Grand Unity Golden Immortals were usually called Primordial Great Sages or Primordial Great Gods. Some who primarily cultivated Acquired Great Daos were called Acquired Dao Masters.
Whether Primordial Great Sages, Primordial Great Gods, or Acquired Dao Masters, these honorifics alone showed how exalted the status of Grand Unity Golden Immortals was.
In truth, Grand Unity Golden Immortals were indeed exalted.
They were the backbone of any force in Hong Huang.
If they did not wish to rely on another force, they could establish their own lineage and dominate a region, just like Great Sage Jin Ling and the others.
However, becoming a Grand Unity Golden Immortal was exceedingly difficult.
During the Human Race's century-long migration, Gu Xi had already reached the Golden Immortal Limit.
He had also comprehended the key to advancing to Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
"To advance to Taiyi, one must temper the Primordial Spirit True Soul, Dao Seed, and Gods and Demons Dao Body to their limits, then make them resonate. After that, gather the power of all three within the Dao Seed and transform it into a Grand Unity Dao Embryo. Only then can one become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal."
"Before arriving at the East Sea Coast, I actually had a seventy percent chance of successfully advancing to Grand Unity Golden Immortal."
"Now that I have these four Dao Embryos and ten Dao Seeds as nourishment, I have absolute confidence in advancing to Grand Unity Golden Immortal."
Gu Xi muttered to himself, his gaze falling upon the four Dao Embryos.
Of these four Dao Embryos, one contained the mysteries of the Primordial Fire Dao.
One contained the mysteries of the Primordial Water Great Dao.
One contained the mysteries of the Primordial Wood Great Dao.
The last one contained the mysteries of the Acquired Supreme Yang Great Dao.
What was the difference between Innate Great Daos and Acquired Great Daos?
Innate Great Daos were the most fundamental of the Three Thousand Great Daos. Every Innate Great Dao was unique.
Acquired Great Daos, on the other hand, were derived from Innate Great Daos.
One Innate Great Dao could often give rise to multiple Acquired Great Daos.
For example, the Primordial Water Great Dao had given rise to the Acquired Cloud and Mist Great Dao, Acquired Ice and Snow Great Dao, Acquired Rainwater Great Dao, Acquired Tide Great Dao, and so on.
Thus, Innate Great Daos and Acquired Great Daos were essentially like a trunk and its branches.
Of course, this did not mean that beings cultivating Innate Great Daos were necessarily stronger than those cultivating Acquired Great Daos.
Even at the same realm, those cultivating Innate Great Daos might not be stronger than those cultivating Acquired Great Daos.
It depended on the extent to which one had comprehended and mastered their Great Dao.
Gu Xi looked at the three Innate Great Dao Embryos, a trace of heartache flashing through his eyes.
"What a pity. Great Sage Jin Ling's and Great Sage Tu Ling's Grand Unity Dao Embryos were destroyed by the Heavenly Punishment too quickly, and I could not preserve them. Otherwise, I could have gathered all five Primordial Five Elements Dao Embryos this time."
He sighed softly.
Among the Three Thousand Great Daos, the many Innate Great Daos could be classified by their nature into the Primordial Five Destinies Great Dao, Primordial Five Virtues Great Dao, Primordial Five Elements Great Dao, Primordial End Great Dao, Primordial Universe Great Dao, Primordial Creation Great Dao, and more.
The Primordial Merit Great Dao he currently cultivated belonged to the Primordial Five Virtues Great Dao.
The Innate Five Virtues could in turn be divided into Saintly Virtue, Morality, Merit, Fortune Virtue, and Yin Virtue.
By completely comprehending and mastering one Innate Great Dao, one could attain the Dao of Primordial Chaos and become a Primordial Chaos Saint.
If he could master all five Innate Great Daos of the Innate Five Virtues, Gu Xi estimated that he could reach the realm Great God Pangu had once attained.
Therefore, while primarily cultivating the Primordial Merit Great Dao, Gu Xi had already begun considering the gradual concurrent cultivation of the four Great Daos of Saintly Virtue, Morality, Fortune Virtue, and Yin Virtue.
He did not know whether he would one day be able to completely comprehend the Primordial Five Virtues Great Dao.
But one had to have dreams, didn't one?
Of course, if he wanted to completely master the Primordial Five Virtues Great Dao...
Then he would inevitably have Dao Contention with Supreme Purity Laozi in the future.
