Chapter 27

He asked himself, "Who am I?"

Then he continued using heaven and earth as his stage, performing all kinds of transformations and leaving behind imprints of his legacy.

As Pangu grew, the three supreme treasures merged into the Primordial World.

The Chaos Green Lotus disintegrated. Its petals transformed into azure qi and scattered in all directions, while its lotus seeds went their separate ways.

Pangu observed the celestial cycles and decided to transform into all things, bringing new vitality to the Primordial World.

His breath, voice, eyes, and other features transformed into the winds, clouds, thunder, lightning, and other natural elements between heaven and earth.

His spine supported heaven and earth, becoming known as Buzhou Mountain.

In the end, the Dao Fruit of Pangu's Primordial Chaos Primordial Beginning Ancestral Qi gave birth to the Innate Five Primes, the Five Fortunes and Five Virtues, completely stabilizing the order and chaotic state of the Primordial World.

The divine being Tai Ming witnessed the might of the Primordial Spirit of Creation and swept away the Ancestral Qi within the chaos.

The essence of the Great Dao carried the profound Netherworld Ancestral Qi, while the Primordial Spirit's qi carried the Ancestral Qi within the chaos.

The circulation of these powers represented creation, transformation, morality, and termination.

Some of the Ancestral Qi rose to the Nine Heavens, some sank beneath the earth, and some scattered throughout heaven and earth.

These Ancestral Qi perfected the World Great Dao and nurtured countless divine beings.

The spiritual resonance of the Three Sovereigns with the Great Dao brought down spiritual rain, Purple Qi, golden lotuses, and immortal music. In the end, the Primordial World took shape.

Tai Ming deeply sensed and comprehended all of this, realizing his true self.

He wondered whether he had truly returned to the Hongmeng Era, because when he witnessed Pangu's Creation of Heaven and Earth, he had received the recognition of the Innate Primordial Chaos Ancestral Qi.

This Ancestral Qi had not only transformed from illusion into reality, but had also triggered a metamorphosis in his Primordial Chaos Ghost Dao Ancestral Qi.

Tai Ming realized that the path of cultivation intertwined reality and illusion. The Great Dao and Hongmeng were omnipresent, and the past and future could all be reached.

Although he was still far from that supreme level, he had to absorb the opportunity and insights he had gained this time and complete his ultimate transformation.

Although his Primordial Chaos Ancestral Qi had already been accomplished, it originated from the incomplete Postnatal Great Dao Ancestral Qi and Innate Hongmeng Reincarnation Ancestral Qi, so it still needed further perfection.

Through some fortuitous opportunity, Tai Ming had dreamed back to Hongmeng and obtained complete Innate Primordial Chaos Ancestral Qi.

This qi allowed his Primordial Chaos Ancestral Qi to sublime and move toward true perfection.

Only then could he guide his Ghost Dao into the realm of the Great Dao, achieving true immortality and eternal existence.

Once Tai Ming perfectly fused with this Hongmeng Ancestral Qi, it would become the Innate Tai Ming Ancestral Qi most compatible with him.

Although he had coincidentally united the innate and postnatal aspects and refined the Primordial Chaos Ghost Dao Ancestral Qi, this Hongmeng Ancestral Qi had undergone a unique transformation upon that foundation.

As Tai Ming refined it, it retained the essence of Hongmeng and allowed the Primordial Chaos Ghost Dao Ancestral Qi to sublime.

In the end, a brand-new Ancestral Qi—the Primordial Chaos Tai Ming Ancestral Qi—was born.

Hongmeng was the source of chaos and the beginning of the Great Dao. It transcended the innate and encompassed the roots of the postnatal.

Previously, Tai Ming had only touched upon a sliver of a chance to transcend the Primordial World. Now that he had transformed into Primordial Chaos Tai Ming Ancestral Qi, he had already taken half a step into the realm of Transcendence.

Because his strength and realm were insufficient, he had not yet fully transcended and remained a Primordial Being.

Only Tai Ming himself knew of his transformation.

The path of the Great Dao before him had never been so clear.

Compared with the past, he had become a living being on an entirely different level.

In the past, he had been the Ancestor of the Ghost Dao, comparable to the top-grade Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial World.

Now, he seemed to have become a Chaos Great Dao Demon God on the level of the Great Dao—the Dao Master of the Ghost Dao. Moreover, his Ghost Dao could accommodate even more people in attaining the Dao, making his position firm and unshakable.

His innate talent in the Ghost Dao would grow increasingly powerful, surpassing the conventional Innate Great Daos.

