Honghuang: The Azure Lotus Takes Form, Prove Dao by Force

A wisp of true spirit drifted through chaos, dazed and unaware, without thought or feeling. Only one obsession had taken root deep within it, as unyielding as a boulder: to live. It drifted for an unknown number of years, tens of thousands? Tens of millions? At last, an unseen pull brought it to the depths of Buzhou Mountain's ley lines. There lay a withered, dormant root, its body covered in stone and its life force hidden within. It was the main root of the Chaos Green Lotus, an ancient being of the same origin as Pangu. The true spirit entered the main root. Boundless light burst open in his sea of consciousness. Lin Chen awoke. In that moment, a soul from a later age and an ancient root that had existed since the dawn of chaos fused completely. From then on, he was both Lin Chen and the main root of the Chaos Green Lotus. Tribulation clouds gathered above Buzhou Mountain. The Heavenly Dao's killing intent fixed upon him, and the tribulation of taking human form descended. Nine bolts of tribulation lightning struck in succession. Beneath the annihilating lightning, the lotus body shattered, then was reforged in primordial light as an innate Dao body. The lotus mark between his brows was the true imprint of his origins. An ancient gray bead floated silently in his sea of consciousness: the Chaos Bead, born alongside the lotus, which could suppress fortune, divine the secrets of heaven, and contain its own realm. Having successfully taken human form, Ye Qing walked the primordial world. On Buzhou Mountain, he seized the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus, defeated the Three Purities, obtained the Huangzhong Plum, and reached the summit to comprehend the imprint of creation. Time meant nothing in the primordial world, and he began to attain the Great Luo Dao Fruit. The road ahead stretched far. Prove Dao by Force: this path was unacceptable to the Heavenly Dao, yet it was the only path for him. “The Chaos Green Lotus was born, and Pangu died opening the heavens. The path I will walk is the one that does not end in death.”