Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Within the Zhongqian World.

The sun and moon discs are black and white.

Liu Qing sat on the white half of the Sun and Moon Wheel, while a Taoist priest dressed in black sat on the other half.

This Taoist priest bore an uncanny resemblance to Liu Qing.

But the Qi mechanism is mysterious and profound, seemingly capable of carrying all things and nurturing all things.

This Taoist priest dressed in black was the manifestation of the innate treasure, the True Scripture of Earthly Conversation, and carried Liu Qing's status as a Saint of the Earthly Dao.

Liu Qing and Tan Zhenzhi sat facing each other.

Beneath the two, the solar and lunar powers emanating from the sun and moon wheel transformed into a yin-yang millstone, grinding Guang Chengzi and the Buddha.

Ten years have passed since Liu Qing became a saint and suppressed the two of them.

Even though Guang Chengzi had gone mad and become a demon, and the Buddha himself risked his life to fight against Liu Qing, who had become a saint, it was ultimately futile and he was suppressed by Liu Qing.

Instead of letting their souls, bodies, and magical power comparable to saints dissipate into the Three Realms, they were suppressed under the Sun and Moon Wheel, ground day and night, and used as resources for the evolution of the Middle Thousand Worlds.

The Sun and Moon Wheel is merely a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, unable to crush the Buddha Tathagata and Guang Chengzi, who have already become false saints. Therefore, Liu Qing sat cross-legged on the Sun and Moon Wheel, using the power of a saint to help the Sun and Moon Wheel quickly refine them.

Perhaps to achieve Yin and Yang, or perhaps bored sitting alone, Liu Qing had the idea to separate Tan Zhenzi, who carried his own Daoist Saint status, to assist Liu Qing's true self.

Guang Chengzi had become a demon, and demons belong to Yin. Therefore, the essence, spirit, and magical power that he dissipated after grinding automatically sank into the ninth level of the underworld, serving as resources for the underworld to evolve into the eighteenth level of the underworld.

The Buddha himself emitted great light, illuminating the world. Liu Qing then had his wish fulfilled. After his entire being was ground down, he floated in the sky, causing the Middle Thousand Worlds to evolve into the Azure Sky, the Yellow Sky, and the Blue Sky.

If the Middle Thousand World has eighteen levels of the underworld below and three heavens of blue, yellow, and azure above, then it can create heaven and earth, sever the causal relationship between the Middle Thousand World and the main world, and form its own Great Thousand World.

With the blessing of a sage, Guang Chengzi and the Buddha had their memories erased long ago, and their essence, magic power, and soul were transformed into yin and yang resources, which were quickly absorbed by the underworld and the three heavens of the middle thousand world.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. Thanks to the contributions of the two, the Underworld has evolved to eighteen levels, with the Azure Heaven, Yellow Heaven, and Green Heaven of the Three Heavens all emerging.

Liu Qing and Tan Zhenzi looked towards the Three Heavens and the Eighteenth Level of Hell, respectively, and both nodded.

"Fellow Daoist, we have already achieved the status of Earthly Saints, why do we need to create the heavens again?"

"There are three under the Great Way: the Way of Heaven, the Way of Earth, and the Way of Humanity."

“The Heavenly Sage is bound by the Heavenly Way, the Earthly Sage is bound by the Earthly Way, and the Human Sage is also bound by the Human Way.”

"These three types of sages may seem carefree, but they do not attain true freedom. To achieve true freedom, one must transcend the three paths and attain the Great Dao."

"But the Great Dao is difficult to traverse, and you, fellow Daoist, wish to follow the Great Dao of Strength, making it even more difficult. One wrong step could lead to the destruction of your soul and spirit. Why bother?"

"Furthermore, if we were to rely on the creation of heaven and earth and follow the path of strength, we would first have to sever our status as a saint of the earthly path. Fellow Daoist, are you willing to do that?"

"Only by giving up something can you gain something. If you want to walk the path of strength and become a sage of the Great Way, how can you still covet the sage of the Earthly Way?"

"Only the Great Sage can attain true freedom. I wish to do it, and I will have no regrets!"

Tan Zhenzi remained silent: "Since you have made up your mind, then I will not try to persuade you any further."

"But I, the Holy One, can lend you another helping hand!"

"That's how it should be, thank you, fellow Daoist."

Liu Qing threw out the Wanlong Palace and stepped inside, with Tan Zhenzi following closely behind.

To become a sage of the Great Dao, one must have a powerful physical body to create the world and emulate Pangu in proving the Dao through force.

The path of the Primordial Chaos is already very clear.

What Liu Qing needs to do is first break through the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique to the Earthly Ninth Revolution, achieving the Great Perfection of the Profound Technique, obtaining immeasurable physical power, and then using the power of creation to achieve the ultimate sublimation, proving the Dao through strength.

