Old Ancestor Hongjun's profound Dao voice permeated the Purple Heaven Palace, and Nuwa, standing in the front row, finally let out a long sigh of relief.
"Hoo!"
"Fortunately, the Dao Ancestor didn't insist on driving fellow Daoist Beichen away from the palace. Otherwise, Nuwa would have definitely supported fellow Daoist Beichen and persuaded Master to let him stay!"
Nuwa had not forgotten Beichen's kindness in yielding his seat, a favor she would remember for a lifetime.
Especially when she later learned that the cushion was a Saint Position, she would feel even more grateful and reverent towards Beichen.
"Grand Unity Golden Immortal, with the three flowers gathering at the crown and the five energies returning to the origin, impervious to water and fire, unafraid of the five thunders, adorned with Dao essence, is the beginning of immortality and indestructibility, the awe of the nascent world! Stepping into the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, one can be called a true mighty being in this Primordial World."
"However, the Dao power of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal also varies based on the rank of the three flowers. This is due to innate potential, which is inherent and cannot be changed by later efforts. But, for the vast cultivators of the Primordial World, what can be slightly altered is the Dao of nourishing the foundation, the path of condensing Dao laws, the method of enhancing with magical treasures, the effect of heavenly spiritual roots, and the opportunities of merit..."
"But these aspects are also very limited and depend on fate. Therefore, the foundation of cultivation lies not in others, but in the cultivator themselves! Our bodies and primordial spirits are like vessels. If the vessels are the same, it depends on who can fill them to the maximum extent. That is self-perfection, and cultivation can be achieved without regret..."
Old Ancestor Hongjun lectured, speaking eloquently and with great interest. The cultivators listened attentively, finding it all very reasonable, and quickly committed it to memory.
The cultivators sitting on the cushions felt that the fundamental Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal was very simple; they comprehended it all with a mere sweep of their ears.
As the seating arrangement moved backward, further from the Dao Ancestor, it signified weaker innate potential and poorer comprehension. Moreover, due to the distance, it was truly difficult to hear clearly, and thus, what they gained was less and less.
The listeners in the first two rows could fully absorb the Dao of Old Ancestor Hongjun.
Starting from the third row, they could obtain ninety percent, eighty percent, and seventy percent of the Dao, respectively.
By the last few rows, they were almost all Grand Unity Golden Immortals. Even listening to the most basic Dao of the early Grand Unity stage, they were muddled and could not understand much, gaining less than ten percent of the Dao.
As a result, those Grand Unity Golden Immortals in the back who couldn't understand the Dao simply let it enter one ear and exit the other, cultivating with the Dao essence of the Purple Firmament Palace while listening.
The seats in the back were very far away, and Hongjun knew that those Dao cultivators had poor comprehension, so he simply ignored them, letting them do as they pleased.
Listening to and comprehending the Dao was also a matter of fate. Hongjun continued his lecture, and how much the guests below could understand and how much cultivation they gained depended on themselves.
Hongjun lectured passionately, and in a daze, five hundred years passed.
From the beginning, Beichen had not been listening to his lecture. Instead, he had plugged his ears, activated the Universe Great Dao Mystic Turtle Shell, and recorded the content of the Great Dao.
Buzz!
As the five hundred years passed, Beichen's body once again erupted with brilliant light, causing everyone to lose their focus and unable to help but look at him.
It turned out that Beichen had used the Dao essence of the Purple Firmament Palace to cultivate and had made a small breakthrough in the Quasi-Saint realm, causing a commotion.
This commotion disrupted the Purple Firmament Palace, making it impossible for people to concentrate on the lecture, and it also interrupted Ancestor Hongjun's lecture.
After that, almost every hundred years, Beichen's body would radiate light again, disturbing everyone's focus.
With this back and forth, it even caused Old Ancestor Hongjun to forget his words and pause several times while lecturing, losing track of where he was.
"Where was I?"
Old Ancestor Hongjun was sweating profusely, scratching his head awkwardly from time to time, and glaring at Beichen.
He had wanted to drive Beichen out again, but remembering Beichen's sharp tongue, it would inevitably lead to another argument and waste of time. Furthermore, it was not good to have long pauses during his lecture, so he gritted his teeth and continued.
