Chapter One: Reborn as a Five-Clawed True Dragon; I'll Follow the Mythical Grand Unity Method / Chapter Two: The Mythical Earth Immortal Method Takes Shape; Opening a Star River Universe Within the Body

Primordial Wilderness: Mythical Grand Unity, Saints Beg Me Not to Show Off — Author: Go Home and Lie Flat

Reborn in the Primordial Wilderness during the Wu Yao era, I became a little dragon in the East Sea. My father didn't care for me, my mother didn't love me, and the Dragon Race was burdened with Karmic Debt?

Fortunately, my Heaven-Defying Comprehension awakened. Since I was burdened with Karmic Debt, I would create the Mythical Grand Unity Method and forge my own path.

Earth Immortal Realm: casually open up a Star River Dragon Palace;

Heavenly Immortal Realm: Eternal Uniqueness, Time Is My Sole Proof; at the peak, one could trounce Quasi-Sages.

True Immortal Realm: attain the Dao through oneself, with an Immortal Body and Indestructible Primordial Spirit; condense past, present, and Future Bodies.

Profound Immortal Realm: Use My Heart to Replace Heavenly Heart, rise above the River of Time; a transitional stage.

Primordial Lord of Heaven: "You insolent brat! How dare you insult my Chan Sect!"

Ao Chen: "Shut your mouth, you old bastard! Keep yapping and I'll tear down your Jade Void Palace too. Believe me, I'll create a multiverse and stuff you into it!"

Sect Master Tongtian: "Fellow Daoist, you're awesome! Count me in!"

When Ao Chen achieved Mythical Grand Unity and rewrote the rules of the Myriad Realms, the Sages of the myriad heavens cried and begged...

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Chapter One: Reborn as a Five-Clawed True Dragon; I'll Follow the Mythical Grand Unity Method

Cold. A bone-piercing cold.

Ao Chen's eyes snapped open. Before him was a crude underwater stone hut, so shabby it was almost pitiful. A few glowing jellyfish stones provided a faint light, barely dispelling the endless darkness.

"Ugh... My head hurts!"

Chaotic memories surged in like a tide. Memories of a corporate drone from twenty-first-century Blue Star intertwined and merged with those of a young dragon named Ao Chen, struggling to survive at the bottom of the East Sea Dragon Palace.

"Holy crap! I've transmigrated? To the Primordial Wilderness? And I've become... a dragon?"

After a brief burst of excitement, Ao Chen's heart sank.

The memories he'd absorbed told him that this was probably not long after the Dragon-Han Primordial Calamity, and that Ancestral Dragon had died only recently.

The Dragon Race, once rulers of the Primordial Wilderness, had been gravely weakened. Their former glory was long gone.

An oppressive, stifling air hung over the entire East Sea Dragon Palace. It was nothing like the majestic place described in myths and legends.

"East Sea Dragon Palace? After the War of the Three Tribes, before Hongjun Achieves Sainthood? The Dragon Race at the height of its decline?"

After a brief pause, Ao Chen accepted reality.

"Forget it. Since I'm here, I'll make the best of it. From this day on, I am Ao Chen, and Ao Chen is me."

"I am the True Dragon Ao Chen. Let Heaven and Earth bear witness."

As Ao Chen spoke, the sky rumbled as if struck by thunder on a clear day. A wave of ease washed over him, and the awkwardness he'd felt controlling his body vanished.

Ao Chen knew the Great Dao was acknowledging him. From now on, he was a true being of the Primordial Wilderness. Anyone who tried to divine his origins would find the same.

At the same time, a message suddenly appeared in Ao Chen's mind.

"You successfully transmigrated, drawing the Great Dao's attention. It bestowed upon you Heaven-Defying Comprehension. From this day onward, your comprehension will defy the heavens."

Ao Chen froze. He'd been wondering what to do next, and hadn't expected to awaken a Golden Finger.

"Good, good, good! Every transmigrator gets a Golden Finger. My stove never lies to me."

Ao Chen laughed, then calmed himself and began to investigate this so-called Heaven-Defying Comprehension.

But the moment he entered meditation, he was stunned.

The cultivation methods, Daoist arts, and divine abilities in the memories he'd acquired all appeared before his mind's eye. He understood them with ease.

It was incredible. Ao Chen was a man from the future who knew nothing about cultivation, yet in that instant, he'd learned it all.

As he looked through the memories of those wondrous, majestic scenes, Ao Chen couldn't help but marvel. Everything in the Primordial Great World had truly opened his eyes.

After a while, Ao Chen composed himself and began to consider what path to take.

Though he, Ao Chen, was a True Dragon of the East Sea Dragon Palace with a decent bloodline, he was also burdened with an unfathomable amount of Karmic Debt.

He was a mighty Five-Clawed True Dragon at the Golden Immortal Peak, yet had died from a cultivation deviation while preparing to break through to Taiyi Golden Immortal. In the end, his body had become a windfall for an outsider like Ao Chen.

