Buzhou Mountain, Pangu's Will (Seeking Collection, Seeking Follow-up Reads, Seeking Votes!)
"The Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao are Sanqing, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti..."
Recalling the memories of his previous life, Lu Yuan frowned slightly as he calculated inwardly.
Among them, Sage Wa, Nuwa, neither established a great sect nor accepted disciples. Her sole registered disciple was the Tenth Prince of the Demon Race, whom Dijun had entrusted to her.
The Two Sages of the West, Jieyin and Zhunti, did throw their doors wide open, but the Western Teachings were far too mixed, a tangle of fish and dragons. Moreover, after the Western Continent had been ravaged by Demon Ancestor Luohu, its resources were now barren and its fortune weak.
Perhaps the West would one day enjoy great prosperity, but that would be far too late—at the very least, he would have to wait until the Journey to the West Tribulation!
The only suitable choice was the Sanqing Saints. Bound together by the same qi, Sanqing could be called the greatest mountain faction in the Primordial World!
If he could take any one of the Sanqing as his master, his path to the Dao would hold hope!
After all, as Pangu's Orthodox Lineage, the Sanqing had been transformed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit and had inherited the teachings of Dao Ancestor Hongjun of Purple Heaven Palace. They possessed the strongest legacy in all the Primordial World.
However, among the Sanqing Saints, although Sage Taiqing, Laozi, had established the Human Sect, he had only one personal disciple, Xuandu. The rest of his disciples were registered disciples accepted by his Three Corpses.
As for Sage Yuqing, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, he had founded the Chan Sect. Following the Heavenly Dao and conforming to rules and order, he divided the living beings of the Primordial World into ranks of high and low. Only those with profound foundations could enter beneath his gate.
Sage Tongtian of Shangqing, meanwhile, took the meaning of "Fifty Great Daos, Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine" and established the Jie Sect, plucking A Glimmer of Hope from Between Heaven and Earth. No matter one's origins, as long as one possessed an unyielding Dao heart and a Heart of Seeking Dao, one could enter beneath his gate.
As Lu Yuan recalled the temperaments and conduct of the Sanqing Saints, a thoughtful look appeared on his face. Sage Taiqing, Laozi, placed great importance on ethereal, intangible fate when accepting disciples, making it exceedingly difficult to enter beneath his gate.
Before Sage Yuqing, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, attained the Dao and became a Saint, only Immortal Elder Nanji had attended at his side.
Only Sage Tongtian of Shangqing had opened his mountain and accepted disciples before attaining the Dao and becoming a Saint.
Therefore, among the Sanqing, only Sage Tongtian of Shangqing might possibly accept Lu Yuan beneath his gate.
Having reached this conclusion, Lu Yuan already had a plan in mind. A faint smile surfaced on his face as he said, "Perhaps I truly am fated with Sage Tongtian of Shangqing. The Saint established the Jie Sect, and its doctrine is to pluck A Glimmer of Hope from Between Heaven and Earth!
"And I came to the Primordial World carrying the Treasure Beyond Fate, the 'White Jade Plate,' replacing the 'Pure Turgid God-Demon' that had Failed Transformation.
"Doesn't that precisely answer the meaning of 'Fifty Great Daos, Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine'? From the perspective of Heavenly Dao Order, haven't I already plucked that glimmer of hope?"
Once he had made up his mind, Lu Yuan could no longer sit still. At present, the Great Divine Ability Users and Great Luo Dao Lords of the Primordial World were all listening to the Dao at Purple Heaven Palace.
Although the Witch and Demon Clans had already begun to emerge, they had yet to formally Sacrifice to Heaven and Establish Clan, stepping onto the stage of the Primordial World.
This period might well be the most peaceful time the Primordial World would ever know.
He planned to make a trip to Buzhou Mountain, the pillar of heaven, to behold the majesty of Great God Pangu, then head to Kunlun Mountain to seek a master.
"Ever since my Manifestation and Birth, I haven't left this Cave Heaven Blessed Land. It's time to venture outside and see the Primordial World!"
With that thought, Lu Yuan stirred his mind and activated the 'Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram.' The Innate Grand Formation within this Cave Heaven Blessed Land glimmered with a trace of profound yellow light, and his figure appeared upon the divine mountain outside.
Over the past thousand years, he had already brought the Innate Grand Formation within this Cave Heaven Blessed Land under his control.
After refining the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the 'Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram,' Lu Yuan immediately understood that the Innate Grand Formation protecting this Cave Heaven Blessed Land was the 'Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Qi Grand Formation,' evolved by heaven and earth.
The Innate Spiritual Treasure, the 'Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram,' was the pivotal treasure that controlled this Innate Grand Formation.
The 'Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Qi Grand Formation' fused pure and turbid qi to condense the power of profound yellow. Apart from creating an illusory formation that blocked the probing of mighty cultivators, it could also use the power of profound yellow to slaughter cultivators who barged into the formation.
