Chapter 5: Merit Golden Light, Twenty-Four Dao Charts
Chapter 5: Merit Golden Light, Twenty-Four Dao Charts
“The Cangshan Twenty-Four Solar Terms Qi Circulation Secret Record” was a superior internal art that the founder of the Cangshan lineage comprehended from the ever-changing twenty-four solar terms of Cangshan. It contained the mysteries of the shifts in the solar terms.
This profound mystery merged into the core of the Evil-Warding Golden Bamboo, triggering a profound and unpredictable transformation.
Faintly, a point of golden light fell from the void and merged into Lin Yuan’s Mud Pill Palace within his sea of consciousness, illuminating a deep, dark world.
Virtue Merit?
Immediately, Lin Yuan realized. The Primordial World likely did not yet have a complete calendar. His unintentional action might have aligned with some grand, unseen trend, and the Primordial World bestowed merit!
But it seemed his power was not enough to immediately advance this great merit, so only a wisp of merit was born early.
“Condense the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dao Diagram and establish the twenty-four solar terms?”
Lin Yuan faintly grasped a fleeting hint of heavenly opportunity. A look of great joy appeared between his brows.
If he could establish the twenty-four solar terms for the Primordial World, setting the sequence of changes, it might allow him to achieve his ultimate attainment in one move.
Having been in the Primordial World for over a thousand years, Lin Yuan had learned that even with a superior origin, achieving one’s ultimate attainment was not easy. It was not like in his impressions, where shouting a few slogans and relying on one’s origin could easily accomplish it.
Instead, one needed to undergo various tribulations and comprehend the mysteries of the Great Dao to achieve the ultimate attainment!
Those who could achieve it, even with superior origins, were few.
Without cultivating merit or gathering fortune, one could easily be plotted against, fall into great calamities, and turn to ashes.
However, the theory of fortune was still a minority view. The mainstream was the Path of Turbid Sha and Divine Demons. A group of Demon God Dao Lords tightly controlled the major trends, and successive generations of the Three Sovereigns all emerged from among the Demon God Dao Lords.
Lin Yuan then suppressed the joy in his heart. It was still too early to talk about these things. The Merit Power of the twenty-four solar terms was absorbed by the core within him, and the core underwent a noticeable change.
The supremely rigid and supremely yang Evil-Warding Golden Thunder separated into heaven and earth’s Yin and Yang, with Kan and Li alternating, like the sunny and rainy days of the four seasons, like Taiji’s Yin and Yang, and the illusions of life and death.
This change undoubtedly elevated the mysteries of the thunder art within his body to a higher level. He had faintly taken the most important step towards forming his own lineage!
At this moment, the final stroke of the human-shaped acupoint diagram within his body was completed. Countless strands of Innate Spiritual Qi mixed with terrifying thunder light filled his entire body!
Boom!
A huge roar sounded above his head!
Lin Yuan’s expression changed drastically, and he looked up.
The transformation thunder tribulation had actually arrived early!
Suddenly, a towering, all-encompassing azure thunder light descended!
In the center of the Bamboo Sea, the huge golden bamboo, its branches and leaves wreathed in golden lightning, erupted with blazing golden light, tightly enveloping the entire Evil-Warding Golden Bamboo!
In just a few breaths, under dozens of thunder strikes, within a sphere of pure golden thunder light, a humanoid figure appeared.
This figure was considerably taller than Lin Yuan’s original build. The face was ninety percent similar, but it carried a more masculine aura.
He wore a fitting golden robe. His black hair hung over his shoulders, slightly disheveled yet dancing without wind. Golden light surged in his eyes, as if containing a vast, restrained majesty.
“I succeeded!” Lin Yuan was overjoyed.
Transforming with the body of a Spiritual Root, this body also comprehended a trace of supreme divine thunder power hidden deep within the Spiritual Root. It was truly an Innate Dao Body.
He glanced around. The surroundings had been completely destroyed by the terrifying transformation thunder tribulation. Lin Yuan thought for a moment, waved his hand, and a stream of magic power flowed out, manifesting a Dao diagram.
It was the first diagram of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dao Diagram, the first of the Four Seasons Dao Diagrams, symbolizing the initial birth of the world’s vitality. Within it, a point of azure thunder light was conceived and merged into the earth veins, erasing the destructive power of the transformation thunder tribulation around him. The azure thunder light merged with the earth, spring returned to the land, finally repaying the debt to the place of his transformation!
