At the same time.
Somewhere on Kunlun Mountain, within a place protected by a Xiantian Array.
This was where Kunlun Mountain's most central ancestral vein lay, where endless Xiantian clear qi gathered into a vast ocean.
The Three Pure Ones had yet to take form. Though they were merely three streams of clear qi, they already possessed intelligence.
At the deepest part of this ocean of clear qi floated three dazzling clusters of origin clear qi.
These three streams of clear qi shared the same origin, yet each emitted a completely different Dao aura.
One was tranquil and detached, one majestic and lofty, and one sharp and advancing.
These were the Three Pure Ones' origins, formed from Pangu Primordial Spirit splitting into three and bearing the legacy of the world's creation.
Suddenly, sensing that an opportunity had been lost, one stream of clear qi became puzzled.
The Taiqing Origin, which radiated an aura of tranquil detachment, suddenly fluctuated violently. A distinct flaw appeared in its once perfectly harmonious Dao aura.
"Why has my opportunity for attaining the Great Dao suddenly vanished into thin air?"
The other two streams of clear qi felt the same.
"Eldest Brother, I feel it as well. Somewhere in the darkness, it seems an unparalleled supreme treasure closely tied to my attainment of the Dao has completely left the trajectory of fate."
"Eldest Brother, Second Brother, this is outrageous! Our opportunity has actually been forcibly taken away, and even the Heavenly Secrets have become a chaotic blur, impossible to deduce!"
Realizing that someone had stolen their opportunity, the three streams of clear qi were furious beyond words. If they could emerge into the world now, they would surely seek out the culprit who had stolen their opportunity.
In the end, the Three Pure Ones could only turn their fury into cultivation, training desperately in hopes of taking form and entering the world sooner.
Time flowed on, and a thousand years passed in a flash.
To the Primordial World, a thousand years was no more than a fleeting moment.
By now, Tianlu had finished refining thirty-six of the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus's Thirty-Six Innate Restrictions, reaching the limit of his current realm, with thirteen restrictions remaining.
Logically speaking, a Xiantian Supreme Treasure contained forty-nine Xiantian Restrictions. It should have been utterly impossible to reach such a stage in just a thousand years.
Even an ordinary Golden Immortal of the Taiyi Realm would consider it a tremendous stroke of fortune to refine the first restriction after spending tens of thousands of years.
To refine thirty-six restrictions was a vast undertaking that many Daluo Golden Immortals and even Quasi-Sage experts would need endless years to slowly grind away at.
Yet Tianlu's refinement had gone extraordinarily smoothly, so smoothly that even he was puzzled.
During the refinement process, the Creation Green Lotus not only showed no resistance whatsoever, but seemed to actively open its core origin, allowing Tianlu's Primordial Spirit Brand to drive straight in.
But Tianlu did not dwell on it. Since he could not figure it out, he simply would not think about it.
In any case, the treasure had already been branded with his name. That made it his.
After refining the Creation Green Lotus, Tianlu suddenly entered a state of enlightenment toward the Great Dao.
At the instant the Thirty-Six Innate Restrictions were completely connected, the Creation origin contained within the Creation Green Lotus from the time when Pangu created heaven and earth flowed through his Primordial Spirit connection and fed back into Tianlu.
The next moment, he closed his eyes and cultivated.
Tianlu's body, which had been lying atop the Cloud Treasure, slowly rose into the air, an ineffable Great Dao aura spreading from him.
His breathing gradually merged with the pulse of heaven and earth in the Primordial World, as though his entire being had fused into this land.
At the same time, strands of Qi of Creation, Qi of Wealth, Law of Fortune, and Law of Merit spread around him.
The azure Qi of Creation transformed into lotus blossoms that bloomed and perished beside him.
The golden Qi of Wealth resembled a brilliant river of stars, gathering into phantoms of ancient Xiantian coins that circled his body.
The violet Law of Fortune and dark yellow Law of Merit intertwined, becoming a canopy that hovered above his head and cast down ten thousand rays of auspicious light, immune to all evil and unbreakable by all arts.
The next moment, the Three Flowers above his head bloomed. The Three Flowers of Heaven, Earth, and Man gradually unfurled.
Cultivators of the Primordial World cultivated the Five Qis Returning to Origin at the Golden Immortal level of the Taiyi Realm, while Daluo Golden Immortals condensed the Three Flowers above their heads.
