My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

The shock and impact of this event plunged the entire prehistoric world into chaos and astonishment, to the point that everyone forgot to investigate how Luo Hou and the others escaped from the River of True Spirits.

The truth, however, is not as simple as it seems. In reality, it was all a meticulously planned scheme by Taiqing to pave the way for Zhao Xuan.

Based on his understanding of the laws of space and time, Zhao Xuan delved into the things he did in the True Spirit River.

This plan was devised by Taiqing.

Although Taiqing was a sage of the Heavenly Dao, he could not openly defy the Dao Ancestor's will to directly disrupt the Journey to the West.

After all, the Journey to the West is the embodiment of the Dao Ancestor's will, and anyone who dares to challenge the Dao Ancestor's authority will be severely punished.

However, Taiqing's wisdom was in no way inferior to that of Daozu, and could even be said to be on par.

However, as a Heavenly Saint, Taiqing's every move is under the surveillance of the Heavenly Dao. In other words, he can only go with the flow in many situations, and finds it difficult to proactively create a completely new situation.

In the primordial world, although the Heavenly Dao appears to be formless and without substance, it actually has a concrete form.

This is why even the laws of nature are not immune to selfish desires and ulterior motives. Thus, while some minor changes in the situation may be influenced by human intervention, the massive trends that determine the fate of the entire world are by no means easily altered by human power.

So, what exactly is this so-called "general trend"?

The answer is: the development of all things in the world follows the inevitable process of rise, prosperity, decline and eventual demise, which is an unshakeable and absolute trend.

After the great god Pangu created heaven and earth with his supreme divine power, he established the Way of the Great Tribulations, which aimed to guide the entire primordial world along this predetermined path, ultimately leading to the destiny of alternating cycles of prosperity and decline.

Even something as powerful as the will of Heaven cannot defy this grand scheme originating from the will of Pangu.

However, the will of Heaven ultimately represents the common desire of all living beings!

In the vast, mysterious universe, all things in heaven and earth contain a trace of life and change.

Pangu, who created the world, was merely a Primordial Taiji Golden Immortal. Deep within the Primordial Chaos, there existed an even more powerful will, and Pangu had to act according to their will.

After Pangu transformed his own body into the primordial world, he meticulously planned and implemented a series of great calamities, aiming to propel the primordial world through numerous trials and tribulations, gradually moving towards a state of disorder and emptiness, and ultimately achieving the Great Luo Golden Immortal path of the Primordial Boundless Realm.

However, even Pangu did not expect that the myriad spirits of the laws would transform the power of order into the Heavenly Dao, attempting to prevent Pangu from successfully attaining enlightenment.

All of this stemmed from a severe test posed to Pangu by a higher level of will.

As for the so-called "small trends can be changed", it is actually not difficult to understand.

The will of Heaven appeared relatively late in the primordial world, and it was not the only force that controlled the overall situation.

In reality, the core will that truly governs the primordial world still originates from Pangu. This is why some beings bear the destiny set by Pangu.

Even if they are caught in the trap set by the Heavenly Dao and have formed a deep karmic entanglement with it, these people who are destined by Heaven may still be able to maneuver between the power of Pangu and the power of the Heavenly Dao and gain benefits from it.

In other words, they were able to keep the Pangu trend and the Heavenly Dao trend moving forward, but they could not make them reach the perfect state originally set out.

This is the truth behind the saying that minor trends can be changed, but major trends are irreversible.

This is the only way for living beings to survive in the gap between the will of Heaven and the will of Pangu.

Therefore, it is not difficult to perceive that in the primordial world, those powerful beings who possess extraordinary abilities, despite their supernatural powers being so great that they surpass ordinary people, are still filled with various human desires deep in their hearts.

These deities, apart from possessing extraordinary supernatural powers, are actually no different from ordinary mortals.

Among the many people who know how to adapt to the times and seek their own interests, Taiqing stands out the most.

As the creator of the Yin and Yang in both the human and immortal realms, Taiqing naturally dared not get too deeply involved with the karma of the primordial world. He was extremely cautious in his actions, fearing that the slightest carelessness would attract the attention of the primordial will.

