Meanwhile,
Outside the great array, Lei Jun's expression was a little peculiar.
Although he had already turned his gaze away from the Innate Great Array, he had heard every word of Nüwa and Fuxi's conversation.
There was no other reason:
With World Power bolstering him,
his perception could easily penetrate a mere Innate Great Array.
At its core, the power of the Innate Great Array was the same as the power that had caused his Heavenly Dao Transformation. Both originated from the Primordial Wilderness!
And perception was the key to his Heavenly Dao Transformation.
If he could not perceive the world,
how could he merge with it?
Of course, given Lei Jun's current compatibility with the Heavenly Dao, neither his body nor his magic power could pass through the Innate Great Array.
After all, Lei Jun was not the true Heavenly Dao. He merely acted on Heaven's behalf to execute punishment and gained a sliver of its authority.
So, aside from perceiving what was happening inside the Innate Great Array, he could do nothing else!
But Nüwa had said that Lei Jun had left an opportunity within her...
Had he?
How come he didn't know about it?
With this question in mind,
Lei Jun calculated the matter with his fingers.
Then, he understood at once.
"It actually has to do with my identity as a member of the Human Race in my previous life!"
"Although my roots in this life defy Heaven, I was still a member of the Human Race in my previous life."
"That must be why I formed a connection with Nüwa, the Holy Mother of the Human Race, and left her an opportunity..."
That raised the question:
Should he sever this connection?
Clearly,
if Lei Jun did so, Nüwa's opportunity would be cut off.
"Forget it!"
"Cause in my previous life, effect in this one!"
"It's only right that I repay Nüwa's kindness in creating humanity with my Dao and my methods!"
After giving it some thought,
Lei Jun chose not to sever the connection.
There was no need.
Someone cultivating his Dao wouldn't affect him.
If anything, resolving his Karma with Nüwa would be a good thing.
It would greatly benefit Lei Jun's future Dao!
Cultivation in the Primordial Wilderness involved cultivating the Three Lifetimes Body: the past, the present, and the future.
Only by cultivating all three bodies could one truly leap free of the River of Time!
Lei Jun had been thinking about it for a long time.
He had even tried before.
Unfortunately, he'd failed.
At the time, he'd thought his cultivation realm wasn't high enough.
But now, he finally understood. The Past Body had nothing to do with one's cultivation realm. The key was to sever the past!
Only by cutting off past ties and settling old affairs could one enter the Dao.
Lei Jun suddenly saw the light:
"So I couldn't sever my Past Body before because I hadn't completely severed my Karma as a member of the Human Race!"
"Now that I've repaid that Karma, I should be able to sever the past and understand my true self!"
"Past Body..."
"Sever!"
Lei Jun gave a soft shout, and his Dao Body rumbled.
The Small World within him trembled.
A pellet transformed into a wisp of energy, rose from within Lei Jun, and finally settled in his Lower Dantian. This was called the Qi Sea!
In an instant, Lei Jun's aura became even more difficult to fathom.
From then on, even beings whose cultivation surpassed his own would be unable to divine his past. Nor could they reverse the flow of time and erase him from its source.
And "time" here did not refer only to the Primordial Wilderness.
It meant every dimension of space and time!
It was as if he had... reached the shore!
He would no longer drift in the sea of suffering. He had already crossed to the other shore.
The severed past did not simply disappear. Instead, it condensed into a wisp of energy, just as it had now, like a pellet—or, one could say, a Dao Seed!
It settled in his Lower Dantian, constantly turning and erasing the past!
Because the past was being created at every moment! Only by keeping at it without pause could he ensure that no trace remained!
That was the purpose of the Past Body!
Of course, that was only one of its uses.
Lei Jun still couldn't understand its greater purpose.
"This Past Body isn't just a wisp of energy. It seems more like a seed?"
"A Dao Seed!"
Planting a Dao Seed in the Dantian!
What kind of Strange Phenomenon would arise once the seed took root and sprouted?
If it blossomed and bore fruit, what flower would the Dao Seed produce, and what fruit?
That was easy to guess!
The Dao Flower, and the Dao Fruit!
Besides, this was only the Lower Dantian!
There were three Dantians,
divided into the upper, middle, and lower.
The Qi Sea was the Lower Dantian, the Yellow Court was the Middle Dantian, and the Purple Mansion was the Upper Dantian.
"If I can plant a Dao Seed in the Qi Sea, can I plant one in the other two Dantians as well?!"
"That would correspond perfectly to the Present Body and the Future Body!"
