Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

In the Kunlun Mountains, the voice of the sage preaching echoes through the mountains.

Within the mountains, nascent spiritual veins began to take shape, and countless innate mineral veins were emerging.

The flowers, grasses, and trees in the mountains absorbed the essence of the sages, and their rate of absorbing and releasing spiritual energy was several times faster than before. Some of the rare and exotic flowers and grasses with profound origins transformed into unique spiritual roots after absorbing golden flowers.

Birds, beasts, insects, and fish with abundant spirituality, under the guidance of sages, all awakened their intelligence, transformed into mountain spirits, and entered the gate of cultivation.

On the Dao Platform of Sanqing Peak, the disciples of the sage received the sage's personal instruction on the Great Dao, and their cultivation levels rapidly improved.

An unusual tremor startled Huanglong, who was listening to the sermon. Looking in the direction of the disturbance, he saw Duobao, the senior disciple of the Jie Sect, sitting beside him. Strange phenomena were booming around Duobao.

A jade platform, formed from multiple laws of the Great Dao, slowly appeared atop the top; it was the foundation of the Great Dao formed from numerous treasures.

At this moment, Tongtian on the platform looked at Huanglong and the others who were affected by Duobao's breakthrough. With a flick of his sleeve, a clear light enveloped Duobao and the laws and phenomena around him, and Duobao's aura suddenly disappeared.

Huang Long looked at Duobao's figure on the field, which was still clearly there, but it was as if they were separated by countless worlds.

The sage continued his sermon, so Huanglong and the others stopped thinking about it, closed their eyes to listen to the Great Dao, and quickly entered a state of enlightenment, their auras beginning to rise slowly.

Enveloped in the power of the Heavenly Dao, Duobao's aura continued to rise, and the illusory image of the foundation of the Great Dao that appeared above his head was slowly approaching perfection after fusing many laws.

When all the laws that Duobao had cultivated were integrated into the illusory image above, that foundation of Dao gradually changed from illusory to real.

This was a single point of light condensed from Duobao's physical body, magical power, and primordial spirit, slowly flying to the Dao foundation that had transformed from emptiness to reality, like three seeds of the Great Dao in midsummer. Duobao's aura suddenly changed, and all the myriad phenomena converged into one, indicating that he had already entered the Taiyi realm.

On the preaching platform, after Duobao's aura disappeared, the Jade Purity Immortal Light shone brightly on Guangchengzi, the leader of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect, and a bright moon rose amidst numerous strange phenomena.

His aura was also surging, attempting to break through to the Taiyi Realm.

Yuanshi Tianzun nodded, pointed with his jade ruyi, and a warm celestial light enveloped Guang Chengzi, isolating him from all strange phenomena.

Several days later, Jin Ling's aura suddenly erupted, and four divine lights of blue, white, red, and black burst forth from her body! The divine lights intertwined and transformed into a pagoda above her head.

"good!"

The Tongtian Sect Leader flicked his sleeve again, and a wave of clear light swept over, enveloping the Golden Spirit Mother and her four extraordinary phenomena.

Countless golden flowers fell rapidly.

In the center of the platform, the Antarctic Immortal, who had been following Yuanshi for a long time, sat with his eyes closed in deep meditation. Just as Jin Ling began to break through his cultivation realm, three huge flower buds appeared on the top of Antarctic Immortal's head.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Those eyes were so deep they seemed to hold the very essence of countless lives and deaths. A phantom of a long, surging river descended from the endless void!

"Buzz—!"

The entire world seemed to tremble. A massive rift silently opened in the sky above the Antarctic Immortal. Beyond the rift lay not any place in the primordial wilderness, but an endless, ceaselessly flowing river of time!

The river of time!

The river surges and flows, spanning the past and present. Countless worlds have been born and died here, and the shadows of billions of living beings have flickered. Fragments of the past, present, and future intertwine and flow within it!

Countless top beings in the primordial world were attracted by the manifestation of this river of time and knew that another Great Luo Golden Immortal had been born.

A terrifying force of time poured down, and even the starlight atop Kunlun Mountain was sucked into the illusory river! Only the roar of the river remained in the world.

Beyond countless pasts, futures, and layers of space, figures resembling those of Antarctica transformed into streaks of light, traversing endless time and space to converge upon him!

