"According to the Creation Scripture, this method is one of transformation, meant to use the human body to evolve into all living things. By grasping one, you can understand them all. As long as you can do that, you can freely transform into any race, any living being."
"Moreover, this transformation changes your very origin. It isn't an illusion, but the real thing. No matter what you become, even an Innate Divine Being, you'll possess all of its innate gifts and abilities."
"Once you achieve this, you'll be a creator, understanding the origins of all living things and no longer bound by anything. You'll be free to transform as you please, and even create things from nothing."
"Then the wonders of creation will be endless, and you'll naturally be able to achieve immortality, remaining undiminished through countless tribulations."
"If you can go a step further and use the wonders of creation to deduce the Dao of Yin and Yang, returning all things to Wuji, then you'll have attained the Dao. You'll be able to reach out and pluck the Hunyuan Dao Fruit."
Without a doubt, of the three Dao scriptures, the one Jiang Yuan was most interested in was the Creation Scripture. It was the most powerful, and the future it depicted was the most enticing.
As for the fact that it was still incomplete and only theoretical, that might have been a major problem for others, but it didn't matter at all to Jiang Yuan, who had the Creation Jade Disk in hand.
So what if it was flawed? Once his cultivation reached the right level, he could complete it whenever he wanted.
Besides, there was another reason that had led Jiang Yuan to choose the Creation Scripture: he had thought of a shortcut to mastering it.
According to Lady Nuwa's theory, to master the Creation Scripture, one first had to observe the essence of all living beings and grasp their form and spirit. Then one used form and spirit as a foundation to evolve their origin.
The whole process was both time-consuming and exhausting, and there was no guarantee of success. It was a grueling path.
Grasping the form and spirit of all living beings wasn't difficult; patient effort would eventually get you there. But evolving their origin through form and spirit was beyond the ability of ordinary people. Only those with great wisdom and immense perseverance could do it.
As for great wisdom, Jiang Yuan believed that with the Creation Jade Disk in hand, he had no shortage of it. But immense perseverance? Well, he had perseverance, but it was nowhere near immense.
There were so many living beings that merely imagining the time and effort it would take to study them one by one was enough to make anyone despair. Who could keep at it if not someone with immense perseverance?
Jiang Yuan didn't believe he could stick with it. Fortunately, though, he had thought of a shortcut.
In his view, Lady Nuwa was simply too kindhearted. If you wanted to see through the origins of all living beings, why study them one by one? Just eat them.
No matter how appealing Lady Nuwa's method sounded, it was still only imitation. And the difficulty of achieving a hundred-percent copy through imitation was obvious.
Jiang Yuan's method, on the other hand, was simple and convenient: just eat. Forcefully seize the origin of all living beings and make it your own.
That way, you could immediately achieve a hundred-percent copy. There was no need to imitate anything.
"Food is the people's first necessity!"
"If you want to grow stronger, you can't do it without eating. The sages of old never lied to me."
Thinking of the shortcut he'd found, Jiang Yuan couldn't help feeling secretly pleased with himself.
By Lady Nuwa's method, the Yin-Yang Creation Scripture was actually a bit of a white elephant: those without the ability couldn't master it, while those with the ability didn't need it. They could attain the Dao by cultivating other scriptures, with far less time and effort.
Only by following his method could anyone master the Creation Scripture, whether or not they had the ability—and do so quickly.
Right now, what the Primordial World had in no short supply were Innate Living Beings. Eat one of each kind, and after eating your way across most of the Primordial World, you might not achieve great mastery, but you'd at least achieve minor mastery.
For an unparalleled scripture like the Creation Scripture, which led straight to Hunyuan, even minor mastery was enough to let one attain the Daluo Dao Fruit.
All you had to do was eat your way to becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal. Compared to other methods, it was so simple that anyone hearing of it would be green with envy.
"My method definitely works. Even before I started cultivating the Creation Scripture, I seized the Kun Fish's bloodline. That proves that seizing an origin isn't difficult."
Jiang Yuan felt his shortcut was viable for a reason: he had experienced it firsthand.
The Ancestral Kun bloodline that had appeared in his body was proof enough. All he had to do was refine that wisp of Ancestral Kun bloodline with the Creation Scripture, and he could transform into a Kun Fish.
If it worked for the Kun Fish, it should work for other living beings too. Eat a Kun Fish and become one; eat a dragon and become a dragon; eat a Phoenix and become a Phoenix...
Eat your way through the world, and you would naturally gain the true essence of all living things and comprehend the wonders of creation.
The only issue was that this method went against Heaven's will and shouldn't be practiced. But that didn't matter. He just had to avoid eating every living thing.
He could eat only those burdened with karmic sin. That way, he wouldn't go against Heaven's will and could even earn Heaven's reward in the form of Merit.
How could this be an act that went against Heaven's will? It was clearly a good deed that accumulated Merit.
"Refine!"
Having made up his mind, Jiang Yuan immediately got to work, preparing to cultivate the Creation Scripture and refine the other four God-Devil Bloodlines in his body one by one.
Without the Creation Scripture, he could only turn the four God-Devil Bloodlines into nourishment to strengthen the Human Ancestor Bloodline he had already awakened.
But with the Creation Scripture, he could refine the four God-Devil Bloodlines and turn them into four different transformation methods.
That was the wonder of the Creation Scripture: it allowed multiple God-Devil Bloodlines to coexist within the body.
Just as Jiang Yuan was about to begin cultivating the Creation Scripture, a group of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals surrounded him from outside, brimming with murderous intent.
The commotion made by the dying Kun Fish had alarmed the Dragon Palace soldiers patrolling nearby.
"Is this dried corpse a Kun Fish?"
"Hiss..."
"What cultivator could be so ruthless as to drain every last drop of essence from a Kun Fish?"
The Crab General leading the group clicked his tongue as he gazed at the dried corpse floating in the sea.
He had seen cultivators fight Fierce Beasts plenty of times, but never had he seen anyone use such a cruel method. This didn't look like the righteous path. It looked more like the work of the Devil Dao.
"Look, the Kun Fish's belly is moving. There seems to be something inside!" a soldier called out, as if he'd spotted something.
Hearing this, the Crab General carefully sensed the area for a moment before saying, "It's the aura of our Dragon Race. It's very pure, somewhat like the Dragon Emperor's..."
As he spoke, the Crab General trailed off. He hurried to the Kun Fish's belly and began hacking it open with his pincers.
If a Dragon Emperor's Descendant came to harm in the area he was patrolling, even eight heads wouldn't be enough to pay for it.
"It's not a dragon. It's a human!"
After the Crab General split open the Kun Fish's belly and saw Jiang Yuan cultivating inside, he finally let out half the breath he'd been holding.
Why only half? Because although Jiang Yuan was human, the pure aura of the Dragon Emperor about him was no fake. As long as he had some connection to the Dragon Emperor, it was best to be cautious, whether or not he was a dragon.
"My name is Yuan. I'm descended from a princess of the Dragon Palace. I was accidentally swallowed by the Kun Fish, and I'm deeply grateful to General for rescuing me. May I ask how far we are from the East Sea Coast?"
The instant Jiang Yuan saw the Crab General, he knew he couldn't continue his seclusion, and he'd lost the Kun Fish as his shield. If he didn't want anything unexpected to happen next, he had to return to the East Sea Coast as soon as possible.
This was the habitat Lady Nuwa had left for the Human Race. Outside it, anything went, but here, apart from mindless Fierce Beasts, no one dared lay a hand on the Human Race.
As the first Saint after the Dao Ancestor, Lady Nuwa's authority was still beyond challenge—for now.