Adding the Fate of Transformation, Spirit Treasure

He realized in the depths of his consciousness that this was the River of Destiny of the Primordial World. As long as a being had not yet reached the Daluo realm, they were all struggling within the currents of the Primordial destiny.

Ordinary beings must at least break through to the Daluo realm before they can arrive here.

Yet, he had managed to reach this place by utilizing the Great Destiny Technique!

This thought flashed through the mind of Shen Gui; this was the key to resolving his Heavenly Tribulation.

Resisting the Heavenly Tribulation blindly was impossible. The karma of this Heavenly Tribulation lay in his desire to undergo Transformation.

If this karma remained unresolved, he would have to endure the Thunder indefinitely, until he was willing to return to his turtle form.

And now, he was going to alter the root of this problem from within the River of Destiny.

"Change fate, change fate!"

He soon caught sight of his own trajectory of fate.

Wandering aimlessly in the North Sea, until finally, the heavens and earth collapsed. A powerful existence came to the North Sea, intending to sever his four limbs to mend the sky. After a desperate struggle, he was dismembered and cast into the cycle of reincarnation.

This must have been the fate that originally belonged to the Giant Turtle.

Shen Gui wanted to modify it, but he found that his power was insufficient to do so, and the energy within his body was being consumed frantically.

"I must first extend the fate of Transformation. As for the fate of being dismembered, I fear I can only modify that once I break through to the Daluo realm."

As Shen Gui focused his intent, he forcibly added a fate that had not existed before into the original "fate" of his birth using the Great Destiny Technique.

Since the fate of being dismembered could not be changed, he would add the fate of Transformation!

Just as Kunpeng believed that Shen Gui was about to collapse under the seemingly endless and terrifyingly powerful purple Lightning Tribulation, and would ultimately fall short of success.

After all, the might of that Thunder still far exceeded the limits of what the Taiyi realm could withstand; it was something only a Daluo deity could resist.

A sudden change occurred.

The purple divine lightning that had been dancing wildly across the sky.

Without any warning, as if its source had been abruptly pinched off by an invisible giant hand, it instantly dissipated without a trace.

Immediately following.

The pitch-black thunderclouds that had shrouded the entire North Sea, thick and suffocating, also vanished as rapidly as snow meeting the sun.

Revealing the clear, pristine sky behind them.

Sunlight spilled back onto the sea surface, reflecting off the rising water vapor to create streaks of rainbows.

If not for the still-surging waves and the lingering aura of destruction upon the sea, it would have seemed as if the world-shattering Lightning Tribulation from moments ago had been nothing more than an illusion.

This abrupt change.

Kunpeng, who had been fully focused, was left stunned on the spot, his sinister face filled with astonishment and confusion.

Why is this? His thoughts raced. The killing intent of heaven and earth was supposed to be a fight to the death. How could it end so anticlimactically, dissipating so suddenly?

No matter how he calculated, the heavenly secrets remained a chaotic blur; he could not see the root cause of this sudden shift.

Just then, Shen Gui, having completed his transformation, took a deep breath and clearly sensed that his connection to this world had changed.

He circulated his divine sense, perceiving the laws of heaven and earth around him, then faced the void and declared in a clear, resonant voice that pierced through the ethereal unknown:

"The Great Dao is above! I am the Northern Darkness Mysterious Turtle. Today, I have completed my transformation and attained the Dao of Guiyuan. From this moment on, my true name is Guiyuan!"

He knew that his transmigration was rooted in mystery, and since Patriarch Hongjun had not yet merged with the Dao, the Heavenly Dao was incomplete.

Reporting to the supreme "Great Dao" was, in any case, a safer bet.

He had used the Great Destiny Technique to "add" the fate of transformation, effectively exploiting a loophole. Greeting the Great Dao might reduce future variables.

This declaration reached the ears of the still-astonished Kunpeng clearly.

Kunpeng snapped back to reality, suppressing the myriad doubts in his heart. This old turtle before him—

No, Fellow Daoist Guiyuan, had indeed successfully transformed!

With a flicker of his figure, he arrived before Guiyuan and cupped his hands, saying, "Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Guiyuan, for emerging from your tribulation and finally attaining a Dao body!"

Guiyuan also cupped his hands in return, "Greetings, Fellow Daoist Kunpeng. Thank you for your concern."

