The Great Dao: A Sixty-Year-Old Daoist’s Rise to Enlightenment

The first half of his life was spent in foolish innocence; the second, in a steady pursuit of truth.

After transmigrating to another world, Xuanming muddled through fifty-five years before awakening one day to a sudden understanding of his past. He then spent five years studying scriptures in the Scripture Pavilion. At sixty, as the calendrical cycle came full circle, he finally underwent a transformation-a late bloomer coming into his own.

With the Yellow Court Scripture in his mystic aperture and this world's Daoist canon as his foundation, he studies ancient texts to comprehend the Dao, observes heaven and earth, and devotes himself to cultivation, advancing steadily along his chosen path:

After reading three hundred scrolls, he comprehends the Primordial Unity Foundation Establishment Method.

After reading six hundred scrolls, he comprehends the Orthodox Method of the Five Thunders.

After reading nine hundred scrolls, he comprehends the Celestial Circuit Spirit-Nourishing Art.

By observing the movements of the stars, he creates the Heavenly Evolution Star Formation.

By studying the terrain of the netherworld, he establishes the Ninefold Netherworld Domain of Myriad Manifestations.

Know this: the wanderer among mists and rosy clouds beyond the mundane world is no mere mirror-polisher amid mortal dust.

Xuanming shuns trouble, his heart set solely on the Dao.

As for those who would disturb his peace of mind, he strokes the peachwood sword in his hand and smiles without a word.