Afterwards, Hongjun transmitted the Great Dao to the three thousand Great Luo Immortals in Zixiao Palace, took in six disciples, and ordered the Wu Clan to rule the land and the Yao Clan to rule the heavens, thus dividing the world equally.
At that time, the Wu and Yao clans were extremely powerful, and even the Three Pure Ones, the primordial spirits of Pangu who had not yet become saints, had to give way.
Unfortunately, this good fortune didn't last long. With the birth of a sage, how could they be willing to become vassals of the witch and demon races? How could they be willing to watch the witch and demon races feast while they ate only scraps?
Thus, a conspiracy was born: ten suns in the sky, Houtu was reincarnated, and Gonggong and Zhurong fought a great battle...
In order to deal with the demon race and to perfect the Great Array of Heavenly Gods and Demons, Dijiang and others joined forces to recreate the thirteenth Ancestral Witches using the essence and blood of the twelve Ancestral Witches.
At that time, Chi You was the great shaman of the Wu tribe. By chance, he swallowed a primordial spiritual fruit and generated a primordial spirit. As a result, he was chosen by the ancestral shamans and others to become the thirteenth ancestral shaman.
Unfortunately, when fortune smiles, heaven and earth lend their support; when luck turns, even heroes are powerless.
Heaven and earth did not bless them, sages plotted against them, and the demon race coveted them. In the end, the witch race declined.
Of the twelve Ancestral Witches, all except for the later-created Thirteenth Ancestral Witch, Chi You, who managed to escape by relying on a wisp of his primordial spirit, perished on the spot.
Fortunately, the demon race has Nuwa, and the witch race has Houtu.
After the Lich War, the human race became the rulers of the world. Sages governed the world, and immortals and mortals lived together in harmony, enjoying a carefree life.
When the mood strikes, one can soar through the clouds to visit friends and discuss philosophy in famous mountains and blessed lands. Occasionally, one can immerse oneself in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon in grotto-heavens, meditate, and enjoy celestial fruits and wines. How delightful!
Of course, this applies to the disciples of the sage, as well as other races and rogue cultivators who were previously oppressed by the witch and demon races.
For the Wu tribe, being driven directly to a desolate place like Beiju Luzhou, a place of poverty and hardship, where they were even hated by everyone, naturally they were unwilling to decline like this.
Because Fuxi entered the human race and became the Human Emperor, Houtu, who controlled reincarnation, followed suit and manipulated things, causing Chiyou to be reborn into the human race, also wanting to compete for the Human Emperor's throne.
Unfortunately, she oversimplified the situation.
The witch clan and the demon clan are completely different.
The Wu tribe is feared because they are descendants of Pangu, and no one wants to see them rise to power.
The demon race has Nuwa, a saint, while the witch race has Houtu, but she has not become a saint or broken through to the Hunyuan realm. Although she controls reincarnation, she is also trapped in reincarnation.
Furthermore, after Fuxi entered the human race and became the human emperor, he made a vow that from then on there would only be human Fuxi, and no demon Fuxi. The Wu tribe obviously could not do such a thing.
Thus, Chi You was defeated in the Battle of Zhuolu, which not only dealt another blow to the already small power of the Wu tribe, but also led to the decline of the human-Wu lineage.
That's how Chi You's remnant soul came to reside deep within the Dragon Emperor's soul.
Therefore, the Dragon Emperor inherited a portion of the bloodline power from the remnant soul of Chi You, mastered the Five Elements magic, and could use the essence blood of the Yinglong dragon to perform the Dragon Transformation Technique! (Wish Star of All Heavens and Realms)
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Chapter 221: The Twelve Stages of the Great Dao [Realm Division in this Book]
"Huff, huff, huff!"
After processing these fragmented images of the soul, Li Ling was panting heavily. It had only been a moment outside, but within his own sea of consciousness, it felt as if he had experienced a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation before waking up again, as if he had been in another world.
However, his eyes were filled with ecstatic joy.
This time, it was an absolutely amazing surprise!
It should be noted that the memories he merged with were the memories of Chi You over hundreds of millions of years, especially his inheritance of Pangu as one of the thirteen ancestral witches, which was an unimaginably rich fortune. Not to mention saints, even beings like Zhen Yuanzi would covet it.
Although the memories within Chi You's remnant soul were incomplete and lacked further records of magic and supernatural powers, these fragmented memories alone opened up a path for Li Ling.
