He Teaches, I Learn; He Learns, I Teach

Yuan Ming summoned a cloud of light and headed all the way east.

This Ancestor Hong Yun truly lived up to his prehistoric reputation as a notorious softhearted man with a warm and eager desire to help others.

Seeing that Yuan Ming was the ancestor of the human race yet possessed shallow cultivation, cared deeply for his tribe, and carried himself with upright character, he could not help but feel a surge of fondness.

As the journey stretched on, he took the initiative to speak up and began guiding Yuan Ming in the art of flying and escaping.

"Little friend Yuan Ming, your cloud-treading method is upright and peaceful, and the circulation of your magical power is quite ingenious, yet it lacks flexibility and, more importantly, a sense of momentum."

When it came to the art of escaping, Ancestor Hong Yun could be called a peerless grandmaster of the primeval world.

His innate divine power, Transforming Rainbow Extreme Speed, was one of the top escaping techniques in heaven and earth, transforming the body into a streak of crimson-gold rainbow, as swift as lightning and unmatched in speed.

Speaking of sheer speed, compared to the Roc Soaring Nine Heavens upon which the demon master Kunpeng built his fame, it was probably superior rather than inferior!

Ancestor Hong Yun's mind stirred slightly, and the auspicious cloud beneath his feet instantly collapsed and condensed, his entire figure seeming to transform into a stream of light piercing the sky, vanishing ten thousand miles away in the blink of an eye.

His graceful posture and astonishing speed left Yuan Ming lost in admiration.

Perhaps he truly felt a bond with Yuan Ming, or perhaps he felt reluctant to let his own skills go waste, but Ancestor Hong Yun actually conceived the desire to impart his teachings.

"Little friend, you and I hit it off the moment we met. I see that your nature is pure and kind, and you shoulder a heavy responsibility. I will pass this shallow application method of Transforming Rainbow Extreme Speed on to you. I hope you will practice it diligently, so that if you encounter danger in the future, you will have an extra measure of self-preservation."

He held nothing back, explaining in detail the essential secrets of how to condense magical power, how to sense the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, and how to fuse one's own will with speed.

Yuan Ming's heart leaped with joy.

His thinking was pure and direct: he teaches, and I learn!

Ancestor Hong Yun's thinking was equally simple: he learns, and I teach!

One was willing to teach, and the other was willing to learn—it was just that simple.

Yuan Ming calmed his mind and focused, relying on his heaven-defying Great Dao Comprehension. Every single rune and every wispy flow of spiritual Qi described by Ancestor Hong Yun appeared as clear to him as the lines on his own palm.

That seemingly profound and mysterious rainbow-transforming method had its core essence swiftly analyzed, understood, and mastered by him.

In just a brief moment, Yuan Ming's surrounding magical power circulated along a specific trajectory, and a faint crimson-gold light began to emerge and flow across the surface of his body.

"Wonderful! Simply wonderful!" Ancestor Hong Yun clapped his hands in praise, his eyes full of appreciation. "Little friend's comprehension is truly unprecedented!"

He said no more, his figure shifted, and once again he transformed into a heaven-shaking rainbow.

And this time, Yuan Ming followed closely behind, the crimson-gold light around his body abruptly blazing forth!

"Swish—!"

A brand-new, slightly fledgling yet already embodying the initial spirit of the crimson-gold rainbow tore through the clouds, shooting toward the east at an incredible speed.

With the blessing of this prehistoric top-tier Transforming Rainbow Extreme Speed, the return journey that would have originally taken months or even years was compressed to the absolute limit.

Just a few days later, the familiar scent of the sea breeze rushed toward him.

Below, the Eastern Sea coast, shrouded in hazy sacred light, was already in sight!

Yuan Ming's heart was eager to return, and his speed increased by another thirty percent.

That dazzling rainbow light, like a shooting star flying backward, pierced the open sky and plunged straight toward the human sacred land.

In the Central Plains, after Yuan Ming's departure, everything seemed as usual.

Led by several True Immortal realm elders and following the plans left behind by Yuan Ming, the human race continued to reclaim land, build cities, and practice the Dao Scripture. Everything appeared orderly and full of vitality.

However, an intangible, starry-ocean-like vast aura had quietly descended.

On an unnamed hill not far from the human settlement, an old man with a crane-like complexion and youthful hair, dressed in a plain Daoist robe, had somehow seated himself cross-legged upon a blue boulder.

His figure was ethereal, seeming to merge seamlessly with the surrounding mountains, rivers, plants, and trees. Unless deliberately manifested, even a True Immortal passing by would find it hard to detect his existence.