He was not very familiar with Kunpeng, but since he sensed no malice from him, there was no need to be hostile from the start.

In the original Primordial World.

Kunpeng had joined the Heavenly Court founded by Dijun, but the Mysterious Turtle had remained in the Northern Darkness, suggesting that Kunpeng and the Mysterious Turtle had gotten along quite well back in the Northern Darkness.

Moreover, as fellow Innate Sacred beings of the Northern Darkness.

In truth, the two were natural allies. Just like Jieyin and Zunti, who were born in the West—though Zunti's birth was due to the compassion of Jieyin.

An Innate Sacred being was exceptionally important to any given region.

An Innate Sacred being was an embodiment of the Dao; their mere existence could clarify the Great Dao and increase fortune.

Otherwise, why would the Western Two Saints later tirelessly roam the Primordial World, telling everyone they met, "Fellow Daoist, you have an affinity with the West."

Because all living beings in the Primordial World possessed fortune; the higher the cultivation and the stronger the origin, the greater the fortune.

The more one gathered, the more beneficial it would be for that region.

The benefit on the surface is that others, knowing there are many Innate Sacreds in your territory, are more willing to draw near and discuss the Dao with you.

This is the feedback of Qi Luck.

Moreover.

Now that we have completed our Transformation, we are all at the Taiyi realm. With the path to Daluo still unclear, it is naturally better to have a fellow Daoist than not.

However, the moment his voice fell.

A vast and obscure stream of information abruptly surged from the depths of his soul, merging into his true spirit.

It was the Innate Inheritance that should have been acquired at the very birth of this Mysterious Turtle body.

Yet, due to some reason, it had been delayed until today, only manifesting after his Transformation was complete.

Guiyuan quickly browsed through this inheritance. Its core essence was strikingly revealed in four characters.

"Mysterious Turtle Supporting the Heavens."

The inheritance detailed how to draw upon the baleful energy of the North Sea ley lines to temper his shell, how to push his defensive power to the extreme, and how to use his own physical form to bear the immense power of heaven and earth...

Everything, it seemed, was in preparation for that final mission of "supporting the heavens."

"Good, good, good!"

Guiyuan could not help but sneer repeatedly in his heart.

"What a truly brilliant scheme! Even the Innate Inheritance is designed to make me cultivate diligently, just waiting for the day to go and support the heavens? This Heavenly Mandate is truly pervasive!"

The insights into the Great Dao of defense contained within this "Mysterious Turtle Supporting the Heavens" inheritance...

For a Mysterious Turtle that originally had no external help, it might have been a supreme manual, the only power it could rely on.

But for Guiyuan, who had returned from the Eternal Life World, carried the Three Thousand Great Daos, witnessed countless divine abilities and profound techniques, and had even ascended to the position of an Immortal King, this inheritance appeared exceptionally useless, even filled with irony.

He possessed the Three Thousand Great Daos, and even more, various supreme divine abilities combined from those Three Thousand Great Daos. Thanks to the generosity of that model worker Fang, he even knew the unique techniques of the Creation Immortal King and the Hongmeng Daoist.

This mere defensive method of "Mysterious Turtle Supporting the Heavens" was, to him, truly tasteless to consume; discarding it might provide a little reference in the future, but it could never serve as his primary path of cultivation.

After the two exchanged a few words, Kunpeng intended to depart.

After all, Guiyuan had just completed his Transformation, and he likely had some matters to attend to.

I will discuss the Dao with him later to see if I can figure out the path to Daluo.

Just as Kunpeng was about to leave, perhaps due to the previous Heavenly Tribulation breaking certain restrictions of heaven and earth, a black flag, one foot and seven inches long, appeared amidst the waves not far away.

Its aura was faint, yet it exuded a sense of perfection. Merely looking at it with one's eyes made the divine sense reel, as if one had fallen into a boundless ocean.

Kunpeng's gaze was scorching, and Guiyuan's eyes flickered slightly.

Their gazes met in the air, then immediately fell upon the small black flag bobbing with the waves.

The flag was one foot and seven inches long, the color of thick ink. It looked unremarkable, yet Dao rhymes flowed naturally around it. Gazing at it made one's divine sense daze, as if falling into a boundless ocean.

An Innate Treasure!

And its grade was definitely not low!