PDLP Chapter 7: Reversing the Path, a Warning from the Great Dao
Chapter 7: Reversing the Path, a Warning from the Great Dao
On Fangzhang Island, amidst the spiritual mist, the earth's veins surged with celestial light, appearing and disappearing intermittently. The world was serene and distant, except for the churning of the central void.
Wuchen sat upright in the center of the lotus platform, his figure as steady as an ancient rock.
Beneath it lies a pure white lotus, its petals as white as jade, warm and translucent, shimmering with a pure and spotless light, possessing the supreme law of cleansing away all defilement and purifying all things.
The Golden Lotus of Merit, the Black Lotus of Annihilation, and the Red Lotus of Karmic Fire stand guard in a triangular formation.
The golden lotus of merit shines brightly, its magnificent merit and virtue pervading the surrounding area, carrying with it the law of merit that brings peace, universal benefit, and nourishment to heaven and earth.
The karmic fire of the red lotus surges and steams, its crimson light scorching and domineering. Thousands of karmic fires rise and fall, controlling the cause and effect of karma in the world and burning away sins.
The Black Lotus of Annihilation is dark and profound, its body shrouded in a heavy, gloomy aura. Amidst the surging black mist, its killing intent is concealed, hiding the path to annihilation that can destroy the universe and overturn all things.
"Buzz!"
The Dao sound that shook the vast ocean suddenly exploded, not an ordinary roar, but a tremor of the Great Dao originating from the source of the innate spiritual treasure.
In an instant.
Brilliant golden light, blazing red flames, and dark black light erupted from the three lotus platforms.
The three lotus platforms shed their layers of external Daoist charm and spiritual treasure appearance, transforming into the purest and most refined divine light of the lotus's origin.
Strands of divine light flowed like rivers and seas, tearing through the surrounding misty spiritual fog and continuously surging towards the pure white lotus in the center.
Golden light entered the lotus, instantly dyeing the pure lotus platform with a warm, lustrous color. Thousands of merit lines spread along the veins of the lotus petals, making up for the deficiency of the Pure World White Lotus, which only purifies but does not nourish.
The fiery flames entering the body do not burn the lotus body; instead, they transform into intricate principles of cause and effect, entangling each lotus petal, allowing the path of purity to transcend worldly karmic obstacles and escape the shackles of cause and effect.
The black mist cleansed the lotus platform, and the fierce law of destruction merged into the essence of the white lotus, adding to the pure path of purification the supreme power of annihilation that overturns filth and eradicates evil.
Three completely contradictory origins intertwine and merge under the balance of purifying origins.
The Pure White Lotus suddenly shone with boundless brilliance, its radiant white light shooting straight into the sky, only to be blocked by the supreme innate array that enveloped Fangzhang Island.
The pure white lotus body trembled violently, and the twelve lotus petals unfolded layer by layer, shining brightly, completely awakening the endless primordial origin that had been dormant in the lotus heart.
The four ultimate lotus path principles of purification, merit, karma, and nirvana are intertwined and interdependent, each representing yin and yang, complementing and generating each other, breaking the original shackles of the realm.
Accompanied by the continuous humming of the Great Dao, all the innate restrictions of the Pure World White Lotus collapsed and reassembled, but one more was added on top of the forty-eight innate restrictions.
Lingbao has restrictions: those with twelve or fewer lines are considered low-grade, those with thirteen to twenty-four lines are considered medium-grade, those with twenty-five to thirty-six lines are considered high-grade, and those with thirty-four to forty-eight lines are considered top-grade.
Forty-nine paths are the ultimate treasure.
The lotus petals grow and extend layer by layer, the light repeatedly recedes and bursts forth, and gold, red and black colors emerge from the pure white lotus light, with light and shadow flowing and encompassing all things.
"Snap!"
As the sound of the Dao's transformation resounded, the twelve-tiered Pure World White Lotus Platform rose and expanded layer by layer.
12, 16, 20, 24!
Twenty-four enormous, boundless crystal lotus petals floated in the void, layer upon layer, covering a radius of a thousand miles and pressing down on the ten thousand mountains of Fangzhang.
The lotus body is surrounded by chaotic flowing light. Its pure white color can cleanse the world of all impurities, its merits can nourish all living beings in heaven and earth, its karmic fire can sever the cause and effect of the mortal world, and its darkness can destroy all evil spirits in the heavens.
The primordial purifier of the world reverses chaos!
