Chapter 28

A Dao Fruit is a special realm achieved when one has pushed their control over all their power to the absolute limit, turning it into instinct.

This realm isn't reached through step-by-step progression; regardless of strength, anyone might attain it.

Tai Ming was now experiencing the wonders of this realm.

In the Primordial Land, ninety-nine percent of Grand Unity immortals had yet to condense their own Dao Fruit.

As for someone at the Taiyi Realm who had already condensed a Dao Fruit, it was practically unheard of.

Yet even with a Dao Fruit, Tai Ming's strength didn't skyrocket.

The key was that with a Dao Fruit, his control over his own power became far more seamless, allowing him to unleash full force with every strike.

More importantly, all the power within Tai Ming's body had now merged into one, indivisible.

He could feel his foundation growing more stable, no longer easily shaken.

Primordial Beings knew little about Dao Fruits, only that lacking one didn't necessarily mean weakness, but possessing one meant becoming a powerhouse sooner or later.

Previously, Tai Ming had thought he'd reached his limit without grasping a Dao Fruit.

Now, he realized he'd set boundaries for himself and needed to reorganize his power.

He decided to act. To lay a perfect foundation, Tai Ming began re-examining his past cultivation realms.

To his surprise, he discovered many flaws in his former foundation.

From his current perspective, numerous issues came to light.

Though these problems hadn't seemed to affect his strength in daily practice, Tai Ming was determined not to let his fate be tainted by such minor imperfections.

So he chose to start from scratch, dispersing his original power and comprehending anew.

With his accumulated experience, his strength recovered rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, his cultivation realm had returned to the level of an Immortal Venerable God.

After re-cultivating and perfecting his foundation, he found that his original power had grown by a remarkable ten percent at the same realm.

The overlooked details gave him a sudden sense of clarity.

When he came back to himself, he realized he'd broken through a new limit.

Looking closer, he discovered he'd comprehended a new Dao Fruit—the Immortal Venerable God Dao Fruit.

This was another perfect fusion of all his power from before the Immortal Venerable God realm, deepening his understanding of Dao Fruits.

He began to wonder if Dao Fruits themselves concealed some unimaginable power.

Tai Ming sensed a mysterious connection, from one to another, as if building a path toward the ultimate.

A flash of insight struck his mind, and he felt he'd touched the edge of some truth.

Yet the feeling was fleeting, elusive.

Using that flash of inspiration, Tai Ming reshaped his foundation, and his strength leaped forward again.

A familiar cracking sound echoed as he reached the Grand Unity Venerable God Great Perfection realm and comprehended the Taiyi Dao Fruit.

Insight flashed again, and Tai Ming seized it, as if he'd fully understood something.

For a powerhouse with a Dao Fruit, the path of cultivation was like a shortcut, far easier than others hacking through thorns.

Tai Ming realized his exploration of the Great Dao was still shallow. Compared to veteran Innate Divine Beings, his cultivation time was short, and his control and application of power needed strengthening.

The collective wisdom of countless Primordial Beings was not to be underestimated; Tai Ming himself had developed the Transformation of Wisdom.

Yet before, he could only temporarily set aside these powers to focus on one for deeper understanding.

If he tried to juggle everything, he might end up mastering nothing.

Perhaps the development of the <Primordial Chaos Dao-Cutting God-Demon Incarnation Book> stemmed from this line of thought.

After comprehending the essence of Dao Fruits, Tai Ming gained a new understanding of his own source power.

He deeply felt the close connection between "self, Dao nature, and Dao Fruit."

His development of Dao nature and mastery of Dao Fruits were essentially the excavation and application of his own power.

His Dao nature self-source allowed him to perceive fate, reflect the Great Dao, and even directly touch the source of the Great Dao, such as divine abilities and laws.

Tai Ming understood that everyone's development of Dao nature would yield different understandings and powers—this was the diversity of the Dao.

Combining his own uniqueness, he chose the power of Self Transformation as his first incarnation.

Dao nature self connects the mind, wisdom, will, and emotions, giving rise to True Spirit, transcendence, the Ultimate, and the source.

It could be said to be the best bridge for channeling other powers.