Originally, Old Ancestor Hongjun could have delivered the lecture on the Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal with ease, but unexpectedly, he stammered through it, and the impact was considerable.
However, he was, after all, the Dao Ancestor, and he eventually managed to continue lecturing steadily.
But as the lecture content became more profound, more guests in the palace began to not understand, and more and more people gave up.
Those cultivators who gave up listening were mostly attracted by Beichen's commotion, watching him radiate divine light all over his body, refining his cultivation, as if it were a very interesting matter.
Hongjun saw this and, although he was angry in his heart, did not show it.
"A menace, this Mystic Turtle Beichen is a menace, a single rotten apple spoils the whole barrel!"
Old Ancestor Hongjun could only curse in his heart.
The lecture continued, and a thousand years passed.
The cultivators in the front rows had absorbed this thousand years of the Great Dao, and the lecture on the Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal had reached the middle stage.
Within the Dao field, people broke through from time to time, but most of them were breakthroughs from the early to the middle stage of Grand Unity, without much fanfare.
Sanqing, Nuwa, Fu Xi, Hong Yun, Old Ancestor Minghe, Jieyin, Zhunti, and others were waiting for the final lecture on the perfected Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal. The lectures on the early, middle, and late stages of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Dao were of no fundamental use to them!
The Dao of the middle stage of Grand Unity Golden Immortal had eliminated countless cultivators. Seventy percent of the Dao cultivators in the hall had given up listening. They either cultivated on their own or comprehended and digested the previous content lectured by Hongjun. As for the later content, because it was too profound, they no longer listened!
Boom!
Just as Old Ancestor Hongjun was lecturing on the peak of the middle stage Grand Unity Dao, Zhen Yuanzi's body erupted with brilliant light, breaking through to the Quasi-Saint realm, causing a sensation throughout the hall.
Fortunately, Zhen Yuanzi's commotion was far less than Beichen's initial breakthrough. Old Ancestor Hongjun pretended not to see it and did not let him interrupt the lecture.
However, he heard a sentence from Zhen Yuanzi that almost made him snort with anger and squint his eyes.
Zhen Yuanzi said to Beichen, "Fellow Daoist Mystic Turtle, during this past millennium, I observed your breakthroughs and the refinement of your Dao roots, which led to my own breakthrough to the Quasi-Saint realm. Thank you, fellow Daoist!"
Hongjun's scalp tingled: "So Zhen Yuanzi didn't listen to a single word of what I lectured? Heh heh..."
Hongjun laughed at himself inwardly: "Zhen Yuanzi, truly detestable, to associate with this Mystic Turtle!"
The Dao Ancestor harbored a trace of hatred towards Zhen Yuanzi, but it was not excessive. Compared to Beichen, he did not take Zhen Yuanzi seriously.
However, Zhen Yuanzi's breakthrough again affected his lecture, causing him to pause for several days before continuing.
"Fellow Daoist Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun congratulates you. The Dao Ancestor's lecture on the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Dao is not yet finished, and you have already entered the Quasi-Saint realm. This breakthrough has nothing to do with the Dao Ancestor; you are truly formidable!"
Hong Yun whispered to himself, muttering.
"This path of Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Golden Immortals is truly hard to explain!"
Hong Yun stood in this second row speaking, making it difficult not to affect Hongjun's sermon, but he couldn't maintain discipline and could only lament in his heart.
However, next, he felt even more that the sermon was becoming increasingly difficult.
Because he couldn't help but look at Xihe and Changxi's bellies.
Just as Old Ancestor Hongjun's gaze swept over them, he couldn't help but freeze, pausing again: "This... the offspring within the wombs of these two Taiyin Goddesses are actually listening intently to my sermon?"
Immediately afterward, he looked at Beichen reproachfully, because Beichen was the one who brought them.
This glance was no small matter; Old Ancestor Hongjun froze again: "On this Mystic Turtle, within the treasure bottle, there's also a powerful aphid that has awakened and is also listening to this Dao Ancestor's sermon?"
"Damn it, damn it, these beings born from wetness and eggs..."
"This path of Grand Unity Golden Immortals is truly hard to explain!"
These "variable" events had a considerable impact on Old Ancestor Hongjun's sermon, nearly affecting his Dao heart.
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