Chapter 109 Unexpected Gain, Heavenly Merit
"There seems to be a treasure there that is extremely important to me."
Xu Qiankun's eyes flashed with a sharp light. What could attract him must be a treasure with a very deep connection to the Great Dao of Qiankun, perhaps the legendary treasure that could turn the acquired into the innate.
"Take this treasure first."
Xu Qiankun arrived above the innate formation that his clone had discovered.
"Fellow Daoist inside, I am Qiankun Daoist. I am passing by your esteemed place and have come to pay my respects. Please come out and meet me."
As usual, Xu Qiankun stood outside the formation and shouted into it to prevent this place from being the gestation ground of some innate god or demon, which might affect its development.
The innate gods and demons, born in accordance with the Great Dao, are all the darlings of the primordial world. It would be one thing if they perished when the great calamity arrives.
The cause and effect of a stillbirth is something even a powerful being like a Great Luo Golden Immortal would find difficult to bear.
After calling out several times without receiving a response from any gods or demons, Xu Qiankun immediately began to break the formation.
After about six months, the formation was broken, and a purple-gold bamboo swayed in the innate formation space.
Around the purple-gold bamboo, hundreds of shorter golden thunder bamboos also grow.
"Another innate spiritual root, and a mid-grade one at that."
The mid-grade innate spiritual root, the Purple-Gold Evil-Breaking Bamboo, is accompanied by the Golden Thunder Evil-Breaking Bamboo.
"Born with the ability to ward off evil, this guy could be transformed into a child spirit."
Without much hesitation, Xu Qiankun used the Enlightenment Technique, and the Purple Gold Evil-Breaking Bamboo quickly transformed into the appearance of a seven or eight-year-old child.
"Greetings, sir. Thank you for your guidance."
The boy transformed from the Purple Gold Evil-Breaking Bamboo immediately knelt down and bowed, his expression extremely respectful.
"Hmm," Xu Qiankun nodded slightly. "Since you have a lightning-attribute innate spiritual root, let's call you Purple Lightning from now on."
"Yes, thank you for bestowing a name upon me, sir."
Zi Lei quickly bowed and thanked him.
Xu Qiankun scavenged all the materials that had been nurtured within the array space, transplanted the hundreds of bamboo plants into the 'Ten Thousand Spirits Garden,' and then followed the strong sensation.
Time flies, and another three hundred years have passed in a flash.
In these three hundred years, besides guiding Zi Lei's cultivation, Xu Qiankun devoted a very small portion of his energy to helping the Nine Nether Sea clone of the Devouring Star World analyze its life genes, successfully raising its life gene level to 9 times, reaching the fourth stage of divine body cultivation, and becoming known as the Infinite Divine Body.
However, Xu Qiankun was not satisfied. The Infinite Divine Body was indeed very strong, but he knew that there was a 10 times stronger divine body above the Infinite Divine Body, and that was his goal.
In the original story, Luo Feng only broke through to 100,000 times his life gene after enslaving the Beast King, but for Xu Qiankun, there was no need for such trouble.
They possess innate divine and demonic bodies, and each one is no less powerful than a world beast king. According to the life gene levels of the Swallowed Star world, they should all be beings at the level of 100,000 times.
He doesn't need to wait for the World Beast to be born to study it; he only needs to study himself.
However, this process will be relatively long, perhaps requiring tens or hundreds of thousands of years of research.
"We've finally arrived."
The Myriad Spirits Garden stopped in mid-air. Xu Qiankun teleported outside, waved his hand to retrieve the Myriad Spirits Garden, and looked at a primordial array in front of him.
This innate formation was far more profound than any he had encountered along the way, and it gave him an extremely familiar feeling, which came from the characteristics of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
Moreover, it is not a lineage of earth or heaven, but a lineage of reincarnation.
"This formation is very powerful."
Xu Qiankun looked at it carefully and tried to reach out to touch it, but was directly repelled by a powerful force.
"The treasure within this formation is definitely closely related to the Great Dao of Qiankun, and is most likely the Qiankun Cauldron, a supreme innate treasure of the Qiankun lineage."
Xu Qiankun was even more excited.
The Primordial Treasure is a terrifying treasure whose full power can only be unleashed by a sage. It is an unparalleled treasure for any Great Luo Golden Immortal or even a Quasi-Saint.
Xu Qiankun couldn't wait to start breaking the formation.
The Qiankun Reverse Origin Pearl flew out and merged with the auspicious clouds he released, which were manifested from the Great Dao rules of the Qiankun Great Dao and the Earth lineage, and crashed into the innate great formation.
Rumble
A terrifying shockwave reverberated across the desolate land, killing hundreds of ferocious beasts living within a radius of 30,000 miles.
The formation remained completely unmoved.
"Is the Samsara lineage that powerful?"
The Qiankun Dao Lun Hui lineage is the ultimate utilization of energy, skilled in devouring and refining, and also extremely adept at defense.
