Seclusion Until Dao Attainment

"Hmph!" Great Peng emerged from the Blood God Palace, gazing up at the bright sky and letting out a long sigh.

Looking back at the palace's now-closed gates, Great Peng still felt as if he were waking from a dream.

Though he was reluctant to admit it, Great Peng knew he had essentially sold himself into servitude as someone's mount.

He wondered what his elder brother's reaction would be if he ever found out about this.

After a moment's thought, Great Peng shook his head. Looking at the Phoenix Tree in his hand, he opened his mouth and swallowed it.

Inside his body, there was a space where he could store things, much like the treasures he had acquired before.

This time, he had completely lost his Innate Yin-Yang Origin, but he had managed to retrieve the Innate Phoenix Tree.

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

Great Peng didn't linger. He found a palace next to the Blood God Palace and went inside.

Then, he closed the door and began to cultivate.

There was no other way; Minghe had set a goal for him: to quickly cultivate to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

And he was currently only at the mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

This was no small feat, but fortunately, he had now aligned himself with a powerful being.

Minghe had given him some guidance just now, which had been incredibly beneficial. He now had a very clear understanding of how to cultivate.

Unlike before, when he had to rely on his own exploration, with at most some inherited memories.

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

Great Peng's choice to exchange this Origin for the Innate Phoenix Tree had somewhat surprised Minghe.

But it was perfect. With the Innate Yin-Yang Origin, Minghe could cultivate the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light spiritual power.

Combined with the Innate Five-Colored Divine Light, these two major spiritual powers were equivalent to the combined potential of Kong Xuan and Great Peng.

This was naturally of great benefit to Minghe.

Minghe sat on the Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and inhaled the Innate Yin-Yang Origin.

Instantly, the swirling black and white Innate Yin-Yang Origin poured into Minghe's mouth and was swallowed into his body.

Great Peng's Innate Yin-Yang Origin was no longer pure. After he extracted it to forge the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, not only was the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle a Postnatal Spirit Treasure, but the Innate Yin-Yang Origin itself had also been tainted by postnatal impurities, rendering it impure.

However, by using the Innate Five-Colored Divine Light to refine this Innate Yin-Yang Origin, Minghe could remove these postnatal traces and restore it to its innate state.

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

The Innate Five-Colored Divine Light rotated, red, white, black, yellow, and green, its five elements in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, dissolving the postnatal impurities within the Yin-Yang Origin.

With Minghe's powerful cultivation and the might of the Five-Colored Divine Light, the Yin-Yang Origin quickly shed all postnatal contaminants, returning to its innate state.

As the Yin-Yang Origin returned to its innate state, becoming the Innate Yin-Yang Origin once more, Minghe began to refine this Origin into the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light spiritual power.

"Rumble!"

As Minghe cultivated the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light, a powerful aura emanated from his body.

The spiritual energy within the entire Blood God Palace began to surge and sweep towards Minghe.

Furthermore, various phenomena appeared, as if heaven and earth were inverting.

All kinds of movements, water and fire, life and death, truth and illusion, emptiness and substance, light and dark—all opposing yin and yang forces became inverted and chaotic.

In the end, everything within the palace became a hazy blur, indistinguishable between reality and illusion. Even time and space lost their meaning, as if returning to Chaos.

This was precisely the sign of Minghe cultivating the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light, causing heaven and earth's yin and yang to invert, everything to become chaotic, and even yin and yang to reverse, transforming into Chaos.

The power of the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light seemed even more potent than the Innate Five-Colored Divine Light.

Moreover, not only that, but Minghe had now cultivated the two major spiritual powers of Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements.

These two major spiritual powers, faintly, seemed to complement and combine with each other.

This elevated the power of these two spiritual powers to an even higher level.

"Rumble!"

Minghe's aura surged again, and a rumbling sound came from within his body.

This was because, after cultivating the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light, the combination of Yin, Yang, and Five Elements greatly increased its power, finally allowing him to successfully refine the last remaining Pangu's Essence Blood.

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

At this realm, Minghe's cultivation had reached the limit below that of a Saint, or a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.

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

Behind Minghe, two divine lights, one black and one white, surged upwards, followed by five-colored divine lights of red, white, black, yellow, and green.

The Yin-Yang Divine Light and the Five-Colored Divine Light shone in unison, faintly combining to form an even more powerful spiritual power.

Minghe called this the Chaos Divine Light. This Chaos Divine Light contained both Yin and Yang, as well as the Five Elements.

It could brush away all things within Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements, possessing even greater mysteries and transformations, with unimaginable power.

Minghe slowly retracted the Chaos Divine Light, and the aura emanating from his body gradually subsided.

Minghe opened his eyes and let out a long breath. Just then, a system prompt suddenly sounded in his mind.

"Ding, detected that the host's cultivation has reached the peak of Hunyuan Golden Immortal. The host can make the following choices."

"Choice One: Continue to cultivate in seclusion until Dao Proving Through Laws and become a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal. Reward: Book of Life and Death and Judge's Brush."

"Choice Two: The host can follow destiny and create the Asura Clan in the Sea of Blood. Reward: Su Se Yun Jie Flag."

After hearing the system's prompt, Minghe couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart. He had actually reached this point without even realizing it.

He was only one step away from attaining Dao.

Moreover, Minghe felt that his Dao Proving Through Laws was a natural progression.

He just needed to continue comprehending the laws, allowing his Primordial Spirit and physical body to gradually transform, completely becoming a Law Body, and that would be the time he attained Dao.

With two choices before him, Minghe took a deep breath and silently said in his heart to the System, "System, I choose Option One. I will cultivate in seclusion until I attain Dao."

These two choices were actually very easy to make. Between attaining Dao and following destiny, Minghe would naturally not be foolish enough to create the Asura Clan.

Even if he were to create them, it wouldn't be at this time.

Now, he was on the verge of success after years of careful planning. After being steady for so many years, he finally saw hope for attaining Dao.

Minghe would naturally not take unnecessary risks. His goal was singular: to remain in seclusion until he became a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.