Chapter 1619

What surprised Ximen Wudi was that inside the dragon corpse lay a pearl emitting a faint golden glow, as if forged from gold.

This should be the Long Zhu, but Ximen Wudi did not recognize it.

Yet the chaotic xuanhuang qi contained within this Long Zhu was extraordinarily dense and pure, a top-grade material for cultivators of immortal-world supreme-tier aptitude to advance to the Chaotic Divine Sovereign realm, truly invaluable.

Ximen Wudi turned over the dragon corpse and retrieved the Long Zhu.

This Long Zhu was the life core of the dragon corpse; destroy it, and the dragon corpse would naturally die.

Boom!

The Long Zhu, held in Ximen Wudi's hand, suddenly shattered with a violent explosion, and immediately a vast, mighty torrent of chaotic xuanhuang qi surged through every part of Ximen Wudi's body.

Under this baptism of chaotic xuanhuang qi, Ximen Wudi felt as if his body would explode, yet he gritted his teeth and endured it.

The Chaos Demon Embryo was also shaken, then emerged from the Chaos Scripture.

The Chaos Demon Embryo looked no different from an ordinary child, but its skin surface was covered in scales like steel needles.

Under the nourishment of the chaotic xuanhuang qi, its face and eyebrows grew blacker, shinier, and silkier; its eyes glowed with even greater spiritual brilliance than Ximen Wudi's.

Under this influx of chaotic xuanhuang qi, the Chaos Demon Embryo's cultivation speed was several times faster than Ximen Wudi's.

This condition lasted a full day before finally stabilizing.

"So my body has grown this strong—even chaotic xuanhuang qi, something so terrifying, cannot damage me. I can rest easy and cultivate here for a while."

After pondering for a while, Ximen Wudi moved out all the remains of the strange snakes.

He did not immediately close his eyes to cultivate; instead, he projected his consciousness into his Nine Cauldrons World, inspected it, then abandoned his plan for seclusion.

The divine king and divine emperor-level beasts had already been smashed to death by him using Ancestor Hongmeng's Purple Stones, yet dozens of divine lord-level beasts remained.

Ximen Wudi intended to kill all these divine lord-level beasts to provide nourishment for the Chaos Demon Embryo and replenish his own cultivation needs.

The remains of these dozens of divine lord-level beasts would greatly aid the Chaos Demon Embryo's growth, yet the Chaos Demon Embryo's growth rate was faster than the Chaos Divine Embryo's, so the Chaos Demon Embryo's transformation should complete slightly earlier than Ximen Wudi had estimated.

Of course, since both the Chaos Divine Embryo and the Chaos Demon Embryo were Ximen Wudi's nascent soul states, they had no mutual repulsion, so their cultivation speeds were not significantly different.

Ximen Wudi released the Chaos Divine Embryo from the Ancestor Hongmeng Purple Stone and guided it to fly into the remains of the divine lord-level beasts.

The Chaos Demon Embryo did not, like Ximen Wudi's consciousness, absorb the energy from the beast remains.

It merely hovered above the beast remains, releasing chaotic divine power to envelop them, continuously drawing in the chaotic xuanhuang qi within the corpses.

Only a stick of incense passed, and the Chaos Demon Embryo's body had grown half a foot larger.

As it absorbed more and more chaotic xuanhuang qi, the chaotic divine light radiating from the Chaos Demon Embryo's body grew ever brighter.

"This guy is truly a greedy one."

Ximen Wudi shook his head with a bitter smile, then pulled out a space treasure and stored the remains inside.

Ximen Wudi planned to use these remains to nurture the Chaos Demon Embryo and the Chaos Divine Embryo, sending in a batch every hundred years until the Chaos Demon Embryo matured into a normal child.

"Let's go!"

After transferring all the strange snake remains, Ximen Wudi leapt out of the giant pit and called for the Chaos Demon Embryo to return to the Nine Cauldrons World.

But to Ximen Wudi's surprise, the Chaos Demon Embryo refused to return.

"Why is this brat so disobedient?" Ximen Wudi frowned.

The Chaos Demon Embryo seemed to sense something, then flew toward the depths of the gorge.

Helpless, Ximen Wudi followed after it.

This gorge was a thousand zhang wide and its depth unknown, yet deep within it stood a Gao Song peak.

At its summit, a sphere of seven-colored mist floated quietly, within which a tiny infant curled up, barely visible.

