Chapter 1: Crossing the Desolate Wilderness

  "Ah! Where is this?! Ah! It hurts so much!" A voice had barely reacted when it fell silent again, leaving only the surrounding air currents. Finally, after two thousand years, a voice echoed in this place once more: "So this is the primordial chaos of the dawn of heaven and earth!" Shi Zhong finally understood where he was after receiving the information in his mind - he had transmigrated, and it seemed he had done so a bit too thoroughly.

  The place where he is now is the Jade Capital Mountain, which was formed by a layer of clear air at the beginning of the creation of heaven. If Shi Zhong didn't remember wrong, this Jade Capital Mountain was later found by Hongyuan Old Ancestor and used as his cave before becoming a saint. What made Shi Zhong even more delighted was that he obtained a fragment of the Cihua Jade Butterfly, although it wasn't very large, but it was nearly one-fifth the size of the original. It's worth noting that the Cihua Jade Butterfly is a record of Pangu's own skills and his understanding of the great way, combined with the thirteen Hongmeng Purple Qi. What's precious about it is not only its rarity but also its ability to record one's future understanding of the great way, allowing oneself to better grasp and understand their own path.

  After thousands of years of sorting, Shi Zhong discovered that this fragment of the Causal Jade Butterfly not only contained a complete record of the Hongmeng Purple Qi of the Great Dao, but also recorded the remaining chapters of Pangu's cultivation method, the "Nine Turns of the Mysterious Origin". However, it was only a remnant, and only recorded the part about cultivating to the Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal. According to the introduction on the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Origin, one turn is Earthly Immortal, two turns are Heavenly Immortal, three turns are Golden Immortal, four turns are Great Luo Golden Immortal, six turns are Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal... As for what comes after that, Shi Zhong didn't know because the remaining cultivation method was gone. But even just the first six turns were already extremely difficult to obtain, especially for Shi Zhong who currently had no cultivation method.

  Shi Zhong didn't care about that much, because Shi Zhong knew that the most important thing for himself now was to quickly transform into a good person. To say that his original body was also of a relatively noble kind, it was formed by the entanglement and transformation of the primordial yin-yang five elements at the beginning of heaven and earth. Originally, this seven-colored divine stone was not possible to open its spiritual wisdom, but later on, Hong Jun Lao Zu found Yu Jing Shan and covered up its sharp edges, using it as a treasure rock to display various primordial spiritual treasures. If it weren't for the reason of the seven-colored divine stone, where would there be such a stone that could bear so many primordial spiritual treasures without any damage? However, due to Shi Zhong's reason, this seven-colored divine stone opened its spiritual wisdom and from then on escaped such fate. This several thousand miles wide Yu Jing Shan also became Shi Zhong's cave dwelling. It is worth knowing that Yu Jing Shan was extraordinary, not only was it formed by the clear air of the first layer of heaven, but there were also 99 large primordial spiritual veins in Yu Jing Shan, making the primordial spiritual energy of Yu Jing Shan endless and becoming the number one primordial blessed land in the Hong Huang world. Moreover, because Yu Jing Shan had a layer of clear air from the beginning of heaven, it was always floating in the sky of the Hong Huang world, with an unpredictable trajectory. It can be said that without a certain opportunity, it would not have been encountered.

  To talk about the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Origin, it is necessary to mention the Shamanic tribe's physical cultivation technique "Pangu Cultivation Method" and the Taoist sect's "Nine Turns of the Mysterious Technique". However, these two techniques can only cultivate up to the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal. Moreover, they focus on cultivating the body, not the primordial spirit. This makes it almost impossible to advance to the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, unless one possesses the Pangu bloodline and evolves their blood into Pangu pure blood. As for other cultivators who want to cultivate the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Technique to the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, it is almost like talking nonsense to a fool. This is because the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Technique originated from Pangu's cultivation method "Nine Turns of the Mysterious Origin".

  It's not that the Three Pure Ones didn't see the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Classic as a creator, but did they really not cultivate it? It was precisely because the Three Pure Ones knew that cultivating the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Classic had no future prospects, so they abandoned this method that could directly connect to the Saint and instead cultivated the San Shi (Three Corpses) method of Hong Jun. They only used the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Classic as a protective technique for their sect. Although it's said that cultivating the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Classic can't reach the Great Completion, if one cultivates up to the eighth turn, then even without the cultivation of the Mixed Yuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, their combat power is still on par with that of a Saint. If not for two Saints joining hands, it's impossible to kill a cultivator who has reached the eighth turn of the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Classic. Even if they were killed, the Saints would have to pay a considerable price. Otherwise, how could the Daoist sects use the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Classic as a protective technique? It would be too weak and couldn't even protect the sect!

  Time passed bit by bit, and during this period, Shi Zhong's cultivation had reached the peak of Golden Immortal. He believed that once he transformed into a true form, his cultivation would advance to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. Shi Zhong also extracted the Creative Dao from the Hongmeng Purple Qi in the Creative Jade Butterfly, merging it with the Nine-Turned Mysterious Origin Technique, which could only cultivate up to the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. However, this new technique could continuously upgrade and was named the Creative Mysterious Origin Technique by Shi Zhong. This technique was extraordinary, capable of cultivating both the primordial spirit and the physical body. The most precious aspect was that once one's cultivation reached the Golden Immortal realm, they could transform into countless forms, as long as it was within the boundaries of the post-heavenly Yin-Yang Five Elements.

