The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 414 From Primordial Great Luo to Taiyi, Hearing the Great Dao and Knowing the Calamity

"Is this something I can hear?" Luo Zu was surprised.

While the Sage Taiqing was giving his lecture, the flying boat that he had hidden with him was separated from him and placed outside the main hall.

Luo Zu was not worried when he saw this. After all, this was the sacred site of a sage, and it would surely protect his people. Otherwise, wouldn't he be slapping the face of the sage?

But this also made Luo Zu deeply realize that there is a sequence to learning the Dao, and the Dharma should not be passed on to six ears.

With this in mind, Luo Zu sat down and focused his mind to observe the Supreme Saint in front of him and listen to him teach the Way of Hunyuan.

At this moment, the Supreme Sage revealed his human form in his eyes. He was an old man on the verge of death, yet he was also full of vigor and vitality, which seemed contradictory, yet everything seemed so natural and normal.

The moment this thought crossed his mind, the aura emanating from the Sage of Taiqing instantly changed.

Like withered bones in a tomb, rotted into mud, devoid of any life.

This leads to a shift from a perfect balance of yin and yang to another lifeless extreme.

This change caught Luo Zu completely off guard.

But the sage Taiqing had already begun preaching, and he began speaking in the language of the human race.

No, it was He who expounded the Primordial Dao through the voice of the Great Dao. However, since Luo Zu was a human, he directly used the human language to convey it. Other races, upon "hearing" it, would use their own language, or they would not use language but would directly listen to the voice of the Great Dao. Even the Supreme Saint in front of him directly demonstrated the Primordial Dao to him.

As for what the Hunyuan Dao is.

Luo Zu heard it clearly, but he couldn't understand it.

But he remembered it, in a way that was both unbelievable and perfectly logical.

notes!

Yes, he couldn't help but write down the Great Dao expounded by the Sage of Taiqing on the spot.

Is this absurd? Yet the recorded events are reasonable.

In order to record the Dao of Hunyuan, Luo Zu only used nine palm-sized pages of paper.

After he finished recording and reviewed the contents, he felt that he understood the Way of Hunyuan.

But as soon as his eyes left him, the Primordial Dao drifted away from him again, detaching itself directly from his brain.

Luo Zu understood that he both understood and didn't fully comprehend; this level of understanding could only be clearly grasped before reaching the Hunyuan realm.

"Alas, a hundred forms, a thousand more, the boundless heavens, the unpredictable Youling..."

Actually, the words in it are still a bit puzzling.

Of course, this is only how it appears to outsiders. Luo Zu has his own understanding, after all, these are his own records, and the information contained therein is also his own understanding, which is then hidden in the words and sentences in this form. It is nothing more than an interpretation of classical Chinese.

He will later write a corresponding dictionary definition so that his people can understand its meaning.

However, as he carefully examined his own writing, a question arose in his mind: how could human writing not be subject to the rules set by the Lich and Demon races?

Is it because of this main hall? Or something else?

Luo Zu had no idea.

But in the end, he still kept this primordial chaos secret close to his body and placed it directly into his primordial spirit.

Then he remembered something else: Has the Sage of Taiqing finished explaining the Primordial Chaos Dao?

This is the ultimate realm of the primordial world, yet it's so simple? He only recorded nine pages of it.

Or perhaps it can be said that the greatest truths are the simplest, and that simplicity is often complicated?

Luo Zu couldn't understand it for a moment, let alone explain it.

In any case, the Sage of Taiqing has already begun expounding on the Great Luo Dao.

Therefore, it seems necessary to explain each of the current cultivation levels clearly.

At this moment, the Great Luo Dao became obscure and complicated. Luo Zu could not understand it, nor did he know how to remember it. Even though he took out paper and pen again, he did not know what words to record.

Moreover, just listening to it makes me feel annoyed, as if there's always an itch somewhere on my body, and I've scratched my whole body but still haven't scratched the right spot.

It's so painful, so very painful; the bitterness in my heart is unknown to anyone.

This situation made each day feel like a year, a completely different experience from listening to lectures on the Hunyuan Dao.

After listening to the teachings of Hunyuan once, time seemed to fly by, and in the blink of an eye, he had memorized the "entire" Hunyuan Dao.

However, the Great Luo Dao seemed to be an overwhelming influx of information from the entire primordial world, engulfing him with endless information that did not dissipate but instead surrounded him, yet he could not absorb even a drop.

Listening to the Dao in this way, he felt his spirit was exhausted, the world had changed, heaven and earth were silent, and the primordial world had gone through its creation and end, yet he was still trapped in the Dao of the Great Luo, unable to escape.

One cycle after another, the primordial world went through eighty-one cycles from creation to destruction, yet Luo Zu still could not escape the path of the Great Luo.

It seems that the Great Luo Path is far away, but with each cycle of the primordial world, a new Great Luo Path descends, resulting in eighty-one Great Luo Paths.

In the end, Luo Zu escaped this suffering.

He didn't even breathe, his whole being was in a state of numbness, unable to care about anything anymore, everything seemed to have stopped, and he became a stone corroded and rotten by time.

This is similar to a poor student facing the last question in the college entrance examination math test and having to think about it intensively.

Such thinking ultimately resulted in only one thing written on the exam paper: a solution.

He was frustrated but also helpless, because he genuinely couldn't understand it.

In the end, Luo Zu used all his true qi in his brain, and his primordial spirit also operated in parallel.

Yet he still hadn't even touched upon the Great Luo Dao.

And what comes after Ronaldo?

This is naturally the Way of Taiyi.

