The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 286 The Mysterious Qi Transforms into Human Form

Although he did not achieve a breakthrough in his cultivation level, he did create a new method.

To be honest, this progress is not bad.

This method is primarily a means of observing and comprehending the Great Dao, supplemented by methods for cultivating the Mysterious Immortal Qi.

Luo Zu named this method the One Qi Mysterious Method.

True Immortal Qi is formed by refining spiritual energy with various immortal techniques, Celestial Immortal Qi is refined with the Great Dao on this basis, and Profound Immortal Qi replaces the imprint of immortal techniques with the power of the Great Dao.

According to Luo Zu's plan, as his understanding of the Great Dao becomes deeper and more complete, and after the Three Flowers bloom in full, this immortal Qi, refined with the power of the Great Dao, will become even more extraordinary.

When one's own essence transforms into the Dao, the immortal energy should also be given a different name, such as Dao energy, or something else.

At this point, the components of the immortal energy will be transformed from the imprint of immortal techniques, essence, spirit, and spiritual energy into one's own path of spiritual energy refinement.

Even Golden Immortals don't need to use spiritual energy.

Although Luo Zu is not yet at the Golden Immortal realm, he can certainly use his own deductions to determine the standard for the next realm.

After all, the concept of cultivation realms wasn't established from ancient times. It was set by cultivators, and thus the rules were established and spread. One by one, cultivators proved that these realms were feasible and had widespread applicability. In this way, they became conventional and transformed into cultivation realms, and the standards within them were clearly defined.

Of course, if that great being who pioneered the Golden Immortal and Great Luo realms had made a ruthless decision and directly inscribed this rule into the prehistoric world, there probably wouldn't be any side paths, no witch clan cultivation, and so many rogue cultivators creating their own cultivation methods.

If Luo Zu were such a being, he wouldn't do something so laborious and thankless. Doing so would only hinder the evolution of the primordial world, and this cultivation realm would likely stagnate in the future, with no possibility of further advancement.

It's as if in the beginning there were no cultivation methods, no Golden Immortals, Taiyi, or Daluo, let alone True Immortals or Heavenly Immortals. And now, with the emergence of the Ancestor Luo, there is only one False Immortal realm below True Immortal.

It is said that Luo Zu's four realms of Qi Refining have not been fully promoted yet. After all, the prehistoric world is vast, and no one has the intention to take care of "ants" below the True Immortal level. Those who can become True Immortals are fellow practitioners, and those who cannot become True Immortals are not even as good as a pile of dog excrement on the roadside.

However, Luo Zu believed that as the primordial world evolved, such a realm would gradually be accepted by the world and become the basis for all "weak" beings to cultivate.

However, Luo Zu now wants to create a "cloud server" that can store the cultivation insights of all Qi cultivators.

It's like the bloodline of the witch clan, or the sun, moon, and stars of the demon clan.

In addition, some demon races also have their own methods of bloodline inheritance.

Therefore, Luo Zu also wanted a method for recording information and intelligence belonging to Qi cultivators, or more precisely, a method for humans.

After all, this Qi Refining Method was created by Luo Zu based on the human race, so many of its key points are also created around the human body. If one were to cultivate this method, one would probably have to become a "human."

Luo Zu then mentioned a term—transformation.

This is also a way that Luo Zu envisioned for the future of humanity, integrating other races and assimilating them into the human race.

This approach is gentler, and somewhat like boiling a frog in lukewarm water.

In Luo Zu's design, as their cultivation level improves, they will rely more on the various benefits of refining qi brought by human bodies, especially in the later immortal realm, which will further strengthen their recognition of the human race and allow them to integrate into it.

Of course, if these beings eventually revert to their original forms, then even Luo Zu can't do anything about it, but the cultivation method has its own corresponding solution.

This directly plunges these practitioners who are "two-timing" into the tragic state of being plagued by inner demons.

