"At last, I'm a Daluo Golden Immortal."
"From today onward, I'm one of Hong Huang's great supernatural beings."
Joy appeared on Gu Xi's face.
More than half the pressure that had been quietly building in his heart ever since he transmigrated to Hong Huang vanished in an instant.
As an ordinary person from the modern world, he had suddenly transmigrated to a world like Hong Huang, where gods and demons roamed freely and destroyed heaven and earth at the slightest provocation. To say he had felt no fear or pressure would have been an outright lie.
Fortunately, he had bound himself to the Heavenly Dao Credit Card.
Through the Heavenly Dao Credit Card, he could borrow vast amounts of merit from the Heavenly Dao, making it his creditor and thereby gaining its protection.
Yet even with the Heavenly Dao's protection, unease and apprehension had lingered in his heart.
After all, he could not be certain that the Heavenly Dao would always protect him.
Over twenty-three thousand years, he had offended countless gods and demons.
He had even offended the Witch and Demon Races.
If the Heavenly Dao suddenly stopped protecting him one day, he would be in trouble.
With so many enemies arrayed against him, his fate would be miserable.
Now, things were different.
He had advanced to Daluo Golden Immortal and become one of Hong Huang's great supernatural beings.
That alone had automatically reduced the number of his enemies by more than eighty percent.
—Those gods and demons below the Great Luo Realm whom he had once cheated or offended would presumably be more than willing to forget their grudges against a Daluo Golden Immortal.
Now, his only real enemies were the Witch and Demon Races.
As a Daluo Golden Immortal, he would not be easy for the Witch and Demon Races to deal with.
What was more, he still had the Heavenly Dao's protection.
"The Great Dao stretches endlessly; long and distant is the road!"
"On the path to Hunyuan, becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal is only the beginning!"
"I must keep striving. I cannot slack off!"
Gu Xi murmured to himself, the smile still lingering on his face.
Although this was only the beginning of the path to Hunyuan, there was no need to belittle himself: a God and Demon Dao Lord already had a place in Hong Huang.
Even among ten thousand Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, not one might successfully break through to become a God and Demon Dao Lord.
More importantly, when he advanced to Daluo Golden Immortal, he had condensed two Dao Fruits at once.
Moreover, both the innate merit dao fruit and the four seasons sequence dao fruit had far greater potential than ordinary great Luo dao fruits.
In addition, among the primordial five elements dao embryos within his body, the Primordial Water Element Dao Embryo had already reached the pinnacle of perfection.
Given a little more time, he was confident he could elevate this dao embryo into a great Luo dao fruit as well.
The remaining four dao embryos would also be elevated into Dao Fruits sooner or later.
In this respect, no one in all of Hong Huang could match his foundations.
Thus, he had great confidence in his path.
Now that I've advanced to Daluo Golden Immortal, besides steadily elevating the remaining primordial five elements dao embryos into Dao Fruits one by one and advancing my realm, I must also prepare to become a Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate.
Gu Xi pondered.
After Daluo Golden Immortal came Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate.
Many of Hong Huang's current Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates had attained that realm through the Method of Slaying Three Corpses passed down by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
But the Method of Slaying Three Corpses was not the only means of becoming a Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate.
Before Dao Ancestor Hongjun passed down the Method of Slaying Three Corpses, some of the earliest great supernatural beings had already become Quasi-Sages before the Dragon-Phoenix-Kirin Tribulation.
Luohu, Great Immortal Yang Mei, Ancestor Dragon, Ancestor Phoenix, Ancestor Kirin, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Qiankun Ancestor, and Ancestor Qingtian had all been renowned Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates in ancient times.
Even now, the Twelve Ancestral Witches had not become Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates through the Method of Slaying Three Corpses.
Ultimately, a cultivator's advancement through the realms rested primarily on comprehending and mastering the great Dao laws.
As long as one steadily deepened one's comprehension and mastery of the great Dao laws, one would naturally become a Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate upon reaching a certain level.
The defining trait of a Daluo Golden Immortal was the spirit's command over the laws: their primordial spirit united with the Great Dao, wielding the power of the laws and becoming the master of all laws within the reach of their divine power.
The main criterion for becoming a Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate, however, was man and law unite!
How boundless were the great Dao laws, with methods as numerous as the sands of the Ganges—how could anyone command them all? Better to take a step back into open skies and boundless seas, placing oneself on equal footing with the laws and uniting with them, blazing another trail to the supreme, profound realm of doing nothing yet leaving nothing undone.
