Where Does the Road Ahead Lie

Within the chat group.

Yang Xuan accepted Bai Suzhen's red packet, then began to comprehend the cultivation insights within.

"Devour moonlight, absorb the essence of the sun... Use the demon core as the core, refine the flesh..."

Yang Xuan shook his head.

This cultivation method had allowed Bai Suzhen to take human form in a mere eighteen hundred years, but its foundation was exceedingly unstable.

Once the demon core was damaged, a thousand years of cultivation would instantly vanish into nothing.

Moreover, this technique did not involve cultivating the "divine soul" at all. It cultivated life, but not nature.

"No wonder that bald donkey Fahai could capture her with a golden bowl. Her divine soul was unstable; one surge of inner demons and it would scatter."

Yang Xuan already had a plan in mind.

"Brute force alone won't do. She needs to cultivate the heart and the spirit, and it needs some improvements too..."

Yang Xuan closed his eyes, and countless insights into the Great Dao of the Primordial World flowed through his mind.

As a top-tier spiritual root of the Primordial World, he was naturally favored by the Great Dao itself. Countless profound laws existed to perfect his thoughts.

Such simple revisions would not take him much time.

What truly took time was his comprehension of his own laws.

With a thought, Yang Xuan opened the chat group interface.

Immortal: Miss Bai.

White Snake Successor: This junior is here!

Immortal: This humble Daoist has reviewed your cultivation method. Though somewhat rudimentary, its foundation is solid. Reaching a thousand years of cultivation was truly no easy feat.

Seeing those words, Bai Suzhen's eyes could not help turning red.

One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three years!

Who would want all their cultivation to turn into nothing?

White Snake Successor: Thank you for understanding, Senior!

Immortal: This humble Daoist has deduced a new cultivation method for you. It is called the Myriad Spirits Genesis Scripture.

Immortal: Rather than using the demon core to forcibly devour the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it uses oneself as a guide to commune with the myriad spirits of heaven and earth. This method chiefly cultivates the divine soul, using the spirit to command qi and qi to transform form. At great completion, one may directly glimpse the realm of the Demon God.

The group instantly exploded.

Xiao Yan: Demon God?! What's a Demon God?

Zhang Sanfeng: Using the spirit to command qi, communing with the myriad spirits... This is a supreme method that points directly to the Great Dao!

Bai Suzhen was currently claiming her exclusive red packet, her mind flooding with densely packed scriptures.

Every word was like a bolt of thunder exploding in her mind.

Though she had not yet cultivated it, merely reading those scriptures made the demonic power within her tremble faintly.

White Snake Successor: Senior's great kindness... This junior... this junior...

Bai Suzhen knelt toward the void and performed the rites of a disciple.

Immortal: No need for such ceremony.

Immortal: Though this method is good, it is exceedingly difficult to cultivate. You must find a place rich in spiritual energy, preferably famed mountains and great rivers, and let go of the obsession in your heart before you can enter its gates.

White Snake Successor: Obsession?

Immortal: Precisely. Your karmic bond with Xu Xian is the greatest obstacle in your cultivation. If you cannot see through the barrier of love, this method will be difficult to master, and you will find it equally difficult to escape your tribulation.

Bai Suzhen fell silent.

Xu Xian... that gentle and refined, yet weak and incompetent man.

In fate, he had given her warmth, yet he had also personally pushed her into the abyss.

White Snake Successor: This junior... understands.

Immortal: Good.

After finishing the conversation in the group, Yang Xuan began to worry again.

He still had no good solution for how he could take form.

It was even a distant prospect...

If he cultivated according to the Primordial World system, then at his current speed, he would still be unable to escape the fate of being divided up where he stood.

He could only approach things from another direction and overtake on a bend!

A myriad thoughts burst forth in Yang Xuan's mind.

First, what was his greatest advantage?

It was undoubtedly the Heavens Chat Group!

But judging by the group's current strength, the help they could offer him was already quite limited. The resources of the worlds the group members came from were not worth even a blade of grass from the Primordial Great Realm to him...

Connected to the heavens, could he really act as some benevolent old fool for others, an elder brother who gave selflessly?

The heavens, worlds of the heavens...

Yang Xuan suddenly felt this thought light up brilliantly!

The worlds of the heavens—the worlds themselves could serve as his opportunity!

Every world possessed complete Heavenly Dao laws. If he could grasp each world and become its World Lord, then his comprehension of laws would absolutely rise to another level!

By drawing inferences from one thing to another, he could accelerate his comprehension of the laws of the Primordial Great Realm and shorten the time needed to take form!

But then, would that not make him a world invader? It would undoubtedly harm the interests of the worlds where the group members lived...

