Chapter 28

A Dao Fruit was a special state reached when one mastered all one's power to the limit, transforming it into instinct.

Achieving this state did not follow any fixed progression. Regardless of one's strength, anyone might reach it.

Tai Ming had now experienced the profundity of this state.

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

As for those who condensed a Dao Fruit while in the Taiyi Realm, they were practically unheard of.

Yet even after condensing a Dao Fruit, Tai Ming's strength did not surge explosively.

The key was that after obtaining a Dao Fruit, he controlled his own power more perfectly, allowing every strike to unleash its full might.

More importantly, all the power within Tai Ming had now fused into one, no longer divided from one another.

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

The Primordial Beings knew very little about Dao Fruits. They only knew that lacking a Dao Fruit did not necessarily mean one was not powerful, but anyone with a Dao Fruit would sooner or later become powerful.

Previously, Tai Ming had thought he had reached his limit without comprehending a Dao Fruit.

Now, it seemed that he had imposed restrictions on himself and needed to reorganize his power.

He decided to take action. To establish a perfect foundation, Tai Ming began reorganizing the cultivation realms he had passed through in the past.

To his surprise, he discovered that his former foundation contained many flaws.

From his current perspective, numerous problems were exposed one after another.

Although these problems seemed not to affect his strength normally, Tai Ming was determined not to let his destiny be affected by such minor flaws.

Thus, he chose to start from zero, dispel his original power, and comprehend everything anew.

With his previous accumulation as a foundation, his strength rose rapidly.

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

After cultivating anew and perfecting his foundation, he discovered that his original power had increased by an astonishing ten percent within the same realm.

Those overlooked details gave him the feeling of suddenly seeing the light.

When he came back to himself, he discovered that he seemed to have broken through a new limit once again.

Looking closely, he realized that he had actually comprehended a new Dao Fruit—the Immortal Venerable God Dao Fruit.

This was another perfect fusion of all the power he had possessed before reaching the Immortal Venerable God realm, deepening his comprehension of Dao Fruits.

He began to wonder whether some unimaginable power was hidden within Dao Fruits as well.

Tai Ming sensed a mysterious connection. From beginning to end, everything seemed to be constructing a path leading toward the ultimate.

A flash of insight appeared in his mind, and he seemed to touch the edge of some truth.

However, the sensation vanished in an instant, impossible to grasp.

Using this flash of insight, Tai Ming reshaped his foundation, and his strength leaped forward once more.

A familiar cracking sound rang out. He reached the perfected Grand Unity Venerable God realm and comprehended the Grand Unity Dao Fruit.

The flash of insight appeared again. Tai Ming seized it and seemed to understand everything completely.

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

Tai Ming realized that his exploration of the Great Dao was still shallow. Compared with those veteran Innate Divine Beings, he had cultivated for far less time, and he still needed to strengthen his control and application of power.

The crystallized wisdom of countless Primordial Beings could not be underestimated. Tai Ming himself had also developed the Transformation of Wisdom.

However, before this, he could only temporarily set those powers aside and focus on one thing in order to delve deeply into it.

If he tried to take everything into account, he might ultimately master nothing.

Perhaps the development of the Primordial Chaos Dao-Cutting God-Demon Incarnation Book had also been conceived with this consideration in mind.

After Tai Ming comprehended the essence of Dao Fruits, he gained a new understanding of the power of his own origin.

He deeply sensed the close connection between "Self, Dao Nature, and Dao Fruit."

His development of Dao Nature and mastery of Dao Fruits were, in essence, both the exploration and application of his own power.

His Dao Nature Self Origin allowed him to sense destiny, reflect the Great Dao, and even directly touch the origins of the Great Dao, such as divine abilities and laws.

Tai Ming understood that everyone would develop Dao Nature differently and gain different powers. This was the diversity of the Dao.

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

Dao Nature Self connected the soul, wisdom, will, and emotions, giving rise to True Spirit, Transcendence, Wuji, and origin.

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

Tai Ming had once deeply comprehended Dao Nature Self. He had even developed the Great Freedom Profound Meaning, giving rise to the Great Freedom True Demon Ghost Dao and the Great Freedom Pure Land Ghost Dao.

These two powers had played an important role in the previous Western Great War.

The Great Freedom Pure Land Ghost Dao had absorbed the Buddhist Dao Fortune of the Great Freedom Pure Land from the Nameless Ascetic Monk, gaining a significant boost.

Although the Great Freedom True Demon Ghost Dao had failed to absorb the fortune of the entire Demon Dao, it had still absorbed part of it.

Now, the power of these two Ghost Dao branches lay dormant within Tai Ming's Self Divine Ring. The power they revealed had already reached the Grand Unity level.

Recently, an entirely new power had been born within Tai Ming's Self Divine Ring.

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

With Dao Nature as its foundation and Self as its origin, it fused essence, energy, and spirit, manifested the profundity of the Great Dao, and formed the Dao Nature Self Dao Fruit.

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

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

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

However, he chose to suppress this power for the time being, because he still wanted to develop the power of his Self Dao Fruit further.

His Divine Body had yet to fully gestate. This was precisely his opportunity to improve himself further.

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

Around this mysterious cocoon, a transcendent Great Dao manifested, seemingly spreading continuously toward the timelines of the Myriad Worlds.

Countless beings resembling Tai Ming drew upon the power of the entire universe.

These powers condensed around Tai Ming, forming his Dharma Forms—one, two, three... too many to count.

Each Tai Ming was as powerful as a god or demon. The power gathered together was enough to destroy worlds and create infinity.

