Above the Great Dao

Chapter 1086 493: The First Immortal of the New Method

"My father is a hopeless gambler, and he sold me! Actually, I never passed my master's assessment; my master bought me, and the Child Scholar incident happened. He didn't have time to assess me, so he took me in a hurry to Xinxiang! If I had been assessed with thousands of other children, I might not have passed!"

"My master cut out the Innate Dao Embryo from the Child Scholar and had no choice but to transplant it into me! I became a disciple of Despair Slope through my master's cheating!"

"My name is not Zhong Wuwang; I am Zhong Erniu, the gambler's son that everyone looks down upon! My father lost all his life and amounted to nothing! I will be just like my father, losing all my life and becoming nothing!"

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He cried for a long time before stopping, his heart filled with despair as he slowly stood up.

"I am not as good as Chen Shi, nor as good as Yang Bi. I am not even worthy of carrying their shoes. I am just a waste."

Tears hung on his face, and he laughed softly, "I must admit, I am not a genius; I am just an average person, not even as good as an average person! I will go see Chen Shi now and return the Innate Dao Embryo to him..."

He walked out of the True God Dojo in dismay, looking back nostalgically, full of sorrow.

Just as he turned his head, a sudden flash of inspiration struck his mind.

Zhong Wuwang stood still, muttering, "True God Dojo, Harmonization and Immortality... Why does the True God Dojo have no trace of evil qi? Why can the True God Dojo achieve Harmonization and Immortality?"

His spirit was invigorated, and his thoughts spun faster and faster: "Back then, the True King came to Despair Slope, and the Heavenly Venerate told him that crossing tribulation to ascend would lead to evil transformation. The True King was bold enough to abolish his cultivation and created a new method. The True God granted the True King the Innate Dao Embryo; at this time, the True King was the True God's backup weapon to deal with the Heavenly Venerate! The Innate Dao Embryo is equivalent to a small True God!"

"This backup given by the True God to the True King is actually a path to immortality, the fifth path to immortality! In other words, the Innate Dao Embryo itself is the fifth path!"

He looked at the vastness of the True God Dojo ahead of him and suddenly realized that the fifth path is a road that can only be refined by having the Innate Dao Embryo!

This path uses the Innate Dao Embryo to cultivate one's own True God Dojo!

"This world is already polluted by evil qi; harmonizing with heaven and earth is bound to be invaded by evil qi, and evil transformation is inevitable. Chen Shi's Yin Yang Refining only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. The true immortal dao is of great power returning to oneself. I must prove my dao by myself and not harmonize with the outside. Just like this True God Dojo, outsiders may harmonize with me, but I do not harmonize with the outside."

He observed the True God Dojo, his gaze flickering, "I can't help others, so I can only save myself. Does the Heavenly Venerate know about this path? He probably knows. But he didn't tell me. He wanted me to leave Despair Slope to find the answer. He wanted to avoid me gaining insight when I saw the True God Dojo!"

Previously, he was only observing the small world of Daoist immortals harmonizing with the Heavenly Dao here, but now he was observing the entirety of the True God Dojo.

This path is different from Chen Shi's Skull Body's old method of crossing tribulations, and it's different from Lady Shao's new tribulation crossing path. It is a path that crosses directly through the Tribulation Crossing Realm and the Ascension Realm, directly harmonizing!

With the flawlessness of my own daoist skill, harmonize with myself, maintain myself as a pure land untainted by evil transformation.

He suddenly felt a profound realization!

He used to think only of harmonization with the external world, but never thought of refining his own Void Great Realm into a True God Dojo, harmonizing with himself, not seeking outside.

Zhong Wuwang walked out of Despair Slope, coming to the outside world, to the Red Frost River in Heavenly Dao City.

He stood on the bridgehead, hands on the railing, looking down the bridge.

On the river surface, boats sailed out from the bridge hole, some carrying cargo, some carrying passengers.

"Heavenly Dao City, I will gain the Heavenly Dao here!"

Zhong Wuwang's thoughts moved slightly, raising the Innate Dao Embryo, standing in the void, using the Dao Embryo as the Primordial Spirit, pouring all his mana, and opened up a Void Great Realm.

This great realm is his True God Dojo!

When this dojo is successfully opened, Zhong Wuwang's physical body, primordial spirit, and daoist embryo great realm, will become one.

He maneuvered mysterious skill, using the Dao Embryo as the foundation, with the physical body and primordial spirit void great realm as support, concentrating on cultivation.

The immortal of heaven and other Daoist immortals were busy and worried, looking for the information of Lady Shao and Dragon Traveling Wanderer.