As Ximen Wudi approached the sphere, a crushing pressure spread outward, and countless electric arcs darted and flickered around its perimeter.

"Such a powerful Gu Jinzhi…"

Ximen Wudi sucked in a sharp breath and quickly retreated with the Chaos Demon Embryo away from the core of the barrier.

Soon after the Chaos Demon Embryo left, the barrier flickered dimly and emitted dangerous ripples—clearly, it had been attacked.

"Could it be this coincidental? Is this barrier newly formed?"

Ximen Wudi stared, murmured to himself, then once again hid near the gorge's edge.

Though this barrier was extremely powerful, it was not eternal; whoever touched it or entered it would trigger its automatic collapse.

Now, Ximen Wudi was still far from the gorge's mouth; he could not tell how many more years the barrier could hold.

"I hope this barrier is newly formed—if it's been here for ten thousand ages, I'm doomed."

After hesitating a moment, Ximen Wudi quietly crept back to the gorge's edge.

He first tried tossing a late-stage divine lord beast into the gorge; the moment it neared the seven-colored sphere, it turned to ash, and the sphere dimmed noticeably from losing the beast's soul crystal's nourishment.

"So the infant inside the sphere isn't some invincible entity—it's just a newborn, barely alive."

"If so, I'll do my utmost to save it."

"No matter who its parents are, it's still a poor child."

After a moment's hesitation, Ximen Wudi leapt into the gorge.

"Waaah—"

Seeing this unfamiliar human cultivator suddenly appear before it, the infant inside the sphere cried out.

Ximen Wudi reached out and seized the sphere, bringing it close to examine.

The infant was no larger than a fist, appearing extremely weak.

"Huh! There seem to be strange patterns on its body—I sense not the slightest evil aura. Could this be its innate nature at birth?"

"If so, wouldn't its bones and bloodline surpass all limits? Will it become incredibly powerful when it grows?"

"There's also five-colored light swirling around it—definitely some extraordinary treasure!"

Ximen Wudi stared at the baby while muttering to himself, and finally couldn't help but lick the corner of his mouth, revealing a strange smile.

Ximen Wudi picked up the baby, then gently wiped the tears from his cheek with his sleeve.

"There, there, don't cry. Big brother will take you away from here and find you a new place to cultivate…"

Ximen Wudi patted the baby's back, then drew him into the Chaos Divine Infant's body.

The baby did not struggle or resist, but entered very smoothly into the Chaos Divine Infant's lower dantian.

"The Source of Chaos… it's the Source of Chaos!"

Within the Chaos Divine Infant's lower dantian, a palm-sized, crystal-clear, milky-white droplet floated in suspension — it was the Source of Chaos, the very foundation of Ximen Wudi's cultivation.

After the baby entered the Source of Chaos, he happily drifted about inside it.

Ximen Wudi had wanted to take out the Source of Chaos, but worried the baby might damage it, so he could only wait.

"The Source of Chaos is the foundation that nurtures the Chaos Divine Infant; it absolutely cannot be harmed."

Inside the Chaos Divine Infant, Ximen Wudi said to himself with a solemn face: "If anything happens to this baby, the Chaos Divine Infant will surely have problems too."

No one knew how long had passed before the Chaos Infant finally stopped drifting and slowly drifted off into slumber.

This baby's appearance was no different from an ordinary baby, except that two chains of gleaming silver runes ran through both his arms and his chest.

Those runes were constructed from the Ultimate Principles of Chaos, containing extremely pure power of the Ultimate Principles of Chaos.

Pulled by the chains, those runes would continuously pour into the Chaos Divine Infant's limbs and head.

The Chaos Divine Infant did not fear the power of the runes, but instead fused it into its own meridians, making them increasingly solid.

With this sleep, another unknown number of years passed.

Finally, one morning, a strong surge of spiritual power began to ripple across the Chaos Divine Infant's body, quickly gathering at the tip of his right index finger.

As the spiritual power finished gathering, the Chaos Divine Infant's left index finger also lit up, and spiritual power gradually began to gush forth from that finger.

"Mm, my strength has grown a lot!"

"So the Source of Chaos is a treasure that helps cultivators raise their cultivation. It's just that my Chaos Divine Infant doesn't need this sort of thing!"

"With my strength, I could probably take on an early Divine Venerable expert head-on, right?"

The Chaos Divine Infant slowly opened his eyes, two flames flickering in his pupils. He surveyed his surroundings, but did not see Ximen Wudi.