Because the level of the entire world had increased, when Tang Jie established the Dao this time, he had gained a boost to all of his Daos.
This wasn’t as significant for the Daos for which he had already formed Dao Arts, with the boost coming more in the length of time he could use them rather than an increase in strength. It was a quantitative and not qualitative improvement.
But for Life, Reincarnation, Karma, and Fate, the change was very obvious.
Life and Reincarnation had always been Tang Jie’s weakness, and his progress in them had always been slow. As for Karma and Fate, Tang Jie couldn’t be considered poor in them, but as they were the top two of the Twelve Great Daos, they were innately difficult. Even a genius like Tang Jie had a hard time overcoming the challenges they presented.
But after his ascension to Immortality, all of this had finally changed.
Tang Jie could feel that the Dao powers of these four Daos had received a large boost, with Life and Fate receiving the largest.
The former was the result of constantly reforming his Immortal body, going between life and death over and over, while the latter was from establishing the Dao of the Yellow Court and weaving its Fate. Weaving the Fate for an entire world was an enormous undertaking, and the effort had caused him to condense numerous Dao Runes. With the Dao of Life, while he had gained fewer Dao Runes, it was still enough to form a Dao Art.
Thus, Tang Jie could now create two more Dao Arts, which was a huge boost in power.
As the Dao of Fate was number one in the Twelve Great Daos, Tang Jie needed to carefully consider what he would do with it. So Tang Jie opted to create his Life Dao Art first.
Wang Juemie cultivated the Dao of Life. His Dao Art was “Only I Am the Truth”, which made him so abundant with the power of Life that he could be compared to Tang Jie’s original body. It had to be understood that while Wang Juemie walked the path of the body cultivator, it had been mentioned before that the modern body cultivator path was still essentially a law cultivator path, with the difference being that all spell arts were used to strengthen the body. It still shared the same cultivation levels as law cultivators. Only Tang Jie’s original body cultivated the true body cultivator path of High Antiquity, which operated with a completely different system of cultivation.
Modern body cultivators were pseudo–body cultivators, powerful spell arts serving as the foundation for their powerful bodies.
But Wang Juemie’s Dao Art used the Dao of Life to nourish his body, strengthening it so much that it almost equaled Tang Jie’s original body. This was one of the strong points of the Dao of Life, and this path was the path of life enhancement.
As for living as long as the heavens, it did exactly what one would expect and lengthened lifespan. While cultivators could advance in realm to increase their lifespan, they would draw on their lifespan in intense battles. Besides continuing to increase their cultivation or consuming rare natural treasures that could boost lifespan, the third and best method was to comprehend the Dao of Life and walk the path of extending lifespan. Each path had countless branches, and the same was true for lifespan extension. Some allowed for directly adding on to lifespan, while others allowed for slow recovery while cultivating. There were also those that could reduce lifespan consumption, like living a year while only expending a day’s worth.
Finally, life creation was the ability to grant life. The Dao of Life concerned not just one’s own life and lifespan, but also granting life to the unliving. For example, there was an ancient legend that said that an Immortal once conjured a rain that caused plants and soil to all turn into sprites and monsters, able to walk and talk. This was the power of life creation.
Of course, there were spells and Divine Connections that could make plants and rocks move, but these were all temporary. Once they were stopped, these objects would go back to being lifeless. Life granted through the Dao of Life was true life and would never be taken away. Not only that, these newborn creatures could grow and mature, forming their own species and tribes.
Many of the creatures of the Great Stellar Chiliocosm were born this way, with some of the rarest monsters being born through the Dao of Life of some Titan. In the past, Tang Jie hadn’t understood the Dao of Life well and couldn’t create life, so he could only let his small world develop on its own and out of his control. This meant that while his Yellow Court World had all sorts of strange creatures, it had only one sapient species, the Wuxing.
This was all because Tang Jie couldn’t control the reproduction of these creatures. If he had a Dao Art of life creation, he could guide the small world’s creatures in the direction he wanted. For example, he could create more sapient lifeforms like humans, or he could accelerate their evolution, or he could decide what he wanted a certain creature to evolve into.
While accelerating time could also hasten evolution, there was no controlling what direction the evolution took without the Dao of Life.
However, life creation could not be endlessly used. Each life created would consume large quantities of Dao power.
To develop the small world in the way he wanted and turn it into his ultimate trump card, he still needed to put in a lot of work.
