Then Ye Xuan pulled several pieces of Primal True Bone from his robes.
Inscribed on them were the Six Paths Samsara Heavenly Art, the Grass Character Sword Art, and various Fierce Beast secret arts.
In the Perfect World, these things were priceless treasures.
"If I pass these secret arts down directly..."
Ye Xuan pondered for a moment, then shook his head.
"No."
"Though the Perfect World's system allows rapid progress in the early stages, it relies too heavily on external things. Blood Moving requires the true blood of Fierce Beasts; Engraved Patterns requires imitating their runes; and igniting the divine flame requires finding a Heaven and Earth Fire Seed."
"Besides..."
Ye Xuan's Double Pupils narrowed slightly as he saw through appearances to the truth.
"The methods of that world, in the end, were cobbled together over countless ages by a group of Supremes and True Immortals. Though powerful, they don't truly fit the concept of 'human.' They mostly imitate Heaven, beasts, and the Dao."
The humans of the Primordial Wilderness, however, had been molded by Saintess Nuwa in the image of Pangu's Innate Dao Body.
Every newborn human held within them the most primordial treasures of the human body.
To imitate Fierce Beasts instead of looking within? That would be a terrible waste!
"The human race must have its own method."
"Seek nothing outside oneself. Become the seed of the self!"
A flash of inspiration burst through Ye Xuan's mind, like lightning tearing through the darkness.
He thought of the system created by Desolate Heaven Emperor in his past-life memories, the one who had later stood alone throughout the ages—the Human Body Secret Realm Method!
Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Dragon Transformation, Immortal Platform!
This was the supreme method best suited to the human constitution, one that could excavate the potential of the Innate Dao Body to the fullest!
"Since Desolate Heaven Emperor hasn't created it yet, then today, I, the Human Emperor, will open this road to heaven for the human race!"
Brilliant light flashed in Ye Xuan's eyes.
Without hesitation, he cast aside every distraction and sat with his palms facing upward.
"Chaos Heavy Pupils, open!"
He gave a low command in his heart.
His deep eyes changed in an instant. His overlapping pupils spun wildly as gray Chaos Qi surged out, shrouding the entire stone hut.
Through his Double Pupils, the mists obscuring the past and future peeled away layer by layer.
Ye Xuan brought every bit of his foundation to bear.
Using the Primal True Scripture he had learned from the Mountain Treasure as his foundation and the Six Paths Samsara Heavenly Art as its framework, he combined them with his insights as an Innate Human and began frantically deducing the method in his Consciousness Sea.
Countless runes danced around him, rearranging themselves into new combinations.
Gradually, a complete Human Meridian Diagram lit up in his mind.
"The human body is the universe."
"First Secret Realm: Wheel Sea!"
Ye Xuan turned his Divine Sense inward, focusing on the navel below his abdomen.
That was the source of life—and the location of the Sea of Suffering.
"Rumble!"
A roar like a surging sea thundered through Ye Xuan's body.
In an ordinary mortal, the Sea of Suffering would be pitch-black and lifeless.
But he was the first Innate Human, molded by Nuwa herself. The purest Innate Ancestral Qi flowed through his body!
A golden ocean opened beneath his navel in an instant.
The golden Sea of Suffering surged, and life essence erupted like a volcano.
At its center, a Life Spring gushed forth, raising a Divine Bridge that stretched straight to the other shore!
"Break through!"
Ye Xuan advanced like a hot knife through butter.
With the astonishing Merit Golden Light he possessed, along with the Venerable foundation he had brought back from the Perfect World, he had no need to cultivate painstakingly like an ordinary cultivator.
Wheel Sea Secret Realm, complete!
"Second Secret Realm: Dao Palace!"
Ye Xuan's Divine Sense rose into his five organs.
Heart Divine Treasury, Liver Divine Treasury, Spleen Divine Treasury, Lung Divine Treasury, Kidney Divine Treasury!
Five deities with faces identical to Ye Xuan's manifested within his organs.
They sat cross-legged and chanted scriptures. Their booming Daoist hymns made every word resonate with the laws of Heaven and Earth.
Five Qi Facing Yuan, unceasing and endless!
Dao Palace Secret Realm, complete!
Next—
"Third Secret Realm: Four Extremes!"
Light shone from Ye Xuan's limbs, like pillars supporting the heavens.
His left hand held Yin, his right grasped Yang; his feet stood upon the earth, supporting the firmament.
His limbs seemed to pierce deep into the void, drawing in an endless stream of the Primordial Wilderness's source energy.
In that instant, his physical strength surged. Even without using a trace of magic power, he could shatter a mountain with one punch.
Four Extremes Secret Realm, complete!
"Fourth Secret Realm: Dragon Transformation!"
"Roar—!"
