According to Jiang Yuan's original plan, he only needed to condense the Nine Sons Incarnation to cultivate the Ancestral Dragon Dharma Image, then claim the Creation Dao Fruit and attain the Heavenly Immortal realm.
But now, because he had been delayed for several hundred years, he had a new choice.
Besides condensing the Nine Sons Incarnation, he could also condense the Myriad Grass Incarnation, cultivate the Innate Azure Emperor Dharma Form, and use it to attain the Creation Heavenly Immortal realm.
Moreover, the protective spirit treasure Myriad Star Pot that Lady Nuwa had bestowed upon him contained a great quantity of Three Lights Divine Water.
It was one of the Primordial World's Ten Great Innate Divine Waters. Not only was it connected to the sun, moon, and stars, it was also one of the three main materials Lady Nuwa had used to create humanity.
Three Lights Divine Water, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and Nuwa Essence Blood were the three materials Lady Nuwa had used to create humanity. The Human Race had been born from the fusion of these three, and naturally inherited their powers.
Thus, the Human Race was born with three top-tier bloodlines: the Nuwa Bloodline from Lady Nuwa, the Creation Bloodline from the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and the Star Bloodline from the Three Lights Divine Water.
Now, by devouring the Three Lights Divine Water within the Myriad Star Pot, Jiang Yuan had fully awakened the Star Bloodline within him and elevated it into the Star Lord Dharma Form.
The Star Lord was also an Innate Divine Being and could help Jiang Yuan claim the Creation Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit.
Clearly, the Three Lights Divine Water's uses went far beyond that. It was genuine divine water of creation, possessing limitless wonders.
The Three Lights Divine Water was composed of golden Sunlight Divine Water, silver Moonlight Divine Water, and purple Starlight Divine Water. It was the essence of the sun, moon, and stars, transformed into liquid.
Interestingly, the Three Lights Divine Water was a divine water of creation with limitless wonders, yet the three divine waters composing it were among the rarest and most poisonous substances in the world.
Sunlight Divine Water wore away flesh, blood, bones, and marrow; Moonlight Divine Water corroded the primordial spirit and soul; Starlight Divine Water dissolved cultivation and magic power. Each was more vicious than the last.
The three supreme poisons fused together to become the wondrous Three Lights Divine Water. This was the mystery of the Great Dao, embodying the principle that when things reach an extreme, they reverse.
Perhaps that was precisely why the Three Lights Divine Water was called divine water of creation and possessed so many wondrous uses.
Since it held the power of creation, when Jiang Yuan devoured it, it could strengthen not only the Star Bloodline within him, but also his Creation Bloodline and Nuwa Bloodline.
Under the Three Lights Divine Water's influence, those bloodlines could fully awaken as well and condense into their corresponding Innate Divine Being Dharma Forms.
The Ancestral Dragon Dharma Image, Azure Emperor Dharma Form, Star Lord Dharma Form, Creation Dharma Form, and Empress Wa Dharma Form—he already had five ways to cultivate the Creation Heavenly Immortal realm.
Yet this was not the limit. Besides those five, Jiang Yuan could also cultivate the Profound Yellow Dharma Form.
After all, aside from the Primordial World's first Profound Yellow Pill, Jiang Yuan also possessed the Primordial World's first Profound Yellow Crystal, first drop of Profound Yellow Liquid, and first wisp of Profound Yellow Qi.
He only needed to refine all three, then add a little help from Profound Yellow Merit, and he could condense the Profound Yellow Dharma Form. This, too, was an Innate Divine Being Dharma Form that could help him claim the Creation Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit.
Six ways to break through—no, there should be seven. There was also the Primordial Savage Dragon Dharma Form, which he had previously regarded as a forbidden art.
The Primordial Savage Dragon was an Innate Fierce Beast, descended from a Chaos Demon God, and was rejected by the Primordial World. Jiang Yuan had feared causing trouble before, so even though he could cultivate it, he had not dared. He had been forced to choose another path.
But now he was a Sage's disciple, with connections reaching the heavens. He no longer needed to worry about anyone coming after him. Thus, he could cultivate the Primordial Savage Dragon Dharma Form, once considered a forbidden art, as he pleased.
