Journey to Mount Zhou

At this moment, Di Kun finally arrived at the foot of Mount Zhou. Standing there and gazing up at the towering peak before him, a feeling of reverence rose in his heart.

Mount Zhou soared into the clouds, piercing the heavens as though it connected heaven and earth. Its massive, weighty body gave off an immovable presence. As Di Kun stared at Mount Zhou, the scene of Pangu Opens the Heavens seemed to emerge before his eyes. Pangu stood between heaven and earth, holding them apart, and that mighty figure inspired fear in all who beheld it.

Even Mount Zhou, formed from Pangu's Spine, exuded an aura capable of holding up heaven and earth, making one marvel at its majesty and grandeur. Di Kun thought to himself that Mount Zhou truly deserved its title as the foremost divine mountain of the Primordial Wilderness. It had inherited Pangu's will and was perhaps formed from Pangu's essence, qi, and spirit. Otherwise, how could it possess such power as to suppress heaven and earth?

Di Kun bowed deeply toward Mount Zhou, offering his respect to the great god Pangu. Then, he cautiously stepped onto the mountain and began carefully sensing the Dao charm it contained.

Mount Zhou's Dao charm was profound and mysterious. Di Kun focused on perceiving it, communicating with the Earth Veins and connecting their various nodes. Though this might have been superfluous to Mount Zhou itself, it held extraordinary significance for Di Kun. If he could comprehend even a little truth from Mount Zhou, it would greatly benefit his cultivation.

In novels of the Primordial Wilderness, Mount Zhou had always been regarded as a mysterious and important place. Every transmigrator had to come here, for it was said that Mount Zhou held countless benefits. Aside from the treasures already renowned throughout the land, there were surely other precious objects unknown to the world, waiting for those fated to discover them.

As for Di Kun, magic treasures were merely external possessions and not especially important. By now, Di Kun and Zhou Jun already possessed many Innate Spirit Treasures, all obtained while they had previously sorted out the Earth Veins. Yet these spirit treasures had rather limited practical use for them.

After all, the treasures born alongside Di Kun and Zhou Jun were already sufficient for their needs, leaving no need to rely on other spirit treasures to increase their strength. Moreover, Di Kun was unlike the later Hongjun, who would need to distribute treasures throughout the world. For Di Kun, the most crucial matter at present was their path of cultivation.

It would be enough if he could attain the Grand Unity Dao Fruit before Hongjun. Of course, it would be even better if he could go a step further and attain Mythical Grand Unity. But that was only a wishful hope. For Di Kun, he would already be fully satisfied if he could successfully enter the realm of Mythical Grand Unity before the Investiture of the Gods Calamity arrived.

That would leave him with relatively ample time. Once the Canonization of the Gods calamity descended, heaven and earth would be shattered beyond repair. By then, advancing further would likely become extraordinarily difficult. After all, the world of the Primordial Wilderness would inevitably suffer a massive downgrade at that time. Even Saints would likely be unable to remain there and would have no choice but to relocate to the chaos.

As he traveled along the paths of Mount Zhou, Di Kun felt as though he had entered a world filled with mystery and the unknown. Every step might conceal an Innate Formation, and with his sharp insight and profound understanding of formations, Di Kun continuously explored these wondrous formations, deepening his comprehension of them.

However, Di Kun did not claim the treasures within every formation for himself. He merely quietly comprehended the mysteries of those formations, sensing the principles of heaven and earth contained within them. During this process, he only took a brush, a Chaos Spirit Stone beside an Innate Spiritual Root, and some Innate Green Bamboo from a mountain area. Though these items appeared ordinary, they seemed to hold special significance in Di Kun's eyes.

When he encountered Innate Sacred Beings that were still gestating, Di Kun displayed kindness and compassion. He would sort out the Earth Veins for these unborn Innate Sacred Beings, using Earth Vein nodes to set up some formations he had comprehended and creating a better environment for their gestation. This was not only a good deed, but also Di Kun's way of forming karmic ties of goodwill with these unborn Innate Sacred Beings.

During this process, Di Kun slowly entered a most wondrous state. As he immersed himself in it, Zhou Jun, far beneath Wuyi Mountain, was also affected. Zhou Jun had originally been sorting out Wuyi Mountain's Earth Veins, preparing to connect them to the depths underground, when a powerful force suddenly drew him in. Unable to resist, he returned to the Wuyi Mountain Grotto-Heaven. The moment he entered it, Zhou Jun too fell into that wondrous state, just like Di Kun.

Di Kun and Zhou Jun had originally been one person, merely divided through divine abilities and Dao arts into two individuals, one Yin and one Yang. In ordinary times, they lived separately without interfering with one another. Yet in this wondrous state, their thoughts and divine senses crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, gathering within Di Kun's body on Mount Zhou before finally merging together.

Throughout this process, Di Kun's steps did not stop, but his consciousness had already fallen asleep. His instincts, however, controlled his body like autopilot and slowly guided him toward the mountain peak.

Along the way, Di Kun encountered all kinds of formations. Yet rather than deliberately breaking them, he allowed his instincts to incorporate them into the Leyline Map, leaving them for future comprehension.

At the same time, the consciousnesses of Di Kun and Zhou Jun intertwined, as though entering a wondrous dream. Within that dream, Zhou Jun saw the life he had lived as a human in his previous incarnation. Scenes he had once experienced flickered endlessly before his eyes like a film. Many memories he had forgotten resurfaced at that moment, as though he were retracing the path he had once taken.

Next, Zhou Jun saw himself being reborn at the moment Pangu Opens the Heavens, in a world filled with chaos and primordial power. The Creation Dao Charm that Zhou Jun's True Spirit had absorbed in the past now shone like a dazzling pearl, drawing in Pangu's Dao charm from Mount Zhou. The two blended together, allowing Zhou Jun to begin comprehending Pangu's Dao within that wondrous state.

As the experiences of Zhou Jun and Di Kun unfolded bit by bit before them like a painted scroll, they seemed to become detached spectators, examining everything they had once done from an entirely new perspective. As the saying went, "One cannot see the true face of Mount Lu while standing upon it." Throughout this process, Zhou Jun felt as though enlightenment had been poured into his mind, and he gradually gained new insights and understanding.

He saw his own shortcomings with the clarity of a bright mirror. He also saw the arrogance and prejudice hidden within him, like tumors eating away at his heart, as well as the madness he had forcibly suppressed, like a vicious beast waiting at any moment to devour him in return. Without this realization, the Seven Emotions and Six Desires from his previous life, buried deep in his heart, would likely have consumed his reason like floodwaters and savage beasts, becoming his inner demon and condemning him to eternal ruin.

After all, Zhou Jun had only been an ordinary person in his previous life, without wealth or power. He had merely been one among countless common people, living in a world bound by law and morality. Yet after reincarnating into the world of the Primordial Wilderness, no matter how much he changed, he had never truly adapted to this entirely new world. Though he did his utmost to restrain himself with the morality and laws of his former life, constantly warning himself not to act in certain ways, this was a world filled with danger and devoid of legal or moral restraints. Here, the strong ruled all. How could thoughts of madness not arise in his heart?

As the saying went, "When one possesses a weapon, the urge to kill arises naturally." How much more so in this Primordial Wilderness, a world filled with countless legends? Relying on his foreknowledge, Zhou Jun naturally developed a deep arrogance when looking upon the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness. If later novels of the Primordial Wilderness had not all regarded Hongjun as an opponent, Zhou Jun likely would not have placed anyone in his eyes.