The vast, boundless, and perilous chaos of the void, with its eternally turbulent and violent energy tides, is an unchanging sight.
Deep within the surging, chaotic tides, earth-shattering explosions occur from time to time, their power capable of destroying ancient stars and annihilating void lands.
Just how vast is the chaos of the void? What strange things exist beyond the chaos?
When Qing Muling asked this question, even Qingyao Immortal Venerable couldn’t provide an answer, despite it not being her first time venturing into the depths of the chaotic void in search of opportunities. Throughout her life, she had encountered countless strange and bizarre things.
“…Wait until you attain the Dao and become a saint before exploring such questions! For now, not even I, nor the Grand Palace Master of the Phoenix Palace, or the master of the Origin Star Palace, can answer you!”
As Qingyao Immortal Venerable spoke, she tossed an ancient, unadorned shield she had just appraised to him.
This shield, needless to say, came from the depths of the chaotic tides. Qingyao Immortal Venerable, along with her two avatars, had to join forces to kill a powerful chaotic beast guarding it to obtain this treasure.
Qing Muling took the shield and examined it. Its shape was somewhat peculiar, as if it had been crafted from a translucent cicada shell. The surface faintly bore natural tidal patterns, and it weighed over a thousand pounds. The shield exuded a mysterious and vast Dao Rhyme aura, yet it also carried a vibrant, resilient, and enduring life force.
“A fine Innate Spirit Treasure with decent defensive capabilities, it can be classified as a mid-grade Spirit Treasure. It contains sixteen complete Innate Harmony Treasure Seals, all of which are intact!”
Qingyao Immortal Venerable patiently explained, “The Xuan Immortal realm isn’t sufficient to fully wield it, but your foundation is extraordinary, so you can barely use it a few times. It’s quite good for life-saving in critical moments…”
According to the classification standards of the Great Void, above Postnatal Spirit Treasures are Innate Spirit Treasures, and above those are Innate Supreme Treasures.
As the name implies, Innate Spirit Treasures are born from the chaos of the void, naturally formed and evolved. They are classified into four grades: low, mid, high, and supreme, based on the number and completeness of the Innate Harmony Treasure Seals they contain.
This shield, with its sixteen complete Innate Harmony Treasure Seals, is classified as a mid-grade Innate Spirit Treasure, and it is close to the level of a high-grade Innate Spirit Treasure. In Supreme Dao Lineage powers, it would be considered a significant sect treasure.
Innate Harmony Treasure Seals are a type of innate spirit treasure seal naturally formed in the chaos of the void. Any Innate Spirit Treasure or Innate Spirit Object contains varying numbers of these seals, each with its own wondrous uses and containing incredible power.
The Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace’s sect treasure, the Li Feng Star Cloud Tower, is an upper-grade Innate Spirit Treasure with twenty-seven complete Innate Harmony Treasure Seals. It is at the pinnacle of upper-grade Innate Spirit Treasures, needing just one more seal to become a supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.
“…I’ve been a Quasi Holy for so many years, and I only have three supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures. I have over a dozen high-grade Innate Spirit Treasures, all obtained through great peril. There’s no need to mention the mid and low-grade ones.”
Qingyao Immortal Venerable sighed softly. When she severed her Three Corpses Avatar, she used those three supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures. Now, it seemed impossible to find another one, perhaps because her luck had run out.
But now, with Qing Muling as her Dao Companion, her fortune had significantly increased, and her future path was bright.
Qing Muling asked, “What does an Innate Supreme Treasure look like? Have you seen one, Senior Sister?”
“Of course, I have. The Phoenix Palace’s sect treasure, the Divine Phoenix Nine-Tone Bell, is an Innate Supreme Treasure. It is said to contain forty-five Innate Harmony Treasure Seals, with boundless wondrous uses and power, personally controlled by the Grand Palace Master. Other top superpowers also have similar treasures, including the master of the Origin Star Palace.” Qingyao Immortal Venerable explained.
High-grade and supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures are already rare, and Innate Supreme Treasures are even more so, considered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Despite the many powerful beings in the upper realm delving into the chaos of the void year after year, only a dozen or so Innate Supreme Treasures have been accumulated over countless eons. Any one of them can establish the foundation of a superpower or immortal sanctuary for millennia, illustrating their extraordinary rarity.
Qing Muling pondered, “So, I should also be considered an Innate Supreme Treasure?”
The stunning beauty behind him embraced him and laughed, “You are a type of Innate Spirit Object, equivalent to an Innate Supreme Treasure, and the rarest and most unique kind!”
The number fifty in the Great Derivation is forty-nine, with one missing.
Forty-nine Innate Harmony Treasure Seals is the limit for an Innate Supreme Treasure. The number fifty theoretically shouldn’t exist, but Qingyao Immortal Venerable believed that beings like Qing Muling were equivalent to possessing fifty Innate Harmony Treasure Seals.
In the chaos of the void, any living being can be considered an Innate Spirit Object. Unlike Spirit Treasures, they can continue to grow and evolve after birth.
For example, the Harmony Creation Blue Lotus, once it reaches maturity, possesses the incredible power to create worlds, evolve earth, fire, water, and wind, and give birth to all things.
Innate Supreme Treasures are unique. Since Qing Muling has taken form, no second Harmony Creation Blue Lotus will ever be born in the chaos of the void, no matter how many eons pass.
