In the cave were three auspicious items. A phoenix corpse, a dragon corpse and an egg.
The phoenix laid on the ground in an open coffin made of the undying wood from a parasol tree. The dragon was woven around the egg as if to protect it from harm and stop it from hatching. It was about a thousand feet long. The egg was close to a hundred feet high.
Mo Shen looked at the scene without moving for over an hour. He was trying to imprint the scene in his mind in an attempt to figure out what actually happened here.
"Haighh!" Mo Shen sighed. He seemed to have figured out the situation here.
"It seemed the Phoenix and Dragon were lovers, both in the Universe Dao realm." Mo Shen said as he could feel the presence of their dao here.
"The Phoenix should have been pregnant with the dragon's baby at the time of her Nirvana. Since ancient times, phoenixes and dragons have been enemies."
"It was no wonder she failed her Nirvana. She wasn't able to have complete dominion over her dao, the infinite Nirvana flames. And since the dao sensed the aura of the dragon all over her during the nirvana, it didn't let her pass it."
"And this dragon, it seems like he sacrificed his life source to seal up the egg here, at least for a million years so others won't be able to take advantage of it and it won't be hunted down by the phoenix and dragon clans."
"This is really a big gift for me. If I can melt up the bones and flesh of the Phoenix and dragon into myself, it won't be too much of a loss even if I lose the demon bones and ancient god heart."
"And just right here will be the best place for it." Mo Shen said as he carried the egg out of the dragon's embrace."
Suddenly, he paused in his steps, as if he thought of something. "Why do I have to lose the demon bones and ancient god heart?"
In the past, he had never considered any thing other than destroying them, but now that he had calmed down, he started to think things through.
"If I can comprehend this Phoenix's dao of infinite Nirvana flames and the dragon's dao of absolute domination, I'll be able to achieve a perfect rebirth of the flesh by mixing all 4 together."
"Speaking of which, it will be more perfect to integrate them all together with the space and time dao when I am creating my own dao."
"But it isn't time for that now. I need to comprehend this 2 daos in the shortest time possible. Good thing the aura of the 2 daos are very strong here, that it will be hard to miss."
"I'm sure, this little guy here has already sub-conciously comprehended the 2 daos here, after all it has been here for a million years."
Mo Shen sat cross-legged in between the Phoenix and the dragon.
"Since my comprehension is very strong and the aura of the 2 daos here is also very strong, I should be able to comprehend them together."
He closed his eyes, emptied his mind and began to feel all around him. As expected, it was quite easy to comprehend them.
In 10 months time, he opened his eyes with a dazzling light.
"It's finally done. Those guys are really crazy." Mo Shen stretched as he stood up.
It wasn't supposed to take him that long to comprehend the two daos to the beginning level taking into account the environment here and his comprehensive ability. But about 5 months after he started comprehending, the wills of the 2 daos began to battle for dominance. It was just like when the demon bones and the ancient god heart were battling.
It took him a good 6 months to completely obliterate their wills and dominate the 2 daos.
"Now, it's time to start." Mo Shen brought out his soul flame, that seemed to be a lot more powerful than before.
His soul flame originally grew from his past battles, now that he had fought a similar battle, it helped to sharpen the flames.
He used the Infinite Nirvana flames dao to power up the soul flames and then completely integrated it with the surrounding flames.
"This guy might get burnt before it is even born." Mo Shen said as he looked at the egg. Then he threw a wisp of the soul flames on the egg to protect it.
"Damn it! The pain is crazier than I thought." Mo Shen said as he gritted his teeth. His body was fully engulfed in flames hot enough to obliterate a cultivator in the Heavenly Immortal realm
He had partially severed his connection with his body to reduce the pain, but it still felt unbearable.
"No! I can't stop here. I still have to return to protect my parents. Father must be thinking of counter measures to take by the time I come back. I must go back stronger."
With that thought in his head, he calmed down, ignoring the pain in his body. His mind focused on melting the demon bones and the ancient god heart.
As he was melting them, he was also suppressing their sentient spirit. After all, they were still ancient artifact spirits, he could only defeat them, not destroy them. But if he was able to succeed in completely melting them all, the spirits within would be destroyed.
It took 2 months for them to be completely melted, together with the Phoenix and dragon bodies.
In the process of the melting, he had already comprehended the Infinite Space dao and Immeasurable Time dao to the beginner level. He had fought with the demon bones and ancient god heart for a very long time, so he already had a partial understanding on the 2 daos.
He began to run the 4 daos around his soul to mix them together. The melted parts of the 4 entities began to integrate together.
