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Chapter 276 The Four Branches of the World's Fundamental Dao

"Boom!"

The blazing power of destruction surged forth, and then began to evolve in the next instant.

Like the rebirth of Yin and the turning of Yang, or the transformation of adversity into prosperity, endless destructive forces intertwined and transformed into a pure white radiance brimming with vitality.

This white, holy radiance does indeed contain endless vitality, but it is also the destruction of all things, the swallowing of heaven and earth, and the tempering of life. It represents the ultimate destruction that can destroy and annihilate everything.

"Buzz!"

The endless white divine light began to recede.

Bathed in this blazing light, Mohe revealed the true form of the Beast King, its body and soul beginning to evolve.

"The Beast Clan is truly blessed by heaven."

Yu Duan looked at the world beast that had begun to evolve and sighed.

The God King realm is very special. The so-called first, second, and ultimate God King realms are all major realms, but the difference in combat power is exaggerated.

Even if a cultivator comprehends the Great Dao of the second level of the God King realm, their physical body, soul, and life level will not evolve on their own.

To evolve one's physical body and soul, one needs to create a secret method for a second-level life form based on one's understanding of the second-level Great Dao, and use this secret method to reshape oneself and elevate the essence of life.

However, the Beast King doesn't need to go through such trouble. As long as he grows to the corresponding level, he will naturally master all kinds of life form secret techniques, body refining techniques, soul techniques, etc.

This is truly natural and spontaneous, unlike what Yu Duan did.

"Owner!"

The evolution process lasted a very short time. After the evolution was completed, Mohe looked at Yu Duan with a little excitement.

“Master, it will be very difficult for those emperors to kill me now, unless they comprehend the true ultimate Dao, or possess some kind of divine emperor treasure that can restrain me.”

"No rush, no rush. We don't know how many epochs it will take for Teacher Feng Xi to return next time. Try your best to improve your strength and see if you can create the Ultimate Realm Life Form Secret Technique."

"We'll deal with Di Yuan then."

Yu Duan paused for a moment, then said, "Furthermore, your current survival skills are quite remarkable. You could travel to the Origin Continent and try to find some spots in treasure lands to train in..."

Mohe is now extremely powerful, and there is still hope that it can secure some prime locations.

When the time comes, Mohe can hone its skills in this treasure land, and the rewards obtained will naturally belong to Duan.

"Yes, Master!"

Mohe didn't waste any words. He conjured a clone to guard Yu Duan's side, and then his main body went out to earn resources for Yu Duan.

Having nurtured Mohe for so long, it's time for Mohe to do its part.

After Mohe left, Yu Duan was not in a hurry and continued to immerse his mind and will in the boundless primordial Dao.

Yu Duan is currently more than two thousand days away from completing this task, which can be described as a blink of an eye.

“I’ll spare some of my attention to study the secret techniques of the Heart of the World.”

The World Heart Inheritance is the world's ultimate inheritance that Yu Duan chose as the easiest to cultivate. It excels in soul defense, but is rather mediocre in combat.

However, the ultimate inheritance is still the ultimate inheritance; no matter how ordinary it may seem, its effects are still astonishing.

The fundamental path of the world encompasses four major branches.

These are conservation, cycle, creation, and extinction.

The two major branches, conservation and circulation, are mutually reinforcing.

The two branches, creation and annihilation, are mutually antagonistic.

The four branches are actually more difficult to get started with than the six branches of the Boundless Origin Great Dao.

Conservation and cycles tend towards defense, while creation and annihilation tend towards attack.

This secret technique of the Heart of the World is based on the 'Conservation Lineage' and is divided into seven levels.

To cultivate the first level of the Heart of the World, one needs to master the 'Conservation' branch. The Conservation branch, also known as the Mustard Seed Universe, is described as follows: the body is like a mustard seed, containing the universe within, and all things are conserved.

To cultivate the second level of the Heart of the World, one needs to master the two major branches of conservation and circulation.

As for the third level, it naturally involves mastering all four branches, evolving a world soul body, greatly enhancing soul defense, and also greatly increasing the speed of soul damage recovery.

"I wonder how effective this World Treasure Rune with 7.6 reward points will be."

Yu Duan flipped his right hand, and a talisman shimmering with nine-colored light appeared in his palm.

The talisman is engraved with complex secret patterns, which faintly form the outline of a special source world.

"Snapped!"

Yu Duan directly affixed the talisman to his forehead, and then a wisp of divine power seeped into it.

With a hiss, the talisman burst into flames, transforming into countless nine-colored threads that merged into Duan's body, connecting every ounce of divine power and every inch of flesh and blood.

