Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

These three corpses each embody the fruits of his evolving Dao.

The question is, which one should we kill first?

By first severing good intentions, he may become more decisive, and his true spirit will be more in harmony with the Way of Heaven.

By eliminating evil thoughts, he may become more peaceful, but he may also become less ambitious.

Cutting off one's own ego first yields the greatest benefit, but it is also the most difficult. Failure could cause irreversible damage.

After weighing the options repeatedly in his mind, Huang Long finally made a decision.

He decided to first dismember his own body.

It wasn't because he was confident, but because he had his own considerations.

His path of cultivation was different from the very beginning. Others cultivate themselves first, and then seek enlightenment.

He first opened up the Xuanhuang Realm, using the world as a foundation, and then used it to nourish himself.

Most of the great Daos he comprehended were first imprinted in the Xuanhuang Realm before becoming his own Dao.

In this process, the concept of "self" was not that strong for him to begin with.

His "self" is partly attached to the Xuanhuang Realm.

The Xuanhuang Realm is his Dao, his world, and his embodiment.

It could even be said that the Xuanhuang Realm is a part of his "self".

That's why it might be easier for him to sever his ego than for others.

Because his "self" is not entirely within himself.

"It's decided," Huang Long thought to himself, "I'll cut off my own corpse first."

He began to mentally work out the method to sever his own corpse.

He knew it would be a long process.

It cannot be accomplished overnight; it requires patience and perseverance.

Time flows silently through the sea.

Huanglong's aura became somewhat disordered during the continuous attempts.

Zulong sensed the change in Huanglong Zhenren, opened his eyes, glanced at him, and then closed them again.

He did not practice the method of severing the three corpses, nor did he offer any good advice to Huanglong.

Deep within the sea eye, chaotic energy continuously surges forth from the passage.

The Xuanhuang Realm blocked the passage, silently devouring everything.

Huanglong sat cross-legged in the void, wrestling with his "self".

At the foot of Shouyang Mountain lies the ancestral home of humankind.

The cave where Fuxi secluded himself was located deep within a mountain peak in the ancestral land.

This mountain is not high, but it is full of spiritual energy. It is surrounded by layers of formations to isolate it from external interference.

Inside the cave, Fuxi sat cross-legged on a futon, the Hetu and Luoshu slowly rotating above his head, sprinkling wisps of Daoist energy.

Fuxi's primordial spirit merged with the Hetu and Luoshu, and was deducing something.

After returning to the human race, he began to cultivate in seclusion.

The process of restoring the celestial bodies and establishing the cycle of the four seasons allowed him to reach an unprecedented depth of understanding of the Great Dao of the Primordial World.

He has reached the pinnacle of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm in the art of divination.

Above that is the Quasi-Saint realm.

He needs a catalyst to break through to the Quasi-Saint level.

An opportunity to integrate all his accumulated knowledge—divination of celestial secrets, the Dao of Yin and Yang, the Dao of stars, and the Dao of the four seasons—into one.

Fuxi secluded himself in his cave, immersing his mind in the Hetu and Luoshu diagrams.

He was deducing, deducing something that could integrate all his insights into one.

Day after day, year after year.

Under his impetus, the deductive power within the Hetu Luoshu operated at high speed, converging countless heavenly secrets and Daoist principles, evolving into countless possibilities.

Fuxi forgot about time and everything in the outside world.

His mind was completely immersed in that world composed of countless hexagrams, deducing the Great Dao that could encompass everything.

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years...

After an unknown amount of time, Fuxi finally found it.

That was a picture.

It is neither the Hetu nor the Luoshu, but a completely new diagram. This diagram takes Yin and Yang as its core, the four seasons as its framework, and the stars as its embellishments, and can evolve into all phenomena.

It contains the mysteries of celestial deduction and the profound changes of Yin and Yang; it encompasses the rhythm of the four seasons and the order of the movement of stars.

This is an unprecedented map, a map large enough to contain all his avenues.

Fuxi opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing within them.

"Gossip!" he said softly.

As Fuxi's voice faded, the Bagua diagram truly manifested between heaven and earth, resonating with the great Dao of heaven and earth.

Above Fuxi's cave, the sky suddenly changed color. The pitch-black night and the light of day intertwined, transforming into a giant yin-yang symbol.

The yin-yang symbol slowly rotated, with black within white and white within black, yin within yang and yang within yin.

The yin and yang energies in the diagram are not static, but alive.

They are constantly flowing and changing, as if they have their own life.

Each rotation makes the yin and yang energies between heaven and earth more orderly; each alternation makes the yin and yang attributes of all things clearer.

The yin-yang symbol spun faster and faster, growing larger and larger, expanding from above the cave to the entire mountain peak, from the mountain peak to the entire ancestral land, and from the ancestral land to the entire Shouyang Mountain.

On Mount Shouyang, Xuandu was in seclusion. He sensed this aura, awoke from his meditation, walked out of the Taoist temple, and looked up at the sky.

Upon seeing the enormous yin-yang symbol, Xuan Du's pupils contracted slightly.

"The Great Dao of Yin and Yang," he murmured, "is Fuxi about to break through?"

He carefully examined the yin-yang symbol and discovered that the principles of yin and yang contained within it were extremely profound, although not as vast as the great Dao contained in the Tai Chi symbol.

But it encompasses everything and evolves endlessly.

After the Yin-Yang symbol appeared, a second strange phenomenon followed.

The seasons change.

Above the cave, the scenes of the four seasons appeared simultaneously. Spring brings forth life, summer fosters growth, autumn brings harvest, and winter brings rest; the four great paths flowed and alternated in the void.

Spring breezes bring life back to all things; summer heat brings growth to all things; autumn winds bring maturity to all things; winter snow blankets all things in its blankets, and all things go dormant.

The laws of the four seasons are revealed in the sky, intertwined with the yin-yang symbol.

Yin and Yang are the bones, and the four seasons are the flesh; the two complement each other, forming a more complete system.

Immediately afterwards, all the stars in the sky shone brightly!

The phantom images of 365 main stars appeared in the void, each radiating a different Daoist charm.

They move slowly along the trajectories of the stars, echoing the yin-yang symbol and the scenery of the four seasons.

The light of the stars shines on the earth, merging with the yin and yang energies and intertwining with the power of the four seasons.

The three fundamental laws collided and merged with each other, producing profound changes.