Seclusion Until He Proves the Dao

"Phew!" Great Peng emerged from the Blood God Palace, looked up at the bright sky, and let out a long breath.

Glancing back at the palace's now-closed gates, Great Peng still felt as though he had just woken from a dream.

Though he was unwilling to admit it, Great Peng knew that he had essentially sold himself to become someone's mount.

He wondered what reaction his elder brother would have if he learned of this.

After thinking it over, Great Peng shook his head. Looking at the Phoenix Tree in his hand, he opened his mouth and swallowed it.

There was a space within his body where he could store things. The magic treasures from before had been kept there as well.

This time, he had completely lost his Innate Yin-Yang Origin, but he had also recovered this Innate Phoenix Tree.

If he found the opportunity in the future, he could send the Innate Phoenix Tree back to the Volcano of Immortality.

Great Peng did not linger for long. He found a palace beside the Blood God Palace and walked inside.

He then shut the doors and began cultivating as well.

It could not be helped. Minghe had set him a goal: to reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm as quickly as possible.

Yet he was currently only a Mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal.

This goal was no easy one, but fortunately, he could now be considered to have attached himself to a great power.

Minghe had given him some guidance just now, and he had gained immensely from it. He now had a very clear understanding of how to cultivate.

Unlike before, when he could only explore on his own, relying at most on fragments of inherited memories.

Meanwhile, after Great Peng left, Minghe turned his attention to that mass of Innate Yin-Yang Origin within the Blood God Palace.

Great Peng's choice to exchange this origin for the Innate Phoenix Tree had caught Minghe somewhat by surprise.

But this was perfect. With the Innate Yin-Yang Origin, Minghe could cultivate the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light divine ability once more.

Together with the Innate Five-Colored Divine Light, these two great divine abilities were equivalent to combining Kong Xuan's and Great Peng's talents.

Naturally, this would bring Minghe tremendous benefits.

Minghe sat cross-legged atop the Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and inhaled the mass of Innate Yin-Yang Origin.

At once, the black-and-white Innate Yin-Yang Origin twisted together and streamed into Minghe's mouth, where he swallowed it into his body.

Great Peng's Innate Yin-Yang Origin was no longer pure. After he extracted it and refined it into the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, the resulting bottle had become only a Houtian Spiritual Treasure.

Moreover, the Innate Yin-Yang Origin itself had been tainted by Houtian impurity and was no longer pure.

However, if Minghe used the Innate Five-Colored Divine Light to temper the Innate Yin-Yang Origin, he could remove those Houtian traces and refine it back into an innate state.

As Minghe swallowed the Innate Yin-Yang Origin into his body, it descended into the Innate Five-Colored Divine Light.

The Innate Five-Colored Divine Light revolved. Red, white, black, yellow, and blue—its Five Elements cycled forward and backward, dissolving the Houtian aura within the Yin-Yang Origin.

With Minghe's formidable cultivation, combined with the power of the Five-Colored Divine Light, the Yin-Yang Origin swiftly shed every impure trace of Houtian contamination and returned to its innate state.

As the Yin-Yang Origin returned to its innate state and became Innate Yin-Yang Origin once more, Minghe began refining it into the divine ability of Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light.

"Rumble!"

As Minghe cultivated the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light, a tyrannical aura burst forth from his body.

The spiritual qi within the Blood God Palace gradually began to surge, sweeping toward Minghe.

All manner of phenomena appeared as well, as though heaven and earth, yin and yang, had been turned upside down.

Water and fire, life and death, truth and illusion, emptiness and reality, light and darkness—everything opposing within yin and yang became inverted and chaotic.

In the end, everything within the palace became a vast haze. It was impossible to distinguish truth from illusion; even time and space lost their meaning, as though all had returned to chaos.

This was the sign that Minghe had cultivated the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light. It overturned heaven and earth, yin and yang, throwing everything into disorder and even reversing yin and yang into chaos.

The Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light seemed to be several times more powerful than even the Innate Five-Colored Divine Light.

And that was not all. Minghe had now cultivated the two great divine abilities of yin-yang and the Five Elements.

These two divine abilities seemed faintly to complement one another, merging together.

This raised the power of both divine abilities to an even higher level.

"Rumble!"

Minghe's aura shook once more, and a roaring sound came from within his body.

After cultivating the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light, the fusion of yin-yang and the Five Elements had greatly increased its power, finally allowing him to refine the last remnants of Pangu's Essence Blood.

This caused Minghe's cultivation to break through once again, finally reaching the perfected realm of Hunyuan Golden Immortal.

Having reached this realm, Minghe's cultivation had arrived at the absolute limit below a Saint—below a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.

One step further, and he would prove the Dao and become a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Behind Minghe, two divine lights, one black and one white, first shot into the air. Then five more divine lights—red, white, black, yellow, and blue—followed.

The Yin-Yang Divine Light and the Five-Colored Divine Light reflected one another. Faintly, as they merged together, they transformed into an even more powerful divine ability.

Minghe called it the Chaos Divine Light. This Chaos Divine Light contained both yin-yang and the Five Elements.

Anything within yin-yang and the Five Elements could be swept away by it. Moreover, it possessed even more profound mysteries and transformations, with unimaginable power.

Minghe slowly withdrew the Chaos Divine Light, and the aura around him gradually settled.

Minghe opened his eyes and exhaled slowly. But at that moment, the system's notification suddenly rang out in his mind.

"Ding! Detected that the host's cultivation has reached the perfected Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm. The host may make one of the following choices."

"Choice One: Continue cultivating in seclusion until proving the Dao through laws and becoming a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal. Reward: Book of Life and Death and Judge's Brush."

"Choice Two: The host may follow the mandate of heaven and create the Asura Clan within the Blood Sea. Reward: Su Se Yun Jie Flag."

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After hearing the system's prompt, Minghe's heart stirred. Had he unknowingly reached this point already?

He was only one final step away from proving the Dao.

Moreover, Minghe felt that proving the Dao through laws would come naturally to him.

As long as he continued comprehending the laws and gradually transformed both his primordial spirit and physical body into bodies of laws, the time would come for him to prove the Dao.

With the two choices before him, Minghe took a deep breath and silently said to the system, "System, I choose the first option. I will remain in seclusion until I prove the Dao."

These two choices were actually easy to make. Between proving the Dao and following the mandate of heaven, Minghe naturally would not be foolish enough to go create some Asura Clan.

Even if he were going to create them, now was not the time.

Now, he was on the verge of finally emerging after lying low for so long. After being cautious for all these years, he had finally seen hope of proving the Dao.

Naturally, Minghe would not take needless risks. He had only one goal: remain in seclusion until he became a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.