53: Chapter 53 A Thousand Years

The refining method of the Heavenly World's World-Forging Cauldron was perfectly suitable.

Once forged, the nine cauldrons would be placed at key cosmic nodes or important Ancient Stars, where they could regulate earth veins, stabilize stars, harmonize Yin and Yang, and suppress Luck.

Furthermore, they could form an invisible protective network covering the Myriad Heavens.

This held immense benefits for enhancing the world's stability and the vitality of its Origin.

The thicker the world's Foundation, the higher its ceiling; correspondingly, the difficulty for future lifeforms to Breakthrough to higher Realms would decrease.

The higher the world's ceiling, the stronger Jiang Hao became; the stronger Jiang Hao became, the higher the world's ceiling.

One could say they complemented each other perfectly.

Forging the nine cauldrons would be a relatively important task for Jiang Hao in the future.

As for why he chose the form of a cauldron, Jiang Hao's lips curled slightly as he recalled ancient legends from a certain azure planet in his memory.

"The nine cauldrons of Hua, suppressing the Luck of the Nine Provinces... Quite fitting indeed."

He decided that the first of these cauldrons would be forged upon Ziwei Star.

Ziwei Star had consecutively produced three Human Race Dao Provers, its Luck profound and enduring, making it the most suitable starting point for the nine cauldrons.

No sooner said than done, Jiang Hao began to act.

...

For the next millennium, Jiang Hao remained on Ziwei Ancient Star, entering seclusion.

He did not make a grand spectacle, instead carving out an independent Small World deep within the Dao Seeking Sect.

On one hand, using the divine materials he had collected as the main components, supplemented by his own Emperor Dao Laws and extracted stellar essences, he began slowly forging the first cauldron.

On the other hand, he continued his seclusion, immersing himself in comprehending the Chaos Great Dao.

The two drops of essence blood belonging to the Great Yin and Solar Human Emperors became his best reference and source of inspiration.

A millennium of contemplation did not allow him to immediately Breakthrough a major barrier, but it rendered his Chaos Great Dao more harmonious and profound.

His understanding of Yin-Yang transformation and the birth and death of all things reached an entirely new height.

He faintly sensed that he was steadily approaching a certain limit.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand years had quietly passed since Jiang Hao forcibly opened the Beidou immortal path and retrieved the remains of the Taiyin Human Emperor.

This millennium was the most relatively peaceful era in the Universe since the dawn of the Desolate Ancient Epoch, and also the period of most rapid development for the Human Race.

The Chaos Great Emperor Jiang Hao's reign over the Myriad Heavens, his invincible might and forceful methods, deeply intimidated all Life Forbidden Zone, as well as those Ancient Imperial Clans and races from All Realms harboring hostility towards the Human Race.

Large-scale Dark Turmoil and bloody purges targeting the Human Race nearly vanished, and the Origin Realm welcomed a long-lost peace.

Of course, friction between races, competition for territorial influence, and struggles over Secret Realm resources—these constants of the Cultivator world—still existed.

These were impossible to eradicate; wherever living beings existed, such situations would occur.

But at least they were confined within certain rules and bottom lines, no longer escalating into catastrophic events involving the annihilation of entire races or stars.

Ziwei Ancient Star, having consecutively produced the Great Yin, Solar, and Chaos Human Race Dao Provers, saw its status rise to unprecedented heights.

Ten thousand races came to pay homage, a hundred boats vied for supremacy; countless Cultivators flocked there, drawn by its fame, to pilgrimage, trade, or settle.

Its prosperity and grandeur, the concentration of powerful experts and factions, showed a trend of surpassing the ancient Life Source Stars, truly becoming the symbol of Human Race spirit and its de facto ancestral court.

Here, as long as basic order was observed, different races could generally coexist peacefully, creating a rare, inclusive prosperity across the Myriad Heavens.

The Taiyin Divine Sect and the Solar Divine Cult, after retrieving their respective Human Emperors' Legacies, saw their heritage and prestige restored to their peak from the Desolate Ancient era.

Together with the Dao Seeking Sect, Jiang Hao's Origin Sect, they stood as the three supreme orthodoxies of Ziwei Star.

Following Jiang Hao's decree, these three orthodoxies acted as his representatives across the Star Domains of the Myriad Heavens, educating the Human Race, spreading cultivation methods, and mediating large-scale disputes.