"In other words, could all three blossom and bear fruit?"
"If the upper, middle, and lower Dantians all blossomed, could that be called..."
"Three Flowers Gathering on the Crown?"
"Though these Three Flowers wouldn't be those Three Flowers! They'd be different from the Primordial Wilderness's!"
After Hongjun became a Saint,
he passed down the Immortal Dao.
From then on, when cultivators in the Primordial Wilderness advanced to Da Luo, they generally achieved "Three Flowers Gathering on the Crown," with the flowers ranked in different grades.
In other words, there were three grades.
But those Three Flowers referred to "Essence, Qi, and Spirit."
Not like Lei Jun's.
His were the Three Lifetimes Body!
Of course, it was still a long way to go before the Three Flowers blossomed.
And even farther before he could bear the Dao Fruit.
But that meant the potential was enormous!
Lei Jun immediately looked forward to it.
Moreover, severing his Past Body had shown Lei Jun the way forward.
It would save him from taking many wrong turns in the future.
"Wonderful!"
Lei Jun withdrew his Divine Sense.
He couldn't help but marvel.
He barely gave a thought to the fact that severing his Past Body had taken several Eons.
After all, this was the Primordial Wilderness.
Time was cheap.
Most importantly, Lei Jun's strength had now increased tremendously.
Aside from the Past Body,
there was also the Small Heaven!
"I've been at the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm for so long, and my cultivation has finally undergone a qualitative change!"
"My cultivation has increased a thousandfold, even ten thousandfold!"
"I can unleash the Seven-Nine Lightning Tribulation with a single thought!"
It was hard to imagine.
Within the same minor realm, one's strength could differ by tens of thousands of times!
That was Lei Jun for you.
If it were anyone else—say, someone from a fantasy world—they'd probably divide that gap into several major realms!
But Lei Jun kept things simple.
He didn't measure things by cultivation or strength.
Onefold or billions of times over—
only the realm mattered!
Once you reached the realm, nothing else mattered.
The realm was a level; cultivation was merely accumulation.
Accumulation had only faster or slower, more or less. It wasn't a matter of difficulty.
Levels were different.
If you couldn't comprehend something, no amount of accumulation would help!
If Lei Jun hadn't comprehended how to transform himself into a world,
he wouldn't even have set foot in the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm!
He might still be tirelessly turning particles into worlds, searching for a more efficient way to do it.
His cultivation would still have grown.
But so what?
If he couldn't leap out of that circle, he'd never count as an outsider,
"Where would my current strength place me in the Primordial Wilderness?"
"Definitely above the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm! That's beyond doubt!"
"Comparable to a Hunyuan Golden Immortal?"
Lei Jun wondered.
Before the Dragon-Han Calamity ended,
there was no such thing as a Quasi-Saint in the Primordial Wilderness.
There were only Hunyuan Golden Immortals.
It was a realm that cultivators in the Primordial Wilderness had created between Da Luo and Primal Chaos Saints.
That was because proving oneself a Primal Chaos Saint was simply too difficult.
And the gap between the two realms was enormous.
As a result, the cultivation levels of different Da Luo cultivators varied immensely!
That was why the title Hunyuan Golden Immortal had come about.
They could also be called Quasi-Saints.
"Still, imagining how strong I am won't get me anywhere. I need to test it in a real fight!"
"But that's no problem. There are Fierce Beasts!"
Lei Jun immediately grinned.
Others avoided Fierce Beasts at all costs, but to him, every one of them was a treasure!
Besides gaining a Source of Blessing and improving his luck,
he could also test his strength!
It couldn't get any better!
And the area around Mount Buzhou was crawling with countless Fierce Beasts.
With a thought, Lei Jun materialized from the Void.
In an instant,
Strange Phenomena appeared!
Boundless Purple Qi came from the east,
stretching across the Three Thousand Realms!
Here, "three thousand" was used figuratively.
It represented an endless multitude.
Rumble!
Along with the Purple Qi,
came the Thunder Tribulation!
The whole sky roared with thunder. A sea of lightning churned, and the sounds of the Great Dao filled the air like a funeral bell tolling for the end of the world.
At a single thought, thunderclouds appeared out of nowhere, their roar deafening!
This was the Seven-Nine Lightning Tribulation!
And it was gathering strength to reach the level of the Eight-Nine Lightning Tribulation!
No!
"It should be called a Heavenly Tribulation!"
"At this moment..."
"I am Heaven!"
Lei Jun's indifferent voice boomed across the world.
It echoed throughout Buzhou!
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