Surprisingly, this creator of Yin and Yang possessed the body of Taiqing Laozi, who was born from the pure energy of Pangu. After taking human form, he formed a huge karmic bond with Pangu.

Therefore, when Taiqing realized that he was very likely to become a pawn in Pangu's hands, he made a decisive move, quickly changed his stance, and joined the side of Heaven, becoming a Heavenly Saint.

In this way, Taiqing was able to maneuver between the two forces with ease and achieve success on both sides. Although she was never able to completely escape the fate of being a pawn, she had at least become a key pawn that both sides had to protect with all their might.

As for Rahu, who engaged in a fierce battle with Taiqing, the situation is actually quite complicated. To some extent, he is Rahu, but he is not entirely the same Rahu that people are familiar with.

Ever since Zhao Xuan realized that he could strengthen his own mythological laws by witnessing the figures in mythology, he has been deep in thought.

After some investigation, he discovered that the number of mythological figures that could be contained within the Journey to the West era was indeed limited. This meant that if he were limited to the Journey to the West period, the number of mythological figures he could access would be limited as well.

Left with no other choice, Zhao Xuan had to find another way.

He began to carefully search for clues left over from the past, hoping to make connections with mythical figures of yesteryear.

However, to his dismay, these scattered clues revealed very little useful information, and their influence on the mythological laws weakened over time.

Faced with such a predicament, Zhao Xuan did not give up easily.

After racking his brains, a flash of inspiration struck him, and the words "true spirit" appeared in his mind.

It is important to know that in the primordial world, the true spirit contains almost all the key information of a cultivator.

If one can successfully find the place where the true spirits of the primordial world exist, then it is possible to delve deeper into these true spirits and obtain more valuable information about those legendary mythological figures.

Once this goal is achieved, it will undoubtedly greatly promote the further enhancement of his own mythological laws.

In other words, the protagonist of the fierce battle in Taiqing was not the real Rahu at all, but the Rahu body that Zhao Xuan transformed using the laws of mythology.

This is why Luo Hou possesses the Four Swords of Zhuxian and the Zhuxian Sword Diagram. These were all manifested by Zhao Xuan using the laws of mythology and his own Xuanhuang matter.

Compared to the original Four Swords of Zhuxian, the Four Swords of Zhuxian manifested by Zhao Xuan lacked the innate immortal spiritual light, but in other aspects they were exactly the same as the original.

Of course, those true spirits that originally existed in the River of True Spirits are still safely there, but Zhao Xuan has concealed their information and moved it to another place.

As time went by, after Zhao Xuan's mythical laws successfully transformed into primordial laws, his strength was already comparable to that of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

In addition, Zhao Xuan had previously analyzed almost all of Taiqing's information in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, so even if the Taiqing Saint went all out and held nothing back, Zhao Xuan was still able to contend with him and fight to a standstill.

Because of this, even the three corpse clones left behind by the sage were completely unaware that the Taiqing Sage had actually been secretly cooperating with Zhao Xuan.

As for why he didn't actually release Luo Hou and the others, Zhao Xuan made this decision after careful consideration.

When he found the true spirits of Rahu and the others, he unexpectedly discovered the mark left by the Heavenly Dao.

In other words, if these people successfully escape the River of True Spirits, they will inevitably be detected by the Heavenly Dao immediately.

It should be understood that although Rahu and others were famous and powerful during their lifetimes, they were actually nothing special.

The saying "below the sage are all ants" is by no means just empty talk.

Therefore, even if these people are able to be reborn, they will likely only face ruthless suppression once again.

Since that's the case, it would be better for Zhao Xuan to act and conduct business under these people's names. In this way, it would neither arouse the vigilance and attention of the Heavenly Dao, nor would it leave those high and mighty saints helpless.

Back then, Zhao Xuan transformed into the form of the Candle Dragon, causing a change in the heavens and earth, which attracted the Heavenly Dao to investigate.

However, during that brief encounter with the Eye of Heaven, Zhao Xuan keenly sensed a hint of fatigue in the Eye of Heaven, and from this, he deeply analyzed and deduced that the Dao Ancestor and the Heavenly Dao were currently in an extremely critical and delicate stage.

