Resonance with the Immortal Volcano

The breeze was gentle, the clouds serene, and mountain mist drifted through the air.

An immortal crane soared up from the vast, ancient forest, carrying Lu Ya upon its back.

This immortal crane had decent innate foundations and was at the True Immortal level, but its cultivation was only at the Heavenly Immortal level.

Thus, its own magic power was still insufficient for it to assume human form.

Lu Ya was capable of enlightening the immortal crane, but it was merely a temporary mount, so there was no need to expend the effort.

Before he knew it, Lu Ya had been traveling through the Primordial World for several hundred years.

For many living beings, several hundred years was no more than a nap.

Yet for Lu Ya, that was no short amount of time.

Even a single day in the Primordial World could be considered long.

After several hundred years, both Lu Ya's Body Cultivation and Primordial Spirit Cultivation had reached the Golden Immortal level.

As for his true body, its Primordial Spirit Cultivation remained at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level.

His true body's Body Cultivation... was close to that of a million Quasi-Saints.

In truth, once one's cultivation reached a sufficiently high level, quantitative change found it difficult to produce qualitative change.

Even the magic power of a million Quasi-Saints might not be able to contend against a Saint.

The main issue was still his insufficient understanding of Saints.

If one had attained the Grand Unity Dao Fruit, one could perhaps infer a thing or two about the Hunyuan Dao Fruit.

The problem was that Lu Ya had only attained the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit and was still quite far from the Qianyuan Dao Fruit.

It could only be said that his Dao attainment was his greatest weakness.

It had not been easy even to attain the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit. He had comprehended Heavenly Dao, refined Innate restrictions, and cultivated the Three Flowers and Five Qi.

Lu Ya had created the Three Flowers and Five Qi Cultivation Method himself and had even begun pondering Slaying the Three Corpses.

As the saying went: Five Qi Returning to Origin, Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, swallowing all Six Qi, slaying all Three Corpses... all these methods could advance one's Dao attainment and increase one's magic power.

In Lu Ya's understanding, the "Origin" in Five Qi Returning to Origin was the "Heavenly Gate," which was the Mud Pill Palace.

The Five Qi were the Five Elements Qi of the internal organs. Each returned to its root, balancing the Dao body and preventing stagnation.

Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, meanwhile, was the merging and gathering of one's Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

At first glance, none of it appeared complicated, but deeper contemplation revealed it to be obscure and difficult to understand.

Perhaps the Three Flowers and Five Qi Cultivation Method he had created was too simplistic. Even though the Innate Five Elements within his body circulated endlessly, cycle after cycle, and the Three Flowers gathered in his Mud Pill Palace, he had only attained the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit.

Still, after comprehending Heavenly Dao for several hundred years and refining some Innate restrictions, his Dao attainment had improved considerably.

For the time being, Lu Ya was unable to come up with a version 2.0 of the Three Flowers and Five Qi Cultivation Method.

So he began pondering Slaying the Three Corpses.

There were differing interpretations regarding the Three Corpses.

One version described them as benevolence, malice, and obsession.

Another said that the human body contained Three Corpses worms: three upper corpses, three middle corpses, and three lower corpses, together forming the Three Corpses and Nine Worms. It was also said that the upper corpse was named "Ju," the middle corpse "Zhi," and the lower corpse "Qiao."

But Lu Ya did not have a human body. He was a Golden Crow, and his true body was even less human.

In any case, he had not discovered any Three Corpses worms.

It seemed he could only begin with benevolence, malice, and obsession.

But then came the question: how was one supposed to slay the Three Corpses?

By entrusting one's benevolence, malice, and obsessions to Innate objects?

After trying it, he found that it was possible to entrust portions of his benevolence and malice to external objects. But once he did so, something felt distinctly wrong with his entire being.

Was the method incorrect?

In short, Lu Ya had truly racked his brains in order to improve his Dao attainment.

In addition, he had studied works such as the Classic of Virtue, the Yellow Court Scripture, and Baopuzi, but he could not remember their full texts. He only recalled scattered fragments. They were helpful to him, but not by much.

Whenever the mood struck, he would also send projections into low-level worlds.

Under the evolution of the Primordial World, this Primordial World, countless low-level worlds had come into being.

There were Great Thousand Worlds, Middle Thousand Worlds, Lesser Thousand Worlds, and Cave Heaven Worlds.

In Lu Ya's eyes, Cave Heaven Worlds were no more than illusions.

Only the dimensions of a very few Great Thousand Worlds could stand on equal footing with the Primordial World.

Great Thousand Worlds with lower dimensions were merely "a painting" or "a book" in Lu Ya's eyes.

