Chapter 1910 : Rebuilding the Foundation

A group of Chaos Ancient Beasts at the early to mid-stage Celestial Immortal realm were practically useless to a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

However, Eldrin had largely found a solution to this problem.

The fundamental reason these 3 Chaos Beast hordes were unable to ascend to higher realms lay in their diminished combat prowess after specialization. They simply couldn't seize higher-grade cultivation resources, making further advancement nearly impossible.

No matter how much Primal Chaos Realm Grass they consumed, it alone could never elevate them to the Great Realm of the Golden Immortals.

After all, the Chaos Realm Grass was merely the lowest grade of Taiyi Marvels. Even if a few managed to advance to mid-grade or even high-grade, it was nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

"The most critical issue remains whether we can cultivate a substantial quantity of high-level Chaos Realm Grasses."

Eldrin (Person Name) murmured inwardly, deciding to act upon the thought immediately.

He immediately arrived within the chaos, retrieving a Chaos Realm Herb and planting it in the Sea of Chaos.

Then, with a flick of his sleeve, he retrieved the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vase and irrigated the Chaos Realm Grass with Primordial Spirit Water. This time, while nurturing the seeds of the Chaos Realm Grass, Eldrin did not employ Primordial Qi, relying solely on the Heaven and Earth’s power of creation within the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vase.

Fortunately, the Chaos Realm Herb was merely a Great Ultimate Treasure, making its advancement significantly less difficult compared to an Ancient Primordial Tree.

As the innate spiritual water from the Heaven-Earth Primordial Vial sprinkled down, the Chaos Realm Grass began voraciously absorbing the chaotic sea waters, growing at a visibly rapid pace.

In but a moment's time, the Chaos Realm Grass had already taken form, reaching the level of a lower-grade Taiyi Marvel.

"What feeble world power."

Eldrin murmured under his breath, finally comprehending why the Chaos Realm Grass could take root alone within the primordial chaos.

Within this blade of Primal Chaos Realm Grass truly existed a world, only this world was far too minuscule, at most the size of a single Earth Immortal realm.

Most crucially, the Chaos Realm Grass was exceptionally resilient, its leaves as sharp as a Taiyi Immortal Artifact. If consumed in large quantities, not only would it be difficult to refine, but it could likely injure the Primordial Chaos Beast.

Thus, for the vast majority of primordial chaos beasts, the Chaos Realm Grass was truly like "a flavorless meal—hard to abandon yet hardly worth keeping."

Only a specialized Primal Chaos beast like the Primal Chaos Yak, which had evolved a Heaven-Devouring Stomach specifically designed for Primal Chaos Realm Grass, could continuously crush and refine it, thus enabling them to feed on Primal Chaos Realm Grass.

"Let's see if this can help him break through the bottleneck."

Eldrin murmured inwardly, immediately dripping another drop of Primordial Spirit Water.

After 9 consecutive drops had fallen, this Chaos Realm Grass finally broke through its bottleneck and ascended to become a mid-grade Taiyi Marvel.

"Hmm—"

Suddenly, Eldrin (Person Name) showed a faint trace of surprise.

He discovered that after the Chaos Realm Herb advanced, the inner world had expanded by more than tenfold. Most crucially, a strand of Primordial Yellow Mother Qi had actually taken form within the world.

"Could this Chaos Realm Herb's advancement possibly evolve into an entire cosmos?"

Eldrin murmured, his voice tinged with surprise as he spoke.

He did not relent, dripping another drop of Primordial Spirit Water, elevating the Chaos Realm Herb into a superior-grade Taiyi Marvel.

It was only then that Eldrin discovered that, within the supreme-grade Chaos Realm Grass, several dozen strands of Primordial Yellow Mother Qi had actually taken form.

The Chaos Realm Grass, which had gestated the Primordial Yellow Mother Qi, could already be considered a rare top-grade Taiyi Marvel. If the Chaos Yak could devour it over an extended period, it might even seize this opportunity to ascend into a mid-grade or even top-grade ninth-order Chaos Ancient Beast.

At this thought, Eldrin continued his cultivation, and after expending over a 100 portions of Primordial Spirit Water, he finally nurtured a supreme-grade Chaos Realm Grass.

"No, this is not the supreme-grade Chaos Realm Herb."

Eldrin murmured softly, a flicker of shock suddenly surfacing in his gaze.

