The Radiant Sage Path of the Primordial Era
Chapter 32

Grand Unity Mysteries, Moral Exemplar!

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I--Feng Xi!

Am a Transmigrator with a lot of clout!

Since transmigrating, I've lived in the Primordial Era world for only about a thousand or eight hundred years, and now I'm already driving a luxury car, with a priceless treasure on board--an Innate Spiritual Treasure!

And to achieve all this, what did I, Feng Xi, pay? What kind of effort and struggle did I put in?

None at all!

As the Son of Destiny for a new generation, I just played along, and cars and spiritual treasures came my way... So answer me loudly--am I amazing?

"When you're driving, be a little steadier," a low, suppressed voice suddenly sounded. "Don't be like you've had too much to drink... It's fine if you want to speed, but don't swerve."

"Haven't you seen the soldiers providing an honor guard, being swept along with us, their faces pale?"

"Grand Unity cultivators are used to high-speed spatial-temporal shifts, they can't handle this!"

"Oh, oh, oh..." Feng Xi nodded repeatedly. "I understand, I understand!"

"Suddenly installing this incredibly powerful engine, I was just a bit unaccustomed for a moment, and my control was unstable..."

"Then get used to it quickly... Don't almost crash into the mountain like just now." Dijiang Ancestral Witch closed his eyes.

"Yes, yes, yes, you can rest assured, there won't be any more mishaps," Feng Xi promised, vowing solemnly.

Perhaps, he truly had a talent for this. Even though he had only recently started using Grand Unity level power, he quickly stabilized and became a qualified driver.

--Alright, it seems something has been exposed.

Although Feng Xi drives a luxury car with an Innate Spiritual Treasure on it, ... none of these belong to him.

He's just a driver, responsible for driving the Ancestral Witch big shot.

In essence, Feng Xi is still very poor.

However, Feng Xi is poor... but from today onwards, he can proudly say--

"I, too, am a Witch who has seen the world!"

Being able to observe a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure at an infinitely close distance, and even personally use it. This is an incredibly precious experience that countless Grand Unity cultivators would envy and be jealous of.

Moreover, the most important thing is that for Feng Xi, there's no problem of mastering a certain percentage of refinement that ordinary cultivators encounter--with Dijiang's permission, and relying on the imprint left by the Ancestral Witch, during this period as a driver, he is equivalent to having completely refined this spiritual treasure and can unleash its maximum power!

In fact, the improvement in combat power is secondary. What's rare is that he has gained some understanding of the essence of Grand Unity through this--

Although much of it is like reading a heavenly book to him, completely incomprehensible, at the very least, Feng Xi has grasped a fundamental point, glimpsing one of the mysteries of how Grand Unity can encompass endless time and space and manifest its own form.

It is known that different worlds and different dimensions have different constituent orders and different arrangements of laws.

Sometimes, two time-spaces might have opposite logical rules, the most absolute conflict... How does Grand Unity manage to embrace all phenomena with a single Dao fruit, achieving a universal plug that connects to all worlds and time-spaces, allowing unimpeded passage?

They all say the Great Dao is omnipresent, thus it can cover endless time and space... but such descriptions are too abstract, too mystical.

For a noob like Feng Xi, it's too unfriendly.

Until now, he seems to have understood something, revealing a corner of Grand Unity's true face.

"Infinite non-repeating... therefore endless," Feng Xi's eyes flashed with enlightenment. "If there was a first being to attain the Grand Unity Dao fruit, and if he wasn't born a Grand Unity cultivator but proved it step by step, that would be... simply..."

The reverence in his heart flowed like a surging river, and his admiration was boundless--if he weren't driving at this moment, he would probably stand up and cheer loudly to express his overwhelming emotions.

How to obtain a certain degree of infinity with a finite body?

Cultivators below Grand Unity have limited strength and wisdom.

They can be quantified, specifically described, and their upper limits are known.

Grand Unity, however, is different.

Its power is infinite, its compatibility is infinite... Compared to cultivators below Grand Unity, it draws an insurmountable chasm!

Why?

What's the difference?

The former Feng Xi didn't understand, but now he vaguely grasps the key.

--To put it in a more relatable and relatively rigorous description, Grand Unity and cultivators below this tier are like the difference between irrational and rational numbers in mathematics.

The key part contained within the Grand Unity Dao fruit is like an irrational number, an infinitely non-repeating digit.

On a number that can be infinitely extended, there can be infinite room for operation.

For example, using a specific method to compile the information that needs to be conveyed, and then establishing an equivalent relationship with a string of numbers, relying on the characteristics of the irrational number itself, infinitely non-repeating... the endless expansion will eventually have a segment that describes the true situation of a certain time-space, perfectly fitting.

