Inside the cave mansion.
Xuandu sat cross-legged, his mind sinking into his Purple Mansion.
With his pedigree transformed, his spiritual platform had become clearer than ever before.
Many cultivation bottlenecks that had troubled him in the past were now easily resolved.
He examined himself internally. His Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Peak magic power, vast as a sea of stars, flowed endlessly through his meridians, smooth and perfectly integrated.
Yet at the source of that immense magic power, within the void of his Purple Mansion, everything appeared excessively bare.
Ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals condensed the Three Flowers within their Purple Mansions, marking the ultimate manifestation of essence, qi, and spirit.
With the Three Flowers crowning the head and the Five Qi gathered in the chest, one could be considered complete in Daluo.
But Xuandu had previously possessed only magic power. Limited by his pedigree, he had been unable to condense even the most basic Three Flowers.
His Dao Foundation had been unstable, which was also the root cause why he could not break through to a higher realm through his own strength.
"So that was it..."
Xuandu came to a realization.
"It seems that in the original course of events, after Xuandu entered Laozi's sect, that Grand Pure Sage must have spent an unknown amount of precious heavenly treasures before barely building him up."
Thinking of this, he felt even more fortunate about his decisive choice to abandon the Human Sect and join the Jie Sect.
The Human Sect pursued purity and non-action. Laozi might have invested effort into him, but there was no way he could have granted him such an ascent to the heavens, allowing him to obtain a Chaos God Demon Pedigree!
At most, he would have received a top-tier Innate Pedigree.
But a Chaos God Demon Pedigree was a qualitative leap!
"Now that my pedigree is in place and my magic power is abundant."
"It is time to condense my Three Flowers and completely solidify this Daluo Dao Foundation!"
Xuandu's gaze sharpened, and he no longer hesitated.
The Shangqing Gongfa circulated at full power!
The terror of an initial Chaos God Demon Pedigree finally revealed itself in full.
There was no need for deliberate guidance. Wherever his thoughts moved, Dao Principles responded.
A sudden change occurred within the Purple Mansion!
Essence, qi, and spirit, guided by the Chaos Dao Rhyme, madly gathered toward the center of the Purple Mansion with unprecedented speed and purity.
The sound of the Dao rang out on its own, echoing through the void of the Purple Mansion.
A point of light, dazzling beyond compare, was the first to appear, like the First Ray of Light born from Chaos.
The light rapidly blossomed, turning into the phantom of a golden lotus flower waiting to bloom.
Dao Patterns were naturally born upon its petals.
This was the Human Flower!
Almost simultaneously, clear qi rose on the other side, swirling in mist as it condensed into a flawless white lotus flower.
Its petals were crystal-clear and contained boundless vitality.
This was the Earth Flower!
Above, divine light surged. Spiritual Sense condensed into tangible form and intertwined into a profound, mysterious purple lotus flower.
As its petals swayed, the power of the Divine Soul roiled like a tide.
This was the Heaven Flower!
The Heaven, Earth, and Human Flowers simultaneously revealed their rudimentary forms in an instant!
This was only the beginning.
The instant the Three Flowers' phantoms took shape, their petals rapidly unfolded!
The first-grade petals instantly solidified, Dao Rhyme flowing through them as radiant light shone brightly.
There was not the slightest pause.
Second-grade, third-grade, fourth-grade...
Layer upon layer of petals unfolded at an extreme speed.
Fifth-grade, sixth-grade...
Xuandu could clearly sense that with every grade of petals that bloomed, his perception of the Heaven and Earth Rules became clearer, while his control over the vast magic power within him grew ever more precise and profound.
In the blink of an eye, the Three Flowers had reached the seventh grade!
The seven-grade petals fully unfurled, each emitting splendid golden, white, and purple radiance, illuminating the entire Purple Mansion.
Dao Rhyme intertwined and laws descended. Xuandu's aura became increasingly deep and ethereal.
"Seven grades..."
Even Xuandu's heart could not help but stir.
As far as he knew, within the Great Wilderness, those whose pedigrees allowed them to condense Seven-Grade Three Flowers were already exceedingly rare.
Take Kong Xuan, for instance. As the Son of Primordial Phoenix with an Innate Five Elements pedigree, his future potential was boundless, yet his Three Flowers of Great Dao were only seven-grade.
Even figures as powerful as Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the Witch Clan Ancestral Witches mostly stopped there.
Only the Pangu Orthodox Lineage, the Three Pure Ones Sages, could surpass that limit through their inheritance of Heaven-Opening Merit and part of Pangu's legacy, achieving the supreme attainment of an eight-petal bloom!
