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After taking a deep breath, Gu Wudi took a big step forward and walked onto the stone-paved road.
The sea of fire on both sides was very gentle, not at all as scorching hot as imagined.
Chapter 99: Using one's body as a seed
But Gu Wudi did not dare to let his guard down and was always on guard against these quietly burning gray flames. He knew very well how terrifying the Ten Thousand Evil Fires were and that they were by no means gentle flames.
What is the ten thousand sins?
There are thousands and thousands of "evil" in the world, and each kind of "evil" is a layer of karma, and the fire of ten thousand sins is a flame that burns with endless karma as raw material.
There is a saying that as long as the "evil" in the world does not disappear, the fire of sin will always exist and burn fiercely.
If this kind of flame produces a seed of the level of perfect ancient fire and is fused by someone, then the person who fused it will be invincible for the rest of his life.
The reason is simple. The Wan Sin Fire of the perfect ancient fire level is too powerful. Once mastered, it will become the enemy's nightmare.
As long as the opponent has evil and sins in his heart, the Ten Thousand Sins Fire will silently ignite the enemy until all the evil is burned out, and then it will gradually go out.
It can be said that the Ten Thousand Evil Fires is something that many living beings fear from the bottom of their hearts.
Ten epochs ago, the famous King of Ten Thousand Sins embarked on the road to invincibility by relying on a perfect ancient fire-level Ten Thousand Sins Fire.
In the end, he defeated all his competitors, stood out from the crowd, became the best of that era, attained the status of Immortal King, and stood high above everyone else.
But after only three epochs, the King of All Evils disappeared, and no news of him has been heard since then.
At this moment, the ruins where Gu Wudi is located is the dojo left by King Wan Nie. No one can tell what his purpose is in leaving this place.
Judging from the previous test levels, he is most likely selecting a successor, and only the genius who meets the various conditions he has set can inherit his Taoist tradition.
But nothing is absolute. As an ant who has not even reached the Daoshi realm, it is undoubtedly foolish to speculate on the purpose of an Immortal King.
If he thought about it in a negative way and made assumptions, he could think of many examples in his mind of old monsters setting traps to be reborn and taking over the bodies of geniuses.
It is very likely that King Wan Nie built these ruins with this idea in mind.
However, since we are here, we might as well make the best of it. There is no way back, the only thing to do is move forward. Gu Wudi made up his mind and strode towards the depths of the sea of fire.
Suddenly, he noticed some movement in the sea of fire. He turned his head and looked over there, and saw a shocking scene.
I saw the sea of fire surging and fragments of time flying and interweaving together, together interpreting the old scene of the past.
A heroic young man walked out of the wilderness. By chance, he obtained a cluster of gray flames. From then on, he could not stop and rose rapidly like a comet.
Coming from a grassroots background, he has no background and no one to protect him. He has to face all kinds of crises from the outside world alone. Whenever he encounters a disaster, he can remain calm and resolve them one by one.
His situation changed from being excluded and suppressed by all parties in the beginning to being a guest of honor by top powers later. He completed a gorgeous counterattack.
Finally, at the age of twelve hundred, he succeeded in merging with the Tao and became a supreme being.
When he was 11,000 years old, he crossed the chasm between heaven and earth, ascended to the realm of immortality, and turned into a true immortal.
Afterwards, halfway through the era, this creature made breakthroughs one after another and reached the realm of Quasi-Immortal King.
When this era was about to end, he made a stunning feat, triggering the Immortal King Tribulation. Countless tribulations from the past, present, and future swarmed in to torture him...
After losing half of his life, he managed to pass the test by luck and successfully transformed into a peerless immortal king.
Afterwards, this creature reached the pinnacle of his life at his own ceremony of becoming a king, which can also be called his highlight moment.
The giants and immortal kings of the primitive ancient world arrived one by one to celebrate the addition of another immortal king to the ancient world. Several immortal kings from the fairyland also came, and many messengers also showed up to express their goodwill to him and try to pull the new immortal king into their camp.
All the kings came together just to celebrate his feat of becoming king. The grand celebration made the name of the new Immortal King resound throughout the thirty-three heavens, and even in the vast and boundless immortal realm, its influence continued.
When the prosperity came to an end and the autumn wind was bleak, he had already experienced all the splendor of the world.