It took another 2 months for them to be completely integrated. In those 2 months, Mo Shen had to regulate the temperature differently for the 4 of them according to their required temperature.
His soul flame had also become more powerful than ever due to constant tempering with his soul.
Now it was time to forge the body. This time, the Undying Nirvana flames dao was the most useful. But he didn't stop running the other daos.
He first started with his heart, which was one of the most important parts. It took 2 whole days before the heart was fully formed. Mo Shen kept the aura of the Undying nirvana flames dao in his heart as a healing means. So in case his heart was injured, it will recover quickly.
The next thing was his skeleton. It was originally formed from the demon bones. Now, he formed it like the demon bones, it was black just like the demon bones, but much stronger.
After that, his heart began to form new blood which ran throughout his skeleton, forming flesh in the process.
He let a portion of the liquid to the egg to make it stronger when it hatches. Although it was only about 5% of it, it will greatly benefit the egg. After all, this was all due to its parents, Mo Shen had to give it some benefits.
After his flesh had formed, he let the Undying nirvana flames do the rest and fell into a deep sleep, just like a phoenix undergoing nirvana.
***
When Mo Shen opened his eyes, he was sitting naked cross-legged on a thick hot colorless rock. He examined his body internally and was surprised at the great change.
"I have broken through past the Divinity realm?" Mo Shen said in shock. He could feel the energy coursing through his body. It was the energy far stronger than the Divinity realm.
Although he had lit his soul flame, and it had grown very powerful, far surpassing the Immortal soul realm, and breaking through to the Divinity realm was only a matter of time for him, he didn't expect it to happen so fast. Just how much energy had he absorbed?
The Divinity realm was the realm where the soul flame lit in the Immortal Soul realm will be used to temper the body, turning it into a divine body. And Mo Shen's body has far surpassed that stage. After meeting so many conditions, it was not too shocking that he broke through past the Divinity realm.
To enter the Void Immortal realm, one had to nurture a small world in their body. The small world will generate world energy, and when the world energy reaches the limit, they'll reach the True Immortal realm.
In the True Immortal realm, the world energy would be used to nurture a tree, called the world tree. The tree would be the core of the small world. When the world tree gains enough energy and bears fruits, one would enter the Heavenly Immortal realm.
In the Heavenly Immortal realm, the fruits from the world tree will be planted again as seeds. The fruits will grown into different elements. There can be a minimum of 1 fruit, and a maximum of 9 fruits borne from the world tree. Ordinary people had 1 - 2 world fruits, and only top geniuses could have up to 7 world fruits. Having 9 world fruits was one of the rarest things in the universe.
The energy in Mo Shen's body had far surpassed the Origin Dao realm, but because he had not created his small world to generate world energy, he could only be said to be in the Divinity realm.
"There's no hurry to create my small world." Mo Shen said as he stood up. "After devouring the innate memories of the demon bones and ancient god heart, and even part of the memories of the dragon and Phoenix, my understanding of the universe has grown tremendously."
During the process of constructing his body, when he fell into a deep sleep, he was able to see the full memories of the demon bones and the ancient god heart. And through their wills in their daos, he was also able to peek into the memories of the dragon and phoenix.
Now his understanding of the universe wasn't just limited to the Dao universe. He was able to see great secrets of the whole universe at large, not just the small Dao universe they resided in.
He saw the wonders of the dao. He saw how the dao was used. He decided that the dao was the foundation of a cultivator. Only when one reaches the Origin Dao realm can they be said to have truly become a cultivator.
n the past, he was eager to create his own dao quickly, now that he knew more, he had calmed down. It was a good thing that he didn't create his dao that time, if not, it would have just been a slightly better dao than the average genius.
What he wanted to do now was to feel all changes in the world, understand all the truths, see through all illusions and integrate them all into his dao, creating a true universe dao. He wanted to create his own perfect dao.
Although from the memories he saw, no one had been able to do it since ancient times, and even in higher worlds. Their daos was only on a higher level compared to what he formerly knew of. But he had decided to create an invincible dao and call it the Divine Throne, ruling all other daos.
"I will create my small world only after I create my dao. No matter whether it takes 10 years, 100 years or 1000 years. By then it will no longer be called a small world. It will be a complete universe that contains all laws, daos and truths."
"My physical body can already contend with an expert at the Universe Dao realm, and my energy, although in the Divinity realm, is comparable to a cultivator in the origin dao realm, because I have entered the dao. It's just not world energy."
"There is absolutely no need to rush things, since I can be considered to be at the top of the Dao Universe."