Logically speaking, Luo Zu had already been exhausted by the Great Luo Dao and was unable to think anymore. However, as soon as this Dao was mentioned, Luo Zu immediately became as energetic as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was full of energy.

It was as if he had been completely reset and fully revived.

Information about the Dao of Taiyi flowed through my mind, and all of it was recorded in my primordial spirit.

I still can't understand it.

This time, I only half-understand, and it feels like scratching an itch through a boot.

I know where it itches, but I'm blocked by a thick barrier and can't scratch it.

This is even more painful.

The most painful thing is to have only a superficial understanding; to be caught up in something and not know how good it is.

Pain may be painful, but joy is also present.

Because while there are things we don't understand, there are also things we do understand. A profound realization brings more joy than any other pleasure in the world.

This time, however, there was more pain than joy; in short, there is only one joy for every hundred times of pain.

So this was yet another agonizing process.

In this situation, Luo Zu wanted to perform a suicide for the Taiqing Saint on the spot, so that He could understand his predicament of being stuck in this predicament and make Him aware of his indescribable suffering.

Ultimately, the Way of Taiyi came to an end without Luo Zu's knowledge of time.

Luo Zu sighed one last time and headed straight for the path of the Golden Immortal.

But this time, he listened to the sermon with the happiest joy.

What does it mean to suddenly have an epiphany?

This is what it means to suddenly understand.

What is meant by "enlightenment"?

This is true enlightenment!

Things that were once only vaguely understood are now suddenly clear.

The Golden Immortal realm seemed like a smooth road before him; no hardship, no skill, no tribulation seemed to pose any difficulty.

All obstacles and hardships seemed to be resolved at this moment.

I understood, I succeeded.

This thought arose in Luo Zu's mind.

Both body and mind felt relaxed, and all the anxiety and hardship that Taiyi and Daluo had been experiencing vanished at this moment.

At this moment, even Luo Zu wanted to sing a song to praise and express his love for the Taiqing Sage in the distance, whose form was no longer known.

Yes, after understanding the Way of the Golden Immortal, when Luo Zu looked at the Supreme Saint again, he was no longer a frail old man, but a clear cloud of mist. If the Saint hadn't been there, Luo Zu wouldn't have been able to "see" him.

Perhaps this is Him, or perhaps this is not Him.

Because He is a saint, He is no longer bound by worldly rules, nor by any physical form, and He would never speak of metaphysics or the unknown.

He is everything unknown and known, the cornerstone of all existence.

"Existence, existence," Luo Zu suddenly realized.

So He is both one and ten thousand?

No, He is merely the Way.

The Tao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things.

He is neither one nor many; He is their origin.

The relationship between them cannot be explained in a few words; everything is self-evident and lies in longing.

Luo Zu attained enlightenment once again.

Joy welled up in my heart again.

The illusory fruits of existence, born from the Great Dao, have become much more solid.

Now it is no different from the true attainment of enlightenment.

However, it still fell short of the final leap.

What's missing?

It's a calamity!

Only by undergoing tribulations to cleanse oneself of worldly impurities and shed the filth of the mortal realm can one attain the fruit of enlightenment.

Upon realizing this, Luo Zu also sensed that his tribulation was approaching.

Not far away.

The exact distance is unknown, but it's not far. Perhaps a flying sword will descend from the sky at any moment and cleave him through, or perhaps yin fire will rise from the ground and burn away too much of his six senses, obscuring his true spirit, or perhaps his whole body will decay and his calamity of decay will suddenly arrive.

Anything is possible; the path to enlightenment and the tribulations are unpredictable.

After Luo Zu attained enlightenment, the teachings on the path to becoming a Golden Immortal were also completed.

Then came the path of the Mysterious Immortals.

Although Luo Zu of the Xuanxian Dao Realm had reached its limit and felt that he had thoroughly mastered it, after Taiqing Saint's explanation, he discovered that he still had so many mistakes and omissions in his understanding of this realm.

For example, in the practice of the Three Flowers in One, there is an even better method: take one as the main one and the other as the auxiliary one, so that they complement each other and transform into a single Dao flower.

There are many more such wonders. The method of opening the Dao flower also originated from many kinds of teachings by the Sage of Taiqing. It can only be said that the teachings of the Sage of Taiqing were too comprehensive. It can be said that all the methods of the Xuanxian Dao realm were involved. However, he did not talk about the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. He only mentioned the methods of cultivation and did not discuss the principles of the Great Dao in the world.

What was the reason behind this? Luo Zu also had a guess in his heart.

However, he was so engrossed in the profound mysteries of the teachings imparted by the Sage of Taiqing, and in the countless and inexhaustible Daoist methods, that he stopped trying to understand the reasons behind them.

Moreover, for him, these Taoist methods, once heard, could be deduced to their fullest extent, allowing him to study their origins and comprehend the Great Tao they evolved into.

I don't know how long I talked about the Dao of the Mysterious Immortals, but in the end, only the sound of the Dao remained echoing in my mind.

Next comes the path of the celestial immortals.

The Path of the Celestial Immortal, like the Path of the Profound Immortal, filled in the gaps in Luo Zu's early cultivation, and also imparted to him many Daoist techniques of the Celestial Immortal realm.

And so it is with the path of the true immortals.

After this explanation, Luo Zu remained completely absorbed, unable to extricate himself from it.

"Mortals know the divine, but they know nothing of the future of the immortal realm. Today I will transmit the method of cultivating qi and preserving spirit, so that all beings may no longer have no clue in their cultivation."

(End of this chapter)