Pangu Remnant Spirit, the True Three Corpses Method?

Zhao Gongming sharply drew in a breath, his face filling with stunned disbelief.

It wasn't that his composure was poor; the opportunity before him was simply too astonishing.

When Pangu split open Heaven and Earth, the three Primordial Chaos Treasures in his hands shattered into countless treasures and scattered throughout the Primordial World. The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe became the three Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasures: the Pangu Banner, Taiji Diagram, and Chaos Bell. The Thirty-Sixth-Grade Chaos Green Lotus became the Five-Directional Flags, Five-Directional Lotus Platforms, Cosmic Cauldron, Heaven-Earth-Human Three Books, God-Slaying Spear, and many other treasures. Meanwhile, the Dao-Comprehending Supreme Treasure, the Creation Jade Butterfly, shattered into numerous fragments that scattered across the Primordial World.

Every Fragment of the Creation Jade Butterfly was a Dao-Comprehending Supreme Treasure. Even the smallest fragment was no inferior to a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Why had Hongjun become the Primordial World's first Saint, the Heavenly Dao Ancestor and teacher of all Saints? It absolutely had much to do with the fact that he possessed most of the Fragments of the Creation Jade Butterfly.

And now, the round disc before him, the "Creation Jade Butterfly," was precisely the legendary Main Fragment of the Creation Jade Butterfly. Its value was already comparable to a true Supreme Treasure.

Even if it were exchanged for a Supreme Treasure, there would likely be Heavenly Dao Saints willing to trade willingly for it.

"Pangu Jade Marrow, the Main Fragment of the Creation Jade Butterfly—I struck it rich. This time, I've truly struck it rich!"

Suppressing the joy in his heart, Zhao Gongming reached out with one hand and seized the Main Fragment of the Creation Jade Butterfly. But before he could begin refining it—

Buzz!

An arcane ripple emerged, and a phantom abruptly appeared above the Main Fragment of the Creation Jade Butterfly.

"Pangu?"

Looking at the phantom before him—muscles knotted, hair hanging loose—Zhao Gongming had never seen Pangu before, yet he recognized him at first glance and couldn't help crying out.

"I never expected that, just as this wisp of remnant thought was about to fade away, I would encounter someone fated!"

Only as Pangu Remnant Thought spoke did Zhao Gongming notice that his body was illusory and seemed to be growing increasingly transparent, as though a gust of wind could scatter him.

"Great God Pangu, hadn't you already fallen?"

Zhao Gongming was somewhat curious. Pangu had opened Heaven and Earth, slain three thousand Chaos Gods and Demons, and exhausted himself to death, transforming into the Primordial World. Logically, if he had completely fallen, how could he have left behind a remnant thought?

"Correct, I have already fallen. However, the Great Dao has fifty, and one line of life remains. This wisp of remnant thought has endured until now only because it was nourished by the Main Fragment of the Creation Jade Butterfly!"

"Since you were able to find this main jade butterfly fragment, you must share fate with me. I shall gift these few cultivation insights to you as well!"

Pangu Remnant Thought became ever more insubstantial. A ray of light shot from his fingertip and swiftly entered Zhao Gongming's brow. In the next instant, he vanished completely.

"This is...?"

Looking at the dissipating Pangu Remnant Thought, Zhao Gongming had no time for sentiment. As he comprehended the information within his mind, his body suddenly shook, and an expression of utter disbelief surfaced on his face.

"The Three Corpses Method?"

That was right!

What Pangu's remnant thought had imparted to him was actually a Dao-proving method—and not just any method, but the famed Three Corpses Method of the Primordial World.

Logically speaking, if it was the Three Corpses Method, Zhao Gongming shouldn't have been this shocked.

What truly stunned him was that the Three Corpses Method bestowed by Pangu seemed completely different from the one taught by Hongjun!

At present, there were three mainstream methods of Dao-proving in the Primordial World: Strength-Based Dao-Proving, Merit-Based Dao-Proving, and Three Corpses Dao-Proving.

