He even dug out the last Spirit Vein beneath the ground. Mount Fangzhang was practically ruined now.
Before long, the innate grand array shrouding the island would collapse as well once its spiritual energy ran dry.
Of course, Minghe did not care about that. After all, he himself was the culprit.
After stripping away the last underground Spirit Vein, the island truly became an empty island.
Minghe felt no attachment whatsoever. With a flicker of his body, he turned into a streak of Evasion Light and departed from the island.
After leaving Mount Fangzhang, Minghe did not wander around. Instead, he headed directly back to his lair in the Netherworld Blood Sea.
This time, his gains had been enormous.
Especially after encountering the Hollow Willow Tree and obtaining that spiritual root, he had inherited much of Yang Mei's experience with Dao Proving Through Laws.
This made Minghe even more certain of his future path to attaining the Dao, leaving him no need to continue wandering outside.
After all, Minghe had already obtained what he wanted. What mattered most now was returning to his Dao Field and cultivating in silence.
If he did not cry out, so be it; once he did, he would astonish the world!
When he attained the Dao through laws in the future, he would surely shake heaven and earth!
Minghe flew at great speed, for this time he had comprehended another law: the Space Law.
It was like Dijiang, the space ancestor witch among the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who was also known as the ancestor witch of speed.
The Space Law greatly enhanced one's speed.
Minghe's journey took only a few hundred years before he returned to the Blood Sea.
After returning to the Blood Sea, Minghe entered seclusion once more to comprehend and cultivate.
Time passed in a flash, and several tens of thousands of years went by in the blink of an eye.
Throughout those tens of thousands of years, Minghe cultivated painstakingly in seclusion within the Blood Sea, contemplating the mysteries of Dao Proving Through Laws.
Ever since returning from Mount Fangzhang, his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, becoming increasingly profound and terrifying.
Although his realm remained at the early stage of Hunyuan Golden Immortal, he gave off the feeling that even a late-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal—equivalent to a late-stage Quasi-Saint who had Severed the Three Corpses—might not be his match.
That feeling was not without basis. It was real, because Minghe had already grasped the mysteries of Dao Proving Through Laws and understood the method of attaining the Dao through laws.
He had also formally begun cultivating Dao Proving Through Laws, gaining this level of strength as a result.
Through studying Yang Mei's experience with Dao Proving Through Laws, Minghe had learned that it was not as simple as merely comprehending laws.
One also had to integrate laws into oneself, transform oneself, and turn one's body—including one's primordial spirit—into a body of laws, a god of laws.
Once cultivated to the extreme, one would become the incarnation of laws, the incarnation of the Dao.
One's own thoughts and will would replace the will of the laws themselves.
Thus, over these tens of thousands of years, Minghe had continuously tempered his fleshly body and primordial spirit with all kinds of laws.
He made his fleshly body and primordial spirit accommodate those various laws, absorb them, and bring them under his control.
Minghe's fleshly body and primordial spirit naturally grew stronger as a result.
Though his realm had not risen, his strength had increased by at least tenfold compared to before.
Moreover, as he continued comprehending laws and integrating them into himself, his fleshly body and primordial spirit would continue growing stronger.
They would grow ever stronger, until his fleshly body and primordial spirit reached their limits and could no longer accommodate any more.
That would be when Minghe had cultivated Dao Proving Through Laws to its utmost limit.
At that time, Minghe could truly begin proving the Dao through laws. Once he succeeded, he would become the incarnation of laws, and every movement he made would embody the laws.
The embodiment of the Dao!
However, Minghe's Dao Proving Through Laws was still very different from Yang Mei's.
Yang Mei's Dao Proving Through Laws involved only one law: the Space Law. Neither his body nor primordial spirit would accommodate any other laws.
But Minghe was different. He had long understood the principle that the Three Thousand Great Daos all led to the same destination.
Therefore, Minghe accepted all kinds of laws without exception, able to accommodate them all within his body and primordial spirit.
Of course, Minghe's primary cultivation was still the Law of Slaughter, and he intended to attain the Dao through the Law of Slaughter.
Therefore, the law integrated into his body that occupied the dominant position was still the Law of Slaughter.
The other various laws were resources Minghe used to nourish the Law of Slaughter.
He used all kinds of other laws to allow the Law of Slaughter to absorb, fuse with, and strengthen itself.
And beneath the encirclement of countless laws, the Law of Slaughter could also receive better tempering.
That was the difference between Minghe's Dao Proving Through Laws and Yang Mei's.
When Minghe cultivated Dao Proving Through Laws to its extreme, it would be the moment when his Law of Slaughter absorbed every other law.
By then, Minghe believed that his Law of Slaughter would become incomparably powerful!
It would definitely surpass a single-law path to proving the Dao like Yang Mei's.
There were so many laws in this world. If one cultivated only a single law while ignoring all the others, it would truly be a waste.
On this day, Minghe was still cultivating in seclusion when the system's notification suddenly rang out in his mind.
"Ding, it has been detected that Laozi has comprehended the opportunity to become a Saint and is about to establish the Human Religion to prove the Dao. The host may make one of the following choices."
"Choice one: Prevent Laozi from establishing the Human Religion. Reward: One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones."
"Choice two: Ignore this matter. Reward: one Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir."
Hearing the system's notification, Minghe opened his eyes, a glint flashing through them.
Minghe let out a long breath and raised his head, seeming to gaze through the palace at the sky beyond.
"Is the era of Saints truly about to arrive?" Minghe muttered to himself.
He knew very well what Laozi establishing the Human Religion meant. It meant that the remaining Five Saints were all about to prove the Dao as well.
On this very day, the Five Saints would emerge together. Together with Nuwa, that made Six Saints.
The six Saints Hongjun had designated during his teachings at Zixiao Palace would all take their places.
This marked the arrival of a brand-new era!
The Six Saints would emerge together.
Every other great mighty figure would be overshadowed into obscurity.
And with the emergence of the Six Saints, the Witch-Demon Calamity would rapidly accelerate as well.
What was meant to come had finally come.
Minghe sighed. Yet in his heart, he made his choice without the slightest hesitation. "System, I choose option two."
Preventing Laozi from establishing his religion was impossible.
Though he had the strength to stop Laozi, Minghe could not stop the will of Heaven!
The will of Heaven was like a blade, cutting down all those who defied Heaven!
Minghe did not yet possess the ability to defy Heaven, so it was better for him to follow Heaven's course.
If Laozi wanted to establish a religion, then let him do so.
As for Laozi establishing his religion and taking away some of the Human Race's destiny, with his current strength, Minghe could not meddle in such matters anyway, could he?
As Minghe made his choice, the reward was quickly issued.
A Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir. This Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir could be called Laozi's signature creation.
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