Chapter 36: The Flowers Blossom to Perfection
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In the vast flow of accelerated time, moving a hundredfold faster than the outside world, even Xuantian could no longer remember how long he had been cultivating.
One day, he slowly opened his eyes. A vast, illusory river of time enveloped him.
With the combined strength of his entire clan and his own perseverance, he had comprehended the Law of Time to perfection.
Now, all that remained was to transform it into the Great Dao of Time, allowing the Three Flowers to blossom upon his head and pushing him into the realm of the Daluo Golden Immortal.
Transforming a law into the Great Dao - simple in words, unimaginably difficult in reality.
Throughout the Primordial World, countless Taiyi Golden Immortals were stuck at perfection, unable to advance even half a step.
Dao Ancestor Hongjun had once declared in the Zixiao Palace: the true threshold of enlightenment lies in the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
But for Xuantian, a mid-level innate divine being, this so-called bottleneck simply did not exist.
Boom!
The Dao rhymes of the Law of Time that circled him suddenly vanished. A mighty river, woven from the Great Dao of Time itself, surged forth from the depths of chaos and encircled his form.
This was no mere law - it was the power of the Great Dao, supreme and boundless.
Even grasping only a fragment of it, the strength he now held was unimaginable. If the power of laws were like cotton, then the power of the Great Dao was like fine iron.
This was a qualitative transformation, reshaping magical powers and greatly enhancing the might of spiritual treasures.
"Next.."
Xuantian whispered, eyes shining with resolve, "With one effort, I shall unleash the Three Flowers upon my head and step into the Daluo Golden Immortal realm!"
The five energies in his chest circulated and transformed into five radiant colors: black, red, yellow, white, and blue. Above his head, an auspicious cloud spread ten acres wide.
The immense spiritual power within him poured into that cloud. Under his gaze, the first heavenly flower slowly bloomed.
First rank!!!
Second rank!!!
Third rank!!!
Fourth rank!!!
In the blink of an eye, the first flower blossomed to the seventh rank, swaying gracefully above the clouds.
The Three Flowers represented a cultivator's potential. In the Primordial World, nine was the pinnacle; thus, ninth-rank flowers symbolized the ultimate limit. For example, the Three Pure Ones - manifestations of Pangu's primordial spirit - had each blossomed ninth-rank flowers when they attained the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
Given Xuantian's caliber, seventh-rank flowers were expected. But just as he prepared to blossom all three…
A mysterious aura surged from within his body. Before he could react, a gray stone bead materialized before him.
"This stone bead?"
Xuantian was startled.
This was the bead he had found in Xiao Jin's lair. Though he had long studied it, he had never unraveled its mystery. Yet today, at the very moment of his breakthrough, it stirred to life.
Buzz!
The bead erupted, releasing a flood of pure, primordial power into his heavenly flower. The flower, stagnant at seventh rank, suddenly shot upward as if nourished by the most potent of tonics.
Eighth rank!!!
Ninth rank!!!
The flower swayed in perfection, gleaming with divine brilliance. But just when he thought this was the limit, the impossible occurred - the ninth rank shattered its boundary and ascended even higher.
Tenth rank!!!
Eleventh rank!!!
Twelfth rank!!!
Xuantian's eyes widened in disbelief. Above the auspicious clouds now bloomed a twelfth-rank celestial flower, radiating an infinite, misty light.
It was a perfection incarnate, the highest creation of heaven and earth.
Nine is ultimate. Twelve is perfection.
At this moment, Xuantian had transcended the Primordial Limit. The other two flowers, the earthly and human flowers, soon followed, each reaching twelfth rank as well.
Three twelfth-grade flowers swayed in unison above the auspicious clouds, exuding boundless divine light.
Xuantian's primordial spirit reached a peak clarity, his cultivation speed increasing more than a hundredfold. On top of his already terrifying pace, this was simply heaven-defying.
But before he could recover from the transformation, his vision blurred. Suddenly, he stood in a strange space.
"The Primordial River of Life…"
Beneath him, an eternal, mighty river flowed from chaos itself. It coursed through all worlds, untouched by past, present, or future - beyond reality, beyond illusion. Each drop seemed to contain the fate of all beings within a cosmos.
This was the legendary River of Life.
Daluo Golden Immortals transcended time and space, eternally free. Below them, even Taiyi Golden Immortals were but a small fish struggling against the current. Only by reaching the Daluo Golden Immortal realm could one truly transcend its flow.
"I wonder what lies at the source of this River of Life…"
Curiosity driving him, Xuantian pressed forward. In the current, he glimpsed visions:
Twin golden crows, radiating unbearable heat - the Demon Emperor Jun and Taiyi.
A towering ginseng fruit tree, rooted deep in the river - Zhen Yuanzi.
Three vast clusters of pure energy, surpassing all others - the Three Pure Ones, embodiments of the Dao itself.
Before he could see further, exhaustion overtook him. His vision dimmed, and he returned to the Primordial World.
"Once transcended, all beings manifest their Dharma form. I wonder… what is mine?" he murmured.
What he did not know was that, above the River of Life, a boundless Dharma form had already manifested—
The Thirty-Sixth Grade Chaos Azure Lotus.
Its pure light illuminated all universes, stirring the tranquil River into a raging tide.
Countless mighty figures across the Primordial World, even the Heavenly Sages themselves, were shaken to the core.
"A thirty-sixth-grade Chaos Azure Lotus… illuminating the River of Fate?!"
In the Yuxu Palace atop Kunlun, Yuanshi Tianzun—immersed in the primordial purple qi within his spirit—suddenly opened his eyes. For once, his proud face bore only shock.
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