The Second Sermon, Primordial Golden Immortal

"So soon, it was already time to preach the Dao again?" Dao Xuan opened his eyes in Chaos Palace and muttered to himself.

Without giving it further thought, Dao Xuan summoned the two attendants, gave them a few instructions, and left Chaos Island.

He transformed into a streak of light and flew straight toward the chaos beyond the heavens.

Dao Xuan's progress over the years had been tremendous. If he wished, he could break through and become a Primordial Golden Immortal at any time.

Even without breaking through, with his current cultivation at the Perfected Great Principle Golden Immortal realm, Dao Xuan could still battle a Primordial Golden Immortal or a Quasi-Saint.

However, this did not mean Dao Xuan possessed the ability to fight across realms.

Rather, it was due to the uniqueness of his World-Proving Dao. Ultimately, Dao Xuan's method of attaining the Dao was actually quite similar to that of the Saints of the Primordial World.

The Saints of the Primordial World were granted Karmic Ranks and power by the Heavenly Dao, allowing them to wield strength comparable to that of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortals.

As for Dao Xuan, he had opened up his own Inner World, and his Primordial Spirit had become the Heavenly Dao of that Inner World.

As a result, the power of the entire Inner World could be completely mobilized by Dao Xuan.

Was this not much the same as Saints borrowing the power of the Heavenly Dao?

Dao Xuan could even mobilize the power of his Inner World more easily than Saints could mobilize the power of the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao.

After all, one was merely authorization granted by the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao, while the other was the master of a world using the power of his own world. How could there be any obstruction?

The reason the two were said to be similar was that both could mobilize the power of a world. The difference was simply that one could only mobilize part of it, while the other could mobilize all of it.

Moreover, Dao Xuan had another advantage over Saints: Saints could only use the power of the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao after becoming Saints.

As for Dao Xuan? From the moment he opened up this world, its power had begun serving his use.

Thus, whether Dao Xuan was a Great Principle Golden Immortal, a Primordial Golden Immortal, or even a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, he could freely mobilize the power of this Lesser Thousand World.

Although Dao Xuan was still a Great Principle Golden Immortal, once he mobilized the power of the Lesser Thousand World, he could instantly possess strength comparable to that of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

Ultimately, it was already somewhat difficult to define Dao Xuan's strength purely by his realm.

The key lay in how much power his Inner World could provide him.

That was Dao Xuan's true strength.

Still, although Dao Xuan had not yet broken through to become a Primordial Golden Immortal, that day was not far off.

The scale of his Inner World had already reached the limit of a Lesser Thousand World.

As he continued over the years to comprehend the three thousand Great Dao laws, harmonize and organize them, and integrate them into the Lesser Thousand World, Dao Xuan's Inner World was nearing the point of advancement.

Once the Inner World advanced into a Middle Thousand World, Dao Xuan's cultivation would naturally break through as well, and he would become a Primordial Golden Immortal.

With the power of a Middle Thousand World also available for him to freely mobilize, Dao Xuan would not be weak even among Primordial Golden Immortals.

Dao Xuan passed through the layer of astral winds and the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, traversed the chaos, and smoothly entered Zixiao Palace.

He still sat in his original seat.

This time, Houtu, the Ancestral Witch of Earth beside him, had come again.

However, the two merely exchanged glances and still said nothing. They quietly sat there, waiting for Hongjun to appear and preach the Dao.

As time passed, more and more great powers arrived at Zixiao Palace. Yet some faces had changed, clearly indicating that certain great powers had fallen over the years.

Other great powers had come to Zixiao Palace to fill their places.

Finally, once all three thousand great powers had arrived, Hongjun's figure silently appeared on the Dao platform before them.

Hongjun swept his gaze over the crowd below the platform before saying, "Before this sermon begins, I shall explain the realms of cultivation to you."

The moment these words were spoken, everyone below the platform became extremely curious. They truly did not know what realm lay above the Great Principle Golden Immortal.

In the Primordial World, aside from Dao Xuan, this aberrant transmigrator, only an extremely small number of beings knew that the realm above the Great Principle Golden Immortal was the Primordial Golden Immortal.

After all, since the creation of heaven and earth, there had truly not been many powerhouses in the Primordial World whose cultivation surpassed the Great Principle Golden Immortal realm.

During the first Calamity Cycle since the creation of heaven and earth, the Beast Calamity, there had been only one being whose cultivation surpassed the Great Principle Golden Immortal realm and reached the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.

That was Shenni, the emperor of the ferocious beasts.

It was only during the second Calamity Cycle, the Dragon-Han Calamity, that Primordial Golden Immortal-level powerhouses became more numerous.

For instance, the ancestors of the dragon, phoenix, and Qilin clans were all Primordial Golden Immortals.

In addition, there were powerhouses connected to the Chaos Demon Gods, such as Hongjun, Luohu, Five Elements Ancestor, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Qiankun Ancestor, Yangmei Immortal, and others.

Even so, their number did not exceed ten.

Therefore, although the realm of Primordial Golden Immortal had existed long ago, the crowd truly knew nothing of it.

Many had even regarded Hongjun the Saint as the realm beyond the Great Principle Golden Immortal.

Ignoring their reactions, Hongjun continued, "The Immortal Dao System of the Primordial World was established jointly by several Dao friends and myself. It begins with Earth Immortal, followed by Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, Golden Immortal, Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and Great Principle Golden Immortal. Each realm is divided into the early, middle, late, and perfected stages."

"Yet few know that above the Great Principle Golden Immortal lies another realm: the Primordial Golden Immortal. It is not that we were unwilling to spread this knowledge, but rather that exceedingly few can reach this realm."

The crowd below the platform was utterly shocked upon hearing this. Who could have imagined that the system of Immortal Dao realms had been established by Hongjun and several Dao friends?

What an unimaginable thing that was. And what kind of beings could be Dao friends to a Saint like Hongjun?

Could it be that there was more than one Saint in heaven and earth? Were there other Saints? Where were those Saints?

At last, everyone also learned that the realm above the Great Principle Golden Immortal was called the Primordial Golden Immortal.

The very name of this realm sounded profoundly mysterious, and they felt that it surely contained immense profundity.

Yet doubts also arose within them. The realm above the Great Principle Golden Immortal was called the Primordial Golden Immortal.

Then why did Hongjun call himself a Saint?

Could it be that the Primordial Golden Immortal was not yet a Saint, and that Saint was a realm higher than the Primordial Golden Immortal?

Ignoring the crowd, Hongjun continued, "It is exceedingly difficult to become a Primordial Golden Immortal. Leaving aside the earlier Beast Calamity, even in the more recent Dragon-Han Calamity, only a scant few attained it."

"There is no fixed method for becoming a Primordial Golden Immortal. More often than not, one must break through some limit of one's own, whether it be magical power, divine abilities, laws, or something else."

"However, once one attains it, the strength of a Primordial Golden Immortal is worlds apart from that of a Great Principle Golden Immortal."