Because Supreme Purity Laozi primarily cultivated the Primordial Morality Great Dao.
It was precisely because he had considered this that Gu Xi developed some thoughts of concurrently cultivating the Primordial Five Elements Great Dao after seeing the three Primordial Five Elements Dao Embryos before him.
"If I am to fully master the Primordial Five Virtues Great Dao in the future, I will inevitably have Dao Contention with Supreme Purity Laozi. He is already ahead of me now. Perhaps by the time he becomes a saint, I will not even have advanced to Quasi-Sage. My disadvantage is far too great."
"Moreover, I cannot let Supreme Purity Laozi discover my intention to fully master the Primordial Five Virtues Great Dao. Otherwise, he will certainly move against me in advance."
"Rather than that, before fully mastering the Primordial Five Virtues Great Dao, I should avoid his edge and concurrently cultivate the Primordial Five Elements Great Dao."
"In the mythological history of Hong Huang, no one has ever attained sainthood through any one of the Innate Great Daos within the Primordial Five Elements Great Dao. This is my opportunity."
After considering it, Gu Xi decided to keep the three Primordial Five Elements Dao Embryos as references for his future concurrent cultivation of the Primordial Five Elements Great Dao.
As for the remaining Acquired Supreme Yang Dao Embryo and the ten Dao Seeds, they could serve as his nourishment.
Having made up his mind, Gu Xi immediately willed the Dao Seed within the Auspicious Cloud above his head to release streams of Primordial Merit Profound Light, which shone upon the Acquired Supreme Yang Dao Embryo and the ten Dao Seeds.
In an instant, the ten Dao Seeds began to break down first, transforming into brilliant strands of Dao Pattern Laws and vast divine power as surging as a tide.
After being filtered and stripped by the Primordial Merit Profound Light, only Dao Pattern Laws related to the Primordial Merit Great Dao remained. They all merged into Gu Xi's own Dao Seed.
At once, Gu Xi's Dao Seed became more complete and pure, erupting with boundless rays of light that pierced through countless spaces, times, and world origins.
It even began to thump like a heart, as though it had come alive and was about to undergo some miraculous transformation.
At the same time, the divine power left behind by the ten disintegrating Dao Seeds poured into Gu Xi's fleshly body like mighty rivers, tempering it.
Without realizing it, he revealed the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Undying Body. Mysterious Great Dao Patterns surfaced across his skin, radiating an incomparably weighty, ancient, and vast aura.
It made him appear incomparably majestic, as though his fleshly body could bear heaven and earth.
Gu Xi's dharma body had originally already been tempered to the Golden Immortal Limit.
Yet at this moment, under the tempering of the divine power left behind by the ten Dao Seeds' disintegration, it faintly showed signs of breaking through its limits once again.
Rolling Profound Yellow Qi flowed down from his body like waterfalls, while Profound Yellow Lotuses bloomed around him, radiating a terrifying aura of unmatched heaviness and invulnerability to all techniques.
After the ten Dao Seeds had disintegrated, the Acquired Supreme Yang Dao Embryo could also be broken down.
Boom—
The moment this Dao Embryo disintegrated, it erupted with divine power even more immense than that released by the ten Dao Seeds.
The rolling divine power gathered into a single mass like a resplendent divine sun and merged into Gu Xi's dharma body.
Strands of incomparably mysterious Dao Pattern Laws also merged into Gu Xi's Dao Seed.
In an instant, Gu Xi's Dao Seed and dharma body completed their transformations simultaneously.
The Primordial Spirit True Soul, Dao Seed, and Gods and Demons Dao Body within him violently resonated at once. Blazing, dazzling golden light bloomed throughout his body, while his Dao Seed slowly transformed into an unfathomably mysterious Dao Embryo.
The instant the Dao Embryo formed, a vast phenomenon appeared above the Human Tribe and rapidly spread across a million miles. The Heaven and Earth Vital Energy within that million-mile radius boiled violently.
Data: Great Daos are divided into Innate Great Daos and Acquired Great Daos. Innate Great Daos are unique. One Innate Great Dao can give rise to multiple Acquired Great Daos. By completely mastering one Innate Great Dao, one can attain the Dao of Primordial Great Luo Immortal. Moreover, whether it is an Innate Great Dao or an Acquired Great Dao, each Great Dao can have only one Dao Master. Therefore, cultivators of the same Great Dao will have Dao Contention if they wish to completely master that Great Dao.
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