Primordial Era: Refusing Hongjun's path to sainthood, I attained the Dao of Hunyuan.

Chapter 35 The Six-Eared Macaque

"You're asking how to become a saint, right?" Hongjun glanced at Yuanshi, causing Yuanshi to tremble involuntarily. Upon hearing this, Yuanshi quickly nodded.

Hongjun said, "A sage is the Primordial Chaos! To prove the Way of Primordial Chaos, there are three thousand Great Daos, each of which can be proven."

"However, so far, there are not many methods to cultivate to the state of Hunyuan. I have three methods: first, to prove the Dao through force; second, to prove the Dao by severing the three corpses; and third, to prove the Dao through merit."

After saying this, amidst the eager gazes of many powerful beings, Hongjun explained the three methods of attaining enlightenment.

Of the three methods of attaining enlightenment, attaining enlightenment through force is often the strongest, but it is also the most difficult, requiring the accumulation of immeasurable magical power to achieve.

However, this method also has its advantages, namely that it does not require seeking merit or using magic treasures to attach one's attachments.

As long as one focuses on intensive cultivation, one can directly attain the Primordial Chaos Realm, making it very suitable for ordinary people with great potential.

In theory, all you need is great perseverance and determination.

The method of severing the three corpses to prove one's Dao is slightly weaker than proving one's Dao through force, but it is still very sophisticated. This method was created by Hongjun himself.

It requires severing the three attachments of good, evil, and ego.

Among them, the most authentic method of severing the three corpses does not require the use of magic weapons. As long as one cultivates the Tao diligently and gathers the three flowers at the top of the head, one can directly sever the obsession by gathering the three flowers.

This method is the most authentic, and it is the way to seek the Tao within oneself.

It was because of this that everyone realized that the immortal system that had been circulating in the prehistoric world was actually established by Hongjun and several other great beings.

However, at that time, Hongjun and others had not yet become saints, and the highest level of the immortal system they established could only reach was the Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Even so, this immortal cultivation system has laid a solid foundation. Any powerful being who cultivates according to this system will eventually be able to condense the Three Flowers on the Top.

Now, the method of severing the three corpses transmitted by Hongjun is a continuation of this path. After the three flowers on the top of the head are opened, one then entrusts one's obsession to sever the three corpses, and finally unites the three corpses to attain enlightenment.

In the Purple Cloud Palace, the three thousand powerful beings were all shocked when they heard that the immortal system was actually established by Hongjun.

Then, no one knows who started it, but everyone began to shout that Hongjun was the Dao Ancestor.

Hongjun finally became the Dao Ancestor. However, Hongjun himself did not experience much emotional fluctuation upon this.

The most authentic way to sever the three corpses is to directly sever them by entrusting the three flowers to one's obsessions; this is seeking the Dao within oneself.

However, this also makes it extremely difficult. It's almost no less difficult than proving one's path through force.

Therefore, Hongjun also opened up another trick to the method of severing the three corpses, which is to seek the Dao from external things.

By acquiring innate spiritual treasures, or even supreme innate treasures, and placing one's obsessions within these treasures, severing the three corpses becomes much easier.

However, this trick has its drawbacks. Firstly, relying on one's obsession in this way does not completely sever the three corpses and achieve sainthood. If the magic weapon becomes the embodiment of the three corpses and is destroyed, although one's cultivation level will not drop drastically, one's vital energy will inevitably be severely damaged.

Moreover, to use a magic weapon to entrust one's obsession to sever the corpse, one must completely refine the magic weapon. While it is relatively easy to refine a primordial spiritual treasure, the difficulty of completely refining a primordial supreme treasure is extremely high, almost no less than the difficulty of attaining enlightenment.

This is also why, although Taiyi became the number one person below the sages with the Chaos Bell, he still died tragically in the great calamity.

However, Taiyi never fully refined the Chaos Bell until his death.

Of course, that was the original story. Whether Taiyi will be able to completely refine the Chaos Bell in this life is unknown.

