As Zhou Yuan traveled, he stuffed the Spiritual Herbs and Divine Materials scattered across the Primordial Great Land into the grotto-heaven within his body.
Though these spiritual treasures could be found everywhere on the Primordial Great Land at this time, as the spiritual energy of heaven and earth declined, they too would slowly fade from the stage of time and become irreplaceable rarities.
"Perhaps I can open a medicinal garden later..."
With that thought, Zhou Yuan slowed down. Whenever he encountered a spiritual herb he had never seen before, he would gather several plants and preserve their seeds.
He gathered as he traveled and cultivated as he went.
And so, who knew how much time passed...
One day.
A mountain range stretching for countless miles suddenly blocked the path ahead.
Zhou Yuan focused his gaze.
Towering peaks pierced the skies, while rare flowers and exotic plants bloomed in splendor.
Strange beasts and divine birds could be seen everywhere, while Immortal Gold and divine ores lay scattered at every turn.
It was truly a land rich in spiritual energy, a Daoist sanctuary for divine demons and immortals.
Before Zhou Yuan could investigate further.
Streams of divine light suddenly streaked across the sky, gathering into a vast torrent in the blink of an eye.
"Why are so many beings gathering here?"
The Primordial Great Land was boundless, yet it was rare to see so many cultivators assembled at once.
Zhou Yuan's expression shifted slightly as he stopped a being hurrying along the road.
"May I ask, fellow Daoist, where are you headed?"
The being had been rushing onward, and being stopped so suddenly immediately irritated him. Anger appeared on his face.
But when he turned around, he saw a Daoist in azure robes, divine light concealed within him and Pure Spiritual Light surrounding his body, smiling warmly at him.
His cultivation was as unfathomable as flowers seen through mist. Clearly, he was a great cultivator whose Dao Cultivation far surpassed his own.
In the Primordial World, the weak were prey to the strong. The being immediately restrained his emotions and said respectfully,
"Senior must be visiting our Myriad Spirit Mountain Range for the first time. Three thousand years ago, two Great Divine Ability Users arrived here."
"Those Great Divine Ability Users took pity on us Postnatal Beings for having no cultivation methods, so they decided to preach the Dao here three times. Today is the time for their third preaching."
"That is why we beings have gathered here."
After hearing this, Zhou Yuan swept out with his divine sense and found that ninety-nine percent of the owners of the various divine lights in the sky were indeed Postnatal Beings.
"Great Divine Ability Users?"
Zhou Yuan's expression changed slightly. In the Primordial World, the weakest beings worthy of being honored as Great Divine Ability Users had to be Innate Dao Lords, those who had comprehended the mysteries of the Great Dao and attained the fruition of a Dao.
There were actually Great Divine Ability Users preaching the Dao within Myriad Spirit Mountain.
I currently lack Dao Rhyme Sustenance for my cultivation. A Great Divine Ability User preaching the Dao is a rare opportunity. And since they are willing to preach for Postnatal Beings, they must be people of virtue.
Thus, listening to the Dao could not be delayed.
With that thought, Zhou Yuan hesitated no longer.
He took out a rare spiritual herb as payment for directions, then transformed into a stream of azure-green radiance and flew toward the place where the Dao was being preached.
The being was stunned for a moment after receiving the Treasure Medicine, then hurriedly looked around.
Only after seeing that no other beings nearby had noticed did he hastily put it away, joyfully joining the tide of beings hurrying to hear the Dao.
This Treasure Medicine was merely ordinary to a True One Realm divine demon like Zhou Yuan, but to an ordinary Grotto-heaven Realm cultivator, it was already a rare treasure.
He had never expected this senior to be so generous.
Three Thousand Stone Steps were spread across Myriad Spirit Mountain. By the time Zhou Yuan arrived, the steps were already filled with beings of every kind.
There were tigers, leopards, wolves, and jackals wreathed in rolling fiendish energy, as well as Mountain Spirits and Plants who had attained the Dao and carried Pure Spiritual Light.
There were even several figures seated upon the stone platforms at the front, shrouded in faint divine light. They stood as deep and immovable as mountains and abysses, unfathomable, their Dao Cultivation and divine abilities surpassing even Zhou Yuan's.
They had clearly attained the Dao as Innate Beings. Zhou Yuan even suspected that some among them had already attained the fruition of Grand Unity Great Sage.
Yet these beings sat upon the stone steps with exceptional solemnity and respect.
Clearly, they held the two Great Divine Ability Users who were about to preach the Dao in the highest reverence.
Zhou Yuan descended from the sky, casually found a stone step, and sat down quietly to await the arrival of the Great Divine Ability Users.