Moreover, at the soul level, there is also a nine-colored glow that blends in, forming a special cycle of soul power, like an energy cycle model of the origin of the world.

"Buzz!"

In an instant, a peculiar fluctuation emanated from Yu Duan's body, causing his divine power and soul to ripple. This fluctuation seemed to resonate with the 'breathing' of the entire Origin World.

In this state, Yu Duan seemed to have the illusion that he had transformed into a miniature source world in human form.

"I never imagined that the source world that evolved within my own heart of the true god would contain so many errors."

Yu Duan realized that the nascent source world he had created within his True God Heart had many problems.

This was not a problem discovered by Yu Duan due to a significant improvement in his understanding, but rather because the operation of the source world within his body was not compatible with the effects of the 'Nine Realms Treasure Talisman' and with the operation of the Origin Continent.

"Boom!"

With a thought, Yu Duan caused the source world within the heart of the true god to collapse, everything returned to annihilation, and the endless power of the primordial chaos boiled within it.

Following this, the world was reopened. The overall framework of spacetime structure and operation remained largely unchanged, but the subtle differences were significant.

But it was precisely this subtle difference that increased the efficiency of Yu Duan's source world by hundreds or thousands of times, and made the condensed world power even more powerful.

"Now, it should have transformed from the embryonic form of the Origin World into a truly miniature Origin World, right?"

After examining it briefly and finding no problems, Yu Duan immersed his mind in the inheritance of "The Heart of the World".

The first aspect of inheritance is a detailed explanation of the concept of conservation.

“Conservation is the foundation of the world’s operation and order.”

"The birth, death, evolution, and reincarnation of all sentient beings and matter must be conserved, as they are all part of the energy cycle within the world, which is why they can endure."

"However, cycles eventually come to an end, hence the need for creation and annihilation, evolving into a grand cycle and a great conservation..."

The very first sentence of the secret method's general outline reveals the essence of the world's fundamental Dao.

The foundation of the fundamental principles of the world is conservation.

Whether it is cycle, creation, or extinction, all three branches are actually for the purpose of ensuring conservation!
This lineage of conservation is the easiest to enter among the four major branches of the fundamental Dao of the world.

However, if one wishes to cultivate to the ultimate realm in the future, the cycles, creation, and annihilation are relatively easy to integrate, while the conservation is the only one that is difficult to comprehend.

Yu Duan was immersed in this profound Dao, and many insights arose in his heart. "The Lord of Myriad Realms' famous ultimate technique, 'Salvation,' is a kind of causal conservation formed by the Dao of Cause and Effect and the Dao of the World!"

Understanding the basic application of the conservation principle means transforming the force acting on you into your own power.

Every living thing and matter living on the continent of origin is subject to gravity (spacetime pressure).
By mastering conservation, one can transform the spatial and temporal pressure one experiences into one's own energy, resulting in an extremely fast and seemingly inexhaustible recovery of divine power.

In this process, energy is neither created nor destroyed out of thin air; it simply cycles and transforms, which is conservation.

This kind of conservation is ultimately passive and represents the simplest application.

Having reached the level of a ruler of myriad realms, one's understanding of the Great Dao of Cause and Effect is extremely profound.

Although the Lord of the Myriad Realms did not comprehend the second ultimate Dao, he, like those emperors, created the ultimate secret method of the Great Dao of Cause and Effect through his understanding of the two realms of cause and effect.

Then, by using this secret method to integrate with the ultimate Dao of his own world, he created the supreme divine power known as "Salvation".

Once this "Salvation" technique is unleashed, it can seize the power of others for one's own use, making it exceptionally domineering.

However, just as Yu Duan was studying the fundamental Dao of the world, a special causal fluctuation emerged.

At Yu Duan's current level, even without cultivating the Great Dao of Cause and Effect, one can still see cause and effect, unless the other party has special abilities or treasures that obscure their own cause and effect.

"Luo Feng has finally transcended."

With a thought, Yu Duan conjured a clone, possessing approximately one ten-thousandth of Yu Duan's divine power.

……

Originating from the continent, the far north ice plains.

"It's so cold..."

Luo Feng was deeply moved as he experienced the environment of the Origin Continent.

The temperature of this origin continent was so high that it made him, an eternal true god, feel slightly cold, but only slightly, somewhere between cold and cool.

As for why Luo Feng would remark on how cold it was.

This is because the primordial universe and the cosmic ocean did not have such an environment.

In the primordial universe, the most basic concept of absolute zero is absolute vacuum. In ordinary physics, absolute zero cannot freeze a planetary.

Further on, there is absolute zero in terms of laws and spacetime, where fluctuations of laws must be solidified, and fluctuations of time and space must be frozen.

Those below the level of a Realm Lord can also be frozen to death.