Within the void, the Great Dao profundities they represented constantly interwove and collided, producing sparks of wisdom that Tai Ming continuously absorbed.

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

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

For the cultivators of the Primordial Wilderness, there was no specific path to follow, because all they faced was pure unknown.

However, condensing a book that reflected one's own Great Dao and continuously perfecting it could sometimes serve as a review and reflection of one's own Great Dao.

Each time, Tai Ming gained new insights from it.

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

Hongmeng represented Tai Ming's expectations for his Self Great Dao.

Although the Self Great Dao was merely one of the nine major branches of his Ghost Dao, Tai Ming devoted himself to it wholeheartedly.

He decided to bring the Self Great Dao to perfection and make his incarnation his trump card in the Primordial World.

For this reason, he planned to raise the Self Great Dao to the perfected level, making his incarnation invincible in the Primordial World.

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

This was a roundabout way of achieving his goal.

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

Taking the Self Great Dao as its foundation and the Three Thousand Innate Great Daos and Myriad Daos of the Heavens as nourishment, he condensed Dao Fruits upon the Self Great Dao Tree.

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

It could be said that the Self Great Dao was both the tree and the greatest Dao Fruit.

By absorbing the Dao Fruits that arose from it, Tai Ming continuously deepened the foundation of his Self Great Dao.

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

He hoped to comprehend more Great Dao profundities at his current realm, accumulate a deeper foundation for his future breakthrough, and reach a higher level.

Tai Ming deeply understood the importance of a foundation. After the Western Great War, this understanding had become even more profound.

The Grand Unity Venerable Gods he encountered had often advanced at astonishing speed in the early stages, yet after reaching the Grand Unity realm, they frequently encountered bottlenecks.

By contrast, those Innate Divine Beings who had kept a low profile in the early stages broke through steadily. Although their progress after reaching Grand Unity was slow, they were often more stable when breaking through bottlenecks.

The likes of the Nameless Ascetic Monk, Demon Lord Luohu, and White Tiger Divine Venerable all possessed foundations far deeper than those of their peers.

Even these powerhouses needed to undergo hundreds of millions of Yuan Hui of time for every minor breakthrough in the Grand Unity realm.

The Grand Unity Dao realm had thirty-six levels, and the gap between each level was enormous. The farther one advanced, the longer the time required for a breakthrough undoubtedly became.

Take White Tiger Jianbing Divine Lord as an example. Since gestating at the beginning of Creation, he had experienced trillions of Yuan Hui, yet he remained only one final step away from the peak Grand Unity Dao realm.

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

The Tai Ming of today could contend with most Grand Unity Venerable Gods at ordinary Dao realms of the second or third level.

However, when facing powerhouses at the tenth level of Grand Unity or above, he would fall short without the assistance of Ghost God Power.

Thus, even after breaking through to Grand Unity, he would still be unable to match powerhouses like Luohu.

If he wanted to rapidly catch up with existences who wielded the supreme Great Daos, Tai Ming needed more than a swift breakthrough to Grand Unity. He also needed to accumulate an even deeper foundation.

His gaze reached far into the distance. He already placed himself on the same level as Luohu and the other masters of the Dao.

He believed that revealing his strength too early would easily make him the target of everyone.

Therefore, he chose to suppress the urge to break through for the time being and wait until he had accumulated enough before advancing.

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

In short, Tai Ming intended to conceal himself and accumulate strength first, remaining indifferent to the changes in the outside Primordial World.

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

The gazes of many Primordial Innate Divine Beings focused on Buzhou Mountain, waiting for Yellow Old Lord, the Guardian of the Dao of the Earthly Dao Lineage, to announce important information.

At present, the Heavenly and Human Daos, the Five Directions Divine Race, and the various Dao Ancestor factions were all expanding their forces in accordance with destiny. Naturally, many people were willing to follow an Ancient One like Yellow Old Lord.

However, the Earthly Dao Lineage, the true instigator of this great change in the Primordial Wilderness, showed no sign of formally announcing its emergence to the Primordial Wilderness, leaving the many waiting Innate Divine Beings disappointed and returning home.

The transformations in the Primordial Wilderness continued for more than ten thousand Yuan Hui.

To beings below Grand Unity, this was an incredibly long period. But in the eyes of Grand Unity cultivators, it was merely the length of a brief retreat.

Until one day, a grand voice that spread throughout the entire Primordial Wilderness resounded across the heavens. Accompanied by echoes of the Great Dao's voice, it revealed the scene of Pangu creating Heaven and Earth and giving life to all things.

The Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial Wilderness immediately bowed and prostrated themselves, praising in unison Pangu, the Father God who had created Heaven and Earth.

Then the Great Dao's voice continued, mentioning the Sun Illuminating Sacred God and the Moon Shadowing Sacred God. Two sacred phantoms manifested within the Primordial Wilderness, while scenes displayed the transformations of chaos, the manifestation of yin and yang, and the principles of the Four Symbols divine beasts.

All the Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial Wilderness once again praised them in unison.

Finally, as the Sun and Moon Sacred Gods evolved from the eyes of the Pangu Clan within the void, gestated the Four Symbols, and established the foundation of the Primordial Wilderness, the main event arrived.

The legendary Cang Li Shi established the Dao of Heaven, suppressed fiends and drove away divine beasts, opened the Realm of the Nine Heavens, and comprehended the Divine Path atop Mount Zhou, creating the methods of the Divine Path and bringing about the beginning of the Archaic Era.