Three thousand years later.
Human Sacred Hall.
Gu Xi slowly opened his eyes.
His deep eyes resembled two starry vortices, with billions of Great Dao talismans rotating within them.
Divine lights of every color cascaded down from his body like waterfalls.
There was the pure golden Mysterious Light of Merit.
There was the Innate Five Elements divine light.
There was the Four Seasons Divine Light, manifested from the Four Seasons Sequence.
The various divine lights gathered together, emanating an incomparably vast and oppressive aura. It was as though incomparably heavy Yiyuan Heavy Water was surging, causing the surrounding space-time to tremble faintly.
"Three thousand years at last. I have finally comprehended Dong Yin Daojun's Great Luo Dao Fruit completely."
"Moreover, I successfully used this Dao Fruit, together with the Primordial Water Element Dao Embryo obtained from Great Sage Shui Ling, as nourishment to condense my own Primordial Water Element Dao Embryo."
"And the moment my Primordial Water Element Dao Embryo was formed, it reached the Great Perfection stage, faintly showing signs of transforming into a Great Luo Dao Fruit."
Gu Xi muttered as an Auspicious Cloud surged from above his head.
Within the Auspicious Cloud, seven extraordinarily profound Dao Embryos appeared.
These seven Dao Embryos were:
1. Primordial Merit Dao Embryo!
2. Four Seasons Sequence Dao Embryo!
3. Primordial Metal Element Dao Embryo!
4. Primordial Wood Element Dao Embryo!
5. Primordial Water Element Dao Embryo!
6. Primordial Fire Element Dao Embryo!
7. Primordial Earth Element Dao Embryo!
The auras of these seven Dao Embryos spread across the heavens and earth, violently shaking the surrounding space-time.
A full seven Dao Embryos.
If any other Gods and Demons had been here, they would probably have been scared to death on the spot.
The Great Dao was difficult to seek.
Even Gods and Demons with Innate Divine Saint origins could not guarantee that they would be able to fully walk a single Great Dao.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the vast majority of Gods and Demons focused on one Great Dao and condensed a single Dao Embryo.
They devoted all their energy to nurturing and elevating that one Dao Embryo.
Then, they did everything in their power to elevate the Dao Embryo into a Great Luo Dao Fruit, then into a Quasi-Saint Dao Fruit, and finally into a Primordial Dao Fruit.
This was the choice of the vast majority of Gods and Demons.
In truth, even so, elevating a single Dao Embryo into a Primordial Dao Fruit was an exceedingly slim possibility.
Thus, very few Gods and Demons cultivated more than one Dao Embryo.
There was no other reason!
They lacked the energy!
Someone like Gu Xi, who had directly cultivated seven Dao Embryos, was unprecedented in all of Hong Huang.
Of course, the benefits were equally obvious.
Gu Xi's divine power was roughly more than seven times that of other Gods and Demons and Dao Lords at the same level.
He gazed at the seven Dao Embryos above the Auspicious Cloud, filled with a sense of achievement.
The Primordial Merit Dao Embryo and the Four Seasons Sequence Dao Embryo aside—
the latter five Innate Five Elements Dao Embryos had all been condensed over these three thousand years.
Using the Dao Embryos of Great Sage Mu Ling, Great Sage Shui Ling, and Great Sage Huo Ling as references and templates, he had taken roughly one thousand years to condense his own Primordial Wood Element Dao Embryo, Primordial Water Element Dao Embryo, and Primordial Fire Element Dao Embryo.
Then, using the three Dao Embryos of Great Sage Mu Ling and the others as nourishment, he fused them into his own three Dao Embryos, upgrading the Primordial Wood Element Dao Embryo and the other two Dao Embryos to the mid-stage.
Afterward, he used Dong Yin Daojun's Dao Fruit as nourishment and fused it into the Primordial Water Element Dao Embryo, directly upgrading it to the Great Perfection stage.
After that, based on the principles of mutual generation and restraint among the Five Elements, combined with the three Dao Embryos such as the Primordial Wood Element Dao Embryo and the Great Five Elements Art he cultivated, he deduced the Primordial Metal Element Dao Embryo and the Primordial Earth Element Dao Embryo.
In the end, he successfully condensed the Primordial Metal Element Dao Embryo and the Primordial Earth Element Dao Embryo.