With Lu Ya's current innate foundations and cultivation, merely sending a projection into a Lesser Thousand World was enough to create significant turmoil there.

Under the "lock" of dimensionality, the resources, cultivation methods, divine abilities, and such of low-level worlds had extremely little effect on high-level worlds.

One flower, one world.

A wildflower by the roadside in the Primordial World might contain a world within it.

Over the course of several hundred years, Lu Ya had seen far too many low-level worlds.

He had also witnessed many low-level worlds perish.

He had even seen worlds descend in dimension.

Worlds ascending in dimension, however, were rare.

For a world to increase its dimensionality was no easy matter.

Whenever the urge struck, Lu Ya not only sent some projections into low-level worlds, but also casually helped certain low-level worlds raise their dimensions.

Standing at the end of dimensionality, even though he was only at the Golden Immortal level and his Dao attainment was not high, helping low-level worlds beneath the Middle Thousand World level ascend in dimension was not difficult.

As for helping a Lesser Thousand World ascend into a Middle Thousand World, Lu Ya would need to borrow the power of his true body. It would not be easy, either, and would require several years.

Before he knew it, Lu Ya arrived at the Immortal Volcano.

He had promised Yuan Feng that he would come to the Immortal Volcano, and now he had.

It had taken him several hundred years to travel from Kunlun Mountain to the Immortal Volcano.

In truth, sunlight could illuminate both the Immortal Volcano and Kunlun Mountain at once, so Lu Ya could have teleported directly here from Kunlun Mountain.

Upon arriving at the foot of the Immortal Volcano, Lu Ya's heart was as still as an ancient well.

The high temperatures distorted space, while earthfire and lava raged everywhere. It was an environment harsh to the extreme.

Yet compared to the Sun Star, the Immortal Volcano fell far short.

Thus, Lu Ya's expression remained calm.

Although this was his first time visiting the Immortal Volcano.

His true body overlooked the earth from the Sky Dome, taking the entire Immortal Volcano into view.

Therefore, Lu Ya already knew quite a bit about the Immortal Volcano.

He even knew some of the Immortal Volcano's secrets.

The Immortal Volcano contained numerous restrictions and formations. The moment Lu Ya set foot within it, several powerful members of the Phoenix Clan noticed him.

Having only just stepped onto the Immortal Volcano, Lu Ya stopped walking.

At this moment, Lu Ya's face was filled with astonishment.

Even his tranquil state of mind was swept by turbulent waves.

He would never have known had he not come to the Immortal Volcano, but upon arriving, Lu Ya discovered that he actually resonated with it.

It was as though he had returned to the Sun Star.

This was an extremely high degree of compatibility.

Under such circumstances, if Lu Ya possessed sufficient magic power, he could easily draw upon the power of the entire Immortal Volcano.

But it would likely require the magic power of a Quasi-Saint.

With only his current Golden Immortal-level magic power, he could draw upon merely a small portion of the Immortal Volcano's power.

And through his resonance with the Immortal Volcano, he could discover many of its secrets.

As for the restrictions, formations, and the like within the Immortal Volcano, they were not entirely useless against the current Lu Ya, but breaking them would be easy.

"To resonate with the entire Immortal Volcano... even Yuan Feng probably cannot do this!" Lu Ya could not calm his heart.

This situation...

Could it be...

Lu Ya formed a bold conjecture.

Did the origin of this Immortal Volcano share the same source as the Solar Star System?

The possibility was extremely high.

If the origins of the Immortal Volcano and the Sun Star truly came from the same source, that would be wonderful.

One was in the heavens and one was on the earth. If they truly shared the same origin, merging them into one would make it easy to create a Golden Crow with exceptional innate foundations.

As for upgrading the Sun Star, Heavenly Dao would not allow it.

As the Primordial World grew, the Sun Star naturally became stronger.

It was not for the Sun Star's ascension to drive the growth of the entire Primordial World.

The primary and secondary could not be confused.

In theory, the Sun Star could ascend and drive the Primordial World's growth, but actually accomplishing it would be far too difficult. Lu Ya did not even dare consider it. At the very least, the magic power of a million Quasi-Saints would be nowhere near enough.

Magic power could accomplish many things, but it was not everything.

For the Sun Star to drive the Primordial World, magic power alone would not suffice. No matter how great it was, it would be useless. At the very least, one would also need a Hunyuan Dao Fruit.

Since he suspected that the Immortal Volcano and the Sun Star shared the same origin, Lu Ya was naturally determined to get to the bottom of it.

At that moment, Seven-Colored Divine Light streaked across the void. Yuan Feng, peerlessly graceful, stood amid auspicious rosy clouds, her beautiful eyes glancing about.