Chapter 21

As time passed, the Western Land gave birth to many new Postnatal Great Daos, such as the Killing Buddhist Path, the Blood Demon Path, and the White Bone Tiger Path.

It was as if an invisible pair of hands were manipulating everything from behind the scenes.

Though war raged unceasingly, a delicate balance was maintained.

The fiercer the battles, the stronger the Demon Path, Buddhist Path, and White Tiger Divine Path grew amidst the flames of war.

The sharp-witted had already seen through it—this was the three great forces sweeping away other powers in the Western Land, paving the way for themselves.

Their voices resounded across the entire West: "Join the Demon Ancestor's banner, unleash your true self, and attain great freedom!"

"Enter Mount Sumeru, enjoy bliss, and defend the pure land!"

"Those who resist the White Tiger Divine Race will die without mercy!"

Under the great war, the only path left for the divine beings and All Beings of the Western Land was to choose one of the three forces.

Amid rolling flames and mountains of corpses, the Western Land was carved up by the three great powers.

After a thousand Yuan Hui, when no other force could challenge the three, they finally made their move.

The first to strike was the First Demon God Jidu, a venerable god under Demon Ancestor Rahu, whose power had nearly touched Rahu's realm.

With a single move, he led the Demon Path army to sweep through most of Mount Sumeru and the White Tiger Divine Race's territory, even causing two Grand Unity Venerable Gods to fall directly.

This event became the turning point of the three-way war.

The Grand Unity Venerable Gods of Mount Sumeru and the White Tiger Divine Race joined the battle under the leadership of the Blissful Ancestor Buddha and Cang Tian White Tiger Emperor Shitian, yet the entire Western Land was utterly reduced to a Death Land in the flames of war.

With the Grand Unity Venerable Gods making their move, every divine mountain and blessed land suffered the fate of destruction.

Though no exact numbers could be estimated, it was known that in a short time, the living beings of the West had decreased by nearly half.

The brutality of the war left rivers of blood and fields of white bones across the Western Land.

Even more cruel, the bones in some great realms were completely erased.

Yet, for Grand Unity Venerable Gods like Rahu, all this was merely a trivial matter.

However, one person could not bear what he saw.

He questioned: "Is this what the Primordial World is?"

He felt disgusted. "If seeking the Dao is like this, then I would rather abandon this path."

Tai Ming's figure flickered in and out of existence in a realm of illusion and reality, radiating an unprecedented, chilling murderous intent.

Whether it was a conscience not yet dead or a saintly sentiment, Tai Ming was now furious to the extreme—the truest anger of one who had risen from the level of an ant.

He resolved to resist, to let those Grand Unity Venerable Gods witness the rebellion of an ant.

Tai Ming's mysterious seal now became the key.

Ever since he left Mount Sumeru, this seal had accompanied him.

When he regained his freedom and was about to wander as he pleased, he suddenly felt an unusual stir in his Ghost Dao fortune, and a surge of intuition rose from the depths of his heart.

This was a sign of fortune bursting forth, a resonance between his Natal Opportunity and the Great Dao.

In the Primordial World, opportunities were wondrous things—they cared not for cultivation realms or status, but focused on the alignment of fortune and the Dao.

When a cultivator sought an opportunity, the opportunity would also actively choose its master.

Especially when a Natal Opportunity emerged, it was often accompanied by an explosion of fortune.

Thus, the supreme treasure born from it was both powerful and suited to oneself.

Even for the top Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial World, obtaining a Natal Opportunity was an extremely coveted thing.

For Tai Ming, this was even more so.

In his many years of exploring the Primordial World, he still had not obtained a single decent spiritual treasure.

All of this hinted that the mysterious seal might be his Natal Opportunity.

The reason Tai Ming looked down on those low-grade spiritual treasures was that he sought supreme treasures.

Just like the Daoist You Quan he had encountered years ago, who wielded an innate spiritual treasure, the You Quan Banner.

If Tai Ming wanted it, he could indeed directly seize it by force, but he did not waver, because he felt that treasure's grade was too low—merely a low-grade innate spiritual treasure.

If he encountered a top-grade or supreme innate spiritual treasure, even at great cost, Tai Ming would strive to obtain it.

