Heaven-Defying Comprehension, Comprehending the Willow God Art

The Primordial World, along the shores of the East Sea.

Immortal qi swirled here, while endless spiritual energy condensed into mist, shrouding an unnamed immortal island floating amid the waves.

Rules and laws evolved in succession across the island. Tides seemed to sweep through nodes in the void, and Dao essence flowed.

In this era of contention between the Witch Race and the demon race, when the Six Saints had taken their places, it could still be considered a premier overseas blessed land.

At the center of the immortal island stood an emerald divine willow thousands of zhang tall, rising from the earth.

Countless visible innate Dao patterns intertwined across the tree. As its branches and leaves swayed, all manner of strange phenomena rose and fell within the void.

A high-grade innate spiritual root—the World-Purifying Divine Willow!

Xuan Liu!

Xuan Liu had originally been a transmigrator from the modern era. Reborn into the Primordial World, he had arrived just as the Lich Tribulation began.

The Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao had already taken their places. Ancestor Hongjun sat in the Purple Heaven Palace beyond the thirty-three heavens, overlooking all beings of the Primordial World and the space between heaven and earth.

Karmic debt and sinful karma had begun to accumulate, while the calamity of heaven and earth returning to ruin flickered faintly within the river of time.

"Did I transmigrate? Into the Primordial World, and become the high-grade innate spiritual root, the World-Purifying Divine Willow?" Xuan Liu's true spirit abruptly opened its eyes deep within the divine willow's shell.

His original name had been Ye Xuanliu, a frail college student from the twenty-first century.

He had never expected such incredible luck to befall him, sending him into the Primordial World and turning him into the high-grade innate spiritual root, the World-Purifying Divine Willow.

"Buzz!"

At a certain moment, his true spirit trembled violently.

[Ding dong.]

[Host detected. True spirit has completely fused with the high-grade innate divine willow. You have received Mother Earth's gift: Heaven-Defying Comprehension.]

A grand Dao voice resounded in the depths of his sea of consciousness. In an instant, the trajectories of all things between heaven and earth became clearly visible in his eyes.

Xuan Liu did not attempt to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth around him. Instead, he made his divine sense crystalline and turned it upon his own divine willow body.

An image from his previous life emerged: an unparalleled sacrificial spirit who stood alone against eternity, towering over heaven and earth, crossing countless realms with a single emerald willow branch.

[Drawing upon your own high-grade innate divine willow body, you recalled the Willow Deity from a novel you read in your previous life and entered an exceptionally profound state of unity between heaven and man.]

[You attained enlightenment.]

[You created and comprehended: Willow God Art.]

"Rumble!!!"

Suddenly, an enormous roar sounded deep within his primordial spirit, only to vanish without a trace the next instant.

Xuan Liu activated the Willow God Art.

The next moment, dazzling, indestructible emerald divine light burst forth from his trunk. At the crown of the divine willow, three thousand crystalline willow branches of order visibly extended outward.

At the tip of every willow branch, a hazy halo evolved.

They were the embryonic forms of three thousand divine kingdoms, evolved through the Willow God Art!

Within the divine kingdoms, illusory beings like drifting sand could vaguely be seen bowing in devout worship, chanting the name of the supreme sacrificial spirit.

The Primordial World knew no years, and time passed like a swift horse racing by.

In the blink of an eye, perhaps tens of millions of years had passed—or perhaps hundreds of millions.

During that time, the great war across the Primordial World entered its fiercest stage. The Witch Race ruled the earth, while the demon race commanded the Heavenly Court. The two sides fought without end, leaving countless dead and wounded as all beings wailed in misery.

The Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao sat within their Dao fields, coldly watching the karmic debt and sinful karma between heaven and earth deepen without cease.

Yet on this isolated immortal island, Xuan Liu's cultivation never stopped.

He continuously absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, thoroughly mastering the Willow God Art.

The three thousand divine kingdoms had completely solidified. Within every divine kingdom, vast continents evolved at breathtaking speed, their Dao essence obscure and their talismans profound.

The terrifying Dao intent, powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth in every direction, constantly warped the space around the divine willow. The innate spirit beasts on the island stayed far away, lest they be invaded by this Golden Immortal Dao intent.

At this moment, Xuan Liu's cultivation had already reached the threshold of the peak Golden Immortal realm.

"Break for me!"

At a certain moment, Xuan Liu shouted inwardly.

"Crash!!!"

The three thousand divine kingdoms roared in unison, and endless divine light of order surged back into him.

At that moment, his realm shattered its bottleneck and directly advanced into the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm!

The mana within him instantly condensed, and dazzling mystic light radiated from his entire body.

A mark flickered in and out of view upon his brow, while the power under his command surged to an extent far beyond before.

"After accumulating for so long, today is the day I take human form!" Xuan Liu's voice echoed across the immortal island.

When a high-grade innate spiritual root took form, it would inevitably trigger a heaven-destroying lightning tribulation.

In an instant, dark clouds abruptly filled the skies above the previously calm East Sea.

The surrounding sky turned black as ink in an instant. Within the rolling dark clouds, countless divine bolts of lightning visibly evolved in succession.

"Boom!!!"

The first divine lightning bolt crashed down violently. The surrounding void continuously twisted beneath its radiance like boiling water as it hurtled toward the unnamed immortal island.

The lightning's might grew ever stronger, striking straight toward the thousand-zhang divine willow at the island's center.

"What can a mere heavenly tribulation do to me?!" Xuan Liu's divine sense remained clear, his expression unchanged.

The next second, without another word, he directly activated the Willow God Art.

"Crash!!!"

Three thousand willow branches of order surged upward against the current, carrying myriad rays of rosy light and auspicious radiance as they pierced the clouds high above against the lightning.

The divine lightning, capable of reducing a Golden Immortal to ashes, was forcibly devoured and refined by the three thousand divine kingdoms attached to the branches of order the instant it struck them...

The violent destructive energy within the lightning was transformed by the Willow God Art into the purest power. It flowed back along the willow branches into Xuan Liu's body, tempering him.

"Rumble!!!"

The Heavenly Dao seemed to be enraged by Xuan Liu's actions. The tribulation clouds churned violently, and the remaining eight black divine lightning bolts finally gathered into a ten-thousand-zhang thunder dragon. Roaring, it tore through heaven and earth in every direction as it descended with overwhelming force.

Wherever the thunder dragon passed, timelines became disordered and the power of time fell into chaos.

"Willow God Art!" Xuan Liu's true spirit shouted.

In an instant, the three thousand willow branches of order intertwined and converged in the void, manifesting the meaning of the Dao's rise, decline, and fall before crashing down from the air.

"Crack!!!"

The ten-thousand-zhang thunder dragon was struck by the blow. Violent black lightning exploded completely above the immortal island, transforming into countless motes of intertwined green and black light.

The tribulation clouds dispersed. The golden divine radiance of the Primordial World's great sun pierced through the clouds once more, spilling over the shattered immortal island.

Endless power of creation and light of transformation descended from the heavens, tightly enveloping the thousand-zhang divine willow.

Within that brilliantly indestructible divine light, the massive shell of the divine willow began to shrink and transform, as countless rules and Dao patterns operated within it.

No one knew how much time passed before the divine light gradually faded into the void.

The original thousand-zhang divine willow had completely vanished. In its place, a young man in a green robe suddenly appeared, his face refined and strikingly handsome.

The young man stood upon the air. A faint green willow-leaf mark rested between his brows, radiating dazzling mystic light.

"After being reborn for endless years, I have finally seen my true self today. This innate Dao body feels truly comfortable." Xuan Liu clenched his hands, sensing the earth-shaking changes within his body.