He suddenly discovered that within the Chaos Realm Grass, a minor world abruptly exploded, evolving into a small universe spanning a million light-years.

Within the small universe, a wisp of Primordial Qi slowly descended, ultimately merging with the Chaos Realm Grass.

Primal Chaos Realm Grass.

Eldrin murmured softly, a flicker of delight gleaming in his eyes.

It turned out that once the Chaos Realm Grass evolved into a supreme-grade Chaos Realm Grass, its inner world could ascend into a miniature cosmos, thereby transforming it into an Innate Spiritual Grass.

This scene could truly be called a legend.

This was Eldrin's first encounter with a spiritual herb that had independently ascended to the cosmos through postnatal cultivation, ultimately transforming into an innate divine plant.

A humble blade of grass, if it remains unyielding, may yet transform into a primordial divine artifact.

Eldrin murmured softly, his gaze unconsciously growing solemn.

He gazed at the Chaos Realm Herb, noticing it possessed exactly 9 leaves. Each leaf radiated overwhelming sword intent, as if capable of severing suns and moons, extinguishing stars, and annihilating the vast chaos itself.

9-leaf Sword Grass.

Eldrin spoke softly as he stored away this stalk of Chaos Realm Grass.

After its advancement, this 9-Leaf Sword Grass had become an extraordinary entity, its sharp edges impossible to conceal, possessing unparalleled potential.

Most crucially, Eldrin perceived a faint, nascent consciousness emanating from the 9-leaf Sword Grass Seed—a clear indication of its awakening sentience.

Considering the rarity of its awakened sentience, Eldrin decided to transplant it into the Li Fire Sword of the Returning Abyss, awaiting its transformation to embark upon the path of cultivation.

After dealing with the 9-Leaf Sword Grass, Eldrin continued nurturing the Chaos Realm Grass. To his astonishment, when the second Chaos Realm Grass reached its limit, the miniature world failed to evolve into a cosmos and disintegrated within the primordial chaos.

"Could the World Transformation into a Cosmos also fail?"

Eldrin murmured inwardly, his brow furrowing slightly in contemplation.

He continued selecting Chaos Realm Herbs for cultivation, and after nurturing several 1000 plants in succession, he finally reached a conclusion.

When the Chaos Realm Herb advances to the Innate Chaos Realm Herb, the success rate is merely about 0.1%, because during the process of world transformation into a cosmos, failure inevitably leads to annihilation—there exists no alternative path.

"Cultivating a single stalk of premium-grade Chaos Realm Herb costs approximately 100,000,000 immortal origins. The probability of failure in advancing it to an innate Chaos Realm Herb is far too high, making the entire cultivation process fundamentally unprofitable."

Eldrin spoke slowly. Although he could directly convert the chaotic seawater into immortal essence, it required a significant time investment. Given the high failure rate, it was impossible to endlessly cultivate the Primordial Chaos Realm Grass.

However, the Primordial Chaos Realm Grass could be used to nurture Chaos Beast Kings, so it absolutely could not be abandoned.

After much deliberation, Eldrin decided to cultivate only a small amount of Primordial Chaos Realm Grass for the time being. After all, high-grade Chaos Realm Grass was more than sufficient to feed mid- and low-grade Primordial Chaos Ancient Beasts.

In the future, when the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Bottle advances to become a mid-grade or even top-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure, we shall then see if it can increase the success rate of evolving into the Primordial Chaos Realm Grass.

Thinking of this, Eldrin returned directly to the Return to Void Immortal Realm, entrusted the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Vase to the Old Clan Leader for cultivation, and dispatched clan members to capture the 3 types of primordial chaos beasts.

The taming of the primordial chaos beasts was crucial to Eldrin's (Person Name) path of physical sanctification. The family's several seventh and eighth-tribulation ancient immortals naturally dared not neglect this matter, immediately venturing into the chaos to capture these primordial creatures.

Thus time flew by, and after several 100 1000 years, nearly a 1000 chaotic nests had emerged in the northern reaches of the Return to Ruins Immortal Realm.

These nearly 1 1000 Chaos Nests varied in grade, scattered throughout the northern chaos, occupying territories spanning over a 100 Dao Paths and nurturing close to 10,000 primordial chaos beasts.

