292: The Path of the Daoist Lord

He shifted his thoughts again, and the aura around him changed abruptly. The profound dao rhyme of the Five Elements rotation surged forth. The sharpness of Metal, the flourishing of Wood, the moistening and downward flow of Water, the blazing ascent of Fire, and the heaviness of Earth—five-colored brilliance intertwined and flowed, forming a Domain of endless creation and mutual restraint around him. This was the manifestation of the Origin of one of the top hundred top-tier Great Daos—the "Five Elements Great Dao".

"Only a top-tier Dao Lord can see the prototype of a system." A profound light flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes. Such Dao Lords not only need to comprehend a top-tier Great Dao to the Realm of Perfection (such as Five Elements, Yin and Yang, Stars, Sword Dao, etc.) and obtain "ten yuan" of great power as the core support. More crucially, and more difficultly, they must deeply master all the basic branch Great Daos governed by this top-tier Great Dao and perfectly integrate them into the core, forming a "Dao Net" that is tightly connected and mutually supportive.

Taking the Five Elements Great Dao as an example, beneath its core, one must fully comprehend and master the five major basic branches: the "Geng Metal Great Dao", "Yi Wood Great Dao", "Gui Water Great Dao", "Li Fire Great Dao", and "Wu Earth Great Dao". One even needs to touch upon more subtle derivative changes like "Metal generates Water" and "Water generates Wood". Only then can the core Five Elements Great Dao truly be like a towering tree with developed roots and lush branches.

"When the branch system initially covers the core, the great power will leap forward. The yuan power contained in the condensed dao fruit alone can reach a magnitude of 'fifty yuan'! The total combat power can also reach over two hundred yuan power." Lin Yuan raised his hand and pressed down, and the Five Elements Domain instantly shrank, transforming into an indestructible giant net with five-colored light flowing across it. At the meshes of the net, the powers of different branches connected, amplified, and transformed each other.

The sharpness of Metal was ignited by the fury of Fire, the vitality of Wood was nourished by the heaviness of Earth, and the persistence of Water penetrated with the sharpness of Metal... This is the terrifying aspect of systematic cultivation! Branch linkage can cause the power of the dao fruit to multiply geometrically, forming "dao techniques" exclusive to Dao Lords that are far more powerful than the superposition of a single Great Dao! Once a Five Elements Dao Lord with a preliminarily perfected branch system unleashes the Great Five Elements Rotation Grinding Disk, it is enough to easily crush the combined efforts of dozens of Yuan Origin Dao Lords.

Suddenly, divine light flowed in Lin Yuan's eyes. His left eye revealed a vibrant, pure white, while his right eye sank into a pitch-black of eternal, dead silence. The supreme dao rhyme of the rotation of life and death permeated the air, as if he held the authority over the rise and fall of all living things. This was the power of one of the ten supreme Great Daos—the "Great Dao of Life and Death", and it was also the hallmark power of a Supreme Dao Lord.

"A Supreme Dao Lord holds the pivot of the world, and only then does the system show its majesty." Such beings not only need to comprehend a supreme Great Dao (such as Life and Death, Time and Space, Karma, Fate, Soul, etc.) to Perfection, obtaining a foundation of at least "thirty yuan" of great power. Their true challenge lies in building a vast, precise, and complete branch system that covers all levels of the supreme core Great Dao! Taking the Great Dao of Life and Death as an example, its system must include:

Top-tier branches: "Creation of Life", "Extinction of Death", "Reincarnation Transition", etc.

Basic branches: "Vitality Absorption", "Wither and Flourish Transformation", "Resurrection of the Dead", "Extinction Erosion", "Soul Shackles", "Guidance to Rebirth"... and dozens or even more subtle Laws involving the transformation of Soul, energy, and matter.

Cross-boundary connection: One must also understand its connections and boundaries with other supreme Great Daos such as "Karma" and "Time and Space".

Only by comprehending all these branches to Perfection and perfectly integrating them under the core of Life and Death, forming an endless, dead-silent rotating "closed loop", can it be called a Major Achievement of the system!