"Give me infinite monkeys, infinite time, and infinite keystrokes... I can type out any splendid article or poem, or any book with bizarre logical grammar arrangements..."

Such complex and grand information content can be condensed into an abstract irrational number, so simplified that it can even be represented by a symbol... It is rumored that there are three thousand laws, but the Great Dao is simple, and this is not without reason!

A trace of transcendent Innate Spiritual Light illuminates various time-spaces, resonating effortlessly with the laws of the corresponding region and conforming to its rules, easily achieving resonance and obtaining power.

Knowledge is power.

Therefore, Grand Unity is omniscient and omnipotent!

Feng Xi respects those Grand Unity cultivators as incredibly majestic and sacred pathfinders, who can obtain infinite wisdom and power in such inconceivable ways.

Their realms had achieved the ultimate Grand Perfection.

One Great Dao encompassed all the myriad Daos of heaven and earth, capable of explaining everything in this world.

All phenomena in the heavens could be explained using the language of their own Great Dao... Even the most bizarre and unpredictable spacetime were embraced by their Dao fruits.

While understanding the greatness of Grand Unity, Feng Xi also realized why Ancestral Witch Dijiang once said—Grand Unity was the pinnacle of cultivation, and there were still vast differences between Grand Unity existences.

Indeed, in essence, there was no difference between one Grand Unity and another; their Dao fruits contained infinite information.

However, efficiency differed!

Some Grand Unity beings had poor capabilities in compiling information into data, and their efficiency in decoding data back into information was also inferior. A string of lengthy data was all useless.

Once they made a move, being beaten to a pulp by those peerlessly powerful ultimate beings was entirely normal.

For instance, Qingyou, Dijiang, and Tai Yi were all Grand Unity... the former was merely a subordinate, while the latter two were truly the big shots!

"Lord Dijiang," Feng Xi asked curiously, "May I know, besides Pangu, who was the first Grand Unity in the Primordial Era?"

"The first Grand Unity?" Dijiang chuckled, "That's hard to say... after all, the more powerful, the older they are!"

"And once a certain extreme achievement is reached, everyone becomes quite similar. So, if we were to truly rank first, someone would always be unhappy."

"However, while the first Grand Unity is hard to determine... if we're talking about which Great Dao allows for a higher status among Grand Unity beings, there is a generally accepted evaluation."

"Which Great Dao?" Feng Xi's eyes widened.

"The Way of Change!"

"The Way of Change... is that the path walked by Sage Emperor Fuxi?"

"Yes," Dijiang nodded. "After all, the Way of Change carries significant weight in the cultivation to achieve Grand Unity... Many powerful beings have, to some extent, borrowed principles from it and owe him a favor."

Feng Xi blinked, a hint of understanding dawning.

Perhaps he hadn't understood the principle before, but now he grasped it instantly.

Fuxi created the Eight Trigrams, using broken and solid lines to represent Yin and Yang.

When combined, they formed the Eight Trigrams.

With the movement of the lines came the changes in the trigrams. The Eight Trigrams used Yin and Yang symbols to interpret all objective phenomena in the external world, a perfect fusion of numbers and information!

'Yin and Yang advance in twos, the Eight Trigrams advance in eights... This Human Race's Sage Emperor is no simple figure!' Feng Xi thought randomly, only to hear the Ancestral Witch continue, "Therefore, even though this divine being appeared relatively late, many powerful beings in the heavens often give him some face, and his status is extraordinary."

"Moreover, this Great Sage Fuxi also has excellent character..." Dijiang chuckled softly, "He is benevolent and gentle, considerate of his subordinates, and possesses both virtue and ability."

"Thus, the world praises him more often than slandering him."

Feng Xi listened and seriously considered it, unable to disagree.

He came from an endless stream of parallel space-time universes downstream from time... In those places, while the orthodox myths were fine, in other miscellaneous pieces of information, many divine beings and powerful figures of the Primordial Era were practically vilified to no end?

Moral Primordial, colluding with outsiders, ganging up on his own brother, utterly insane.

Jieyin and Zhunti, putting on a show, acting aloof and self-righteous, joining my sect.

Even Nuwa, a supreme goddess with immeasurable merit for creating humans and mending the heavens, was either a heartless Saint who managed creation but not upbringing, or constantly being pursued.

Among the three thousand deities of the Primordial Era, how many were not slandered?

Were there any?

None?

There truly were!

In the legends of this muddy Primordial world, Sage Emperor Fuxi was like a white lotus emerging unstained from the mud!

No matter what rumors circulated, no matter how others relentlessly attacked certain divine beings, it had nothing to do with him.

A background character for ten thousand years, his presence was so faint it was almost non-existent.

Since he had no presence, who would target him and relentlessly attack him?

Moreover, although he was an inconspicuous figure, ... the Primordial Era flowed by, but the Sage Emperor remained steadfast.