These nearly 10 1000 primordial chaos beasts were all from the herds of Primordial Chaos White Rams, Primordial Chaos Azure Fish, and Primordial Chaos Yaks.

Eldrin named it the Chaotic Northern Celestial Realm, standing in opposition to the Chaotic Southern Celestial Realm which served as a training ground.

Thereafter, he used this chaotic nest as the core to set up an array, planting boundless Chaos Realm Grass to breed 3 great tribes of primordial chaos beasts. He deployed 1,000 celestial soldiers and generals, along with a 7-tribulation ancient immortal from his clan to guard the place.

"Almost there."

After handling all of this, Eldrin couldn't help but nod slightly.

With the Chaos Ancient Beast Breeding Farm now established, the next step was to continue expanding its scale.

Then they would cull those with poor aptitude, continuously selecting and breeding ancient chaos beasts with the potential to break through to Chaos Beast King status as breeding stock, ultimately cultivating vast numbers of Chaos Beast Kings.

Of course, if 1 could not cultivate large quantities of Primordial Chaos Realm Grass, then attempting to breed numerous Chaos Beast Kings would clearly not be achievable within merely 1 or 2 kalpas.

But from this point onward, Eldrin no longer needed to handle matters personally.

1 day, after Eldrin had finished handling affairs in the Northern Chaotic Heaven Domain, he entered the seclusion chamber with Lyra.

Now, Eldrin had finally dealt with the trivial matters of the immortal realm and found the time to rebuild Lyra's foundation.

"Lyra (Person Name), are you ready?"

In the seclusion chamber, Eldrin gazed at Lyra before him, his expression turning grave as he could not help but ask solemnly.

Lyra nodded, her expression a blend of anticipation and solemnity as she declared, "Rebuilding my foundation is imperative—there is no room for retreat."

"Very well."

Eldrin nodded and retrieved the Nirvana Immortal Marrow, refining it with his supreme, boundless power.

In an instant, the Nirvana Immortal Marrow transformed into a brilliant chaos-immortal light that illuminated the world, merging into Lyra (Person Name)'s body.

This Niravana Immortal Marrow was truly miraculous. After merging with Lyra's body, it actually made her foundation increasingly hazy, granting it greater plasticity.

Seeing this, Eldrin immediately focused his entire attention and carefully extracted 5 treasures from Lyra's body: a sword, a cauldron, a disc, a pearl, and a lotus throne.

These 5 treasures were the Heaven-Vault Immortal-Slaying Sword (Magic Treasure), the Hexahedral Cauldron of All Realms (Magic Treasure), the Terran Earth Primordial Plate (Magic Treasure), the External Incarnation (Divine Ability), and the White Lotus Throne of Purity (Magic Treasure).

These 5 treasures were all objects of Lyra's (Person Name) life-bound cultivation, representing nearly half of her foundational strength. As they were forcibly extracted, Lyra (Person Name) felt profound reluctance in her heart.

Gazing at the 5 innate treasures, Lyra (Person Name) asked with palpable reluctance, "Could these 5 treasures possibly..."

"No."

Eldrin shook his head and spoke, "To refine a True Spirit Treasure, these 5 artifacts have become stumbling blocks."

Seeing this, Lyra (Person Name) couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Deep down, she understood that to forge a True Spirit Artifact, 1 must cultivate the Scripture of Celestial Emperor’s Artifact Fusion.

However, the Celestial Emperor Artifact Fusion Chapter placed exceedingly high demands on 1's life-bound treasures. These 5 treasures, due to the lack of guidance in her early years, had instead become stumbling blocks hindering her path to higher realms.

At this thought, she lowered her gaze and said no more.

Seeing this, Eldrin immediately and completely extracted all 5 of Lyra's Life-Bound Treasures.

"Hmph—"

Lyra (Person Name) let out a pained groan. Having cultivated her life-bound treasure for countless years, her very Dao foundation and cultivation realm were intrinsically tied to it.

At this moment, having them extracted not only deprived her of 5 Life-Bound Treasures, but also inflicted severe damage to her foundation.

Without the Nirvana Immortal Marrow, even if a Great Luo Golden Immortal were to personally safeguard her, she would suffer incomparably terrible devastation.

Fortunately, Lyra not only had the protection of Eldrin's True Spirit Nascent Soul, but also possessed the Nirvana Immortal Marrow to replenish her damaged foundation. Not only did her cultivation not regress, but her foundational potential was greatly enhanced.