The twelve-petaled Pure White Lotus underwent a complete transformation, becoming the twenty-four-petaled Chaotic White Lotus.
The four lotus paths' origins were completely united, the Three Powers Formation dissipated, and the three innate lotus platforms completely dissolved, transforming into pure origins that were entirely absorbed into the white lotus.
The sea of clouds returned to tranquility, with only the boundless chaotic lotus light descending, enveloping the entire Fangzhang Immortal Island, eternally clear and imbued with the spirit of the Dao.
The natural order of heaven and earth has returned to silence, and all sounds are still on Fangzhang Island.
The twenty-four-petaled Chaos White Lotus hangs in the void, its body shimmering with a vast, rosy light. It has shed the shallow Daoist charm of innate spiritual treasures, retaining only the ancient and boundless simplicity of the beginning of chaos.
The four lotuses merged into one, condensing into the unique Chaotic White Lotus Origin.
The next moment, the entire chaotic white lotus gently drooped.
"Buzz!"
The ancient and profound Daoist chant resounded once more, no longer a tremor from external objects, but the innate Daoist chant of a spiritual treasure recognizing its master and returning to its origin.
From the depths of the lotus heart on the lotus platform, an endless source of energy gushed forth, flowing in countless strands, vast and boundless like a celestial river, without a single drop leaking out, submerging the pristine surface of the lotus platform.
The four lotuses merged, the original source returned to its source, and all returned to the state of purity.
Lotus light enveloped his body, and the power of origin seeped into his limbs, bones, and spirit.
Wuchen's body suddenly trembled.
Skin, flesh, meridians, bones, blood, fascia, layer by layer, are reshaped.
The originally gentle and refined Dao body was repeatedly tempered and refined by the power of chaos, shedding its dual foundation of mortal and innate nature.
Every inch of its body is engraved with the Dao patterns of the twenty-four-petaled Chaos Lotus Platform.
Merit and virtue nourish the spirit and soul, smoothing the cracks in the primordial spirit left by the tribulations of cultivation.
The Path of Karmic Fire melts away cause and effect, severing the entanglements of the mortal world tainted by the past.
The power of destruction solidifies the foundation of the Dao, endowing it with a powerful foundation capable of destroying all laws.
The core purification path protects his spiritual platform, allowing him to remain steadfast in his Dao heart despite the erosion of the Great Dao.
Within the dustless primordial spirit platform, a miniature, tiny twenty-four-petaled Chaos White Lotus, only an inch in size, quietly condensed and floated at the very center of the sea of consciousness.
A lotus throne pattern was also reflected between his eyebrows, making his sacred aura even more intense.
"Why!"
Wuchen sighed inexplicably and slowly opened his eyes.
The innate deities are already at the pinnacle of the primordial chaos, and the innate treasures that have taken human form are also included in this category. If one wants to go further, one needs to go into the endless chaos.
Chaos is the foundation, and the primordial world cannot tolerate it; this is a warning from the Great Dao.
In other words, if he wants to devour the twenty-fourth grade Creation Lotus and reverse his origins to the Chaos, he must leave the Primordial World.
The endless chaos was not something a mere Grand Luo Golden Immortal like him could navigate.
We had no choice but to give up.
Wuchen stood up and looked down at the twenty-four-petal lotus platform beneath his feet.
Between separation and reunion, several laws were missing. Although it had entered the ranks of supreme treasures, it was still somewhat inferior to the Twenty-Four Grade Creation Lotus.
However, this transformation did give him a glimmer of opportunity.
The opportunity to break through Ronaldo's dominance.
He is neither a Primordial Being nor a Quasi-Saint; his path to enlightenment is unique to him.
It still needs improvement.
With a thought, Wuchen caused the twenty-four-petaled Chaos White Lotus to vanish.
"Jieyin has already taken human form, and I have spent a lot of time reversing my origins. Hongjun is probably not far from becoming a saint. I can no longer stay on Fangzhang Island."
Wuchen flashed to the sky above the lotus pond and with a wave of his hand collected the Three Lights Divine Water from the pond.
Hongjun would certainly not let such a treasure go to waste.
Even if he doesn't need it, it can still be used to inspire the three thousand worldly travelers.
Wuchen will not leave it to him.
Besides the Three Lights Divine Water, there is also a piece of Breath Soil at the bottom of the pool that emits golden light.
Wuchen was also taken away.
Afterwards, he dissipated the aura belonging to him within the island monument before leaving Fangzhang Island, intending to take advantage of Hongjun's lack of sainthood to give him some trouble.