After all, which one of them was not a Child of Destiny favored by their world? He would essentially be making them acknowledge him as their father. They might not know it at first, but could he keep it hidden as things went on?

And there would be a constant stream of new group members in the future. Sooner or later, members stronger than him would appear. By then, it would likely spell his utter doom.

So the method of draining the pond to catch the fish would not do. He needed a solution that benefited both sides, one no one could find fault with.

He had it!

Why not call it the Chosen One Acceleration Plan!

Let each of them become the World Lord of their own world. When he wished to comprehend laws then, would it not take just a word from them?

Besides, this would keep him from being welded to each individual world. After all, ten million of such small worlds could not compare to the Primordial Great Realm.

The plan was in place. All that remained was to put it into practice!

Once the group members grew up and became the peak existences of their respective worlds,

he could use the status of a World Lord to accelerate his comprehension of the Great Dao of the Primordial World, striving to take form before the Purple Cloud Palace began its lectures.

Only then would he be qualified to sit upon a prayer mat in the Purple Cloud Palace as an equal alongside those great figures.

Rather than being treated as a gourd vine that could be divided up at will.

After all, we're all fellow Daoists now. You can't possibly still divide me up, can you? (Red Cloud: Who are you pointing at?)

After carefully choosing his words, Yang Xuan sent a message to the group.

Immortal: Fellow Daoists, this humble Daoist has a matter he wishes to discuss with you all.

Xiao Yan: Please speak, great Fellow Daoist!

Sun Wukong: What is it? What is it?

Huang Rong: If the great immortal speaks, it must be something good again!

Zhang Sanfeng: Fellow Daoist, please speak freely.

White Snake Successor: Please speak, Senior.

Looking at the neat rows of replies on the screen, Yang Xuan sighed inwardly.

These people truly regarded him as an omnipotent "immortal."

This trust was both his protective talisman and his shackles.

He could not betray that trust, nor could he reveal his true circumstances.

Therefore, he needed to find a reason that benefited both sides—a reason that could explain why he wanted to help them without making anyone feel that he had ulterior motives.

Immortal: This humble Daoist has cultivated for over three thousand years and has always had one confusion.

Immortal: The world where this humble Daoist resides has a complete Great Dao and strict laws. Though the path of cultivation is smooth, it lacks some "variables."

Immortal: The worlds where you all reside may have sparse spiritual energy and incomplete laws, but precisely because of this, they possess many unexpected possibilities.

Immortal: The myriad worlds of the heavens each have their own Dao. The Dao of your worlds is precisely what this humble Daoist lacks, an important reference for perfecting my own Great Dao. Thus, this humble Daoist wishes to enter your worlds and observe them.

After he said this, the group fell quiet for a while.

An immortal wanted to cross worlds and come to their own worlds.

That was more or less frightening.

It was hard not to overthink it.

Did he have some unspeakable purpose?

No one in the group was a fool. Had spending heavily to win goodwill earlier not also been for greater benefits?

Senior-Year Powerhouse: @Immortal, Fellow Daoist, please come.

In the end, Li Yuxuan's reply broke the awkward silence.

It was not that Li Yuxuan had no such concerns.

Rather, as the group owner, she knew very well that group members could not harm one another by any means.

Besides, her stepping forward to show support at this moment was no different from offering an endorsement.

Everyone, rest assured. This group member had no ill intentions.

Zhang Sanfeng: This one likewise welcomes Fellow Daoist Immortal to the world where this old man resides.

With someone taking the lead in starting the charge, anyone who failed to follow would undoubtedly be confirming that they judged an immortal's intentions with a petty heart!

Xiao Yan immediately followed!

Xiao Yan: Great Fellow Daoist Immortal, come whenever you wish! My side may be a little poor, but the scenery is quite nice! Though Wutan City isn't large, the Magic Beast Mountains lie beyond the city, and the spiritual energy in the mountains is passable. If Great Fellow Daoist Immortal does not mind, I can show you around!

Miss Huang: Welcome, welcome! Fellow Daoist Immortal, come on over!

Sun Wukong: Crossing worlds? @Immortal, then can we fight?

Huang Rong: ...Sun Wukong, can you stop thinking about fighting every day?

Sun Wukong: Hehe, it's a habit, a habit.

Looking at these replies, the taut string in Yang Xuan's heart finally loosened somewhat.

He had been testing them too.

He wanted to see the atmosphere in the group, everyone's attitude toward him, and how they would react when he proposed "entering their worlds."

The result was better than he had expected.

Not only had the group owner Li Yuxuan stepped forward, she had even taken the initiative to invite him to her world.

This first hurdle had been passed.

Everything was thanks to the group owner's divine assist!

So this was the kind of group owner you were. This humble Daoist takes back what he said before!

Immortal: Since that is the case, this humble Daoist shall first visit the group owner's world.