By digesting the memories derived from the Ancestral Witch's blood essence within the remnant soul of Chi You, and considering that the Ancestral Witch's blood essence originated from the Great God Pangu and contained Pangu's legacy, Li Ling finally understood the path of cultivation—
There are all sorts of cultivation methods in the myriad worlds, but they are all ultimately contained within twelve levels, known as the 'Twelve Stages of the Great Dao'.
In the primordial world, the immortal realms are divided into the following levels: First-level Earth Immortal, Second-level Celestial Immortal, Third-level True Immortal, Fourth-level Profound Immortal, Fifth-level Golden Immortal, Sixth-level Taiyi Golden Immortal, Seventh-level Daluo Golden Immortal, Eighth-level Hunyuan Golden Immortal (also known as 'Quasi-Saint'), Ninth-level Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal (also known as 'Saint'), Tenth-level Heavenly Dao Realm, Eleventh-level Chaos Supreme Realm, and Twelfth-level Great Dao Transcendence Realm.
The realms of the Witch Clan are divided into four levels: First-level Witchman, Second-level Witch Soldier, Third-level Witch General, Fourth-level Earth Witch, Fifth-level Heaven Witch, Sixth-level Lesser Witch, Seventh-level Great Witch, Eighth-level Ancestral Witch, Ninth-level Witch Saint, Tenth-level Pangu True Body Realm, Eleventh-level Chaos Supreme Realm, and Twelfth-level Great Dao Transcendence Realm.
Based on his own cultivation level, Li Ling also knew his own level. At his current level of Innate Grandmaster, he was just a nobody who hadn't even reached the first level.
One achieves the first stage of Earth Immortal status, having passed the Heavenly Tribulation but not yet undergone the baptism of immortal energy.
Below the Earth Immortal realm, there are four stages: refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into the Dao.
These four stages are further divided according to the cultivation method into Acquired, Innate, Golden Elixir, Primordial Spirit, Void Realm, Tribulation Crossing, and Earth Immortal.
In the Acquired Realm, martial artists refine their own essence or absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, open the twelve regular meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, accumulate their own yin and yang and five elements, open the 'Niwan Palace' in their sea of consciousness, and unite essence, energy and spirit to return from the acquired to the innate realm, thus achieving the innate realm.
The innate realm comprehends the meaning of heaven and earth. The meaning of heaven and earth is divided into three levels: the first level is the innate true essence, the second level is the innate grandmaster, and the third level is the innate great grandmaster.
The concept of Heaven and Earth is merely a superficial understanding of the laws of Heaven and Earth. Martial artists can advance further by comprehending the concept of Heaven and Earth, grasping a trace of the laws of Heaven and Earth, and achieving the Golden Core realm.
The laws of heaven and earth are infinitely mysterious, elucidating the mysteries of the Great Dao. The Great Dao is originally nameless, but it is given a name to represent the Dao; the Great Dao is originally formless, but it is forcibly transformed into divine patterns.
The divine runes combined and evolved into different Great Dao Laws, totaling three thousand, which are known as the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws.
The laws of the Great Dao are divided into different levels based on the number of divine runes they contain.
[Basic Great Dao Laws]: The laws that constitute the foundation of the world include metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, speed, cloud, and sound. Each law contains 36 Great Dao Divine Runes.
[Medium-level Great Dao Laws]: Light, Darkness, Weather, Imperial Dao, Confucian Dao, Painting, Alchemy Dao, Weapon Dao, Lightning, Blood Dao, Slaughter, Bliss, Dream Dao, Illusion Dao, Curse, Calamity, Poison Dao, etc. Each law contains 72 Great Dao Divine Runes.
[Higher Dao Laws]: Power, Time, Space, Destiny, Creation, Destruction, Taiyin, Sun, Life, Death, Devouring, Cause and Effect, Battle, Stars, Balance, Order, Calamity, Lust, Ruthlessness, Prayer, Annihilation, Soul, etc. Each law contains 108 Dao Divine Runes.
There are three thousand Great Daos, of which there are two thousand three hundred and fifty-one basic Great Dao laws, five hundred and eighty-eight intermediate Great Dao laws, and forty-nine advanced Great Dao laws, which implicitly correspond to the forty-nine principles of the Heavenly Dao.