A high-pitched dragon's cry rang from Ye Xuan's spine.
The great dragon running through the human body had awakened!
His spine was like a dragon, each vertebra joining seamlessly to the next. Golden blood and qi shot upward along it, surging straight to the crown of his head.
Ye Xuan shone with dazzling golden light, like a True Dragon in human form awakening.
Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, complete!
At last—
The most crucial step.
"Fifth Secret Realm: Immortal Platform!"
This was a ladder to Heaven, the boundary between mortals and gods.
Ye Xuan's soul entered his brow and ascended the Immortal Platform.
Each step, another level of Heaven!
First level, Half-Step Great Power.
Second level, Great Power.
Third level, King Severing Dao.
He advanced like a hot knife through butter!
There was no such thing as a bottleneck.
Because he was an Innate Human! He was the Human Emperor, bearing the fate of the human race!
In this Primordial Wilderness, if he wanted to grow stronger, even the Heavenly Dao would have to make way for him!
And the clumps of Merit Golden Light that had merged into his body were practically cheat-like boosters.
Sage realm!
Sage King!
Great Sage!
Quasi-Emperor!
Until—
"Rumble—!!!"
A terrifying aura that surpassed the mortal world and touched some ultimate limit erupted throughout the cramped stone hut.
Ye Xuan's eyes snapped open.
Two beams of solid-looking golden light pierced through the roof and shot straight into the Nine Heavens.
Behind him, an Extreme Dao Emperor Shadow manifested, suppressing the heavens and standing alone throughout the ages.
The Great Emperor realm!
This was the Extreme Dao Great Emperor of the Zhe Tian System!
Feeling the power surging through him like a galaxy, Ye Xuan curled his lips into a wild smile.
In the Perfect World, he had been only a Venerable.
But now, after creating a method and cultivating anew, he had fully unleashed the potential of his Innate Dao Body and ascended to the summit in a single step, attaining the Great Emperor Dao!
"The Primordial Wilderness system doesn't cultivate the physical body. It cultivates only the Primordial Spirit and laws."
"But in my Great Emperor realm, my physical body is immortal and my Primordial Spirit indestructible. With my full strength..."
Ye Xuan clenched his fist, feeling the Emperor Dao laws flowing between his fingers.
"I can rival a Peak Golden Immortal of the Primordial Wilderness!"
Golden Immortal!
In the Primordial Wilderness, immortals were divided into Earth Immortals, Heavenly Immortals, True Immortals, Mysterious Immortals, and Golden Immortals.
"Golden" meant "immortal."
To become a Golden Immortal meant leaping beyond the Three Realms and Five Elements, becoming ageless, deathless, and eternally indestructible.
Even in the Demon Heavenly Court, Golden Immortal demon kings were overlords in their own right, commanding a million demon soldiers.
"Hoo..."
Ye Xuan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.
From mortal to a Great Emperor who could rival a Golden Immortal.
He had done it in the time it took to complete a single seclusion.
If the beings outside who had spent ten thousand years in painstaking cultivation just to become immortals learned of this, they would probably be so jealous their Dao hearts would crumble.
But that was the foundation of the Human Emperor!
At that moment—
Outside the stone hut.
The once-peaceful Human Valley had already erupted into chaos.
"Look! What's happening?!"
Suiren Shi had been guarding the square with his people when he suddenly pointed at the stone hut where Ye Xuan was cultivating and shouted.
Everyone looked up in alarm.
Countless beams of golden light now poured down over the unremarkable stone hut, while auspicious clouds filled the sky.
In the void, all manner of incredible visions appeared.
There were Golden Lotuses Planted in the Sea of Suffering, the Immortal King Descending the Nine Heavens, the Yin-Yang Life-Death Diagram, and the Splendid Mountains and Rivers Scroll...
Each vision radiated a pressure that made their souls tremble.
"Th-this... Was this caused by the Human Emperor?"
Youchaoshi swallowed hard. The stone ax in his hand was almost slipping from his grasp.
"What a terrifying aura! It's more frightening than any great demon I've ever seen!"
Ziyishi was beaming, tears in her eyes.
"It's the Human Emperor! He must have broken through!"
"Our human race... is saved!"
Just as everyone was staring in shock and talking among themselves—
"Creak."
The tightly shut stone door slowly opened.
All the visions vanished in an instant, and the golden light filling the sky faded with them.
But the pressure rising from the depths of their souls hadn't eased in the slightest.
A figure in white stepped out of the darkness.
He still looked young and handsome.
But his eyes were as profound as the starry sky.
He merely stood there, yet seemed to be the center of Heaven and Earth, the source of the Myriad Daos.
Ye Xuan looked at the people kneeling before him and felt the surging power within his body.
Then he smiled faintly. "Sorry to have kept you all waiting."
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