Reversing His Innate Origin, a Warning from the Great Dao

Abbot Island lay shrouded in spiritual mist. Immortal light surged through its earth veins, appearing and vanishing intermittently. Heaven and earth were tranquil and distant, save for the churning aura in the void at the center.

Wuchen sat cross-legged at the center of the lotus platform, his form as steady as an ancient boulder.

The World-Purifying White Lotus beneath him was as lustrous as jade. Its petals were warm and translucent, suffused with a faint, immaculate radiance. It inherently possessed the supreme law of cleansing all filth and purifying all things.

The Merit Lotus, World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Karma-Flame Red Lotus stood guard around it in a triangular formation.

The Merit Lotus shone with brilliant golden light, its majestic merit Dao rhythm blanketing the surroundings. It inherently possessed the laws of merit, bringing peace and benefiting all while nourishing heaven and earth.

Flames surged from the Karma-Flame Red Lotus, its scarlet lotus light scorching and tyrannical. Countless karmic flames rose and fell, governing the karmic sins of the world and burning away all transgressions.

The World-Destroying Black Lotus was dark and unfathomable, its body wrapped in heavy gloom. Killing intent lay concealed within the roiling black mist, hiding the Dao of annihilation that could shatter heaven and earth and overturn all phenomena.

"Buzz!"

A Dao chime that shook the vast sea suddenly erupted. It was no mortal rumble, but the Great Dao's tremor originating from the source of innate spiritual treasures.

In an instant.

Dazzling golden radiance, blazing red flames, and gloomy black light burst from the three lotus platforms.

The three lotus platforms shed layer upon layer of external Dao rhythm, casting off the appearance of spiritual treasures and transforming into the purest, most refined divine radiance of lotus origin.

Strands of divine light converged like rivers flowing into the sea, tearing apart the surrounding hazy spiritual mist as they continuously surged toward the World-Purifying White Lotus at the center.

As the golden light entered the lotus, the pure lotus platform was instantly dyed with a warm glazed hue. Countless merit Dao patterns spread along the veins of its petals, compensating for the World-Purifying White Lotus's deficiency of being capable only of purification, without nourishment.

As the red fire entered it, the blazing karmic flames did not burn the lotus body. Instead, they transformed into fine laws of karma that entwined every petal, allowing the Dao of purity to deliver worldly karmic sins and transcend the shackles of cause and effect.

Black mist washed over the lotus platform. The chilling laws of destruction merged with the White Lotus's origin, adding to its pure Dao of purification the supreme power of annihilation to overturn filth and eradicate all evil impurities.

The three entirely opposing origins merged and entwined under the balance of the purification origin.

The World-Purifying White Lotus suddenly blazed with radiance ten thousand zhang high. Its lustrous white glow shot straight into the sky, only to be blocked by the supreme innate grand formation enveloping Abbot Island.

The flawless white lotus body shook violently. Its twelve petals unfolded layer by layer, shining brilliantly as the boundless primordial origin dormant within its lotus heart fully awakened.

The four ultimate lotus Dao laws of purification, merit, karmic force, and annihilation intertwined. They became yin and yang to one another, complementing and generating each other, breaking through their original realm's shackles.

Amid an unending hum of the Great Dao, every innate restriction on the World-Purifying White Lotus shattered and reformed, and one more was added beyond its forty-eight innate restrictions.

Spiritual treasures possessed restrictions. Those with twelve or fewer were low-grade, thirteen to twenty-four were mid-grade, twenty-five to thirty-six were high-grade, and thirty-seven to forty-eight were supreme-grade.

Forty-nine made a supreme treasure.

The lotus petals multiplied and extended layer by layer. Its radiance repeatedly contracted and erupted, while gold, red, and black emerged amid the pure white lotus light, alternating between brightness and darkness as they encompassed all laws.

"Crack!"

The sound of Dao transformation rang out as the twelve-grade World-Purifying White Lotus platform rose and expanded layer upon layer.

Twelve, sixteen, twenty, twenty-four!

Twenty-four immense glazed lotus petals floated in the void, layered upon one another and spanning a thousand li, blanketing the countless mountains of Abbot Island.

Chaotic flowing light swirled around the lotus body. Its lustrous white could deliver all worldly filth, its merit could nourish all living beings of heaven and earth, its karmic flames could sever mortal cause and effect, and its darkness could extinguish all evil fiends beneath the heavens.

Innate purification, reverting to chaos!

The twelve-grade World-Purifying White Lotus had completely transformed into the twenty-four-grade Chaos White Lotus.