Of course, throughout the entire process, he had consumed more than three hundred billion Merit and repeatedly used the "Dao Comprehension" function of the Heavenly Dao Credit Card, entering states of Dao comprehension again and again.
Only then had he been able to condense all of his Innate Five Elements Dao Embryos within just three thousand years.
The price had been immense.
The harvest had been equally immense.
Gu Xi glanced at his Merit value.
[Merit: 100 billion]
"Over these years, as the Four Seasons Sequence spread and Martial Dao became popular throughout Hong Huang, I gradually gained a great deal of Merit."
"My Merit value had originally reached four hundred billion. But in order to deduce and condense the Innate Five Elements Dao Embryos, I spent another three hundred billion on Dao comprehension."
"No matter how much Merit one has, it is never enough!"
Gu Xi sighed and put away the Auspicious Cloud and the seven Dao Embryos.
Then, with a movement of his Divine Sense, he sent news of his emergence from seclusion to Suiren Shi and the others.
"Holy Father has emerged from seclusion?"
After receiving Gu Xi's Divine Sense message, Suiren Shi and the others were overjoyed.
Immediately, they rushed toward the Human Sacred Hall from the various Human Race tribes.
Half a day later, Suiren Shi and numerous Human Race experts arrived at Five Elements Mountain.
However, there were simply too many Human Race experts this time—over eleven thousand seven hundred in total.
If the Human Sacred Hall had not contained the Law of Space and been capable of accommodating one hundred thousand people,
it might not have been able to hold so many people today.
Only Human Race members at the Earth Immortal level or above counted as Human Race High Officials and were qualified to enter the Sacred Hall.
The arrival of so many Human Race High Officials at once delighted Gu Xi greatly.
"We pay respects to Holy Father!"
Suiren Shi and the others all bowed before Gu Xi.
"Rise. Suiren Shi, tell me about the changes in our Human Race over these three thousand years."
Gu Xi looked eagerly at Suiren Shi.
"By your command!"
Suiren Shi took a deep breath, his face revealing delight.
"Since Holy Father passed down Martial Dao, the overall strength of our Human Race has increased dramatically. Even ordinary people lacking talent can gain the power to fight Fierce Beasts and demons through cultivating Martial Dao..."
"This has greatly improved the survival ability of our Human Race."
"Over the past three thousand years, the population of our Human Race has surged to fifty billion."
"Many tribes that later split off have migrated beyond the East Sea Coast region, moving into areas across eastern Hong Huang suitable for Human Race habitation."
"Now, aside from more than one hundred and thirty tribes in the East Sea Coast region, our Human Race also has more than four hundred tribes scattered throughout eastern Hong Huang."
"It can be said that the footsteps of our Human Race have begun to spread across all of eastern Hong Huang."
"Besides the massive increase in population, the number of Human Race experts has also risen greatly!"
"As of today, our Human Race has ten Golden Immortals, more than two hundred Heavenly Immortals, more than five hundred Martial Dao experts who have achieved Shattering the Void, over one thousand Earth Immortals, and more than ten thousand Martial Dao Human Immortals."
"It can be said that these three thousand years have been the fastest period of development in our history..."
Suiren Shi excitedly reported the Human Race's current situation to Gu Xi.
"It seems that the development of our Human Race over these three thousand years has been quite ideal."
Gu Xi was deeply satisfied by what he heard.
Afterward, he had the seven newly advanced Golden Immortals display the Great Dao they cultivated.
Then, he bestowed the divine positions of four Gods of Twenty-Four Solar Terms upon the four Golden Immortals compatible with those positions.
"Of the twenty-four divine positions of the Gods of Twenty-Four Solar Terms, three have been given to the Dragon Clan, five to the Human Race, leaving sixteen divine positions."
"For the Four Seasons Sequence to reach completion, all twenty-four Gods of Twenty-Four Solar Terms must be born."
"My realm has already reached the limit of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level, and I have seven Dao Embryos within my body. It is about time to advance to the Great Luo Realm."
"However, before advancing to the Great Luo Realm, I must first bring the Four Seasons Sequence to completion. That way, the Four Seasons Sequence Dao Embryo can also elevate into a Great Luo Dao Fruit."
"I can wait no longer. It seems I should inspect the Human Race and, while I am at it, subdue some Gods and Demons compatible with the divine positions, allowing them to fuse with those positions and hasten the completion of the Four Seasons Sequence."
Gu Xi pondered for a moment, then made his decision.
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