Refining the Dao into Godhood: A Tale of the Jie Sect

Xuanqing left the Human Clan Tribe, and Suiren Shi immediately took up his responsibilities, not only clarifying doubts for many cultivators with his insights but also teaching them the methods of Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and Refining Array. He also passed down the Innate Eight Diagrams, allowing them to learn how to calculate auspicious and inauspicious omens and to conceal their own aura.

Of course, what he taught was just the most basic part, the core part was not something he could impart to the Human Race without the permission of The Three Pure Ones.

This was Xuanqing's instruction.

He understood the principle that laws should not be transmitted lightly, and the Dao should not be imparted rashly. Even Jie Sect, which advocates teaching without discrimination, would test its disciples before imparting Divine Skills.

As for his own insights, it didn't matter. Once transmitted, it was done, as the consequences would be borne by "Suiren Shi," this other self of his.

His other self bears the consequences, his true self cultivates the Great Dao, this is the proper use of his incarnate form.

"Strange!"

Meanwhile, in Taixu Heaven, Nuwa Saint couldn't help but frown slightly, "How has that noisy guy become entangled with the fate of the Human Race again?"

Although she had only responded to Xuanqing once, she had kept an eye on him regularly.

After all, not everyone constantly mentions their own name day and night!

Xuanqing was an exception.

In fact, when Xuanqing first prayed to her, she noticed that Xuanqing's fate was void and he possessed a delicate intellect not found in others of the Human Race.

That's why she bestowed upon him certain techniques!

Moreover, Xuanqing's actions had repeatedly surprised her. She had deduced that he would become a sage leading the rise of the Human Race.

But unexpectedly, he chose to follow Taiching and joined the Tongtian Sect Master, turning his fate with the Human Race into a seemingly severed yet not severed state.

Xuanqing's destiny had deviated from its original track, and naturally, she was very curious, but since Kunlun Mountain is the Three Pure Ones' Dojo, she didn't wish to intrude recklessly.

Thus, she had not paid attention to Xuanqing for a long time!

But now that destiny had returned to its original path, she naturally sensed it, and couldn't help but cast her gaze down from Taixu Heaven curiously.

"His incarnate form, a divine presence reflected from the hearts of others?"

"How interesting!"

A Saint can oversee all of Primordial with a single thought, unless hidden by another Saint or suppressed by a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, everything is visible.

Although Nuwa was reluctant to engage in mundane affairs, she still occasionally paid attention to the Human Race that she created. Xuanqing returning to the Human Clan Ancestral Land and reconnecting his past karma through his incarnate self could not escape her eyes.

"Let nature take its course!"

After some thought, she decided not to intervene, but instead, to pay more attention to Xuanqing in the future.

Meanwhile, Xuanqing, having left the Human Clan Ancestral Land and after several years of traveling, suddenly felt a slight tremor in his soul, as if sensing an opportunity nearby.

Both the Sudden Thunder Zither and the Purple Lightning Hammer, two Spiritual Treasures imbued with the Dao of Innate Thunder, also vibrated slightly, emitting streams of Spirit Treasure Dao Essence, as if encountering something they yearned for.

"A Thunder attribute treasure?"

Xuanqing immediately used the "Innate Eight Diagrams" to make deductions and, following the obscure guidance, headed south, soon finding an area teeming with thunder.

"Is this place..."

"Thunder Marsh?"

Xuanqing was naturally familiar with the legendary Thunder Marsh, said to be where the ancient deity Thunder God used to reside. Later, during the great calamity, Fu Xi perished, and his True Spirit reincarnated into the Human Race. His mother, Hua Xu, entered Thunder Marsh by mistake, was imbued with the Thunder God Essence, and thus conceived the later Saint Emperor Fu Xi.

But he had heard from Huanglong Zhenren that Thunder Marsh, as the Innate Dragon God, wielded authority over thunder but perished due to his stubbornness in the Dragon-Han Calamity!

"Could it be, some Innate Treasure left in Thunder Marsh before the demise of the Thunder God?"

With his "Innate Wind and Thunder Dao Body" and having refined the "Xuanqing Divine Thunder," Xuanqing's sensitivity to the Thunder Dao naturally far exceeded that of other cultivators.

