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

Chapter 35 Advancement of the Qiankun World, Middle Thousand World

However, the Eastern King Duke and the Western Queen Mother, having exhausted too much energy managing the immortals, have fallen behind in cultivation and have yet to sever their corpses.

Besides, other powerful beings have also severed their corpses one after another. Hongyun is only severing his corpse now, which can be said to be quite late.

As for Zhen Yuanzi, needless to say, he hasn't even started yet. This is because after the two discussed it, the method they used to sever the corpse was not by entrusting their obsessions to innate spiritual treasures, but by severing the corpse with the Three Flowers.

The difficulty has increased significantly, which is why it took so long.

Although it's a little late, it doesn't matter as long as it works.

Hongyun absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth with the Five-Colored Divine Light for a hundred years, finally elevating these five divine lights to their ultimate level.

At this moment, the five-colored divine light became more restrained. At a glance, the five beams of light appeared as if they were the five elements themselves, manifesting between heaven and earth.

Kong Xuan looked up at the five divine lights and became engrossed in them. Suddenly, his body trembled, and his tail feathers stood up.

Among them, five tail feathers are particularly eye-catching, corresponding to the five colors of the Five-Colored Divine Light: blue, red, yellow, white, and black.

The five tail feathers grew brighter and brighter, and suddenly, with a boom, the five tail feathers transformed into five beams of light that shot into the sky.

However, compared to Hongyun's five-colored divine light, Kong Xuan's five-colored divine light was far too weak.

And it's very small.

Even so, it still shocked Xuanfeng and Xuanpeng. It turned out that Kong Xuan had mastered his Five-Colored Divine Light.

Hongyun in Mingdao Palace was unaware that Kong Xuan had unexpectedly mastered the Five-Colored Divine Light.

At this moment, he was fully immersed in the task of dismembering corpses.

After the five-colored divine light was completely contained and perfected, it suddenly transformed into five streams of light and disappeared into the air.

It flew into the red clouds and auspicious clouds.

Then, these five rays of light gradually flowed into the rightmost of the three chaotic spiritual clouds of the red cloud.

This originally chaotic spiritual cloud gradually transformed into five colors, emanating the aura of the Five Elements.

At the same time, Hongyun also cut off his good thoughts continuously according to the method of severing the three corpses.

They all converged towards that spiritual cloud.

"Buzzing!!"

This cloud, which has transformed from a chaotic spiritual cloud into a five-colored cloud, is one of the three flowers of the red cloud.

Every Great Golden Immortal has three flowers: one for essence, one for qi, and one for spirit. The one on the right is actually the essence flower of Hongyun.

Hongyun wanted to use the exquisite flower to sever her own good corpse.

And so, for an unknown period of time, suddenly, with a bang, a person appeared on the flower.

This person's face is exactly the same as Hongyun's, except that he looks much kinder. He is the one who successfully severed Hongyun's good corpse.

As soon as this benevolent corpse appeared, Hongyun's aura surged upwards, and a powerful and vast aura spread outwards.

Hongyun finally advanced to the Quasi-Saint realm.

After severing his good intentions and becoming a benevolent corpse, Hongyun felt a sense of clarity in his heart, and his understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth became even clearer. He also vaguely felt a sense of transcendence.

Quasi-Saints have already entered the Primordial Chaos Realm, which is completely different from that of Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Both their magical power and Taoist cultivation have increased significantly. It was only at this stage that they had a glimmer of hope for transcendence. Although they were still ants, they had become much stronger.

After years of hard work and cultivation, Hongyun has finally achieved something and ascended to another realm.

Hongyun could clearly feel his strength increasing. Not to mention his magical power, the improvement of his cultivation was the most important. In a single thought, he could deduce the secrets of heaven and felt that all kinds of fortune and misfortune were clear in his mind.

Seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune is an instinct, and this is the benefit of spiritual cultivation. Otherwise, no matter how great one's spiritual power or how strong one's cultivation, if one does not understand the secrets of heaven, cause and effect, or fortune and misfortune, one can easily fall into the schemes of others.

To become a pawn in someone else's game, unable even to control one's own life and death, how can one talk about transcending the world and taking control of one's own destiny?

Moreover, not only that, but at the moment when Hongyun severed his benevolent corpse and became a quasi-saint, the Qiankun World that was one with him also underwent a violent transformation.

After Hongyun created this world, it was just a small world, but through Hongyun's hard work, it has long since laid a solid foundation and accumulated profound knowledge.

