Primordial Era: Elixir of Qi Transforms into Form, Controlling the Pharmacology of the World

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of years have passed.

Ling Dan and the Queen Mother of the West have already searched the Penglai lands, looking for an opportunity.

However, apart from the "Pure White Lotus" that they found at the beginning, they didn't find any other precious treasures.

Firstly, in order to enhance the strength of the Penglai cultivators, the Eastern King distributed almost all of Penglai's resources and treasures to the many Penglai cultivators.

Secondly, there are too many monks and not enough porridge. With so many people searching for treasure together, everything of value has been dug up!

After a long while, the cultivators finally quieted down.

The Queen Mother, along with Ling Dan, found Laozi: "Fellow Daoist Taiqing... Ling Dan is safely returned to you!"

"Thank you, Queen Mother, for taking care of Ling Dan."

Lao Tzu expressed his gratitude.

The Queen Mother shook her head and turned to look at Ling Dan: "Goodbye, little Ling Dan."

Goodbye, Queen Mother.

Ling Dan waved.

"Let's go back to Kunlun!"

Lao Tzu lightly flicked his whisk, picked up Ling Dan, and headed straight for Kunlun.

After flying for hundreds of years, they finally returned to Kunlun.

After landing in Kunlun, Laozi stroked his beard and said, "Disciple... From now on, you should go into seclusion and cultivate diligently, comprehending the gains from this battle. In addition, with your current accumulation, you are also capable of condensing a Dao Fruit. However, it would be best to wait until you enter Zixiao Palace before condensing your Dao Fruit."

"Master, rest assured, I understand," Ling Dan said earnestly, fully aware of the benefits of breaking through within the Purple Cloud Palace.

Lao Tzu nodded and then headed towards his secluded retreat.

Yuanshi Tianzun also went to his secluded place for cultivation, but he also instructed Ling Dan to cultivate diligently.

Tongtian smiled and secretly handed a small pavilion to Ling Dan: "Little Ling Dan... your martial uncle has acquired a special treasure from Penglai Island this time, called: the Myriad Scrolls Pavilion."

"This treasure is very special. In terms of quality, it is only of low grade, but it contains special supernatural powers. It can gradually improve itself by relying on the Daoist script. It can be said that by sending the script that explains the Great Dao and the classics into this library, the quality of this library will gradually improve, making this library more and more powerful."

"This library now contains countless treasured books from the Eastern King's collection. The gathering of these books has elevated the library's quality to a superior level. With continued accumulation, it could even be upgraded to a supreme level. Furthermore, cultivating within the library can enhance comprehension and slightly increase wisdom. Take this library and organize the books within. Send them to the Kunlun Scripture Pavilion. As for this Ten Thousand Volumes Library, you can keep it for yourself."

Ling Dan's eyes widened: "Uncle-Master...you've tricked me again. The scriptures collected by the Eastern King, aren't they the Penglai scriptures...the Penglai scriptures contain demonic teachings, I..."

"Don't worry, all the books containing cultivation methods in the library have been destroyed. What remains are just explanations of the Great Dao, supernatural powers, and a few cultivation methods of various races. There's nothing demonic involved. You can take whatever you want," Tongtian said, stroking his beard, seemingly unconcerned.

"I see... Then after I finish my seclusion, I will organize the many books. Also, wouldn't taking the books away mean that the quality of this library will decline?" Ling Dan asked.

"This is the most special feature of this Myriad Scrolls Pavilion. The more treasured books it contains, the higher their quality and the stronger their effects. The fewer treasured books it contains, the lower their quality and the weaker their effects." Tongtian smiled, not caring too much about this treasure.

Ling Dan also found it interesting and put away the Ten Thousand Scrolls Pavilion.

A short while later, Tongtian went into seclusion.

Ling Dan didn't rush to cultivate. She wandered around the Kunlun Blessed Land, watered her spiritual roots, and chatted with the gourd vine.

I originally wanted to talk to Tiger Girl, but the little tiger is at a crucial stage of cultivation, so I gave up on that idea.

Subsequently, Ling Dan also began her seclusion for cultivation.

As Ling Dan embarked on her cultivation journey, time gradually passed.

