Perfect World: The Path of Pure Source

Three thousand prefectures, where guests from beyond the borders arrive.

Three middle-aged men appeared, leading a group of men and women, looking down at the world below, seemingly sensing something carefully.

"So powerful! They must be either holy priests or gods. How can they cultivate so fast?" After observing closely, people discovered that all six young men and women possessed extraordinary bearing. Any one of them standing alone would be a dragon among men, with a rare temperament.

Furthermore, they all possess immortal energy!

This was the most shocking thing for the three thousand powerful figures of Daozhou. How difficult it was to cultivate immortal energy, yet these young people all possessed it? Just who were they?

After the six young people glanced around, one of them stepped forward and said, "I feel like I alone could sweep aside all the young people in this world. They're all so weak. It's terrible."

The blatant belittling, even if the language was incomprehensible, could be understood through the fluctuations of spiritual sense, immediately making the expressions of the cultivators present turn ugly.

"What a disappointment, they're too weak. Are the younger generation all ruined?" another woman said coldly, her face showing disdain.

Upon seeing this, the cultivators of the Three Thousand Dao Continents retorted indignantly, "So what if you've cultivated immortal energy? What's with the arrogance! The strongest young generation in our realm are all in the Ancient Immortal Realm! They've also cultivated immortal energy!"

"I've heard of that place. Only those below the Divine Realm can enter. They must all be minor cultivators. They think they can compare to us? They're far inferior." However, someone shook their head with a sneer.

Let alone divine fire, they have long since performed sacred rituals, even worshipping gods. The difference is unimaginable!

"We can go." Suddenly, the middle one of the three leaders spoke up. He then raised his hand and made a gesture, creating a void passage. He said, "The aura of the borderlands is coming from there. Perhaps it's the source of the leak. Let's go together."

The six young men and women exchanged glances, their bodies shrouded in ethereal energy. They suddenly smiled and said, "Interesting. Let's go check out this so-called Ancient Immortal Realm. Hopefully, the so-called geniuses here won't disappoint us, the so-called 'scions of noble families'!"

Meanwhile, within the Immortal Ancient Realm, at the Ancestral Temple of the Sacrificial Spirit Realm.

Yang Jian, Shi Hao, and Shi Yi sat cross-legged under the willow tree that the Willow God had transformed into. They were discussing the Dao, exploring the mysteries of the True God Realm, and the concepts of the Divine Path.

This is also the practice of the True One Realm. They need to do this to clarify their own path, and to go further through communication, deepening their understanding of the system.

"In my view, the three most important steps in the path of divinity—divine fire, true god, and heavenly god—can be seen as the recognition of the three realms of heaven, earth, and humanity, as well as the three selves of the true self and divine self," Yang Jian explained his views and philosophy.

The Divine Fire Realm represents the three realms of humanity and the three selves; this is the beginning of "enlightenment of divinity". Cultivators use their own will and the laws of the Dao as fuel to ignite the fire of life and achieve the leap from mortal to god. At this time, the god is a newly born, fragile, and full of potential self-divinity.

It is like a newly sprouted seed, possessing the potential and direction to become a god, but its essence is still "I want to become a god," and the key lies in igniting and establishing the original intention.

The True One Realm represents the land of the Three Powers and the true self of the Three Selves; this is the root of "Stabilizing the Spirit". After the divine fire burns and stabilizes, the cultivator must fuse the fluctuating divinity, complex Dao principles, and insights from cultivation into a single furnace to refine the unique, pure, and unshakable "True God Dao Fruit".

"You mean, in the Divine Fire Realm, cultivators are inclusive and comprehend various precious techniques and runes, so their divine fire may be impure. Upon entering the True One Realm, they must undergo a purification process." Shi Hao seemed to understand something upon hearing this, and Shi Yi beside him nodded in agreement. "It's about stripping away those foreign or secondary things that are inconsistent with one's fundamental path, like tempering steel a hundred times, removing impurities, and leaving only the most resilient and essential part."

Upon hearing this, Yang Jian clapped his hands and smiled. Indeed, this Dao Fruit is the embodiment of a cultivator's cultivation philosophy, determining their future path, which is to refine the false into the true!

