Creating a Dao

This was an exceedingly profound experience.

Countless thoughts bloomed within Lu Zhou's mind.

Whenever a thought blossomed, all the various problems he had encountered in cultivation were immediately resolved, granting him complete clarity.

Inside the stone cave, Lu Zhou felt as though he had transformed into a god.

With a single thought, he seemed able to see through the entire universe, as though heaven and earth no longer held any secrets before him.

This was the terror of Great Emperor-level comprehension.

It could not allow Lu Zhou to create something from nothing!

But so long as Lu Zhou had a foundation in a certain field, and as long as he focused all his attention on that field during the duration of his Great Emperor-level comprehension, he could derive two from one, comprehend three from two, even transform three into ten thousand, continuously deducing and comprehending.

Within the stone cave, the sounds of scriptures arose from Lu Zhou's body. Characters flew out one after another, circling around him and blooming with divine radiance.

They were the characters formed from the Wheel Sea Scrolls of the three Emperor Scriptures: the Dao Sutra, the Wushi Scripture, and the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art.

Lu Zhou had long since thoroughly comprehended them through three separate uses of Great Emperor-level comprehension.

At this moment, with Great Emperor-level comprehension bestowed upon him once more, Lu Zhou seemed as though a true Great Emperor had possessed him—as though a Great Emperor were examining the Wheel Sea Scrolls of three Emperor Scriptures.

His eyes shone with a piercing light capable of seeing through all origins and all mysteries.

It was the light of comprehension!

That light transformed into Dao fire, igniting the characters of the three Emperor Scriptures circling around him.

He was tempering those Emperor Scripture characters with Dao fire, seeking to extract the essence and quintessence of the Wheel Sea Chapters from the three Emperor Scriptures!

During this process, the various scenes and Dao Rhymes of Empress Xi deducing and creating the Dao Palace Chapter of the Xi Huang Scripture continuously echoed in Lu Zhou's heart.

Bolstered by Great Emperor-level comprehension, Lu Zhou seemed divinely aided, drawing even more inspiration for creating a cultivation method from them.

He extracted those inspirations as well, using them to help him create Wheel Sea Chapter scripture best suited to himself.

Suddenly, he recalled certain descriptions from the original novel Covering the Heavens, of how Ye Fan had created his Wheel Sea Chapter scripture.

"The human body is one. The Limitless transforms into Tai Chi, giving rise to life and death, yin and yang."

This was one of the fundamental mysteries behind the Wheel Sea Chapter scripture Ye Fan had created himself!

This thought likewise exploded in Lu Zhou's mind, where his currently enhanced Great Emperor-level comprehension expanded and deduced it.

A strange scene appeared before Lu Zhou.

It was a vast, boundless crimson Sea of Bitterness, covering Lu Zhou's Wheel of Life.

The Sea of Bitterness exuded an aura of decay, representing death. It constantly eroded Lu Zhou's Wheel of Life, which represented life, seeking to leave rings of age upon it and extinguish Lu Zhou's vitality.

Under Lu Zhou's deductions with the aid of Great Emperor-level comprehension, the Sea of Bitterness and Wheel of Life in that strange vision were suddenly completely separated. One was above and the other below, standing in opposition.

It was the opposition between life and death, the cycle of yin and yang.

As Lu Zhou continued his deductions, they transformed into a Tai Chi Dao diagram.

With the enhancement of Great Emperor-level comprehension, using the spark of insight from Ye Fan's creation of the Wheel Sea Chapter as the foundation for that so-called "one," Lu Zhou deduced a similar embryonic form of the scripture Ye Fan would create in the future, as well as the Dao Ye Fan would forge in the future.

It was merely similar, not exactly the same!

Different experiences, different "fundamental scriptures," different accumulations and foundations—because of all these differences, even with Great Emperor-level comprehension, it was impossible for two identical flowers to bloom in this world.

Much less create identical scriptures.

Within the stone cave, Lu Zhou's eyes quietly watched the Tai Chi Dao diagram evolving before him.

After only a short while, he waved his hand and erased the Tai Chi Dao diagram.

He shook his head and muttered to himself.

"Since I have already rejected Ye Fan's path, then this Tai Chi Wheel Sea is not suitable for me!"

Lu Zhou's rejection did not mean he rejected Ye Fan or Ye Fan's Dao.

