The Secret of the Heaven-Earth Sea-Calming Ruler

Seeing Yunxiao's hundred-mu Auspicious Cloud, Lu Xuan could not help but nod. After all, when Lu Xuan had broken through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm, the Auspicious Cloud above his head had only been around a thousand mu.

And among those who could reach Lu Xuan's level in the Primordial World, which one was not a renowned figure? Great powers such as Dijun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Dongwang Gong, and Queen Mother of the West had all formed thousand-mu Auspicious Clouds upon their breakthroughs.

As for the Ten Great Demon Marshals, such as Bai Ze, when they broke through to Great Luo, the Auspicious Clouds they could condense were only a few hundred mu. They were roughly on the same level as Yunxiao.

As Yunxiao successfully broke through, she slowly opened her eyes. She immediately rose and bowed to Lu Xuan.

"Thank you, Martial Uncle, for protecting Yunxiao during her breakthrough. Without the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus resisting my inner demons, Yunxiao could never have broken through so smoothly."

With a wave of Lu Xuan's hand, a gentle breeze lifted Yunxiao upright. He smiled and said, "You have only just broken through to Great Luo, yet your Auspicious Cloud already spans several hundred mu. That is enough to show that your innate foundation is excellent."

"But there is something I must remind you of. Before you break through to the middle stage of Great Luo and cause the Human Flower to bloom, you must do everything possible to expand your Auspicious Cloud."

"If you can expand it beyond a thousand mu, then when the Human Flower blooms, you may have a chance of reaching the ninth grade. Otherwise, the sixth grade will be your limit."

Lu Xuan was not speaking nonsense. This was the answer he had obtained after verifying it several times within the Pangu World-Opening Map.

Lu Xuan even felt that this was the final chance for all cultivators to defy fate and change their destinies. It was the last sliver of hope the Great Dao had left for all living beings.

As long as one could seize it instead of rushing to break through to the middle stage of Great Luo Golden Immortal, there was hope of making up for one's innate shortcomings and walking farther in the future.

Unfortunately, almost no one in the entire Primordial World had noticed this. That even included Sages.

After all, in their understanding, one's innate foundation was determined at birth. How could there possibly be an opportunity to change it?

Otherwise, Primordial Heavenly Venerable's Teaching According to Aptitude and emphasis on innate foundations would become a complete joke.

Although Yunxiao did not know whether this was true, since the words had come from Lu Xuan, she had no reason not to believe them. She immediately nodded to him.

"Martial Uncle, how can I increase the size of my Auspicious Cloud?"

Lu Xuan said, "Before Great Luo Golden Immortal, one cultivates the Five Qi within the chest. After Great Luo Golden Immortal, one cultivates the Three Flowers above the head."

"Now that you have broken through to the Great Luo Realm, your method of cultivation must naturally differ from before. In the past, you drew innate spiritual qi into your body. Now, you must guide the three innate spiritual qis into the Three Flowers."

"What you need to do is first guide innate spiritual qi into your Auspicious Cloud. Although this will slow your cultivation speed, it will bring you immense benefits in the future."

After hearing this, Yunxiao nodded to Lu Xuan. "Thank you, Martial Uncle, for clearing Yunxiao's confusion. Yunxiao now knows what she should do next."

Lu Xuan nodded in satisfaction, then took out three tea leaves produced by the Innate Enlightenment Tea Mother Tree and told Yunxiao to hold them in her mouth while cultivating.

After giving Yunxiao his instructions, Lu Xuan left directly. After all, the fusion of the Heaven-Earth Ruler and the Sea-Calming Pearls had reached a critical moment.

The Heaven-Earth Ruler had thirty-six holes, each connected to the next by patterns. At the center of those patterns was a diagram of the Big Dipper.

However, there were no holes on the Big Dipper itself. Otherwise, Lu Xuan would have suspected that the Sea-Calming Pearls in his possession were incomplete.

