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

A wisp of true spirit drifted through chaos, dazed and insensible, without thought or awareness. Only one stubborn fixation took root deep within it, as unyielding as a boulder: to live.

It drifted for an unknowable number of years, ten thousand? Tens of millions? Until an unseen pull led it deep into the leyline of Buzhou Mountain. There, a withered root lay dormant, its body covered in stone, its vitality concealed. It was the main root of the Chaos Green Lotus, an ancient existence sharing the same origin as Pangu.

The true spirit sank into the main root. Boundless light burst through his sea of consciousness.

Lin Chen awoke. In that moment, a soul from a later age and an ancient origin dating back to the dawn of chaos merged completely. From then on, he was both Lin Chen and the main root of the Chaos Green Lotus.

Tribulation clouds gathered atop Buzhou Mountain. The Heavenly Dao's killing intent locked onto him, and the tribulation of taking human form descended.

Nine bolts of tribulation lightning struck one after another. Beneath the annihilating lightning, the lotus body shattered, then took shape anew in a radiance of primordial creation as an innate Dao body. A lotus mark between his brows was the true imprint of his origin. In his sea of consciousness, an ancient gray bead floated quietly: the Chaos Bead, born alongside the Green Lotus, which could suppress fortune, divine the workings of Heaven, and contain its own world.

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 Pure Ones, obtained the Huangzhong Plum, and climbed to the summit to comprehend the imprint of the creation of the world. Countless ages passed in the Primordial World, and he took his first steps toward the Great Encompassment Dao Fruit.

The road ahead was long. Prove Dao by Force: this path was rejected by the Heavenly Dao, yet it was the only Dao he could follow.

“The Chaos Green Lotus was born, and Pangu died opening the heavens. The path I will take is the one that does not end in death.”