The power landed on the innate grand formation, easily absorbed by the power emanating from it, and then transformed into a counter-force to launch a counterattack.
Xu Qiankun was not flustered. He stood in front of the innate formation, and his true form as a god and demon was revealed.
Under the divine power of "Law of Heaven and Earth", his height reached 33 million zhang.
The chaotic energy beneath his feet concealed his legs. He held the sun in his left hand and grasped the moon in his right. Auspicious clouds surged above his head, and behind him was a dazzling golden wheel of merit, a manifestation of all the merits he had gained from refining weapons, creating laws, and creating life—three things beneficial to the development of the primordial world.
After revealing his true divine and demonic nature, Xu Qiankun's connection with the Great Dao of Qiankun became significantly closer.
One by one, the key nodes of the innate formation appeared before his eyes.
"This formation...is interesting."
After thoroughly seeing through the innate formation, Xu Qiankun's pair of golden, radiant eyes immediately emitted beams of divine light.
Instead of rushing to break the formation, He quickly began to comprehend the profound mysteries of the innate formation.
While comprehending, He also took out dozens of materials. The great sun in His left hand burst out with extremely blazing white-gold flames, which was the famous True Flame of the Sun. This fire was extremely hot, extremely yang and extremely strong. Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal could be seriously injured if burned by it. It was one of the most important powers controlled by the True Body of the Qiankun God and Demon.
Under the scorching heat of the sun, the materials that Xu Qiankun had taken out melted rapidly.
Among these materials are Taiyi-level innate five elements spirit crystals he obtained from the innate formation where the Five Elements Essence Wheel is located, as well as Chaos Stones, innate Geng Metal, and Glazed Yuan Earth, which he obtained during his journey and whose grade reaches Taiyi level or above.
As these materials melted, divine and demonic power surged into them, and countless mysterious patterns were engraved into the materials.
Once all the materials were engraved with mysterious patterns, the liquid formed from these materials rapidly condensed under His control, forming a three-tiered palace that emitted a five-colored light.
The palace cooled rapidly, shrinking to the size of a palm and falling into Xu Qiankun's hand.
He examined it carefully, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.
He succeeded in refining a celestial artifact at the level of a Taiyi Golden Immortal on his first attempt, and it was even a palace-type celestial artifact at the peak level of a Taiyi Golden Immortal.
This palace is based on the power of the five elements, and incorporates some of the profound mysteries of the Qiankun Dao Reincarnation lineage that he comprehended from the innate formation in front of him. They are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining, and endlessly generating life.
Within the palace, there were also dozens of small worlds that he had created using the lineage of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Although they were called small, each world was actually tens of thousands of miles wide, larger than a planet inhabited by life.
But this wasn't what Xu Qiankun was most satisfied with.
A divine and demonic power at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal surged into His hands, instantly activating the mysterious patterns He had deliberately left on the inner walls of the palace.
Buzz
The palace in his hand rapidly expanded, instantly becoming a thousand miles in size.
At the same time, the palace formed an extremely close connection with the primordial world, as if every line within it conformed to the operating rules of the primordial heavenly way.
The palace became an integral part of the primordial world, its power and majesty greatly increased.
As Xu Qiankun's thoughts stirred, the palace crumbled, transforming into five worlds representing the five elements, encompassing an area with a radius of thirty million miles.
This formed a killing formation.
Buzz
The moment the killing formation was completed, the Heavenly Dao finally sensed it, and a golden light of merit descended, the amount of which was about the same as when the formation was created.
Sixty percent of it entered Xu Qiankun's body, while the remaining four layers were absorbed by this massive formation.
"Creating an array can actually earn you Heavenly Merit?"
Xu Qiankun was both surprised and delighted. He had always thought that formations were also a part of "laws", so they could be classified as cultivation techniques or spells and would not gain merit. Therefore, he had never thought of creating an acquired formation.
Who knew that simply forging a celestial artifact would not only be a great success, but would also bring Him a great deal of merit. Although this merit was not enough to raise His strength to the mid-stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, it was still enough to make Him pleasantly surprised.
The array that was absorbing merit was withdrawn, and the Five Elements World was transformed back into a palace-like immortal artifact.
At this moment, the aura of a peak Taiyi Golden Immortal on the palace artifact was undergoing a transformation, which surprised him. "This treasure should be able to evolve into a God-King weapon, with power comparable to a top-grade innate spiritual treasure."
"Since this is the first acquired array in this world, let's call it the Heavenly Array Divine Palace from now on."
Xu Qiankun happily put away the Heavenly Array Divine Palace. From now on, this palace will replace the 'Ten Thousand Spirits Garden' as his main vehicle, and it should not be easily replaced.
"After absorbing the merit I gained this time, my strength will increase significantly, which should be enough to break through this great formation."
Xu Qiankun directly absorbed the Heavenly Dao merits within his body, rapidly enhancing his divine and demonic body. Countless profound mysteries of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, which already existed within his body and bloodline, quickly emerged.