That was the theoretical limit an Innate Pedigree could reach!
Yet in a single instant, he had already stood shoulder to shoulder with top-tier Innate divine beings like Kong Xuan!
A Chaos God Demon Pedigree truly was heaven-defying!
However, seven grades were not the end!
After reaching perfection at seven grades, the three dazzling lotus flowers merely paused slightly, absorbing the boundless Origin Power continuously supplied by the Chaos God Demon Pedigree.
The phantom of the eighth-grade petals slowly unfolded from the cores of the Three Flowers!
There was even a tendency for ninth petals to unfold.
But they were blocked by some kind of force.
"Eight grades... They are actually eight grades!"
Xuandu could hardly suppress the wild joy in his heart.
This meant that, in terms of pedigree potential alone, he was no less than the Three Pure Ones of old!
He had gained the supreme foundation to contend for the highest realm!
His upper limit had been completely opened!
He could even faintly sense that eight grades still did not seem to be his own limit.
It was merely restricted by his current realm, or perhaps by the limits of the Great Wilderness, preventing him from fully drawing it forth for now.
"Enough... For the present, an eight-petal bloom already stands at the pinnacle of the Great Wilderness!"
Xuandu suppressed his surging emotions and focused all his strength on stabilizing the newly born phantom of the Eight-Petal Three Flowers, guiding the magic power within him to nurture and temper them.
He did not know it.
Just as the Three Flowers condensed within his Purple Mansion, especially at the moment the phantom of the eighth-grade petals appeared—
Outside World, Above Golden Ao Island, a sudden change took place!
Deep within Biyou Palace.
Sect Leader Tongtian's Spiritual Sense still lingered above Xuandu's Simple Cave Mansion.
He clearly sensed spiritual qi from billions of miles around pouring into that cave mansion, only to be devoured by Xuandu's body.
Such a scene of swallowing the seas and drawing in the oceans had already far exceeded his understanding.
"There must be a shocking secret hidden within this child."
Sect Leader Tongtian's gaze was profound.
A Human Race pedigree could never trigger such a phenomenon.
Unless... his pedigree had undergone a fundamental transformation in a short period of time!
The moment this thought arose, even Sect Leader Tongtian found it somewhat absurd.
Pedigree was innate, determined by the Great Dao. One might improve it slightly after birth through opportunities or pills.
But if one wished for it to undergo a qualitative transformation, it would be no different from defying fate, as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
Just as his thoughts turned—
Rumble!
An indescribable Dao Fluctuation suddenly erupted from the depths of Xuandu Cave Mansion and shot into the sky!
It was not an impact of magic power, but a resonance at the level of origin!
Above Golden Ao Island, the previously clear sky dome instantly changed as vicissitudes swept through it!
Endless auspicious clouds gathered from all directions, with myriad rays of rosy clouds and thousandfold auspicious colors.
Immortal music rang out in waves from the void, ethereal and traceless, yet distinctly audible.
Streams of golden rosy clouds fell like waterfalls, turning the desolate mountain where Xuandu resided into an immortal realm.
Within the void, phenomena resembling earthly golden lotuses surging forth and Heaven Flowers raining down flashed past in an instant.
Even more, blurry Chaos Phantoms rose and sank among the clouds, as though paying homage and celebrating the birth of some supreme foundation!
"This is... the condensation of the Three Flowers of Great Dao, drawing forth the celebration of Heaven and Earth?"
For the first time, a truly astonished look appeared in Sect Leader Tongtian's eyes.
When ordinary cultivators condensed the Three Flowers, attracting spiritual qi from a hundred or thousand miles around was already remarkable.
Those capable of triggering phenomena were even rarer, perhaps one in ten thousand.
Yet the phenomenon Xuandu had triggered now covered all of Golden Ao Island and even faintly spread into the surrounding seas for billions of miles!
Auspicious clouds, immortal music, golden radiance, Chaos Phantoms...
This was no ordinary celebration. It was more like the Great Dao itself displaying a phenomenon for him!
"What grade of Three Flowers could possibly trigger such a spectacle?"
Sect Leader Tongtian sank his mind into the Heavenly Dao and attempted to deduce the truth.
Yet the Heavenly Secret remained Chaos.
However, he discovered that the Jie Sect's Fortune was rapidly increasing.
Clearly, this person was a Jie Sect disciple.
Combined with the spiritual qi from billions of miles around rushing toward Xuandu Cave Mansion—
"Could it be..."
A guess that even made his heart tremble rose in his mind.
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