The old man had an archaic countenance, and his gaze was as deep as if it contained the birth and death of the universe. There was no oppressive coercion around him, yet a profound and wondrous state of nature's dao flowed naturally from him.

He calmly gazed at the distant human tribe, where smoke curled from chimneys and tribesmen went back and forth to farm, a trace of inquiry and contemplation in his eyes.

This old man was none of other than the head of the three Pangu Pure Ones, the future Supreme Saint—Laozi.

Ever since Nüwa created humans and became a saint, shaking the prehistoric world, Laozi had secluded himself in Mount Kunlun to comprehend the Dao for a long time, yet he had never been able to grasp that elusive chance of attaining sagehood.

Tired of stillness, he finally left his Daoist abode and began wandering the prehistoric world, hoping to seek his own Dao path amidst the changes of all things.

Traveling to this western Central Plains far away from the Eastern Sea coast, he unexpectedly discovered the existence of the human race.

This greatly surprised him and at the same time aroused his intense interest.

Junior Sister Nüwa had relied on creating this race to receive boundless merits descending from heaven and instantly proven her Dao to become a Hunyuan saint.

What on earth was so special about this human race?

Therefore, Laozi chose to stop here. He wanted to observe with his own eyes whether this seemingly frail race contained the heavenly mysteries that even a saint could not fully fathom.

Of this matter, Yuan Ming, who was far away at the Eastern Sea coast, was completely unaware.

If he had known that a future Heavenly Dao Saint had descended upon the Central Plains at this moment and was silently watching the foundation he had built with his own hands, no matter what, he would not have chosen to leave at this juncture.

Shifting the view back to the Eastern Sea coast.

Yuan Ming crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, finally returning to the human ancestral land.

Today's ancestral land, because most of the acquired humans had migrated outward, appeared much emptier than before. Almost all those who stayed behind were innate humans.

Suiren, as the human ancestor, presided over all affairs of the ancestral land.

Seeing Yuan Ming return, he was overjoyed, immediately put down the matters at hand, and went out to welcome him personally.

"Fourth brother! You're finally back!" Suiren patted Yuan Ming's shoulder firmly, his face beaming with sincere joy.

He pulled Yuan Ming along, inquiring in detail about the hardships of the journey west, the scenery of the Central Plains, and the development status of the tribes.

When he heard that Yuan Ming had established a stable tribe in the Central Plains, and that the innate tribesmen who were originally at the Celestial Immortal realm had successively broken through to the True Immortal realm after practicing the new cultivation method, Suiren's eyes revealed unconcealed envy and gratification.

"Good! Excellent! For our human race to gain a foothold in the prehistoric world, fourth brother, your contribution is monumental!" Suiren sighed with emotion, then revealed a wry smile. "To tell you the truth, fourth brother, after you left, the situation here in the ancestral land was indeed just as you had anticipated."

It turned out that after the innate humans of the ancestral land successfully reversed their innate nature and stabilized their foundations by relying on the Four-Step Breathing Method, they had fallen into a bottleneck.

Although this breathing method was a supreme technique for human Foundation Establishment, its efficiency in cultivation beyond the innate realm had indeed become extremely low.

The tribesmen's cultivation progress was slow and had almost stagnated, which worried Suiren endlessly.

Hearing this, Yuan Ming said with a solemn expression, "Elder brother, my return this time is precisely for this matter."

Without further delay, he directly imparted the Dao Scripture, which he had deduced with painstaking effort, to Suiren.

This scripture pointed directly to the immortal dao with a complete system, and it was precisely the key to solving the human race's cultivation predicament.

"This Dao Scripture is a cultivation method I tailored specifically for the human race. It allows one to cultivate all the way to the True Immortal realm, and even to higher realms."

Yuan Ming earnestly exhorted, "Please, elder brother, make sure to pass it on to all tribesmen in the ancestral land for cultivation. At the same time, you must also find a way to send this scripture to elder brother Youshi, sister Ziyi, and the other migrated human tribes. This scripture shall serve as the foundation of our human heritage!"

Feeling the profound yet wondrous Daoist rhyme contained within the Dao Scripture that faintly resonated with human bloodlines, Suiren trembled slightly with excitement.

He tightly grasped Yuan Ming's hand and said in a deep voice, "Fourth brother, rest assured! This is a foundation that will benefit the entire clan for all ages. As your elder brother, I will personally supervise it, so that every single one of our human youths can step onto this heaven-reaching dao!"