The three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit were pushed to their limits at this moment, transforming into three pillars of light that connected heaven and earth and shot into the skies.
The first to bloom was the Lead Flower, representing the vitality of his physical body.
Six petals, then nine petals.
The Lead Flower swayed as its petals unfurled layer upon layer.
Almost instantly, it broke through the ordinary limit of six petals and crossed without obstruction into the nine-petal tier representing the aptitude of peak Xiantian gods and demons.
Immediately afterward, the Silver Flower representing magical power cultivation and the Gold Flower representing the Primordial Spirit and true soul bloomed as well.
Under the operating laws of the Primordial World, nine was the ultimate number. Nine-petal Three Flowers were already the limit permitted by the Heavenly Dao, representing supreme potential and the qualification to one day contend for the realm of Primordial Saint.
Yet after Tianlu's three Great Dao Flowers reached nine petals, they showed no sign of ceasing their growth.
At this moment, it was as if all the world's Law of Fortune and Law of Merit had become Tianlu's to wield, while the Creation Green Lotus's origin poured into him frenziedly, forcibly shattering the Heavenly Dao's shackles.
Ten petals, eleven petals, twelve petals.
Twelve was perfection.
Three dazzling twelve-petal Great Dao Flowers, radiating the mighty power to suppress the eternal River of Time and Space, quietly hovered above Tianlu's head.
At this moment.
Tianlu broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, transcending past, future, and present as he condensed his Zenith Heaven Dao Fruit.
His indestructible true soul suddenly leaped from the ceaselessly flowing River of Fate.
His past self, present self, and future self were forcibly gathered into one by an unsurpassed mighty power at that instant.
Within the River of Time and Space, I alone was unique.
A round, golden Zenith Heaven Dao Fruit, radiating an eternal and indestructible aura, slowly condensed at the center of the twelve-petal Three Flowers.
This Dao Fruit was the manifestation of his own Great Dao. So long as it remained undying, even if his physical body turned to ash and his Primordial Spirit shattered, he could still return from the endless River of Time and Space.
Tianlu awoke and sensed his own condition.
He slowly opened his eyes. Deep within them, it seemed as though two universes were being born and destroyed.
Every gesture carried a terrifying power capable of effortlessly tearing apart space and overturning laws.
The laws he had comprehended were Creation, Wealth, Fortune, Merit, Space, and Devouring.
Six Great Dao Laws.
Tianlu turned his divine sense inward and clearly saw six incomparably thick chains of Great Dao Laws inscribed upon his Zenith Heaven Dao Fruit.
The Law of Creation came from the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus.
The Law of Wealth and Law of Fortune were innate to his origin as the first Pixiu Auspicious Beast born between heaven and earth.
The Law of Merit originated from his Innate Divine Ability of Merit Absorption.
The Laws of Space and Devouring were manifestations of the strange space within his belly.
For a moment, Tianlu fell silent.
He stared blankly at the six Great Dao Laws on his Dao Fruit, raised a paw to scratch his chin, and revealed a trace of bewilderment in his eyes.
He thought about it. Did he actually possess the ability to control so many laws?
Had he comprehended them during the Golden Immortal stage of the Taiyi Realm?
In the Primordial World, for an ordinary cultivator to comprehend even one law to the Daluo Realm over the course of an entire lifetime already made them a peerless genius.
Yet he had comprehended six at once. It seemed he had not even been in this world for a hundred thousand years, and he had never deliberately cultivated.
Thinking of this, Tianlu began recalling his experiences over the past hundred thousand years.
Other than sleeping, he had wandered around searching for shiny treasures, or lain on the Cloud Treasure in a daze.
Secluded bitter cultivation, life-and-death battles, comprehending heaven and earth—none of those existed in his memories at all.
Forget it. Maybe it was simply the innate talent of a Pixiu Auspicious Beast.
Tianlu shook his head and cast these tangled thoughts aside.
As a qualified Auspicious Beast, why should he wear himself out over something he could not understand?
Strong was strong. So what if he was exceptionally gifted?
Tianlu then rode the Cloud Treasure away from this blessed land protected by the Xiantian Array.
He intended to continue exploring Kunlun Mountain and see whether he could find other opportunities and Numinous Treasures.
Since Kunlun Mountain even possessed something as heaven-defying as the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus, it surely hid many other good things.
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