Beyond the primordial universe, there are some forbidden zones containing terrifying icy power, or secret ice and snow techniques created by powerful beings, each with terrifying destructive power.

However, compared to the far north ice plains of the Origin Continent, this is nothing.

Just as Luo Feng was about to explore the environment, a spacetime vortex suddenly appeared.

"teacher!"

Luo Feng saw Yu Duan emerge from the space-time vortex and immediately bowed in respect.

Yu Duan smiled and nodded: "Let's go, I'll come pick you up."

Even now, Yu Duan has no territory on the Origin Continent.

Therefore, the only option was to send Luo Feng and the others to Fengdu. It was only a little over four hundred True Gods, so settling them in wouldn't be too much trouble.

As for Luo Feng, he's already at the peak of the Eternal True God realm and possesses a perfect divine body. Why would he need any accommodations if he went out to make his own way in the world?
……

That night, the wind blew through the city.

In a specially designated residential area, Luo Feng released Giant Axe, Chaos, and the Dark God, among others.

In addition to them, Luo Feng also brought the rampaging demon god Bei Chi Xingzhu and others to the Origin Continent.

"The Eternal Progenitor!"

"Yu Duan!"

"..."

Upon seeing Yu Duan, the group's eyes lit up with joy, and their initial worries and anxieties about entering the Origin Continent vanished.

Yu Duan smiled and said, "This is Fengdu, the capital of the great power I belong to..."

For the foreseeable future, this alter ego of Yu Duan will remain permanently in Fengdu.

The Great Dao of Boundless Origin, once mastered to its profound depths, can split into countless weak avatars.

Of course, these are all the kind that require the division of the original divine power, not the peak clones.

However, as long as one of his clones remains intact, Yu Duan will not perish.

……

Time passed day by day, and the sun and moon revolved.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of days have passed.

On this day, Yu Duan's clone, who was stationed in Fengdu, suddenly showed a slight change in expression.

The primordial being beside Yu Duan noticed Yu Duan's change and quickly asked, "Yu Duan, is something wrong?"

Yu Duan smiled and said, "It's nothing. I just suddenly had a flash of inspiration and a sudden realization, so I plan to go into seclusion for a while."

During these thousands of days, apart from setting aside a tiny wisp of his will to guard his Fengdu clone, Yu Duan devoted all his energy to the study of the world and the Boundless Origin Great Dao.

With the advance payment fully repaid, a series of options emerge in the Book of Cause and Effect.

【Boundless Chaos Body】: A body-refining secret technique for the second level of the God King realm, at the peak of the sixth level. It can provide advance access to the comprehension of the 'peak of the seventh level', at the cost of studying the Boundless Origin Great Dao for 7941 epochs.

【Abyss of Infinity】: Ultimate-level secret technique, realm: initial stage of the third level. Can be used to advance the insights of the initial stage of the fourth level, the price to pay is: studying the Boundless Primordial Dao for 1.1 epochs.

[Boundary Seal]: A combat secret technique for the first level of the God King realm, at the peak of the seventh level. It can provide advance access to the comprehension of the 'peak of the eighth level', with a cost of 1.6 days of the Great Dao of the World.

【…】

Yu Duan has mastered numerous secret techniques and inheritances throughout his cultivation, but the only ones that truly determine his combat power are the Boundless Chaos Body and the ultimate inheritance he chose when he first became an apprentice, the Infinite Abyss.

This Abyss of Infinity is a domain-type secret technique, divided into nine levels, with each three levels corresponding to a realm.

Yu Duan's current comprehension of the Boundless Origin Great Dao is at the peak of the first level of the God King realm, and he has just touched upon the fusion branch.

After Yu Duan received these two supreme techniques, he was able to master the Great Dao of the second level of the God King realm, but the repayment time was a bit too long.

As for the inheritance of the Great Dao of the World's Origin, Yu Duan has not yet mastered the 'Conservation' branch, so he naturally cannot cultivate the Heart of the World. Therefore, there is no option for this inheritance in the Book of Cause and Effect.

"The peak of the eighth level takes 160 days, so the maximum time to reach the perfection of the ninth level is 1.6 million days, which is far less than a cyclical period."

Yu Duan looked at the Boundary Seal Secret Technique. This was the first God-King level secret technique that Yu Duan had studied, and by researching its explanations, he had developed his own unique skill.

This World Seal Secret Technique is divided into nine levels, originally containing one branch each of the immeasurable Origin Great Dao and the World Origin Great Dao.

Now that Yu Duan has mastered all six branches of the Boundless Origin Great Dao, the only cost he needs to pay is the 'loan' from the World Origin Great Dao.

(End of this chapter)