"Longevity...I acknowledge, but Tao Fruit?" In this moment, Chen Zhixing looked at the other with a hint of mockery in his eyes.

"Do you—half-dead as you are—really deserve the term 'Longevity Tao Fruit'?"

"....."

The figure, upon hearing this, did not continue to argue. Having gone through this period herself, she understood that Chen Zhixing was not someone who could be persuaded now. It would only be in the future, when he found himself stuck for countless years and nearing the end of his lifespan, that he would naturally embark on this path without needing others to persuade him.

Just like she had done in the past.

The phantom slowly disappeared in front of Chen Zhixing.

This time, without the cover of the Cyan Pheasant Immortal Sword, it vanished directly into the air.

The ground trembled slightly.

It was the White Flood Dragon, realizing that the other had left, finally relaxed and moved slightly.

"Is that the Golden Nature?" the White Flood Dragon could not help but ask.

"It's considered Golden Nature, yet it isn't. To be precise, she is a part of the composition of Golden Nature." Chen Zhixing replied coldly.

"So this is the Golden Nature, huh..."

The White Flood Dragon seemed to sigh but did not show much sorrow.

She did not think she had a chance of achieving Longevity in this lifetime, so she did not pursue the so-called cause and effect between Golden Nature and Longevity.

Having truly witnessed the so-called 'Golden Nature,' she did not have much emotional fluctuation.

Cold and indifferent, indeed befitting a cold-blooded creature.

After a while.

Realizing that Chen Zhixing did not intend to speak again, the White Flood Dragon swayed its body and moved around the hall, then curled itself back into a coiled position.

"Now I know what Golden Nature is, and I finally understand why this realm is called the Longevity Realm... What an apt description, only you humans could come up with such a fitting term."

Chen Zhixing remained silent.

Longevity Masters of the First Order have a lifespan of three thousand years. After that, each advancement in order extends their lifespan variably. As strong as Master Yimiao, the Master of the Holy Land of the sixth or seventh order, even after six or seven thousand years, has only lived through a small part of their lifespan.

Yet even so, their lifespan has an end. Even reaching the Ninth or Tenth Order, their maximum lifespan is only two to three ten thousand years.

A lifespan of twenty to thirty thousand years may count as longevity to a mortal, even celebrated as the immortal longevity of a deity.

But what qualifies a Longevity Realm Cultivator of only the First Order to be called a Longevity True Monarch?

Note, even the Peak Realm has a lifespan of two thousand years!

And the vast majority of Longevity True Monarchs spend their entire life merely lingering in the first sequence!

The difference in lifespan between the two is but a millennium, yet how does the latter earn the title of Longevity?

When Chen Zhixing first encountered this knowledge, he thought 'Longevity' merely referred to the ability to 'infinitely extend one's lifespan,' thus somewhat exaggeratedly calling themselves Longevity Realm.

But now.

Upon obtaining a true share of 'Golden Nature,' Chen Zhixing finally discovered that Longevity True Monarchs can achieve true longevity.

However, the 'longevity' described here differs from most people's imagination. It is not about long life through cultivation while alive, but rather gaining longevity through the form of Golden Nature after death.

Golden Nature is eternal!

The path of cultivation advocated within the Celestial Profound Realm is based on one world, transforming into countless paths that can be cultivated.

Initially, some paths were narrow and the future could be seen along these roads. Cultivators and those in the True Self Realm embarked on these paths for cultivation. If they could attain Longevity, it would mean having walked this path to its extreme, so that after death, they could traverse this path as Golden Nature, joining heaven and earth with a lifespan as long as the sky, nearly achieving eternal life as long as others continue to practice the same path, making them immortal.

Their path becomes Golden Nature!

They become Golden Nature!

Because they contribute to this world by using their cultivation to complete certain rules of the universe!

They are even seen as masters of the path they carved, acknowledged as Masters of One Tao!

Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Fire, Thunder, Lightning, Yin and Yang...

Grasping these elements of Golden Nature makes one a Master of One Tao.

In theory, any path that can be cultivated could bear a Tao Fruit, allowing one to gain Golden Nature and longevitate, earning the title of Master of One Tao.

But what if others follow the path of the predecessors?

Only one can be Taoist Lord of a Great Tao; if later generations walk the same path as those before, who gains the longevity?

Only so many places to hold; if you wish to occupy the predecessor's place, you must then displace the predecessor.

Displacement, how?

By naturally walking this Great Tao further and deeper, surpassing the bounds of predecessors, naturally displacing the other's position on this Great Tao, becoming the new 'Golden Nature.'

As a latecomer aiming for Longevity and Golden Nature, you'd need to oust predecessors—would they agree?

Of course not!

You are demanding their life!

Golden Nature disagrees, yet cultivating has always had future generations standing on the shoulders of past ones, surpassed naturally. What the predecessors dethroned by future generations do to respond?

Stop others from cultivating?

Impossible.

If no one cultivates their path, their Golden Nature withers and dies.

Fewer practitioners leave them enfeebled.

Only with more practitioners can they thrive.

Practitioners must exist, and as Golden Nature, they must transmit their path.

But successful practitioners may intimidate their positions...

Thus.

Practices like the Ziwei Chen Family's 'Five Elements Qi Collection Method' emerged as 'Secrets of Longevity.' They enable longevity yet allow no progress on the path of longevity; practitioners of these methods pose no threat to Golden Nature while nourishing it, perfectly fulfilling Golden Nature's requirements.

An excellent approach.

These cultivation techniques have been transmitted, forming Noble Families.

Intergenerational legacies occasionally give rise to Longevity Masters, whose residual Golden Nature, even after death, returns to the main body as nourishment for Golden Nature.

But if, under such constraints, someone progresses down a blocked Great Tao?

Golden Nature can intervene, guiding them to 'small roads' their Great Tao doesn't encompass.

For instance, the Master of Wood Attribute Gold can distribute into 'Wood,' 'Cyan Wood,' 'Taiyi Wood,' 'Black Wood,' and many small paths. Cultivating these paths also leads to Golden Nature, though subsidiary to the Taoist Lord, forming a subordinate relationship. Because they are branches of the main trunk, their power seldom exceeds the main trunk.

Weakness makes it easy for successors to surpass.

Being surpassed means being replaced!

With few practicing the Wood path, minor Golden Natures like 'Wood' and 'Golden Wood' may prematurely wither.

Yet at least both can coexist, avoiding conflict with cultivators holding the main body.

Even so.

The number of Golden Natures remains limited; places for post-mortem longevity finite.

Conflict will inevitably occur.

Successors replacing predecessors over time becomes a foregone conclusion.

Thus, another path emerged.

Fusion!

The successor becomes part of the predecessor, or both merge into one!

The predecessor imparts their experience, accelerating the successor's cultivation, allowing them to traverse this path further and deeper, strengthening this Tao's Golden Nature.

Seems fine, a win-win perhaps?

Yet no matter how described.

This act appears, to living cultivators, to be Golden Nature possession.

Golden Nature Possession!

Moreover, because during youth the Golden Nature insidiously enters your body, post-fusion, it will inevitably dominate the host.

As long as the road continues, who would choose the path of 'fusion'?

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