Chapter 661: Primordial Spiritual Treasure

Moments later.

The Gates of All Heavens closed silently.

Not long after, two mighty divine senses swept across like pillars piercing heaven and earth.

Wherever the divine senses passed, stones on the ground suddenly gained sentience, transforming into stone demons.

The void, tainted by dark magic, gave birth to countless void demon tribes.

These demons and monsters searched the area for a long time but found not the slightest trace or clue.

With two cold snorts, they screamed and instantly turned to ash…

…

Somewhere tens of millions of miles away.

In a desolate mountain, Fang Xing’s cultivation avatar appeared silently; the Autumn Water Daojun’s natural soul had scattered, his true spirit extinguished—dead beyond any hope of revival.

Previously, he had seized the opportunity to severely wound the Autumn Water Daojun, then reversed the process, forcibly refining her soul with the “Eternal Unextinguishable Solar King Spell” to obtain her memories.

How vast is the memory of a Daojun?

Even after Fang Xing burned away ninety-nine percent of the extraneous fragments, retaining only key memories, he still felt his head swelling like a pot.

‘More crucially… the insights of the Autumn Water Dao Dao cannot be obtained through soul-searching… otherwise I’d be incredibly powerful.’

‘On the contrary, the Dao’s power continues to protect the Daojun’s soul… had the Autumn Water Daojun not deliberately searched my soul, sneaking up on her would have been truly difficult…’

Fang Xing sat cross-legged, organizing the most critical information he had acquired.

‘Long ago, after the Dao Sovereign failed to transcend, the Dao Court was secretly controlled by the Demon Sovereign and the Beast Sovereign; human cultivators suffered horribly, treated no better than cattle, horses, pigs, or dogs…’

‘Yet despite their fierce internal conflicts, human cultivators never lacked the spirit of resistance… several covert plans have already been prepared.’

To resist eternal beings, one must attain the power of a Dao Sovereign.

‘The first plan is for the Dao Sovereign of Freedom, head of the Dao Court, to ascend to the Fourth Step Daojun. Combined with dozens of other Daojuns in the Dao Court, they could form a grand array capable of standing against at least one of the Beast or Demon Sovereigns… then exploit the rifts between demons and beasts to struggle for survival.’

‘Unfortunately, this plan was too obvious—the Dao Sovereign of Freedom is under constant watch by demons and beasts; he has little chance of ascending…’

‘This man is truly pitiful—his so-called breakthroughs are merely public facades, distractions to draw fire…’

The Dao Sovereign of Freedom is anything but free—that’s a dark joke.

‘The covert plan, naturally, is to gain allies! To face a Dao Sovereign, one needs a transcendence legacy!’

‘The Dao Sovereign, in his time, succeeded in ascending to the Fourth Step Daojun and ultimately becoming a Dao Sovereign by obtaining a transcendence legacy… that transcendence realm still exists, and several Daojuns have already attempted to locate its position, seeking the opportunity!’

‘The remaining Daojuns, naturally, serve the demons and beasts, hunting for my trail… but if they truly find me, they will immediately seize my transcendence opportunity… this Autumn Water Daojun is one of them!’

‘Come to think of it, this woman was also unlucky—she ran into me before I even began fishing…’

‘No one could have imagined that within such a short time, I’d ascended to Daojun?’

As Fang Xing slowly sorted through the Autumn Water Daojun’s memories of the ‘Transcendence Realm,’ he suddenly stumbled upon a key term, and his heart stirred:

‘Primordial Spiritual Treasure?!’

‘Legend says the Dao Sovereign successfully reversed the postnatal to the primordial and ascended to the Fourth Step Daojun by obtaining a Primordial Spiritual Treasure, refining its origin to elevate the True-Illusion Dao to its utmost height!’

‘Among today’s Daoist Daojuns, several hidden Third Step Daojun titans are scheming to obtain a Primordial Spiritual Treasure to elevate their own Dao…’

‘Is this the shortcut I’ve been seeking to ascend to the Fourth Step Daojun?’

Fang Xing’s lips curled slightly.

Acquiring resources in the Qingyuan Great Realm and rapidly cultivating to the Third Step Daojun was not particularly difficult.

If I could obtain a Primordial Spiritual Treasure and ascend to the Fourth Step Daojun…

The Panwu Dao is already a supreme Dao; if elevated into the ‘Primordial Panwu Dao,’ it might just grant me enough strength to contend with eternal beings!

Perhaps then, the danger facing the Great Xia Universe could be handled with ease!

‘Once the Star Civilization falls, the human race will be in peril.’

‘If I have this power, I should lend a hand.’

‘So the key lies in obtaining a Primordial Spiritual Treasure from the Transcendence Realm?’

This is clearly the highest secret of the human cultivators in the True Immortal Realm.

Even ordinary First Step Daojuns may not know of it.

‘But the Beast and Demon Sovereigns may not be unaware—they may already be secretly plotting…’

‘After all, I can soul-search a Daojun… they may be able to as well.’

‘Yet even Daojuns know little about the Transcendence Realm—it seems one cannot speak of its trials after entering; they only know that the Dao Sovereign once obtained part of a legacy and a Primordial Spiritual Treasure from it, enabling him to ascend to the Fourth Step Daojun and then transcend, subduing the True Immortal Realm, and learning how to transcend, perform reduction to achieve emptiness, and condense the Primordial Purple Qi—the transcendence signature…’

‘But the location of the Transcendence Realm and its trials remain entirely unknown.’