The core of this realm is purity and uniqueness. True Oneness means preserving the one and keeping the truth, allowing one's cultivation path to condense from all possibilities into a true self. In summary, it can be summed up in four words: Only I am true!

"Brother Yang, Shi Yi, I also have an understanding of this. Please listen to what I have to say." Shi Hao also had a different opinion. He believed that the profound meaning of "one" lies in the unity of all things, which constructs the inner universe; one is the true manifestation; this one is not a single quantity, but a unity of system and a perfect wholeness of state.

"There's some truth to that. Your divine path has also given me some inspiration." Shi Yi also had his own views. He believed that True One could also be the ultimate unity of essence, energy, and spirit, perfectly integrating the physical body's blood and qi, the primordial spirit's spiritual light, and the divine power and fire of magic, with no distinction between them. Every move he made was a manifestation of the power of the life origin "True One," far surpassing the dispersed power of the Divine Fire Realm.

The three discussed and debated, expounding their own ideas, and finally reached a consensus: by being true to oneself, one can stand on the ground and move the heavens, and command the gods and communicate with them.

That is, after being tempered and refined, all confusion, hesitation and impurities are eliminated, leaving only the most original and firm original intention of cultivation, that "I"; it is the sublimation and crystallization of "self"; if the Divine Fire Realm is "I choose to become a god", then the True One Realm is "I define the essence of the god I have become".

Therefore, the mystery of the divine concept of True One Realm lies in the fact that it completes the key qualitative change of the cultivator from a user of power to power itself.

"The mystery of the divine way is just like this." In the end, the three of them smiled together, all of them having gained something and had a deep understanding.

Yang Jian slowly stood up, and the purple divine fire on his body began to boil, expanding behind him and gradually forming a place resembling an altar.

He pressed one hand to his third eye (the area between his eyebrows) and held the other palm upright in front of his chest, saying in a deep voice, "This is my divine path. I am the true god!"

This is the first solemn declaration of "My Way is against all Ways". Only by undergoing the tempering of the True One and transforming oneself into that pure "One" can one be qualified to pursue the Great Way of "One begets Two, Two begets Three, Three begets all things" in the subsequent realms of gods and even higher realms.

Clang! Like the sound of a morning bell and evening drum, all the cultivators in the Spirit Sacrifice Realm felt a sudden lightness in their heads, as if they had sensed something, yet were also bewildered and could only glance at the sky in confusion.

At this moment, on the divine fire altar behind Yang Jian, a deity was taking shape.

His appearance was exactly the same as his, with double pupils and a third eye between his eyebrows. He had a handsome face with divine majesty. To his left was a Kunpeng soaring in the sky, and to his right was a Nine Nether Hound swallowing the sun. He carried a golden bow and silver bullets to shoot at the divine stone. Three thousand gods and demons surrounded him and worshipped him, all calling out the wondrous path of Qingyuan!

"This is a Dao Fruit of the True God Realm that belongs to him alone. He has condensed his own True God, and his power is like the laws of heaven and earth." Shi Hao and Shi Yi stood quietly, watching all of this.

On that altar, three thousand gods and demons bowed in worship, while a single deity stood amidst the purple divine fire, truly unique, the true god!

The deity: His appearance was handsome and dignified, with ears reaching his shoulders and eyes shining brightly. He wore a crown adorned with three lotus flowers, and a flowing cloak wrapped around his body. Gold-embroidered boots were fitted with dragon pendants, and a jade belt embellished with eight treasures and floral patterns. He carried a golden bow and silver bullets shaped like a crescent moon, and held a three-pointed, double-edged spear.

This deity's true name is revealed, and his honorific title is: Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun!

"The wondrous path of Qingyuan reveals its divine power!"

Yang Jian shouted in a low voice, resonating with it. That was the foundation of his divine path, and also the name of the true god. Calling it would manifest his holiness and power.

Boom! The vast sacrificial realm trembled instantly, and a true god rose from among the mountains and valleys, his head reaching the nine heavens and his feet touching the ten earths, looking down upon the mortal world!