The first priority is to break through to the ninth level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and achieve the Great Perfection of the Profound Technique.

Liu Qing entered the Wanlong Palace, waved his hand to manipulate the palace and change the flow of time, revealing the true form of a five-clawed purple dragon, which lay across the Wanlong Palace.

To break through to the ninth stage of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique and reach the Great Perfection, one must have a sage refine one's physical body with the power of the sage's laws.

The cultivation conditions for the ninth stage of the profound skill are clearly very demanding.

Back then, even the Three Pure Ones, who created the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, never cultivated this technique to the ninth revolution.

Originally, the Sage of Tongtian had his last chance to break through to the eighth stage. He only needed the assistance of either Yuqing Yuanshi or Taiqing Laozi to break through to the ninth stage and achieve Great Perfection.

However, things did not go as planned. The Investiture of the Gods followed immediately, and the Three Pure Ones parted ways and developed grudges. Therefore, Tongtian Sage has not yet broken through to the ninth level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique because he lacks the help of a sage.

Otherwise, if the Sage of Heaven breaks through the Nine Revolutions of Earth, achieves the Great Perfection of Profound Skill, and possesses immeasurable power, he can attempt to follow the Great Path of Power, sever his position as a Sage of Heaven, and become a Sage of the Great Path.

At that time, the ending of the Investiture of the Gods will be different.

A Great Dao Saint, whose combat power far surpasses that of a Heavenly Dao Saint, and with the assistance of the Four Swords of Zhuxian and the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, is enough to suppress the four saints: Jieyin, Zhunti, Yuanshi, and Laozi.

With Liu Qing's current level of intelligence, he has already guessed that the Three Pure Ones parted ways and became enemies when Tongtian Shengren was about to break through to the Ninth Revolution of Earth.

It is highly likely that this is because the Primordial Celestial Venerable and the Sage Laozi did not want to see Tongtian achieve the Great Dao Sage and surpass them.

Even saints cannot escape the darkness of human nature.

We were all born together and became Heavenly Saints together. Now that you are going to prove the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos, what are we supposed to do? Are we all going to be inferior to you in the future?
Why don't you also not become a saint of the Great Dao, but just be like us?

When Liu Qing was traveling through the Three Realms, he saw a fisherman in the human world selling crabs in the market. The basket containing the crabs had no lid, yet he wasn't worried about the crabs crawling away.

Liu Qing discovered that whenever a crab in the basket was about to crawl out, other crabs would clamp it down and prevent it from getting out.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable and the sage Laozi were like crabs at the bottom of a basket.

Even a saint, stripped of his 'saintly' persona, is still just a human being.

But Liu Qing is different now. The Sage of Tongtian needs to rely on Yuanshi or Laozi to break through the ninth level of Xuan Gong. Although Liu Qing also needs Tan Zhenzi's help, Tan Zhenzi is essentially Liu Qing.

I rely on myself, without depending on others, and naturally I don't worry about being hindered like a sage with supernatural powers. Mountains may crumble, people may run away, only I can rely on myself.

The regret of the Sage of Heaven will be made up for by Liu Qing today.

"Fellow Daoist, this Saint is about to begin—"

Seeing that Liu Qing was ready, Tan Zhenzi gave him a reminder, then waved his hand to grab the rules hidden deep in the tunnel and struck Liu Qing.

Using the power of the earth's rules, they refined Liu Qing's physical body.

This process is not only painful but also lengthy, like being torn apart by a thousand cuts.

However, Liu Qing possessed the divine soul of a saint, which had long since merged with the Dao. The pain that he used to find unbearable was now nothing more than a raging storm passing over a solid rock, utterly futile in the face of the saint's divine soul.

All that's left for Liu Qing to do is endure this long period of refining.

But there's no shortage of time inside the Wanlong Hall.

One thousand years, ten thousand years, twenty thousand years, fifty thousand years, one hundred thousand years
Time keeps flowing by, and in the blink of an eye, half a million years have passed.

With the help of Tan Zhenzi, Liu Qing's clone, and through the refinement of the rules of the Earthly Saint, Liu Qing finally broke through to the ninth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, reaching the Great Perfection.

Its true form is a clawless purple dragon, and its divine body has reached a size of a million feet, making it larger than any dragon race since the beginning of time.

The sheer size of the physical body brings with it immeasurable physical power.

With a slight twist of his body, Liu Qing shattered the space, disrupting the chaos deep within and causing the chaotic energy to stir up hurricanes.

As the person with the strongest physical strength since Pangu, Liu Qing had no one to compare himself to. He didn't know how much power he had, only that this world was as fragile as a piece of paper in his eyes.

After another ten thousand years of adaptation, Liu Qing finally concealed his boundless physical power within his body, so that he wouldn't crush the earth with a single step or scatter chaos with a single breath.