With the legitimacy of the Emperor's Legacy and the backing of Jiang Hao's invincible reputation, these three powers naturally became the maintainers and guides of Human Race order.

Before entering seclusion, Jiang Hao had widely disseminated the most fundamental chapters of his own "Chaos Scripture".

The scripture did not involve specific profound secret arts but pointed directly to the root of the Great Dao, lofty in its conception.

Over the millennium, nearly every Cultivator in the Universe with some insight had studied this foundational Chaos text; countless Geniuses grasped a trace of the true intent of Chaos from it, embarking on that legendary path of invincibility.

Although not many succeeded in comprehending the true intent of Chaos, it greatly broadened Cultivators' horizons and spurred the collision and development of cultivation theories.

Following Jiang Hao's initial plan, over the millennium, the three orthodoxies established temples dedicated to the Taiyin Human Emperor, the Solar Sage Emperor, and the Chaos Great Emperor Jiang Hao across the major life-bearing Star Domains of the Universe, especially in areas where the Human Race congregated.

The temples were uniform in specification and form, solemn and majestic.

The daily management and sacrificial rites of these temples were overseen by Core Disciples dispatched in rotation by the three orthodoxies, who served as temple priests.

They not only presided over sacrifices but also recounted to the local populace the meritorious deeds and great achievements of the three Human Emperors in protecting the Human Race, pioneering the Great Dao, and intimidating the Forbidden Zones, spreading the spirit of their selfless virtue.

The incense offerings at these temples were extremely abundant.

Whether it was ordinary Mortals grateful for the protection of past sages, Cultivators praying for a smooth Dao path, or members of other races simply expressing respect, all were willing to offer a stick of incense.

Day by day, a vast and pure sea of faith-based Power Of Will traversed the starry sky, converging towards Ziwei Star and the divine statues of the three.

This Power Of Will was partly channeled by Jiang Hao into the Ziwei Cauldron being forged, while the rest was stored in special containers for future use.

The Dao Seeking Sect, as the Chaos Great Emperor's Origin Sect, was now a truly awe-inspiring, supreme Imperial Orthodoxy that commanded respect across the cosmos.

The Sect's presence was magnificent, its Disciples numerous as clouds, with Geniuses emerging in every generation.

Its influence, through its Disciples spreading the Dao and the temple system permeating the Universe, reached every corner of the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, achieving an unprecedented peak of prosperity.

After a millennium of seclusion, Jiang Hao's cultivation had improved considerably, yet he increasingly felt the difficulty of further advancement.

He could clearly perceive an invisible yet incredibly sturdy barrier lying ahead.

"Is this the limitation imposed by the world's ceiling?" Jiang Hao sighed.

No wonder Immortal Ascension was impossible in a single lifetime in this era, because the current world...

had an upper limit on power attainable within one lifetime. To increase one's strength, one could only undergo Transformation lifetime after lifetime, slowly enhancing power.

This was a restriction imposed by the Great Dao rules of this world, a natural shackle resulting from the incomplete Origin after the Immortal Domain shattered, binding all living beings and making it difficult for anyone to Breakthrough into the true immortal Dao field.

Jiang Hao could sense that if he disregarded everything and used his own Peerless combat power to forcefully Impact this barrier, he might step into another level.

That would be the path of breaking through by force, transforming into a War Immortal, which the ancient War Emperor of the Desolate Ancient era had attempted to traverse.

"But this path, under the current environmental conditions of this world, is almost a dead end."

Jiang Hao judged calmly. How extraordinarily talented was the War Emperor? Yet he ultimately ended in Disheartened, It was by no means accidental.

Moreover, if the War immortal path were viable, figures like the Dao Venerable and the Eastern Emperor would have taken it long ago.

Countless individuals had proven with their lives that this was a dead end.

With the world's Origin incomplete and the Great Dao incomplete, a forceful Breakthrough would only lead to Fall.

Therefore, Jiang Hao sought new paths. The first was to try enhance the world's ceiling.

If the world itself became stronger and its Origin was Complete, the difficulty of Breakthrough would naturally decrease.

After his last entry into the immortal path, he had also attempted to open that Immortal Gate, not intending to enter...

but simply to test it. In the end, he opened a crack and discovered some nice one.