Ma Yuan of Honghuang: Too Ugly for the Interception Sect, Steadily Proving the Primordial Dao

He woke up to find himself a strand of primordial qi on Skeleton Mountain. After receiving an inheritance, he realized he seemed to be the future One-Qi Immortal, Ma Yuan. Thinking about how foolish he had been in the original timeline, failing to cultivate his pristine primordial qi and understand the Great Dao of the Saints, and instead practicing unorthodox ways by eating people to refine qi, Ma Yuan was fed up. Fortunately, the Wu and Demon Clans had only just been established, Hongjun had just attained the Dao, and, most importantly, he had awakened heaven-defying comprehension. Ma Yuan knew there was still time to turn things around. Using his heaven-defying comprehension as a foundation, from the start he drew on primordial qi to reverse-engineer innate ancestral qi and refine his own roots. He gathered the Five Elements Spirit Pearls, obtained the source powers of Yin and Yang, forged a Yin-Yang Divine-Demon Dao Body, and reverse-engineered the five supreme laws of chaos. The Interception Sect? That's a huge pit. He would never join! The Chan Sect? Yuanshi Tianzun favored Guangchengzi and valued one's roots, so Ma Yuan absolutely couldn't join! The Western Religion? Joining would mean working for Zhunti and Jieyin to repay their debts to the Heavenly Dao. Even a dog wouldn't join. So he made Skeleton Mountain his foundation, creating cultivation methods, mastering divine abilities, refining spiritual treasures, and building up his power as he forged his own path to the Dao. Tens of millions of years later, he bore a vast world on his back and held the Underworld in his palm, standing alone atop Skeleton Mountain as a forbidden zone.