Honghuang: My understanding is against the sky, I use the Gu Dao to prove the origin of the universe
Chapter 5 - The Mysterious Yin Grand Formation – Mid-stage Golden Immortal!

Chapter 5  The Mysterious Yin Grand Formation – Mid-stage Golden Immortal!

Having made up his mind, Chu Yuan no longer hesitated. He gathered every valuable item from his cave dwelling, primarily various rare treasures and spiritual herbs accumulated over ten thousand years of cultivation.

He then dispelled the formation that protected the cave, letting it dissolve into nature. He was heading out to travel the world, unsure of when—or even if—he would return. His bond with this place of origin had come to an end.

After orienting himself, Chu Yuan’s figure turned into a streak of azure light, speeding toward the center of the Great Desolate Continent—toward Buzhou Mountain, the legendary backbone of Heaven and Earth.

As a Golden Immortal, Chu Yuan could already traverse the heavens and earth at incredible speed. However, the vastness of the Great Desolate was beyond imagination. Even with his speed, reaching Buzhou Mountain would take a long time.

Chu Yuan wasn’t in a rush. He saw this journey as a form of cultivation and tempering in itself. As he flew, he released his divine sense, carefully observing the mountains, rivers, and myriad lifeforms below.

The grandeur and primal nature of the Great Desolate left Chu Yuan deeply moved. Towering divine mountains tens of thousands of meters tall were everywhere, shrouded in mist, with immortal cranes flying and spiritual apes crying out.

Vast, boundless primeval forests blotted out the sky, teeming with rare flora long extinct in the outside world, and hiding unimaginably powerful savage beasts.

Rivers as wide as jade belts wound across the land, with gigantic scaled creatures lurking in their depths, stirring up monstrous waves. In the skies, fierce winds howled, and occasionally, massive birds blotted out the sun as they flew past, leaving behind terrifying pressure. This was the Great Desolate!

A world filled with opportunity—and death!

Whether it was collecting spiritual materials while roaming the land or engaging in magical duels to seize fated encounters—Time passed quickly, and a thousand years flew by.

Somewhere along the waist of a ten-thousand-zhang-tall mountain range—Vast spiritual energy surged across the skies like a hanging galaxy, magnificent beyond words.

In the center of the mountain’s waist, deep inside a cave.

[You have secluded yourself in an unnamed remote mountain, cultivating Gu arts for 300 years. Your understanding of the Three Yin Pearls has deepened. Based on this insight, you have comprehended the Mysterious Yin Grand Formation!]

A melodious voice echoed in Chu Yuan’s mind.

At the same time—

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Eight towering figures simultaneously appeared, standing in a line, exuding a ferocious and bloodthirsty aura.

“It’s done—another eight Golden Immortal Gu Puppets!”

Opening his eyes, Chu Yuan’s cold gaze swept across the eight figures before him. At this point, a thousand years had passed since Chu Yuan had set out on his journey. In the first seven hundred years, he traveled extensively and gained immensely.

Relying on several secret Gu techniques born from his “defiant comprehension,” he managed to discover five postnatal spiritual roots. Though not as rare as innate ones, these were still precious treasures in the Great Desolate—useful in alchemy, crafting, or even directly consumed to increase cultivation.

What delighted Chu Yuan the most were the two [Lower-Grade Innate Spirit Roots]!

One of them was called the [Biling Fruit Tree]. This tree stood a hundred zhang tall (over 300 meters), with jade-green leaves. It bloomed once every thousand years, bore fruit another thousand years later, and took yet another thousand years for the fruits to fully ripen.Each harvest yielded exactly eighty-one fruits.

The fruits were a bluish-green color, resembling flat peaches in shape. Consuming and refining just one Biling Fruit could grant a cultivator a thousand years’ worth of pure, refined magical power. Even for a Golden Immortal, this was a rare and substantial boon.

The other was a grove of [Inkcloud Bamboo]. These bamboos were pitch-black throughout, incredibly tough, and emitted a faint mist of ink-like spiritual energy. They matured once every eight hundred years, with each harvest yielding three stalks.

Every mature Inkcloud Bamboo was an exceptional material for crafting Postnatal Spiritual Treasures!

Besides these spirit roots, the remaining spiritual herbs and divine grasses numbered in the tens of thousands, all with a minimum age of 100,000 years. Any one of them, if found in the later generations, would cause countless immortals to fight to the death over it. These gains were enough to make any Golden Immortal green with envy.

Of course, this thousand-year journey was not without peril. Chu Yuan had encountered powerful enemies — some even of the Taiyi Golden Immortal level.

But following his principle of caution, he avoided fights whenever possible. When escape was impossible, he relied on his Gu (Insect) Dao techniques to either repel the enemy or make a strategic retreat.

The eight new Gu corpses were refined from the bodies of eight formidable Golden Immortal-level foes that Chu Yuan had slain.

They included.

One Late-stage Golden Immortal

Three Mid-stage Golden Immortals

Four Early-stage Golden Immortals

Including the previously crafted Zhuyan Gu Corpse, Chu Yuan now had nine in total!

During the refining process, he also gained insight into a trace of Innate Undying Divine Light hidden within the Three Yin Pearl, and from this understanding, created the Mysterious Yin Grand Formation.

The array used the number nine, arranged with Gu corpses as its pillars. Nine Gu corpses — just enough to form the basic structure of the formation.

Once activated, the array unleashed surging Yin energy, gnawing at flesh and soul alike. Even a Taiyi Golden Immortal wouldn’t be able to take it lightly — Chu Yuan was confident he could now go toe-to-toe with such beings!

These experiences greatly tempered Chu Yuan’s state of mind. He had witnessed the vastness of the Primordial World, experienced the harshness of survival, and seen the brutality of the strong preying on the weak. His understanding of the Great Dao, and his comprehension of the Gu Dao, had both risen to a whole new level.

“Heaven and Earth as the furnace, all things as the copper. Myself as the Gu, refining the Primordial Essence…”

Stepping out of the cave, Chu Yuan stood proudly against the wind, as profound realizations surged in his heart.

“The Gu Dao is not just about refining external objects, but also about refining oneself — refining the mind…”

He now had a far deeper understanding of the core truths within the [Primordial Heaven Gu Scripture].

“Within the universe are five categories of insects—shells, scales, fur, feathers, and segmented — representing all life forms in Heaven and Earth.

Regardless of status or form, all beings have their unique value and can be drawn into the realm of Gu — all can be used by me…”

“The Gu Dao is ever-changing, rooted in the heart. Its greatest mystery lies in using the insignificant to move the immense, using the strange to suppress the strong, using weakness to overcome power — the lower defeating the higher!”

As his mental state rose and his understanding of the Gu Dao deepened, Chu Yuan felt the magical power within him begin to stir once more. The immense foundation he had built over the past thousand years now exploded forth in full!

Boom!

A surge of energy stronger than ever before erupted from his body, piercing the heavens and stirring the winds and clouds.

Mid-stage Golden Immortal!

A natural breakthrough!

Chu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, feeling the even more powerful and vast energy surging within, and the heightened precision with which he could control the myriad Gu shadows. A satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Just a mere thousand years of wandering — and he had not only gathered an abundance of resources, broadened his horizons, and honed his will, but had even broken through to mid-stage Golden Immortal!

As expected.

“Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles!”

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