It was foreseeable that Tai Ming would not need to cultivate actively. As the Ghost Dao naturally perfected itself, his cultivation would reach the level of a Dao Master.

Before Tai Ming, all obstacles in the Great Dao had vanished.

His true body had already evolved into the source of the Great Dao Ancestral Qi. The Ancestral Qi that had once belonged to him had now transcended the Primordial World and entered Hongmeng.

Tai Ming's final hidden flaw had also completely disappeared.

Even when facing the Mother of the Great Dao, his Ghost Dao would coexist symbiotically with the Great Dao.

However, Tai Ming discovered that this course of action did not bring benefits alone.

He found that his own strength seemed unable to match his current realm in the Ghost Dao.

The Ghost Dao seemed to be assimilating everything about him.

This was not because the Ghost Dao had run out of control. Rather, the gap between the power of the Great Dao and his level of life was too great, and it was attempting to raise him to the same level.

This might cause him to lose his will and become a pure Ghost Dao existence.

Faced with this situation, Tai Ming made a difficult choice.

He gave up the power that could be obtained with ease and chose to preserve his own will.

He decided to separate his true body from his mind and will, just as he had done with the Nine Transformations of the Source.

An indescribable radiance burst forth from him. His main body of Primordial Chaos Tai Ming Ancestral Qi rose like a ghost into the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm, the source of the Great Dao.

His true body would immerse itself in the origin of the Great Dao, while his mind and will would manifest in the Primordial World and become an incarnation of the Ghost Dao.

To achieve this goal more effectively, Tai Ming began deducing a method of incarnation suited to himself.

He used the secret soul-splitting technique once taught to him by the Heart of the Earthly Path. At that moment, he was like a machine of absolute reason, endlessly deducing the profundities of the Great Dao.

Then, under the guidance of his will, sparks of the wisdom of the Great Dao constantly collided and fused.

After some time, Tai Ming's mind and will broke free of its shell once again.

He shouted joyfully, "The <Primordial Chaos Dao-Cutting God-Demon Incarnation Book> has finally been born!"

The core power of this book came from the true body of the Great Dao. It could sever the tributaries of the Great Dao within Tai Ming himself and nurture new gods and demons.

It was called "Dao-Cutting" because Tai Ming realized that his ambitions had been too great. Although he had comprehended something in all nine tributaries of the Great Dao he had derived, he was proficient in none of them.

Therefore, he decided to separate these tributaries from the Ghost Dao, making the Primordial Chaos Ghost Dao purer.

On this foundation, Tai Ming further created the Primordial Chaos Transformation as the general outline of the Nine Transformations of the Source and integrated it into the Primordial Chaos Ghost Dao.

Thus, the power separated from the Nine Transformations of the Source could return to the Ghost Dao without any obstruction.

Tai Ming could use all nine separated transformations of the Ghost Dao Origin to nurture new incarnations.

His mind and will could freely move among these incarnations.

Aside from the Self Transformation that had already been revealed, the other eight transformations had never appeared. If used properly, Tai Ming's position in the Primordial World would rise from a Chess Piece to the greatest chess player.

At that moment, a new plan had already emerged in his mind.

Tai Ming immediately began putting it into action.

Unlike his previous cautious soul-splitting, this time, with the power of the Great Dao under his control, the power of the Nine Transformations of the Source was effortlessly separated into nine brand-new sources.

What was miraculous was that all nine sources gave rise to brand-new Innate Ancestral Qi.

This caused the nine sources to resemble Innate Divine Beings, granting them the ability to perform god-demon incarnation.

God-demon incarnation was like the reincarnation of the Chaos Demon Gods in the Primordial World. It used the lingering will of a Chaos Demon God to replace the identity of the Innate Divine Being that should have been nurtured and emerge into the world.

What Tai Ming replaced were the Innate Divine Beings, Spiritual Treasures, or spiritual roots that should originally have been created from his nine sources.

If an Innate Divine Being corresponding to one of the sources emerged, they would inevitably sense each other and trigger a Dao Struggle.

But Tai Ming had absolute confidence that the incarnations of the Nine Transformations of the Source would claim the final victory.

After all, they were all undying beings. Unless the other party could erase the Ghost Dao he had integrated into the Primordial Chaos Great Dao, they could only seal these incarnations.

That way, they would not meet the same fate as other Innate Divine Beings and perish.

Tai Ming was about to nurture his first incarnation. He planned to first complete the Self Transformation through the Innate Ancestral Qi of the source.