In the Primordial World, the grading of spiritual treasures was clearly defined.

The highest were Innate Supreme Treasures, containing fifty to fifty-five Innate Dao Restrictions and possessing a complete Innate Great Dao Origin.

The holder could use it to comprehend all the way to becoming a Dao Master of the Great Dao.

Next were top-grade innate spiritual treasures, whose power rivaled that of mid-to-high-level Grand Unity Venerable Gods.

Below that were Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and ordinary innate spiritual treasures, with power decreasing step by step.

As for those spiritual treasures born with incomplete Innate Great Daos, their power only corresponded to levels below Grand Unity.

Even the lowest-grade low-grade innate spiritual treasure possessed power at the level of an Immortal Venerable God or below.

Every spiritual treasure had its unique power and wisdom—some powerful ones even possessed intelligence of their own, enough to rival ordinary Innate Divine Beings.

This was a place vastly different from the legends Tai Ming had known before.

Whenever he thought of the tales surrounding spiritual treasures in the Primordial World, he found them quite amusing.

Because in the Primordial World, obtaining a top-grade or supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure was no easy feat—their power was immense and their rarity absolute.

Some beings never even had the chance to refine a spiritual treasure, let alone use one.

Thus, Tai Ming believed that spiritual treasures were hard to come by, and even harder to find was one that perfectly aligned with one's own Great Dao.

As for Tai Ming, he had no interest in a low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure like the You Quan Banner, as its boost was no greater than his own innate spiritual energy and insight.

In truth, the key issue was that the Innate Great Dao nurtured within the You Quan Banner resonated with Tai Ming's Ghost Dao, leaning more toward the Netherworld Earthly Path.

Therefore, he placed little value on such treasures.

In the Primordial World, Venerable Gods preferred to use spiritual treasures they had refined themselves, as these not only perfectly suited them but were also easier to obtain.

Some Venerable Gods even went so far as to use Innate Spiritual Treasures as fuel to forge even more powerful ones.

In the Primordial World, with enough investment, an Innate Spiritual Treasure was not impossible to create.

Otherwise, not every Grand Unity Venerable God would possess the great fortune and great opportunity to receive a world-forged Dao-Realizing Treasure.

Those who succeeded in realizing the Dao were seeds chosen by the Primordial World itself.

Yet reality was absurd. As the Postnatal Great Dao flourished in the Primordial World, some Innate Divine Beings without a matching spiritual treasure toiled endlessly in pursuit, while the top-tier divine beings born with Innate Companion Treasures pursued their own Daos, squandering their gifts freely.

Tai Ming was deeply envious of this, as his own circumstances were far from affluent.

Thus, when he sensed the possible emergence of a Natal Opportunity, he set out with the joy of liberation, following the guidance eagerly.

Arriving at a mysterious mountain range faintly shrouded in Netherworld energy, a streak of ghostly light flashed, and Tai Ming appeared, clad in a Ghostly Purple Daoist robe.

He sighed at how rare opportunities were—even with a faint resonance of energy, it had taken considerable effort to get here. He hoped this chance would not disappoint him.

Along the way, he had deliberately avoided the Dao fields of many Innate Divine Beings, relying on his Innate Primordial Chaos Qi Ghost Body to bypass them.

At this critical juncture, Tai Ming wanted no trouble, so he used the Primordial Chaos nature to conceal his presence.

Just then, a familiar voice echoed in his heart—the voice of the Heart of the Earthly Path.

The Heart of the Earthly Path was astonished by Tai Ming's transformation. His Ghost Dao had reached a stage of surging fortune in such a short time that even it could not fully see through him.

After awakening, Tai Ming felt a sharp chill, as if someone had detected his trail.

Realizing it might be that brat Tai Ming, it was even more stunned.

The fortune of heaven and earth was also a manifestation of one's strength.

The Heart of the Earthly Path had witnessed Tai Ming's growth firsthand, from the time he was weak.

Establishing a Dao and becoming an Innate Divine Being of the Primordial World signified the world's recognition.

Generally, Innate Divine Beings possessed great fortune and great opportunity, with fate itself guiding their path.

Thinking back, when Tai Ming followed Yue Jianshi, he could pick up spiritual treasures just by walking.