‘Everyone assumes the Dao Sovereign of Freedom knows—but he doesn’t. This Dao Sovereign of Freedom has likely been imprisoned, even soul-searched, by the Beast and Demon Sovereigns…’

In fact, the lack of results from soul-searching is a good thing—the Beast and Demon Sovereigns may believe the Dao Sovereign of Freedom deliberately concealed the truth, allowing him to barely survive.

If they truly found it, the human cultivators of the True Immortal Realm might be wiped out.

‘Primordial Spiritual Treasure, Primordial Spiritual Treasure?!’

Fang Xing murmured twice, recalling the Immortal Mansion treasure he once possessed—the Wan Hua Cauldron.

This Immortal Mansion treasure was likewise born from a realm’s nurturing.

But how could treasures born from small or medium worlds compare to primordial treasures born from great worlds—or even All-Heaven-level worlds?

Not to mention that the previous three thousand lower realms were all illusory; their treasures were naturally false.

‘Worse still… this is all the Autumn Water Daojun knew about the realm—she didn’t even know where the entrance was.’

‘Cultivators are just like this—everything must be hidden. Even a Dao Sovereign preparing to transcend didn’t leave this secret behind…’ ‘Or perhaps… the entrance isn’t unique, and even moves? Does it choose its own seekers?’

Ordinary Faizhu and Daozhu realms have realm spirits; the realm left by a Transcender could manifest anything.

‘The only certainty is that this Transcendence Realm lies within the True Immortal Realm!’

Fang Xing’s eyes brightened; a flash of light appeared before him, and his true body from the Great Xia Universe immediately materialized.

After refining the Gates of All Heavens, he could now accomplish many things.

For instance, the previously impossible exchange of resources between the Qingyuan Great Realm!

Without this, he would never have had the confidence to rapidly cultivate his true body to the Third Step Daojun!

And most crucially—he could now lock onto and traverse worlds!

Fang Xing glanced at his status bar:

【Gates of All Heavens (Can Be Activated)】

…

!

‘I never had any world I particularly wanted to go to—this opportunity is perfect for it!’

Fang Xing communicated with the Gates of All Heavens and issued his command: ‘Send my cultivation avatar into the Transcendence Realm of the True Immortal Realm!’

The Transcendence Realm is dangerous—he would never go himself.

But sending his cultivation avatar posed little risk.

After all, they were one and the same.

BOOM!

In an instant, Fang Xing connected with the Gates of All Heavens, his perspective soaring infinitely upward.

In that moment, he seemed to possess the perspective of a Transcender, gazing down from beyond endless time and space upon the entire True Immortal Realm continent.

The entire True Immortal Realm resembled a universe, yet each ‘planet’ was shaped like a continent—square earth beneath a round sky.

Humans, demons, beasts… and unfathomable entities dwelled everywhere, including terrifying taboos comparable to Daojuns and Dao Sovereigns, slumbering…

Even, Fang Xing caught a fleeting glimpse—his gaze swept over the Beast Sovereign and the Demon Sovereign…

Yet these two eternal beings sensed nothing at all.

WHOOSH!

His vision pierced through the True Immortal Realm, peeling back layer upon layer of void like eggshells.

In this process of ‘peeling,’ countless Immortal-level, Daojun-level, and even eternal Dao Sovereign realms appeared!

‘Oh? So the Dao Sovereign left behind another realm?’

‘But he hid it deeply… and told no one, intending for it to emerge only after countless eons—did he foresee his own transcendence failure and that none of his Daojun disciples would survive?’

That’s precisely why he couldn’t entrust the legacy to the Dao Sovereign of Freedom and others—they’d all be soul-searched and unable to protect it.

The current situation is actually better!

‘But… this isn’t what I want.’

Fang Xing’s gaze delved deeper, even penetrating into the primordial source of the All-Heaven-level world!

Magnificent!

Vast!

An indescribably powerful aura emerged.

Before Fang Xing’s eyes appeared a seven-colored lake, each droplet carrying power rivaling that of a Daozhu or Daojun!

‘Such profound primordial energy—no wonder it’s an All-Heaven-level world!’

Then he saw a mischievous little fish swimming within the world’s primordial lake.

A transcendence aura emanated from its body—each scale seemed to contain a universe within…

‘Found it—the Transcender’s Realm!’

Fang Xing raised his hand and tossed his cultivation avatar into the Gates of All Heavens.

The next instant!

The little fish sensed danger and darted swiftly into the depths of the world’s primordial source!

But it was useless!

A mysterious void connection appeared between it and the Gates of All Realms.

The power belonging to transcendence forcibly invaded the fish’s body.

……

Boom!

Amidst a stretch of green mountains and clear waters, an invisible gate suddenly opened.

Fang Xing’s cultivation avatar was “spat out,” feeling as if his internal organs had shifted out of place.

He grimaced: “This feeling… like motion sickness. The transit process sure isn’t pleasant…”

He said so, but inside he was still profoundly shaken.

From the fact that his own attribute panel’s Gates of All Realms could easily suppress the blood of transcendents, the Xifan legacy, and now effortlessly invade the transcendents’ secret realms,

even though all were relics of transcendents, the Gates of All Realms were clearly of a higher rank!

“But… in any case, I’ve finally gotten in.”

Fang Xing looked around at the green mountains and clear waters.

Suddenly!

A terrifying aura descended!

(End of Chapter)