Mythical Grand Unity, Saints Beg Me Not to Show Off

Attending the lecture might yield some insights by analogy, but the greater likelihood was being influenced by the majestic Heavenly Dao's saintly might.

It could even leave the imprint of Hongjun's Great Dao on one's Dao Heart, planting hidden dangers for the future path of transcendence.

"For me, the Gate of the Purple Firmament Palace—I need not go!"

Ao Chen made his decision in an instant.

"My Mythical Grand Unity Method is a self-contained system, pointing directly to the source of the Great Dao. Why should I listen to another's method and bind myself?"

"However, though I won't attend the lecture, I should still leave this place. Working behind closed doors is ultimately not a long-term solution."

"I shall take heaven and earth as my teacher, the sun and moon as my friends, and all living beings as my companions. Only then can I perfect my own path."

With this thought, Ao Chen rose from the ground and headed out of his cave dwelling.

Now that the general outline of the Great Dao was complete and he had a Dao Protecting Divine Ability, it was time to go out and explore.

Besides, having come to this Primordial World for so long, he had yet to truly experience its splendor.

Ao Chen stepped out of the cave dwelling, and the restrictions he had casually set spread apart like ripples on water, offering him no hindrance at all.

Without a trace of reluctance, his form transformed into an inconspicuous streak of light, shooting straight upward and away from the core territory of the Dragon Palace Faction.

Though the pressure of Hongjun Achieving Sainthood still shrouded the entire Primordial World, and the news of the Sages Preaching the Dao drove countless beings to flock toward it, none of this seemed to concern him.

He could sense several faint divine thoughts falling upon him from the shadows, probing and scrutinizing—no doubt the old fellows of the Dragon Palace had sent spies, uneasy about his movements.

Ao Chen curled his lips slightly but couldn't be bothered to pay them any mind.

As long as they didn't provoke him, he had no interest in settling scores with these former "kin" who were trapped in the Four Seas with dim prospects.

He accelerated, and after a few spatial jumps, he completely shook off those divine thoughts, entering the truly vast, unknown, and perilous depths of the East Sea.

Leaving the relatively "familiar" waters of the Dragon Palace, a more desolate, ancient, and primal aura rushed toward him!

The seawater here was far deeper, and the pressure alone could easily crush a Golden Immortal!

Light could scarcely reach ten thousand fathoms below, with only the eerie glow of certain strange seabed creatures or minerals breaking the darkness.

The Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth was dense to the extreme, nearly liquefied, but it was also mixed with violent energy currents and remnants of ancient Sha Qi and resentment.

In the distance, massive submarine volcanoes, as enormous as the Primordial Divine Mountains, stood silently, occasionally erupting and triggering tsunamis that stretched millions of miles.

From the deep trenches came heart-shaking roars—the claims of sovereignty by Deep Sea Giant Beasts that even Primordial Unity Golden Immortals dared not provoke lightly.

Yet Ao Chen felt no fear. Instead, he was like a fish returning to the sea, a bird entering the forest, his heart filled with exhilaration and freedom!

"This is the world where cultivators like us should roam!"

He relaxed his mind and body, no longer rushing, and activated his Heaven-Defying Comprehension, truly beginning to "take heaven and earth as his teacher."

He saw a terrifying underwater tornado, one that would kill any ordinary immortal on contact.

He stopped to observe, carefully studying the violent interweaving of Water Law and Space Law within it, verifying his understanding of the Great Dao Origin Scripture, flashes of insight flickering in his eyes.

He encountered a patch of highly toxic seaweed forest, its poison so fierce it could even corrode space.

Instead of detouring, he cautiously ventured deeper, analyzing the composition of the toxins, deducing the true meaning of "annihilation" within the Grass Extinguishing Sword Art, and even collecting some strange poisonous plants as research materials.

He saw a peculiar school of deep-sea fish. They possessed no great magical power, yet by relying on clever formations and precise control of water currents, they hunted sea beasts several times their size.

Ao Chen watched with great interest for a long time, gleaning subtle insights into formations and coordinated attacks.

Traveling along, Ao Chen stopped and went.

Every sight in the Primordial World—whether grand and magnificent or subtle and peculiar—became nourishment for his own Dao in his eyes.

His Mythical Earth Immortal realm was steadily consolidating, and his understanding of the Great Dao Origin Scripture and Grass Extinguishing Sword Art deepened day by day.

"Hongjun's lecture speaks of the 'methods' and 'techniques' under the Heavenly Dao. What I seek is the 'Dao' and 'Principle' of heaven and earth themselves!"

Ao Chen's resolve grew firmer.

"The Gate of the Purple Firmament Palace may be fine, but it is not where my Dao lies. This vast Primordial World is my best teacher!"

Just as he was immersed in this state of cultivation with heaven and earth as his teacher, a faint yet extremely unique fluctuation of Law came from a distant sea region ahead.

That fluctuation seemed not to belong to the normal spacetime of the Primordial World, carrying a sense of fragmentation and chaos, yet also containing an exceedingly ancient aura of time!

