This time, Zhao Gongming carefully examined the Three-Headed Demon General's corpse. As an abstruse aura emerged, a vast surge of vitality rose from within its body.
Very soon, the Three-Headed Demon General that had just been smashed to death actually resurrected once more.
However, Zhao Gongming keenly sensed that the Three-Headed Demon General's aura now seemed to have weakened to its lowest point.
Moreover, its three heads had somehow become one.
At this moment, terror finally appeared on the Three-Headed Demon General's face.
As a descendant of the Nine Infants Demon Sage, it had inherited its innate divine ability. Even if it perished, it could resurrect again. Each head represented one life.
And now, with only one head left, if it died again, it would truly perish completely.
"I'll send you on your way!"
Zhao Gongming's expression was indifferent.
Before the Three-Headed Demon General's shocked and despairing gaze, the Myriad Heavens World crashed down once more, instantly smashing its body to pieces and splattering blood everywhere again!
"Dead?"
This time, Zhao Gongming waited for a long while, yet it never resurrected again.
With a sweep of his hand, he seized the Three-Headed Demon General's corpse. Looking at the massive body before him, his eyes gleamed.
Resurrection was a taboo in the Primordial World!
Even Quasi-Sages like Red Cloud, once they perished, were gone forever. Not even Saints who controlled Heavenly Dao Authority could revive fallen living beings.
This Three-Headed Demon General could resurrect. It must have been an incomparably powerful innate divine ability, and even Zhao Gongming found himself tempted by such a power.
The next moment, he began comprehending it directly. Soon, countless insights flooded his mind.
[You comprehended the Three-Headed Demon General's precious bones and flesh, gaining some insight. You have grasped the Law of Life. Current Law of Life: 15%]
[You continued comprehending the Three-Headed Demon General's precious bones and flesh. In a flash of inspiration, you realized that life and death opposed each other yet complemented each other. You have grasped the Life-and-Death Law. Current Life-and-Death Law: 35%]
[You comprehended the Three-Headed Demon General's remnant soul. Combined with the Life-and-Death Law, you attained enlightenment and grasped the innate great divine ability—Resurrection.]
"Life-and-Death Law? Innate divine ability—Resurrection?"
Zhao Gongming awoke from his contemplation. Sensing the information in his mind, delight instinctively appeared on his face.
The Life-and-Death Law was an immensely powerful law. It could both generate boundless vitality to heal his own injuries and use the Law of Death to extinguish an enemy's life force.
Once comprehended to perfection, he could strip a Great Supernatural Being of their vitality and life with a mere raise of his hand.
Yet what delighted him even more was the innate divine ability he had grasped—Resurrection!
In the Primordial World, every innate divine ability was incomparably powerful.
For example, Kong Xuan, known in later generations as the foremost beneath the Saints, had developed the Five-Colored Divine Light, said to brush away anything and everything. With one careless move, even Saint Zhunti had lost face because of it.
During the Journey-to-the-West Calamity, when Sun Wukong's Falsehood-Breaking Golden Eyes first emerged, they shot straight through the Thirty-Three Heavens and even alarmed Haotian.
As for the so-called Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, they were merely eyes smoked bad in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
Resurrection was also an innate divine ability. As its name implied, even after perishing, one could use it to revive once more.
Naturally, such a heaven-defying ability came with restrictions.
First, if one died twice in succession within a short period, then one would perish completely.
Second, after reviving from death, one would enter a weakened state. Their strength would be less than seventy percent of its peak, and they would need time to recover.
Even so, this innate divine ability remained immensely powerful.
After all—
The Primordial World was filled with countless methods that were impossible to guard against.
The original Zhao Gongming had been a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, yet he had still been cursed to death by the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book. If he had possessed the great divine ability of Resurrection, he would not have died so miserably.
This great divine ability could even be used for self-detonation. Back then, when Devil Ancestor Luohou self-detonated, he had blasted the entire Western Land into ruins.
The stronger Zhao Gongming became, the more terrifying the power of his self-detonation would be. Naturally, the role this great divine ability could play would become ever more astonishing.
"Not bad!"
Having obtained such a life-preserving divine ability, Zhao Gongming was in quite a good mood. With a thought, his figure appeared within the Myriad Heavens World.
"Immortal Lord, you saved our Human Race from extinction. Please accept our bow!"
"Immortal Lord, please tell us your name. Our Human Race wishes to build a statue of you and worship it day and night!"
"Immortal Lord..."
The Human Race within the Myriad Heavens World had originally been somewhat terrified.
But soon, as countless Demon Race corpses were brought into the Myriad Heavens World, they all came back to their senses and wept with joy.
The Human Race had only recently been born, and their hearts were simple. Seeing Demon Race corpses scattered everywhere, they immediately burst into tears of joy.
Though they did not know why Zhao Gongming had acted to save them, gratitude filled their faces as they knelt before him.
"From this day onward, I will protect the Human Race. Are you willing to enter my Myriad Heavens World?!"
