Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 1148 - 810 Dao Rhyme treasured essence_2

Chapter 1148: 810 Dao Rhyme treasured essence_2

However, being able to preserve one’s life and not directly perish after failing to prove the Tao can be considered an incredible stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

"The drawback is significant, though, falling from heaven into hell. Such a fall from grace, how many can endure it? If this drawback could be resolved, allowing one to retain all their power after failing to prove the Tao, no, even just a significant portion, the path of achieving the Tao through strength could flourish in the world."

"If one could keep all their power even after failing to prove the Tao, they could start over and attempt a second proof. A failure in the first attempt but with an even stronger foundation would undoubtedly increase the success rate of a second proof."

"If two attempts don’t suffice, then try a third, and if that fails, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth... As long as each attempt is stronger than the last, eventually one could accumulate enough power to succeed in proving the Tao."

"So, as long as we can solve the problem of rapid power loss after failing to prove the Tao, the springtime for those who seek to achieve the Tao through strength will arrive. As long as one can endure, trying over and over, success in proving the Tao is ultimately inevitable."

"However, this has nothing to do with me, as I am destined to succeed in proving the Tao on my first try. These are matters for future generations to consider."

As time passed, Jiang Chen gradually calmed down and reconsidered the method of proving the Tao by Slaying Three Lives, only to realize that its flaws were greater than he had imagined and that there was much that needed improvement.

But even if the method had numerous flaws, Jiang Chen did not intend to completely perfect it, as that would be extremely difficult to achieve in one generation. It would require the relentless efforts of countless generations to fully perfect it.

What Jiang Chen intended to do was to perfect the method just to the extent that it was sufficient for his own use. As for the rest, he would leave it to future generations to perfect. If the predecessors had done everything, how would the successors be honed?

One must always leave some things for future generations to accomplish lest they idle away their lives, drunkenly living off the merits of their forebears.

"Coalesce!"

Jiang Chen formed a seal, and the power to create and forge converged upon him, tumultuous and mighty, twisting the surrounding void into shreds, turning it into a profound expanse of chaos.

Then, this chaos began to contract and congeal above Jiang Chen’s head into a sphere, transforming into a gray and misty pearl, exuding the ancient air of chaos.

This was the Chaos Pearl, derived from chaos, appearing as the image of a pearl but containing infinite phenomena within; all things of the world existed inside it.

It was the beginning as well as the end. The emergence of the Chaos Pearl signified the birth of chaos, the inception of chaos, the start of all potentials.

At the same time, it also represented the ultimate fate of all things—destruction leads to the beginning of chaos. The start of chaos is the end of all things.

This Chaos Pearl, condensed by Jiang Chen through his understanding of chaos, was extremely ethereal and unstable, appearing as though it could disintegrate at any moment.

Moreover, although the pearl bore the Dao Rhyme of chaos, it lacked the supreme divine might to suppress chaos that was present on the genuine Chaos Pearl.

This was normal; if the Chaos Pearl condensed by Jiang Chen was indistinguishable from the real one, then he would not be just an Innate Taoist Master. He would have already become the master of chaos, ranking as a mighty one even among the myriad Chaos Demigods, able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Pangu Great God.

"Go!"

Jiang Chen’s mind moved, and the Chaos Pearl he had condensed from his Dao Rhyme fell into the central lotus of the Three Flowers above his head—a jade-colored lotus symbolizing the beginning, the origin of everything, corresponding to the meaning the Chaos Pearl represented. Placing the Chaos Pearl inside it for nourishment would have an enhancing effect.

You could see the Chaos Pearl descending, cradled by the jade lotus, hovering above the lotus platform, as strands and streams of mysterious power emerged and merged with it, stabilizing its ethereal form somewhat.

"Go!"

At this point, Jiang Chen mobilized the Power of Destruction and condensed a chaos-colored great axe, its handle marked with intertwined dragon and snake emblems, resembling Taiji, as though narrating the mystique of the Great Dao.

