At least they were beings like oneself, Great Awakening True Immortals, or perhaps even higher.
If such beings truly intended to kill, Chu Lingtian would have been utterly annihilated just now.
The fact that he was unharmed, with the attack stopping at his brow, clearly indicated no intention to kill.
The golden-armored man, naturally, had to thank Fang Ming on behalf of his disciple, as it was his disciple who had been disrespectful first.
Fang Ming responded, "I merely wished to avoid attracting the attention of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace's powerful cultivators!"
The golden-armored man chuckled upon hearing this, "For a peerless prodigy like yourself, to cultivate to such a level within a mere chaotic epoch."
"You are far beyond what Chu Lingtian can compare to."
"You are far more precious than an inner disciple of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace."
Fang Ming pondered for a moment, then abruptly changed the subject, asking the crucial question.
"Since you have transcended chaos, you must have established or created new cultivation systems beyond the Primordial Immortal Path. How is this system divided?"
The golden-armored man replied, "This matter must be told from the beginning."
"In the past, the Heavenly Palace Master of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace cultivated to the Great Dao Saint realm and transcended chaos."
"Above the Great Dao Saint realm, he further deduced a more advanced immortal cultivation system."
"It is called the Great Awakening Immortal Path."
"The Great Awakening Immortal Path brought improvements to the original Primordial cultivation system."
"Normally, cultivators, after reaching the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal realm by cultivating Great Dao laws, would then comprehend the power of Hunyuan Limitless and ascend to Hunyuan Limitless."
"However, after contemplation and research, the Heavenly Palace Master felt this path was incorrect. The optimal solution was to begin comprehending the power of Initial Profound at the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal stage."
"If a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal can comprehend the Initial Profound power of any one of the five elements, they are considered to be in the Initial Profound realm."
"In the Initial Profound realm, the weak can only match Hunyuan Limitless, while the strong can match half-step Great Dao realm."
"However, overall, the Initial Profound realm is a transitional stage."
"The purpose of this realm's existence is to facilitate the transition between the two paths, from Great Luo to Great Awakening."
"In the cultivation of Great Dao laws, from Great Luo Golden Immortal to Hunyuan Golden Immortal, and then to Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, all can be categorized under the Great Luo realm."
"Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal is also Great Luo, and it cultivates Great Dao laws."
"The Primordial cultivation method, on the basis of cultivating Great Dao laws, delves deeper, comprehending the Dao of Hunyuan Limitless."
"But in the end, Great Dao laws themselves only belong to the Great Dao within a chaotic epoch; they are not the origin."
"Even comprehending the Dao of Hunyuan Limitless, or even ascending to the half-step Great Dao realm, or the Great Dao Saint realm, merely means cultivating Great Dao laws to their extreme."
"Great Dao laws are far inferior to origin laws."
"Therefore, instead of cultivating them to the extreme, it is better to cultivate Great Dao laws to a certain extent, such that they can support the conversion from Great Dao laws to origin laws, and then switch cultivation paths."
"Comprehending the Initial Profound power that belongs to origin laws."
"Then, using the Initial Profound power, construct a heaven and earth within the body filled with origin laws. This heaven and earth is called the Origin World, or the World of Origin Potential."
"Once a World of Origin Potential is constructed, one becomes a Great Awakening True Immortal, truly ascending from the Dao of Great Luo to the Dao of Great Awakening, wielding origin laws."
"If a Great Awakening True Immortal can construct three Worlds of Origin Potential, they become a Great Awakening Golden Immortal. If they can construct a World of Origin Potential of the five elements, with endless cycles of generation and mutual restraint, they become a Hunyuan Great Awakening Golden Immortal."
"Great Awakening True Immortal, Great Awakening Golden Immortal, Hunyuan Great Awakening Golden Immortal."
"All are stages of the Dao of Great Awakening, the process of wielding origin laws from shallow to deep."
"However, even if only one Origin World is constructed, and origin laws are initially wielded, the strength surpasses that of a Great Dao Saint."
"Therefore, the lowest level, the Great Awakening True Immortal realm, already surpasses a Great Dao Saint who wields three thousand Great Dao laws, demonstrating that the Dao of Great Awakening is far superior to delving deeply into Great Dao laws."
At this point.
The golden-armored man looked at Fang Ming with admiration and shock.
In five thousand chaotic epochs, it was rare for even one person to cultivate to the Great Dao Saint realm and transcend chaos in ten chaotic epochs.
When the golden-armored man was sent to this chaos by an elder of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, he never imagined that the ruler of this chaos would be a Great Dao Saint, or even a being above Great Dao Saint.
Because according to normal logic.
After cultivating to the Great Dao Saint realm, one could transcend chaos. After witnessing the vast and boundless world outside chaos, who would be willing to remain in such a small chaos?
The moment one cultivates to the Great Dao Saint realm is the moment of transcending chaos.
Within a chaos, one rarely encounters powerful beings at or above the Great Dao Saint level.
How could the golden-armored man have predicted that a powerhouse like Fang Ming, who was above the Great Dao Saint realm, would still remain in this chaos, possessing the ability to transcend but not having done so?
Therefore, upon witnessing Fang Ming's true strength, the golden-armored man instantly changed his attitude.
If Fang Ming only possessed the peak strength of Hunyuan Limitless, or the half-step Great Dao realm, then the Five Elements Heavenly Palace would have condescendingly accepted him, as if bestowing a favor.
A mere overlord-level powerhouse dominating a chaotic epoch, in the eyes of the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, was nothing special.
But a being like Fang Ming, who had forcefully cultivated to a realm above Great Dao Saint within a single chaotic epoch, while still far inferior to the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, at least possessed the qualifications for the Five Elements Heavenly Palace to pay attention.
After all, geniuses still held some privileges for the Five Elements Heavenly Palace.
"The Five Elements Heavenly Palace, based on the Five Elements Great Dao..."
Fang Ming murmured to himself.
The golden-armored man seemed to understand Fang Ming's thoughts and said, "There are three thousand Great Dao laws, but there are only five origin laws!"
"Origin laws are only the five elements: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. These five elements are the fundamental building blocks of the world. Other Great Dao laws, such as destiny, destruction, creation, slaughter, yin, and yang, have no corresponding origin laws, and one cannot comprehend Initial Profound or construct an Origin World through them."
Indeed, every ancient saint had carved out their own path on the foundation of the Primordial cultivation system.
Weak ancient saints like Daojun Lu Ya did not have the qualification to independently establish a path and were still merely called ancient saints.
But ancient saints like Jin Bifeng already possessed the qualification to independently establish a cultivation path. He used the Five Elements Great Dao as his foundation, deducing a new method! Deducing new realms!
Why did destiny, destruction, creation, slaughter, and yin and yang have no origin laws... Because Jin Bifeng's cultivation system could not accommodate these Great Daos!
Fang Ming recalled the past.