Tai Ming had once deeply comprehended Dao nature self, even developing the Great Freedom Principle, which gave rise to two powers: the Great Freedom True Demon Ghost Dao and the Great Freedom Pure Land Ghost Dao.

These two powers had played a significant role in the previous Western Great War.

The Great Freedom Pure Land Ghost Dao absorbed the Destiny of the Great Freedom Pure Land Buddhist Dao from the Nameless Ascetic Monk, achieving notable improvement.

Though the Great Freedom True Demon Ghost Dao failed to absorb the entire Destiny of the Demon Dao, it still managed to siphon off a portion.

Now the power of these two Ghost Dao branch veins lay dormant within Tai Ming's Self Divine Ring, the strength they revealed already reaching the Grand Unity level.

Recently, a brand-new power had been born within Tai Ming's Self Divine Ring.

After comprehending the power of the Dao Fruit, his Self Divine Ring underwent a trinity of Dao Nature, Self, and Dao Fruit.

With Dao Nature as the foundation and Self as the origin, it fused essence, energy, and spirit, embodying the profundity of the Dao and forming the Dao Nature Self Dao Fruit.

This meant that Tai Ming's Self Transformation was not merely a change in Dao Nature, but also a transformation of the Dao Fruit.

At this moment, Tai Ming seemed to have already touched the threshold of a higher-level Grand Unity Venerable God.

He could break through to become a Grand Unity Venerable God at any time.

But he chose to temporarily suppress this power, because he still wanted to further develop the strength of his Self Dao Fruit.

His Divine Body had not yet fully gestated, and this was precisely his opportunity to further elevate himself.

Thus, within Yue Jianshi's inheritance space, only a Gestation Cocoon of an Innate Divine Being remained.

Around this mysterious cocoon, an extraordinary Dao manifested, seemingly spreading endlessly across the timelines of the Myriad Worlds.

Countless existences resembling Tai Ming drew in the power of the entire universe.

These forces coalesced upon Tai Ming, forming his Dharma Forms—one, two, three... beyond counting.

Each Tai Ming was as mighty as a god or demon, and when gathered together, their power was enough to destroy worlds and create infinity.

In the void, the Dao principles they represented continuously intertwined and clashed, generating sparks of wisdom that Tai Ming ceaselessly absorbed.

After a long period of time, a book recording the Dao slowly took shape.

Tai Ming had once evolved the <Primordial Chaos Dao-Cutting God-Demon Incarnation Book> through his main body, and he found this method an effective way to summarize his own Dao.

For cultivators in the Primordial World, they had no specific path to follow, because what they faced was pure unknown.

However, by condensing a book that reflected one's own Dao and continuously refining it, it sometimes served as a review and mirror of that Dao.

Each time, Tai Ming gained new insights from it.

Through the convergence of wisdom, Tai Ming gestated a book belonging to his Divine Body, named the Primordial Dao Fruit Scripture.

Primordial Chaos represented Tai Ming's expectations for his Self Dao.

Although the Self Dao was only one of his nine Ghost Dao branch veins, Tai Ming devoted himself entirely to it.

He decided to push the Self Dao to its extreme, making his incarnations his trump card in the Primordial World.

To this end, he intended to elevate the Self Dao to the perfect level, rendering his incarnations invincible in the Primordial World.

In this way, the Ghost Dao Lineage would also grow stronger.

This was a form of indirect salvation.

The Dao Fruit was Tai Ming's comprehension and application of the Self Dao.

He took the Self Dao as his foundation, using the Three Thousand Innate Great Daos and the Myriad Daos of the Heavens as nourishment, condensing Dao Fruits on the Self Great Dao Tree.

These Dao Fruits, in turn, nourished that Self Great Dao Tree.

One could say that the Self Dao was both the tree and the greatest Dao Fruit.

By absorbing the derived Dao Fruits, Tai Ming continuously deepened the foundation of the Self Dao.

Therefore, after comprehending the prototype of the Primordial Dao Fruit Scripture, Tai Ming no longer rushed to break through to the Grand Unity Venerable God realm.

He hoped to use his current realm to comprehend more Dao principles, accumulating a deeper foundation for future breakthroughs and reaching an even higher level.

