Chapter 226: Chapter 145: Ascending the Throne, All Living Beings Aid My Enlightenment

In this world, there are countless Great Dao Rules.

These include the most common Five Elements Great Dao—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—as well as the Basic Great Daos that can be tangibly perceived, such as Wind, Thunder, Ice, and Snow.

There are also the Natural Great Daos seen in everyday life, such as Slaughter, Poison, Weaponry, and Emotion.

From the movements of the stars to the smallest flowers, grasses, insects, and fish—all things in the world can become a Dao.

Therefore, the Dao Fruits that Cultivators condense through their Enlightenment of the Great Dao Rules are also innumerable.

However, there have only ever been nine Origin Dao Fruits.

Destiny, Cause and Effect, Reincarnation, Time, Space, Life, Death, Matter, and Void!

These Nine Great Origin Rules form the most fundamental workings of this Heaven and Earth.

This was information Wang Xiao had obtained from Zhao Yin’s thoughts, a conclusion reached after being verified by countless Cultivators over innumerable years!

It was exactly the same as what the Chaos Nether King had previously told him about the Origin Dao Fruits required to refine Earth.

Therefore, while there are thousands of cultivation and evolution techniques in the world, each with its own merits and complexities, the further one progresses in Cultivation, the more all paths lead to the same destination.

It’s like countless intersecting lines converging toward a single point.

The further along they go, the more they intersect.

The Great Dao Rules Wang Xiao planned to comprehend next were, naturally, in preparation for refining Earth and becoming a Tier Seven Life.

However, Earth was no ordinary Living Star.

According to the Chaos Nether King, Earth was the core of their Extraordinary Starry Sky!

What did it mean to be the core?

It was the very center of a starry sky.

All celestial bodies within this starry sky were subject to its influence!

Of course, this "center" didn’t refer to a physical location, but to its level of importance.

Or perhaps, it referred to the consciousness that Earth contained!

This planetary consciousness surpassed all others.

It even invisibly influenced the consciousness of every other planet in the starry sky.

Thus, to refine Earth, one had to condense the Nine Great Origin Dao Fruits.

Only with the support of the Nine Great Origin Dao Fruits could the Grotto Heaven a Cultivator eventually manifested within their body bear the planet’s consciousness!

Otherwise, not only would the refinement fail, but the Grotto Heaven would directly collapse, and one might even suffer a backlash from the planet’s consciousness.

Previously, Zhao Yin was a prime example.

Despite already being a Tier Seven Life, he still suffered a backlash when he tried to forcibly refine a planet’s consciousness.

This showed just how difficult it was to become a Tier Seven Life.

If Wang Xiao wanted to condense the Nine Great Origin Dao Fruits and refine Earth, he would naturally need to follow a certain order.

For years, he had been pondering which Origin Great Dao to use as his starting point.

After much deliberation, he finally chose the Destiny Great Dao.

This was because the other Origin Great Daos—such as Cause and Effect, Reincarnation, Time, Space, Life, Death, Matter, and Void—while also elusive, ultimately had traces one could follow.

Only Destiny was fickle, formless, traceless, and the most difficult to comprehend.

However, it was also intricately connected to the other Origin Dao Fruits.

Because of this, once he condensed the Destiny Dao Fruit, comprehending the other Origin Dao Fruits would become much simpler.

In the Celestial Universe Star Domain where Zhao Yin resided, a large portion of the powerful Domain Lords also chose to first comprehend the Destiny Great Dao when they began their Dao Entry.

Moreover, Wang Xiao possessed the Talent of Analyze All Things. Though Destiny was formless, incorporeal, and left no trace, he could still capture a sliver of its trail.

Using that trace, it would be much simpler for him to then comprehend the Destiny Great Dao.

Furthermore, because of the unique nature of the Destiny Great Dao, the Divine Techniques he could use after condensing the Destiny Dao Fruit would be all the more powerful.

To comprehend the Destiny Great Dao, one naturally had to start with people as the foundation.

Observing the destinies of others, even changing them—establishing a destiny for others.

Then, using his Inner World as a base to perceive the resulting fluctuations, it would be possible to comprehend the Destiny Great Dao hidden within the unseen currents.

Of course, the chances of comprehending the Destiny Great Dao by changing just one person’s destiny were infinitesimally small, like a speck of dust.

But what if he increased that base number?

If one wasn’t enough, then what about ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, ten million... Surely, he would gain some insight, some Enlightenment.

Wang Xiao only needed to capture a single trace of the Destiny Great Dao, and he could use his Analyze All Things Talent to trace it back to its source and find the true Destiny Great Dao!

This was the path Wang Xiao would walk, the Dao he would seek.

To establish a destiny for the people!

To achieve this, there was no more suitable role than that of an Emperor.

Even being a secular Emperor was a form of profound Cultivation.

An Emperor controls the veins of the world: its economy, the livelihood of its people, its culture, its wars, and the lives and deaths of hundreds of millions.

A single word can decide the fate of the world.

A single sentence can change a person’s destiny.

A single decree can change the destinies of thousands upon thousands of people.

To gather the great power of the world into one body—that is the Dao of the sovereign.

When the destinies of all are tied to a single person, the elusive Destiny Great Dao will have nowhere left to hide.

Of course, Wang Xiao had no intention of becoming a Puppet Emperor like Emperor Wenchang.

He would be a true Emperor who governed the world, whose commands were absolute, and who was free from all external interference.

Therefore, Wang Xiao had to display strength that far surpassed Immortal Kings like An Yuanshan to even qualify to negotiate with the Earth Immortal.

After all, as a Prince of Wenchang Country, it was his birthright to inherit the throne.

The Vast Immortal Sect would not offend a supreme Immortal King over a mere country.

There was nothing for them to gain and everything to lose from such an action.

Besides, Wenchang Country was not the only nation under their control.