The Primordial Era: The Mythical Path Beginning with the Jie Sect

Chapter 102 Refining the Spirit to Return to Emptiness, a Realm Without End! Doumu is Born.

Meanwhile, Zhou Chen had finished refining the Heavenly Mirror, and its attribute had changed to "True". Not only was its original tracking ability enhanced, but after being integrated with Zhou Chen's Yang God power, it also mutated into a new ability.

A projection! In the image displayed by the Mirror of Heaven, a phantom avatar is projected, connecting with the user of the Mirror of Heaven, and transmitting what the avatar sees and hears into the user's own body.

Its function isn't very powerful, but it's very useful to Zhou Chen. This will be his supreme treasure for traveling through the heavens in the future.

Although it is an illusory avatar, it is connected to the original body. Although it is a teleportation of sights and sounds, as long as the connection is maintained, Zhou Chen has a way to "refine the illusory and restore the yang," and the avatar becomes the "true" body. Although it is not as powerful as the original body, it is ultimately a "true" existence.

In this vast world, you will not suffer any harm.

Moreover, this function also helped Zhou Chen find the next direction for his cultivation.

Refining essence into qi, forging the Dao embryo, the foundation of the Dao, and making the physical body eternal, thus forging the cornerstone of the Dao.

Refining Qi into Spirit, one achieves Yang Spirit, the true spirit is immortal, and the embryonic form of the Great Dao is created.

How does one cultivate the art of refining the spirit and returning to emptiness?
Refining the spirit to return to emptiness—what is emptiness?

"Xu" means not real, false!
We can't just turn the Yang spirit back to emptiness, can we?

That's not what I meant. If that were the case, what would be the point of cultivation?
The realm that Zhou Chen understands is a realm for strengthening one's own Great Dao, so why return to emptiness?

Because the Dao of a single world is finite, a single world cannot satisfy one's desire to obtain an infinitely powerful Dao.

That's why this realm exists to strengthen one's own path.

If one can only exist in one world, how can one expand one's own path?
Everyone has a different understanding of the Great Dao, and can create countless illusory incarnations to comprehend the laws of the world, and then make progress in their own Great Dao through countless subtle differences.

It would be even better if one could go to other worlds, as the laws of each world are different. After entering with an illusory avatar, one's own path to enlightenment would progress more rapidly.

The only difficulty is whether the avatar will betray you.

Don't think this is a joke. Although it is an illusory incarnation, it will still be connected with Zhou Chen. Otherwise, how could it enhance the concept of the Great Dao?

With contact, one can utilize Zhou Chen's ability to transform the fake into the real, turning oneself into a real being.

These incarnations are different from those in Fengdu; they do not possess Zhou Chen's true spirit.

Once it comes true, competing with Zhou Chen for ownership of the Conceptual Great Dao will be a real spectacle.

Therefore, Zhou Chen planned to use himself to cultivate this realm.

Realize that your true self is unique, and amidst the endless cycle of other selves, firmly believe in yourself, and understand that I am who I am, and other selves are me, and I am other selves, but other selves are not me.

Then it manifests as endless other selves, expanding its concept.

Every thought and action of the countless beings in the myriad realms will generate a timeline that is different from their current thought and action.

The "I" that exists in these different world timelines is the embodiment of the other self.

These other incarnations all originate from me, but they are not connected.

Once linked, these avatars can transform the false world into a real and authentic universe.

And by connecting these other self-avatars, Zhou Chen's conceptual Dao will continue to grow, growing stronger every moment.

At that time, Zhou Chen will achieve the coexistence of nothingness and existence, using his one true self to generate endless others, unify these endless others, strengthen his one true self, and endlessly grow stronger. Each next moment will always be more powerful than the last! And it will be infinite, without any limit!

As long as Zhou Chen continues to exist, he will continue to grow stronger, and he cannot predict how strong he will become in the future.

Moreover, if Zhou Chen were willing, countless others could appear in the blink of an eye, gradually grow, and eventually reach the level Zhou Chen is at in the future of the timeline, ultimately becoming one of Zhou Chen's sources of power.

Upon entering this realm, one will reach an extreme and terrifying level of power and the Great Dao.

Aside from cultivators at higher levels, Zhou Chen is invincible. Even the Great Dao can only temporarily suppress Zhou Chen, but cannot obliterate or permanently suppress him.

After determining his cultivation path, Zhou Chen retrieved the Heavenly Mirror and began experimenting with the method of "other self" to see if it was feasible.

In the blink of an eye, countless timelines spread out from Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen directly connected them using his Yang God, and the connection was completed very quickly.

"Hahahaha!" Zhou Chen burst into laughter. He could feel that after connecting the timelines, the world where his avatar was located became more real, and his own strength and conceptual Dao were also constantly increasing, which made him burst into laughter.

Then Zhou Chen stopped cultivating. His Yang God kept connecting with countless other versions of himself across extended timelines, which allowed him to continuously increase his strength. So what was the point of cultivating anymore?

Zhou Chen walked out of the Ziwei Palace with a smile.

"Oh! The busy man has come out of seclusion! Are you here to supervise the work of us poor working people?" Taizhen said sarcastically.

However, while she was speaking, countless timelines that she was unaware of were captured by Zhou Chen's Yang God, connected by the Yang God, and generated countless incarnations of himself.

Zhou Chen nodded in satisfaction, and then said to Tai Zhen, "Tai Zhen, what are you saying?"

Didn't I just come out right after I finished refining the Mirror of Heaven?

Besides, I completely trust you to get things done, so why would I need to supervise you?

"Hmph! That's hard to say!" Tai Zhen said arrogantly, her tone tinged with resentment.

It's not surprising that he was originally a top-tier, unrestrained, and powerful being from the primordial world, but he was tricked by Zhou Chen into becoming the Taiyin Star Lord for him.

That's fine, since it can integrate the power of Taiyin and help the Great Dao being cultivated.

However, the Ziwei Palace still had to be managed by Zhou Chen. Although Zhou Chen did not mistreat him and allowed him to take all the spiritual treasures and supernatural powers he wanted, it was still not a legitimate position and would attract criticism.

So it's normal for Taijin to have some resentment.

Zhou Chen thought about it and decided that Tai Zhen handled things quite well, so he might as well give her the position of Doumu Yuanjun.

As for Senior Sister Jinling, Zhou Chen went to Haotian to exchange for the Six Emperors' positions. In any case, the two Emperor positions of Gouchen and Qinghua were not occupied. He thought that with his own face and Senior Sister Jinling's cultivation, it would be enough to sway Haotian.

"Alright, I'm giving you the title of Doumu Yuanjun. These matters are now your responsibility, so don't complain in the future." As Zhou Chen spoke, he directly used the Ziwei authority to bestow the title of Doumu Yuanjun upon Taizhen Xiwangmu.

Suddenly, the stars shone brightly, as if celebrating the birth of Doumu!
"The Taiyin Star Lord's achievements are comparable to those of creation, and she is hereby specially conferred the title of Primordial Doumu Purple Light Golden Venerable Moli Pu Tian Dasheng Yuanming Daomu Tianzun, the Mother of all stars, in charge of all the true stars." Zhou Chen's majestic voice resounded throughout the ancient starry sky.

"Greetings, Doumu Yuanjun!" all the star lords shouted in unison.

(End of this chapter)