As for the other eight sources, he decided to wait until he found the corresponding Innate Spiritual Treasures, spiritual roots, or Innate Divine Beings before fusing with them, thereby increasing the potential of the incarnations.

He gathered all the sources into the Netherworld Ghost Seal and used the nine Great Thousand Worlds to nurture them.

While exploring a land of opportunity, Tai Ming discovered two treasures that had been left behind, filling him with delight.

He realized that these treasures would help him resolve his current predicament, allowing him to complete his god-demon incarnation and become a new Innate Divine Being.

Otherwise, he would need to spend a long time nurturing it before it could emerge.

Yue Jianshi seemed to have foreseen this scene and prepared replacements for him.

The first treasure was the heart of a Chaos Demon God, also known as the Demon God Heart.

The body of a Chaos Great Dao Demon God could give rise to a Chaos Body and transform into a true flesh-and-blood living being. Their flesh and blood contained the essence of the Great Dao.

After the Pangu Clan slew the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods of the Great Daos, the remains of many Chaos Demon Gods merged into the Primordial World.

The Primordial World had originated from the creation of chaos and rejected the matter left behind by chaos.

Only places of chaos such as Buzhou Mountain could preserve the remains of the Chaos Demon Gods.

This complete heart was the only one in the Primordial World.

When Tai Ming touched the heart and received the information of the Great Dao, he was startled to find that it matched his self-understanding perfectly.

This heart had originally belonged to the Chaos Soul Demon God and had later reincarnated as an Innate Divine Being.

Because the Self Transformation originated from the Ghost Dao, and the Ghost Dao was rooted in the soul, this heart was tailor-made for him.

Using this heart as material, its potential could surpass that of an Innate Divine Being and possibly advance into the realm of a Chaos Demon God.

Tai Ming could hardly wait to use the Primordial Chaos Dao-Cutting God-Demon Incarnation Book to forge it into a Divine Body.

But in the end, he turned his gaze toward the second treasure.

When he saw that the origin of the Netherworld was the Heart of the Netherworld, Tai Ming's emotions grew complicated after understanding its origin and function.

Controlling the Heart of the Netherworld meant controlling the authority of the Netherworld. It could even transfer the Netherworld from the Earthly Dao Lineage to the Ghost Dao Lineage.

But he decided to abandon this idea. He realized that even if he obtained the Netherworld, he could not guarantee that he would be able to protect it. It was better to regard it as a fallback.

With the Netherworld as a fallback, the problem of a base in the Primordial World was resolved.

In the future, the inheritor of the Earthly Dao Lineage would obtain something no worse than this place.

He believed that he had the ability to open up a great world. Even now, the worlds within the Netherworld Ghost Seal were not far behind.

In the end, he placed the Heart of the Netherworld into the Netherworld Ghost Seal and focused entirely on the Demon God Heart.

Tai Ming was about to experience the power of the former Chaos Demon God.

Although the Chaos Demon God Heart had been weakened by the expenditure of reincarnation, refining it remained an extremely challenging process.

The omnipresent Soul Dao Blood possessed a powerful assimilating ability. The slightest carelessness could cause the refiner to be completely assimilated.

If the refiner's Great Dao was incompatible with the Soul Great Dao, it could even trigger a fierce conflict.

However, to Tai Ming, none of this seemed to pose a threat.

His Self-Transformation Source was perfectly compatible with the Soul Great Dao, and his true body had already reached the same level. As a result, the assimilating power of the Soul Great Dao was negligible to him.

Once he was fully prepared, Tai Ming activated the Netherworld Ghost Seal and enveloped the Demon God Heart.

In an instant, the Innate Soul Dao Law began to fight back.

However, under the suppression of the Netherworld Ghost Seal, these Soul Daos were like sources without roots and could not display their strength.

In only ten thousand years, the Demon God Heart was completely suppressed.

Then, Tai Ming's Innate Dao Nature Self Ancestral Qi began to merge into it.

As time passed, the Demon God Heart gave birth to a vast force of creation and gradually transformed into an Innate Divine Cocoon.

Its original heart-like shape slowly changed into the form of an Innate Divine Being.

Under the power of Tai Ming's Nine Transformations of the Source, the Innate Soul Dao was completely divided up.

This caused the power that had already reached the Grand Unity Venerable God Realm at consummation to grow once again.

Tai Ming immersed himself in the process of god-demon incarnation, his heart filled with delight.

Suddenly, he felt his power break through an entirely new limit.

Although he was still in the Grand Unity Venerable God Realm, everything seemed to have fused into one and transformed into a flawless, consummate seed—the Dao Fruit.