The Primordial Wilderness.
Near the East Sea, beside the entrance to a small canyon a hundred thousand feet deep and stretching hundreds of millions of miles, grew a vast swath of brilliant, multicolored flowers.
Among those flowers, one eerily beautiful, fiery-red bloom swayed in the wind.
When its flower bloomed, it had no leaves; when its leaves grew, it had no flower. This bloom was a Manjusaka, known in later ages as... the flower of the far shore.
The flower of the far shore bloomed for a thousand years and withered for a thousand years. Its flowers and leaves never met, as though caught in the cycle of cause and effect and reincarnation, or the fickleness of destiny.
At that moment, this Manjusaka's consciousness seemed to be awakening. A soft red glow radiated from him as the innate spiritual energy between heaven and earth poured into him without end.
The years changed and time flowed. In the blink of an eye, ten thousand years had passed.
"I actually transmigrated to the Primordial Wilderness... and my innate origin is a flower of the far shore?"
Bai Yu sighed, somewhat disappointed.
After accepting his fate, Bai Yu found himself puzzled. According to legend, the flower of the far shore was a flower of the Netherworld that bloomed along the Yellow Springs Road.
The Primordial Wilderness was still in the earliest days of its creation. Even the Six Paths of Reincarnation had yet to appear, let alone the Yellow Springs Road. How could a flower of the far shore exist here?
Unable to figure it out, Bai Yu stopped dwelling on it.
As for how Bai Yu knew this was the famed Primordial World, and that it was still in the earliest days of its creation?
Naturally, it was thanks to his innate inheritance.
The living beings of the present Primordial Wilderness were anything but ordinary. All were innate beings, or even innate sacred beings, with extraordinary origins and profound blessings. Every one of them possessed an innate inheritance.
Of course, Bai Yu was merely an ordinary innate being, not an innate sacred being like the Three Pure Ones.
"At least I still have a golden finger. But... this Primordial Wilderness... is seriously terrifying..."
Bai Yu's expression grew incredibly grave. He had discovered that this Primordial World was terrifying to an abnormal degree!
Before transmigrating, Primordial Wilderness-style novels had been among Bai Yu's favorite genres, so he could safely be called very familiar with the Primordial World.
Naturally, across so many Primordial Wilderness-style novels, power levels varied wildly. Some were powerful beyond all bounds, while others were pitifully weak.
One example that had left a deep impression on Bai Yu was "a Sage covered ten meters in a single step"...
Then there were things like a Sage unleashing a full-powered palm strike to destroy a thousand-meter mountain...
Those Sages were just there for comic relief.
As for the Primordial World Bai Yu now inhabited, he could guarantee that this was an absolutely high-powered version of the Primordial Wilderness!
Just how high-powered was it?
The cultivation realms of this Primordial Wilderness, from lowest to highest, were: celestial immortal, profound immortal, golden immortal, primordial unity golden immortal, Daluo golden immortal, and primordial Daluo golden immortal.
In the earliest days of the Primordial Wilderness's creation, ordinary innate beings like Bai Yu started at the celestial immortal realm.
Yet even Bai Yu, an ordinary, unremarkable, newly born celestial immortal, had comprehended the three great source laws of cause and effect, reincarnation, and destiny through his innate inheritance.
That was fucking absurd!
From his innate inheritance, Bai Yu knew that comprehending one of the world's source laws was enough to become a celestial immortal. Only by completely mastering a source law could one reach perfection in that realm.
A profound immortal became one by entering the profound realm: mystery upon mystery, the gateway to all wonders.
A golden immortal achieved Five Energies Converge, making the physical body imperishable.
Primordial unity: where essence endured, spirit arose. Those of primordial unity were the spirits of heaven and earth. With an undying primordial spirit and an imperishable physical body, one was called a primordial unity golden immortal.
A Daluo golden immortal gathered the three flowers of essence, qi, and spirit above the crown. From then on, they were without flaw or leakage, perfect and unblemished; what they attained once remained attained forever. They could comprehend a source Great Dao, existing neither in the past nor in the future, but only in the present moment.