On one side of the axe blade emerged the terrifying scene of chaos being torn asunder, while on the other appeared a bloodstained tableau with Demon Gods falling en masse, tainting chaos with their blood.

This was the Heaven-Opening Axe, also known as the Chaos Axe, with the tremendous power to tear apart everything and destroy Chaos. Its birth signified the end of Chaos and the beginning of all things.

Thus, it was both an end and a beginning, the end of Chaos and the start of all things; as Chaos shattered, Heaven and Earth emerged.

The concepts of beginning and end, these two contradictory and opposing states, were fully demonstrated in these two Magic Treasures, the Chaos Pearl and the Pangu Axe.

They were great, and they were contradictory. They could transform back and forth between destruction and creation, so, in the end, they merged into one.

This Pangu Axe, like the Chaos Pearl, was condensed by Jiang Chen’s own Dao Rhyme, illusory and unstable, and lacked the supreme divine might of the true body.

Shua~~

The Pangu Axe fell, descending into the purple flower among the Three Flowers. Just like the Chaos Pearl, nurtured by the purple lotus, the illusory form of the Pangu Axe gradually became stable.

Next was the Chaos Green Lotus, the embodiment of Creation, with the power to evolve everything.

Whether from nothing to something, or from something to nothing, or from beginning to end, and from end back to beginning, there was a process of development involved. What the Chaos Green Lotus represented was this process of development.

At the end of the Great Dao, different paths lead to the same destination.

In the end, all Great Daos were interconnected, which was why Jiang Chen’s understanding of the Dao of Creation was not shallow. The Power of Creation condensed upon him, quickly forming a thirty-six petaled lotus.

At Jiang Chen’s gesture, the Creation Green Lotus fell into the Green Lotus among the Three Flowers.

And just as the Three Treasures fell into the Three Flowers, seemingly meeting some condition, Jiang Chen’s mind shook violently, giving rise to a mysterious enlightenment, as if at that moment, he had achieved a sense of completion, his spirit transcending, wanting to rise above Heaven and Earth, leveling with Chaos, and sitting in Reincarnation to watch the rise and fall of the cosmos.

Unfortunately, this feeling came quickly and left just as quickly. Before Jiang Chen could reflect, that enlightenment receded like the tide.

Jiang Chen tried to recall, but he just couldn’t remember it, and immediately, he knew it was not a power he could grasp, involving the fundamentals of the Three Great Chaos Treasures, only when he cultivated to a certain realm could he trigger it again.

"Dao Mirror, Chaos Green Lotus, stabilize me!"

Since it wasn’t a power he could currently grasp, Jiang Chen simply stopped pondering over these things and instead summoned the Dao Mirror and the Chaos Green Lotus to enhance the Three Treasures transformed by Dao Rhyme in the Three Flowers.

What a joke, if Jiang Chen had to comprehend them by himself, he would exhaust himself without ever truly understanding all the mysteries of the Three Great Chaos Treasures. Or to put it another way, no one could comprehend all the mysteries of the Treasures on their own.

But with the help of the Dao Mirror and the Chaos Green Lotus, there was no need for Jiang Chen to comprehend anything; as these two Treasures ascended, they would naturally grasp the mysteries of the Three Great Chaos Treasures.

It turns out, the shattering of the Three Great Chaos Treasures was also a blessing for Jiang Chen. If they hadn’t shattered, he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to get close to the Treasures, let alone comprehend the mysteries they contained.

If the Treasures hadn’t shattered, how could Jiang Chen have acquired them?

Boom boom boom!

The Dao Mirror and Chaos Green Lotus vibrated, emitting a huge rumbling noise as mysterious powers burst forth from them, flowing into the Three Flowers above Jiang Chen’s head.

Instantly, the originally illusory Three Treasures marks solidified rapidly.

Very quickly, they became like real Magic Treasures, rising from Jiang Chen’s Three Flowers and hovering in mid-air, resonating continuously.

A mysterious fluctuation surfaced, as space became blurry at that moment, and the power of Reincarnation flowed forth; the Three Treasures were no longer visible, replaced by a special ring.