These four had all crossed tribulations in the same place, but before crossing tribulations, the four had disappeared for a long time. Logically, they should have exhausted their life spans long ago and died away, but unexpectedly, all four crossed tribulations almost simultaneously!

After a long time, they finally found records of Lady Shao, Dragon Traveling Wanderer, and others, but the records from Heaven Listeners about these four were minimal, only recording some fragmentary information about them.

"We don't know if these four will undergo evil transformation after crossing tribulation."

All the Daoist immortals gathered, discussing countermeasures, Keo Immortal said, "If they undergo evil transformation, they will surely attract the Demon City, recruiting them into the Demon City. There are many experts in the Demon City, besides the Great Sacrificial Wine, there are many disasters, extremely powerful!"

Autumn Fairy said, "Feng Daoist is chasing the Great Sacrificial Wine and has not returned."

"Feng Daoist alone is not enough to handle this matter. Behind the Demon City, there is an unfathomable Demon Emperor, whose strength should not be underestimated."

Keo Immortal said, "The Heavenly Venerate returned to Despair Slope a few days ago, leaving no one to hold back the Demon Emperor, I'm worried about Feng Daoist's safety. How about this, we split into two groups, one stays behind to guard Despair Slope, the other goes to Qianyang Mountain, in case of emergencies. If these four undergo evil transformation, it will be convenient to deal with them."

Everyone looked at each other and silently nodded.

As they were speaking, Lady Shao completed her tribulation crossing, and everyone quickly focused on the copper mirror, which displayed Lady Shao's tribulation crossing scene.

The tribulation clouds dispersed, and Lady Shao did not undergo evil transformation, she was still perfectly fine.

In Lady Shao's Void Great Realm, a strand of Immortal Light appeared, accompanied by threads of Immortal Qi that descended.

The Daoist immortals each frowned, not understanding why this situation occurred.

"Did she suppress the evil transformation?"

While they were pondering, Dragon Traveling Wanderer's tribulation crossing also reached its end.

They waited for a moment, and when the Heavenly Tribulation ended, Dragon Traveling Wanderer also did not undergo evil transformation, just like Lady Shao.

Each of the Daoist immortals frowned, yet they saw that both Mu Daozi's and Pei Sanren's Heavenly Tribulations were also coming to an end, neither of them undergoing evil transformation!

Gong Wanqing suddenly said, "The True King's new method has succeeded."

All the present Daoist immortals were each in a daze, not knowing whether to feel sad or happy.

The new method, one can become an immortal now.

Since the True King created the new method, ten thousand years have passed.

Back when the True King first came to Despair Slope, he declared boldly, announcing to create a new path allowing cultivators to become immortals without undergoing evil transformation.

Over these millennia, countless outstanding geniuses and heroic figures, full of grand aspirations, attempted to break through and cultivate into new method immortals, yet none could surpass the Mahayana Realm.

Even as strong as the True King, he did not take this step.

Mahayana Realm cultivators only have a hundred years of life span, a hundred years of life span is simply not enough to accumulate strong cultivation. Even if they accumulated enough cultivation, they could not directly step from the Mahayana Realm into the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Now, finally someone has, from the foundation of the Mahayana Realm, taken the first step.

"With the new method achieved, there should be no despair anymore, right?"

Flat Immortal murmured, "We can also stop being Daoist immortals, we can also cultivate the new method and become true immortals. Isn't that right?"

No one answered him.

They felt a hundred mixed emotions; Daoist immortals were merely immortals of the True God Dojo, not counted as true immortals. To become immortals, they still had to walk the new method.

Now that someone had blazed this trail and verified the feasibility of the new method, how could they not be excited?

At this moment, they felt another strange wave coming, causing them to be moved.

The fifth person was about to cross tribulation!

"No, it's not like a Heavenly Dao change caused by tribulation crossing!"

Keo Immortal, with the highest cultivation, couldn't help but change his expression at this moment and exclaimed, "This person is about to harmonize and become an immortal!"

They hurriedly went to the altar of the Universal Sacrifice, expanding copper mirrors, searching for the source of the Heavenly Dao change.

After a while, the scene at the bridgehead of Red Frost River in Heavenly Dao City appeared in the mirror.

Zhong Wuwang stood there, appearing no different from usual.

They sensed no evil qi from him, nor any heavenly tribulation, but he was indeed harmonizing.

Keo Immortal asked in confusion, "How did he do it?"

The other Daoist immortals were also bewildered.

At that moment, the voice of the Heavenly Venerate came from behind them: "The first immortal of the new method has finally appeared. The Innate Dao Embryo is truly remarkable."

They turned to see the Heavenly Venerate approaching, his gaze falling on Zhong Wuwang in the copper mirror, smiling, "Good child, Wuwang is such a good child... He didn't let me down."