As they discussed, a disturbance occurred in the chaotic tides millions of miles away from their starship.
A pitch-black, monstrous tree, tens of thousands of feet tall, with a fierce and murderous aura, its branches and leaves twisted like ancient demonic dragons, burst out from a chaotic vortex, accompanied by thunder and fire, its momentum terrifying.
It immediately spotted the distant starship speeding away, its massive, black fog-covered canopy shaking as it emitted a series of eerie, piercing howls, and a violent storm surrounded the monstrous tree, accelerating its pursuit.
Though it was a tree, its speed was not slow, and in an instant, it was within hundreds of thousands of miles of the starship.
“It’s courting death, no one else to blame!”
Qingyao Immortal Venerable gracefully stood up, her jade hand lightly waving as a slender, elegant sword with countless snowflake patterns on its blade appeared in her hand. Her beautiful eyes focused on the ferocious tree outside the starship.
In an instant, a suffocating killing intent filled the void, and hundreds of terrifying sword qi, each tens of thousands of feet long and cold enough to extinguish stars, surrounded the monstrous tree.
Sensing the impending crisis, the tree let out a strange roar, and countless blood-colored leaves the size of water tanks shot out from its canopy, blocking the encircling sword qi like a torrential storm.
The dense “hiss” sound echoed as seven or eight leaves could extinguish a single sword qi. As the first wave of leaves was exhausted, the black fog on the tree’s canopy churned violently, and countless more blood-colored leaves shot out, forming a tight barrier around the trunk.
But such a counterattack was futile. Qingyao Immortal Venerable casually formed a sword seal, and the sword qi increased tenfold, swirling and twisting around the tree, easily breaking through its defense and cutting off a large chunk of the canopy, spraying purple-black blood far and wide.
The monstrous tree howled in pain, realizing it couldn’t provoke these passersby, and hastily spewed black fog to conceal itself, shaking its branches to escape, but it was too late.
“Do you think you can escape?”
With boundless sword qi falling continuously, the tree’s canopy and branches were quickly cut away, leaving only a bare trunk, which was then chopped into dozens of pieces, the destructive sword intent pervading it, mercilessly extinguishing its last bit of life.
Qingyao Immortal Venerable reached out and grabbed a three-foot-long, child-arm-thick, jade-like green tree heart from the tree’s remains, exuding an incredibly pure life force.
“Take it, this should be beneficial to your true form.”
Qingyao Immortal Venerable handed the tree heart to Qing Muling. The tree’s strength in life was equivalent to a Quasi Holy Emperor who had severed one corpse, and its remaining essence was an excellent supplement for the Harmony Creation Blue Lotus.
“There are indeed many good things in this chaotic void.”
Qing Muling gently caressed the tree heart, noting that along their journey, Qingyao Immortal Venerable had slain thousands of chaotic beasts and discovered numerous Innate Spirit Objects and Spirit Treasures. Though their grades were generally not very high, the harvest was still considerable.
The benefit was that, with the sacrifice of numerous chaotic beasts, the phantom of the eighteenth Blue Lotus leaf of the Harmony Creation Blue Lotus had fully manifested and stabilized.
This brought Qing Muling a new divine ability, the Two Elements of Yin and Yang, and the Heavenly Secret Art, enhancing his deduction accuracy tenfold while reducing the cost to one-third of what it was before.
“Indeed, compared to my previous ventures into the chaotic void, this journey has been relatively smooth. The harvest is also significantly better!”
Qingyao Immortal Venerable nodded frankly. Along the way, it felt like they could find good things wherever they went, a luck she didn’t have before.
Previously, she would often be targeted by some strange and fierce chaotic beings after not traveling far, leading to battles. Although her opponents were no match for her, she usually couldn’t kill them either, only injuring or repelling them. The number of times she could kill enemies as easily as today was far fewer.
“What’s there to understand? It’s all thanks to Junior Brother’s fortune!”
The stunning beauty smiled slightly. Qing Muling’s fortune was incredibly strong, and even in the chaotic void where the Heavenly Secret was in disarray, it still brought unbelievable luck, attracting opportunities that ordinary immortals couldn’t even dream of.
Qing Muling pondered, “If that’s the case, perhaps I can try to help Senior Sister find more good things?”
Qingyao Immortal Venerable’s eyes lit up, “Of course, I believe you can do it.”
Qing Muling nodded, taking out the Yunluo Star Destiny Disk from his internal space, which he hadn’t used for a long time. He dropped a drop of his blood on it and began to focus on deducing.
In Qingyao Immortal Venerable’s eyes, Junior Brother’s blood was clearly different from that of ordinary immortals. A small drop of blood appeared with unpredictable chaotic colors, containing incredible life force, almost equivalent to a heavenly pill.
If she could drink a few sips, she wondered what it would taste like?
Such a thought flashed through her mind, but she quickly dismissed it. She wasn’t a demonic path giant who would do such lowly things to her Dao Companion.
Besides, if she really wanted it, Junior Brother’s Dao Rhyme would be even better. As his legitimate Dao Companion, she could enjoy it every day without any need for such actions.
“I have the result!”
Moments later, Qing Muling looked at the hexagram on the Yunluo Star Destiny Disk and confidently spoke.