but indulge her?

Yet when he looked at Xiang Dong, his gaze was full of scrutiny and suspicion.

I admit you really are unfathomable, have plenty of methods, and know a lot of people.

But when Xiang Dong said he wanted to discuss the Dao, such a serious matter concerning their own fundamental Great Dao, Fuxi simply couldn't believe him.

You carefree pleasure-seeker, do you really understand what the Great Dao is?

Xiang Dong saw their doubts and didn't argue. He merely grinned and said, "It's true that I haven't reached that realm yet, but I know more than you do. Most importantly, I also have this."

Xiang Dong took out the Heavenly Dao Phone and began using his authority.

[Application: lift the realm suppression on Nuwa and Fuxi.]

[Applicant: Heavenly Dao Agent (Taichu/Xiang Dong)]

On the screen, the golden wheel of merit turned once.

[Application approved. With your authority, the restriction can only be lifted for thirty yuanhui, and the realm limit cannot exceed the late Great Unity Golden Immortal realm.]

Thirty thousand years, with a limit of the late Great Unity Golden Immortal realm, was enough.

The next moment, Nuwa and Fuxi sensed a change at the same time.

The faint but heavy shackles that had always hung over their Primordial Spirits quietly loosened.

He can actually... influence the Heavenly Dao?

"There isn't much time. Let's discuss the Dao."

Giving someone a fish was not as good as teaching them to fish. Of course, most importantly, he didn't know how to break through either. All he could do was talk about warfare on paper, using this discussion of the Dao to help Nuwa and Fuxi understand what he knew.

As the three voiced their respective views and their different ideas and perspectives collided, invisible Dao resonance also began to gather.

As the three gradually entered a better state, golden lotuses surged from the ground, and crystalline heavenly flowers rained from the sky.

Heavenly flowers fell in profusion, and golden lotuses surged from the earth!

This was no figure of speech, but a phenomenon produced by Dao resonance resonating with heaven and earth. The three of them were low in realm and strength, so the area affected was small, and the special effects were not dazzling enough.

A thousand years passed in the snap of a finger.

Under the influence of Xiang Dong's highly personal ideas spanning past and present, the presences of Nuwa and Fuxi began to fluctuate violently.

Behind Nuwa and Fuxi, their true forms appeared, with human bodies and serpent tails. The surrounding Spiritual Qi also poured into their true forms, forming an enormous vortex of Spiritual Qi.

As their essence, Qi, and spirit converged and formed a halo behind their heads, boom!

The realm barrier was broken through just like that, and incomparably mighty presences soared into the sky.

Great Unity Golden Immortal—they had made it!

Nuwa felt as though her Primordial Spirit had broken free of some invisible restraint and was standing above an endlessly surging river.

The Dao resonance around her turned into a thread and reached into the river, stringing together the figures belonging to "Nuwa" in the distant past and the unknowable future.

In the end, all these figures were pulled out and merged into her eternal, unbound true self.

This was the defining feature of a Great Unity Golden Immortal: the three selves of past, present, and future became one, leaping out of the River of Time.

Once attained, attained forever!

Fuxi followed close behind, bursting forth with an equally powerful presence. He too stepped into the Great Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Brother and sister exchanged a glance, each seeing the joy in the other's eyes.

Though they were reluctant to admit it, guiding them through a breakthrough was an immense kindness.

Great kindness needed no words of thanks, but they had to show the proper attitude.

Fuxi bowed deeply to Xiang Dong. This was the first time he had expressed his respect for Xiang Dong from the bottom of his heart.

"Fellow Daoist Xiang Dong, Fuxi will never forget your kindness in showing me the way."

Nuwa also bowed gracefully, her beautiful eyes shimmering with a wondrous light.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist."

And Yangmei watched all of this.

What happened to "in a couple of days"? How long has it been now?