With each ray of light he absorbed, the aura of the three flowers atop his head solidified, becoming increasingly profound. His figure blurred yet clear under the erosion of the river of time.

When all of "him" were united as one, the illusory image of the river of time slowly dissipated, leaving behind a mark containing the mysteries of time, imprinted on the three flowers on his head.

A powerful, eternal, and annihilating Daoist aura swept across Kunlun like a tidal wave! Heaven and earth resonated, the Daoist voice rang out, and golden lotuses spontaneously emerged!

On the summit of Antarctica, the essence, energy, and spirit nourish the three flowers, which slowly unfold petal by petal, one by one, the first grade, the second grade...!

Finally, the flower blooms in eight grades.

Yuanshi's face showed satisfaction: "Good! With the flower reaching the eighth grade, a quasi-sage is within reach!"

Both Huanglong and Xuandu had just broken through to the Golden Immortal realm. Huanglong had even broken through to the mid-stage of the Golden Immortal realm after the last Dao discussion. This time, when the three sages were giving their lectures, both of them had only broken through a small realm in the Golden Immortal realm. Huanglong had reached the late stage of the Golden Immortal realm, while Xuandu had reached the mid-stage of the Golden Immortal realm.

Taking advantage of the opportunity presented by the Three Pure Ones' joint sermon and the personal presence of the Great Dao Laws, Huanglong devoted himself to comprehending the laws and continuously solidifying his own Dao foundation.

Whether it was a long time or just a fleeting moment, the sage's sermon came to an abrupt end, and the world returned to tranquility. The last golden flower disappeared into the mountain peak beneath their feet.

The Taoist aura that permeated Kunlun began to fade. The figures of the Three Pure Ones on the Taoist platform shifted from illusory to real, and then back to illusory again.

When Huanglong awoke from his enlightenment and cultivation, the figures of his three masters had already disappeared from the stage.

A voice resounded in Huanglong's heart!

"Your master, your eldest uncle, your third uncle, and I have left behind our respective expertise in alchemy, weapon crafting, and formation techniques. Alchemy is about seizing the power of heaven and earth; weapon crafting can turn decay into wonder; and formation techniques can comprehend the mysteries of heaven and earth."

"There are three paths of inheritance. The Dao of Alchemy is in front of the Taiqing Palace, the Dao of Weaponry is in front of the Yuqing Palace, and the Dao of Array Formation is in front of the Shangqing Palace. If you are interested, you can choose any one to assist your cultivation!"

Huanglong looked around and found that Duobao, Nanji, and Guangchengzi were still cultivating and comprehending the Dao, but Xuandu's figure seemed to have disappeared.

"It seems they have already gone to inherit the alchemy left by their grandmaster."

With that thought in mind, Huanglong rode a beam of light and flew towards Yuqing Palace.

In front of Yuqing Palace, there is now a giant cauldron with a slightly chaotic oval shape and ancient and majestic lines. It is about nine feet tall, with a round and thick belly, giving people a sense of grandeur that can contain heaven and earth and refine all things.

A magnificent "Divine Refining Artifacts" painting surrounds the body of the cauldron. The painting shows a divine being gathering innate divine iron and the essence of stars, as well as seizing the essence of the sun and moon and the source of the five elements, and hammering, shaping, and inscribing it in the divine flames of the void to create all kinds of immortal artifacts and spiritual treasures.

Every flame, every piece of divine material, and every hammering motion in the picture embodies the weapon-forging heritage left by the Primordial Beginning.

Huanglong sat cross-legged in front of the inheritance cauldron, put a tea leaf in his mouth, and gently touched the cauldron with a part of his primordial spirit. Instantly, Huanglong's primordial spirit was pulled into the cauldron.

The patterns on the cauldron shone brightly, and a vast amount of knowledge about weapon crafting, material selection, smelting and shaping of spiritual materials, inscription of spiritual patterns, and even the imprint of a higher level of innate spiritual restrictions flooded into Huanglong's mind like a torrent.

It is unknown how much time passed before the tradition ended.

Huang Long rubbed his throbbing head and muttered to himself.

"Innate spiritual artifacts...acquired spiritual treasures...!"

"Innate spiritual artifacts seem quite simple. As long as the material contains spiritual energy, you can refine and shape it, then inscribe various spiritual patterns on it to activate its spirit!"

"The better the material and the more spirit patterns are engraved, the better the quality of the spirit weapon."