Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 8, "The Eighteen Celestial Pearls Collection," True Immortal Realm

The Heavenly Qi and Hundred Desires Qi that had previously disintegrated on the Dragon Abyss Sword reappeared. The Yin and Yang energies surrounded the Heavenly Qi and Hundred Desires Qi, like a membrane covering the Heavenly Qi and Hundred Desires Qi that were surging within it.

The Qi of Heavenly Mist and the Qi of a Hundred Desires are Xuanmen Dao Qi that Long Qiao himself has gathered and refined from the spiritual energy of Heaven and Man. Its essence is extremely high, and the two paths of Heaven and Man also secretly correspond to Yin and Yang.

One is supremely pure, the other is extremely mixed and dark. The two are pure in nature but conflicting in essence, which is just right for Taiwei to refine a protective elixir. And alchemy, or the Dao of Alchemy, is the fundamental Dao of Taiwei's body.

As for alchemy, Taiwei was confident that he was among the best of all living beings in the entire prehistoric world. However, with his current cultivation level, he was still not capable of refining a golden pill using all the elements of heaven and earth as spiritual materials.

However, now that Taiwei has the Heavenly Qi and Hundred Desires Qi from Longqiao, he can use them to refine a Grade 3 Golden Pill.

The quality of the third-grade golden pill corresponds to that of a cultivator at the True Immortal realm. Once these three golden pills are refined, Taiwei will have the ability to contend with or even defeat cultivators at the True Immortal realm in the future.

Of course, Taiwei didn't care about a third-grade Golden Core. He just wanted to see how well his Dao Fruit clone, which was specifically developed for alchemy, was doing.

Taiwei clenched his five fingers, and the Qi of Heavenly Mist and the Qi of Desire intertwined and merged. Between the rotation of Yin and Yang Qi, the Qi of Heavenly Mist and the Qi of Desire collided continuously.

With a flick of his fingertip, Taiwei's Yin and Yang energies, like a pair of black and white scissors, tore apart the Qi of Heavenly Clouds and the Qi of a Hundred Desires. As the vast black and white halo bloomed, Taiwei's eyes narrowed, and the Dragon Abyss Sword slashed out thousands of streams of light in an instant.

Countless sword lights cleaved the celestial aura and the aura of a hundred desires into thousands of pieces. Taiwei's left hand formed a gesture of supporting the sky, with his five fingers slightly lowered. The radiance of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky moved slightly, and strands of extremely pure solar and lunar aura merged into the countless celestial aura and the aura of a hundred desires.

The essence of the sun and moon, the paths of heaven and man, the two polarities of yin and yang—a series of vibrant and dazzling spiritual lights burst forth. The celestial aura and the aura of a hundred desires slowly merged in Taiwei's palm. The profound darkness and the brilliant light intertwined at this moment, both encompassing each other and clearly distinct.

A rotating Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram appeared in Taiwei's palm. Then, the Yin and Yang energies slowly dissipated, and a golden elixir, half black and half white, resembling a three-dimensional Tai Chi symbol, slowly floated up and landed in front of Taiwei.

"The Heavenly and Human Yin-Yang Pill, a third-grade golden pill that embodies the true meaning of the Yin-Yang Great Dao, is not bad."

Taiwei looked calmly at the thumb-sized Grade 3 Golden Core in front of him. A Grade 3 Golden Core was nothing to Taiwei in the past, but it was a valuable treasure to Taiwei now.

Moreover, this Heaven and Man Yin-Yang Pill has a very good foundation and has a continuous potential for advancement in the future. As long as Taiwei continues to refine it, it is possible that it could even be refined into a seventh or eighth grade, or even a ninth grade, golden pill.

A wisp of Yin and Yang energy descended from Taiwei's brow, merging the Heavenly and Human Yin-Yang Elixir into his ancestral temple. Strands of pure Yin and Yang spiritual energy continuously circulated and refined within Taiwei's body, gradually enhancing the strength of his primordial spirit and physical body.

Sitting cross-legged on the surface of the Luoxuan River, the profound meaning of the Great Dao from Taiwei's fundamental book, the "Collection of Eighteen Heavenly and Human Mysterious Pearls," began to slowly merge into Taiwei's heart.