"When the branch system of a supreme Great Dao completely covers the core and forms a closed loop, its great power will undergo an earth-shattering qualitative change, and the strength of the condensed dao fruit will soar to 'three hundred yuan'! Supplemented by bonuses from the dao body, Dao Heart, dao bone, and dao embryo, the yuan power strength can often break through one thousand. If one uses the exclusive dao techniques of a Supreme Dao Lord, the power can double! It is enough to become the mainstay of a Star Continent, and even influence the direction of wars between top-tier Sects!"

With a wave of Lin Yuan's hand, the black and white Qi intertwined into a profound vortex, in the center of which the phantom image of the Six Paths of Reincarnation could be vaguely seen slowly rotating. The power of Life can instantly turn a desert into an oasis and grow flesh on withered bones; the power of Death can turn a bustling city into a ghost Domain in an instant, severing all vitality. He can even set up the "Great Array of Life and Death Rotation", delineating the boundary of life and death on the battlefield, forcibly stripping away the enemy's vitality and injecting it into his own side, reversing the battle situation.

A Supreme Dao Lord who holds the Great Dao of Time, if their branch system is sufficiently perfect (such as mastering branches like acceleration, deceleration, stillness, backtracking, prophecy, solidification, etc.), can even arbitrarily manipulate the river of time in a local battlefield, allowing enemies to experience billions of years of time erosion in an instant and decay into ash, or allowing their own side to complete long-term healing and energy accumulation in a flash.

Finally, Lin Yuan's consciousness sank deep into his Sea of Consciousness, gazing at the primordial azure lotus dao embryo that was rooted in the guixu origin point, its lotus leaves holding up stars, and its stamens nurturing Grandmist. A supreme dao rhyme that encompassed everything, evolved the heavens, and rotated the end of all things radiated naturally. This was his unique path.

"Supreme Dao Lord... All Daos return to Chaos, this is the pinnacle of the heavens!" His voice carried yearning and firmness. This is the theoretical ultimate form of the Myriad Dao Realm, and also the supreme Realm that only those with the "Chaos Great Dao" as their core can possibly reach. Its difficulty is beyond imagination.

A Supreme Dao Lord must take the Perfection of the Chaos Great Dao as the core, and then comprehend, master, and eventually incorporate all the Great Daos governed by the Chaos Great Dao—including the ten supreme, one hundred top-tier, three thousand basic, and even thousands of side-door paths and derivative Laws—under their Chaos system, making all Daos become branches and extensions of Chaos, and finally achieving the ultimate state of "All Daos return to the Origin, Chaos is Boundless".

"With the Chaos Great Dao at Perfection, I have already obtained one hundred yuan of great power, which is the foundation of the Supreme. And when the day comes that the branch system of all Daos is fully covered and perfectly integrated..." Lin Yuan felt the majestic pulse coming from the sealed Universe within his body, his heart surging with emotion, "The great power of the dao fruit condensed from it alone will break through the shackles of ten thousand 'yuan'. Even without using Supreme Dao techniques, it would be enough to create the world, generate galaxies, or with a single thought return them to guixu, burying and destroying the world!"

Such an existence can make their words become reality. Time can be a spear, solidifying the enemy's years; Space can be a shield, folding the distances of ten thousand worlds; Life and Death can be a rope, binding the fate of all living beings; Karma can be a net, covering the past and future. With every move, the ten thousand Daos of heaven and earth flow according to their will, creating with a single thought and ending with a single thought.

Lin Yuan slowly closed his eyes. The primordial azure lotus dao embryo within his body swayed gently. Although the miniature universe on the lotus platform was sealed, it still radiated the true meaning of Chaos that encompassed everything. He knew that he still had a long and arduous path ahead before reaching the ultimate Realm of the Supreme Dao Lord.

Under Chaos, the ten thousand Daos are as vast as a sea of stars. Every time he comprehends and integrates a new Great Dao and its branches, it is an extreme challenge to his own cognition and control. But at this moment, he already holds six perfected Great Daos (among which Chaos, Life and Death, Time, and Guixu all belong to the supreme tier), and within his body, he is nurturing the primordial chaos universe prototype. This starting point has already far surpassed countless Prodigies of the past and present.