Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

However, Yuan Yan suddenly recalled Hongjun's Three Corpses Severing Technique.

The Great Method of Severing the Three Corpses can sever the three thoughts of good, evil, and attachment, entrusting them to innate spiritual treasures, innate spiritual roots, or innate spiritual objects, and transforming them into three independent Dao bodies.

These three bodies can cultivate and comprehend the Dao on their own, or they can fight alongside each other. Moreover, after the three bodies merge into one, they can attain the Great Luo of Primordial Chaos.

If he could comprehend the profound mysteries of the Three Corpses Severing Technique, he might be able to deduce a method for cultivating an independent Dao body that suits him, allowing his true body to focus on the Yin-Yang Dao, while his three Dao bodies would focus on the Reincarnation Dao, the World Dao, and the Mind Dao, respectively, thus fulfilling his heart's desire.

As for the fact that in many prehistoric novels, Hongjun is the main villain who plots to weaken the prehistoric world by using the Great Tribulation, and wants to devour the prehistoric world to achieve his own goal.

The method of severing the three corpses has a major flaw. The treasures that the three corpses entrust to can only be united if they share the same origin, and only then can they have a chance to attain the Great Luo of Primordial Chaos. This is part of Hongjun's scheme to control the innate deities of the prehistoric world.

He expressed doubt about this!

It wasn't that Yuan Yan believed in Hong Jun's character or thought he wouldn't be so heartless and insane.

But this primordial world is unusual; something's not right!

The Great Golden Immortal can gather the past, present, and future. As long as there is still a trace of the past, present, and future, he has not completely perished and will eventually be resurrected and return.

If even a Great Luo Golden Immortal is like this, what about Pangu?

The primordial world itself is the most powerful evidence of Pangu's existence. Regardless of whether Pangu truly perished, even if he did, he would eventually be resurrected and return.

Who is Pangu? He is a supreme expert at the half-step Great Dao level, who wanted to prove the Great Dao and was an unparalleled fierce man who single-handedly killed three thousand chaotic gods and demons.

How much fake wine did Hongjun drink before he dared to plot to weaken and devour the primordial world in order to achieve his own power? Even if he really wanted to do this, he should consider whether he could withstand the axe that opened the heavens.

Furthermore, powerful beings such as Hongjun, Luohou, Yangmei, Yin Yang, and Qiankun are not reincarnations of chaotic gods and demons as depicted in many prehistoric novels.

They may be related to the Chaos Gods and Demons, formed from the remnants of the Chaos Gods and Demons combined with different origins of the primordial world, but they are definitely not reincarnations of the Chaos Gods and Demons.

Because once a Great Luo Golden Immortal is certified, it is eternally certified, and this is even more true for those above the Great Luo level.

If they were reincarnations of chaotic gods and demons, they could easily leap several levels in a short time and would not be stuck at the peak of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. They would have already attained the Primordial Grand Luo realm, or even broken through to a higher realm.

As for the method of severing the three corpses, it has great flaws. The treasures entrusted to the three corpses need to be of the same origin to be united and break through to the Hunyuan Daluo realm.

After some deduction, he discovered that these defects did not exist at all.

The Great Dao is all-encompassing and all-inclusive. Although he had never practiced the method of severing the three corpses, he had some speculations about the final step of merging the three corpses into one.

One should use one's own path to integrate the Dao contained within the Three Corpses. If one can achieve a thorough understanding and allow one's own Great Dao to transform and sublimate, one can naturally unite the Three Corpses into one. If one cannot, then there is nothing more to say. If one is not capable, one should not blame the road for being uneven.

Therefore, the method of severing the three corpses requires not so much an innate spiritual treasure of the same origin, but rather an innate spiritual treasure that is in harmony with one's own Dao and complements one's own Dao.

Otherwise, if the Great Daos are contrary to each other, it would be extremely difficult to integrate the Daos carried by the Three Corpses with one's own Great Dao.

Furthermore, some people cite the fact that after the Lich War, apart from the Six Sages of Heaven and Houtu who attained enlightenment through merit, no one else was able to attain the Great Luo Primordial Dao through the Three Corpses Severing Technique, as proof that the Three Corpses Severing Technique is problematic.

But thinking about it carefully, it's not a problem!

