Primordial Era: If I remain in Longevity Mountain, I will steadily attain sainthood.

Chapter 13 Refining the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, Proving the Dao in the World

After gaining control of the Taiyin True Fire, Hongyun continued to refine the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler.

However, the difficulty of refining the Primordial Measuring Ruler exceeded Hongyun's expectations. It took Hongyun more than 100,000 years to refine most of its restrictions.

With only fifteen restrictions remaining, Hongyun was already feeling the pressure. It wasn't impossible for him to continue refining a few more.

However, it would be a losing proposition, since one's own cultivation level is more important than magical treasures.

If refining the restrictions wasn't also a process of comprehending the Dao of the spiritual treasure itself, Hongyun wouldn't have wasted so much time refining the Primordial Measuring Ruler.

Hongyun planned to set aside the remaining fifteen restrictions for the time being, and refine them later when his cultivation level was higher.

As for now, the Primordial Measuring Ruler, which has already refined thirty-four restrictions, is sufficient for his use.

After leaving the pass, he ate Zhen Yuanzi's ginseng fruit again. Although more than 100,000 years had passed, Zhen Yuanzi did not pick the ginseng fruit every 10,000 years.

Instead, they are left to hang there; the longer they hang, the better the quality of the fruit will be.

Each of them contains a trace of the laws of the universe, and the longer the time, the more of these laws are present.

After that, Hongyun traveled through the prehistoric world with Zhen Yuanzi, mainly because Zhen Yuanzi took him to meet other powerful beings.

Exchanging ideas, discussing philosophy, and so on with these great masters has greatly benefited Hongyun.

Hongyun gradually determined his path to enlightenment. In the prehistoric world, there were three popular methods of enlightenment, which were also the three methods that Hongjun would later teach in Zixiao Palace: enlightenment through force, enlightenment by severing the three corpses, and enlightenment through merit.

Of these three ways to prove one's Dao, Hongyun chose to prove it through force. The reason was that proving one's Dao through force was strong enough and the most reliable path.

Unlike the path of severing the three corpses to attain enlightenment, although the levels are clearly defined, severing and merging the three corpses can actually prolong the process if there are any mistakes.

As for attaining enlightenment through merit, although all the saints of the primordial world attained enlightenment through merit, and Hongyun has the foresight of a transmigrator, it should be easy for him to plan some merit.

But Hongyun felt that she should be more cautious. After all, this method of attaining enlightenment through merit was quite special and could be done in parallel with other methods of attaining enlightenment.

In other words, you can prove the Way through force while also accumulating some merit, and see if you can prove the Way through merit.

Or perhaps, like those six saints, weren't they originally following the path of severing the three corpses to attain enlightenment? Yet in the end, didn't they all attain enlightenment through merit?

The path to enlightenment through merit is not necessarily the weakest; it mainly depends on how much merit one accumulates. The more merit one accumulates, the stronger one's power will naturally be.

Imagine if all the merits of Pangu's creation of the world were concentrated on one person, would that person's strength be inferior to those who proved the Dao through force or by severing the three corpses?

Therefore, attaining enlightenment through merit does not necessarily mean lacking strength, but it is true that this method of attaining enlightenment is not stable.

Merit is not something that can be gained forever. For example, if the human race were wiped out, the merits of Nuwa who created humans and Lao Tzu who established human religion would vanish instantly.

Without sufficient cultivation to sustain it, one might even be knocked off the holy position the moment their merits dissipate.

That is why Hongyun was determined to prove his Dao through force. Severing the Three Corpses to prove Dao may seem easier than proving it through force, but it may not actually be easier.

However, proving one's path through force, as long as one is down-to-earth and takes one step at a time, is much more reliable, as one force can overcome all laws.

After accumulating this long period of time, Hongyun's cultivation has now broken through to the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal.

On this day, in a palace in the Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain, Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi sat facing each other.

"Brother, I'm about to begin. Please protect me," Hongyun said to Zhenyuanzi.

Zhen Yuanzi nodded upon hearing this.

With a thought, Hongyun conjured twelve beads emitting five-colored light in mid-air.

It formed a circle, slowly rotating around the top of Hongyun's head.

These twelve beads are the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearls that Hongyun obtained from the treasure trove of the Witch Clan.

Hongyun's cultivation has greatly improved over the years, and by combining the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls with his calculations, he has deduced a method of refining the Twenty-Four Heavens that is different from that of the Burning Lamp Daoist.

Hongyun did not intend to transform the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls into the Twelve Heavens like the Burning Lamp Taoist did.

They felt that doing so would actually diminish the power of the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls.

Why not refine the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls into a unique universe, a unique world?

Therefore, Hongyun further comprehended the supernatural power of "Universe in the Sleeve" that he had obtained from Zhen Yuanzi.

This supernatural power was created by the Great Immortal Yangmei, and it contains infinite profound mysteries of the Great Dao of Space.

Hongyun wanted to create a world using the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, so naturally he needed to learn from them.

In addition, Hongyun also plans to combine this world with his own path of proving the Dao through force.

In the future, the world will become the foundation for his enlightenment. As the world grows stronger, his own strength will also grow.

This is clearly the method of world enlightenment mentioned in the prehistoric novels that Hongyun read in his previous life.

However, novels are novels, and reality is reality. Hongyun is just trying out this method of proving the Dao, creating it little by little.

If successful in the future, it can also become an independent path to enlightenment.

However, for now, it still reverts to proving the Dao through force, which can be considered a combination of two methods.

In short, Hongyun is now ready to start trying.

But then Hongyun silently channeled his profound inner energy, opened his mouth, and spat out a ball of multicolored flames.

The flames were of various colors, including white, red, blue, purple, yellow, and pink, and were a mixture of more than a dozen powerful primordial divine flames.

Besides the Taiyin True Fire, Hongyun has traveled through the prehistoric world with Zhen Yuanzi over the years, making many friends and finding many other powerful divine fires.

Among them are the Ten Great Divine Fires of the Primordial Era, including the Taiyin True Fire, the Taiyang True Fire, the Nanming Li Fire, the Ziwei Heavenly Fire, the Honglian Karmic Fire, and the Samadhi True Fire.

Besides these ten divine flames, there were also some that Hongyun had never heard of before, such as the Earth Core Divine Flame, the Ice Soul True Flame, the Nine Nether Poison Flame, and the Six Desires Flame, etc.

Hongyun refined these divine flames one by one, mixed them together, and the various divine flames merged to form the strange, colorful flame before our eyes.

However, although the flames looked strange, their power was extremely terrifying.

Hongyun dropped a Sea-Stabilizing Pearl into it and activated the flames to refine it. In just a thousand years, he melted the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl apart.

But after the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl was melted down, it transformed into a dazzling five-colored radiance.

This radiant light is the so-called innate, indestructible spiritual light, and also the condensation of the essence of the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl.

Next, one bead after another was thrown into the flame, and Hongyun's skill level increased.

Finally, after about ten thousand years, Hongyun melted down all twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls.

Twelve innate, indestructible spiritual lights floated in front of Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi, their radiance dazzling and incomparable!

(End of this chapter)