The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 600 The Fourth Step to Golden Immortal

Observe the changes of the sun and moon, and understand the beginning and end of the Great Way.

Whether it's ten days in a ten-day period, twelve hours in a day, or the cycle of the sun and moon, time remains constant overall. The shifting of thoughts, the movement of energy, and the changes in the Great Dao all prove the existence and arrival of time.

Luo Zu no longer cares about these things, because he is a Golden Immortal, whose lifespan is as long as the heavens, so he doesn't need to care about how time progresses.

He only needs to sit and watch the river of time flow slowly past him from ancient times, and then carry him to the distant future.

The immortal golden nature within his primordial spirit sustains his eternity, and the indestructible Dao fruit prevents his soul from being corrupted by time.

But where there is eternity, there is also calamity; the decline of the Dao, accompanied by the undying Dao fruit, was "hunting him down."

During the years that Luo Zu was in seclusion, he was awakened three times each time because of the decline of his Dao, which forced him to break free from his meditation.

What are the symptoms of the decline of the Dao? One cannot resonate with the Great Dao, and along with the decline of one's own Dao, the Great Dao that one embodies also falls into a state of decay and exhaustion.

They may also fall into a state of amnesia, forgetting the profound mysteries of the Great Dao they have comprehended, thus falling out of their current state of mind.

Luo Zu called it the "old age dementia of the Golden Immortal of the Primordial Era".

As soon as he felt these symptoms, he immediately stopped practicing and began reciting the Supreme Pure Heart Sutra. After reciting it for thirty years, he was able to resolve the decline in his spiritual path.

However, the first time it can be resolved by reciting the Supreme Pure Heart Sutra for thirty years, the second time it takes three hundred years, and the third time it takes nine hundred years.

The decline of the Dao can be sudden and can even affect its surrounding environment, causing the Daoist temple to enter a state of decline. If the Daoist temple is located in a grotto-heaven, it can also trigger a terrible calamity of decline for the grotto-heaven.

After the first decline of his Dao, Luo Zu used his immortal arts to divide his cave into two realms. It was because of this that the vegetation on this mountain did not wither and all living beings were not killed.

After overcoming the decline of one's cultivation, one's cultivation level is replenished, and one's cultivation level immediately increases by one point.

If it weren't for the increasingly longer time required to resolve the Dao Decline through reciting the Supreme Pure Heart Sutra, and if Luo Zu hadn't been absolutely certain about the Five Great Evolutions of the Dao Fruit, he might have continued to endure the Dao Decline until it "refused" to descend upon him.

However, he will have a new cultivation next. The profound principles of the Great Dao that exist in the Great Dao have been gradually resolved by the Five Tai Evolutions, and the Five Tai Evolutions have also penetrated into the Dao Fruit, and he will implement the plan of usurping the nest.

Three thousand and ninety-eight years after Kuafu's death, Luozu's cultivation also came to an end.

It's time to take off.

Standing atop a snow-covered mountain, Luo Zu let the mountain breeze from the Kunlun Mountains caress his face.

It wasn't exactly cool and refreshing, since this temperature change wouldn't affect his physical body; even the fierce winds thousands of miles above the ground couldn't stir the hair on his temples.

There are many unnamed peaks in the Kunlun Mountains, but there are many peaks inhabited by living beings. For example, on this peak right now, a white-headed, six-winged eagle has built its nest here.

But the eagle could not fly at this moment, and could only lie at Luo Zu's feet, whimpering and looking very pitiful.

"I do not accept disciples, but I can teach you the methods of cultivation."

Luo Zu patted its huge head

Therefore, the eagle's humble appearance was not due to Luo Zu's coercion, but rather because it knew Luo Zu's abilities and wanted to become Luo Zu's disciple, hence its subservient attitude.

Luo Zu slapped it, and then imparted a cultivation method and the technique of transformation into its true spirit.

The cultivation method also follows the path of the primordial spirit, and the method of transformation is naturally the method of cultivating to transform into human form.

Chirp chirp.

The white-headed, six-winged eagle, having received the magic from the Ancestor Luo, was naturally overjoyed.

He bowed repeatedly to Luo Zu, as if performing three or nine prostrations, showing even greater respect.

Having lived in the primordial world for a long time, Luo Zu was naturally used to such things. He simply waved his hand once more, letting it leave first.

The eagle, no longer annoying, nodded and then flapped its wings and flew away.

With a single flap of its wings, it soars to a height of 100,000 miles; after a flap of its wings, it reaches a distance of a million miles.

It was born with the supernatural ability to fly through the air.

However, Luo Zu looked down on such a divine beast.

Although he looked down on it, there were still many younger members of the human race who wanted to learn the art of beast taming, so he could use it to train and cultivate them.

That thought ended there; he couldn't afford to neglect his own cultivation at this moment.

A figure identical to him suddenly appeared beside him.

"I have many feelings to express."

Yuan is his second primordial spirit.

"In my past life, people always said that when people get old, they always reminisce about the past and worry about their children and grandchildren. It seems that's how I feel now," Luo Zu sighed.

The second primordial spirit smiled: "I am only fifty thousand years old now, and I already have so many feelings. What will my mindset be when I am one hundred thousand, one million, or even ten million or ten million years old?"

Luo Zu shook his head. He knew his own situation and understood that what the second primordial spirit said was right, but this hurdle was not easy to overcome.

He was not born immortal, and the years he had lived were not long. Moreover, he was not one of those creatures in the primordial world with little emotion. He was a human, and humans have seven emotions and six desires, and countless thoughts. He was the ancestor of the Upper Cave Man, and he was no exception.

But no matter what, he is now a Golden Immortal, an immortal god who will face billions and hundreds of billions of years in the future.

As for whether beings of this age exist? Of course they do. Aren't those veteran Golden Immortals the real holdouts of the primordial world?

Moreover, there are also Taiyi and Daluo.

"Things are constantly evolving, and so am I. When I live to be a million years old, I will be able to answer your questions," Luo Zusi replied.

The second primordial spirit nodded.

He thought so too, after all, they were ultimately the same person.

Having said all he could say, Luo Zu did not dwell on the matter any further, but slowly spat out a Dao Fruit that resembled a vibrant, bright red fruit.

The second primordial spirit, without much thought, also spat out a Dao Fruit.

This is the fruit of the boundless Dao.

What Luo Zu himself spat out was the Dao Fruit of the Five Great Evolutions, no longer the Dao Fruit of Existence.

These two Dao fruits can now be considered the opposite of the Dao.

"Please perform the spell, fellow Daoist." Luo Zu bowed to the second primordial spirit.

The second primordial spirit nodded slightly: "Alright."

Thus, under the combined influence of the main body and the second primordial spirit, the two Dao fruits slowly approached each other, becoming close and interdependent, gradually forming a state of balance between yin and yang.

Luo Zu achieved the fourth step of the Golden Immortal realm so easily.

After the two paths stood side by side, the second primordial spirit transformed into countless streams of light and merged back into the original form of Luo Zu.

He did not disappear, but continued to exist in another form.

Otherwise, if he disappeared, Luo Zu's Wuji Dao Fruit would inevitably be affected.

"Today I have completed the fourth step of cultivation; tomorrow I will attain the Taiyi Daluo realm."

Luo Zu was filled with joy and happiness, and thus praised it with this sentence.

(End of this chapter)