That was a Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate.
It was a step beyond a Daluo Golden Immortal's spiritual command over the laws.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches had become Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates through the ancient cultivation method of directly comprehending the great Dao laws.
The Secret Method of Slaying Three Corpses passed down by Dao Ancestor Hongjun had gradually become the mainstream method that great supernatural beings used to become Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates, primarily because it offered advantages over the ancient method.
The "three corpses" represented three kinds of "evil desires" within the body—in other words, its various obsessions.
These evil desires and obsessions existed within living beings, severely affecting and obstructing their comprehension of the great Dao laws.
Through the Method of Slaying Three Corpses, these evil desires and obsessions could be severed, purifying one's thoughts and making it easier to comprehend the great Dao laws.
Moreover, when severing one's good corpse, evil corpse, and self corpse, one could lodge them in primordial spiritual treasures and gain three immensely powerful incarnations.
Once a living being had thoroughly comprehended ten levels of the great Dao laws, they could merge with the three corpses again, advancing further and deepening their foundations to gain the qualifications to strive for the realm of primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
This was the true secret of Slashing the Three Corpses.
It was also the advantage of the Method of Slaying Three Corpses.
Naturally, Gu Xi had no objection to the Method of Slaying Three Corpses.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches were born without primordial spirits and could not cultivate the Method of Slaying Three Corpses, so they had no choice but to continue using the ancient method to become Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates.
Gu Xi had a primordial spirit himself. There was no way he would leave a superior method unused.
As the saying went, whether a cat was black or white, any cat that caught mice was a good cat.
However, although the Method of Slaying Three Corpses was widely circulated in Hong Huang, there was a catch.
The versions in circulation were all incomplete, rudimentary methods.
The truly complete legacy was essentially held by the great supernatural beings who had once gone to Zixiao Palace to hear the Dao teachings.
Gu Xi had also obtained the Method of Slaying Three Corpses from Dong Yin Daojun's primordial spirit, but it was the rudimentary version widely circulated throughout Hong Huang.
It was not that the rudimentary version could not be cultivated.
But it certainly was not as good as the complete version!
It seems I'll have to find a way to obtain the complete Method of Slaying Three Corpses!
The Heavenly Dao Credit Card has a 'Great Dao Furnace' function that can combine cultivation methods and divine abilities or extrapolate them to higher levels.
If I obtain the complete Method of Slaying Three Corpses, perhaps I can use the 'Great Dao Furnace' function to derive an even more perfect version.
If I truly can't obtain it... I'll simply start extrapolating and upgrading from the rudimentary version. At worst, I'll spend a little more merit!
Gu Xi pondered.
He felt increasingly fortunate that he had bound himself to the Heavenly Dao Credit Card.
With the Heavenly Dao Credit Card's functions, he had no need to worry about obtaining high-quality divine abilities and secret methods.
Gu Xi gathered his thoughts and appeared before Suiren Shi and the others, whose faces were filled with excitement.
"Congratulations on becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal, Holy Father! Henceforth, you shall enjoy eternal freedom, undying and indestructible!"
Their excitement plain to see, Suiren Shi and the others bowed to the ground together, their voices shaking the clouds.
"Ha ha ha! Young friend Gu Xi, congratulations on becoming a God and Demon Dao Lord!"
Suddenly, hearty laughter rang out. Ying Long, bearing five-colored divine wings, appeared silently above the Human Sacred Hall, billions of rays of starlight swirling around him.
Even though Gu Xi was now a God and Demon Dao Lord with two Dao Fruits, he had detected no trace of Ying Long before his arrival.
Sensing Ying Long's presence, as though he were an incarnation of the innate star constellation great Dao itself, Gu Xi's heart trembled slightly.
These old ancients were far more terrifying than he had imagined.
No wonder, when Ying Long had appeared back then, he had immediately asked the many God and Demon Dao Lords and Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates to show him some respect.
He truly had the strength to back it up.
Just as Gu Xi was about to step forward to welcome Ying Long, his mind shuddered again.
All at once, a figure radiating boundless Nirvana Divine Light and another radiating boundless bodhi divine light appeared simultaneously within his mind.
Along with them, golden lotuses filled the sky of his mind, accompanied by waves of Buddhist chanting.
No way. Have the Two from the West come as well?
Gu Xi's heart gave a violent leap.
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