After a while, Bai Yu felt a mysterious force rejecting him, as though it wanted to drive him out.
Bai Yu did not resist, nor could he. He withdrew directly from the River of Time.
Host: Bai Yu Innate nature: Innate Manjusaka Realm: Profound Immortal (source immortal path system) Cultivation method: Grand Origin Source Scripture Source laws: Cause and Effect (perfection), Destiny (perfection), Time (perfection), Space (perfection), Five Elements (perfection), Yin-Yang (perfection)... Source great dao: None
Over those hundred yuanhui eras—a full twelve million years and more—Bai Yu had not comprehended every law to perfection, but he had perfected most of those he considered powerful and useful.
Thus, Bai Yu had also created his own "Grand Origin Source Scripture" to accommodate the many source laws he had comprehended. The more source laws he understood, the deeper his foundations became, and the greater the power he could unleash.
He had also spent a full ten yuanhui eras comprehending the profound realm, breaking through to Profound Immortal in one stroke.
Profound Immortal was a special profound realm, without early, middle, or late stages. One could attain it simply by comprehending the profound realm, and Bai Yu could now directly condense the origin five energies and break through to Golden Immortal.
Condensing the innate origin five energies could be called easy, but it could just as readily be called difficult.
In Five Energies Converge, those five energies were innate origin essence energies.
Five kinds of innate essence origin were refined within one's five organs: the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, and spleen.
They were metal source geng energy, wood source yi energy, water source ren energy, fire source bing energy, and earth source wu energy.
The five energies cycled endlessly, generating one another without cease, immortal and imperishable. This was what it meant to be a Golden Immortal.
According to his inherited knowledge, Bai Yu knew of two methods for refining the innate origin five energies.
The first was to absorb and condense the innate origin five energies directly from heaven and earth, refining the innate essence origin.
Not only was this method slow, but the Undying Immortal Body it produced was nothing special, and the foundations it forged were mediocre.
The second was to seek out spiritual treasures of heaven and earth that contained the innate origin essence energies of the five elements.
An innate spiritual root such as the Innate Ren Water Flat Peach, for example, was ideal for rapidly refining origin ren energy.
There were also the Bodhi Tree, the Ginseng Fruit Tree, the Fusang Tree, and the Yellow Zhong Plum.
These five spiritual roots corresponded perfectly to the origins of the five elements. They were the absolute finest spiritual roots obtainable in the Primordial Wilderness for refining the origin five energies within one's body.
They laid the deepest foundations and produced the very best Undying Immortal Body.
Unfortunately... what a pity...
Obtaining even one of them was, for Bai Yu, all but impossible.
Apart from the Yellow Zhongli Plum, Bai Yu knew where all those spiritual roots were, but... he could not get his hands on them...
"Huh? The system actually has another function now..."
While pondering how to become a Golden Immortal, Bai Yu suddenly discovered that the system had gained another function.
Besides the Dao Comprehension Assistance Function, there was now a Dimensional Gateway function.
As its name suggested, Bai Yu readily understood that this function would let him travel through the Myriad Realms.
Soon, however, Bai Yu frowned slightly. This function had a serious problem: to travel to another world, he needed that world's coordinates—its precise location.
Well, this was fucking awkward.
Did that make it useless?
Of course, the system could not possibly have such an obvious bug.
The system could scatter World Seeds beyond the chaos. These World Seeds could traverse the Chaos Void of the Myriad Heavens, break through the Chaos Boundary Sea, and enter the three thousand worlds.
Of course, this method was thoroughly random.
It also required a long wait.
"Although I can go home now... is this function going to be useless?"
Looking at the Blue Star World's coordinates, Bai Yu felt a little joy, but far more frustration.
Indeed, the Dimensional Gateway had recorded the coordinates of the world Bai Yu had lived in before transmigrating. In other words, he could now go straight home.
But more than going home, Bai Yu wanted to grow stronger.
After lying low in the Primordial Wilderness for over ten million years, Bai Yu's homesickness had long since faded away.
After all, there was no one and nothing in that world for him to miss or feel attached to.
"Forget it. I'll go back and take a look first. Maybe that world isn't so simple."
Bai Yu shook his head and put aside his frustration.
When he activated the Dimensional Gateway, a golden gate a hundred zhang tall appeared directly in the void before him.
The gate looked ancient and unadorned, carved with mysterious, profound runes and interwoven with countless divine radiances bearing the resonance of the Dao.
Selecting the Blue Star World's coordinates, Bai Yu stepped straight through.
The Blue Star World.
A world encompassed its universe, so Bai Yu appeared directly in the universe belonging to the Blue Star World.
The moment Bai Yu appeared, space-time rifts abruptly began opening one after another around him.
The incredibly fragile space began to collapse, triggering a chain of upheavals. The entire universe, and even the entire world, began inexplicably shaking and cracking apart.
It was as though some terrifying power on a higher plane was hastening the universe's extinction.
"Just as I thought..."
Bai Yu shook his head helplessly.
Although he had restrained his aura and power as much as possible, he still affected this weak little world.
That was because Bai Yu's own order of existence already surpassed that of this world.
This world was far too fragile. Left with no choice, Bai Yu left behind a law avatar countless times weaker than himself and returned directly to the Primordial World.
Even from the Primordial Wilderness, Bai Yu could still control this law avatar.
Controlling the law avatar, he took a step forward. The spatial source law manifested, directly suppressing this world's space law before Bai Yu took control of it.
Truly shrinking the ends of the earth to a single step, Bai Yu crossed from one distant end of the universe to the other, where Blue Star lay.
"It seems time flows at exactly the same rate in every world."
With a raise of his hand, this world's River of Time manifested directly, held in Bai Yu's grasp.
This world's River of Time was not the time source great dao, merely a source law, so Bai Yu could control it completely.
Bai Yu felt it was perfectly reasonable for time to flow at the same rate in every world of the Myriad Realms.
Unless someone actively interfered with the River of Time and altered the flow of time.
This was only an ordinary Lesser World. It did not even possess a world consciousness such as a Heavenly Dao, so naturally it would not actively interfere with the flow of time.
More than ten million years had passed, and Bai Yu discovered that Blue Star's humans had long since become galactic overlords, ruling the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
They had also grasped the key to longevity: a type of genetic serum.
But it merely extended their lives to a thousand years. They had not achieved immortality.
There was no helping it. This was only an ordinary world, and a thousand-year lifespan was already its limit.
This was a restriction imposed by the world itself.
As for so-called consciousness uploading and mechanical ascension, were they paths to longevity, or even immortality?
On that question, the benevolent saw benevolence, and the wise saw wisdom.
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