Ao Chen's mind stirred, and his Heaven-Defying Comprehension pushed into full deduction.

"This is... a Spacetime Fluctuation?"

He vaguely sensed that in that direction, there was something that resonated with the concepts of "Independent Spacetime" and "Transcendence of Years" within his Mythical Grand Unity Method!

Perhaps that was the key to perfecting his Earth Immortal Realm, or even glimpsing a higher realm!

"Interesting!"

A sharp gleam flashed in Ao Chen's eyes. Without hesitation, he locked onto that direction, transformed into a streak of light, and shot forward at full speed!

Whether it was a dragon's pool or a tiger's den ahead, for the sake of the Dao, he would go even if it meant ten thousand deaths!

Besides, he had absolute confidence in his current strength!

Chapter Seven: Fragment of the Jade Butterfly of Creation, the Gate of the Purple Firmament Palace Opens

Ao Chen raced forward, and the closer he got to the source of the law fluctuations, the more perilous and bizarre the surrounding environment became.

No longer were there merely powerful sea beasts or natural hazards; instead, twisted spatial rifts and chaotic time currents appeared in increasing numbers!

The seawater here sometimes froze like eternal ice, and at other times surged like arrows of time;

space itself was like shattered glass, with tiny spatial cracks and unpredictable spatial jump points everywhere.

If Ao Chen hadn't possessed the Power of Mythical Earth Immortal, with a Star River Universe formed within his body to initially stabilize his own spacetime, and his Heaven-Defying Comprehension constantly analyzing and evading, he would have long been lost in this chaotic Spacetime Labyrinth, torn to shreds!

"To cause such a large-scale spacetime disturbance, the opportunity here must be even more precious than I imagined."

Ao Chen grew more expectant in his heart, but also more vigilant.

After traveling for an unknown duration, he finally reached the core area of the law fluctuations.

Before him was not the imagined massive rift or storm sea eye, but an extremely hidden entrance to a secret realm, shrouded by layers upon layers of broken spacetime laws and natural illusion arrays!

This entrance flickered in and out of visibility, emitting the very fluctuations imbued with pure time and space Dao resonance!

"Excellent technique—using fragments of its own emitted laws to set up a natural, spontaneously arising and vanishing Spacetime Grand Formation to conceal itself!"

Ao Chen praised, activating his Heaven-Defying Comprehension at full power to begin analyzing the Spacetime Grand Formation at the entrance.

This formation was profoundly mysterious, constantly shifting with almost no discernible pattern, enough to make even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal hesitate.

But in Ao Chen's eyes, within the seemingly chaotic law transformations, there existed a thread of eternal, unchanging true intent.

Seizing that thread of true intent, Ao Chen carefully adjusted his own aura, conforming to the formation's rhythm of birth and destruction, and passed through the entrance unscathed, entering the secret realm.

The secret realm was not large, only about a hundred li in radius, yet it formed an independent small world within.

There was no sun or moon, only a gray, chaotic scene, but the flow of time and spatial structure were completely different from the outside world, extremely unstable.

And at the very center of the secret realm, a palm-sized, seemingly ordinary fragment of green jade floated quietly.

The surface of the jade fragment was smooth, yet it seemed to contain infinite mysteries.

Countless Dao runes, billions of times finer than a hair, were born and extinguished within it, constantly enacting the surging River of Time and the infinite transformations of spatial dimensions.

Just one glance made Ao Chen feel as if his Primordial Spirit would be drawn into it, immersed in the endless mysteries of spacetime.

"It's actually this?"

Ao Chen was astonished, then ecstatic.

A Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation, and one containing the two main laws of time and space.

His mind surging, Ao Chen forced down the impulse to seize it immediately.

He could sense that around this fragment lingered an extremely terrifying, broken power originating from Pangu Creates the World.

It was the residual force from when the Jade Disc of Creation shattered—though faint, its essence was extremely high, enough to easily obliterate a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and severely wound a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

"I can't force it!"

Ao Chen took a deep breath, slowly circulating the Star River Universe within his body, emitting a soft starlight as he cautiously approached.

He didn't try to touch the fragment directly; instead, he released his own Mythical Earth Immortal Dao resonance, attempting to communicate and resonate with the time and space Dao resonance emitted by the fragment.

His Mythical Grand Unity Method inherently contained the true intent of Independent Spacetime and an inner universe, naturally aligning with the fragment's Great Dao.

Hmm~

As if sensing a kindred aura, the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation trembled slightly, and the broken power lingering around it slowly receded a bit.

It's working!

Joy surged in Ao Chen's heart as he continued guiding with his own Dao resonance, simultaneously activating his Heaven-Defying Comprehension to begin a preliminary comprehension of the Dao runes being born and extinguished on the fragment.

Boom!

In an instant, it was like an epiphany!

Endless supreme, profound, and mysterious Dao truths about the passage of time, the structure of space, dimensional changes, and the secrets of ages flooded into Ao Chen's sea of consciousness like a tidal wave.

Just this initial contact elevated his understanding of time and space by countless levels in an instant.