Getting back to the story, after extracting 5 of his life-bound immortal treasures, Eldrin once again stepped forward to assist Lyra in severing her own Great Dao.

Since Lyra (Person Name) had chosen to pursue the Pure Yin 5 Elements Great Dao, her original paths such as the Samadhi True Fire were no longer suitable, and thus these established paths had to be abolished.

It was no easy task to sever the Great Dao. Lyra’s Primordial Spirit Immortal Fetus and her entire foundation were forged from the fusion of spiritual power and the laws of the Great Dao. To dismantle her foundation bit by bit was akin to stripping away all of her cultivation.

Fortunately, both Eldrin and Lyra had cultivated True Spirit Divine Souls. With their combined efforts, the great daos were gradually stripped away 1 by 1.

In the end, aside from the Celestial Unity True Water, the other 4 Great Daos were completely stripped from the very foundation of his being.

At this moment, even with the Nirvana Immortal Marrow replenishing her, Lyra's face was as pale as paper, her cultivation and aura having weakened to their absolute limit.

Seize the opportunity to rebuild 1's foundation from scratch.

Eldrin spoke as he brought forth a myriad of rare treasures to rebuild Lyra’s foundation.

Lyra nodded and decisively began refining the rare treasure, starting from the very beginning to cultivate each and every realm.

She began from Qi Refining, progressing through Foundation Building, Purple Mansion, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul—each major realm was cultivated to its extreme state, far more powerful and perfected than in her previous life.

Then she resumed her comprehension of the arcane forces, this time choosing to cultivate 5 types: the Lunar Immortal Gold, the Profound Yin Divine Wood, the 6 Yin Immortal Fire, the 9 Yin Frigid Earth, and the Celestial Unity True Water.

Building upon this foundation, Lyra (Person Name) successfully cultivated the Pure Yin 5 Elements spiritual power.

Among the 5 arcane forces that Lyra (Person Name) cultivated, the Lunar Yin, Mysterious Yin, Sixfold Yin, and Ninefold Yin were each distinct. In principle, every Yin-attributed arcane force should have generated and countered 1 another.

Fortunately, the Celestial Unity Water harmonizes all things, merging the 4 into 1 and transforming them into the pure Yin 5 Elements spiritual power.

This Pure Yin 5 Elements spiritual power contained 5 types of yin-aligned elemental energies, far surpassing the potency of secret forces like the Samadhi True Fire from years past.

Moreover, Lyra (Person Name) had also cultivated new Life-Bound Treasures (Magic Treasure): the Lunar Shadow Sword (Magic Treasure), the Profound Yin Vessel (Magic Treasure), the 6 Yin Lantern (Magic Treasure), the 9 Yin Disc (Magic Treasure), and the Celestial Unity Pool (Magic Treasure).

These 5 treasures were each unique, yet they all met the prerequisites for cultivating the Heaven Emperor Artifact Fusion Chapter, theoretically capable of evolving into True Spirit Treasures.

After cultivating the Pure Yin 5 Elements magic power and her life-bound treasure, Lyra (Person Name) had finally completed the 2 most crucial steps in rebuilding her foundation.

She then proceeded with her cultivation step by step, successively mastering 5 types of laws, rules, and Dao patterns.

Yet, tens of thousands of years later, she shattered the Heavenly Barrier of the Great Dao once more and mastered the Great Dao of Pure Yin Non-Polarity.

On the day the Great Dao of Pure Yin and Limitlessness took form, the supreme spacetime of the 9 Heavens Above cracked open. The Eternal True Spirit scattered divine objects of overwhelming power, which fused with Lyra's Great Dao—marking her ultimate attainment of the True Spirit Great Dao.

"Congratulations are in order."

"Congratulations, Madam. You have finally achieved the True Spirit Great Dao."

Witnessing Lyra (Person Name) attain the True Spirit Great Dao, Eldrin (Person Name) could not help but rejoice.

Lyra slowly opened her eyes and breathed a faint sigh of relief. Though perilous, her foundation reconstruction had ultimately fulfilled her wishes.

Now, Lyra (Person Name), having integrated her True Spirit Primordial Soul and the Lunar Immortal Body fused with the Chaos Lunar Fruit, had successfully cultivated the 3 foundational True Spiritual Roots (Spiritual Root): the True Spirit Primordial Soul, the True Spirit Great Dao, and the True Spirit Body.