After communicating with the Sage of Taiqing, Zhao Xuan learned that the Dao Ancestor and the Heavenly Dao were about to fully merge. At that time, the Dao Ancestor would be able to fully control the power of the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao would be able to completely stabilize the prehistoric world through the Dao Ancestor.

For this reason, the Dao Ancestor resolutely launched an earth-shattering war against the human and immortal realms.

One of its purposes was to transfer those high-ranking Heavenly Saints away from the vast and boundless primordial land.

However, the Dao Ancestor was always far-sighted, and all his actions were multifaceted. This great war not only successfully weakened the power of the Heavenly Dao, but also cleverly guided the prehistoric cultivators, who were riddled with internal conflicts, to shift their attention to the fierce war with the external world, thus achieving a transfer of contradictions.

Under Zhao Xuan's guidance, the journey to the West took an unexpected turn, and the Sage of Taiqing undoubtedly became one of the biggest winners.

The once unobstructed journey to the West is now fraught with obstacles. Even Tang Xuanzang, who was entrusted with the important task of obtaining the scriptures, along with Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty and his civil and military officials, have embarked on a difficult and tortuous path of cultivation.

As a result, the human race, which was originally uninvolved, was also deeply drawn into this turbulent catastrophe.

After the fall of the Shang Dynasty following the Investiture of the Gods, the position of the Human Emperor was demoted, and from then on, the iron-clad rule that "the emperor cannot cultivate himself" came into being.

The reason for this is that the human race possesses an extraordinary ability to gather fortune, and at the same time, their ability to gather calamity energy is also incredibly powerful. It is precisely because of this characteristic that the current Journey to the West calamity is already showing signs of rapidly evolving into an immeasurable calamity.

At this moment, there was no other sage personally overseeing the entire primordial world. Therefore, the Heavenly Dao unhesitatingly opened up most of the crucial authority to the Taiqing Sage.

The profound meaning behind Heaven's actions is self-evident: it aims to elevate the strength of the Supreme Saint to a higher level, thereby effectively curbing the ever-expanding calamity energy and turning the tide.

However, even though the Great Sage had already reaped all the benefits, he still could not effectively suppress the ever-increasing and surging calamity.

The primary reason is that the Rahu body transformed by Zhao Xuan can be described without exaggeration as a true Rahu at the level of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

Having traveled through the River of True Spirits, Zhao Xuan had collected information on countless mythological figures.

Zhao Xuan's cultivation of the Mythical Law has successfully completed half of its transformation journey towards the Law of Chaos.

If it weren't for the power of Wuji forcibly suppressing it, this mythical law would probably have already differentiated into countless different laws.

Normally, the transformation of fundamental laws into chaotic laws is extremely complex.

For the fundamental laws to evolve into the laws of chaos, they need to undergo a process of countless differentiations; and after the countless laws have been differentiated, at least three thousand laws are needed to transform from ordinary laws into fundamental laws.

Only when the three thousand fundamental laws merge with each other can they possibly transform into the laws of chaos.

Therefore, if cultivators want to transform their fundamental laws, they will directly create heaven and earth, using the way the world operates to transform their own laws.

This is how the Great Dao operates in the realm of immortals and humans.

However, Zhao Xuan's mythological laws, due to the powerful suppression of the Limitless Force, did not need to undergo such a cumbersome and lengthy differentiation process at all.

The Myth Law is a law created by Zhao Xuan. The fundamental logic he gave to the Myth Law is that myth is the ultimate form of change.

Each mythological figure possesses their own unique laws of control. When the information of these laws is absorbed by the mythological laws, they begin to transform towards the ultimate level.

Therefore, Zhao Xuan does not need to create a new world to differentiate his own mythological laws. Instead, as soon as he collects information about a mythological figure, the mythological laws automatically absorb the law information mastered by that mythological figure.

This allowed Zhao Xuan to skip the process of differentiating the laws and directly begin the fusion of laws.

Secondly, the human race has entered a period of great calamity.

The human race is no less powerful. After the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the human race has three great quasi-saints, five great quasi-saints, and a considerable number of great Luo Immortals.

However, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were sealed in the Fire Cloud Cave by the Heavenly Dao, leaving the powerful human race leaderless.

This is why the human race appears vulnerable and easily bullied among the many powers.