Now, Hongyun's breakthrough in cultivation has become the catalyst for the transformation and advancement of this world.

But the world is expanding rapidly, becoming more and more vast, with mountains, rivers, the sun, the moon, and the stars constantly undergoing all sorts of mysterious changes.

"Boom! Boom!!"

The spiritual energy vortex that had disappeared from the sky above Mingdao Palace not long ago has reappeared, and this time it is even larger and more chaotic.

The powerful beings who noticed the commotion at Longevity Mountain assumed that Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun had successively severed their corpses.

Little did they know, this meant that the inner world of the Red Cloud was also about to break through to the next level.

That small world was frantically devouring the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and it was seen to expand larger and larger as it grew.

Within this microcosm, even more worlds were born.

This surprised Hongyun. Originally, his calculations were based on the Qiankun World as a single world, but he did not expect such an unexpected event to occur during the world's advancement.

Within the smaller worlds, other worlds actually formed; these worlds were subordinate worlds of the Qiankun world.

Furthermore, Hongyun also discovered that the emergence of these worlds made the Qiankun World itself more stable.

This put Hongyun at ease.

As time passed, a massive amount of spiritual energy continuously poured into the Qiankun World, and this world gradually grew to the limit of the Lesser Thousand Worlds.

Because at this time, those subordinate worlds that were born gradually transformed into numerous smaller worlds.

Although none of them can compare to the Qiankun World itself, these subordinate worlds are numerous.

There are about a thousand worlds among them, but they all become smaller worlds.

Such quantitative change led to qualitative change. With a thunderous roar, the entire Qiankun World was finally completely transformed and advanced into a Middle Thousand World.

"Buzz!!"

The world gradually stabilized.

However, those subordinate worlds continued to grow. According to Hongyun's intuition and calculations, approximately three thousand minor worlds would be formed among these worlds.

This completes the Qiankun World, a middle-thousand world, and brings it to its full potential. Furthermore, if the Qiankun World can further transform and advance to become a great-thousand world, then these three thousand lesser-thousand worlds can also advance further to become middle-thousand worlds.

Having successfully completed the two methods of proving the Dao—severing the three corpses and proving the Dao through the world—Hongyun felt his cultivation and magical power were incredibly abundant.

Compared to his previous strength when he only severed the good corpse, Hongyun felt that he could now fight three or four times his former self.

This shows how powerful he is now.

The combined effect of two methods of enlightenment is far greater than the sum of its parts. However, this also significantly increases the difficulty.

Having received guidance from Zhen Yuanzi, Hongyun felt a sense of gratitude but suppressed her impulse.

Practicing both methods simultaneously and striving to attain primordial unity is good, but unnecessary. As long as one can attain enlightenment and become a sage, the process itself is unimportant.

After all, even if the two Western saints were weak, weren't they still saints? Becoming a saint is the reality; not becoming a saint is just a joke.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that as the Qiankun World has been upgraded from a Lesser Thousand World to a Middle Thousand World.

The five incarnations of Hongyun in the Qiankun World—the five divine beast incarnations of Jinyun, Muyun, Shuiyun, Huoyun, and Tuyun—also saw their strength greatly increase.

They all advanced to the quasi-saint level.

This is also one of the benefits of the Red Cloud World Dao, because the five incarnations he formed are integrated with the entire Qiankun World. As the world advances, his five incarnations will also be strengthened accordingly.

Although the number will not increase, it is still a large number to begin with.

Five Quasi-Saints, although each only possessed about one-fifth of Hongyun's own strength, were still Quasi-Saints.

In addition, Hongyun used the method of severing the three corpses to sever the good thoughts, thus forming a good corpse incarnation.

Hongyun has six quasi-saint incarnations in total. Just thinking about it sends chills down one's spine.

Hongyun silently comprehended the changes in the universe. In this process, the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth changed, and the laws of time and space evolved. The profound mysteries contained within were something that could only be encountered by chance and could not be sought. This was another benefit of proving the Dao in the world.

It allows cultivators to gain the most profound understanding of the evolution and operation of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Once the world had calmed down, the aura of the red cloud became even more profound and unfathomable.

However, Hongyun also sensed that his world seemed to be gradually approaching its limit.

It's probably impossible for it to transform back into the vast world.

This is because the foundation Hongyun used to create this world was merely the twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls.

The Qiankun Pearl, synthesized from twelve Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, can support a near-perfected Middle Thousand World; that is its limit.

If one wants to be promoted further, then first and foremost, one must strengthen the foundation of this world.

(End of this chapter)