Grand Unity! One Attainment, Eternal Attainment!

Lu Jun's voice was genuinely trembling now.

Every bit of knowledge from his past life had been overturned!

The conflict between Luohu and Hongjun wasn't simply a struggle over the Dao or saintly seats?

It was a root battle for the very survival of the Great Desolation World?

Most of the novels he'd read in his past life claimed Luohu and Hongjun fought over saintly positions, along with Yang Mei, Ancestor Qiankun, and Ancestor Yin Yang.

That great war was supposedly about who won becoming a saint, who won ruling the Great Desolation thereafter.

In the end, Hongjun triumphed, becoming the strongest in the Great Desolation.

But now, it was said Luohu was actually the destroyer of the Great Desolation World.

Didn't that mean Hongjun, Yang Mei, and the others were its protectors instead?

If so, did every piece of knowledge he had about the Great Desolation World hide another truth?

If that were true, his advantage as a transmigrator would vanish completely.

Then he would still be in grave danger.

Even if he survived the inevitable death of Da Yi Shoots the Suns, countless more tribulations might follow.

That was what truly made Lu Jun feel threatened.

Seeing Lu Jun's disbelief, Tai Yi's tone was resolute: "Of course it is!"

"If not, why do you think the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans ultimately erupted into that world-shattering Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation?"

"Remember, the leaders of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans had long sworn an oath—water creatures to the Dragon, birds to the Phoenix, beasts to the Qilin! They had already divided their territories, sharing the Great Desolation!"

"But in the end, under Demon Ancestor Luohu's instigation, they still stirred up a monstrous slaughter, plunging countless beings into misery!"

"And at the tribulation's close, Luohu secretly drove them into a colossal conflict that nearly shook the Great Desolation's foundations, wounding the world itself again!"

"One could say the destruction from the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans' infighting was ultimately a loss at the level of living beings."

"But Demon Ancestor Luohu alone struck directly at the Great Desolation World's very essence—a true cut from the root! He damaged the foundation of heaven and earth!"

"If Dao Ancestor Hongjun hadn't turned the tide and defeated Luohu..."

Tai Yi took a deep breath, fear lingering in his eyes.

"If Luohu had become a saint and seized the Heavenly Dao Authority, with his will to destroy the Great Desolation, perhaps this world would have already shattered and collapsed, returning to chaos!"

"A saint with a heart set on destruction has the power to utterly break this unstable Great Desolation World!"

Tai Yi's voice carried an unshakable gravity.

Lu Jun's heart shook violently, instantly recalling the outcome of the War of the Investiture of the Gods.

A saint's might could overturn heaven and earth!

In later ages, Sect Master Tongtian shattered the Great Desolation alone and reforged Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind!

The boundless Great Desolation World was reduced to just four continents: Eastern Victory Divine Continent, Southern Jambu Continent, Western Ox-Head Continent, and Northern Kuru Continent.

The difference in size compared to now was beyond billions of times!

If Demon Ancestor Luohu had won back then, once he became a saint, the Great Desolation would have been utterly doomed!

"Then..." Lu Jun suppressed the storm in his heart and pulled his thoughts back to the present.

"Empress Nuwa and the others traveled up the River of Time to the dawn of creation—besides 'seeing' the spectacle of the world's birth and comprehending the Great Dao, what was their true purpose?"

He had a faint feeling this wasn't just simple "enlightenment."

Tai Yi's gaze grew deep and distant, as if piercing through time and space.

"They, as saints, crossed the ages to return to that moment when chaos was about to split and Pangu raised his axe... One of their core goals was to gain Pangu's acknowledgment!"

"Gain Pangu's acknowledgment?" Lu Jun exclaimed, his eyes nearly popping out!

This answer was even more unbelievable than he'd imagined!

"Unbelievable?" Tai Yi seemed to expect his reaction. "But that's the truth."

"Every time a powerful being—whether from the past or the 'future'—travels upstream the River of Time to reach the battlefield of creation, they all seek Pangu's acknowledgment."

"But why?" Lu Jun had a guess in his heart, but it felt too absurd.

He needed the real answer from Tai Yi's mouth!

Tai Yi looked at Lu Jun, not explaining, but instead asking a different question: "Do you know that there are two ways to cultivate to Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal?"

At this, Lu Jun frowned slightly: "Two ways?"

Could it really be what I'm guessing?

Tai Yi withdrew his gaze, fixed his eyes on Lu Jun, and spoke slowly: "The first is the mainstream path in our Great Desolation today!"

"Primordial Unity Golden Immortals cultivate the Five Qi in the Chest, harmonize the Five Elements, and perfect their own small world."

"Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals condense the Three Flowers atop the head, achieve self-perfection, and anchor their essence, energy, and spirit in a small world, becoming a god of that world."

He paused, his tone carrying a hint of subtle complexity: "This path seems orthodox, granting longevity and vast divine powers."

"However, its foundation is unstable. Once the Three Flowers on the Crown disperse and the Five Qi in the Chest close, one's realm will fall."

At these words, Lu Jun's gaze flickered continuously.

He had sensed the problem with this Method of Cultivation from the very beginning of his practice.

He even recalled that during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect had their Three Flowers on the Crown shaved off and their Five Qi in the Chest sealed by the Primordial Golden Dou in San Xiao's Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

This caused the dignified Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect to fall in realm.

He had been wondering if he could find a way to resolve this hidden danger—only to realize that Tai Yi and the others had long known!

Lu Jun took a deep breath, his eyes shimmering with understanding, as if asking a question with the answer already in mind: "Then... what about the other way?"

Tai Yi's gaze suddenly turned profoundly deep, as if containing countless worlds and endless time and space:

"The other way... is an older, more perilous path—yet one that points directly toward true transcendence and the origin!"

His voice grew low and filled with power:

"At the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, one no longer cultivates the Five Qi behind closed doors! Instead, with supreme will, one divides the True Spirit and manifests billions of avatars!"

"These billions of avatars are no ordinary clone techniques—they are projections of the True Spirit's origin!"

"They will cross infinite barriers of time and space, casting themselves into All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, the Countless Worlds like Ganges Sands."

"And even... travel upstream and downstream, stepping into the past and future of the River of Time!"

Tai Yi's words exploded like thunder in Lu Jun's sea of consciousness!

Though he had suspected as much, hearing Tai Yi describe this method of cultivation—using avatars to traverse all heavens and pierce through past, present, and future—still left his Mind and Spirit shaken and his scalp tingling!

This was an utterly inconceivable feat!

"Each avatar will live and train as an independent identity in its own world and era, comprehending the Great Dao!"

"Every joy and sorrow, every cycle of life and death they experience, every fragment of law and principle they grasp—will ultimately converge back into the main body!"

"This is the method of using a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal body to traverse all heavens and comprehend all paths!"

"The depth of its accumulation and the breadth of its Dao foundation far surpass what closed-door cultivation of the Five Qi can achieve!"

So that's it!

The other path was indeed this one!

Primordial Unity Golden Immortal—Manifesting Billions of Avatars!