Even a Dao Lord who had obtained a Daluo Dao Fruit would be left in a sorry state if they forcibly broke into this formation.
After all, this was an Innate Grand Formation evolved by heaven and earth to protect an Innate God-Demon. Its power was naturally no trifling matter.
Still, to guard against any contingency, Lu Yuan had laid down another great formation within the Innate Grand Formation.
This formation was the 'Great Formation of Escaping Fate,' which Lu Yuan had refined by studying the Treasure Beyond Fate, the 'White Jade Plate,' and using the Dao patterns upon it as its foundation.
It had only one effect: to imperceptibly muddle the power of fate around this place, causing cultivators to unconsciously overlook it.
Only with these two layers of great formations protecting it did Lu Yuan dare leave the three Innate Spiritual Roots in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land and venture through the Primordial World himself.
The first time he stepped out of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, a savage wilderness came pounding toward him. Lu Yuan landed halfway up the divine mountain.
As far as the eye could see, a divine mountain pierced straight into the clouds—majestic and towering, like a colossal pillar holding up the heavens—filling Lu Yuan's vision.
He probed with the power of his primordial spirit. Though there were quite a few living beings among the divine mountains, they were all insignificant little demons.
Not to mention Innate God-Demons—even beings with Innate Foundations numbered only two or three.
"This divine mountain gave birth to a Cave Heaven Blessed Land and is the Dao field granted to me by the Heavenly Dao. Once the Witch-Demon Calamity ends, I can establish a Dao lineage here, open the mountain, and spread the Dao..."
After spending thirty to fifty years surveying this innate divine mountain from end to end, a smile appeared on Lu Yuan's face. He then rode the clouds and soared into the sky.
At present, the foremost mighty figures of the Primordial World were all listening to the Dao at Purple Heaven Palace beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Within the entire world, there was practically not even a single Great Luo Dao Lord left. Cultivators who had obtained a Taiyi Dao Fruit were already considered supreme experts!
Though Lu Yuan, with his Innate God-Demon foundation, was only at the late Heavenly Immortal stage, relying on the essence of an Innate God-Demon and the Innate Spiritual Treasure in his hand, he was not at the bottom even among Immortal Golden Immortals.
Thus, his journey through the world was fairly smooth overall!
He traveled at a leisurely pace, stopping and going as he pleased. Whenever he reached a divine mountain or Spirit Land, he gathered the local flowers, grasses, spiritual trees, rare materials, and heavenly treasures.
This was still the Innate Era. Buzhou Mountain, the pillar of heaven, had yet to collapse, and the Primordial World had not yet shattered into the Four Great Continents and the Myriad Worlds.
These seemingly ordinary "wild grasses," which no one would currently spare a second glance for, would become treasures fought over in the future.
Lu Yuan did not gather much of any single kind; he simply collected a great variety, taking a little of nearly everything.
This peculiar habit naturally drew strange looks, but Lu Yuan secretly sneered. Once they endured until the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, they would understand just how wise his actions had been!
Still, Lu Yuan also understood that in the Asura Field that was the Primordial World, ninety-nine percent of the cultivators mocking him would never live to see that day!
Walking and stopping along the way, it took Lu Yuan eight thousand years to leave the Southern Region of the Primordial World. Then, after another ten thousand years and countless hardships, he finally caught sight of Buzhou Mountain one day.
After all, the Primordial World was simply boundless. With his late-stage Heavenly Immortal cultivation, even as an Innate God-Demon, he was still far too insignificant!
One had to know that even Great Luo Dao Lords who had attained the Daluo Dao Fruit and transcended the River of Destiny would need several Kalpas to tread across every corner of the Primordial World.
Though he had caught sight of Buzhou Mountain's shadow, Lu Yuan was still extremely far from it. The only reason he could see it at all was because Buzhou Mountain was simply too towering and immense.
As the heavenly pillar of the Primordial World, Buzhou Mountain had been formed from Pangu's Spine. What it supported was the very heart of the Primordial World, where the Heavenly Court of the First Epoch God-Demon Era had once stood.
As the central region from which gods and demons ruled the Primordial World in the World of Gods and Demons, that realm had been boundlessly vast, its territory incomparably expansive, with countless fortunes gathered there and profound mysteries converging within.
Unfortunately, after Jiutou Shi perished while attempting to break through to the Primordial Unity realm, the World of Gods and Demons was buried away, and the Heavenly Realm had long since vanished.
Gazing At Buzhou Mountain's shadow, Lu Yuan continued onward. More than Three Thousand Years later, he finally arrived at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, where an immense majesty came pounding at him.
Looking at the heavenly pillar connecting heaven and earth before him, Lu Yuan could not help but sigh. Buzhou Mountain truly deserved to be called the divine mountain formed from Great God Pangu's spine. Even though Great God Pangu had already fallen, an undying will still remained!