Besides using magical artifacts to entrust one's obsessions, there are many other special things that can also be used to entrust one's obsessions.

For example, various innate spiritual roots, or ancient mythical beasts, or even a wild grass by the roadside, can all work.

However, the more powerful the object of possession, the stronger the three incarnations that are severed from it will be.

This also relates to the later stages; to truly attain enlightenment, there is the final step: merging the three corpses.

There is also the matter of accumulating merit to attain enlightenment, which requires accumulating great merit, and there's no need to elaborate on that. For many great beings, accumulating small amounts of merit is not difficult, but using it to attain enlightenment is probably extremely difficult.

After the three methods of enlightenment were explained, the crowd couldn't help but discuss them.

Xuanhuang couldn't help but ponder. Of these three methods of proving the Dao, proving the Dao by force was too clumsy and he would not choose it.

If one cultivates slowly and leisurely, accumulating magical power, but fails to achieve success, calamity may befall them.

However, for him, there were merits to severing the three corpses to attain enlightenment and attaining enlightenment through merit.

For example, the method of severing the three corpses to prove the Dao is similar to his method of proving the Dao. He previously laid the foundation of the Five Elements Dao as the basis of the Great Dao and differentiated into five major avatars.

According to this deduction, when he reverses the Four Symbols with the Five Elements, he will differentiate again, thus forming the Four Symbols clones.

The process of severing the three corpses to form three incarnations is a valuable lesson to be learned.

The stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade.

Moreover, Hongjun's method of severing the three corpses is a very mature method of attaining enlightenment, and there are simply too many things that can be learned from it.

There is also the merit to prove one's Dao. Although Xuanhuang does not intend to become the weakest saint, why not do it if he can gain some merit?

After a brief period of commotion, they returned to the main topic. Hongjun continued his sermon, and the crowd listened intently, each one completely absorbed.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Xuanhuang's other avatar, Ziwei, knew he had no chance because he could not sense the connection with Zixiao Palace.

So they returned the way they came.

Unexpectedly, on their way back, they encountered an accident halfway through, facing an extremely powerful force of earth, water, fire, and wind.

Therefore, Ziwei had no choice but to flee to avoid this sudden disaster caused by earth, water, fire, and wind.

After narrowly escaping, Ziwei couldn't help but grumble and curse, and had no choice but to recalculate the route and find a way back to the Primordial World.

Because of the influence of the Ziwei Star, he wasn't completely lost in the chaos, but it still caused him a lot of trouble.

After turning back all the way, this day was approaching the primordial era, and there was no longer any need to sense the Purple Star.

Ziwei was about to return to the vicinity of the Heavenly Membrane when, in the vast chaos, she vaguely saw a figure.

"Who is that? A Taiyi Golden Immortal, how dare he enter the Chaos?" Ziwei was extremely surprised.

Because that figure was too weak, only at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level, yet it dared to venture into this chaos.

Although this place is close to the celestial membrane and not particularly dangerous, a slight accident could still lead to death in the chaos.

That's incredibly reckless.

Seeing this, Ziwei was about to grab the Taiyi Golden Immortal and take him back when she noticed something amiss.

But then they saw the Taiyi Golden Immortal's figure flicker and transform into a monkey, its whole body shimmering with gold; it was a macaque.

Moreover, this macaque actually had six ears.

"Holy crap, the Six-Eared Macaque?" Ziwei was truly astonished. The secret teachings were not to be passed on to six ears, yet here he was, witnessing the earliest Six-Eared Macaque in the primordial world.

In the primordial world, there were quite a few Six-Eared Macaques, and the earliest one was the one in front of us. At the same time, it was also the most daring, so daring as to use its supernatural powers to eavesdrop on the Dao Ancestor's sermon in Zixiao Palace.

As a result, the Dao Ancestor Hongjun's saying that "the Dharma should not be passed on to six ears" indirectly led to the Six-Eared Macaque clan being completely unable to survive in the prehistoric world from then on.

(End of this chapter)