The previous owner of this body was dead, but the Karmic Debt remained, and his cultivation was still at the Golden Immortal Peak.

The Golden Immortal Peak might seem powerful, but at the dawn of the world, it wasn't enough to make him a regional overlord. And with that immense Karmic Debt weighing on him, his start couldn't have been worse.

"Forget it. I'll cultivate for now, then find a way to get rid of the Karmic Debt later."

"At the dawn of the world, there are plenty of opportunities to claim merit. Getting rid of the Karmic Debt later shouldn't be difficult."

Ao Chen sighed. That was the one thing he could take comfort in. At least he still had hope.

But when he tried to circulate the Dragon Race's inherited technique, the Dragon God Art, his magic power felt sluggish, as though something were obstructing it.

Most importantly, whenever he entered meditation, his heart pounded with fear, as if some great calamity were about to descend.

"Hm? Am I doing it wrong?"

Ao Chen paused, then resumed meditating.

At the same time, with his Heaven-Defying Comprehension, he began to analyze the cause.

Soon, he opened his eyes again, his expression dark.

He'd found the reason.

As expected, it was still the Karmic Debt.

The War of the Three Tribes had devastated the world, affecting the entire Primordial Wilderness. The Dragon Race had been one of its chief instigators, so the Karmic Debt it had incurred was beyond imagination.

Even though Ancestral Dragon had sworn that the Dragon Race would guard the Four Seas forever, that still hadn't changed anything.

The cultivation methods of the Primordial Wilderness relied on comprehending the Heavenly Dao. With Karmic Debt weighing on him, comprehending the Heavenly Dao was naturally out of the question.

In short, the Dragon Race was now like a prisoner, and the Heavenly Dao was the inspector. A prisoner hoping to gain benefits from the inspector could forget about it.

"Could I end up like the previous owner of this body, dead and utterly destroyed?"

Ao Chen's expression turned as grim as it could get. He'd just gained Heaven-Defying Comprehension, only to discover he couldn't cultivate. Anyone would be upset.

Suddenly, Ao Chen had a thought. His perspective as a transmigrator brought a few things to mind.

"If I can't comprehend the Heavenly Dao, why not create my own cultivation method and establish a path of my own?"

"Then I could not only forge my own path, but also avoid the Heavenly Dao's restrictions—and I wouldn't be shackled by the Primordial Violet Qi in the future."

The more Ao Chen thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

The Heavenly Dao was incomplete, and Hongjun had yet to achieve sainthood. There was still hope of carving out his own path.

If he stuck to the conventional path, the Karmic Debt would be easy enough to deal with. But the Primordial Violet Qi would be another matter. The six who were destined to become Sages were set in stone; he couldn't possibly beat them to it.

What about achieving sainthood before Hongjun?

He didn't even need to consider it. If Ao Chen's guess was right, Hongjun was already on the path to sainthood.

And him?

He was barely at the Golden Immortal Peak. The gap between them could be measured in countless Primordial Wildernesses.

"In that case, I'll carve out my own path and establish a lineage of my own."

"But what kind of method should I use?"

At that thought, Ao Chen fell into deep contemplation.

Creating a cultivation method wasn't difficult. After all, he had Heaven-Defying Comprehension. He'd just felt how powerful it was, and calling it heaven-defying was no exaggeration.

The only problem was that he hadn't decided what kind of method to create.

"Grand Unity Golden Immortal... Grand Unity Immortal Golden Immortal... Hmm..."

Ao Chen pondered, his brow furrowed as countless ideas swept through his mind.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

"I've got it. Since there's Great Luo, I'll create a different kind of Great Luo method—the Mythical Grand Unity Method."

At that thought, Ao Chen's resolve grew firmer.

Those who cultivated Mythical Grand Unity transcended years and the River of Fate. They were eternal and indestructible, proving the Dao once and proving it forever, attaining it once and attaining it forever. They were deathless in the past, present, and future. Even if they perished, they could return from the River of Time. They would truly remain undying even if Heaven and Earth were destroyed, and remain undying even if the Great Dao decayed.

Of course, this method would be incredibly difficult. Even with Heaven-Defying Comprehension, Ao Chen couldn't be completely certain of success in pioneering a path that had never existed before.

After all, if he succeeded, he would roam free beyond Chaos and become a supreme existence. The Heavenly Dao would be no more than an ant before him, let alone the Sages.

Chapter Two: The Mythical Earth Immortal Method Takes Shape; Opening a Star River Universe Within the Body

Having settled on his path, Ao Chen wasted no more time. He immediately focused and began to comprehend the method.

In his sea of consciousness, the previous owner's vast memories—as a Five-Clawed True Dragon at the Golden Immortal Peak—slowly unfurled like an enormous scroll.

Countless inherited cultivation methods and divine arts of the Dragon Race, along with every insight he'd gained from the beginning of his cultivation to the Golden Immortal Peak, were clearly laid out before Ao Chen.