Lin Yuan looked at this scene with satisfaction. These twenty-four Dao Diagrams were incredibly profound and would surely be of great use in the future.
Next, he should take this heaven-bestowed path as an opportunity to perfect these twenty-four Dao Diagrams and comprehend his own cultivation method.
Lin Yuan had already made up his mind about this.
A moment later, his form turned into a streak of light and burrowed underground, speeding towards the place where many living beings said the Great Divine Powers were discussing the Dao.
As one of the beings that transformed from a Spiritual Root, this earth-traveling technique was a power Lin Yuan was born with!
While heading to the place where those Great Divine Powers were discussing the Dao, Lin Yuan also did not forget to gather some spiritual objects and the essence of spiritual roots to temper the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dao Diagram.
The Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dao Diagram was divided into four seasons. It required spiritual roots of the four seasons to fill this great gap, or four spiritual treasures that aligned with the twenty-four solar terms to complete it.
According to the changes in heavenly opportunities, the four seasons were one link in the grand cycle of the Primordial World. Corresponding Innate Spiritual Treasures carrying fortune would inevitably be born, destined for Lin Yuan.
However, Lin Yuan did not hold high hopes for these four spiritual treasures!
Innate Spiritual Treasures were extremely precious and had unparalleled power. They were not something he could find at his current level.
But Lin Yuan was confident that he would eventually find those four seasonal spiritual treasures in the future!
His heart was filled with ambition!
After traveling several hundred li, Lin Yuan discovered a clear stream. Numerous living beings were continuously gathering here, with streams of multicolored light traveling through the majestic, vast mountain range.
On the rocks beside the clear stream, beings of all kinds were already seated. There were giant bears rolling with baleful qi, and fierce tigers and leopards with a pungent, strong stench… Lin Yuan also saw, like himself, many beings carrying pure spiritual light sitting cross-legged. Many of them emitted immense pressure, their cultivation seemingly far above Lin Yuan’s.
Yet these beings sat on the rocks formed by the stream, exceptionally respectful and absorbed.
Even those crude, exceptionally fierce and savage beings were filled with respect!
Lin Yuan landed his escaping light far away. Seeing that the landing beings all bowed towards the two old men still conversing on the high platform before sitting down, he naturally followed suit. Mimicking the other beings, he quietly bowed towards these two divine demons and found a seat next to an old man with a turtle shell on his back, short stature, and a strange, peculiar face.
The creature that looked like the old man with the turtle shell seemed not to have noticed Lin Yuan’s arrival. For some reason, his face was flushed, and he looked restless and troubled!
The two old men discussing the Dao were unknown beings. Their discussion did not produce any strange phenomena, nor any fantastical visions of celestial blossoms.
Every sentence was simple and unadorned, seemingly easy to remember, yet each one was a true word of the Great Dao, directly pointing to the fundamentals of the Dao!
Among the many beings listening to the Dao discussion by the stream, some could not endure the dryness and left after a short while, or simply sat in their spots snoring loudly.
Nine out of ten beings could not bear it and left!
Lin Yuan also found it confusing and hard to grasp, but he remained patient.
As the saying goes, the Great Dao is not lightly transmitted!
Perhaps due to his deep origin, after several years, he gradually moved from initial frustration and confusion into a better state. He actually began to understand some of the profound mysteries of the Great Dao.
It turned out the two beings lecturing were two Innate Divine Demons born in Hidden Mist Mountain. One was called the Gouchen Demon God, and the other called himself the Longevity Demon God.
The two divine demons were also discussing the Path of Turbid Sha and Divine Demons, the method of reversing to become an Innate Divine Demon.
This disappointed Lin Yuan. The path of divine demons was indeed the mainstream now, but from what he knew, the divine demons were surely destined to fall cold in the future.
The various Dao Lords of the Mystic Gate would rise to prominence in just a few kalpas. Even many Chaos Divine Demons would join the Mystic Gate!
The feeling of disappointment was quickly suppressed. Lin Yuan calmed his heart. The path of divine demons was not untrainable, especially the method of reversing to become an Innate Divine Demon. In the future, even if he shifted from the divine demon path to the Mystic Gate Immortal Path, he could still gain an advantage!