Primordial Era: I, Ksitigarbha, shall be the Supreme Being of the Primordial Era.

A thousand years is enough time for all the innate deities to arrive at Zixiao Palace.

The seats were the same, but there were far fewer people.

These people either couldn't make it in time for various reasons, or they had already died.

Once all the innate deities were seated, the gates of Zixiao Palace slowly closed.

Hongjun slowly appeared on the main seat cushion.

"This sermon, which has been preached for three thousand years, is about the path to near-sainthood!"

After he finished speaking, his sermon resounded in the Zixiao Palace. In an instant, auspicious omens descended from the sky, golden lotuses sprang from the earth, and countless other wondrous phenomena appeared.

All the innate deities had their eyes closed and were in a state of blissful ecstasy.

On Mount Sumeru, Ksitigarbha, who had returned to his thatched hut, also went into seclusion for cultivation.

The only method he hasn't mastered yet is the Dream Marriage technique.

Now that my cultivation has reached its limit, I am just waiting for the right time to step into the realm of the Profound Immortal. So I might as well use this time to cultivate my supernatural powers.

The method of "marrying dreams" allows one to control dreams and use dreams as a key to invade the soul of others.

The key to cultivating this method is to use one's primordial spirit to construct a passage into the dream world.

The dream world is a small world that accompanies the primordial world. To enter it, one must use a dream as an anchor point, then use great magic to shatter the void, and then use the laws of the Dao as a foundation to have one's primordial spirit leave the body and build a passage that the primordial spirit can pass through.

In this way, the passage into the dream world can be completed.

Once the passage is completed, the method of marrying dreams will be half successful.

Before practicing this method, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva first adjusts his own state to its best, then leaves his body with his primordial spirit, takes out the Three Lives Stone and places it on his primordial spirit to guard it and prevent it from being banished by the void.

He then used the Dao of Annihilation to cover his primordial spirit with a protective membrane, while his physical body extended the shield of his Crimson Jade Cloud Pattern Robe to its maximum.

Only then could Ksitigarbha proceed with the next steps with peace of mind.

First, use the Path of Annihilation to leave a marker anchor point in your dream, then activate your magic power to enter the Three Lives Stone.

After determining the location, he unleashed the Three Lives Stone and slammed it into the void, creating a small crack.

Ksitigarbha was overjoyed upon seeing this and once again channeled his magical power, using the Three Lives Stone to continuously smash the void rift.

After countless attempts, a hole the size of a palm was finally smashed open in the void rift.

In order to prevent the void from closing, Ksitigarbha quickly attached the essence of the Dao of Nirvana to it.

Only after doing this could he spare some time to restore his magical power.

This ordeal was extremely difficult for a true immortal. Fortunately, Ksitigarbha had the Three Lives Stone in his possession; otherwise, he would have found it difficult to even shatter the void.

Once his magical powers were fully restored, Ksitigarbha began constructing a void passage, a massive undertaking for him.

We must guard against the void hurricanes that occasionally rise up in the void, and also prevent the void from collapsing due to improper construction location.

Either scenario would be fatal for Ksitigarbha in the present situation.

Fortunately, Ksitigarbha was blessed with great fortune, and everything went smoothly. After hundreds of years of construction with intermittent stops, the void passage was finally completed by Ksitigarbha.

My tense nerves instantly relaxed.

Looking at his masterpiece, Ksitigarbha couldn't help but laugh heartily.

This technique is the most difficult one that Ksitigarbha has encountered since he began cultivating.

Once his primordial spirit returned and he had recovered, Ksitigarbha once again separated his primordial spirit from his body, entered the void passage, and headed towards the dream world.

……

In the Purple Cloud Palace,

Hongjun's sermon was at a crucial point.

"There are three corpses in a person: Peng Hou, Peng Zhi, and Peng Jiao."

The Three Corpses are poisonous, obstructing the path and causing one to lose sight of their true self.

All phenomena are without form, and the true path is difficult to find.

I have a method to find one's true self and attain enlightenment and transcendence.

That is, to sever the three corpses, to eliminate good, to eliminate evil, and to eliminate attachments…

Upon hearing this, all the innate deities were overjoyed.