"I wish to create heaven and earth, transform the Middle Thousand Worlds into the Great Thousand Worlds, and take this opportunity to fully realize the Great Dao of Sublimation and attain the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos."

Liu Qing waved his hand and made a sweeping motion on his body, revealing the nascent power of the Great Dao, severing the karma of Duobao Daoist and also severing the karma of the grass snake from his time travel.

Only the purest version of myself remains.

Tan Zhenzi bowed respectfully and said, "I am fortunate to witness you, fellow Daoist, opening the heavens and achieving the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos."

Liu Qing nodded slightly, then stepped out of the Myriad Dragons Palace and into the Middle Thousand World.

With a flick of his wrist, the innate treasure, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, appeared in his hand. Liu Qing exhaled like thunder, thrusting out his spear. With a snap, the causal line between the Middle Thousand World and the Main World was severed by Liu Qing.

At this point, Liu Qing's Middle Thousand Worlds no longer depended on the Main World.

Liu Qing exhaled and instantly unleashed the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, sending out countless spear beams, each billions of feet long, flying towards the underworld, the third heaven, and the eight wastelands and six directions of the Middle Thousand Worlds.

The spear's beam pierced through the eighteen levels of hell, reaching the endless chaos, as if opening a spring. Chaotic energy surged up, expanding and extending the eighteen levels of hell once again, from the grotto heaven towards the lesser world.

The spear's light pierced through the three heavens, starting from the blue sky, passing through the yellow sky, and reaching the azure sky. Chaotic energy also poured in, and based on the three heavens, while expanding and growing, it began to slowly generate another six heavens, reaching the number of nine heavens.

The eight directions and six realms surrounding the Middle Thousand World were also cleaved open by the spear's light, and chaotic energy surged in, transforming into earth, wind, water, and fire, enacting the creation of the world at the boundary.

Thus, the initial creation of heaven and earth was completed. What remained was to expand heaven and earth infinitely and perfect its rules.

Liu Qing captured the Five Elements mineral veins from the underground of the Middle Thousand Worlds, instantly refined them into the Five Elements Rotation Array Plate, and threw it into the Eight Desolations and Six Directions, the Eighteen Levels of the Underworld, and the Three Heavens.

The surging chaotic energy, transformed by the Five Elements Revolving Array, became the innate Five Elements energy, which seeped into the Middle Thousand Worlds.

With the infiltration of the five innate energies, the scope of the Middle Thousand Worlds is rapidly expanding, striding from 100,000 li to a million li.

At the same time, the eighteen levels of the underworld gradually evolved into eighteen smaller worlds.

Ten thousand years later, the Triple Heaven was finally given birth to the Sixth Heaven, making a total of nine Heavens. Nine is the ultimate number, representing the immeasurable. Each Heaven initially had the size of a small world, and it will continue to expand as the chaotic energy transforms and the innate five elements increase.

The Middle Thousand Worlds are expanding, their scope is increasing, and the innate Five Elements are permeating them, thus bestowing gifts upon the mineral veins, water veins, spiritual herbs, and living beings within the world, making them larger, more numerous, and with deeper spiritual energy.

In places where mineral veins and water veins converge, or where the three elements and five elements are abundant, innate spiritual treasures are born and rapidly develop under the nourishment of the world's rules.

In a fleeting moment.

A muffled thud echoed throughout the world.

Liu Qing's entire Middle Thousand Worlds have finally evolved into the Great Thousand Worlds.

At the beginning of the world's ascension, boundless gifts poured into Liu Qing, the world's ruler.

Liu Qing opened her mouth and swallowed it.

Liu Qing accepted the gift of the Great Thousand World's evolution, took a step out of the Great Thousand World, and escaped into chaos.

If the vast world is a chicken egg in the chaos, then Liu Qing is standing on the eggshell of that chicken egg, outside the world barrier.

Chaos churned, the Great Dao manifested, and countless chaotic beings sang its praises.

Within the primordial chaos, golden lotuses appeared beneath Liu Qing's feet, accompanied by the resounding echoes of the Great Dao.

Deep within the chaos lies a forbidden land, called Hongmeng.

When Liu Qing created the world and fled into the chaos, the primordial chaos began to respond, and a divine tree quickly grew from the primordial chaos, bearing only one fruit.

Liu Qing's eyes shot out purple light as he looked at the Primordial Divine Tree. Overjoyed, he immediately threw out the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, which transformed into a purple avenue.

Liu Qing followed the Purple Qi Avenue to the Primordial Divine Tree, reached out and plucked the fruit, swallowing it.

In an instant, countless great laws emerged from the primordial chaos, including Yin and Yang, Heaven and Earth, Cause and Effect, Life and Death, Creation, and so on, all bowing down to Liu Qing.

The Great Path of Power is actually the first of the Three Thousand Great Paths.

"Haha, the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos Power is accomplished today!"

(End of this chapter)