Still, Tang Jie resolutely chose the third path.
Just like how weaving Fate was the best choice for the Dao of Fate, life creation was the best choice for the Dao of Life. In comparison, enhancing one’s own life was just too low-class. Not even talking about how his original body was an extremely powerful body cultivator such that even a Dao Art on the level of “Only I Am the Truth” wouldn’t get its user to the same level, his avatar was undying and everlasting now that he was an Immortal. Greater life force just had no attraction to an Immortal. The same was true for the second path. Tang Jie was confident that he could continue growing stronger, and so long as he could develop the Yellow Court World, he was confident that he could raise natural treasures that could increase lifespan.
Thus, life creation was the ideal choice.
Given Tang Jie’s personality, it was also the choice that best suited him.
Life creation also had many branches. One path involved creating numerous lifeforms all at once. Such lifeforms normally had no potential, but they could serve to give one’s side a huge boost in forces in battle. However, Tang Jie was already at Immortal Platform, so low-level allies were useless while high-level allies would probably consume too much Dao power. Besides, he had the Reflections of Floating Life for that purpose. Thus, he didn’t choose this branch. There was also a path that allowed one to precisely control the design process of a lifeform to create exactly what one envisioned. But Tang Jie felt like designing was complicated and time-consuming work, and a small world needed more than a single lifeform. Too much designing would place too great of a burden on Tang Jie, so he gave up on it. There was also a path that allowed for subtle direction by blessing one particular aspect of development with greater evolutionary potential. While the effects weren’t immediately obvious, as time passed, one powerful species after another would be born.
With the time formation around, Tang Jie felt like this was the better choice for him.
Thus, Tang Jie focused his Life Dao Art on the path of developmental direction, boosting the potential of species.
The Dao Runes began to shift and writhe, forming a flower-like tattoo within his body. A power erupted from this tattoo, spreading across his body, and he felt his life force grow stronger and his lifespan increase—even though he hadn’t chosen these paths, this was still the Dao of Life, so it would somewhat boost the other aspects no matter which path he chose.
As Tang Jie felt this new power, he rejoiced, for he knew that his Dao Art had taken form.
He appeared in the skies of the Yellow Court World, and as he gazed upon the land, he conjured up a cloud of sweet dew.
This dew rained down upon the earth.
Grass began to grow, and saplings turned into trees and bore fruit.
But besides that, the rocks and plants began to grow eyes and limbs… They gained life and became monsters and sprites.
Numerous lifeforms emerged from their hiding spots, regardless of species and ignorant of season, in order to bask in this gift from the heavens.
Their instincts told them that this was a blessing from high above, and they rejoiced as the sweet dew rained down. Of course, those creatures who reacted slowly or were too timid to come out missed this opportunity. They were now destined to be eliminated in this epoch of evolution.
The dew quickly disappeared, Tang Jie’s Dao power being insufficient to sustain it for long. However, he had not completely used it up.
This rain of dew served as a notification to all lifeforms. Now that this was done, Tang Jie used his remaining Dao power to create several fountains across the small world.
Although it wasn’t much Dao power, because it was concentrated, the waters of these fountains were rich in the power of Life. Some creatures sensed this power and approached the fountains to drink from them. Although the fountain water didn’t immediately make them stronger, if they continued to drink it, they were bound to surpass their peers. Tang Jie only needed to come back at set intervals to refill the fountains.
The rain distributed the power equally while the fountains nurtured specific individuals, thus creating a greater sense of hierarchy in the Yellow Court World. This was Tang Jie’s plan.
As for the Life Dao Art, Tang Jie called it the Fountain of Life.
This name came from a game Tang Jie had played long ago in the original world he had come from, Tang Jie turning the concept into reality. From a certain perspective, it was a real Fountain of Life, and as time passed, it would become this world’s most important resource.
After creating the Fountain of Life, Tang Jie withdrew from the small world.
He began to meditate.
After some time, Tang Jie finally recovered his Life Dao power.
He then summoned someone.
It was the Mother Cloud combat puppet.
A drop of the Fountain of Life gathered at his fingertip. As it glistened in the sun, it grew more and more concentrated until Tang Jie had collected all of his Dao power within it.
Tang Jie then thrust his finger toward the puppet’s forehead.
Shockingly, as that dew drop drew close, the puppet cocked its head and evaded his finger!