Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Time flies, and three thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Yuan Yan suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes filled with mysterious Dao fluctuations. He moved and lightly stepped on several nodes of the array, with mysterious Dao rhythm flowing through them.

"break!"

Yuan Yan let out a soft shout, pointed his right hand forward with two fingers, and a ray of yin-yang divine light shot out.

"Buzz!" The innate array covering billions of miles rippled out like water and disappeared in an instant.

At the same time, the treasures protected by the innate grand formation appeared before Yuan Yan.

This is an ancient mirror engraved with yin-yang symbols, cloud patterns, and the Eight Trigrams.

The ancient mirror shimmered with divine light, exuding a Taoist charm. The mirror was divided into two halves, one red and the other white. The red side shone with a warm, vibrant red light, full of life, while the white side shone with a cold, deathly white light.

"What a treasure!" Yuan Yan's eyes lit up. This mirror exuded an extremely profound Daoist aura of Yin and Yang, life and death, which perfectly matched his Dao.

Moreover, judging from its aura and Daoist charm, it is at least a high-grade innate spiritual treasure. After climbing Mount Buzhou for tens of thousands of years, he has finally gained something worthwhile.

With a thought, Yuan Yan raised his hand and took the ancient mirror into his hand. He immediately probed into it with his divine sense and initially imprinted his true spirit mark on it.

Instantly, Yuan Yan learned the origin, grade, and effects of the innate spiritual treasure before him.

This mirror is the Yin-Yang Mirror, a superior innate spiritual treasure containing the thirty-six innate divine restrictions, encompassing the great Dao of Yin and Yang, life and death, reincarnation, and cause and effect.

The Yin-Yang Mirror emits white light from its Yin side, locking onto cause and effect. Anyone who shines upon it will die instantly. It is specifically designed to annihilate the primordial spirit and true soul. Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would find it extremely difficult to resist without a defensive spiritual treasure.

The red light emanating from the sun can bring the dead back to life, heal injuries, and restore the physical body, primordial spirit, and even the true soul.

If activated simultaneously, it can evolve into the Light of Life and Death Reincarnation, possessing not only the abilities of both the Yin and Yang sides, but also several times more powerful.

"The Yin-Yang Mirror... Could this be the one that Yuanshi Tianzun bestowed upon his disciple, Chijingzi?" Yuan Yan wondered to himself.

If that's true, then the Yin-Yang Mirror must have been obtained by Yuanshi Tianzun when he climbed Buzhou Mountain, but because he was born prematurely, he intercepted it.

"Fine, whatever the case, this innate spiritual treasure is mine now! Although the Yin-Yang Mirror's offensive power is far inferior to the Hunyuan Wandao Gourd, its healing ability is a supplement to me, and being able to comprehend the laws and great Dao contained within it will also greatly benefit my evolution and perfection of my own Great Dao."

"I've only been climbing Mount Buzhou for tens of thousands of years, and I've already obtained such a treasure. Even if I don't continue to withstand Pangu's pressure, it will still take me at least two or three eons to reach the summit of Mount Buzhou. I wonder what other treasures I'll obtain next?"

Thinking to himself, Yuan Yan felt an overwhelming sense of anticipation. He put the Yin-Yang Mirror away for the time being and continued climbing Mount Buzhou.

Tens of thousands of years later, after traveling a long distance again, Yuan Yan could no longer withstand the increasingly terrifying and intense pressure from Pangu.

If he wants to continue moving forward, he can only use his innate divine status born from Buzhou Mountain to stop actively using his own way to draw upon Pangu's pressure and fight against it, so that Pangu's pressure will ignore him.

Sensing that he had reached his limit and that going too far would be counterproductive, Yuan Yan did not persist and stopped actively using his own Dao to draw upon Pangu's pressure.

Instantly, Yuan Yan felt a sense of lightness. The pressure from Pangu, which had been pressing down on his physical body and primordial spirit, on his own Great Dao, and on his innate immortal true spirit, suddenly disappeared. Although it still existed in Buzhou Mountain, it ignored him!

