Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Great Luo Golden Immortal: To break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, one must first comprehend one's own Dao from the laws one has grasped. Once one comprehends one's own Dao and perfects it to a certain degree, one can transform the Taiyi Dao Fruit into the Great Luo Dao Fruit.

Then, by nurturing the innate true spirit with the Great Luo Dao Fruit, the innate true spirit can be transformed into an innate immortal true spirit. After imprinting one's own Dao on heaven and earth, converging the timeline, and transcending the river of time, one can break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

The cultivation of a Great Luo Golden Immortal is actually the continuous comprehension of laws and the Great Dao, and the evolution and perfection of one's own path.

Hunyuan Golden Immortal: In his lineage, there are not many things related to Hunyuan Golden Immortal, only this realm name, as is Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.

"I have fully comprehended fifty laws, reached minor or major mastery of hundreds of laws, and grasped the basics of all three thousand laws. I have also nurtured the Taiyi Dao Fruit to its fullest extent."

"Continuing to comprehend and understand more laws will not be of much benefit to my cultivation. Moreover, how can the efficiency of a Taiyi Golden Immortal in comprehending laws compare to that of a Daluo Golden Immortal?"

"Therefore, what is most important for me now is not to comprehend more laws, but to understand my own Dao, and then to perfect my own Dao, so that the Taiyi Dao Fruit can be transformed into the Daluo Dao Fruit, and I can break through to the Daluo Golden Immortal."

"However, how can I comprehend my own path? What is my path? Yin and Yang? Or the Five Elements? Do I now need to delve deeper into the study of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, to comprehend the Way of Yin and Yang and the Way of the Five Elements?"

"No, that's not right. If one continues to delve deeper into the understanding of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, even if one comprehends the Great Dao of Yin and Yang or the Great Dao of the Five Elements, that is not one's own path, but the Dao of Heaven and Earth."

After pondering for a long time, Yuan Yan still couldn't understand!

Suddenly, Yuan Yan had a flash of inspiration. He thought of the Dao of many powerful figures in the prehistoric world. He had read about the Dao in some fantasy novels, and gradually a sense of enlightenment arose in his heart.

The origins of Hongjun and Luohou are unknown, but their paths are undoubtedly the paths of immortals and demons. This is a concept and a cultivation system, through which they expound and evolve their understanding of everything in the world.

The Ancestral Dragon's true form was a primordial nine-clawed golden dragon. His Dao was the Dao of the Dragon, which was both a philosophy and a clan's way. He used this to expound and evolve his understanding of everything in the world.

Nuwa belongs to the innate Lesser Yin Qi, and Fuxi belongs to the innate Lesser Yang Qi, but their Dao is respectively Creation and Bagua. Although the primordial world originally had the Dao of Creation and the Dao of Bagua, they must have developed their own Dao. They should have used Creation and Bagua to explain and evolve their understanding of everything in the world.

For example, the Yellow River is a river, the Milky Way is a river, and the river of time and the river of destiny are also rivers. Different beings have different understandings of rivers, so even if they all walk the same path, they will have different experiences.

In fantasy novels, there are also the ways of swords, knives, spears, and zithers... This is about using objects as the basis for understanding, using a particular object to illustrate and evolve their understanding of everything in the world.

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Therefore, it is clear that there is no single way to forge one's own path; there are many different methods. It can be a concept, a cultivation system, an object, or even a Dao that already exists between heaven and earth... The key is to articulate and evolve one's understanding of everything in the world.

"Then, what should my path be?"

"A philosophy? For example, Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, the Red Sect... or a cultivation system, such as martial arts, the Way of the Gods... or an object, such as swords and spears... or a Dao that inherently exists in the universe, such as Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, reincarnation, chaos..."

After pondering and deducing for a long time, Yuan Yan gradually came to several ideas:

Firstly, his way may be represented by Yin and Yang, using Yin and Yang to explain his understanding of everything in the world and to expound his philosophy. For example, life and death are Yin and Yang, the Five Elements are Yin and Yang, withering and flourishing are Yin and Yang... All oppositions, mutual constraints, mutual dependence, mutual use, waxing and waning, and mutual transformation are Yin and Yang.

Secondly, his path may be reincarnation, through which he explains his understanding of everything in the world and his philosophy. What is reincarnation? Cycle! Everything in the world is in a cycle, from the small things like flowers blooming and withering, life and death, prosperity and decline, to the medium things like the birth and death of the universe, to the large things like the cycle of existence and non-existence.

Thirdly, the Way of the World: to create a world, to evolve according to his ideas, to carry his understanding of everything in the world, and to carry his philosophy.

Fourthly, the way of the mind: the mind is infinitely large, I think, therefore I am, everything is mind, and one uses the mind to explain and evolve one's understanding of everything in the world.

Of these four different paths, the first one best suits his innate abilities. If he were to follow this path, his cultivation progress would likely be the fastest.

The second path is also quite compatible with his innate origin, and he may be able to use it to plan the Six Paths of Reincarnation in the prehistoric world and achieve enlightenment in the future. However, there are also great risks involved, as the Six Paths of Reincarnation may be a private reserve left by Pangu for Houtu and the Wu tribe.

The third path also aligns well with his innate origin, but its future is equally uncertain. He may achieve nothing for countless eons, or he may transcend.

The fourth path seems powerful, but its compatibility with his innate origin is too low. He has too little understanding of the relevant laws, so he cannot follow this path at all. To follow it, he needs to first comprehend the relevant laws.

"Which path should I choose?" Yuan Yan hesitated in his heart.

He hesitated for only a moment before giving up the fourth path. If he really took this path, he might fall far behind the top innate saints of his generation. If he really fell far behind, what would he use to compete with them for the opportunity to prove the Dao?

"It's so hard to choose! If I could choose both, I wouldn't be in such a dilemma!" Yuan Yan thought to himself.

"Wait, choose all of them?" Yuan Yan's eyes lit up. "Can I walk down three different paths at the same time? What would happen if I did? I should be invincible among those of the same level!"

Of course, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. While walking three different paths at the same time would make him invincible among his peers, it would also take far longer than walking only one path.

However, if he doesn't aim to pursue three different paths simultaneously, but instead focuses on one main path and two auxiliary paths, while he may no longer have the advantage of being invincible among his peers, the time required should be comparable to that of pursuing only one path.

As for whether there would be any other problems, he had a gut feeling that there probably wouldn't be!

Moreover, he remembered that the Dao of Tongtian, besides intercepting the heavens, also included swords and formations; and the Dao of Yuanshi, besides expounding the heavens, also included artifacts…

They all walked down several different paths at the same time. Although it was likely that one path was the main one and the other was secondary, there were no problems. How could he have a problem?

With this thought in mind, Yuan Yan immediately made up his mind to embark on three different paths at the same time, and even to embark on the path of the mind when he has accumulated enough foundation in the future.

As for whether multiple paths will advance in parallel, or whether one path will be primary and the others secondary, and which path will be primary and the others secondary, that depends on future fortune.

Having made his decision, Yuan Yan continued to maintain his original form, connected with the innate gourd vine, continuing to nurture the Hunyuan Wandao Gourd, and allowing the innate gourd vine to absorb innate spiritual energy and Daoist inspiration to restore its innate origin. At the same time, he immersed all his mind in the opening and evolution of his own Dao.