At this thought, Lyra spoke up, "This time, the gains are immense. We even have surplus True Spirit Imprints remaining—enough to illuminate 1 True Spirit Acupoint."

Eldrin’s expression brightened slightly upon hearing this. “Does that mean Lyra is about to cultivate the foundation of the 4 major True Spiritual Roots?”

Should he also master the Celestial Emperor Artifact Fusion Chapter, then the 5 True Spiritual Roots foundations would be nearly within reach. With the aid of a true spirit treasure to refine his magic power, there was even hope of achieving all 6 True Spiritual Roots foundations.

If the 6 True Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) foundations are cultivated, the seventh True Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) foundation will inevitably fall into place.

It has never been heard of that 1 who has cultivated the foundation of the 6 Great True Spiritual Roots (Spiritual Root) would fail to achieve the True Spirit Dao Fruit.

At this thought, Eldrin couldn't help but exclaim, "With your unparalleled talent, Madam, you are destined to become our human race's first female Immortal Sage."

Upon hearing this, Lyra couldn't help but smile. She took Eldrin's hand and said, "The reason this foundation reconstruction proceeded so smoothly is 80 percent thanks to Senior Taishi."

"If not for the Eldrin (Person Name)'s gift of the Nirvana Immortal Marrow, my foundation would have been severely damaged. Whether I could have successfully resumed cultivation would have been uncertain, let alone achieving the True Spirit Great Dao."

At this point, Lyra spoke again, "Moreover, although the True Spiritual Root foundation is difficult to cultivate, for truly peerless prodigies, it might merely be a modest hurdle to overcome."

"I suspect that the Primordial Divine Sovereign, the Solar Celestial Emperor, and the Primeval Dao Ancestor—8 out of 10 of them likely forged foundations with 5 or 6 True Spiritual Roots (Spiritual Root) in their time."

Eldrin also nodded upon hearing this. "The initial stages of cultivating a True Spiritual Root are indeed the most challenging."

However, once 1 has cultivated more than 4 True Spiritual Root foundations, it creates a snowball effect, reducing the difficulty of forming the subsequent True Spiritual Root foundations.

Since Ziyao Jianji, Ni Cangtian, and Tian Xing had all succeeded in cultivating the 3 True Spiritual Roots (Spiritual Root) foundations, how could those Dao Ancestors and Immortal Sages possibly achieve less than them?

Those Chaos Heavenly Emperors had existed for millions of kalpas. Even prodigies who emerged only once every 10 1000 kalpas—they had witnessed such talents no less than hundreds of times, long accustomed to geniuses like Ni Cangtian and Tian Xing.

Forging a True Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) foundation may be the threshold to becoming a Chaos Celestial Emperor, yet it is by no means the key to achieving that ultimate supremacy. In the eyes of a true Chaos Celestial Emperor, prodigies blessed with such spiritual roots are not necessarily as exceptionally brilliant or outstanding as they seem.

Even if 1 were to cultivate 3 True Spiritual Roots (Spiritual Root) foundations, it would at most elicit admiration that this individual possesses the bearing of a Celestial Emperor—yet that is all it would ever be.

The chaos is vast and boundless. Throughout the endless river of time, countless individuals have emerged with the bearing of a Celestial Emperor, yet in the end, how many can truly take that final step?

I'm afraid less than 1 in a 100 would survive.

At this thought, Eldrin took a deep breath and said, "Indeed, we must not grow complacent, yet you need not be so modest either, my lady."

A 4 True Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) Foundation prodigy would likely be considered a dazzling genius even in the eyes of the Dao Ancestor Immortal Sages.

Lyra nodded slightly and then spoke, "In the next kalpic tribulation, I shall attain the Dao and ascend as a Great Luo Golden Immortal."

"Now is not the time to waste. I shall enter seclusion to comprehend the Celestial Emperor's Artifact Fusion Chapter, striving to forge the True Spirit Treasure at the earliest opportunity."

"Very well."

Eldrin nodded, handing the remaining 3 strands of Innate Indestructible Spirit Light to Lyra. "We're still short 2 strands," he said, "but you should begin your cultivation first. I will find a way to obtain the missing Innate Indestructible Spirit Light."

Another 10 1000 words today, bring it on.