Man is in the heavens, parasites are born

Chapter 261 Absolute Transcendence
"After more than a million years of separation, and after achieving true primordial state, I caught up with the pace of you fellow Daoists. I never imagined that I would still not truly catch up with the pace of you fellow Daoists."

In a palace of the Heavenly Court, Jiangnan, who had attained the Dao and become the Primordial Beginning, was enveloped in perfect Dao light and spoke with a touch of emotion.

Now that Jiangnan has achieved the Primordial Beginning, he has formed his own path and completely transcended the Dao. He can interfere in matters within the Dao without suffering any backlash!

Within this vast palace of the Heavenly Court, there are powerful figures from various distant lands, who, or perhaps it is they themselves, are exchanging ideas here.

"I'm only slightly ahead. With your comprehension, you'll catch up quickly," Ye Fan said with a smile.

As it turns out, his judgment was correct. After Yuanshi Tianzun achieved the Primordial Beginning, he was indeed incredibly powerful, equivalent to having his own 'Dao'.

As he spoke, Ye Fan looked at Meng Qi and said, "Fellow villager, this is Jiangnan, Jiang Zichuan. Like you, I am also a 'Primordial Celestial Venerable' who recreated an era. You two are quite similar."

The ending in the first era did not change much. The Three Pure Ones achieved the Dao Fruit and then disappeared without a trace. Meng Qi, as the new Primordial Heavenly Venerable, recreated the era and opened the heavens anew.

After the rebirth of the era, and after careful consideration and analysis, Meng Qi realized that he was carrying too much on his shoulders, and that it would be almost impossible to transcend it by trying to achieve emptiness through reduction.

Decisively, after verifying the Dao of the Three Pure Ones, he embarked on the path of the Immortal Emperor, cultivating in seclusion in Fang Ming's myriad worlds, discussing the Dao with others, and finally establishing his own Dao.

Of course, this does not mean that he has attained the full extent of the 'Dao'. Even if he is only slightly off, it is equivalent to the infinite.

Seeing the levels of Ye Fan, Fang Ming, Shi Hao, and others, he understood that this path was definitely not bad, even if they couldn't reach the ultimate achievement.

The true realm of sacrificial rites is a level that is beyond comprehension, discussion, measurement, and observation.

At this moment, Fang Ming's myriad worlds had become the interconnected center of all heavens, where powerful beings frequently resided.

There are just too many powerful individuals here!

Looking at Jiang Nan, Meng Qi felt that the person in front of him had a similar feeling to his original teacher after he achieved the Dao Fruit, that sense of true perfection, that feeling called 'Dao Fruit'.

However, it seems to have a slightly different feeling, but it is undoubtedly the complete 'Tao', the feeling of having obtained all of the Tao.

"Is it because the methods of attaining enlightenment are different, resulting in different Dao fruits and thus different supernatural abilities..." Meng Qi thought to himself.

"Ha ha……"

Jiang Nan and Meng Qi exchanged a glance, smiled at the same time, and raised their teacups to toast each other.

After chatting with Meng Qi for a while, Jiang Nan came to Ye Fan and the others and said, "I thought that after achieving the Primordial Beginning and establishing my own Dao, I could lend a helping hand to you fellow Daoists, but now it seems that Zi Chuan was just being wishful."

After he emerged from seclusion and entered this world of myriad realms, he found Ye Fan and the others, and the thing he asked about was the enemy.

However, after seeing countless primordial lands and countless high-altitude, harsh soils, Jiangnan shook his head helplessly.

I can't handle this myself, at least not right now.

"It's fine if you're willing, fellow Daoist." Ye Fan didn't mind and said, "Fellow Daoist, just rest assured and leave this matter to us."

Hearing Ye Fan's words, Jiang Nan sighed. He knew that he might not be able to make it to that final battle.

Offering sacrifices requires waiting for that feeling; it's not something to be done haphazardly. Even if he had attained the 'Tao,' he wouldn't dare to act recklessly. There's no precedent for this, and nobody knows what will happen.

Moreover, if the Dao sacrifice is not successfully performed next, the number of Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits that can bear all of the Dao will ultimately be limited, and the final impact cannot be launched.

Relatively speaking, he is only now known as the 'Primordial Beginning' and has attained the 'Dao' of the Immortal Emperor. It may take him some time to grasp that feeling.

Even he himself couldn't be sure when he would be able to grasp that feeling.

However, it is certain that once one embarks on this path, any Immortal Emperor will be able to clearly understand what that feeling is all about.

Jiangnan came here precisely to enter a foreign land that is outside the Dao for him through Fang Ming's myriad worlds, either to expand and broaden the scope of his Primordial Dao Fruit, or to cultivate more Dao Fruits of other foreign lands.

This small gathering did not last long. The powerful figures from various out-of-towns were just passing through the area and only stayed to exchange a few words after meeting.

At this moment, they may be entering other foreign lands to detain information from heretical sects, or they may be traveling to the realms within those heretical sects.

After everyone left, Fang Ming opened his attribute panel.

Host: Fang Ming

Race: ? (You cannot be defined.)
Cultivation Level: Relative Transcender (Incredible, you have relatively transcended a portion of the complete 'Dao'.)
The portal to the celestial realms can open at any time, indefinitely. (Given your current strength, the interface will no longer impose any restrictions on you.)
“If there is relative transcendence, then there is also ‘absolute transcendence’.” Fang Ming looked at the increasingly rudimentary attribute panel and suddenly understood something.

