Great Luo Mysteries, Moral Paragon!

I—Feng Xi!

I was a transmigrator with quite the reputation!

I had lived in the Primordial World for barely eighteen hundred years, yet I already had a luxury car—and an invaluable treasure in it: an Innate Spiritual Treasure!

What had I, Feng Xi, paid to achieve all this? What kind of effort and struggle had I endured?

None!

As the new generation's child of destiny, I had merely coasted along, and I already had a car and a spiritual treasure... So answer me loudly—am I amazing or what?

"Drive steadily," a low, restrained voice suddenly rang out. "Don't drive like you've had too much to drink... I don't care if you speed, but stop swaying all over the place."

"Didn't you see how pale the soldiers being dragged along with us, the ones responsible for the ceremonial escort, looked?"

"They can't adapt to the high-speed shifts through space-time that Great Luo take for granted!"

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

"I've just installed this incredibly powerful engine, so I'm not used to it yet. I'm still having trouble controlling it..."

"Then get used to it quickly... Don't nearly crash into a mountain like you did just now." Ancestral Witch Dijiang closed his eyes.

"Yes, yes, yes. Don't worry, sir. There won't be any more mishaps." Feng Xi gave his solemn guarantee.

Perhaps he really had a talent for this. Although he had only just taken control of Great Luo-level power, he quickly steadied himself and became a qualified driver.

—All right, I seem to have exposed something already.

Although Feng Xi was driving a luxury car with an Innate Spiritual Treasure inside, neither of those things belonged to him.

He was merely a chauffeur, responsible for driving the Ancestral Witch bigshot around.

In essence, Feng Xi was still very poor.

Still, poor as he was... starting today, he could proudly declare—

"We're witches who've seen the world!"

Being able to observe a high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure from infinitely close range, and even use it personally, was an incredibly precious experience. If word got out, who knew how many Taiyi cultivators would be green with envy?

More importantly, Feng Xi didn't have to worry about the issue ordinary cultivators faced—how much of a treasure they had refined and mastered. With Dijiang's permission, and relying on the imprint left by the Ancestral Witch, he was effectively refining the spiritual treasure completely during his time as its driver, allowing him to unleash its full power!

In fact, the increase in combat power was secondary. What was truly invaluable was that he had gained some understanding of the essence of Great Luo through it—

Although much of it was as incomprehensible to him as a heavenly scripture, Feng Xi had at least grasped one fundamental point. He had glimpsed one of the secrets behind how Great Luo could cover Endless Space-time and derive incarnations of themselves.

One had to understand that different worlds and different dimensions had different structures of order, as well as different arrangements of laws.

At times, two spaces and times might operate according to entirely opposite rules and logic, locked in the most absolute conflict... How did Great Luo manage to use a single Dao Fruit to encompass all things, turning it into a plug that could be inserted into every world and every space-time without obstruction?

Everyone said that the Great Dao existed everywhere, which was why it could cover Endless Space-time... But that description was too abstract and too profound.

It was also far too unfriendly to a rookie like Feng Xi.

Only now did he seem to understand something, unveiling one corner of the true face of Great Luo.

"An infinite, non-repeating sequence... therefore, without end." Enlightenment flashed through Feng Xi's eyes. "If there was a being who first attained the Great Luo Dao Fruit, and if he wasn't born Great Luo but had proven it step by step, then that would be... simply... simply..."

The reverence in his heart flowed like a mighty river. He admired that being beyond measure. If he hadn't been driving, he probably would have stood up and cheered loudly to vent his surging emotions.

How could one obtain a certain degree of infinity with a finite body?

Cultivators below Great Luo had limits to their power and wisdom.

They could be quantified and described concretely. Their upper limits were known.

Great Luo, however, was different.

Its power was infinite, and it was infinitely compatible... Compared with cultivators below Great Luo, it stood on the other side of an impassable chasm!

Why?

Where exactly did the difference lie?

Feng Xi had once been ignorant, but now he had vaguely grasped the key.

—Put in a relatively accessible and rigorous way, the difference between Great Luo and cultivators below that level was like the mathematical difference between irrational numbers and rational numbers.

The crucial part contained within the Great Luo Dao Fruit was something akin to an irrational number, an infinite, non-repeating sequence of digits.

On a number that could be extended and expanded infinitely, there was room for infinite operations.

For example, one could use a specific method to encode the information one wished to describe, establish an equivalent relationship between it and a string of numbers, and rely on the irrational number's nature—its infinite, non-repeating, endless expansion. Eventually, some segment of it would describe the true state of a certain space-time, matching it perfectly.