The facts proved that Ye Fan's achievement of becoming a Heavenly Emperor meant that the path Ye Fan had walked was the right one.

But that so-called rightness was only right for Ye Fan.

If someone else replicated Ye Fan's path exactly, that person might perhaps become an Emperor in the future, but he could absolutely never reach Ye Fan's heights.

Lu Zhou was Lu Zhou, and Ye Fan was Ye Fan. A path right for Ye Fan was not the path best suited to Lu Zhou, nor was it Lu Zhou's truest path!

He wanted to walk the path best suited to himself, the path most right for himself!

The Wheel Sea Scroll scriptures of the three great Emperor Scriptures continued to resound within Lu Zhou's body, while those Emperor Scripture characters continued to glitter around him.

Time flowed on, and little remained of the duration for which Great Emperor-level comprehension would enhance Lu Zhou.

Yet Lu Zhou was completely unaware of it.

All his focus and every one of his thoughts were concentrated on the search to create his own scripture.

His body became a furnace. The Dao Sutra, the Wushi Scripture, the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art, the Dao Rhymes from Empress Xi's creation of a cultivation method, the spark of insight from Ye Fan's creation of the Wheel Sea Chapter, and more—

All became nourishment, became fuel, burning within the furnace Lu Zhou had become!

Thought after thought continued to form and shatter in Lu Zhou's mind, shattering and then forming anew.

They extended into path after path.

Some paths were blocked, dead ends; others were deep, leading toward endless unknowns!

The dead ends were obliterated by Lu Zhou in an instant, while the endless unknowns were continuously deduced and explored by him.

At this moment, time itself seemed not to exist.

One thought of his could become eternity!

Gradually, Lu Zhou grasped a spark of inspiration.

It was the spark of inspiration belonging to his creation of a method, his forging of a Dao.

Using that spark as "one," he continuously deduced and searched with the aid of Great Emperor-level comprehension.

Another strange vision appeared before Lu Zhou.

It was still that sea of blood covering Lu Zhou's Wheel of Life.

Only this time, the sea of blood was not separated from his Wheel of Life.

The characters belonging to the Wheel Sea Chapter of the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art burst with divine brilliance. After being continuously tempered by the Dao fire, an essence mystery that Lu Zhou deemed most suitable for himself was extracted from the Wheel Sea Chapter of the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art.

That essence mystery transformed into a cluster of light flickering with runes and rushed into the strange vision of the sea of blood before Lu Zhou.

In an instant, the sea of blood erupted violently, as though it had undergone a great destruction akin to World Creation. An extreme point, like the singularity of the universe, was born within that sea of blood, blooming with boundless light.

Shortly afterward, that extreme point continuously expanded. It revealed a terrifying devouring force, evolving into a deep black hole.

At the same time, the Wheel Sea Chapter characters of the Wushi Scripture and the Dao Sutra also began bursting with divine brilliance. Two more essence mysteries that Lu Zhou deemed most suitable for himself were likewise extracted by the Dao fire.

They too transformed into two clusters of light flickering with runes, rushing toward the strange vision before Lu Zhou before finally entering the black hole at the center of that sea of blood.

The power of time from the Wushi Scripture, the devouring power of the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art, and the impartial, effortless power of the Dao Sutra continuously collided and intertwined within that sea of blood.

They sought balance through collision and continuously sublimated through interweaving.

Rumble.

It was as though a primordial chaotic ancestral thunderclap had exploded from the beginning of creation.

That thunder seemed to announce to all living beings that some extraordinary existence was about to descend.

"Taking the body as one, establish the ultimate of Dao. The Limitless is the beginning, creating and evolving all things. Devour the great universe, evolve an inner cosmos, absorb external essence, nourish one's own body."

Within Lu Zhou's body, the chanting of the three great Emperor Scriptures gradually merged, ultimately becoming grand Dao Chants.

He had successfully begun creating his own Dao, taken his own path, and forged Wheel Sea scripture best suited to himself.

Although this Dao was only an embryonic Dao, the path still at its starting point, and the scripture merely an embryonic scripture.

All of it still needed further refinement from him, and the path still needed further exploration. Yet he had already made a beginning, established the framework, and successfully taken the hardest first step!

Thanks to Profound Heaven Little Demon for the two monthly passes!