Tai Ming deeply understood the importance of a solid foundation, and he had come to appreciate this even more since the Western Great War.

The Grand Unity Venerable Gods he had encountered often had remarkable speed in their early advancement, but upon reaching the Grand Unity realm, they frequently hit bottlenecks.

In contrast, those Innate Divine Beings who kept a low profile in the early stages broke through steadily, and although their progress was slow after reaching Grand Unity, their breakthroughs were often more stable.

Figures like the Nameless Ascetic Monk, Devil Master Luohu, and the White Tiger Divine Venerable all possessed profound foundations surpassing their peers.

Even for these powerhouses, every minor breakthrough in the Grand Unity realm required countless Yuan Hui of time.

The Grand Unity Dao Realm had thirty-six levels, each with a vast gap between them, and the further one went, the longer the time needed for breakthroughs.

Take the White Tiger Jianbing Divine Lord for example—he had been gestating since the dawn of creation, through trillions of Yuan Hui, yet he was still one step away from the peak of the Grand Unity Dao Realm.

From this, one could see how arduous the Path of Grand Unity was.

At present, Tai Ming could already handle most Grand Unity Venerable Gods at the second or third level of the ordinary Dao Realm.

But when facing powerhouses at the tenth level of Grand Unity and above, he would be lacking without the aid of Ghost God Power.

Thus, even if he broke through to Grand Unity, he would still struggle to match the strongest, like Luohu.

If he wanted to catch up quickly to top-tier Dao existences, Tai Ming needed not just a rapid breakthrough to Grand Unity, but also to accumulate a deeper foundation.

His vision was far-reaching; he already compared himself to Dao Lords like Luohu.

He believed that revealing his strength too early would make him a target for all.

Therefore, he chose to temporarily suppress the urge to break through, waiting until he had accumulated enough before advancing.

If other Grand Unity cultivators in the Primordial World learned of Tai Ming's actions, they would likely be shocked beyond belief.

In short, Tai Ming intended to first conceal himself and accumulate strength, turning a deaf ear to the changes in the external Primordial World.

Even as the Qilin Divine Race and Buzhou Divine Court made major moves, he remained immersed in his own cultivation.

Many of the Primordial World's Innate Divine Beings fixed their gazes on Buzhou Mountain, waiting for the Yellow Old Lord, the Guardian of the Dao of the Earthly Dao Lineage, to announce crucial information.

At this time, both the Heavenly and Earthly Dao, the Five Directions Divine Race, and the various Dao Ancestor factions were expanding their power in response to the Heavenly Mandate. As an ancient figure like the Yellow Old Lord, many were willing to follow him.

Yet, the Earthly Dao Lineage—the instigator of this great upheaval in the Primordial World—had still not formally declared its emergence, disappointing the many waiting Innate Divine Beings.

The anomalies in the Primordial World persisted for over ten thousand Yuan Hui.

For beings below Grand Unity, this was an immense span of time, but in the eyes of Grand Unity cultivators, it was merely the duration of a short seclusion.

Until one day, a grand voice resounded across the entire Primordial World, echoing with the reverberations of the Great Dao, accompanied by visions of Pangu creating Heaven and Earth and giving birth to all things.

The Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial World immediately bowed in reverence, chanting in unison in praise of Pangu, the Father God of Creation.

Then, the voice of the Great Dao continued, mentioning the Sun Illuminating Sacred God and the Moon Shadowing Sacred God. Two divine phantom images manifested in the Primordial World, and in the void, scenes unfolded showing the transformation of chaos, the manifestation of Yin and Yang, and the principles of the Four Symbolic Divine Beasts.

All the Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial World once again offered their praises in unison.

Finally, after the two Sacred Gods of the Sun and Moon in the void evolved from the eyes of the Pangu Clan, giving birth to the Four Symbols and stabilizing the foundation of the Primordial World, the main event arrived.

The legendary Cang Li Shi established the Heavenly Dao, suppressed ferocious gods and drove away divine beasts, opened the Realm of the Nine Heavens, and at the peak of Buzhou Mountain, comprehended the Divine Dao and created the methods of the Divine Dao, thus beginning the Archaic Era.