Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 223 Chaos as One, the Primordial Great Dao

The Flaming Mountains, stretching for eight hundred miles.

At this moment, outside the Flaming Mountain, a child with a gold ring around his neck, a crimson brocade battle skirt around his waist, his hair tied in two buns, and barefoot, was excitedly pointing at the Flaming Mountain and looking at the woman behind him.

"Mother! This is the place!"

The woman, dressed in embroidered silk robes, looked at the child's face with loving kindness and gentleness, and asked with some concern:

"My son, do you really intend to cultivate supernatural powers here?"

"Hey! That's right." The child, who looked no more than eight or nine years old, nodded with a smile, but seeing his mother's worried face, he quickly patted his chest and said confidently:

"Please rest assured, Mother! I was born with the element of fire, and I am most suited to the fire element. Don't be fooled by how fiercely this Flaming Mountain burns; it will certainly be unable to harm me!"

"Besides, don't I have the banana leaf fan my mother gave me to protect me?"

The child stuck out his tongue, and a jade-green banana leaf fan appeared on it. The woman looked at it with a mixture of affection and helplessness and shook her head.

"No matter what, you must listen to your mother. If you see that things are not going well, you must come out immediately."

"Mother, don't worry."

The child was also impatient. He ran quickly toward the Flaming Mountain, his body protected by auspicious light, and he was not afraid of the high temperature. Just as he was about to step into the Flaming Mountain burning with raging flames, he heard a hurried voice beside him.

"No!"

The child turned to look at the Taoist priest in robes who had appeared beside him at some point, and impatiently shouted:

"Why not?!"

Despite being only eight or nine years old, this child has a very loud voice, and his shouts carry a certain authority.

"This fire is no ordinary fire, absolutely not!"

Before the local earth god could finish speaking, the child impatiently waved his hand and said:

"Nonsense! If this were ordinary fire, I wouldn't be here! You old man, do you even know who I am? My father is the Bull Demon King, and my mother is Princess Iron Fan. I am a born saint, what do I have to fear from mere flames!"

"Say one more word and I'll throw you in there and roast you!"

This child was none other than the Holy Infant King, Red Boy.

After saying these words, Red Boy ignored the Taoist priest and stepped into the Flaming Mountain. The surrounding flames did not burn him at all, but at this moment, sweat appeared on Red Boy's face and evaporated instantly.

Red Boy gritted his teeth, sat cross-legged in the flames, closed his eyes, and quietly began to meditate.

The Earth God looked at the Red Boy in the flames and shook his head helplessly.

He came to stop it out of good intentions, but before he could even finish speaking, this little kid wanted to throw him into the fire to roast him. His temper was just too wicked.

He's supposed to be a born saint, but he's practically a born little devil!
The Earth God glanced at the crimson spiritual root growing in the flames in the distance. Seeing that the little demon ignored it, he breathed a sigh of relief, chanted an incantation, and completely hid the crimson spiritual root. Then, his figure returned to the ground and disappeared.

On the other side, Princess Iron Fan, not far away, breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at her son sitting cross-legged in the flames. As for the local earth god, she didn't care at all.

Her husband was always out fooling around, and only her own children were obedient, which gave her some solace.

Fortunately, her child was also very promising. As long as he could comprehend supernatural powers here and have a means of protection, she, as his mother, could let him go out freely without worry. At this moment, Princess Iron Fan was completely oblivious to the fact that Red Boy had treated her and the Earth God so differently.

Inside the chaotic green gourd.

As the Daoist essence of the Five Elements permeated the area within ten thousand miles around Niu Yi, the ground where Niu Yi sat began to tremble continuously, as if some kind of change was taking place.

"boom------"

Suddenly, everything around Niu Yi instantly turned into dust, and the surrounding chaotic aura swept wildly, enveloping the area once again.

Niu Yi listened to the roar, his eyes glazed over, and the whisk in his hand emitted a white light, as if he had entered some kind of state.

To Niu Yi, this incredibly loud roar sounded just like the great roar that echoed at the beginning of the creation of the world.

At the same time, the chaotic energy that kept enveloping him was different from before, and it had obviously undergone some kind of change, as if it was constantly giving birth to something.

This is Hunyuan
Hunyuan refers to the beginning of primordial energy before chaos, the origin of everything in the world.

The word "混" means "chaos" and "元" means "primordial energy". The scene before Niu Yi's eyes was like the chaotic state before the world was created, where "混元" was presented to him.

Niu Yi's eyes were glazed over, and he felt that the originally slow-progressing Primordial Dao was rapidly improving, with streams of insights being poured into his primordial spirit.

Within Niu Yi's sea of ​​consciousness, the Hunyuan Cauldron began to tremble with unprecedented joy. Rays of purple-gold light flashed across its body as it slowly floated up and swirled around Niu Yi's primordial spirit.

At the same time, on Golden Gourd Mountain, flowers suddenly rained down from the sky and golden lotuses sprang from the ground. Streams of Daoist energy continuously permeated the mountain, causing many of the bull demons on the mountain, as well as Ao Xuan and his group, to fall asleep, immersed in the Daoist energy.

Before long, the aftershocks of this Daoist rhyme even encompassed the nearby Monkey Mountain.

Several terrifying auras suddenly enveloped the area from the sky. The only local earth god on Jindu Mountain who hadn't fallen asleep looked shocked, and his body trembled slightly.

The auras in the sky gave him a feeling of facing the Dao of Heaven directly, a sense of insignificance like an ant facing a mountain, which made his heart tremble.

"Another person has actually comprehended the Primordial Chaos Dao to a very deep level. Judging from this, they have already completed most of the journey on the Primordial Chaos Dao."

"Could it be that someone else within this realm can obtain the Primordial Dao Fruit?"

"There should only be one variable within this element."

"Humph!"

Upon hearing that authoritative snort, the several auras in the sky paused, withdrew their thoughts, and disappeared.

Niu Yi, inside the Chaos Green Gourd, was unaware of all that was happening above Golden Gourd Mountain.

He simply gazed at the chaos before him and the changes within it, wholeheartedly comprehending the Dao of Primordial Chaos, even pausing the cultivation of the Golden Body of Merit on his divine incarnation side.

Niu Yi's enlightenment lasted for a full century until the chaos before his eyes exploded again, at which point he awoke from his profound understanding.

At the same time, in Niu Yi's sea of ​​consciousness, the Hunyuan Furnace that had been floating around Niu Yi's Golden Bull Primordial Spirit had disappeared, and on the Nine-Turn Golden Wheel that was slowly rotating behind the Primordial Spirit, a pattern of a purple-gold cauldron appeared.

Niu Yi looked down at his hands, and an infinite power seemed to surge from his body, exuding an aura of primordial unity.

(End of this chapter)