The Primordial Era: Starting with Jingwei Filling the Sea

During Fang Yang's seclusion, both good and bad things happened. He himself was making continuous progress.

After refining the magical artifact in his hand, Fang Yang began to study the profound Western techniques taught to him by the two Western saints.

The Western Wonderful Method is also the Wonderful Method of Sages, with a purpose far surpassing other Taoist arts and immortal techniques in the world. Fang Yang wants to absorb the essence of the Western Wonderful Method, combining East and West to achieve his own supreme Taoist career.

Both the Golden Relic Body and the Great Method of Enlightenment in Dreams are supernatural powers that develop the power of the mind. The Golden Relic Body develops the external mental power, while the Great Method of Enlightenment in Dreams pursues the sublimation of one's own spirit, using a powerful mental state to transform falsehood into truth, transcend illusion, and attain enlightenment and sainthood.

The Great Mantra of Cundi and the Golden Relic Body are the same type of supernatural power. The difference is that the Golden Relic Body is more offensive, while the Great Mantra of Cundi is a purely defensive supernatural power.

These three supernatural powers can be considered the general outline of Western religious magic. Once you understand them, you can use any kind of Western religious magic with ease.

Most Taoist schools follow the path of cultivating both the inner and outer, and the dual cultivation of spirit and body. Only the Taoist arts of the Eastern King Duke and the Western Queen Mother follow the path of physical disintegration and the ascension of the primordial spirit.

The Jie Sect naturally does not cultivate the power of faith.

Don't be fooled by the numerous Sanqing Temples scattered throughout the primordial world; they were built spontaneously by the followers of the Sanqing, not at the Sanqing's behest. The Sanqing don't follow the path of deities, so what use would they have for the power of faith?

People want to gain benefits without working by burning incense and worshipping gods, which is why they are building Taoist temples on a large scale. Offering a stick of incense and kowtowing a few times can bring health, wealth, marriage, and opportunities. There is no more cost-effective deal than this.

Of course, the Three Pure Ones will ignore them.

Therefore, when Fang Yang was studying these three supernatural powers, he was not researching the power of faith itself, but rather the application of mental power. Since the Great Dao Attainment Method in Dreams did not involve the power of faith, Fang Yang accepted it without question.

Enlightenment through dreams does exist within the Taoist tradition, such as that of the Kunpeng Ancestor, the Lord of the Northern Sea. However, the Kunpeng Ancestor's relationship with the Three Pure Ones is not good, so he would not reveal his Taoist techniques to the disciples of the Three Pure Ones.

Therefore, when the Sage who guided Fang Yang taught him the method of attaining enlightenment in a dream, Fang Yang actually gained a great advantage.

These three Taoist arts from the Western religion helped Fang Yang open the door to his heart.

In the past, Fang Yang had always believed that divine thought was the power of the mind. His view was somewhat vague.

Divine thought is indeed a form of mental power, but it is not the entirety of mental power. Divine thought is a power formed by the combination of mental power and magical power. To put it bluntly, mental power must rely on magical power to become divine thought.

Besides divine will, the mind can also generate the power of faith, the power of desire, the power of imagination, and the power of love, hate, and other emotions. Many laws are born from the combination of the power of the mind and magical power.

For example, the Law of Love and the Law of Hate—Yang Jian understands these two laws best.

Fang Yang was most interested in the Law of Dreams. This law was practiced by powerful figures from the Buddhist, Taoist, and demonic schools, and every one of them who practiced it became a top-tier (T0 or T1) figure.

Taoism has the Kunpeng Ancestor, Buddhism has the Sage of Guidance, and the Demonic Path has the Nightmare Demon Lord. These three have different focuses in the realm of dreams.

The Dream Dao of the Kunpeng Ancestor tends to construct his own dream world. He can transform himself into a dream, becoming immune to all attacks, and no supernatural power can harm him.

The dream path of the guide saint is to transform illusion into reality. He wants to use his powerful spiritual strength to reverse reality and illusion in order to achieve the supreme Dao.

The Nightmare Demon Lord's dream path is the most domineering. He likes to drag all living beings into his dreams, and then use the dreams to change their perceptions, making them believe that they are not themselves. In the end, they sink into the dream, and all their cultivation is digested and absorbed by the Nightmare Demon Lord.

By summarizing the dream techniques of these three powerful figures, Fang Yang gained his own understanding of the dream path. A dream, in essence, is a virtual world, and the dream techniques of these three individuals are, in essence, technologies for virtual reality.

In this way, Fang Yang comprehended a new cultivation method:

The mind is a network world, and the network can simulate and virtualize everything. He can use the power of his mind to construct a virtual world, in which all beings can practice the Tao, evolve various virtual laws, and finally transform the false into the real, thus promoting the growth of his own Tao.

The difference between this cultivation method and the method of attaining enlightenment in dreams is that the latter is achieved through dreams, while this cultivation method can be carried out while awake.

With a thought, he contemplated the heavens and earth, and all things in the universe. His inner thoughts, including Daoist ideas, distracting desires, lust, and greed, were all manifested, transforming into Daoist immortals, Buddhas, Daoist priests, fairies, female ghosts, scholars...

These figures all originated from Fang Yang's inner thoughts. Naturally and spontaneously, virtual beings emerged one after another.

Each of them is Fang Yang, yet each of them is not Fang Yang. They carry Fang Yang's mental power, but they do not possess Fang Yang's thoughts. They are all free and unrestrained, not bound by Fang Yang's constraints.

With a thought, heaven and earth came into being, and a virtual world that existed only in Fang Yang's heart was constructed.

Whoosh!

A golden throne, its imposing aura spreading throughout the universe, resounded with a vast heavenly voice, expounding the path of spiritual roots and immortality.

"The Dao extends to the highest heavens and the deepest hells; its power is boundless and its supernatural abilities limitless."

"Those who cultivate Qi refine essence into Qi, and essence and Qi into spirit, thus entering the path of immortality."

Indeed, Fang Yang is using virtual beings to perfect his spiritual root immortal path.

He could use all living beings in the primordial world to expound the Great Dao, but using real living beings to expound the Dao would take an incredibly long time. He planned to first complete the initial stage in the virtual world, and then enter the primordial world to spread the Dao once his spiritual roots and immortal path had taken shape.

In the endless torrent, Fang Yang's spiritual root immortal path was constantly perfected, and one realm after another was created.

Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Ascension, Celestial Being, Celestial Immortal... each realm involves countless trials. Fang Yang deliberately adjusted the difficulty of cultivation to ensure that each realm would eliminate 90% of cultivators, while leaving hope for the remaining 10%.

As the cultivation system gradually took shape, Fang Yang's cultivation also came to an end.

The World Tree leaped and entered the Nascent Soul of Creation. Enveloped by the innate energy of creation, the World Tree radiated unprecedented vitality. The God of Creation appeared, raised his hand, and the World Tree and the Nascent Soul of Creation merged.

A mysterious change occurred, the chaotic void exploded, and the chaotic energy surged wildly, being drawn into the primordial world.

A burst of crystalline white light erupted from the Nascent Soul of Creation, and then a flesh and blood body slowly took shape. This body was as tall and straight as Fang Yang's, and it sat upright in Fang Yang's dantian, quietly comprehending the universe.

This body is Fang Yang's second physical body, and also Fang Yang's Great Dao Nascent Soul.

Once Fang Yang achieved the Great Dao Nascent Soul stage, he felt that his potential had been raised. His cultivation speed and his foundation underwent earth-shattering changes.

The path to immortality through spiritual roots is complete!