The "Collection of the Eighteen Heavenly and Human Mysterious Pearls" is a grand book of heaven and earth constructed by Taiwei himself by integrating the true meaning of alchemy with the supernatural powers of all methods. It is a top-level book that brings together Taiwei's own research and understanding of alchemy.

In the "Collection of Eighteen Heavenly and Human Mysterious Pearls," "Heavenly and Human" represents Taiwei's own alchemical philosophy of unity between heaven and man, while "Mysterious Pearl" is another name for the Golden Elixir. As for the "Eighteen," it represents the eighteen cultivation paths that Taiwei has developed based on alchemy as the general principle.

True Immortal, Great Dao, Heaven and Earth, Sun and Moon, Four Seasons, Five Elements, Water and Fire, Dragon and Tiger, Elixir, Lead and Mercury, Extraction and Replenishment, River Chariot, Returning Elixir, Refining Form, Returning to the Origin, Inner Observation, Tribulations, Verification.

Each of these eighteen cultivation paths, derived from the Taiwei theory, is sufficient to achieve the Taiyi realm. Among them, the most outstanding paths have the potential to lead to the Daluo Daojun realm, which is above the Taiyi realm.

Of course, this is just speculation. The Great Luo Dao Lord has not yet been born in the current prehistoric world. However, even so, the "Collection of Eighteen Heavenly and Human Mysterious Pearls" can be regarded as the most advanced cultivation book in the prehistoric world.

As the creator of the "Collection of Eighteen Heavenly and Human Mysterious Pearls", Taiwei's Dao Fruit Avatar was originally based on the White Tiger and Mysterious Dragon, which formed the purest Yin-Yang Dao Foundation of Dan Dao. Therefore, he naturally did not need to choose a main path to cultivate. Taiwei cultivated all eighteen paths at the same time and made progress in parallel.

Eighteen kinds of manifestations depict the myriad phenomena of the universe. The radiance and splendor of all living beings in the world surround and appear around Taiwei, embodying the purity of true immortals, the vastness of the Great Dao, the righteousness of heaven and earth, the brilliance of the sun and moon, the rotation of the four seasons, the transformation of the five elements, and the opposition of water and fire...

A series of pathways spread and appeared on Taiwei's body, and Taiwei's own aura also rapidly increased at this time. Originally, Taiwei's cultivation had already reached the extreme of the Celestial Immortal realm.

Now, with the operation of the "Eighteen Heavenly Mystic Pearls Collection", Taiwei's cultivation level easily broke through to the True Immortal realm. All the acupoints in his body opened up, and with each breath, the vast power of heaven and earth was integrated into Taiwei's body.

Between the opening and closing of his eyes, Taiwei clearly felt the vibration of the surrounding space. The True Immortal realm was considered a powerful figure in the current prehistoric world. Above that was the Golden Immortal, who was considered a great power in the five prehistoric domains. As for the Taiyi realm, there were not even a hundred of them in the entire prehistoric world.

After Taiwei advanced to the True Immortal realm, he once again gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine the Heaven and Man Yin-Yang Pill he had just refined, and the third-grade golden pill was sublimated into a fourth-grade pill.

Although a fourth-grade golden core still corresponds to a true immortal, it represents the pinnacle of the true immortal realm. If the full power of this fourth-grade golden core were to erupt, even a peak true immortal cultivator might not be able to withstand it.

Reintegrating the Heavenly and Human Yin-Yang Pill into his ancestral temple and settling in his spiritual platform, Taiwei looked at Xiyang Mountain and Luoxuan River, whose spiritual energy had recovered somewhat. With a wave of his sleeve, a large amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth transformed into seven-colored spiritual rain and merged into Xiyang Mountain and Luoxuan River.

A faint flow of creation energy circulated, and the two damaged sacred mountains and spiritual rivers began to slowly regain their former vitality and spiritual charm. Taiwei noticed that he still had a lot of karmic burdens left on him, and he curled his lip, not caring about this little bit of karmic burden.

Auspicious clouds rose beneath his feet, and Taiwei rode them towards the far west. Before being sealed by the Heavenly Dao, Taiwei's original body had struggled a lot and left its own contingency plans in the Five Domains of the Primordial World.

(End of this chapter)