In the primordial world, all living beings struggle to find the path to liberation and cannot attain enlightenment. Yet now, the Dao Ancestor has imparted this very path to enlightenment to them without reservation. How can they not be moved to tears of gratitude?

When the Dao Ancestor fully explained the method of severing the three corpses, all the innate deities were astonished.

This is because although the method of severing the three corpses is simple, it requires too many resources, including three innate spiritual treasures.

You must know that there are only a limited number of innate spiritual treasures in the world. Therefore, if you want to attain enlightenment, you will probably have to fight and snatch them.

Blindly practicing asceticism will likely not lead to any progress.

At this moment, a primordial deity asked the Dao Ancestor, "Dao Ancestor, is it only possible to sever the corpse using a primordial spiritual treasure?"

We are penniless, and in this way, I fear we have no hope of attaining enlightenment. I beg the Dao Ancestor for mercy.

Upon hearing this, Hongjun replied, "No, apart from innate spiritual treasures, other innate spiritual objects can also be used to sever the three corpses. It's just that the objects they entrust to are different, and the strength of the three corpses severed is also different."

"Dao Ancestor, according to you, severing the three corpses requires a primordial spirit. My Wu clan has no primordial spirit; we can only condense evil energy to cultivate the physical body. Is it possible to achieve Dao through the method of severing the three corpses?"

As soon as Hongjun finished speaking, a clear female voice rang out from the crowd.

Following the sound, a female immortal dressed in a pale yellow dress, but surrounded by a chilling aura, stood gracefully. It was Houtu of the Wu tribe.

All the primordial deities frowned as they looked at the female immortal.

Malevolent energy can pollute the spiritual energy within the body, contaminate the primordial spirit, and cause people to lose their rationality. Cultivators usually avoid malevolent energy.

Houtu ignored everyone's reactions and looked at Hongjun with a serious expression, trying to get an answer.

Before Houtu could wait long, Hongjun replied, "You are formed from the essence and blood of the great god Pangu, which is a mixture of turbid qi and natural phenomena, and you are born close to the Dao."

Although one cannot cultivate the method of severing the three corpses, one can follow the path of Pangu, cultivate the laws, transform oneself into the Dao, and attain transcendence—this is proving the Dao through force!

"Thank you, Dao Ancestor!" Houtu said, and stopped pressing the matter, returning to her seat.

She and the other eleven Ancestral Witches arrived when Hongjun gave his first speech, but apart from Houtu, the other Ancestral Witches didn't understand anything and slept in Zixiao Palace for three thousand years.

The other eleven Ancestral Witches refused to come again this time.

Houtu had no choice but to grit her teeth and come on, even though she didn't understand much herself, for the sake of her future cultivation path.

Fortunately, I managed to find out the direction of my brothers and sisters' cultivation, so it wasn't a complete loss.

When the innate deities heard the Dao Ancestor's explanation to Houtu, a thought popped into their minds: if the Ancestral Witches could take the path of proving the Dao through force, why couldn't they?

So someone asked, and the Dao Ancestor simply said, "Since Pangu created the primordial world, only one person has cultivated this path and attained transcendence."

This path is so difficult that even Pangu failed. Do you possess Pangu's great perseverance?

One sentence immediately dispelled the thoughts in the minds of all the innate saints.

After answering the questions of the innate deities, Hongjun's voice rang out again.

……

Dream world

In this illusory world, countless points of light, large and small, float and sink. Each point of light corresponds to a primordial creature.

It could be a blade of grass, or a strange rock, all sorts of things.

Ksitigarbha has been wandering here for nearly a century.

During this time, he also entered several dreams, some of which were of Xiaobai, and others of other spirits from Mount Sumeru.

Once, Ksitigarbha entered a slightly larger spot of light, almost waking the creature corresponding to that spot.

Ksitigarbha almost fell into that being's dream, but fortunately, with the help of the Three Lives Stone, he was able to escape.

This made Ksitigarbha's subsequent explorations even more cautious.

Now that he has some understanding of the dream world and is gradually becoming familiar with the dream-marrying technique, Ksitigarbha decided to return to the primordial world after calculating the time.