Mu Changqing's eyes flickered upon hearing this, a complex and nostalgic expression appearing, as if reminiscing about the past.
After a long pause, he withdrew his gaze and said softly.
"Cultivation... is merely a choice. If you are sufficiently powerful, a single thought can grant eternity. Cultivation holds no meaning for me."
Mo Yi, still puzzled, was about to retort when Mu Changqing waved his hand, interrupting her.
He continued.
"Mo Yi, life and death, reincarnation, these too are laws. I will die, and I will revive. This world is too complex; you do not understand, and there is no need for further words."
As he spoke, Mu Changqing rose and pushed open the door, stepping outside. He gazed at the sky, sensing the descent of the great era, and stretched his body.
A gentle breeze brushed past, revealing clear white strands in Mu Changqing's lustrous black hair.
Although his face had miraculously escaped the ravages of time, his hair betrayed his true age; he was no longer a man in his prime.
Mo Yi appeared behind Mu Changqing at some point, looking at his slightly greying hair. After a moment's contemplation, she spoke.
"Your aspirations, sir, I dare not presume to guess. My only aspiration is to live, and that is enough."
Mo Yi's gaze, filled with tenderness, fell upon Mu Changqing, but received no response.
After a considerable silence, Mu Changqing finally stirred. He turned to look at the simple-minded girl, shook his head, and sighed.
"What is love in this world? Mo Yi, you should not be fixated on this. Instead, look towards a farther future. This world is too small; it can be destroyed with a flick of a finger."
"I don't understand, and I don't want to understand."
Mo Yi shook her head, displaying a bashfulness akin to a young woman experiencing her first love, yet with a touch of stubbornness.
Mu Changqing no longer tried to persuade her. Even if he sealed all his powers and his heart sank into the mortal realm, he would remain an immovable rock, unwavering in his pursuit, unaffected by external factors.
To him now, life was merely a fleeting illusion, a bubble created by a thought.
If he willed it, he could grant Mo Yi eternal immortality, an everlasting life that even Heavenly Realm powerhouses could not extinguish.
He could also create billions of Mo Yis, granting them eternal existence.
But all of this held no meaning.
After a brief pause, Mu Changqing looked at Mo Yi again and chuckled.
"Never mind. Between you and me, there is ultimately karma. Now that I am a mortal, I must abide by mortal rules to perceive the truth of creation."
"Today, I bestow upon you a new method, a method that transcends all constraints."
Before Mo Yi could refuse, Mu Changqing's right index finger slowly touched her pure white forehead.
Instantly, their bodies resonated, and immeasurable radiance erupted.
Though Mu Changqing possessed no cultivation, he could harness the laws of heaven and earth to impart the new world's method to Mo Yi.
This was the nascent, embryonic form of Mu Changqing's first primal law.
It was a cultivation method unprecedented, one that would never appear in all of history, past, present, or future. It could transcend all limitations, break free from the shackles of the grey primal realm, and achieve true transcendence.
After a long while, Mo Yi slowly opened her beautiful eyes, her expression filled with unprecedented shock.
The method Mu Changqing had imparted to her was terrifyingly heaven-defying, utterly breathtaking.
It was a method to transcend the grey primal realm; the entire cultivation system of the Great Wilderness was overturned, a truly horrifying revelation.
This was a revolution, a creation.
Although it was not yet perfect, for beings at this level, it was as if they had discovered a sky without a ceiling, an unattainable realm.
She looked around, but Mu Changqing's figure had long since vanished.
Mo Yi stood alone in the spot, bewildered.
"Sir, who exactly are you? Mortal? Immortal? No, 'immortal' is not worthy of your name. A being that transcends the heavens?"
Mo Yi felt deep within her heart that Mu Changqing was not a native of this world. He was like an entity that did not exist in this ancient history, perhaps not even belonging to this world.
"Mo Yi, do not be fixated. The Great Dao is colorful and magnificent. Look forward, walk forward, and you will find your own path."
Faintly, Mu Changqing's voice echoed in Mo Yi's ears, striking her like thunder, granting her enlightenment of the Great Dao.
Instantly, Dao rhythms flowed around her, and her aura rapidly ascended.
Within a single breath, Mo Yi's cultivation leaped across multiple major realms, reaching the peak of the Mortal Realm in one leap.
She now practiced a completely new cultivation system, not one passed down from the grey primal realm.
She was no longer bound by the heavens and earth, nor did she face any cultivation obstacles.
After a long period of silence, Mo Yi finally let out a deep sigh.
She understood that this was Mu Changqing severing his worldly karma.
It was the karma born from her words that had awakened Mu Changqing in the past.
This karma was not the karma within the grey primal realm.
It was karma unique to Mu Changqing, his worldly karma.
It was karma related to his origin of creation, another form of grey primal karma.
This was his rule, the first thread of karma.
Therefore, Mu Changqing chose to abide by it, the truths contained within being far too complex.
"Sir, are you severing ties with me?"
Mo Yi gave a wry smile and looked back at the surroundings of the Great Desert Tribe with reluctance.
Finally, Mo Yi's gaze settled on a particular spot. After a long silence, she bowed deeply and transformed into a stream of light, disappearing from the Great Desert Tribe's territory.
Mu Changqing emerged from the darkness, his gaze calm as he watched Mo Yi's departing figure, without much emotion.
"Success or failure rests with you. The path has been shown to you. I hope you are not a foolish being, otherwise, you will have wasted my first experimental subject slot after the origin of creation."
Mu Changqing murmured to himself, his tone frighteningly calm.
This was both the resolution of karma and the first step in transmitting the new origin.
Eighty years later, a peerless female immortal appeared in the Great Wilderness world, terrifyingly powerful and dominating the land.
Her cultivation was so bizarre that no one could fathom it.
It was known only that no one in the world could withstand a single sword strike from her. Her formidable reputation caused all the powerhouses of the world to tremble.
And the Great Desert Tribe, due to Mu Changqing's influence, became the foremost power in the Great Wilderness world within a mere 130 years.
The entire Great Desert Tribe, spanning millions of miles, came under its control.
The entire Great Desert Tribe became a unified entity, constructed with purple warp and weft patterns, possessing infinite Dao laws and the power of ordered rules.
The world knew that the rise of the Great Desert Tribe was inseparable from a god-like figure who had driven it from behind the scenes.
His name was Mu Changqing, known to the world as Mr. Mu.
Since eighty years prior, no outsider had seen his true appearance.
Even the Great Desert Tribe, with its countless subordinate forces today, had few who had seen his true face.
Legend had it that he lived in seclusion in the ancestral land of the Great Desert Tribe, inaccessible to anyone but the core figures of the tribe.
This mysterious Mr. Mu, revered like a creator god, inspired awe at the mere mention of his name.
However, within the ancestral land of the Great Desert Tribe today, hundreds of the most core powerhouses of the tribe gathered and knelt outside a dilapidated stone house.
Inside the house, several of the most powerful and terrifying peak Mortal Realm cultivators knelt respectfully.
Before them, a peerless female immortal knelt with one knee, beside a bed.
With complex emotions in her eyes, she looked at the dying old man on the bed.
"Sir, why don't you let me help you extend your lifespan? I have found the world's most precious treasures that can help you live for another thousand years."
Mo Yi's aura was now extremely peculiar, sometimes seeming immortal, sometimes mortal.
This was a Red Dust Immortal, a state that transcended the Mortal Realm and did not enter the Celestial Realm.