Chapter 1335: Natural Heavenly Dao

At this moment, the universe seemed like an ancient immortal embryo truly in gestation. Threads of Great Dao rules intertwined, pulsating like a flesh-and-blood heart.

A life was vaguely forming.

"The Great Dao blueprint is transforming into crimson meridians, cosmic rules are becoming the backbone, and the cosmic membrane is forming the body," Xu Fan exclaimed, his gaze intensely fervent. "Indeed, everything before was incomplete..."

"In...complete?"

Xu Qingqing was stunned, finding it perplexing.

"Yes, incomplete."

Xu Fan took a deep breath and said calmly, "The ancient Primordial Life Saints, who attained enlightenment through the cosmic life rules, bloodline sequences, and material structures, provided creatures with a basic foundation and ample conditions for the emergence of life. Yet, they did not interfere, allowing nature to guide their natural evolution."

"Why did they not fully interfere with the evolution of life, but instead allowed life to evolve naturally on various planets? This is because human intervention has limits, while nature is limitless!"

Xu Qingqing seemed to understand a little.

To this day, the evolution of all universes has been artificial.

Although this accelerates the life process, allowing these universes to rapidly pass through their primitive stages, it also adds an artificiality and diminishes nature's vitality.

Because everything is man-made, not the evolution of nature!

In the ancient texts given to them by the Chongming Heavenly Court, a saying was recorded: "The Heavenly Dao accounts for forty-nine, while humanity secures one."

And now?

It’s practically humanity performing fifty!

"Human evolution has limits, but nature's evolution is limitless," Xu Fan said. "And we, all of us, are forcefully interfering, taking over universes, causing them to lose their selfhood. This is interfering with the historical process of development... I want them to develop naturally!"

Xu Qingqing's face paled, and she suddenly said, "Brother, you're not going to use the 'Nature Strategy' again, are you? This will cause huge problems."

Only she knew how formidable Xu Fan was.

Her brother Xu Fan's cultivation aptitude and combat talent were not good, yet he managed to reach the peak of the Tenth Order. He naturally had his own Great Dao philosophy.

To become a Saint with a mortal body, suppressing countless proud prodigies and sages, was because Xu Fan's research philosophy on bloodlines was almost terrifying; he was an unimaginable genius.

His cultivation philosophy was the "Nature Strategy."

He advocated for bloodlines to develop their own self-awareness and for bloodlines to deduce their own cultivation methods.

This concept was novel, almost heretical!

Previous bloodline cultivation methods were all deduced by humans themselves. To let bloodlines develop intelligence and deduce their own bloodline methods?

But in the philosophy of the Great Transformation Demonic Art, bloodlines deducing themselves was the true path, as nothing understood a bloodline better than itself.

Xu Qingqing couldn't help but try to dissuade him, suddenly speaking in a seemingly irrelevant manner, "Brother, do you remember that Tenth-Order mechanical civilization ruin we encountered in the lower realms?

They researched machinery, reaching an extremely high peak of glory, traversing countless nebulae, igniting a peak craze for machinery... And even in their final development, their ultimate perfect philosophy was also to let mechanical weapons evolve mechanical weapons themselves.

Machinery evolving itself was the true path, as nothing understood machinery better than itself. But what happened to that civilization in the end? They became ruins, enslaved by their own machines, betrayed by them, and defeated...."

This was a tragic historical remnant.

When they passed by that ruin years ago, they felt deeply shaken, seeing it as a clear lesson.

Xu Fan, however, shook his head, his gaze clear, and he said earnestly, "That was because they didn't respect mechanical life. They arrogantly believed they had created them, then enslaved, tormented, and toyed with them...

But I am different. I treat others with sincerity. All relationships I establish are mutually beneficial and symbiotic. I treat them as my own children.

Any life form is initially pure. If you treat them well, they will naturally treat you well in return, just like the bloodline will within me has always been helping me."

Xu Qingqing's expression was grim. "You are sincere with everyone, but they all harbor ill intentions towards you. How many huge losses have we suffered, and how many times have we been in danger?"

An ordinary Saint would have died long ago.

Which Saint isn't cunning and devious?

"But it is also because of my sincerity, my pure heart, that my bloodline trusts me, isn't it? For ordinary people to let their bloodline gain intelligence is like entrusting their life to something within them... But they trust my character, which is why they wouldn't harm me."

"In fact, I've even become incredibly powerful because of it."

Xu Fan, however, shook his head and chuckled, "Although my bloodline is ordinary, even the weakest bloodline is a rule. And even the weakest rule, when pushed to its limit, is close to the Dao."

Xu Fan said nonchalantly, "My bloodline cultivation method doesn't need to be researched. It consciously advances on its own. To this day, my bloodline cultivation method has advanced 3,722,000 times, and its combat power is heaven-piercing.

If bloodline is power, then bloodline cultivation method is skill.