In the following years, this creature tried to go one step further and push the Immortal King's path to the pinnacle.
However, even after trying every possible method, the speed of improvement in Taoism is still slow, and it can even be said that it is standing still.
In the realm of Immortal King, supreme talent, supreme bloodline power, and perfect ancient species are completely useless. It almost depends on time to hone, and even after one era after another, it may not work.
As his practice of Taoism failed, he began to change his thinking and tried to open up a new path and establish a new system of Taoism.
All beings in the realm of Immortal King know the benefits of opening up a new system, but looking back at the long history, how many people have succeeded? Most of them died in the horrible punishment and fell halfway.
But he still stepped into the ranks of creating laws without hesitation.
Planting the Tao, taking root, the Tao begins... uniting with the Tao...
The essence of the Tao Seed Method is to integrate a seed of the Tao, coexist with it, use the power of the seed to understand the Tao of heaven and earth, and pay attention to the Tao itself.
If a creature that practices this system were to mobilize the great Dao to attack in the primitive ancient world, the power would be astonishingly great.
However, once they leave the primitive ancient world, the creatures practicing the Tao will be greatly affected, and their combat power will drop drastically, unless they are in the fairyland of the same origin.
The powerful people who practiced Taoism had actually found a solution to this problem a long time ago. However, this method required a certain price and the loss of some combat power. Although it was much better than the original cliff-like decline, who would be willing to take a step back for no reason?
Besides, the primitive ancient world was extremely powerful, how could it be destroyed so easily?
The Immortal King, who wanted to create a law, thought carefully and decided to create a supreme law that would use his body as a seed, so as to get rid of the dependence on the ancient world without losing his own combat power.
Gu Wudi was shocked when he saw this. Using one's body as a seed, isn't this the path that Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao took in later generations?
At the end of the Ancient Immortal Era, a large number of people also took this path. Unfortunately, the results were tragic, and they were either disabled or died.
Unexpectedly, in an age even older than the Ancient Era of Immortals, a living being had already proposed this concept and was ready to put it into practice. This living being was a famous Immortal King.
It's incredible.
He looked on.
The old scenes of the past were still flowing, telling Gu Wudi about the experiences of an immortal king in that ancient era who tried to create a supreme system.
His "using body as seed" is slightly different from Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao's "using body as seed". The latter uses oneself as a seed, refines the true self, opens one "door" after another in the body, releases potential, cultivates the inner way, does not seek the great universe, and ultimately, is on par with the universe, relying entirely on oneself.
As for this Immortal King's "using his body as a seed", he used his own body as the ancient seed, and created the world in every particle of flesh and blood, achieving an endless universe, thereby transcending and being free.
To achieve all this, we must first break the rules and change the relationship and status between ourselves and the ancient species.
In the original Dao Seed Method, after the cultivator and the ancient seed merged, they grew together and reached the peak together. It was a symbiotic relationship, in which they became a part of each other's life and were mutually equal and mutually beneficial.
Therefore, a cultivator can only fuse one ancient seed in his lifetime. If he exceeds this number, it will cause backlash and cause his body to explode and die.
Now, if we want to take the path of using our body as a species, we must abandon the original ancient species, take our own body as the main thing, and use the ancient species from the outside world as a supplement. In other words, the original symbiotic relationship will become a relationship between master and servant.
Once this convention is broken, it will become possible for monks to fuse multiple ancient species.
The perfect ancient seeds are the precise explanation of the Tao by the outside world. They can be used as a reference and comparison to help cultivators open up their inner world. Therefore, the more perfect ancient seeds that are integrated, the greater the chance of successfully using one's body as a seed.
Then, the Immortal King began to put the theory into practice.
He risked his own death and fought fiercely with the evil fire in his body, trying to suppress the fire, break the original equality, and control it in his own hands.
The Ten Thousand Sins Fire at this moment is terrifying. From the very beginning, it has followed the host from weak to strong, and then to the supreme realm of Immortal King. It can be said that the power of fire has long become a major killer of the host.
Competing with the Ten Thousand Evil Fires is equivalent to fighting with your own trump card, so you can see how dangerous it is.
However, in order to achieve the supreme path he envisioned - using his body as a seed, he resolutely took action.