The first, Strength-Based Dao-Proving, naturally didn't mean proving the Dao through brute strength. It was Law-Based Dao-Proving, proving the Dao through the power of laws.

And what this method produced was not a Heavenly Dao Saint, but a Great Dao Sage—a Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal—who could freely enter the Chaos World without being bound by the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao, attaining freedom and transcendence.

The second was Merit-Based Dao-Proving. The Heavenly Dao Six Sages had all proven the Dao through this method. There was a misconception here: that Saints who attained sainthood through merit were weak.

In truth, the opposite was true!

A Heavenly Dao Saint's Primordial Spirit was entrusted to the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao, making them immortal and indestructible. Not only that, they wielded Heavenly Dao Authority, making them akin to administrators of the Primordial World.

In the Chaos World, Saints were weak, perhaps only somewhat stronger than Quasi-Sages.

But on the Primordial World's home ground, Saints were unimaginably powerful.

This could be seen from how Yang Mei, a mighty Chaos God and Demon, had actually been driven into Primordial Chaos by Hongjun, perhaps even suppressed by him.

The third was the Three Corpses Dao-Proving method, which was also the most mainstream cultivation path in the current Primordial World.

This Dao-proving method required one to use Innate Spiritual Treasures to house one's Three Corpses, severing the corpses of good, evil, and self. The higher the grade of the treasures housing them, the stronger the Three Corpses would be. In the end, once the Three Corpses fused into one, one could ride the momentum and prove the Dao to become a Saint.

Yet aside from Hongjun, who had created this method, no other living being seemed capable of using the Three Corpses Method to successfully prove the Dao and become a Saint!

But the Three Corpses Method taught by Pangu Remnant Spirit was somewhat similar to the one Hongjun had taught. It likewise required severing the Three Corpses of good, evil, and self, and its final step likewise involved fusing the Three Corpses to prove the Dao and transcend. Yet the objects used to house the Three Corpses were not spiritual treasures, but... the Three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity!

"Use the Three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity to house one's Three Corpses. In the end, fuse the Three Corpses, completely grasp the Primordial World, and transcend beyond it... this?"

Even Zhao Gongming was directly shaken by such a Three Corpses Method.

According to the information within this method, when Pangu opened Heaven and Earth, he had not merely established the Heavenly Dao. He had created the Three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity to jointly govern the Primordial World.

Among them, the Heavenly Dao represented rules. It was the first to emerge and had already appeared during the Dragon-Han Cataclysm, governing the Primordial World.

The Earth Dao represented balance. The Earth Fetal Membrane, as well as the Six Paths of Reincarnation that Houtu would later transform into, all fell within the domain of the Earth Dao.

The Human Dao naturally wasn't the Human Race. It represented the collective will of all races and living beings in the Primordial World—immortals, Daoists, demons, devils, Saints—the sum of every living being's will. It represented variables.

And this Three Corpses Method required one to use the Three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity to house one's Three Corpses, allowing the corpses of good, evil, and self to each prove the Dao as a Heavenly Dao Saint, Earth Dao Sage, and Human Dao Sage!

In the end, once the Three Corpses fused into one, one could completely grasp the Three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, control the Primordial World, and utterly transcend beyond it.

"This!"

After learning of such a heaven-defying Dao-proving method, Zhao Gongming felt little joy. Instead, countless doubts instinctively surfaced in his heart.

This Three Corpses Method was exceptionally similar to the one taught by Dao Ancestor Hongjun; only the "objects" used to house the Three Corpses differed. In other words, did Hongjun also possess such a Three Corpses Dao-Proving method?

And was his fusion with the Heavenly Dao the first step toward proving the Dao through the Three Corpses of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity—or, rather, the first step toward completely controlling the Primordial World?

At that thought, Zhao Gongming felt an instinctive chill in his heart, and a creeping horror rose within him.

One had to know that the Primordial World was transformed from Pangu's Dao Fruit. To completely control the Primordial World was equivalent to completely stealing Pangu's Dao Fruit and becoming the next... Pangu?