The four lotus Dao origins completely merged into one. The Three Talents formation dissipated, and the three innate lotus platforms fully dissolved into pure origin, all of it merging into the White Lotus.

The sea of clouds returned to silence. Only the ten-thousand-zhang chaotic lotus light descended, enveloping the entire Fangzhang Immortal Isle, eternally clear with Dao rhythm that would forever endure.

The Dao rhythm of heaven and earth fell silent, and all sounds on Abbot Island vanished.

The twenty-four-grade Chaos White Lotus hung in the void, vast radiant clouds flowing across its body. It had shed the shallow Dao rhythm of an innate spiritual treasure, retaining only the ancient, boundless simplicity of primordial chaos at creation.

The four lotuses had merged into one, all refined into the unique origin of the Chaos White Lotus.

The next moment, the entire Chaos White Lotus gently dipped.

"Buzz!"

An ancient, profound Dao chime rang out once more. It was no longer the tremor of an external object, but the life-bound Dao chime of a spiritual treasure acknowledging its master and its origin returning to its source.

From deep within the lotus heart, boundless origin erupted. Strand after strand, it surged as mightily as a celestial river without leaking even a trace, drowning Wuchen upon the lotus platform.

The fusion of the four lotuses was complete. Their origin fed back into Wuchen, returning wholly to him.

Lotus light enveloped his body as the power of origin seeped into his limbs, bones, and primordial spirit platform.

Wuchen's body suddenly trembled.

His flesh, meridians, bones, blood, and sinews were remolded layer by layer.

His originally gentle and elegant Dao body was repeatedly tempered and cleansed by the power of chaos, shedding both its mortal and innate foundations.

Every inch of his physical body was engraved with the Dao patterns of the twenty-four-grade Chaos Lotus Platform.

The merit Dao rhythm nourished his soul, soothing the cracks in his primordial spirit left behind by the tribulations of cultivation.

The laws of karmic flame refined cause and effect, severing the mortal entanglements Wuchen had accumulated in the past.

The power of world destruction solidified his Dao foundation, granting him a formidable foundation capable of shattering all laws.

The core Dao of purification protected his spiritual platform, ensuring that his Dao heart remained unmoved despite the Great Dao's cleansing.

Within Wuchen's primordial spirit platform, an incomparably tiny twenty-four-grade Chaos White Lotus, only an inch in size, quietly condensed and floated at the very center of his sea of consciousness.

A divine lotus-platform pattern also appeared between his brows, making his sacred aura even more intense.

"Alas!"

Wuchen inexplicably sighed and slowly opened his eyes.

Innate sacred beings already stood at the pinnacle of the Primordial World. Innate supreme treasures that took form also belonged to this category. To go any further, one would need to enter the boundless chaos.

A chaotic innate origin was not tolerated by the Primordial World. This was a warning from the Great Dao.

In other words, if he wished to devour the twenty-four-grade Genesis Azure Lotus and reverse his innate origin into chaos, he had to leave the Primordial World.

The boundless chaos was not somewhere a mere Da Luo Golden Immortal like him could venture into.

He could only give up for now.

Wuchen rose to his feet and looked down at the twenty-four-grade lotus platform beneath him.

After its division and fusion, it had lost several laws. Though it had also entered the ranks of supreme treasures, it still ultimately fell somewhat short of the twenty-four-grade Genesis Azure Lotus.

However, this transformation had allowed him to seize a thread of opportunity.

An opportunity to break through Da Luo.

Not Hunyuan, nor a Quasi-Sage, but an opportunity to attain the Dao that belonged to him alone.

It simply still needed further refinement.

With a thought from Wuchen, the twenty-four-grade Chaos White Lotus vanished.

"Jieyin has already taken form. Reversing my innate origin has also cost me a great deal of time. Hongjun is likely not far from attaining sainthood, so I can no longer remain on Abbot Island."

Wuchen flashed to the sky above the lotus pond and waved his hand, collecting the Three-Light Divine Water from within it.

Hongjun certainly would not overlook such a treasure.

Even if he had no use for it, he could use it to encourage the three thousand mortal guests.

Wuchen would not leave it for him.

Besides the Three-Light Divine Water, there was also a piece of Self-Growing Soil glowing with golden light at the bottom of the pond.

Wuchen collected it as well.

Afterward, he erased the aura belonging to him from the island stele before leaving Abbot Island. While Hongjun had yet to attain sainthood, he intended to give him something to worry about.