Bai Yu no longer knew what to say. In some Primordial Wilderness novels, only Daluo golden immortals could comprehend laws, and completely mastering a single law led directly to Enlightenment of the Dao as a primordial Daluo golden immortal.
Here, however, celestial immortals already began comprehending source laws, and only complete mastery of a source law brought them to the utmost perfection of their realm.
Profound immortals were even more outrageous. According to the descriptions in his innate inheritance, this realm was extraordinarily mysterious and wondrous. They could sense the Primordial Wilderness's river of time and even enter it briefly.
Through the cause and effect and destiny entangling them with an enemy, they could instantly locate that enemy in the river of time, then obliterate them outright, killing them completely.
Thus, celestial immortals had no power whatsoever to fight back against profound immortals.
In fact, as long as you remained within the Primordial World, you could not even escape.
There was no answer to such a method.
As for golden immortals, this realm could be summed up as an imperishable physical body. Unless their primordial spirit was targeted, they were essentially impossible to kill.
Primordial unity golden immortals were even more impossible to counter. Their primordial spirit was undying. From then on, with both an imperishable physical body and an undying primordial spirit, they no longer had any obvious weaknesses.
Killing a primordial unity golden immortal was so difficult that it bordered on impossible.
It was not absolute, of course, and one could still attack them through the river of time: travel upstream into the past and kill the enemy while they were weak.
However, the other party could also travel upstream through the river of time, which made things rather awkward. Thus, completely killing a primordial unity golden immortal of the same realm was extremely troublesome and difficult.
As for Daluo golden immortals, this realm was actually already a process of attaining the Great Dao.
Daluo golden immortals were already on the road to transcendence. Without flaw or leakage, what they attained once remained attained forever. Every self across all of time and space was the self of this present moment. They existed neither in the past nor in the future, so they could not be attacked through the river of time.
To Daluo golden immortals, the river of time was already no different from a toy.
Moreover, they had comprehended a source Great Dao.
Laws were the rules governing a world, the patterns by which heaven, earth, and nature operated. Thus, every world possessed laws.
Without laws, a world would collapse and cease to exist.
The strength of a world determined the strength of that world's laws.
The strength of a world's laws was, in turn, tied to the strength of that world.
In short, it was rather complicated to understand.
No two worlds were completely identical, so the source laws of every world differed as well.
In other words, once you entered an entirely new world, the power of the laws you had comprehended in your own world would be affected.
If the laws of your world were weaker than those of that world, you would find yourself restricted at every turn, subjected to all manner of suppression.
If the laws of your world were stronger than those of that world, not only would you suffer no restrictions, you would become even more formidable and terrifying. You could even completely overwhelm that world's source laws, standing above all living beings, all things, and even the world itself!
A source Great Dao, however, was supreme throughout the countless Myriad Realms.
A source Great Dao stood above source laws and transcended the worlds of the Myriad Heavens. Its power was of a higher order than the power of laws.
Before a Daluo golden immortal, beneath the power of a source Great Dao, a primordial unity golden immortal's so-called imperishable body and undying primordial spirit were nothing but a joke.
Thus, with such leaps in the very order of existence, killing an enemy an entire major realm above you was simply impossible.
A celestial immortal was a joke before a profound immortal. You could not even escape.
A profound immortal was likewise a joke before a golden immortal. You could not even break through their defenses, let alone kill them.
And if a primordial unity golden immortal wanted to deal with a golden immortal, they could simply obliterate the latter's primordial spirit. What did an imperishable physical body matter then?
As for Daluo golden immortals, no matter how numerous or powerful primordial unity golden immortals were, a Daluo golden immortal could wipe out hundreds of trillions with a wave of the hand. How were they any different from ants or dust?
Because they had comprehended a source Great Dao, Daluo golden immortals were true powerhouses throughout the Myriad Realms!
Above Daluo golden immortals stood primordial Daluo golden immortals: terrifying beings who had already attained the Great Dao and completely mastered a source Great Dao. They were among the strongest even across the Myriad Realms.
Because primordial Daluo golden immortals had completely mastered a source Great Dao, they were also known as Great Dao Realm powerhouses.
As for whether even higher realms existed above primordial Daluo golden immortals, Bai Yu truly had no idea.
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