Power has strengths and weaknesses, but skill can compensate. I have long reached the limit of skill. No one can theoretically reach the limit of skill, except for nature... This is the principle of the Nature Strategy."

Xu Qingqing's face paled slightly.

She naturally understood the underlying principle of the Nature Strategy: any human intervention is inferior; nothing needs human interference; simply grant them "intelligence" and let them evolve naturally.

Xu Fan, however, remained extremely calm, paying no attention to his sister.

He was indeed of mediocre aptitude.

He was over five hundred years old when he became a deity.

Looking across the vast universe, such aptitude was inferior even to ordinary Ninth-Order Dao Attainers, let alone those who became Eighth-Order deities in their twenties or thirties, who were truly worthy of being called potential Saints.

But Xu Fan still knew that he... was invincible.

Although his cultivation aptitude was poor.

His combat talent was very low.

He wasn't good at scheming,

and was easily outmaneuvered by others.

He was relatively simple-minded, solely devoted to seeking the Dao.

But he clearly knew that he was still invincible.

Xu Fan had understood this since birth: he was one of a kind.

His parents were deities of mixed bloodlines, and he was born with a bloodline mutation. From birth, he was a mass of blood threads, undergoing unimaginable changes.

He was naturally uninterested in cultivation and lacked talent for it. His mind was exceptionally pure, as if he wasn't a cunning human being; he was born disliking lies.

He enjoyed studying bloodlines.

He had an unimaginable affinity for bloodlines, as if his parents had discarded their true child at birth, choosing instead to nurture him, an enlightened bloodline embryo.

"He and they were different."

He had a strong sense of dissonance; when he was among other living beings, it was as if he were a colorful creature in a black-and-white photograph, not belonging to the same dimension.

He began to seek kinship.

Traveling across that planet, studying every creature, he sought a bloodline that could produce "intelligence," his own kind.

Through the hybridization and mutation of countless beings, a potentially successful bloodline finally emerged.

Step by step, he specifically cultivated a bloodline that allowed the "bloodline" within his body to generate its own intelligence... He called this "awakening."

Once his bloodline gained intelligence, it immediately began to cultivate itself, deduce bloodline cultivation methods, and even infer bloodline combat techniques.

All his cultivation talents were exceptionally mediocre, yet by relying on this self-cultivating bloodline—which was like cultivating on autopilot—he reached the Ninth-Order Dao Attainer realm within just a thousand years, sweeping across an era.

Furthermore, he even "awakened" self-awareness in his sister's internal bloodline, allowing the bloodline to cultivate and deduce its own methods... Through their symbiosis, his sister was able to become a Saint.

"Are you going to use this theory to awaken the self-awareness of the universe now?" Xu Qingqing was utterly shocked. "You're mad! This is like humanity mastering mechanical computers and, by 'possessing' them, replacing the Heavenly Dao to control the computers... But you are letting the computers develop true self-awareness and self-evolve!"

"Machines will rebel against humans... And so will the universes. If these universes truly develop self-awareness and become natural life forms, they will absolutely not allow other Saints to take over their races!" In Xu Qingqing's eyes, this was a grave crime, a major offense against sentient beings!

His intentions were practically damnable. If word got out, all the heavens would launch a punitive expedition.

"No, this is historical inevitability."

Xu Fan's expression remained extremely calm, tinged with tranquility and purity, as he continued his work. "The Saints of the old era are forcefully interfering, attempting to obstruct the natural will of the cosmic Heavenly Dao, wanting to forcibly keep themselves in that era... Yet they don't realize that true, natural cosmic life will only genuinely emerge then... Their forced occupation is merely incomplete."

Xu Fan's expression was extremely calm. He was a person of great magnanimity, or perhaps it was because of... his bloodline.

In his eyes, he was not human; he was a bloodline, even kin to these enslaved universes.

His character was very pure; he wouldn't concern himself with the cosmic currents.

Unconcerned with human selfish desires, he would only do what he believed was right, act on his grievances and joys, live a brilliant life, and even if a path led to certain death, if he found it interesting, he would pursue it without hesitation.

Life isn't wonderful because it's long; it's wonderful when lived with freedom and joy.

"We still need to lie low; everything is accumulating."

He continued his hidden evolution, waiting. "Other Saints cannot do this, but only I... can. Because I have experience, my talent has become so powerful... even I can hardly imagine it."

He felt destined to unlock something.

Chongming Heavenly Court.

Emperor Qi, looking through a mirror, saw this scene, and his expression slightly changed.

He clearly knew this was a prodigy of the era, who had already revealed a corner of the future era, making him feel as if he was seeing Ancestor Xu Younian from back then.

Both liked to perform perplexing actions.

It seemed that the era of the Innate Ancient Gods was about to be overthrown, welcoming the future of the next era.

"This is bad! The Great Tribulation of the Heavenly Dao is approaching. No one in the world can escape this catastrophe; all will be swept into it." Emperor Qi looked at the young Saint's words, and his heart was utterly disturbed.