Chapter 17 Ascension to the Celestial Realm: The Manifestation of Dao Scriptures
Before the Lich War, the Heavenly Dao disliked post-natal beings, suppressing them in every way, even forbidding them from cultivating.
However, the Heavenly Dao had its flaws, and everything had a glimmer of hope. As long as one could grasp this glimmer, a path to survival could be forged.
Feng Zichen was fortunate; with the help of the Primordial Dao Seal, he seized this glimmer, comprehending a breathing technique from the ferocious Qilin beast, thus opening the door to cultivation.
After hundreds of years of arduous cultivation, Feng Zichen finally created a relatively complete cultivation system. Now, he wanted to pass this path on, allowing more post-natal humans like himself to embark on the path of cultivation and strengthen the human race.
Stepping onto Ziwei Peak, Feng Zichen retrieved a ball of innate essence from the Five Elements Realm, formed from the corpses of numerous innate divine beasts in the Three Races Battlefield.
That day, Feng Zichen had cultivated the Innate Five Elements Divine Light in the Three Races Battlefield and couldn't resist testing its power, so he unleashed a five-colored divine light.
Divine light traversed millions of miles, instantly enveloping the entire battlefield of the three races. It returned the numerous corpses of divine beasts and countless spiritual herbs to their source, transforming them into pure primordial energy and incorporating them into the Five Elements Realm.
After returning from the battlefield, Feng Zichen first took out several strands of primordial Five Elements energy and gave them to several Golden Immortal experts of the human race to help them break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
Afterwards, he continuously used the Divine Light of the Five Elements to refine the primordial energy, turning it into primordial essence.
The Divine Light of the Five Elements truly lived up to its reputation as a top-tier divine power of the primordial world; under the circulation of the Five Elements, it even refined the primordial malevolent energy that was inextricably intertwined with the primordial energy.
Holding the primordial essence in his hand, Feng Zichen carefully examined it. He saw the power of creation flowing endlessly within it, with Yin and Yang rotating and the Five Elements circulating, elucidating the profound principles of heaven and earth—truly mysterious.
With a flick of his wrist, Feng Zichen tossed the Primordial Essence into the sky, unleashing his divine power and uttering a deep, resounding command:
"Earth Veins, Condense!"
As if the very essence of Heaven itself had spoken, the power of law converged, and the surrounding earth veins immediately sensed it, flowing towards Ziwei Peak.
Rumble!
Ziwei Peak trembled violently, growing taller and stronger.
"Fall!"
Seeing this, Feng Zichen spoke again.
The Primordial Essence in the air erupted with countless rays of light, falling into the earth veins of Ziwei Peak.
This Primordial Essence, forged from the innate essence of several Taiyi Golden Immortals and hundreds of other Golden Immortals, contained terrifying power. Upon entering the earth veins, Ziwei Peak grew rapidly, expanding a hundredfold, then a thousandfold in an instant.
Once Ziwei Peak reached a height of a million feet, it ceased growing, instead shrinking continuously until it reached a size of ten thousand feet.
Endless, mysterious light surged from Ziwei Peak, merging with the surrounding space, creating layers of spatial barriers that seemed to isolate Ziwei Peak from the primordial world.
"This is... a sign of advancement to a Cave Heaven!"
Gazing at this wondrous scene, Feng Zichen was overjoyed and exclaimed in surprise.
He hadn't expected the power of the innate essence to be so strong, causing Ziwei Peak to show signs of advancing to a Cave Heaven.
Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands are places favored by creation. They are rich in innate energy and give rise to various mysterious creations, making them veritable independent miniature worlds.
The Daoist temples of the top powers in the Primordial World are built upon these Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands.
Of course, even if Ziwei Peak advances to a Cave Heaven, it will only be an ordinary Cave Heaven, far inferior to the top-tier Cave Heavens inhabited by those powerful beings.
But for the human race, an ordinary Cave Heaven is enough. It should be known that countless races in the Primordial World, far stronger than humans, yearn for a Cave Heaven but cannot obtain one. Having signs of advancing to the next level didn't guarantee success, and Feng Zichen understood this. He quickly gathered his magical power, drawing upon the power of the celestial stars.
Purple light rose from Feng Zichen's body, and star gods emerged from his acupoints, forming hand seals and causing the celestial stars to cascade down.
In an instant, starlight rained down upon Ziwei Peak.
Empowered by the starlight, Ziwei Peak shone even brighter, the spatial barrier formed faster, and even a Daoist chant resounded, auspicious energy appearing.
However, Feng Zichen showed no joy. Instead, he frowned, solemnly observing the changes in Ziwei Peak.
Ultimately, his strength was too low, and the starlight he could draw was limited. On the surface, Ziwei Peak's advancement momentum appeared strong. But in reality, it was entirely supported by innate essence; the starlight hadn't played a significant role.
Once the power of the innate essence was exhausted, Ziwei Peak's advancement momentum would be interrupted, resulting in failure.
Advancing to a higher realm would be immensely beneficial to humanity. Who knows when this opportunity would return?
Feng Zichen absolutely could not allow Ziwei Peak to fail in its advancement.
Inside the Ziwei Palace, the Yang God fully activated the Hongmeng Dao Seal, a hazy purple light illuminating his sea of consciousness. The next moment, Feng Zichen entered a state of detachment, merging with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
Raising his right hand, using his finger as a brush, his magic power as ink, and the void as paper, Feng Zichen slowly began to inscribe in the air.
A Dao pattern with a dragon's head, a human body, and a snake's tail appeared in the air with Feng Zichen's movement—the character "Dao."
This script was not innate divine script, nor demonic or witchcraft script, but Dao script.
It had never appeared in the primordial world before; it was a script Feng Zichen had comprehended from the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, belonging to the script of acquired beings. With the
appearance of the Dao script, the world instantly lost its color, boundless clouds gathered above the human territory, and torrential rain of blood fell from the sky.
The wails and howls of ghosts echoed endlessly, accompanied by gusts of eerie wind that seemed to emanate from the deepest depths of hell, sending chills down one's spine.
This strange phenomenon grew larger and larger, spreading beyond the human territory. Just then, a light barrier flickered, stopping the phenomenon within human territory and preventing it from attracting outside attention.
Within human territory, ordinary humans watched this scene in terror, believing that humanity had angered the Heavenly Dao. They immediately prostrated themselves on the ground, kowtowing to the heavens. They prayed to the goddess Nuwa for protection and begged for forgiveness from the Heavenly Dao.
The human experts, however, immediately discovered the source of the trouble and rushed towards Ziwei Peak.
The Heavenly Dao was indeed furious. Literature carries the Dao, and the emergence of every form of writing is a theft of the creation of heaven and earth.
However, writing also has the function of explaining the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, greatly benefiting the evolution of the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, although the Heavenly Dao was furious, it did not unleash divine punishment.
Outside Ziwei Peak, the changes in the world did not affect Feng Zichen. He continued writing with an expressionless face, characters emerging from his hands and dancing in the air.
The strange phenomena in the world did not last long, disappearing without a trace in a short while.
Afterwards, golden flowers fell from the sky, golden lotuses sprouted from the ground, and all the myriad paths of heaven and earth appeared, emitting rumbling Dao sounds.
High in the sky, mystical merit energy gathered, and with each character Feng Zichen created, the merit energy became more concentrated.
The human experts who had arrived at this scene were speechless with shock at this sight.
(End of this chapter)