When top-tier Innate Divine Beings were born, they already possessed cultivation realms others could never reach, along with Dao fields, blessed lands, and even Innate Companion Treasures.

But not every being could, like Tai Ming, elevate a Postnatal Great Dao to a stage of surging fortune in such a short time.

After all, perfecting and advancing a Dao could not be rushed—it required steady, earnest comprehension.

Compared to other true darlings of heaven, Tai Ming's cultivation realm and foundational strength were not the highest, yet he was the first to achieve surging fortune, proving that his Ghost Dao had undergone a earth-shattering transformation in a short span.

Even the Heart of the Earthly Path could not fathom this.

The Heart of the Earthly Path sighed, "Thanks to your Ghost Dao's surging fortune, I was able to awaken from my slumber."

Tai Ming remained calm, responding to the Heart of the Earthly Path's words while teasing its sudden appearance.

He was no longer the Tai Ming who relied on the Heart of the Earthly Path for everything, nor did he hold it in awe.

The Heart of the Earthly Path dismissed Tai Ming's teasing and warned him, "What do you know, boy? If Rahu discovers my presence, we'll have no chance of escape."

Then, from the Heart of the Earthly Path's words, Tai Ming learned more about the Demon Ancestor Rahu's past, deepening his impression of him.

It turned out that Rahu had not always been as composed as he was now.

As the reincarnation of a Chaos Demon God, Rahu initially faced the beings of the Primordial World—including Innate Divine Beings—with a sense of superiority, and he was among the most outstanding of them.

Back then, to distinguish themselves from the native Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial World, they called themselves Innate Demon Gods, emphasizing their origins as Chaos Demon Gods.

However, they encountered Shen Ni and the Ancient Three Sovereigns, who defeated them so thoroughly that they submitted willingly.

Rahu had a stubborn nature, like an iron-headed youth, adhering to the principles of the Demonic Dao: follow one's desires, be bound by nothing, and let the strong rule.

Whenever a figure of renown appeared, he would challenge them—whether it was Shen Ni or Cang Li Shi.

Even later figures like Yue Jianshi and Jiu Tou Shi were challenged by Rahu.

Through a series of battles, Rahu's pride as a reincarnated Chaos Demon God was gradually worn away, giving rise to the current Devil Master Rahu.

Tai Ming recalled the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation, who shared the same origins as Rahu but could not let go of the past and was ultimately eliminated by the era.

Every supreme being who had survived from the Ancient Primordial World to the present had their own hardships.

The more one knew, the more one felt their own insignificance and inadequacy—but also the more they felt the allure of the Primordial World.

Tai Ming was a transcendent, well aware of the world's impermanence. Beings as mighty as the Ancient Three Sovereigns, the Pangu Clan, the Five Directions Divine Race, and the Five Emperors and Five Elders—compared to them, he was but a speck of dust.

But strength was what truly mattered. Even without fortuitous encounters or spiritual treasures, as long as one's power was sufficient, everything would come.

After communicating with the Heart of the Earthly Path, they both realized that the opportunity before them was no ordinary one.

Tai Ming sensed that this was a mysterious great array; otherwise, the Heart of the Earthly Path's strength should have detected the anomaly long ago.

The path ahead would depend on Tai Ming's own fortune and resonance with providence.

Stepping into this enigmatic domain, Tai Ming instantly felt the shift in heaven and earth.

A chilling wind howled. Chaotic, dark, and abyssal forces shredded all concepts. Time and space were in disarray—formless, imageless, truth and illusion indistinguishable.

This was the Primordial Chaos Netherworld Reversion Great Array. The innate object gestating within it was surely extraordinary.

What was called an innate great array was a thing born of heaven and earth's natural evolution, gathering the spiritual essence of the world and the creative forces of the cosmos. Emerging from the primordial wilderness, it often manifested as various forms of the Innate Great Dao.

Hidden within were immense opportunities—Innate Spiritual Treasures, Innate Spiritual Roots, Innate Divine Objects, and even the potential to birth an Innate Divine Being.

Yet such arrays were often concealed and elusive, undetectable even to a Grand Unity Venerable God. It was precisely for this reason that the Primordial Chaos Netherworld Reversion Great Array had survived to this day.