The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 287 Eight Immortals Cave, Three Steps to Immortality

The unknown is fear, and fear is a form of harm, but for some, it is the driving force for progress and the nourishment for spiritual inspiration.

Although Luo Zu might feel fear, he would not stop moving forward, because his vision was much broader, already reaching far beyond the horizon.

So in addition to fear, he also had the will to overcome it.

My mind felt a sense of ease I had never experienced before.

There is a wonderful transformation in the mind and spirit.

call!

It was as if a spring breeze had caressed Luo Zu's body and mind, from his soul to his flesh, and then to his primordial spirit and the Great Dao...

In a flash of inspiration, he quickly directed the nine-tiered lotus platform, which had already flown three thousand light-years through the void, to land amidst a mountain range filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

After his divine sense only briefly swept over this mountain range, he calmed his mind and began to cultivate within it.

He didn't care what the mountain was called; he only knew that there were three powerful forces in this eight-million-mile-long mountain range.

The family has three Kun snakes, with a million of their kind, but none of them have joined the demon race.

The family of the Eight-Eyed Golden-Feathered Chicken also has a million members, but they have not joined the demon race.

There is another place where independent cultivators gather, called Jinshan Cave, which houses eight true immortals. It is precisely because of this that it can stand against the other two places.

Because of these eight immortals, Jinshan Cave is also known as the Eight Immortals Cave.

The name sounds familiar, but it has nothing to do with the famous Eight Immortals I heard about in my past life.

There are no Lü Dongbin, Zhang Guolao, or Tieguai Li in the Eight Immortals Cave; there are only all sorts of strange and grotesque ancient cultivators.

Not all rogue cultivators in the prehistoric world are as good-looking as Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao, nor are they as well-shaped as Wu Meng. Some rogue cultivators are inherently ugly, and when they cultivate improperly and are contaminated by certain special spiritual energies, they become even more unbearable to look at.

Luo Zu didn't mind these things, but that didn't stop him from being unable to bear looking at them.

Fortunately, he has seen a lot in life, and these indescribable creatures no longer affect his mind.

He exhaled softly, then stopped paying attention to worldly affairs and entered into pure seclusion.

Seclusion is not simply about closing the door to meditate and practice; it also requires a mind free from all worldly distractions, so that one can be truly focused on one thing without any other concerns.

He is now seeking to cultivate a Daoist flower.

The process of attaining the Golden Immortal realm from the Mysterious Immortal realm involves three steps: first, opening the Three Flowers; second, merging the Three Flowers; and third, transforming the Three Flowers into the Dao.

Luo Zu is now only standing at the first step, opening three flowers.

Many immortals get stuck at this first step, struggling to make any progress.

For the three flowers to bloom, they need to be combined. These three flowers are the Flower of God, the Flower of the Tao, and the Flower of Life and Nature.

The three flowers bloom in no particular order, but there are differences in their difficulty. The flower of the god is the easiest, followed by the flower of life and death, and finally the flower of the Tao.

But the difficulty sometimes depends on the individual; for those who cultivate themselves, the Flower of Life is the easiest to attain.

But for Luo Zu, the difficulty of blooming these three flowers is probably greater than for anyone else, and no matter which flower it is, it is extremely difficult.

After all, he opens 365 flowers at a time. When he became a Xuanxian, he controlled 365 Great Daos. Although he gained power far exceeding that of other Xuanxian at the same level, he also received this "punishment".

It can be said that there were gains and losses.

Moreover, Luo Zu not only has to master 365 Great Daos, but he also established 86,000 Daos before he became a Dao-Mastering Immortal. After cultivating for a long time, many more Great Daos fell into his mind, and now he has accumulated 99,999 Great Daos.

Later, the path of cultivation was established, and now the path of cultivation is not 365, but 420.

Once one has taken up the Dao, it is even more difficult to take up the Dao again; the difficulty is a hundred times greater than before.

Therefore, more than three hundred years after Luo Zu attained the status of a Xuanxian, he has only now adopted fifty-five more Daoist principles.