Without the oppressive force of Pangu, Yuan Yan was able to climb Mount Buzhou much faster.

Soon, in less than two cycles, they will be able to reach the summit of Mount Buzhou.

Suddenly, Yuan Yan paused slightly, stopped, and turned to walk to the right front.

Ten years later, following a mysterious force, Yuan Yan arrived near an ordinary-looking pool.

Upon arrival, a profound and mysterious Dao fluctuation rippled outwards like waves, manifesting a domain gate.

"What is this?" Yuan Yan was slightly startled, but after communicating with heaven and earth through his primordial spirit and deducing for a while, he understood!

The primordial world held an extremely high status, nurturing numerous innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots.

However, nurturing innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots is not something that can be done out of thin air. It requires not only the interaction of one or more Great Daos to varying degrees to condense the innate origin, but also a place rich in innate spiritual energy and Daoist charm as a nurturing ground.

These places of gestation are generally referred to as blessed lands and grotto-heavens. Among them, blessed lands are the locations of innate earth veins and spiritual caves, while grotto-heavens are small worlds.

For example, his birthplace, and the place where he obtained innate spiritual treasures and roots during his ascent of Mount Buzhou, are all locations of innate earth veins and spiritual caves, and can all be called blessed lands.

What he has encountered now is the entrance to a grotto-heaven, the true form of which is not on Mount Buzhou, but in the endless void.

Furthermore, the concept of a blessed land and a grotto-heaven is not what he originally thought. A grotto-heaven is superior to a blessed land, but there is no strict distinction between them. A grotto-heaven is not necessarily superior to a blessed land, and a blessed land is not necessarily better than a grotto-heaven. The distinction mainly depends on their respective rank.

For example, his birthplace is one of the core spiritual caves of the Buzhou Mountain ancestral vein, which can be called the most blessed land in the prehistoric world. It is estimated that there are not many cave heavens in the prehistoric world that can compare with it.

"A great opportunity!" Yuan Yan thought with delight.

Although there is no strict distinction between superior and inferior grotto-heavens and blessed lands, sensing the profound Daoist aura emanating from the grotto-heaven before him, he knew that this grotto-heaven was no ordinary place, and the innate spiritual treasures or innate spiritual roots nurtured within it were no ordinary places either; they were very likely to be top-grade innate spiritual treasures or top-grade innate spiritual roots.

Because the profound Daoist aura it exudes far surpasses that of the blessed land that nurtured the Yin-Yang Mirror, the innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots nurtured within it should naturally also far surpass those of the Yin-Yang Mirror.

The Yin-Yang Mirror is a top-grade innate spiritual treasure with thirty-six innate divine restrictions. There is nothing that can surpass it except for top-grade innate spiritual treasures and top-grade innate spiritual roots.

Moreover, this grotto-heaven is of a high grade, so it is naturally qualified to become his training ground.

As for his original birthplace?

Although it was a good place to be a dojo and qualified to be his dojo, he had made arrangements to prevent anyone from easily breaking in and taking over.

But what kind of place is Buzhou Mountain? It was the core of the future Lich War, and the Wu Clan even occupied Buzhou Mountain. After the Lich War, Gonggong even smashed Buzhou Mountain to pieces.

If a Taoist temple is set up on Buzhou Mountain in the future, there will definitely be endless troubles.

However, if this grotto-heaven is used as a place of practice, then it is different. Even if the entrance to this grotto-heaven is on Mount Buzhou, its true form is not there. In fact, it is in the endless void, so even if Mount Buzhou collapses, it will not be affected.

He could even change the entrance to the cave in the prehistoric world once his cultivation level is high enough.

The mysterious pull and sense of opportunity grew stronger, and Yuan Yan didn't hesitate. He then created an array at the entrance to conceal the entrance and the fluctuations of the Great Dao emanating from it, and stepped into the domain gate.