Chapter 1754 : Embryonic Form of the Great Dao

With just 3 Primordial Purple Auras, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vase had already ascended to the rank of a top-grade Primordial Treasure.

The Heaven and Earth Primordial Vessel, an upper-grade Connate Treasure, had grown increasingly profound. Yet it remained insufficient to help the Ancient Connate Tree break through its bottleneck and advance. Thus, Eldrin continued refining 2 strands of Primordial Primordial Purple Qi.

"Bzzz—"

As the final strand of Primordial Purple Qi was refined, the Primordial Chaos Vessel suddenly radiated an innate divine light, giving birth to a total of 13 innate Dao patterns.

Even more astonishing, as the 13 innate Dao patterns continuously intertwined, a nascent, obscure Innate Great Dao began to take form.

Primordial Qi of Heaven and Earth: Nascent Form of the Great Dao

Witnessing this scene, Lyra's eyes lit up as she exclaimed.

Eldrin also gave a slight nod and spoke calmly, "This Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vessel can be considered the most elementary form of Innate Ancient Treasure."

Primordial Ancient Treasures also have distinct ranks, generally categorized into 2 stages: the 12-mark and the 20-4-mark.

12 innate Dao patterns could intertwine to form the embryonic form of the Great Dao.

And 20-4 innate Dao patterns could intertwine to form the rudiments of 2 innate Great Daos.

The difference between a 12-mark innate ancient treasure and a 20-4-mark innate ancient treasure is immense. As for those in between—whether it be 13 marks or 20-3—the disparity in their power is not particularly significant, amounting to at most a 20 to 30 percent difference.

The ultimate limit for an Innate Ancient Treasure is 20-4 innate Dao patterns. Surpassing 20-4 would qualify it as an embryo of an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

The so-called Primordial Spirit Treasure Embryo generally refers to a nascent Primordial Spirit Treasure still in gestation. For instance, the Abyssal Pearl now bore over 30 Primordial Dao Patterns.

Such a nascent treasure embryo is virtually guaranteed to mature into a connate spiritual treasure barring unforeseen circumstances—an occurrence far too rare to require elaboration.

However, the 12-ring innate ancient treasure was significantly inferior to the 20-4-ring innate ancient treasure.

At present, this Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vase possessed only 13 innate Dao patterns, making it a rather ordinary ancient innate treasure.

Even so, this Innate Primordial Qi Vase had undergone a qualitative transformation compared to before its advancement.

Eldrin attempted to refine a drop of Primordial Spirit Water, discovering that after the Heaven and Earth Primordial Vial's advancement, the innate spiritual water within now contained a wisp of Dao Power. Its miraculous effects could no longer be spoken of in the same terms as before.

First of all, the Primordial Qi of Heaven and Earth Water has even better healing effects now. With just 1,000 drops, it can cure nearly all injuries at the Celestial Immortal Realm.

Moreover, its ripening effect had significantly increased, proving highly effective even when used on ancient innate trees.

Most importantly, after advancing to an Innate Ancient Treasure, this Primordial Qi Water of Heaven and Earth gained a trace of the elusive power of the Great Dao, capable of helping the Innate Ancient Tree break its shackles and ascend to a mid-grade Innate Ancient Tree.

Though it was still impossible to elevate it to a top-grade Primordial Ancient Tree, Eldrin estimated that once the Primordial Vessel of Heaven and Earth ascended into a supreme 20-4-marked Primordial Treasure, it would be able to help the Primordial Ancient Tree shatter the shackles of the ninth-tier upper grade.

Alas, as the wonders of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vessel grew, the amount of immortal essence required to convert Primordial Spirit Water had also increased dramatically.

Previously, Eldrin had only needed 10,000 Immortal Origins to transform a single drop of Primordial Spirit Water, but now it required 100,000 Immortal Origins to produce just 1 drop.

To help an ancient innate tree break through its bottleneck and advance to a mid-grade innate tree requires 3,000 drops of innate spiritual water, which amounts to a staggering 300,000,000 units of immortal origin.

3 100 million Immortal Sources—this was no small sum.

Of course, any Celestial Immortal would gladly pay the price of 300,000,000 Immortal Origins for a single medium-grade Primordial Ancient Tree.