After cultivating for tens of thousands of years, Ling Dan drew upon the waters of the Great Dao River, causing a qualitative change in her soul.

Now, Ling Dan, guided by the Dao itself, is able to roam the River of the Great Dao. Ling Dan keenly senses that after her divine soul merges with the River of the Great Dao, and combines with the Dao, she can condense a Dao Fruit. The feeling of condensing a Dao Fruit during her first roaming of the River of the Great Dao almost allowed Ling Dan to actually condense one.

The transformation of the soul also leads to changes in the physical body.

Having previously fully digested the fragments of creation, his physical body broke through again, entering the seventh stage. Now, after tens of thousands of years of tempering his physical body, he has also moved from the seventh stage to the third level of the seventh stage.

It takes tens of thousands of years to cultivate even just three levels of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, which speaks volumes about its difficulty. The further one progresses, the more immense the time and energy required.

Aside from his own cultivation, he also perfected many supernatural abilities and created many innovative ideas.

However, many supernatural abilities also require time to accumulate.

After cultivating for tens of thousands of years, Ling Dan felt that it would be difficult to make any progress in a short period of time, so she left her secluded cultivation place.

Having just stepped out of the secluded retreat, I looked at the vast blessed land and it seemed that I was the only one there.

Their master and uncle are still in seclusion.

Before the great battle, Tongtian had arranged for Duobao to go into seclusion and even sent him into a special formation to cultivate.

Tiger Girl entered into a deep cultivation, preparing to complete the final restoration of her origin.

Ling Dan glanced at it for a moment, then turned and walked towards the Kunlun Sutra Repository without hesitation.

This Kunlun Scripture Pavilion was created during the previous repairs of Kunlun. It contains many classic texts, most of which were found by Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian from the primordial world.

Now, Ling Dan took out the Ten Thousand Scrolls Pavilion, took out many classic books from it, and put them into the Sutra Repository.

Large quantities of animal hides, crystals, and tree bark flew out and landed inside the library.

Ling Dan's eyes flickered, revealing a slight change in expression: "Wasn't paper invented a long time ago? Why don't these ancient cultivators rely on paper to compile their classics? Instead, they use tree bark and animal hides... That's quite barbaric."

Ling Dan also shook her head, preparing to organize the many classic texts.

I casually picked up a roll of animal hide, which turned out to be from the collection of Penglai Purple Mansion.

On the animal hide, characters are drawn using special Taoist techniques. They look somewhat rudimentary, but their meaning can still be understood.

Ling Dan pondered for a moment: "Interesting... A body-refining method that absorbs numerous divine materials to temper the physical body. This is similar to the White Tiger Clan's 'Gengjin Immortal Technique.' It absorbs numerous Gengjin energies to ultimately cultivate into a divine material. However, this method is not very perfect, but it does contain the Great Dao of Devouring. It includes how to digest divine materials and how to digest Dao essence. With a little improvement, it would be a pretty good body-refining method."

Ling Dan looked around and thought to herself, "There are so many books here. Whether they expound on the Great Dao, supernatural powers, or cultivation methods, they all contain the wisdom and thoughts of their creators. Reading them and comprehending them thoroughly will also broaden my knowledge and make me stronger."

With that said, Ling Dan calmed down and began to study many more classic texts.

It has to be said that knowledge is always so important, no matter when.

Countless classic texts represent countless wisdoms, and the more wisdom one possesses, the more accumulated wisdom one will have.

In addition, with Ling Dan's many creative ideas, it might be possible to create many supernatural powers and cultivation methods.

However, after several centuries, Ling Dan also noticed many changes: "Although all the various scripts are pictographic characters formed by comprehending the Great Dao and relying on the Daoist rhythm, collectively known as Daoist script, they are all different and difficult to unify, which is also a problem."

The characters within the primordial world were created by comprehending the Great Dao and imitating its form. Therefore, it is not necessary to recognize the characters themselves; one only needs to comprehend the form of the Great Dao within them.

"I wonder if my creation of writing and unification of the writing systems of various ethnic groups counts as a great act of merit? However, even if writing is created, it is difficult to reap merit if it is not recognized by all living beings," Ling Dan said with emotion.

Even so, Ling Dan still planned to strike first.

After all, with the emergence of the human race and the proliferation of the three religions, his writings might be able to spread and gain recognition from all living beings.

