"Someone has attained enlightenment? Why did Li the Elder kneel when he didn't get any benefits?"
With a "thump," Li Yunjing stopped holding on. His entire body straightened before he lay flat on the ground. Since I couldn't stop life from forcing me to be strong, I might as well lie flat and enjoy it slowly!
"I am Hongjun. Today, I have attained the Dao. Tomorrow, I will begin lecturing at Zixiao Palace and impart my great Dao. Anyone with fate may come and listen."
A calm voice suddenly resounded across the Primordial World.
Li Yunjing understood that Hongjun had attained the Primordial Limitless Saint position. It seemed that this was now the era of the Lich-Demon War.
After a full three days and three nights, the Saint's pressure finally dissipated across the entire Primordial World. Li Yunjing also climbed up from the ground and patted the dust off his body.
"What a pity! To go to Zixiao Palace and listen to the lectures, aside from having the opportunity, one's cultivation is indispensable as well. Without the realm of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, even with a heaven-defying opportunity, it would be impossible to travel through the Chaos." Li Yunjing sighed. It seemed he had no fate with the Dao Ancestor.
"I've been in seclusion for so long. I wonder how the world has changed. I should go take a look! I can't stay on Mount Wuyi forever!"
With a flash, Li Yunjing appeared outside Mount Wuyi. Over the years, he had set up a Great Annihilation Primordial Array throughout the entire mountain. Aside from the natural array of this Blessed Land, this formation inherited from the Demon God of Destruction had no idea how many troubles it had resolved for him.
Over the years, this great array had blasted to death countless living beings that had accidentally entered Mount Wuyi. It was only on his first trip out of Mount Wuyi that he saw the countless skeletons amid the fog surrounding the mountain. The illusion array naturally possessed by the Blessed Land basically isolated the investigations of the great divine ability users, but some weak living beings might still get lucky and accidentally enter this place.
After taking a casual look, he found that they were all weak creatures, some possessing no cultivation at all and having only just gained intelligence. Li Yunjing shook his head, summoned a cloud, and flew into the distance.
At this time, although the Witch Race and demons often clashed across the Primordial World, things were generally peaceful. It was nowhere near as chaotic as the periods before and after the Witch-Demon War.
Li Yunjing traveled around as though sightseeing, stopping and starting along the way. He collected every rare material, spirit bird, strange beast, exotic flower, and unusual herb he encountered.
Although this was already that era, the powerful living beings of the world had gained experience in cultivation and knew the uses of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Unless a place had never appeared in the world, like Mount Wuyi, all the good things in plain sight had long since been completely harvested by various living beings to improve their cultivation.
The Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures currently found throughout the Primordial World were still mostly ordinary goods. By "ordinary goods," he meant that during the era of the Lich-Demon War. By the time of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Investiture of the Gods, and the Journey to the West Era, these "rotten things" that nobody wanted would all become treasures cultivators fought desperately over.
Li Yunjing basically gathered some of every kind. Fortunately, the Chaos Spirit Treasure, the World Grinding Plate, possessed its own space and could store items. Otherwise, he truly would not have been able to carry so many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
"Good luck! Good luck! After the first lecture at Zixiao Palace, when those Three Thousand Great Divine Abilities return, they'll know how precious these things are. For now, I can take advantage of the opportunity to gather a little more." Li Yunjing's luck was not bad. He actually found a Five Elements Fruit Tree.
It was said that since the creation of Heaven and Earth, there had been three spiritual roots: first, the Bodhi Root; second, the Ginseng Root; and third, the Gourd Root.
Of these three, one had become a Saint, one had fallen into the hands of Great Immortal Zhenyuan, and the final Gourd Root had borne seven gourds. Once the seven gourds finished growing, the root would be destroyed and die.
After calculating for a while, Li Yunjing knew that the Gourd Root was on Mount Buzhou. However, Mount Buzhou was so vast that it was practically immeasurable, and obtaining the seven gourds would be extraordinarily difficult.
Now, the Three Thousand Great Divine Abilities were all listening to lectures at Zixiao Palace. This was Li Yunjing's only opportunity. Otherwise, once experts like Laozi, Nuwa, and Di Jun arrived, the seven gourds would naturally have nothing to do with him.
As for the Gourd Root not having matured yet?
That was still better than not obtaining it at all!
Sooner or later, he would find an opportunity to cultivate this Gourd Root. There was no shortage of divine water in Heaven and Earth. The Three Lights Divine Water in the hands of the Primordial Heavenly Venerate was a first-rate Spiritual Spring in all of Heaven and Earth. It could even revive the Ginseng Fruit Tree. In the future, after obtaining the Gourd Root and becoming a disciple of the Three Pure Ones, he might have a chance to save this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root.
Once he decided to do something, he acted. He headed northwest, and over the course of five hundred years, Li Yunjing endured countless hardships along the way. Neither the demon race nor the Witch Race were particularly friendly toward a rogue cultivator like him.
Along the way, Li Yunjing experienced countless life-and-death battles. In the era of the Lich-Demon War, the Celestial Immortal realm was nothing more than that of a tiny ant, merely cannon fodder at the level of demon soldiers and witch soldiers.
Fortunately, he possessed the inheritance of the Demon God of Destruction. When Li Yunjing unleashed the Great Zhou Heavenly Destruction Divine Light, its powerful destructive force meant that even an ordinary Golden Immortal-level demon would be killed if caught off guard. With the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Treasure Dropping Golden Coin, which specifically countered all the magical treasures under Heaven, Li Yunjing's journey was fairly smooth.
These countless battles also enriched Li Yunjing's practical combat experience. The World Grinding Plate's ability to kill without incurring karma helped conceal his movements. This kept him from killing a minor enemy only to draw out a major one and be hunted all the way.
On this day, after overcoming countless dangers, he finally arrived at the foot of Mount Buzhou. Mount Buzhou truly deserved to be the pillar supporting the Primordial World. Peaks rose one after another across a circumference of eighty million li, while the main peak towered majestically, its summit impossible to see. White clouds coiled around its mountainside.
Although Li Yunjing had become an immortal, his cultivation was not even enough for him to see halfway up the mountain. Even in this era, the mountain still radiated boundless majesty. It was formed from the spine of Great God Pangu after he transformed into Heaven and Earth. Even just looking at the mountain, one could still sense some of Great God Pangu's supreme and unsurpassable power.
"Alas! So this is Mount Buzhou!"
Looking at the mountain range that stretched like it reached the heavens, Li Yunjing felt as tiny as a speck of dust. Filled with reverence for Great God Pangu, he bowed three times before stepping onto this ancestral mountain range.
Countless living beings lived within Mount Buzhou. Demons, members of the Witch Race, and even great divine ability users left behind from the previous era were hidden throughout this ancestral mountain range, cultivating in seclusion.
After arriving here, Li Yunjing became extremely low-key. Even so, he still encountered many dangers. The demonic beasts in the mountains were ferocious, and every encounter became a test of life and death.
After one battle after another, Li Yunjing had cultivated his Celestial Immortal realm to perfection. A profound aura rippled within him.
The artistic conception of the Mysterious Immortal realm began to emerge. He had truly touched upon the laws of the Mysterious Immortal realm, as well as that incomparably profound artistic conception—the gateway to the myriad wonders.
Suddenly, countless streams of profound qi surged into the sky from his entire body. The acupoints throughout his body continuously rang out with explosive "crackling" sounds. It was the commotion of the universe's birth. Above his head, the laws of the Mysterious Immortal realm formed streaks of long rainbows that pierced through north, south, east, and west, as well as the Six Directions and Eight Desolations.
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