With a thought, he immediately transformed into a rainbow light and entered Thunder Marsh to carefully search.

Thunder Marsh, as the Innate Dragon God and a Primordial Golden Immortal of formidable power ranked among the top five in Dragon Clan, didn't wish to submit to the Ancestor Dragon during the great calamity and was ultimately slain by the Ancestor Dragon himself.

This was what Xuanqing knew.

As for other details about Thunder Marsh, his Divine Skills and Magic Treasures, he didn't have much understanding.

Logically speaking, after the Ancestor Dragon killed Thunder Marsh, he should have taken away the Spiritual Treasure that accompanied him. How could there be an opportunity left for future generations in Thunder Marsh?

Xuanqing was baffled.

However, he soon found an answer!

With his close affinity to the Thunder Great Dao, Xuanqing quickly entered the depths of Thunder Marsh. In an instant, thunder boomed, sweeping him into a thunderous world.

In this world, besides the thunder, there was nothing else; no other Principles existed, with only what seemed to be an Innate Thunder Pool forming at the center of the world.

"Is this, an Innate Sacred Land?"

Xuanqing suddenly realized.

Some top Innate beings' transformation places all have an Innate Sacred Land, and if he was not mistaken, this place was where Thunder Marsh transformed.

"Not just that!"

Soon, Xuanqing made a judgment: "Perhaps when Thunder Marsh was mortally wounded and dying, he came back here and returned his understanding of the Thunder Great Dao back to nature!"

Dao Transformation!

Looking at the Innate Thunder Pool before him, the term suddenly popped into Xuanqing's mind.

Born from nature, returning to nature, Dragon God Thunder Marsh chose to actively transform into Dao at the moment of his demise.

Perhaps the Ancestor Dragon, seeing that Thunder Marsh had no way back to heaven, allowed him a final dignity after taking his Spiritual Treasures, so he could die peacefully.

After all...

Thunder Marsh was also a Dragon God!

Being the leader of the Dragon Clan, even if he couldn't subdue Thunder Marsh, facing Thunder Marsh who also belonged to the Dragon Clan, he wouldn't peel and bone him.

The Dragon Clan wouldn't allow it.

Neither would he himself.

Xuanqing used "Innate Eight Diagrams" for divination and soon restored the original circumstances quite accurately. As Thunder Marsh died and his Tao vanished, he returned to the transformational Innate Sacred Land where he was born, repaying all his cultivation back to nature. After hundreds of eons, his Dao essence evolved into this Innate Thunder Pool, comparable to a Top Grade Spiritual Treasure!

"Creation! Oh, creation!"

Xuanqing could barely contain his excitement, immediately leaping into the Thunder Pool, attempting to refine it. Sudden Thunder Zither and Purple Lightning Hammer also flew out directly, utilizing the Dao essence of the Innate Thunder Pool to nurture their own Innate Restrictions.

The Purple Lightning Hammer, being a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with forty-eight restrictions, even with the nurturing of this Innate Thunder Pool, it would be hard to further transform into an Innate Treasure, but increasing its power a bit was still possible.

However, the Sudden Thunder Zither, merely being a High Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-six Innate Restrictions, using the Thunder Pool's Dao essence, might be able to transform into a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Don't underestimate the difference of a few Innate Restrictions; even a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-seven restrictions, compared to a High Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-six restrictions, their powers are incomparable.

Otherwise...

There wouldn't be such classifications!

Of course, the greatest beneficiary was Xuanqing himself. If he could refine this Innate Thunder Pool and this thunderous world, his mana in the future would be inexhaustible.

Moreover, he could combine the "Creation Furnace" with this Innate Thunder Pool to refine more thunder, allowing his Thunder Skill to evolve towards the origin of myriad thunders.

"This Thunder Marsh, truly worthy of being an Innate Dragon God who controls the Thunder Great Dao, just in this Innate Thunder Pool alone, there are seventeen different types of Innate Divine Thunders!"

Xuanqing felt as if he had obtained a priceless treasure.

To his eyes, this Innate Thunder Pool was in no way inferior to a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Perhaps even superior!