The First Ascender Gains Fortune

Lord Wanshouyuan stood atop Buzhou Mountain, his form like an eternal boulder, vaguely aligned with the aura of this pillar that propped up the heavens.

He carefully savored the surging, vast power within him—the newfound mana of the Great Luo Realm, newly entered, perfectly fused with his fleshly body, which had already reached Middle Great Luo, bringing an unmatched sense of strength.

A feeling of unprecedented power, completeness, and freedom arose spontaneously, as if he himself were a part of this world, every move drawing the Dao along with it.

Yet what shook his mind even more, and then brought sudden enlightenment, was a certain resonance in the void—a fortune, vast and majestic yet incomparably gentle, bearing supreme authority and a benevolent aura.

Like the Milky Way cascading from the Ninth Heaven, or the Great Earth Mother Qi rising, it quietly settled upon him, tightly binding itself to his own Dao foundation and fate.

This fortune was not the common Merit Golden Light, nor the dense, liquefied Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.

It was something more ancient, more primordial, bearing the merit of creation and the selfless nurturing of the world's favor.

Formless and intangible, yet truly existent, it wove strand by strand into the Fortune Auspicious Cloud he had already condensed, though not yet manifested outwardly.

Not only did it greatly stabilize and expand his Dao foundation, but it also markedly enhanced his blessings and destiny.

Even on the path of future cultivation, it would invisibly avert some calamities, add countless opportunities and possibilities—its significance profound, beyond estimation.

Lord Wanshouyuan's thoughts raced; combining the Pangu Will he had sensed earlier with his inherited memories, he immediately understood:

This was the hazy consciousness of Great God Pangu, lingering on Buzhou Mountain, and the nascent Great Dao Law permeating the newly opened Primordial World.

It was recognition and reward for the first "native life of the Primordial World" to truly ascend Buzhou Mountain through sheer personal strength, unyielding will, and a destiny aligned with Heaven and Earth!

A blessing from Father God and the world itself, at the highest level!

He recalled his inherited memories and his original body's understanding. After the World-Opening, not all Chaos Demon Gods had perished.

Indeed, some powerful Demon Gods' remnant bodies or souls had narrowly escaped the final killing stroke of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, slipping into this newborn Primordial World to hibernate.

After countless epochs of slow recovery, some exceptionally strong or fortunate ones might have already restored part of their cultivation, reaching Peak Great Luo Golden Immortal or even deeper, unfathomable realms.

They hid in every hidden corner of the Primordial World, either forming their own Blessed Lands or merging into mountains and rivers, secretly watching this newborn world.

But Buzhou Mountain was Pangu's Spine transformed—his most direct and eternal symbol in the Primordial World.

For these Chaos Demon Gods, who had been slain by Pangu in the World-Opening battle, nearly Annihilated in Form and Spirit, barely clinging to life, This place held their deepest fear, their fiercest hatred, yet also the boundless terror of Pangu's world-opening might, etched indelibly into the depths of their souls.

The trembling from their Soul Origin, the crushing pressure carved into their true spirits, made them dare not even approach Buzhou Mountain, let alone muster the courage to climb it.

Even if their hatred for Pangu could not be washed away by all the waters of the Four Seas, on this peak where Pangu's will lingered so thickly, almost as if Pangu himself were present, If they dared to show themselves, they would instantly trigger the instinctive, destructive counterattack of Pangu's remaining will—the consequences unthinkable, Annihilated in Form and Spirit the only outcome.

Thus, the supreme glory of being the first to summit Buzhou Mountain after the World-Opening, and the vast fortune that followed, By a twist of fate, or rather by the destined will of the Primordial World itself, ultimately fell upon him—a native life of the Primordial World, born and raised here, with a pure and clean origin as an Innate Spiritual Root transformed—Lord Wanshouyuan.

Feeling the vast, heavy fortune blessing him, bringing endless benefits, Lord Wanshouyuan's heart was filled with a peaceful, profound joy.

This ascent had yielded gains far exceeding his initial expectations.

But he did not grow complacent, nor did he leave immediately.

He knew well that this peak was extraordinarily mysterious, the most concentrated site of Pangu's will and the traces of the world's first opening—perhaps other, more astonishing opportunities lay hidden, undiscovered.

He calmed his mind, setting aside the restlessness of his recent breakthrough. Green light swirled in his eyes, as if holding two azure skies within.

Aided by his newly ascended Great Luo realm and a divine sense more than ten times sharper, he began to carefully, inch by inch, probe this seemingly flat and empty peak platform, which was in truth steeped in Dao resonance.

His divine sense, like the finest comb, brushed over every seemingly ordinary rock, sensing any abnormal energy fluctuations or spatial folds they might contain.

At the same time, he silently circulated the Wood Scripture, aligning his own aura as much as possible with the lingering Pangu will and the Great Earth Pulse beneath his feet, hoping to perceive deeper connections and secrets of this place.

Time flowed slowly in this strange space, as if losing all meaning.

Just as his divine sense swept like a water ripple over a seemingly most ordinary spot at the peak's center—a low, smooth, unremarkable bluish-black boulder—his heart suddenly leaped!

In the deepest connection between that boulder and the mountain below, an indescribable, supremely restrained resonance came faintly, yet it made his bloodline origin and Primordial Spirit tremble and rejoice!

It was a life origin aura, of the Same Origin, from the same great ancestor, yet supremely pure and exalted!

Lord Wanshouyuan's expression sharpened. He immediately cast aside all stray thoughts, concentrated his entire being, and carefully condensed his divine sense into a thread finer than a hair yet tough and unbreakable, slowly probing toward the core of that strange resonance.

This process required immense patience and precise control to avoid triggering any unnecessary fluctuations.

The divine sense thread pierced through layers of Buzhou Mountain rock, unyielding and greatly resistant to divine sense probing, crossing the invisible barriers formed by Pangu's remaining will. Finally, in his divine sense's "vision," it Suddenly Enlightened!

It was not some vast Blessed Land, but at the very core of that boulder, formed naturally over endless years by the pressure of earth veins and the nourishment of Pangu's will, a fist-sized cavity with walls smooth as a mirror.

Inside the cavity, there was no dazzling divine light, no suffocating supreme Aura—only three drops of liquid, like flawless green jade beads, the size of pigeon eggs, Quietly Suspended within, slowly revolving in some mysterious pattern.

Each slow rotation seemed to enact the ultimate principles of Heaven and Earth, unfolding on a microscopic level the scenes of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water settling, the Separation of Clarity and Turbidity.

Sensing them closely, they were no ordinary liquid—they were the essence of the Great Dao, concentrated to the extreme, turned into substance!

Within, tiny specks of light like chaotic nebulae flickered and died, as if containing countless unopened microcosms, and a vast, unyielding, world-opening will was Deeply Hidden within, silently guarding!