"Give me infinite monkeys, infinite time, and infinite opportunities to pound on keyboards... Whether it's brilliant prose and poetry or written works arranged according to the strangest logic and grammar, I can type them all out for you..."

Information so complex and immense that it was almost impossible to imagine could be fully compressed into an abstract irrational number so concise that it could even be represented by a symbol... There was a reason people said there were three thousand laws, yet the Great Dao was ultimately simple!

A trace of transcendent innate numinous light illuminated every space-time. By perfectly matching the principles of each region and following its rules, it resonated with them effortlessly and obtained power.

Knowledge was power.

That was why Great Luo was Omniscient and Omnipotent!

Feng Xi admired each and every Great Luo. They were all magnificent and sacred pioneers who had opened the way, capable of obtaining infinite wisdom and power through such an inconceivable method.

Their realms had already achieved the highest level of Great Perfection.

A single Great Dao encompassed the ten thousand Daos of Heaven and Earth and could explain everything in the world.

All the phenomena of the myriad heavens could be described in the language of their own Great Dao... No matter how bizarre or strange a space-time was, it was encompassed by their Dao Fruits.

As he understood the greatness of Great Luo, Feng Xi also realized why Ancestral Witch Dijiang had once said that Great Luo was the ultimate cultivation realm, yet there were tremendous disparities between Great Luo beings.

In essence, there was no difference between one Great Luo and another. Their Dao Fruits all contained endless information.

But their efficiency differed!

Some Great Luo had poor abilities when it came to compiling information into numbers, and their efficiency at decoding numbers back into information was also low. Their long strings of data were filled with useless material.

Once they fought, it was perfectly normal for them to be pinned down and beaten until their heads were covered in lumps by those supreme, peerless paragons.

Qingyou, for instance, was also Great Luo, just like Dijiang and Tai Yi... Yet the former could only be a lackey, while the latter two were the true bigshots!

"Lord Dijiang," Feng Xi asked curiously, "can I know who the first Great Luo in the Primordial World was, aside from Pangu?"

"The first Great Luo?" Dijiang sneered. "That's difficult to say... After all, the stronger one is, the older one is!"

"And once one reaches a certain ultimate level of achievement, everyone is more or less equal. So if you insist on naming a first, someone will always refuse to accept it."

"Still, the first Great Luo is hard to judge... But if you're asking which Great Dao's Great Luo has the higher status, there is an answer that most people acknowledge."

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

"The Dao of Changes!"

"The Dao of Changes... Is that the path walked by Great Sage Fuxi?"

"Yes." Dijiang nodded. "After all, the Dao of Changes carries tremendous weight in the process of proving oneself as Great Luo... Many great beings have drawn on its principles to one degree or another, and owe him a favor."

Feng Xi blinked, somewhat enlightened.

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

—Fuxi created the Eight Trigrams, using yin and yang lines to represent yin and yang.

Combined together, they formed the Eight Trigrams.

The movement of the lines produced changes in the trigrams. The Eight Trigrams used yin and yang symbols to explain every objective phenomenon in the external world of Heaven and Earth. It was the perfect combination of numbers and information!

'Yin and yang are binary; the Eight Trigrams are octal... This Human Race sage emperor is no simple figure!' Feng Xi thought randomly, only to hear the Ancestral Witch continue, "Therefore, although this divine being emerged relatively late, many great beings of the myriad heavens often have to show him some respect. His status is extraordinary."

"Moreover, Great Sage Fuxi has excellent character..." Dijiang chuckled softly. "He is broad-minded and gentle, considerate toward his subordinates, and possesses both virtue and ability."

"Thus, the people of the world praise him often and rarely speak ill of him."

Feng Xi listened and thought it over seriously. He couldn't help but nod in agreement.

He had come from the countless parallel space-time universes downstream of history... There, orthodox mythology was one thing, but in all the other miscellaneous information, how many divine and mighty beings of the Primordial World hadn't been vilified to an absurd degree?

Moral Primordial had conspired with outsiders, ganged up on his own brother, and acted utterly insane.

Jieyin and Zhunti put on a show of affection, took everything they could, and dragged everyone into their Buddhist sect.

Even Nuwa, the supreme goddess who had created humanity and repaired the heavens, had either become a heartless sage who created humanity but refused to raise them, or was constantly being pursued by others...

Among the three thousand divinities of the Primordial World, how many escaped being vilified?

Were there any?

Were there none?

There really were!

Great Sage Fuxi, in the legends of this muddy Primordial World, was like a white lotus rising unstained from the mire!

No matter what rumors flew around, no matter how people viciously slandered certain divine beings, none of it had anything to do with him.

He had been a background character for ten thousand years, with an almost nonexistent presence.

If he had no presence at all, who would keep targeting him and slandering him to death?