He held all sorts of honors and benefits in his hands without a single lack, amassing wealth in silence!

What did this signify?

It precisely demonstrated Sage Emperor Fuxi's high moral standing and immaculate purity!

Even top-tier powerful beings respected his noble integrity... Even as opponents, they were unwilling to resort to despicable means, traveling to infinite space-time to spread rumors and tarnish the image of this Human Race's Sage Emperor.

He was a perfect Sage King!

Among the Human Kings, there were quite a few like him.

The sequence of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors—Shennong, Zhuanxu, Emperor Ku, Yao, Shun, and so on, had very little negative information.

The only exception, perhaps, was Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor.

But even that wasn't a major issue—his combat power was severely weakened, and he needed a lot of external help to defeat Chiyou.

And then there were the romantic scandals.

Nine Heavens Profound Lady?

Three thousand women?

Is the Huangdi Neijing actually the Book of Erotic Arts?

And so on, and so on.

If you really want to get down to it, these are just minor details, and the flaws do not overshadow the virtues.

With so many upright Human Kings and Sage Emperors in charge, compared to the "thick-skulled" Ancestral Witches, the brutal and violent Demon Emperors, and the many wicked-hearted Saints...

It's only logical that the Human Race would become the protagonists of the world!

"Sage Emperor Fuxi is truly a model of morality, a benchmark for the soul," Feng Xi spoke his true feelings, filled with emotion. "Perhaps it is precisely because of this existence, who is the absolute peak of morality, character, wisdom, and ability in the Primordial Era, serving as the Human Race's Emperor, and that his spirit was passed down and influenced the successive Human Kings, causing them to study earnestly and comprehend his thoughts..."

"Treating others with sincerity, leading all beings with perfect virtue, earning the sincere respect and love of the world... Is this what led to the glory of the Human Race?"

"You are absolutely correct!" Dijiang applauded, agreeing with Feng Xi's statement. "It is precisely because we considered the perfect virtue and the vast compassion for all living beings of this Great Sage Fuxi that our Witch Clan's first objective for this diplomatic mission was set at Phoenix Perch Mountain, to visit Fuxi and Nuwa, this brother and sister pair."

"Nuwa is the founder of the Human Race. And our Witch Clan is the military force of the Human Race... Therefore, we must discuss matters with her."

"Fuxi is the spiritual guiding light of the Human Race, the perfect embodiment of wisdom and virtue... It is even more necessary to meet and consult with him."

Ancestral Witch Dijiang's praise for Fuxi was unreserved. Hearing this, Dayi, who was not far away, frowned, wanting to speak but hesitating.

He seemed to want to refute a certain statement, to argue a certain point... However, after recalling some things in his heart, the Great Witch ultimately did not speak.

He, Dayi, did not have the bad habit of gossiping behind people's backs.

--It's definitely not because he's worried about being made into an Innate Spiritual Treasure, like a certain tragic Demon God.

"Lord Dijiang, this Innate Spiritual Treasure... Aren't you going to give it a name?"

Changing the subject from Fuxi, Feng Xi pointed at the scroll that Qingyou Demon God had transformed into.

"Why bother with such a trivial High-grade Spiritual Treasure?" Dijiang said dismissively. "Fine, seeing as it's the sacrificial offering for the opening of the Witch-Demon Cataclysm, I'll give it a name... Qingyou Diagram? That's not suitable, as it only contains half of the Dao fruit."

"Then why not split Qing and You, take one of them, and add another character?" Feng Xi's eyes lit up as he made a suggestion. "It would perfectly match the current state."

"That works too," Dijiang nodded indifferently. "Qing means sky. The heavens are profound, the earth is yellow; the sky is profound, the earth is yellow."

"You can represent the earth, corresponding to the heavens. The heavens have nine layers, and the earth also has nine layers, called the Nine Nether."

"You can call it the Profound Sky Diagram, or the Nine Nether Diagram, either is fine," Dijiang chuckled. "This Demon God is not simple."

"Don't think it was easy for me to kill it; it was still a formidable opponent among the Grand Unity realm."

"Qingyou was its Dao title; it comprehended the profundity of the heavens and the seclusion of the earth, the deepest and most silent darkness of heaven and earth, yet it also contained the origin of all life... Its ambition was quite significant."

"What a pity... now that it has fallen, all is in vain." Dijiang suddenly felt a touch of sadness. "I wonder if I will suffer the same fate one day."

Feng Xi opened his mouth, wanting to comfort him.

However, before he could utter half a word, the Ancestral Witch had already rallied his spirits. "Precisely because of this, we must fight and strive even harder!"

Sharpness gleamed in Dijiang's eyes as he gazed forward. "Starting from this Phoenix Perch, as my beginning!"

Feng Xi listened, first stunned, then abruptly turned his head.

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