Primordial Wilderness: This poor Daoist Yun Xiao, Saint of Three Immortal Island!

Chapter 16: Breaking Life and Death to See the Great Dao, the Nine Revolutions Divine Technique Creates the Future

Staring at the two paths before her, Yun Xiao sank into thought.

By all common sense, she ought to choose the "Path of Life"—it brimmed with an aura of peace and harmony, worlds apart from the "Path of Death" like heaven and earth.

But from the heart-temper trial she had just endured, these two paths were far from what they seemed on the surface. One misstep, and she would be utterly annihilated, doomed for all eternity.

"The Path of Life—tranquil and thick with Dao Rhyme. Does it symbolize a smooth and untroubled path of cultivation, yet one as fragile as a flower raised in a greenhouse, easy to wither?"

"The Path of Death—though it seems fraught with danger, does it instead signify survival against all odds, with a great fortune waiting beyond?"

Yun Xiao murmured to herself, still hesitating. After all, these were nothing but her own guesses; she dared not stake her life on them.

"Maybe I should retreat first?"

After thinking it over for a long while, she decided to leave for now and come back once she had figured things out.

But when she turned around, she couldn't help but freeze.

At some unknown point, the great door had vanished without a trace. In other words, she had no way back now!

"What a joke!"

Yun Xiao clicked her tongue, but in the end, she could only helplessly accept reality.

"It seems the only way out is to unravel the mysteries of these two paths."

She turned her focus back to the two roads, summoned the Enlightenment Mirror, sat cross-legged with her eyes closed, and let her mind churn through every scene she had witnessed since jumping into Mountain Pit.

One year, three years, five years...

On this day, Yun Xiao slowly opened her eyes. She rose to her feet and, without a moment's hesitation, strode boldly toward the "Path of Death"!

"Boom!"

The next instant, her fist—plain and unadorned—smashed straight into the Path of Death!

In that split second, a thunderous roar like a cascade of falling stars rang out. The Path of Death shattered under that single punch!

At the same time, the character "Death," condensed from drifting mist, lunged at Yun Xiao like a Netherworld trying to suppress her on the spot!

"Break!"

Yun Xiao's body blazed with crimson light. She threw another punch—not at the "Death" character, but at the Path of Life!

Without any surprise, the Path of Life shattered in an instant. The character "Life," also formed from mist, shot into the sky, radiating a brilliance ten thousand feet high!

In that moment, the two characters "Life" and "Death" bore down on Yun Xiao simultaneously, like an endless abyss sweeping in, ready to pierce through everything!

Faced with such an overwhelming spectacle, Yun Xiao showed no panic. She even dropped her defenses, letting the two characters crush down upon her!

"Humm—"

Suddenly, the two characters merged in midair, scattering endless radiance, and finally transformed into a straight, broad avenue leading directly ahead!

"If there is no path to walk, then one can open a path with strength."

A faint smile tugged at the corner of Yun Xiao's mouth. She stepped onto it. As light rippled around her, her figure shuttled through the void, until at last she arrived before the Fragment of the Jade of Creation!

This great hall seemed to be woven from countless worlds. If Yun Xiao had casually chosen either path earlier, she would have been crushed to pulp by the force of infinite worlds!

"That wasn't easy!"

Gazing at the Fragment of the Jade of Creation before her, Yun Xiao smiled and beckoned lightly. The fragment flew straight out of the wall and landed in her palm.

Immediately, her divine sense plunged into it.

"This?"

When she saw the "scene" within the fragment, Yun Xiao's expression instantly turned vivid with surprise.

For this main fragment of the Jade of Creation actually contained the inheritance of the top ten Great Daos among the three thousand Great Daos!

The Great Dao of Strength—ranked first among the three thousand Great Daos!

The Great Dao of Time—ranked second among the three thousand Great Daos!

The Great Dao of Space!

The Great Dao of Destiny!

The Great Dao of Yin Yang!

The Great Dao of Destruction!

The Great Dao of Chaos!

The Great Dao of Battle!

The Great Dao of Five Elements!

The Great Dao of Life!

This was an indescribably great fortune!

The Great Dao of Strength—this was the very Dao cultivated by the Great God Pangu. With a single force, it could break all laws, shattering every illusion with absolute power!