Besides, although he was a minor, transparent figure... the Primordial World changed like flowing water, but the sage emperor remained as steadfast as iron.

All kinds of fame and benefits were firmly in Great Sage Fuxi's hands. He had quietly amassed a fortune!

What did this prove?

It proved precisely that Great Sage Fuxi possessed lofty virtue and great prestige, pure and flawless!

Even the top paragons admired his noble integrity... Even when they were his enemies, they were unwilling to resort to underhanded methods and spread rumors throughout Endless Space-time to tarnish the image of this Human Race sage emperor.

He was a perfect sage king!

There were quite a few men among the Human Emperors like him.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors—Shennong, Zhuanxu, Emperor Ku, Yao, Shun, and the rest—had very, very little negative information attached to them.

The only possible exception was Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan.

But that wasn't a particularly serious problem—it was just that his combat power had been weakened too severely, and he had needed the help of many allies to defeat Chiyou.

And there were the romantic scandals.

Nine Heavens Profound Lady?

Three thousand women?

Was the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon suspected of being the Secret Manual of Collecting Women?

And so on and so forth.

Strictly speaking, these were merely minor details. They could not obscure his greatness.

With so many virtuous Human Emperors and sage kings ruling over the Human Race, compared with the "thickheaded" Ancestral Witches, the savage and brutal Demon Emperors, and the many evil-hearted divine beings...

It made perfect sense that the Human Race would become the Protagonist of Heaven and Earth!

"Great Sage Fuxi truly is a moral paragon and a beacon of the soul." Feng Xi spoke his heartfelt thoughts, filled with emotion. "Perhaps it was precisely because such an existence, supreme in the Primordial World in both moral character and wisdom, became the emperor of the Human Race and passed that spirit on to each successive Human Emperor, allowing them to study it earnestly and comprehend his ideas..."

"Treating others with sincerity and leading all living beings with perfect virtue, so that people would revere and love him from the bottom of their hearts... Was that how the Human Race achieved its glory?"

"You're absolutely right!" Dijiang applauded in praise, expressing his approval of Feng Xi's view. "Precisely because of Great Sage Fuxi's perfect virtue and broad concern for all living beings, our Witch Clan's first destination on this diplomatic journey was set as Phoenix Perch Mountain, where we will visit Fuxi and Nuwa, the siblings."

"Nuwa is the founder of the Human Race. My Witch Clan is the Human Race's military power... So we must discuss matters with her."

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

Ancestral Witch Dijiang lavished praise on Fuxi. Hearing this from nearby, Dayi's brows drew tightly together, and he looked as though he wanted to speak but stopped himself.

He seemed to want to refute a certain statement and argue against a certain view... However, as he recalled certain matters in his heart, the Great Witch ultimately remained silent.

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

—It definitely wasn't because he feared being turned into an Innate Spiritual Treasure like some tragic Demon God.

"Lord Dijiang, won't you give this Innate Spiritual Treasure a name?"

Moving on from the topic of Fuxi, Feng Xi pointed at the diagram formed from the body of Qingyou Demon God.

"It's merely a high-grade spiritual treasure. Why waste the effort?" Dijiang said dismissively. "Very well. Since it served as the sacrificial offering for the opening of the Witch-Demon Cataclysm, I'll give it a name... Qingyou Diagram? That won't do. After all, only half of the Dao Fruit is here."

"What if we split Qing and You apart, take one of them, and add another character? How about that?" Feng Xi's eyes lit up as he made a suggestion. "It would fit its current state."

"That works." Dijiang nodded indifferently. "Qiong means Heaven. Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the color of Heaven is xuan, and the color of Earth is yellow."

"You can use You to represent Earth, corresponding with Heaven. Heaven has nine layers, and Earth likewise has nine layers, hence the name Nine Nether."

"You can call it the Black Firmament Diagram or the Nine Nether Diagram. Either works." Dijiang chuckled softly. "This Demon God was no simple figure either."

"Don't be fooled by how easily it died at my hands. Among Great Luo, it was still a capable fighter."

"Qingyou was its Dao title. It comprehended the mystery of Heaven and the depths of Earth, the deepest and most tranquil darkness of Heaven and Earth, while also containing the origin of all life... Its ambitions were truly immense."

"Unfortunately... now that it has fallen, everything has come to nothing." Dijiang suddenly grew somewhat melancholy. "I wonder whether I will suffer the same fate one day."

Feng Xi opened his mouth, wanting to offer words of comfort.

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

A sharp glint shone from Dijiang's eyes as he stared into the distance. "We'll begin with Phoenix Perch Mountain. Let it be my starting point!"

Feng Xi listened, froze for a moment, and then abruptly turned his head.