At first, the Ten Thousand Evil Fires did not fight back, but kept dodging, emitting a hazy consciousness to the Immortal King, expressing the symbiotic relationship between the two. After a long time, they had long become one, indistinguishable from each other. But now, the host wants to break this balance and forcibly control the fate of the fire.
As long as he succeeds, then in the years to come, the host can integrate more ancient species at will, without being bound by the rule of "one species integrated into one body".
Sharing the same body with other ancient species is something that Wan Nihuo cannot tolerate, as it involves some kind of taboo.
So it began to fight back.
A civil war concerning the life of the Immortal King broke out. Regardless of victory or defeat, it would be a huge loss for both sides, because they were one, and their life breath had long been integrated together. The fight between the two was equivalent to forcibly splitting a living being into two halves and then conquering each other.
This protracted civil war lasted for several years.
The ending was tragic. A high and mighty immortal king fell from the altar and hit the bottom because of this civil war, and his glory was no longer there.
The most regrettable thing is that both sides suffer losses and are heading towards destruction.
I saw an old man with a body like charcoal lying in the charred ruins. The fire of life was dim and flickering, about to go out. Not far from him, a ball of gray flame was also sickly, and the flame body kept disintegrating, as if it was disintegrating.
The old man's eyes were dim as he looked at the holy and enchanting white ancient fire floating in the palm of his right hand, and he muttered to himself, "In order to open up a new path, I destroyed myself. The immortal king's path was gone in an instant.
Is it really impossible to use the body as a seed to open up a world of inner universe that is comparable to the outer universe? Why do I feel that this path is the true meaning of the Tao Seed Method?
When you have achieved success with yourself, use this as a starting point to create a new system. Then, great things can be accomplished.”
As he spoke this, a bright light burst out from his gray eyes, which was extremely intimidating, but in the blink of an eye, it became dim again, and he couldn't help but sigh to the sky.
"Unfortunately, I no longer have this opportunity. I can only hope that someone new will inherit my ambitions and complete this path."
As he spoke, the old man's body began to disintegrate, disappearing bit by bit, step by step towards ashes.
At the last moment, he used up all his strength, stretched out his hand, set up numerous tests, and then closed the temple, concealed the secrets, and fell into complete silence.
"From now on, there will be no more evil kings in this world!"
With a sigh, a brilliant Immortal King fell, falling on the road of opening up a new path.
At this point, the interpretation of the old scene has come to an end.
Gu Wudi witnessed the entire life of this Immortal King. He stood there, speechless for a long time, with a myriad of emotions in his heart.
This was an Immortal King in his golden years, and he paid the price of his life just for trying to break the iron rule of "one person merging into one kind". It is really unimaginable.
Perhaps, if he went to find some like-minded fellow Taoists, that is, a group of Immortal Kings to jointly explore new paths, the ending would not be so tragic, just like the group of old kings who developed the rough outline of the Immortal Realm system.
However, there is no "maybe" in this world. Everything has already happened and has become an established fact that cannot be changed.
Now, a difficult problem that would stump the Immortal King and cost him his life was placed before Gu Wudi.
Should he take the risk of falling, inherit the will of this predecessor, the King of All Sins, and walk the path of using his body as a seed, or should he take a step back and see the bigger picture, follow the rules, honestly walk the path of seeding, and practice step by step?
In the former case, even the Immortal King died, and his immortal origin was burned out and turned into ashes.
Who dares to say that he can overcome difficulties that even the Immortal King has never been able to overcome?
Gu Wudi fell into deep thought. He put aside all distracting thoughts and asked the truest self in his heart what choice he would make.
In the end, he chose the former.
“When all the heavens and worlds are shattered, everything is destroyed, and even the great way no longer exists, at that time, the only one you can rely on is yourself.” He said to himself in a decisive tone, firmly believing that using oneself as a seed and not relying on the outside world is the strongest way.
"If I hear the truth in the morning, I can die in the evening. Even if I am like a moth flying into a flame, so what? At least I have had a moment of glory and splendor."
As he thought about this, the long ancient road ahead disappeared, and in its place was an ancient altar engraved with ancient sacrificial texts, mysterious and unfathomable.
Gu Wudi understood immediately that this was the breakthrough place left by King Wan Nie for future generations. There were various arrangements on it, which would be of great benefit to cultivators who wanted to take the path of using their bodies as seeds.