After meditating for an unknown length of time, Zhou Yuan suddenly opened his eyes. Immortal Music resounded from the horizon, fragrant winds swept through the air, and two streams of rosy light appeared upon the Dao platform at the mountain peak.
These two Innate Divine Beings were shrouded in divine light, with all kinds of phenomena faintly evolving around them. Waves of Dao sounds echoed through heaven and earth. They casually swept their gazes over the beings listening below, then began preaching without wasting words.
"The path of cultivation for Turbid Fiend Divine Demons is nothing more than gathering the qi of heaven and earth to open the acupoints of the Dao body: Opening Acupoints, Grotto-heaven, Celestial Human, True One, Grand Unity, until one attains the Dao Fruit and proves the position of Innate Dao Lord..."
The two Innate Divine Beings spoke in turn.
Beginning with Opening Acupoints, they explained the path of cultivation step by step.
From the shallow to the profound, from the surface to the core.
There were no miraculous phenomena of heavenly flowers falling or golden lotuses springing from the earth.
Yet every sentence struck directly at the foundation of cultivation.
Not to mention these Postnatal Beings—even Zhou Yuan, who had already attained True One and Indestructible Golden Nature, often felt sudden enlightenment.
But as time passed, the teachings of the two Innate Divine Beings became increasingly profound.
"Heaven and earth are creation..."
This Innate Dao Lord abruptly began speaking of the Great Dao of Creation.
The Dao was not lightly transmitted, nor were methods lightly bestowed.
Streams of Moral Admonitions flowed from the Dao Lord's mouth, and different beings displayed different reactions.
Some beings were completely lost and muddled, even falling asleep halfway through. Smiling at the corners of their mouths, they slept soundly.
Some beings struggled to memorize the teachings by force, but the moment they remembered them, they forgot them again, leaving them unbearably agitated.
Even several Grand Unity Great Sages seated at the front began to sweat as they listened further on, clearly finding it extremely difficult.
Yet Zhou Yuan's eyes shone with golden light as he nodded again and again.
Within his sea of consciousness, the Myriad Dao Book revealed its mysteries—mysteries upon mysteries, the gateway to all wonders.
Those Moral Admonitions seemed to enter his mind like Runes, where he repeatedly pondered and comprehended them.
"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!"
"Black and white, life and death."
"One qi gives rise to creation, and creation gives rise to yin and yang."
"The way of yin and yang is creation!"
Zhou Yuan gained insight, and Yin-Yang Dao Rhyme began to evolve around him.
The strand of Innate Yin and Yang Qi taken from the Black and White Divine Demon leaped forth and entered his grotto-heaven, evolving the phenomenon of Chaos Without Limit.
"Divine ability: Innate Yin-Yang Primordial Chaos Divine Light."
Zhou Yuan was overjoyed.
He had never expected that, through this opportunity to listen to the Dao, he would successfully refine the Innate Yin and Yang Qi and attain a Greater Divine Ability.
"With this Greater Divine Ability, perhaps I can comprehend the mysteries of Yin-Yang Law and use it to glimpse the realm of Grand Unity Great Sage."
As he thought this, he could not help but feel gratitude toward the Dao Lord on the platform.
This single sermon had saved him ten thousand years of arduous cultivation.
Zhou Yuan's transformation naturally drew the attention of countless beings around him.
Even the Innate Divine Beings atop the platform could not help but cast their gazes toward him.
But this was merely a small interlude in the preaching of the Dao.
After the first Innate Divine Being finished preaching, not many beings remained at the scene.
When the second Innate Divine Being began to speak, Zhou Yuan's expression became strange.
Why? Because this Innate Divine Being was speaking of Heaven and Earth's Principles of Change and Heaven and Earth's Heavenly Secrets.
As it involved the transformations of heavenly secrets, this sermon was even more mysterious and profound than the Dao of Creation.
The Innate Great Sages were left dizzy and disoriented. If not for their regard for the divine being on the platform, they likely would have turned and fled.
But Zhou Yuan grew more excited the longer he listened, nearly beside himself with joy.
Heavenly secrets, karma, deduction, transformation.
He compared what he heard with [Five Elements Mystic Gate] and felt that he had gained immensely.
The Innate Great Sages at the front cast him several strange looks. A True One Realm divine demon was actually more outstanding than Innate Great Sages like them, who had comprehended the mysteries of laws?
The divine being preaching atop the platform glanced at Zhou Yuan, delight flashing through his eyes.
His Way of the Principles of Change calculated heavenly secrets and fortune, making it incomparably complex.
Those lacking spiritual intelligence could hardly comprehend it.
Yet there was unexpectedly such a jade tree and immortal blossom among the listeners below. Truly excellent.
This divine being suddenly developed a desire to nurture talent.
He simply stopped holding back and explained everything he had comprehended during this period in one breath.
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