There are rewards and punishments; win people's hearts with benevolence and forgiveness, and subdue people with domineering methods.

Three hundred years is enough time to change many things, but in order to focus on cultivation and creating magic, Luo Zu tightened his control over the world within the pot, at least reducing the "flow of time" within it.

More accurately, it means making them "normal," and being parallel to the primordial world is normal.

Therefore, during the three hundred years of seclusion by Luo Zu, the time in the world within the pot also passed normally for three hundred years, without any increase or decrease.

But this also led to many things that were beyond Luo Zu's expectations.

Originally, his spiritual brain was used to predict the future of all realms within the pot, so as to "speed up time," calculate all the futures clearly, and then let them evolve rapidly in these futures. Although he would not control these evolutions, at least the vast majority (99.99%) of their futures were under Luo Zu's control.

Unfortunately, that's all gone now. In Luo Zu's eyes, their future is like a wild horse that has broken free of its reins, which gives rise to a great terror in his heart.

This is a fear stemming from the sudden change of past habits.

It's as if an all-knowing and all-powerful god suddenly lost his all-knowing and all-powerful abilities one day, and he would inevitably panic.

Although Luo Zu was flustered at this moment, he also gained a new understanding.

"I realize how vulnerable I am." He reflected on himself.

He originally thought that with his improved cultivation, extensive travels, and increased mental strength, his primordial spirit had become more complete and he had faced many tribulations, he should be much stronger.

But I never expected that there would be such a big flaw in my own mind.

His state of mind is not yet complete.

"I still have attachment to self." Although I can perceive it and understand it, how to resolve it is a big problem.

Luo Zu knew he couldn't resolve the situation at this moment, but instead of accelerating the "time" within the pot, he allowed all five worlds to fall into "quiet".

From now on, until he resolves this problem in his heart, he will only allow the "Heavenly Way" to observe and record the five realms, and will not try to control the future.

This was also one of the ways he came up with to resolve the problem.

Since we can't have an epiphany in an instant, let's take it slowly, gradually tempering our mindset and calming this panic.

Perhaps you can get used to it, then the problem will be solved.

In this way, all the beings in the world within the pot were surprised to find that time in the Immortal Realm was no different from that in other worlds.

The celestial beings of the Immortal Realm, who had paid a heavy price to repel the invasion of the Heavenly Demon Realm, all came to consult the Celestial Ancestor's celestial incarnation—the Immortal Elder.

However, after the Immortal Elder fought a battle with the Demon King of the Heavenly Demon Realm, he had been in seclusion for cultivation, so they had nowhere to ask him and could only give up.

But they soon discovered something good: the Great Dao in the mortal realm and the Nine Netherworld was not as obvious as in the immortal realm, and the concentration of spiritual energy was also much lower.

This means that they no longer have a "time penalty" for cultivation. Everyone has the same cultivation time, but their cultivation speed will be much faster than the other two worlds.

They simply didn't know what the Demon Realm was like.

But having always regarded the Demon Realm as their adversary, they naturally assumed that the Demon Realm was just like them.

Actually, that's not the case. The Demon Realm doesn't have spiritual energy; it only has calamity energy borrowed from other realms.

Therefore, the cultivation of demon lords and demons has always been different from that of other living beings; they rely on the energy of calamity to survive and cultivate.

Therefore, the stronger the four directions of heaven and earth are, the more calamity energy they generate, and the greater their support for the Heavenly Demon Realm will be.

This wondrous power also propelled the demon lords of the Heavenly Demon Realm to greater strength.

So it's like the four directions of heaven and earth are nurturing the Heavenly Demon Realm.

Unbeknownst to them, while the Demon Lords were plundering the four directions of heaven and earth, the Heavenly Demon Realm was also "unwittingly" plundering the four directions of heaven and earth.

After Luo Zu relinquished his power to control the future of the world within the pot, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in his heart.

(End of this chapter)