After all, Immortal Origin held little use for Heavenly Immortals, whereas a mid-grade Primordial Ancient Tree was something countless Heavenly Immortals dreamed of possessing. Forget 300,000,000 Immortal Origin coins—even 3,000,000,000 or 30,000,000,000 would find no shortage of eager buyers.

To say nothing of the rest, the colossal Immortal Origin mines of the Abyssal Sea alone could yield over 200,000,000 Immortal Origins every 10 1000 years.

The duration of a single Dao Tribulation would require trillions of them.

For over a 100 million years, the 2 great cave heavens of the Western Qi Divine Abyss have monopolized the spirit vein, amassing at least trillions of immortal sources. Even after consuming the majority, spending tens of billions to acquire a single mid-grade Primordial Ancient Tree would be effortless.

However, primordial ancient trees are exceedingly rare. They are heritage treasures used by major grotto-heavens to suppress their fortunes. Unless it truly came down to a critical moment of life and death, no Celestial Immortal would be willing to part with 1.

After comprehending the wondrous functions of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vessel, Lyra (Person Name) couldn't help but exclaim, "As we anticipated, this treasure has truly manifested its primordial nature after evolving into an Innate Ancient Treasure."

"It seems it's time for us to prepare for ascension to the Earth Immortal Realm as well."

Eldrin nodded and couldn't help but ask, "How much Immortal Origin has the family accumulated?"

For 8 100 1000 years, the Immortal Alliance has distributed 8 billion shares of the immortal source mineral veins from the Abyssal Ocean. I exchanged them all with merit and rare treasures, storing them in the clan treasury.

Lyra (Person Name) recounted the current inventory of the family's Immortal Origin as if listing treasures from her own collection: "Moreover, over these years, our family's various enterprises have accumulated 1,300,000,000 Immortal Origins."

"In addition to our sales of immortal treasures and spiritual materials, along with the surplus accumulated in earlier years, we have approximately 13.7 billion units of Immortal Origin remaining."

"13.7 billion?"

Eldrin pondered briefly before shaking his head. "13 billion 7 100 million units of immortal essence can only elevate 40-5 Primordial Ancient Trees."

"I have opened 20-4 celestial layers, and you have opened 20-1. Combined, that makes 40-5 celestial layers. This meager amount of immortal origin is barely sufficient for the 2 of us."

At this point, Eldrin frowned and said, "And this doesn't even account for accelerating the maturation of the Heavenly Spiritual Root. If we factor that in, the consumption of immortal origin would increase by another 30 percent."

Upon hearing this, Lyra (Person Name) also nodded in agreement.

Currently, the Chen Immortal Clan consists of 11 flawless Celestial Immortals: Eldrin, Lyra, Qing Ji, Seraphina Qu, Lila, Yan Zi Ji, Chen Qiyuan, Chen Ethan, Chen Xianqing, Qing Laozu, and Chen Xianzhang.

Within the universes of the 11 members of the Chen family, Primordial Ancient Trees had been planted, totaling over 3 100 in all.

Not to mention 13.7 billion immortal origins, if we truly aimed to elevate everyone, even 100 billion immortal origins might not suffice.

At this thought, Lyra couldn't help but ask, "Then what do you plan to do?"

"Prepare to sell the Taiyi Golden Bamboo!"

Eldrin (Person Name) declared decisively, his expression serene as he spoke.

Lyra's eyes sparkled faintly at the words, though a trace of concern lingered within them.

The Great Yin Golden Bamboo stands as 1 of the most cost-effective Great Yin celestial treasures within the immortal realm, yet it serves as the most versatile of materials.

As the Great Yin Gold Bamboo is resilient and imperishable, it can be used not only to forge swords but also to craft 9-rank ancient ships capable of traversing the primordial chaos.

The power of a single Great Yin Golden Bamboo Sword was not formidable, but when a dozen or so—or even 20-some—Great Yin Golden Bamboo Swords combined to form a sword formation, they could unleash unparalleled might.

Thus, when supreme experts of the celestial realm purchased Great Yin Golden Bamboo, they would acquire it in massive batches.

Those who refine swords with this would purchase 30-6, 70-2, or even 1 100 and 8 stalks at a time.

The materials used to craft the Ninth-Realm ancient ships were purchased in bulk quantities of hundreds or even thousands, leading to an immense consumption of Taiyi Golden Bamboo. As a result, there was no concern whatsoever about finding buyers.

Third Watch. (End of Chapter)