Relative transcendence is merely transcending a portion of the complete and perfect 'Dao', while absolute transcendence must transcend all the 'Dao' contained within it, regardless of how many heavenly realms one opens.

"Is the level above the Path of Sacrifice 'absolute transcendence'?" Fang Ming thought to himself. The various characteristics of the Path of Sacrifice did indeed somewhat conform to the meaning of the so-called 'absolute transcendence'.

However, it's always hard for those in lower positions to imagine the existence of those in higher positions. Whether this is true or not, Fang Ming can only think about it and wait for future verification.

Finally, Fang Ming's gaze fell on the last item, and he thought to himself, "In other words, the previous restrictions were actually a form of protection!"

At Fang Ming's current level, with the increasing number of times he truly performs Dao sacrifices, the number of Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits he can obtain from the Dao becomes increasingly terrifying.

The speed at which the gates to the heavens open would actually hinder their growth. Now that there are no restrictions, it's actually a great thing.

With the restrictions on the gates of the myriad realms lifted, a large number of gates of the myriad realms opened, and Fang Ming, Shi Hao, Ye Fan, Ruthless Man, Wu Shi and others who truly stepped into the path of sacrifice and entered the level of 'relative transcendence' released the information of the heretics from other places.

They split into countless parts and began their cultivation.

The goal is to achieve the leap from Dao Ancestor to Immortal Emperor in the shortest possible time, thereby increasing the number of Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits obtained by the Dao to an unattainable level.

More than three million years have passed, and Shi Hao was the first to reach that point. He used the Great Law of Transformation to create countless incarnations and placed them in countless foreign lands. On this day, he retrieved them.

Countless beings, having attained all that is 'Dao' and thus established their own Dao, Shi Hao, who became an Immortal Emperor, walked over and merged into the indescribable, incomprehensible, and unobservable full moon above his head.

This is not his original Dao Fruit, but the Dao Fruit he obtained through cultivation of his separate bodies. It has long been integrated into his original body and is now manifesting externally.

What appears to be a full, round moon is actually the Dao Fruit of countless Immortal Emperors who have attained the full extent of the Dao.

At this moment, within that truly perfect, indescribable full moon, countless Immortal Emperors, who had attained all of the 'Dao,' reflected each other, undergoing wondrous changes.

At this moment, the finite number of Dao Fruits transformed into an infinite number of Dao Fruits, which were then unified. After unification, it was enhanced by an unimaginable multiple. After that, an infinite number of Dao Fruits of the same magnitude were born, which were then merged together to become an even stronger one...

This is an endless cycle, repeating itself without end, just like the cycle of the birth of the Immortal Emperor.

The whole process was very calm, with no scary atmosphere revealed, and everything seemed to happen naturally.

It's also possible that Shi Hao, at this point, hasn't truly taken the final, and most intense, step yet.

If I had to describe it, this current state already contains everything; it is the ultimate form of 'having'.

Although those present could not sense any terrifying aura, they understood that Shi Hao was different from before.

But everyone understands that Shi Hao is different now, possessing both the ultimate 'having' and the relative 'nothingness'.

The next step, and the final step, is to launch the most ferocious attack. If successful, it will mean completely transcending 'existence' and 'non-existence,' surpassing everything.

Soon, Shi Hao opened his eyes, looked at the people around him, and calmly said, "Just like the ritual, the final step also requires a trigger."

A single Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit, which embodies all the essence of the Dao, is already terrifyingly potent when used in a Dao sacrifice. Now, with such an unimaginable number being used in a single Dao sacrifice, the power would be unimaginably terrifying!

As he spoke, he looked at the original primordial land and said, "Now we can be certain that the power of a true transcendent being does indeed remain in the high plateau of Calamity."

“Even if the opportunity comes, in the final step, we must take that land of calamity with us on our journey to break through the barrier.” Shi Hao said to Fang Ming with a slight apology, “Fellow Daoist, we agreed to help you devour the plateau, but it seems we may have to break our promise now.”

At their level, what they see can be one, or it can be infinite.

If they are determined, they will drag all these primordial lands and all the strange plateaus onto their journey.

“But that’s not necessarily true.” At this moment, Shi Hao continued, “We have performed countless rituals to cleanse the Dao, and we will try our best to remove the pollution from that power that surpasses all others. Fellow Daoist, you can take this opportunity to act.”

“No need to worry. After many true rituals, it has acquired some similar power to shatter that consciousness and can devour it,” Shi Hao said solemnly.

"It's alright, everyone just needs to go through the trials, the devouring of the plateau isn't the point." Fang Ming didn't care at all.

He just wanted to see if Ruthless Wushi could succeed.

As for Shi Hao, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng, they are not important. No matter how these three try, they will succeed.

Shortly after Shi Hao reached this point, Ye Fan followed suit.

Following closely behind, Ruthless Man also reached this level, followed by Fang Ming, Wu Shi, and Liu Shen.

Finally, after waiting for hundreds of thousands of years for the right opportunity, Chu Feng also reached this point.

After Fang Ming reached this point, his long-stagnant myriad worlds began to evolve further.

(End of this chapter)