What Lu Xuan needed to do now was embed the Sea-Calming Pearls into the holes of the Heaven-Earth Ruler. Once all thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls had been fully embedded, everything would be complete.

However, this was vastly different from what Lu Xuan had originally imagined. He had initially believed that every Sea-Calming Pearl could evolve into a heavenly world.

After all, in the original trajectory of the Primordial World, Burning Lamp Daoist had used the Heaven-Earth Ruler and twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls to transform them into the Twenty-Four Heavens, thereby attaining the Buddha Patriarch's fruition.

But once he truly began, Lu Xuan discovered that this was not the case at all. He even felt that evolving heavenly worlds was utterly weak; it was nowhere near the limit.

Lu Xuan had now finally completed the fusion of the Heaven-Earth Ruler and the Sea-Calming Pearls. All that remained was to embed every Sea-Calming Pearl into its slot, and the answer would be revealed.

After taking a deep breath, Lu Xuan held the thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls and the Heaven-Earth Ruler in his palm at the same time.

As Lu Xuan refined them with his natal heartfire, the Heaven-Earth Ruler and Sea-Calming Pearls slowly floated into the air. Above Lu Xuan's head, a unique diagram manifested.

As the natal heartfire continued to refine them, the diagram began to change irregularly. In the end, the thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls transformed into thirty-six streaks of light and embedded themselves directly into the Heaven-Earth Ruler.

In an instant, brilliant light burst from the Heaven-Earth Ruler. It had clearly reached the grade of an Innate Supreme Treasure and was renamed the Heaven-Earth Sea-Calming Ruler.

Compared with something like the Twenty-Four Heavens, the Heaven-Earth Sea-Calming Ruler at the grade of an Innate Supreme Treasure was what truly sent Lu Xuan into wild ecstasy.

Lu Xuan gently stroked the Heaven-Earth Sea-Calming Ruler, and an indescribably profound sensation instantly enveloped him.

The next moment, Lu Xuan unexpectedly heard waves of dragon roars surrounding him. Violent golden dragon aura surged continuously around his body.

The violent dragon aura condensed into phantom images of nine-clawed golden dragons, constantly appearing and fading before Lu Xuan.

Yet all of this was merely superficial. Very soon, Lu Xuan sensed a complete network of meridians within those golden dragon phantoms.

The birth of each golden dragon phantom represented the formation of a new meridian. Conversely, the fading of a golden dragon phantom represented a meridian being devoured by the main meridian.

Gradually, Lu Xuan became completely immersed in the birth and fusion of the meridians. It was as though those meridians being born and fused were the meridians within his own body.

No one knew how much time passed before Lu Xuan slowly opened his eyes. He then murmured to himself.

"Pangu's meridians evolved into the Ancient Dragon Clan. His hair and nails evolved into the Phoenix Clan and the Qilin Clan."

"This Heaven-Earth Sea-Calming Ruler is a map of Pangu's meridians. That is why it manifests in the form of nine-clawed golden dragons."

"And I can clearly sense that within the Primordial World, there are two more Innate Supreme Treasures corresponding to the Phoenix Clan and the Qilin Clan?"

"Unfortunately, in my understanding of the Primordial World, there is not the slightest information about these two treasures. Like this Heaven-Earth Sea-Calming Ruler, they likely have not appeared in the Primordial World due to insufficient fate."

Just then, Lu Xuan heard a burst of arguing from outside. When he extended his divine sense to inspect the situation, his expression instantly darkened.

"Bold Demon Race! You are courting death!"

It was no wonder Lu Xuan was so furious. The two great Demon Marshals of the Demon Race had led tens of thousands of demons to Wuyi Mountain.

They had openly declared Wuyi Mountain to be Demon Race territory and intended to drive out Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters. At this moment, both sides were locked in a confrontation.

The next moment, Lu Xuan vanished from his thatched cottage and appeared directly before Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters.