Lord of Time: From a Five Elements Cultivator to a Master of All Daos

Chapter 581 The True Primordial Dao Venerable

In this life, "Wei Zhong" is a person reborn with modern memories, and at the same time, he is also reborn as a wealthy family's scion.

Although the Wei family had weakened considerably by this time, it was still far stronger than ordinary mortal families.

What's even more interesting is that there was actually a true cultivator among the ancestors of the Wei family.

Although it was a long time ago, it took the descendants of the Wei family dozens of generations to find clues on their ancestors' relics and find their way here.

However, the search was fraught with difficulties. The Wei family members were targeted by their enemies and traveled thousands of miles to reach this place, but still ended up with most of the elite members of the family dead or wounded.

What puzzled Wei Zhong even more was that, after finally getting close to the immortal's cave, factional disputes broke out within the Wei family.

The predecessor, "Wei Zhong," died in this state.

The huge wound on the back of his head was inflicted by Wei Ruiming, the cousin of "Wei Zhong," on the corpse that had just been found outside.

Wei Zhong escaped with serious injuries, but ultimately his soul perished and his body was taken over by the "Wei Zhong" of this life.

Wei Zhong originally thought that the ancestral inheritance had been taken away by the latter, but he never expected that it would still remain in this place.

No one knows what unexpected event occurred in the end, but no one entered this immortal cave.

After reading the entire book, Wei Zhong found that the blue and white book contained accounts of the life of this immortal, Wei Zhenyan.

The other party unexpectedly entered the path of immortality and cultivated as a rogue cultivator for a hundred years. Due to limitations in aptitude, he stopped at the ninth level of Qi Refining and could not establish his foundation.

He eventually died here.

The last few words left on the book indicated that the cultivation technique "Longevity Technique" was in the storage bag next to it.

In addition, there were many other spiritual items left behind by the latter inside the bag.

The storage bag is a treasure of the immortals, which mortals cannot open, but this ancestor had prepared a backup plan long ago.

Wei Zhong took out the dark green pearl from his bosom.

This bead, as described in the booklet, is called the Green Soul Bead. It carries some spiritual energy and can be used as a medium for mortals to open storage bags. It can also be used to examine jade slips, etc.

The method of casting the spell is simple; it can be done by pouring blood on the target.

Then Wei Zhong watched as this "Wei Zhong" in this life opened his storage bag, took out the jade slip of the "Longevity Technique," and began to study and practice the techniques within.

Wei Zhong waited for ten days, but the latter still did not succeed in sensing Qi, so he guessed that his own aptitude in this life was not good.

Another ten days passed, and Wei Zhong, who was sitting cross-legged, finally made a move. A vortex of spiritual energy slowly surrounded his body and eventually condensed the first wisp of spiritual energy within him.

At the instant the spiritual energy condensed, Wei Zhong's soul, which was observing from the outside, was inexplicably pulled by a force and then entered into "Wei Zhong's" physical body, passively becoming part of the whole.

This situation surprised and puzzled Wei Zhong.

Then something even more surprising happened to Wei Zhong.

Wei Zhong discovered that he could only observe the outside world from the perspective of "Wei Zhong" and could not influence his actions.

This is clearly different from the previous hundred reincarnations.

'This cycle of reincarnation seems different from the very beginning?'

At this moment, Wei Zhong is clearly a person with memories of his previous modern life, rather than a local native. Both his style of handling things and his attitude towards doing things are those of a typical modern person.

Before Wei Zhong could think further, the "Wei Zhong" who had successfully sensed Qi stood up and looked at himself with surprise.

"It's done, it's done! There really are cultivators in this world."

"Hahaha!"

His excitement and wonder were exactly the same as when Wei Zhong awoke from his old, frail body.

Time flies, and Wei Zhong, having just entered the path of immortality, found a spiritual spring in this cave.

With the help of this spiritual spring, he cultivated for over ten years and reached the second level of Qi Refining.

After that, his cultivation made no progress, and that's when he finally set off to leave.

First, return to the family, restore the family rules, and silence dissenting voices.

This restored the Wei family, which was on the verge of splitting up, to its former unity.

While using his own immortal techniques to strengthen his family, he also left a copy of the "Longevity Technique" within the family, so that a descendant with spiritual roots could use it to enter the Dao in the future.

Having cast aside all worldly concerns, Wei Zhong finally left his hometown and entered the true world of cultivation.

His path of cultivation was fraught with hardship; he endured all the suffering of a wandering cultivator.

Without any special advantages, Wei Zhong finally reached the perfect Qi Refining stage before he turned one hundred.

Just then, a Foundation Establishment opportunity arose, and Wei Zhong risked his life to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill, which he used to successfully establish his foundation.

He became a renowned Foundation Establishment Ancestor.

Having established his foundation for many years, and relying on his cultivation, he explored secret realms everywhere.

Although he encountered countless dangers, and even nearly died from serious injuries on several occasions, he also gained many benefits.

One of the Nascent Soul inheritances was Wei Zhong's greatest asset in supporting his cultivation journey.

The years that followed were just as Wei Zhong had described in his previous life's novel. He cultivated himself along the way, turning misfortune into good fortune and encountering countless opportunities.

Whenever an opportunity is about to be exhausted, or has already been exhausted, another opportunity will arise.

As usual, it was a life-or-death struggle. It was during this life-or-death struggle that Wei Zhong's cultivation level continued to rise, from Core Formation to Nascent Soul to Deity Transformation, and then his cultivation reached perfection and he ascended to the Spirit Realm.

Spirit Realm Refinement, Dao Integration, Mahayana...

Having found an opportunity in the upper realm, one can condense the Seed of Time before ascending to immortality.

Once he ascended to the Immortal Ranks, the Time Immortal Palace came knocking on his door.

Fortunately, Wei Zhong was naturally vigilant at the time, and it just so happened that the Immortal Realm was in turmoil, with independent cultivators and scattered sects dissatisfied with the rule of the Immortal Palace, thus stirring up unrest.

Wei Zhong seized the opportunity to escape, and from then on changed his appearance and cultivated cautiously.

Interestingly, at this time, the Time Palace was not yet so unreasonable.

Various celestial treasures related to the laws of time can occasionally be found in the celestial market.

There are also many independent cultivators in the world who practice the laws of time.

Furthermore, there is no situation where those who have not cultivated the laws of nature will encounter a mutated lightning tribulation.

However, the antagonism between the immortal palace cultivators and ordinary cultivators still exists.

In the Chongming Era, a rogue cultivator, a Great Luo, forged a new path, seeking the Great Dao of the Underworld from the laws of life, death, and reincarnation.

He entered the River of Netherworld Laws and became the Netherworld Dao Ancestor.

In a short time, under the leadership of this Dao Ancestor of the Underworld, the scattered cultivators of the Immortal Realm were integrated into a unified whole, and their power continued to expand.

During this period, the Immortal Realm was in a state of great turmoil.

Countless minor immortal-level forces perished in it, and countless rogue cultivators also died.

Even a powerful force like the Immortal Palace, with a Dao Ancestor presiding over it, suffered significant losses during this period.

The strength of ordinary cultivators continued to rise, leading to a standoff with the Immortal Palace.

Later, other cultivators discovered new laws and paths.

Over the next several hundred thousand years, three Dao Ancestors emerged who confronted the Celestial Palace.

With the Dao Ancestor behind them, independent cultivators and small sects in the Immortal Realm gained confidence and gradually began to rival the Immortal Palace cultivators.

The disputes continue, and the fighting never stops.

This period can be described as the most turbulent time in the immortal realm.

Many celestial realms were shattered and destroyed in this battle, subsequently forming numerous perilous celestial realms.

What shocked Wei Zhong even more was that this turmoil even led to the fall of several Dao Ancestors of the Immortal Palaces, and the vacant Law Daos they occupied became the target of fierce competition among cultivators from all sides.

After such a prolonged period of turmoil, the powerful figures of the Immortal Realm could no longer remain silent. They all appeared, demanding that the four Dao Ancestors, led by Mingluo, establish their own Immortal Palace lineage.

They were willing to allocate a portion of the Immortal Realm to the four of them for the purpose of propagating their lineage.

However, the four were unwilling, as they did not intend to create chaos in order to establish a lineage.

The purpose was simply to break the overwhelming rule of Asgard.

There are countless paths to immortality, but only one path can accommodate one person, and that one is the sole Dao Ancestor.

Even if there are many more Great Luo Immortals below him, and no matter how high their talent, as long as the position of Dao Ancestor is occupied by someone else, those who come after him will have no chance.

This situation has persisted within the Immortal Realm for countless epochs.

The four of them wanted to break precisely this rule.

But such a goal is tantamount to uprooting the Immortal Palace, and how could those old guys who have existed for who knows how long possibly agree to it?

Seeing that the four were stubborn and unyielding, he had no choice but to take drastic action.

Ancestor of Time, Ancestor of Space, Ancestor of Reincarnation.

These three were among the most outstanding Dao Ancestors. Once they made their move, they defeated the four members of the Underworld Alliance who were working together.

Not only that, but even the four vassals were killed by the disciples of the Immortal Palace.

This situation suggests an intention to completely eradicate the four individuals' forces.

The great battle between the Dao Ancestors was protracted, stretching from the Immortal Realm to the Great Dao River.

At that time, Wei Zhong was merely a minor immortal, far from being involved in such a war.

They can only protect themselves in order to pursue the path to immortality.

For a full 100,000 years, the sky of the Immortal Realm was no longer azure, but filled with all kinds of laws and light, like paint mixed together in a broken vat.

Wei Zhong understood that this was a projection of the Dao Ancestor's Great Dao Battle in the present world.

The immortals have not seen a normal sky for 100,000 years.

As the sun rose and set, time passed and all things returned to normal, a message spread like wildfire throughout the immortal realm.

The four members of the Underworld are dead. As the leaders who fought against the forces of the Celestial Palace, they are dead.

Those who shared the same path with the four all sensed the demise of the Dao Ancestor and the void left by the Great Dao.

These four are truly dead beyond any doubt.

Not only that, even the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor who attacked the four of them died in this war.

The Reincarnation Disc, a treasure he carried with him, was shattered by the four of them working together, breaking into two pieces that fell into the void and the interior of the immortal realm.

This attracted many cultivators to seek and compete for it.

After the fall of Mingluo and his three companions, the purge of their subordinate forces ensued.

In an instant, the immortal realm was plunged into a bloodbath, even more so than before.

However, the so-called Dark Ages came to an end.

Thirty thousand years later, many celestial palace forces developed special methods to restrict fellow cultivators.

Some of them manipulated the laws of the universe, while others left loopholes in their cultivation methods.

This was to prevent other cultivators from cultivating and vying for the position of Dao Ancestor.

The Time Palace is even more domineering. It is said that the Dao Ancestor there captured a group of true spirits of the laws and scattered them throughout the myriad realms. Specifically targeting those who come into contact with the laws of time, he would unleash cruel tribulations, directly nipping the competitors in the bud.

Those who overcome such tribulations and cultivate all the way to the level of immortals will be forcefully suppressed, directly taken into the immortal palace, given restrictions, and turned into their own henchmen.

There are many similar methods used by other forces in the Immortal Realm, too many for Wei Zhong to count in a short time.

Perhaps it was this kind of oppression that made the rogue cultivators, who had failed in their attempt to overthrow the Immortal Palace, even more dissatisfied.

Several Great Luo cultivators, along with a large group of other cultivators, launched a joint attack on the Samsara Immortal Palace.

The master of the Samsara Immortal Palace has fallen, and even with its strong foundation, it could not withstand the attacks of rogue cultivators.

From then on, a top-tier immortal palace lineage was annihilated.

Its heritage was seized by rogue cultivators, and its sect's treasures were also divided up by them.

Even the fragments of the supreme treasure, the Reincarnation Disc, appeared in this great battle and were taken away by an unknown cultivator.

Such actions have further enraged the forces of the Celestial Palace.

Numerous celestial palaces joined forces, and the celestial palace cultivators, led by the Great Luo Immortals, killed these troublemaking cultivators.

This period is known as the Chaos Era, a continuation of the Dark Era.

It took a full 50,000 years for the celestial realm to finally calm down and return to peace.

At this time, Wei Zhong had just obtained enough opportunities from the chaos and cultivated all the way from the Xuanxian level to the Taiyi and Daluo realms.

Despite his already high level of cultivation, Wei Zhong kept a very low profile, learning from the mistakes of Ming Luo and others.

Even so, the Time Palace still managed to discover it.

Many celestial palace immortals pursued and killed Wei Zhong.

Left with no other choice, Wei Zhong had to seal off his own time laws, attempting to break the deadlock through other means.

Therefore, Wei Zhong cultivated various great paths, including the Five Elements, Thunder, Light, and Birth and Death.

The sheer number of Daos he cultivated was astonishing, but without exception, none of them could support Wei Zhong's advancement to the position of Dao Ancestor.

Under such circumstances, Wei Zhong planned to follow in the footsteps of Ming Luo and others, and forge his own path of laws that was completely different from any other path.

After a long time, Wei Zhong finally found a feasible path.

It integrates itself, using the time and years it has experienced as a link, to form a special law called "Life Element".

This law has many uses; it can be used to construct a life essence clone, whose strength originates from Wei Zhong's main body and varies in strength.

The most powerful among them is almost on par with Wei Zhong's original form, the Great Luo Immortal.

The weakest are merely mortals.

Wei Zhong originally intended to use this path to achieve the position of Dao Ancestor, but after spending many years, he discovered that it was simply impossible.

The origin of the "Life Essence" clone is Wei Zhong, or more accurately, a being from the immortal world of Wei Zhong.

Everything about it was forged by the celestial realm, and the laws involved encompass all the myriad paths of the celestial realm.

To achieve the position of Dao Ancestor, one must occupy all the myriad Daos of the Immortal Realm.

How could a mere Luo possibly accomplish such a feat?

Even if Wei Zhong became a Dao Ancestor, there was absolutely no way he could snatch food from the mouths of these Dao Ancestors.

Wei Zhong knew that this matter could not be accomplished, so he sought out a fellow practitioner who possessed half of the Reincarnation Disc.

By using the other party's reincarnation disk, one can send one's own life essence clone to various worlds for reincarnation.

For this reason, Wei Zhong even devised various opportunities for the latter.

Unfortunately, this approach still didn't work, and without exception, all the life essence clones perished on their cultivation journey.

The furthest they traveled was to the realm of Taiyi Jade Immortal.

Tens of thousands of years later, Wei Zhong suddenly realized that his arrangements had spread throughout all the heavens and myriad worlds.

The excessive division of life essence also caused Wei Zhong's body to exhibit abnormalities.

His will occasionally becomes blurred, plunging him into chaos. He often forgets his millennia of cultivation, believing himself to be the same modern person who transmigrated from another world.

(End of this chapter)