These seven ways to break through were what Jiang Yuan had gained from being delayed for several hundred years. It had certainly been worthwhile.
As for why five of the seven Dharma Forms did not require the nine incarnations to merge, the reason was simple: the Daoist resonance contained within each Innate Divine Being surpassed that of nine Innate Gods and Devils.
Therefore, as long as he directly condensed an Innate Divine Being Dharma Form, he did not need to cultivate the nine incarnations.
"I am the Holy Mother's disciple. It was one thing not to have a choice before, but now that I do, naturally I should choose the Empress Wa Dharma Form—the Innate Divine Being Dharma Form required to become a Heavenly Immortal."
Jiang Yuan had originally planned to break through using the Ancestral Dragon Dharma Image, but now he changed his mind and decided to break through using the Empress Wa Dharma Form. Afterward, he would gradually condense the Ancestral Dragon, Star Lord, Creation, and other divine Dharma Forms.
He intended to condense all seven Dharma Forms in one go. There was plenty of Three Lights Divine Water in the Myriad Star Pot, more than enough for his cultivation.
Once he had made up his mind, Jiang Yuan did not hesitate. He opened his mouth and heartily drank a large gulp of Three Lights Divine Water, then began refining it to strengthen the Empress Wa Bloodline within him and advance toward the Heavenly Immortal realm.
At the same time, the Character Creation Diagram glowed and floated in midair, slowing the time around him a hundredfold and giving Jiang Yuan far more time to cultivate.
That was the advantage of possessing a time-affecting treasure: he could have more time than others.
Jiang Yuan had prepared for this moment for a long time. Thus, his breakthrough went smoothly, without a single unexpected hitch.
Before long, the Empress Wa Bloodline within him had fully awakened. Then a supreme and sacred power emerged, hovering behind him as it slowly took shape into an Innate Divine Being with a human body and dragon tail.
It was a dragon tail, not a snake tail. This was not the Empress Wa Dharma Form, but the Emperor Xi Dharma Image.
There was nothing strange about it. Emperor Xi and Empress Wa shared the same origin. One represented supreme yang, the other supreme yin; they were two sides of the same Great Dao. Thus, their bloodlines were identical.
If they were identical, why did one have a dragon tail and the other a snake tail? It was to distinguish men from women: men had dragon tails, women snake tails.
As Jiang Yuan was a man, the Dharma Form he condensed naturally had a human body and dragon tail, resembling Emperor Xi more closely.
Boom!
The instant Jiang Yuan successfully condensed the Emperor Xi Dharma Image, his body suddenly began to disintegrate. First, he transformed into over a million tiny particles, which then merged with the Emperor Xi Dharma Image behind him.
The next moment, the Emperor Xi Dharma Image's originally impassive eyes suddenly blazed with astonishing light. Surprise, delight, excitement...
Creation Heavenly Immortal!
He had succeeded. Merged with the Dharma Image, Jiang Yuan had attained the Creation Heavenly Immortal realm in that very moment.
Heavenly Immortals united their bodies with heaven and earth and could turn the power of heaven and earth to their own use, increasing their own strength tenfold or even a hundredfold.
That was only an ordinary Heavenly Immortal. A Creation Heavenly Immortal like Jiang Yuan not only had vitality far beyond that of cultivators in the same realm, nearly possessing an undying body, but also possessed the ability to undergo Myriad Transformations.
This was a top-tier transformation divine ability innate to Creation Heavenly Immortals. Below the level of Innate Gods and Devils, he could become any living being he had seen, indistinguishable from the real thing. No divine ability could see through him.
The reason Innate Gods and Devils were excluded was mainly that he was too weak. If he were already at the Creation Taiyi realm, even Innate Gods and Devils would be within his power to transform into at will.
Besides, after Jiang Yuan merged with the Innate Divine Being Dharma Form he had cultivated, he became a true Innate Divine Being, possessing all its abilities.
Unfortunately, his cultivation limited him, preventing him from maintaining this state for long.
If he did not fight, he could maintain it for a hundred years.
If he fought, the duration depended on how intense the battle was. The fiercer the fighting, the shorter it lasted, ranging from a hundred years down to a single hour.