The Primordial Wilderness knew no years.
Longevity Mountain, Wuzhuang Temple, Earthly Cave Heaven.
This secluded cultivation realm was directly connected to the core Earth Veins of Longevity Mountain. Since Zhenyuanzi had entered it, who knew how many seasons had passed?
Within the cave heaven, the flow of time seemed twisted and stilled by some profound Dao resonance. While the outside world changed with the passing years, this place seemed frozen for eternity.
Upon a chaotic stone platform, Zhenyuanzi sat with his legs folded, as immovable as an ancient mountain.
The aura surrounding him was now utterly different from before his retreat.
His Earth Dao Saintly Might, once vast and weighty, seamlessly united with the Origin of the Earth, now pulsed with a slow but resolute rhythm.
It was as if a heart, dormant for countless ages, was nurturing a mighty new rhythm capable of shaking the Primordial Order.
Three feet above his head, the plain, unadorned Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin was no longer silent and still.
The coin turned slowly. With every revolution, a profoundly mysterious Law Rune, impossible to describe in words, peeled away from its surface like a falling star and merged into the space between Zhenyuanzi's brows.
These Runes were not ordinary symbols in the usual sense. They were fragments of the Origin of the two Great Daos of "Trading" and "Wealth."
Every one held the ultimate mysteries of "value," "exchange," "contract," "circulation," "profit and loss," and "credit."
At first, Zhenyuanzi merely received and comprehended these fragments passively, like an eager student poring through books one by one in a vast library.
It was a long and tedious process. He had to sort countless fragments into categories, trace their connections, distinguish the true from the false, and integrate them into a whole.
Then he began to actively derive,