Zhao Gongming spoke. With the Supreme Treasure Kongtong Seal on him, he enjoyed the Human Race Fortune. Naturally, he would not stand by and watch the Human Race suffer.
Moreover, a bold idea had arisen in his heart—to bring the entire Human Race into the Myriad Heavens World.
The Human Race was far too weak. They did not even have a proper cultivation method. In the Primordial World, they were like newborn infants thrown into a primeval forest.
The Saints did not care for them; they could call to Heaven and receive no answer, cry to Earth and find no aid.
The Myriad Heavens World offered a cultivation environment inferior to the Primordial World, but it was absolutely safe. The Human Race could multiply and thrive there, enduring their most vulnerable and weakest stage.
With a full Twenty-Four Great Thousand Worlds, accommodating hundreds of millions of humans was entirely possible!
And with the Kongtong Seal on him, as the Human Race multiplied and its Fortune grew, he would naturally obtain the most astonishing benefits!
"What?"
Zhao Gongming's words left countless humans standing there in a daze.
Since their birth, no one had ever cared for them. Even the Holy Mother had left them behind, never bothering with them again.
How could they not know the Primordial World was dangerous? Yet the Human Race had only just been born and possessed no means of self-preservation. They could only watch helplessly as their clansmen were devoured by the Demon Race. As for the Golden Core Method passed down by Taiqing, it was not so simple to cultivate. The Human Race's circumstances were far too harsh. By comparison, the Myriad Heavens World was rich in spiritual qi and filled with countless spiritual herbs and roots. Though its cultivation environment differed from that of the Primordial World, it was absolutely safe. They would not need to fear natural disasters or demon calamities and could peacefully multiply within it.
Such an environment was simply the place they had dreamed of. How could they possibly refuse?
"We are willing!"
Countless humans knelt to the ground. Seeing this, Zhao Gongming nodded slightly. Then, with a movement of his figure, he took the Myriad Heavens World and departed the vicinity of Mount Shouyang.
The aftershocks of the battle just now had not been small. If they attracted Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal experts, he would not fear them, but it would still bring some trouble.
Thus, without the Primordial World's Saints—or even its many Great Supernatural Beings—noticing, the Primordial World's weakest and frailest Human Race—
At some unknown time, they had vanished directly from the Primordial World, all of them taken away by Zhao Gongming into the Myriad Heavens World!
"Here will do!"
Hundreds of millions of miles from Mount Shouyang, within a hidden cave, Zhao Gongming raised his hand and formed a restriction. Then he immersed his mind and observed the Human Race within the Myriad Heavens World.
The Human Race was weak mainly because they lacked a cultivation method. As for the Golden Core Method, its highest level only reached Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. And that was merely its theoretical limit.
Most Human Race Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal experts had attained the Dao through Heavenly Dao Merit. Almost none had attained the Dao through this so-called Golden Core Method.
Soon, under his heaven-defying comprehension, as Zhao Gongming observed the Human Race, countless insights flooded his mind.
[You observed the Human Race's physical bodies and gained some insight. Combining it with the Human Race's constitution, in a flash of inspiration, you deduced the Quasi-Sage Human Fundamental Body-Refining Method!]
[You continued observing the Human Race's physical bodies and Primordial Spirits. You attained enlightenment and grasped a Saint-level Human Race Fundamental Cultivation Method (Primordial Spirit)!]
"Quasi-Sage-level Fundamental Body-Refining Method? Saint-level Primordial Spirit cultivation method?"
Zhao Gongming sensed the cultivation methods he had deduced, and astonishment appeared on his face. The famed Eight-Nine Mystical Technique of later generations, the body-refining method deduced by Saint Yuanshi, only reached the Quasi-Sage level at most. As for a Saint-level Primordial Spirit Method, even Heavenly Dao Sages would likely find it difficult to deduce.
What was more, what he had deduced was a Fundamental Cultivation Method that perfectly suited the Human Race.
What was a Fundamental Cultivation Method? It was a method completely suited to the Human Race. Not only did it have no threshold for cultivation, even acquired humans could cultivate it.
Moreover, the further one progressed, the more compatible this technique would become with the Human Race. The speed of cultivation would also grow faster and faster, like a snowball rolling downhill.
Not even Saints could possibly deduce such a cultivation method.
Rumble!
Before Zhao Gongming could recover from his astonishment, just as he passed these two cultivation methods on to the Human Race—
Amid roaring thunder, the Heavenly Dao responded. Boundless Merit Clouds, vast and mighty, stretching over more than ten thousand mu, formed above his head.
This Merit was even a full hundred times greater than when he had previously created the Myriad Heavens World!
At the same time, the originally tranquil Primordial World shook violently as such astonishing Merit descended.
"What? Heavenly Dao Merit has descended? And such astonishing Merit at that?"
Within Kunlun Mountain, Grand Pure One Laozi, who had just entered cultivation, sensed something and abruptly looked toward Mount Shouyang. The expression on his face changed slightly!