It's not easy, it's not easy, it's extremely difficult.

Fortunately, he now holds the reins of the Space Avenue.

There is also the Great Dao of Creation.

This is also due to his sudden enlightenment regarding the control of "time" in the world within the pot.

The "time acceleration" of the world within the pot is the result of the joint evolution of the Creator and the world within the pot. In particular, the Creator's deduction accelerates the movement of matter and energy, and is maintained by the power of the world within the pot, so that the "time acceleration" can remain intact and not make mistakes or be discovered by the beings within.

This profound enlightenment led to significant progress in his spiritual development, resulting in a deeper understanding and ultimately, the attainment of the Dao, allowing him to directly utilize a small portion of the power of the Great Dao of Space and the Great Dao of Creation.

Besides these two Great Daos, Luo Zu also governs fifty-three other Great Daos. There are too many to introduce one by one, but in short, it is truly fortunate that the foundation of Luo Zu's Great Dao Network has been further enhanced.

Luo Zu now needs to bloom 420 Dao flowers. However, after the Dao flowers bloom, another Great Dao will be taken over in the future, and the newly taken-over Great Dao can continue to bloom Dao flowers.

Through repeated cleansing and transformation by the Dao Flower, his mind and the essence of his primordial spirit will be enhanced in an extraordinary way.

In addition, there is his Xuanxian Immortal Qi, which contains the power of the Great Dao to an inconceivable degree.

Luo Zu exhaled again.

This is his tenth year of seclusion in these mountains.

In that instant, he absorbed all the spiritual energy and earth essence of the mountain range.

Because he governs many great paths, the spiritual energy of this mountain range has been depleted.

To be precise, the cultivators in the mountains had no spiritual energy left to draw upon in that instant.

The immortals in the mountains were also terrified and immediately began to extract the spiritual energy from the matter between the mountains and rivers.

Matter is simply energy arranged and composed in various ways in the microscopic world.

The evolution involved is multi-layered, sometimes dozens or even hundreds of times. This is why the energy becomes so stable, unlike spiritual energy which moves around and is unstable. Moreover, the energy within spiritual energy is easily lost.

Therefore, practitioners mostly cultivate by breathing in spiritual energy, and rarely by consuming physical substances such as mountains, rivers, and the heavens and earth.

The immortals of this eight-million-mile mountain range suddenly felt the spiritual energy between heaven and earth vanish. At first, they thought it was the work of an enemy, so they immediately became vigilant and tried to extract spiritual energy from matter so that they could replenish their magic power at any time to defend against the enemy.

Then it was speculated that a certain cultivator had achieved success in his cultivation, and thus absorbed all the spiritual energy of this mountain range.

But there is another possibility: that a treasure has been created.

Regardless of the type, they must take proactive measures, starting with ensuring sufficient spiritual energy.

They waited and waited all night, but the spiritual energy in the mountains still flowed here from other places and re-entered the great cycle of heaven and earth. There were no enemies attacking, no rays of light, and no shimmering treasures.

"It must be a battle between powerful beings, spanning billions of miles in an instant, beyond our comprehension."

Some true immortals have made this conjecture.

But then, they experienced a second, intense feeling of emptiness.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth vanished without a trace once again, and this time the area it covered was even wider, exceeding eight million miles of mountains and reaching thirty million miles away.

If they hadn't seen a demon clan force within a 30 million mile radius erupt in uproar, dispatching a flying celestial vessel in a furious manner, they wouldn't have known that the area affected by the disappearance of spiritual energy this time was so vast.

Moreover, that demon clan is no ordinary force; it has a celestial being in charge, making it the largest power in the Blackwater River region.

However, after this demon tribe was enraged, the result was the same as that of the three forces in the eight million li mountain range: they found nothing.

After searching around for a day, and with all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth flowing into this place, they could only return to the tribe with grumbling.

But as soon as they returned, the spiritual energy vanished again.

This time the scope is even wider.

Three hundred million miles!!

(End of this chapter)