Attaining the Dao of Daluo

"One: end your seclusion. The Dragon God emerges from the sea and leads the Dragon Race to contend for supremacy over the Primordial World once more. The system shuts down."

"Two: remain in seclusion for ten million years and cultivate diligently. Reward: the Method of Opening an Inner World."

Looking at the Seclusion System's options, Ao Changsheng chose the second without hesitation.

It wasn't that Ao Changsheng knew what the second option's reward, the Method of Opening an Inner World, was. The point was that the first option wasn't something any dragon would do!

The Dragon God emerges from the sea?

That sounds nice.

He, a Taiyi Golden Immortal, was supposed to lead the fallen Dragon Race in a bid for supremacy over the Primordial World in this era?

There would be no need to wait for the other races of the Primordial World. The Dragon Race as it was now would blast Ao Changsheng to death, each dragon contributing a breath of dragonfire.

As Ao Changsheng grumbled, he absorbed the information about the Method of Opening an Inner World that had appeared in his mind.

Once Ao Changsheng had absorbed and digested all the information on the Method of Opening an Inner World, his face suddenly lit up with wild joy.

Honestly, Ao Changsheng hadn't originally thought much of the Method of Opening an Inner World he had been rewarded with.

In the Primordial World, anyone who reached the Golden Immortal realm could open a small realm within it.

Upon reaching the Daluo realm, one could even truly open up an independent Small Thousand World in Chaos, separate from the Primordial World.

However, such worlds could not remotely compare to the Primordial World in scale, Spiritual Qi, or world origin.

To a Daluo, such worlds were meaningless, except for amusement.

Yet this unassuming Method of Opening an Inner World had given Ao Changsheng an enormous surprise.

The Method of Opening an Inner World was actually a method of attaining the Dao.

Moreover, it was a method of attaining the Dao that differed from both the traditional Dao of Hunyuan and Hongjun's Dao of Severing the Three Corpses.

The Method of Opening a World Within the Body was cultivated starting at the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm and involved no comprehension of Principles whatsoever.

It was a strange method of condensing a world seed with one's own will and one's own essence, Qi, and spirit.

One would then nourish and nurture the world seed with great Law Power. When the time came, the world seed would transform into a Small Thousand World.

This differed from the way Golden Immortals and Daluo opened worlds, using their own comprehension to construct them.

The world seed's transformation into a Small Thousand World was a natural evolution, a world born through evolution under the influence of the supreme rules of boundless Chaos.

During the process of the world's transformation, the consciousness of the world seed's creator could merge into the world and comprehend its natural evolution alongside it.

Under these circumstances, unless one's comprehension was appallingly poor, one could grasp what a world was and what the Dao of the World was during the world's evolution.

Once the world was formed, Daluo would follow naturally!

Thereafter, the world would carry one's Law Power. Even an initial Small Thousand World could carry a thousand or ten thousand times more Law Power than an ordinary Daluo Golden Immortal.

When the world within his body became a Great Thousand World, the Law Power accumulated within it would be enough for Ao Changsheng to attain the Dao through force and achieve a Hunyuan Dao Fruit that could rival a Sage.

And if the world within his body could compare to the Primordial World, Ao Changsheng could even use that incomparably vast Law Power as a foundation to attain the Dao of Pangu and reopen the Primordial World!

However...

The greatest problem in cultivating the Method of Opening an Inner World was resources.

To make a world evolve, one needed enormous resources to nurture its world origin.

Without the Seclusion System,

Ao Changsheng could only cultivate this method by going to the Primordial World, searching for resources, and gradually devouring the Primordial World to make his world grow.

But the result of doing so would be that the Primordial World would detest him, and even the vast majority of its living beings would instinctively hate and regard Ao Changsheng as an enemy.

But Ao Changsheng's Seclusion System could provide him with unlimited Innate Spiritual Qi.

What was Innate Spiritual Qi? Even in the Primordial World at this time, it was an exceedingly rare, high-grade Spiritual Qi.

Compared to ordinary Spiritual Qi, it contained more than a thousand or ten thousand times as much energy.

Even for a Daluo Golden Immortal, Innate Spiritual Qi was enough to rapidly increase one's Law Power cultivation.

And for a world, Innate Spiritual Qi might not be an efficient means of nurturing it, but it was unquestionably the most suitable.

Ao Changsheng's heart could not help but beat faster.

With unlimited Innate Spiritual Qi to support him, he could already envision his inner world growing at breakneck speed and supporting him as he attained the Dao of Hunyuan.

"The Dao Path has appeared; attaining the Dao is within reach!"

The shore of the East Sea.

Feeling the pulsing world seed, Ao Changsheng's heart was as still as an ancient well.

He was about to break through!

Endless Innate Spiritual Qi was drawn in and absorbed, merging into the world on the verge of taking shape at the very center of Ao Changsheng's dragon body.

"World within the body!"

"Form!"

Ao Changsheng gave a clear shout.

The projection of a churning Chaos void slowly emerged around him.

Infinite space stretched outward, endless matter came into being, and boundless energy emerged.

It seemed like an instant, and yet also like billions of years. At last... time began to flow, and all the space, matter, and energy were linked together the instant "time" began to flow.

A world!

Was born!

Throughout the world's entire evolution, Ao Changsheng's consciousness clearly perceived everything.

The True Intention of the world flowed through his heart, and the mysteries of the world emerged in his consciousness. The projection of the newborn world slowly returned to Ao Changsheng's dragon body.

Above Ao Changsheng's head, three illusory flower buds slowly emerged from the void, becoming real.

Ao Changsheng's eyes snapped open, and the radiance of a world flashed within them.

"Daluo realm!"

"Break!"

Another clear shout rang out.

The might of the world within Ao Changsheng's body empowered the three flowers that had appeared above his head, while vast Law Power poured into them without end.

The flowers bloomed at the first grade.

The flowers bloomed at the second grade.

The flowers bloomed at the third grade... In the blink of an eye, the three flowers above Ao Changsheng's head had bloomed at the twelfth grade, displaying the potential to attain the Dao!

The grade at which the three flowers atop a Daluo Golden Immortal's head bloomed reflected that Daluo's past achievements in cultivation, as well as his future cultivation potential.

They were a Dao Fruit condensed from everything on a Daluo's path of cultivation: aptitude, foundation, Law Power, Divine Abilities, cultivation methods, mastery of the Dao, and so on.

Flowers blooming below the third grade meant there was essentially no potential to advance further;

A Daluo whose flowers bloomed at the sixth grade had the potential to advance further, to Perfection Daluo;

A Daluo whose flowers bloomed at the ninth grade had the possibility of breaking through Daluo and becoming a Quasi-Sage;

And flowers blooming at the twelfth grade, like Ao Changsheng's, signified the potential to attain the Dao!

The illusory yet real three flowers of the twelfth grade slowly joined together, overlapping and interweaving, while their open blossoms closed once more.

At that moment, the newly opened world within Ao Changsheng's body trembled slightly, projecting itself into the three overlapping, closed flower buds.

In an instant,

The closed flowers quietly bloomed, opening at the thirty-sixth grade and giving rise to a Daluo Dao Fruit, within which the radiance of a world flickered.