  Even if it's a cultivator with a higher cultivation level, they won't be able to see through it. That is to say, if you are in the Golden Immortal period and have changed, ordinary Mahayana Golden Immortals will not be able to see through it. However, the divine effect of this technique does not stop there. The most amazing thing is that cultivators who practice the "Create Heaven and Earth Primordial Yuan" technique, as long as they obtain the blood of a Pre-Heaven Demon God and refine it into their body, will be able to use the innate divine abilities of the Pre-Heaven Demon God, although only at 70-80% of its original power. This is still a rare and precious thing, after all, not everyone can possess an innate divine ability like this. Only those Pre-Heaven Demon Gods would have it. As for later generations of divine beasts possessing innate divine abilities, that's just the descendants of Pre-Heaven Demon Gods, but their power is still not on the same level. Even if their future cultivation exceeds that of their Pre-Heaven Demon God ancestors, the innate divine ability they exhibit will only be 50-60% of their ancestor's original power.

  After Shi Zhong extracted the Great Dao of Creation from the Hongmeng Purple Qi, the Hongmeng Purple Qi became useless. At least it couldn't be used to comprehend the Great Dao of Creation anymore. This Hongmeng Purple Qi was a very special gas, born in the Primordial Chaos, and could carry the laws of the Great Dao. The Hongmeng Purple Qi in Shi Zhong's hands was even more extraordinary, carrying an entire Great Dao of Creation. Not knowing how to deal with this Hongmeng Purple Qi, Shi Zhong thought for a moment and then divided it into 1,000 portions, because among the fragments of the Creation Jade Butterfly he obtained, there were only 1,000 Great Daos. In the past, some of these Great Daos were added by Shi Zhong himself, namely the Great Dao of Yin, the Great Dao of Yang, the Great Dao of Metal, the Great Dao of Wood, the Great Dao of Water, the Great Dao of Fire, the Great Dao of Earth, and the Great Dao of Creation, Time, and Space. Other Great Daos could only reach the level of Daluo Jinxian, but these nine Great Daos - Yin, Yang, Five Elements, Time, and Space - could reach the level of enlightenment, and only the Great Dao of Creation could reach the level of Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian. To say that the Great Dao of Yin, the Great Dao of Yang, the Great Dao of Metal, the Great Dao of Wood, the Great Dao of Water, the Great Dao of Fire, the Great Dao of Earth, and the Great Dao of Creation, Time, and Space were all personally comprehended by Shi Zhong.

  Shi Zhong originally had the innate yin-yang five elements transformed, so it can be said that Shi Zhong also has the heavenly born carrying the yin-yang five elements' Tao rhyme. Shi Zhong then easily incorporated the yin-yang five elements' great way into the fragments of the Canghai Jade Butterfly with the help of the Canghai Jade Butterfly's creation. No wonder Hongjun Old Ancestor can dominate the Hongyuan world, owning nearly half of the Canghai Jade Butterfly fragments, which contain 3,000 great ways. Although not many of these great ways are complete, at least seven complete great ways exist. Haven't you seen that besides becoming a saint himself, he also taught six other saints? How can one not be formidable? As for the time and space great way, it's necessary to mention the transmigrator's against-the-heavens luck.

  At that time, when Shi Zhong crossed the vast expanse of space and arrived in the primordial chaos, his soul carried a large amount of temporal and spatial energy. The chaotic air was compressed by Pangu's axe, causing it to constantly seek out areas with lower concentrations, and as a result, a massive amount of chaotic air surged towards Shi Zhong. In this way, an endless expanse of chaotic space formed within Shi Zhong's body without him realizing it. This chaotic space slowly evolved into the Time Dao and Space Dao under the influence of temporal and spatial energy, although they were not complete. Nevertheless, they could still attain the level of the Time-Space Dao. From then on, the Canghai Jade Butterfly contained two of the most mysterious and heaven-defying Daos: time and space. This was the extraordinary aspect of the Canghai Jade Disc. It's no wonder that Shi Zhong copied the Daos from the fragments of the Canghai Jade Butterfly onto the Qiankun Purple Qi and then placed it within his own body's chaotic space, allowing it to evolve naturally into a more perfect law. As soon as the three thousand Qiankun Purple Qi entered Shi Zhong's body and merged with the chaotic space, the entire space shook violently, filling with Dao rhymes, transforming the chaotic space into a chaotic world.

  Shi Zhong was undergoing a transformation in the chaotic world within his body, and he himself had entered a state of enlightenment. It's worth noting that the duration of enlightenment can vary from person to person, but this opportunity is the most precious for every cultivator, as it allows them to approach the existence of the Tao. Every time a cultivator experiences enlightenment, their cultivation state and mindset are greatly elevated, which is also the precious aspect of enlightenment. As Shi Zhong's chaotic space within his body evolved according to the Great Dao, his own cultivation continued to improve steadily.