This is a long-term investment!

Ling Dan didn't think much of it. She took out her brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, preparing to search for the great path of literature among the many classic books she had read. She would then rely on this path to comprehend the essence of the Dao and comprehend it into words.

In fact, the great principles of literature possess the ability to imitate, and can imitate other great principles, transforming them into images and words.

Ling Dan thus became engrossed in comprehending the great principles of literature and transforming words into text.

Ling Dan continued to comprehend this, and time gradually passed, amounting to several thousand years.

Now, a Daoist sound is spreading from the Great Dao River. Those who have attained the Dao Fruit and whose souls can be drawn into the river are among those who fall into it.

"A thousand years later, the Purple Cloud Palace will open, and those with the destiny may come..." Hongjun's Daoist voice resounded, entering the long river and the hearts of countless cultivators.

At that moment, many Dao Fruit cultivators who were cultivating woke up one by one.

Countless divine souls, those who guide the Great Dao River, also sensed these words.

In the blink of an eye, countless cultivators were excited, knowing that the Three Lectures of Zixiao Palace were about to begin.

Ling Dan, who was writing the Xuanmen script, was also awakened and silently looked up at the sky: "The third lecture? This also means that the prelude to a great event is about to begin."

Ling Dan put away the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, and sent the many written articles into the Ten Thousand Scrolls Pavilion, which made the spirit treasure go from resentful to happy.

There was no way around it; the spirit of the Myriad Scrolls Pavilion was a voracious reader. Ling Dan had previously removed all the books from its collection, lowering their quality, so it was quite resentful. Now that there were finally new books, it was naturally delighted.

Ling Dan walked out of the Sutra Repository, exuding a scholarly aura that made her stand out from the crowd.

"Huh... Senior Brother, what's wrong with you? You seem strange, not like before." Duobao, who had emerged from seclusion at some point, looked at Ling Dan and asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Ling Dan sensed the changes within herself and smiled, "Previously, my comprehension of the Great Dao of Literature transformed the Great Dao within my body into the Great Dao of Literature. It carries a certain scholarly aura."

As Ling Dan spoke, he transformed the Great Dao, evolving it into the Great Dao of Dan.

In an instant, his aura changed, carrying a pure medicinal fragrance, instantly making Duobao's eyes gleam as if he were looking at a treasure.

"Senior brother, senior brother...you smell so good again, so fragrant..." Duobao said, his rat-like nature making him drool.

Ling Dan's expression changed, showing a hint of annoyance: "Little Duobao, it seems your cultivation has improved quite a bit after years of seclusion. You actually drooled over your senior brother. It seems your senior brother needs to teach you a lesson."

This chubby kid is so annoying!

Ling Dan didn't hold back and grabbed Duobao, kneading and squeezing his face until his skin was stretched a foot wide, bouncing like rubber.

Then, using a transformation technique, he turned Duobao into a ball of flesh, casually tossed it on the ground, and then beat it back and forth.

"Waaah... Senior brother, I won't do it again, I won't do it again..." Duobao begged for mercy, being tortured like this by Ling Dan was truly a tragedy.

Ling Dan released Duobao with a smile and said, "Little fatty, do you dare to do it again?"

"I wouldn't dare, I absolutely wouldn't dare." Duobao sounded incredibly aggrieved and fearful.

A short while later, Lao Tzu's presence was felt.

"Master, Uncle-Master..." Ling Dan ran over and found her master.

Laozi looked at Ling Dan and nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad... Your cultivation is ready to enter the Dao Fruit realm at any time, and you've also grasped the Great Dao of Literature, displaying considerable composure!"

With Laozi's cultivation level, he could see through Ling Dan's changes in an instant, so he was very clear about them.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable was also very satisfied: "Little Ling Dan... your choice to study the Great Dao of Literature is quite good. The Great Dao of Literature can broaden your horizons and teach you manners..."

Tongtian grabbed Duobao and said, "Big brother, second brother... let's hurry up and leave. This sermon is the last one, and it's of utmost importance..."

Laozi nodded: "Let's go. This time we need to hurry and try to enter Zixiao Palace as soon as possible."

With that, the group transformed into streaks of light and flew into the sky.