Shennong Sequence

To obtain a piece of naturally occurring jade by chance is already a rare and precious opportunity.

Instead of hiding his true abilities, he focused on improving his own cultivation. Yet, even when his cultivation was low, he was obsessed with building a foundation for the Great Dao, and even contacted himself and Xin Ruyin to ask for secret techniques.

It's too much of a coincidence...

Zhao Yun gently patted Xin Ruyin's hand under the table, signaling with his eyes that she didn't need to say anything more and that he would handle the negotiations first.

"Foundation building of the Great Dao, as the name suggests, is to build a foundation based on one's own understanding of the 'Great Dao,' which is completely different from the common foundation building methods that rely on spiritual energy, elixirs, the people, the earth, and heaven and earth to break through."

Zhao Yun paused, his gaze sweeping over the cultivators beside Gongshu Tianming, before continuing:

"Moreover, you haven't even reached the tenth level of Qi Refining, so naturally you can't understand that the difficulty of each level increases exponentially when breaking through from the ninth level of Qi Refining to the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth levels."

Furthermore, at this stage, after reaching the tenth level of Qi Refining, a cultivator's physique, magical power, and spiritual soul are naturally different from those of ordinary Qi Refining cultivators.

“Some extremely powerful Qi Refining level 12 cultivators, with their profound foundation, are already comparable in strength to those cultivators who hastily entered the Foundation Establishment stage from Qi Refining level 9. Although they may not be able to completely dominate, the difference is not significant!”

Wang Teng emphasized this point:
"Since you are exploring the Great Dao Foundation Establishment, you should know the most basic thing: to establish the Great Dao Foundation Establishment, you need at least the cultivation level of the twelfth level of Qi Refining. Its difficulty far exceeds that of ordinary Foundation Establishment and cannot be fathomed by mere imagination!"

"Furthermore, while a piece of innate jade is indeed valuable, its value is completely different from that of the secret method for establishing the foundation of the Great Dao—it is not even a fraction of the materials needed to establish the foundation of the Great Dao."

Zhao Yun's tone then became even more decisive, no longer beating around the bush:
“I’ll give you three choices: either I’ll explain the three systems of Humanity, Earth, and Heaven to you in their entirety the conventional methods of Foundation Building, to help you break through safely;”

Alternatively, you can exchange this piece of innate jade for some of the core secrets of the Great Dao Foundation Establishment that I know;

"Or, we can stop talking today and go our separate ways."

"This……"

Gongshu Tianming and his group were somewhat speechless.

Zhao Yun continued:
"The difficulty of establishing a foundation for the Great Dao is evident. Even if the entire Wanling Yudao Immortal Sect gathers the rare and precious materials from countless realms and draws upon the spiritual energy of all heavens to cultivate them with all its might, it can only produce a hundred or so people who have established a foundation for the Great Dao in a year."

Your previous request to "help ten people achieve the Great Dao and lay the foundation" is simply outrageous!
Even in our future era where new methods flourish and old methods decline, the Great Dao Foundation Establishment will still be the top path that surpasses all other cultivation systems. Anyone who sees a Great Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator will have to sincerely praise them as "gifted by heaven." Such people are always extremely rare.

Therefore, your previous demands are absolutely impossible. Choose the option I've given you.

Gongshu Tianming sat opposite him, his brows furrowed as he pondered for a long time. Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he took out a brocade box from his storage bag at his waist. When he opened it, a piece of innate jade, which was radiating a warm and lustrous light and was surrounded by a faint aura of innate spiritual energy, lay quietly inside.

Zhao Yun glanced at it out of the corner of his eye and nodded to himself – this was indeed genuine innate jade, with pure innate energy, making it an excellent material for condensing the three elements of innate essence!
But he also knew that although this thing looked precious, it probably wouldn't be so easy to get his hands on.

“Brother Zhao, we have indeed found out about the situation within the sect, and it is true that only about a hundred Great Dao Foundation Establishment cultivators are born each year.”

Gongshu Tianming then spoke with a tone that was both earnest and probing, "But haven't you two also both achieved the Foundation Establishment of the Great Dao? To be able to do this in such a short time, you must have methods or opportunities that others don't have. Don't use the average number of disciples in your sect to measure your abilities."

If you can share your insights on building the foundation of the Great Dao with us, this innate jade stone will belong to you two.
As for how we proceed with our own foundation building, that's our business, and we won't interfere any further!

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yun couldn't help but chuckle to himself—what secret method did he and Xin Ruyin have for building a foundation for the Great Dao?

It's nothing more than Xin Ruyin possessing great fortune, so much so that even the second stage of cultivation, "Foundation Building Realm," could be directly blasted open by her fortune; moreover, she used her own fortune as a foundation to activate one of the five innate elements, "The Beginning of Qi, the Primordial Origin," thus forging the foundation of the Primordial Great Dao!
All of this was achieved naturally, without any deliberate skill or "secret".

The situation for Zhao Yun is simpler.

This is solely because he personally created the "Matter Transformation Method," and is inherently aligned with the two states of "the beginning of matter, Tai Su" and "the beginning of all things, Tai Chi" among the Five Primordial Elements.
It was precisely because of this natural affinity that he was able to touch the threshold of the Great Dao. Later, under the attention of the sect leader Ling Daoren, he was given the 'Primordial Origin and Taiji Origin' from the Five Primordial Origins of the Primordial World.

Moreover, it was through the complementary relationship between this "method of material transformation" and the "primordial origin of Taiji" that he successfully forged his foundation for the Great Dao.

Therefore, the so-called "secret" is actually hidden in these foundational cultivation paths.

How could one casually reveal the matter of Xin Ruyin's fate?
Zhao Yun's own near-Dao-proving level 'Material Transformation Method,' coupled with the details of the 'Primordial Origin and Taiji Source' being completed after the foundation of the Great Dao was forged, has already become a creative method that can directly point to the Great Dao.
This level of Dharma is not something that can be casually revealed to outsiders!
Once leaked, they will definitely become highly sought-after commodities by various forces.

Putting everything else aside, as long as the Confucianists hear the word "luck" about Xin Ruyin's destiny, those Confucian cultivators who are obsessed with their own destiny running away will definitely keep a close eye on Xin Ruyin and will never let her escape their control...

Zhao Yun's own material transformation method can directly transform all spiritual objects below the Foundation Establishment Realm. At that time, all forces will regard him as a living treasure, and may even use him as a "spiritual object converter"!
If you really end up in that situation, being driven to work like a black slave, without any freedom whatsoever, then what kind of spiritual practice is there to speak of?

Therefore, Zhao Yun and Xin Ruyin would never reveal the true foundation of the Great Dao to these outsiders.

Only the two of them, being the closest Daoist partners and having their destinies intertwined, could afford to know a little about each other's inner workings.

As for the others, it's absolutely impossible for them to know.

"To be honest, it's not that I can't tell you a little bit about this 'secret',"

Zhao Yun changed the subject, his gaze falling on the innate jade on the table, his tone somewhat cautious, "But I need to examine the innate jade first to confirm that it is genuine."

how is it? "

Suddenly, Xin Ruyin nudged Zhao Yun under the table. Zhao Yun gently patted Xin Ruyin's palm, indicating that he knew what was going on and would not reveal his family's secret.

Instead, they were preparing to deceive.

After all, none of them had good intentions... (End of Chapter)