And perhaps, just as the words left behind by the Great God Pangu said: when the Great Dao has no path, one can use strength to carve out a road to the Great Dao!

The Great Dao of Time and the Great Dao of Space were respectively cultivated by the Time Demon God Shi Chen and the Space Demon God Yang Mei. They were absolute taboo laws, their divine might beyond imagination!

The Great Dao of Destiny was controlled by the Destiny Demon God. According to Yun Xiao's memories, ever since the Great Tribulation of Heaven Opening, this Law of Destiny had been closely connected to the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Wilderness.

The Great Dao of Yin Yang was mastered by the Yin Yang Demon God. All things possessed yin and yang; this law contained the ultimate principle of harmony between heaven and earth and would become the foundational doctrine of future Daoism.

The Destruction Law belonged to the infamous Demon Ancestor Luohu. He had once single-handedly detonated the entire spiritual vein of the Western lands with just himself and his spear, earning a fearsome reputation far and wide!

The Law of Battle belonged to the Chaos Demon Ape. The most famous figure from Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, was merely a strand of its origin transformed.

In short, any one of the top ten Great Daos appearing was enough to elevate a cultivator to the peak. Now that they had all appeared at once, even a Saint would be driven to madness!

"No wonder there were so many trials before. To gain the recognition of Great God Pangu and obtain such a great opportunity, one must at least possess the resolve and boldness to shatter all laws with a single force."

Yun Xiao murmured to herself. She wouldn't trade this opportunity even for ten top-grade innate Spiritual Treasures!

Calming her mind, Yun Xiao continued to explore the jade disc space.

"Is this... a drop of Pangu Jade Marrow!?"

Before long, another exclamation of surprise escaped her.

This was a single drop of Great God Pangu's bone marrow, containing a trace of his physical body's power. If refined, it would bring immeasurable benefits to the advancement of one's physique!

With eager anticipation, Yun Xiao continued her inspection.

"This is!?"

A moment later, her heart trembled slightly.

Aside from the top ten Great Daos and the Pangu Jade Marrow, this main fragment of the Creation Jade Disc also contained a legendary top-tier technique—the Nine Revolutions Divine Technique!

The Nine Revolutions Divine Technique was divided into the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and the Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique.

The Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique was a supreme body-tempering method, allowing one to walk the path of attaining sainthood through the physical body, overturning heaven and earth!

In the Canonization of the Gods, Yang Jian was called the War God precisely because he cultivated the body-tempering method, the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique. And that technique was merely a small excerpt taken from the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique!

The Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique was a supreme spirit-tempering method. Once mastered to its peak, the Primordial Spirit would be indestructible, eternal and imperishable!

"The top ten Great Daos, Pangu Jade Marrow, the Nine Revolutions Divine Technique!"

Yun Xiao's heart pounded wildly. Even with her state of mind, she couldn't help but feel exhilarated!

At present, the Primordial Wilderness was in an age of darkness and ignorance. The Great Dao had withdrawn, the Heavenly Dao had yet to emerge, and slaughter and bloodshed were the only melody.

Even someone like Wang Shu, whom she had encountered earlier—a reincarnated Chaos Demon God with an unimaginable inheritance—found the path of cultivation fraught with hardship. How much more so for other beings of the Primordial Wilderness?

This was an era without inheritance, without guidance!

The path of cultivation was long and arduous. Groping forward on one's own was as difficult as hacking through thorns and brambles!

Sometimes, Yun Xiao even wondered, given her own origins, where exactly lay the path to sainthood?

But now, all those problems were resolved at once!

The Great Dao laws transcended heaven and earth. Even the Thirty-six Great Divine Abilities and the Seventy-two Minor Divine Abilities were merely small runes derived from the Three Thousand Great Daos!

Even more terrifying was that by comprehending any one of the Three Thousand Great Daos to Perfection and fusing it with oneself, one could become a Saint in a single day!

A Saint beneath the Great Dao!

And with the Nine Revolutions Divine Technique to match...

In the future, she would surely forge her own path to becoming a Primordial Saint, transcending the shackles of heaven and earth, free and eternal, imperishable forever!

After all, in the Primordial Wilderness, there were theoretically three methods of attaining the Dao.