Which innate deity in the primordial world dares to say that their origins and comprehension surpass those of Hongjun, Luohou, and Yangmei? Even the Three Pure Ones wouldn't dare to say that; at most, they would be on par with them.

Hongjun possesses the Creation Jade Disc, a supreme treasure for enlightenment, the Pangu Banner, a supreme treasure for the creation of the world, as well as a vast amount of innate spiritual treasures, and his fortune and blessings are extremely profound.

Even so, he first served as one of the main forces in the Great Tribulation of Ferocious Beasts, slaying the Beast King Shenni and gaining immense merit and fortune. Later, he won the battle between Dao and Demon in the Great Tribulation of Dragon and Han, obtaining immeasurable fortune. Only after enduring two great tribulations did he finally attain sainthood. (He should have attained the Great Luo Golden Immortal of Primordial Chaos before becoming a saint, but it's possible that the destruction of the Western Earth Veins prevented him from attaining the Great Luo Golden Immortal of Primordial Chaos.)

But why are there no great supernatural beings in the primordial world who have attained sainthood?

Aside from the fact that the preaching at Zixiao Palace cleared most of the obstacles on their path, allowing them to make rapid progress in a short period of time, in what aspect could they compare to Hongjun?

Whether preaching at Zixiao Palace can offset Hongjun's advantage of possessing the Jade Disc of Creation is still unknown. They have neither the Heavenly Dao nor the Earthly Dao to give them a cheat code, nor do they have great merit or great fortune. So how can they attain enlightenment in one or two kalpas?

Moreover, after the Lich King and the Investiture of the Gods, the prehistoric world became increasingly desolate and the environment became increasingly harsh. Without the help of merit and fortune, it was naturally even more difficult for them to attain the Great Luo Golden Immortal of Hunyuan.

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That is why he was unconvinced and did not doubt that all of this was Hongjun's conspiracy and scheme, and that he had the intention to compete for the Heavenly Dao Saint position.

As for why the prehistoric world declined further after Hongjun merged with the Dao, and whether there was some conspiracy involved, he didn't know.

We can only proceed cautiously and observe, without being swayed by biased opinions or viewing Hongjun through prejudiced lenses.

Of course, one should not have the heart to harm others, but one must be wary of others! Naturally, he would not trust Hongjun without reservation just because he felt that it was not a conspiracy or scheme by Hongjun!

What if Hongjun really lost his mind?

After pondering for a while, Yuan Yan immersed himself in the deduction, deducing the Three Corpses Severing Technique and the method that suited him to cultivate an independent Dao body.

At his level of cultivation, the most difficult part of deduce and create a supreme secret technique is no longer how to create it, but rather the thought process and direction.

Having read numerous prehistoric novels, Yuan Yan naturally had a deep understanding of the ideas and direction of the Three Corpses Severing Technique.

Although much of it was wrong, some of it was extremely helpful to him.

Soon, in less than ten cycles, Yuan Yan deduced a simplified version of the Three Corpses Severing Technique, which led to new speculations about Hongjun's version of the Three Corpses Severing Technique.

The Hongjun version of the Three Corpses Severing Technique requires not only a clear understanding of one's own good, evil, and attachments, but also a thorough understanding of them in order to successfully sever the three corpses.

Only by severing one corpse can one's mental cultivation greatly increase. Only by severing three corpses at the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm can one break through the bottleneck and advance to the Quasi-Saint realm.

But an obsession is an obsession because it is something that is hard to let go of or see through. If it were easy to let go of or see through, would it still be called an obsession?

Therefore, it is easy to sever good and evil, but difficult to sever attachment.

His simplified version of the Three Corpses Severing Technique only requires one to understand one's own attachment to good and evil, without needing to see through it.

Although it is easier to sever the three corpses without the restriction of cultivation level, it also means that there is no breakthrough in mental cultivation; one can only possess an independent three corpse Dao body.

In addition, the Hongjun version of the Three Corpses Severance, after understanding and seeing through the attachment to good and evil, entrusts it to the innate spiritual treasure and innate spiritual root, which can instantly sever the Three Corpses Dao Body.

However, his simplified version is not possible. He must clearly understand and sever his own three thoughts of good, evil, and attachment, and entrust them to innate spiritual treasures or innate spiritual roots. He must then slowly cultivate innate true spirit and innate primordial spirit on his own. Only after cultivating to a certain level can he transform into a Dao body.