545: True Self Realm

And Xu Qing's cultivation also began to climb synchronously at an astonishing speed, following the reshaping of the new Dao Realm!

Dao Lord Realm... Immortal Dao Lord... Half-Ancestor... His Realm advancement originated from this nascent Dao Realm. For every degree of Perfection the new Dao Realm achieved, his Dao Foundation was solidified by one degree, and his cultivation advanced by one degree.

This was not a simple recovery of cultivation, but an essential leap.

He completely fused his own existence with the nascent Qiankun Dao World.

At this moment, his will became the Heavenly Dao of this Qiankun Dao World; his Bloodline transformed into the earth veins; his breath became the rotation of the four seasons; and his Dao charm evolved into the Laws of all things.

This process was the embodiment of 'I am the world, and the world is me.' He was no longer a powerful Life form within the world, but the world itself!

Finally, when the nascent Qiankun Dao World was completely stable and the Great Dao cycle achieved Perfection, becoming self-contained, a completely new aura, magnificent like the heavens and earth, sun and moon, burst forth from within Xu Qing, sweeping across the entire nascent Dao Realm!

First-Step Dao Ancestor!

He not only returned to the Dao Ancestor Realm, but his Foundation was also profound, far surpassing any previous period.

No, it shouldn't be called First-Step Dao Ancestor. At this moment, Xu Qing had stepped into a completely new Realm.

The Five Steps of Dao Ancestor normally require Three Incarnations, but he no longer needed them. He could clearly feel that his existence had completely fused with this nascent Dao Realm, transforming into an independent, unshakable coordinate within the present world.

This coordinate did not rely on any external reference and was untainted by any worldly Karma.

It belonged only to Xu Qing himself, representing the Sole True Self.

From then on, any external Technique of Deduction, upon touching him, felt like it was deducing nothingness or a completely independent Universe, unable to capture any effective information whatsoever.

Any malicious curse, the moment it descended, would lose its anchor because it couldn't find a precise target, dissipating on its own like rootless water.

He transcended the original Karma lines, truly achieving Freedom from Karma and Immunity to all Laws.

Therefore, he named this Realm the True Self Realm.

He stood at the center of his own world.

There was no sky here, no earth, only a vast, gray, constantly churning Chaos.

It was no longer the massive, prosperous Qiankun Great World filled with countless Life forms of the past, but a world only the size of an ordinary Hengsha World.

It didn't even have a name.

However, Xu Qing could clearly perceive that its every surge corresponded to his own breathing; every strand of its energy originated from his own Origin.

There was no External Dao here, no Heavenly Will; the only will belonged to Xu Qing.

Xu Qing looked at this Chaos, and a thought naturally arose.

"From now on, you shall be called the True Self World."

The moment the name was set, the entire Chaos trembled slightly, as if giving a response.

This feeling was marvelous, as if he had become a Creator, a true God of Creation.

But his power was consequently locked within this nascent world.

At this moment, the mighty power he could mobilize was roughly equivalent to a First-Step Dao Ancestor outside, but the essence was completely different. His power originated from his own Universe, not from borrowing the external Great Dao.

"First, there must be light."

With a thought from Xu Qing, the Yin and Yang Qi within the Chaos began to violently separate and collide.

The extremely clear rose, transforming into the invisible firmament; the extremely turbid sank, condensing into the heavy earth.

Immediately afterward, the sun, moon, and stars appeared, their light covering the entire True Self World and illuminating this newly opened heaven and earth.

"The world must have mountains, rivers, lakes, and marshes!"

Xu Qing's gaze fell upon the center of the earth, where the Earth Vein Qi was most abundant.

He raised his hand and beckoned, causing boundless Earth Vein Qi and Chaos Essence to converge and stack. Then, an indescribably towering peak, like a Sea-Stabilizing Needle, rumbled upward from the center of the earth!

It was neither perilous nor steep, but carried an indescribable grandeur and weight. The mountain body displayed the cyan-gray color of the initial Chaos, and faint, primitive Great Dao Patterns flowed across its surface.

This mountain was the Origin of the True Self World, the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains. Xu Qing looked at it and bestowed upon it the name—Ancestor Mountain.

Ancestor Mountain stood majestically, with immense Earth Veins and the Water Origin converging and brewing deep within its body.

The next moment, loud noises simultaneously erupted from the four directions of the mountain body: east, west, south, and north!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Four Water Veins burst open the mountain rock and surged out!

That was not ordinary water, but water containing rich Primordial Origin Qi.

Primordial Origin Qi is the most fundamental Material that constitutes the world, containing the potential to evolve all things.

Four Ancestral Rivers were thus born.

The four Ancestral Rivers flowed from Ancestor Mountain along their destined paths, rushing toward the east, west, south, and north directions of the True Self World.

Billions of tons of water sculpted the contours of the land, and delivered the Primordial Origin Qi, which permeated the heavens and earth, to every corner of this nascent world.

He named the Ancestral River flowing out from the eastern side of Ancestor Mountain the East Ancestral River; the mighty and rapid Ancestral River in the west, he named the West Ancestral River.

The nimble and lively Ancestral River in the south, whose current was winding and twisting, was named the South Ancestral River; the slow-flowing Ancestral River in the north was called the North Ancestral River.

Rumble!

The land of the entire True Self World began to evolve intensely. Mountains rose sequentially outside Ancestor Mountain, and plains slowly unfolded along the riverbanks.

Moreover, the Four Ancestral Rivers began to branch due to the undulating terrain, forming tributaries that spread toward different regions. Eventually, some flowed into other rivers, while others formed various lakes and marshes.

There were also rivers originating from other mountain ranges that, through the movement of the earth veins, eventually merged into the Four Ancestral Rivers.

The sky became higher and farther, and the Clear Qi and Turbid Qi completely separated, forming a stable structure of heaven and earth.

At this moment, the True Self World already had its basic outline: an Ancestor Mountain supporting the heavens and propping up the earth, four endlessly flowing Ancestral Rivers, and a vast, primitive land.

Inside the True Self World, besides the mountains and rivers, there were no other living things, not even vegetation. It was so silent that only the sound of wind, the sound of water, and the constant throbbing deep within the earth remained.

Xu Qing stood atop Ancestor Mountain, looking down upon everything he had personally shaped.

He could feel that as the True Self World evolved from a state of Chaos into a world with basic structure, his cultivation Foundation also became more stable.

This was a positive cycle: the more complete the world became, the stronger his power; and the stronger he became, the greater his ability to propel the world's evolution.

Next, he needed to make this dead silent world come alive.

This was not simple creation, but guiding the Primordial Origin Qi to naturally evolve the initial Life forms, and then allowing these Life forms to form their own unique Civilization System through the Law of Superiority and Inferiority.

This would require a very long period of time.

He sat down cross-legged, his Divine Thought merging into this heaven and earth, transforming into the Heavenly Dao of this world, and using his own will as a guide to lead the ubiquitous Primordial Origin Qi into the long process of evolution.