Honghuang: I am Qitian and I want to fight for the throne

Chapter 454 Breakthrough to the Limitless Eternal Treasure Tree
Flower and Fruit Mountain, Water Curtain Cave.

Half a century is but a fleeting moment in the grand scheme of things, a mere blink of an eye in the vast cycle of the sun and moon.

However, for Qi Tian, ​​it was a complete transformation.

A vast and boundless chaotic aura, like billions of rushing and roaring galaxies, surged wildly into his body.

Then it is greedily absorbed and refined.

The physical body possessed a strange texture that was neither gold nor jade. Beneath the skin, countless chaotic runes were faintly visible, appearing and disappearing, as if miniature chaotic universes were being created and ending.

"Om-!"

Suddenly, an indescribable auspicious cloud unfolded above Qi Tian's head!

Above the auspicious clouds, the Chaos Lotus, which carries all the Dao fruits of the past, present, and future, blooms layer by layer!
His aura surged wildly, and his powerful Daoist energy reverberated throughout the entire Water Curtain Cave.

The Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal!

The moment Qi Tian broke through, the patterns on the lotus petals made of the laws of force suddenly emitted a domineering aura that made all paths submit.

"Break it for me!!"

Qi Tian suddenly shouted, manipulating a portion of his Great Dao merits to transform into a warm and vast energy that surged into the heart of the Dao Lotus.

"Boom!"

It was as if a thunderclap, as if from the very beginning of chaos, exploded within Qitian's primordial spirit!
The profound barrier of the Law of Power, which spans countless ages and is as heavy as the superposition of countless chaotic stars, groaned under the impact of the supreme lubricant and catalyst of the Great Dao Merit!

Countless fundamental truths about "force" flooded into Qitian's consciousness like a bursting dam.

Five percent!

The understanding of the Law of Force comes naturally, like water flowing into a channel!

"Shh!"

Qi Tian suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes, and two beams of tangible chaotic divine light shot out, piercing through layers of cave restrictions and shooting straight into the depths of chaos!
That gaze contained the supreme power to shatter stars and destroy all paths, and also an absolute confidence that looked down upon all heavens and controlled everything.

"Hongjun..."

Qi Tian murmured to himself, clearly sensing that deep within the origin of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, another aura was rapidly rising!
That was Hongjun attempting to break through to the Hunyuan Wuji Jiluo Golden Immortal realm.

"Not slow at all!"

Qi Tian's lips curled into a cold smile.

With 50% control over the Law of Power, combined with his Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm, the two combined gave him absolute confidence that even if Hongjun also broke through at this moment, he could defeat him head-on.

Even... the possibility of killing them is not out of the question!
However, despite his improved strength, Qi Tian had no intention of leaving seclusion.

The sage has not yet fully returned to his rightful place. Under the constraints of the rules of heaven and earth, he and Hongjun cannot fight to the death. It is not yet time for the decisive battle between the representatives of the Heavenly Dao.

During the half-Yuanhui period of his seclusion, Qi Tian also kept a sliver of his mind on the outside world.

Following Tongtian,

The three spirits, Gu, Yuan, and Xuan, became the second batch of people to achieve sainthood.

Next came Taishang, Wangshu, Wanshuanghua, Kongxuan, Mengpo, and Haotian.

As for the others, they have not yet fully comprehended the Primordial Purple Qi.

It will probably take another one or two more cycles to complete.

Therefore, Qi Tian had no intention of leaving seclusion. He closed his eyes again and his aura became calm and focused.

He focused most of his mind on his body, consolidating his Dao fruit as a Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal while continuing to comprehend the Laws of Power.

Every bit of improvement in strength will make the upcoming decisive battle easier.

but,

During this cultivation, Qi Tian separated a small portion of his mind, crossed the invisible space, and descended upon his clone deep within the chaos!
……

Chaos, without light or darkness, without beginning or end.

The raging chaotic currents were like billions of primordial dragons that had lost their minds, endlessly colliding, tearing, and annihilating each other.

In the heart of this chaotic storm, the canopy of a colossal tree, whose grandeur and vastness defy description, stretches across the chaos.

Millions of leaves of various shapes and sizes, each seemingly carrying a newborn world, shimmer with a hazy halo, as if enacting the cycle of birth and death.

This is the World Tree, whose roots are planted in the underworld and whose trunk runs through the realms of immortals and heaven!

now,

In the core area of ​​the World Tree's immeasurably vast canopy, a figure was silently suspended.

It was Qi Tian.

Before leaving the chaos and returning to the primordial world, it was a clone that the primordial spirit separated into.

At this moment, Qi Tian's clone's gaze was focused intently on what lay ahead.

There, a three-zhang-sized ball of shimmering light floated.

Within the cluster of light flows a rich vitality and vast green energy—this is the origin of the World Tree!

but,

The origin of this world tree is wrapped in a nearly transparent membrane.

On the membrane, there flowed patterns of laws that were more primordial and more irreversible than the chaotic airflow!

That is the power of the Great Dao!

It is the protective force manifested from the most fundamental logic that constitutes all rules, all existence, and all "being" and "non-being"!
Its strength is enough to make any peak-level Hunyuan Wuji Dalu Jinxian (Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal) hesitate to approach it.

Forcibly touching it will only bring about the most thorough backlash and annihilation from the rules of the Great Dao!

This is why, even after so long since the new primordial world was created, no one has refined the World Tree.

The real purpose of Qi Tian's clone coming here was not the origin of the World Tree.

He was self-aware enough not to have the strength to withstand the backlash of the Great Dao.

He has ulterior motives.

Before the Half-Yuan Gathering, Qi Tian had a sudden, intense urge that was impossible to ignore!
In that moment, amidst the chaotic disorder, he caught a faint, ethereal, yet familiar scent that stirred the depths of his soul—

The spirit of the Chaos Pearl, which had long since vanished into the fusion of the world!

However, the sensation was intermittent and almost impossible to grasp.

Qi Tian's clone spent a long time deducing and searching in the chaos before finally confirming that the sensation originated from the origin of the World Tree, which was tightly guarded by the power of the Great Dao!

This immediately silenced his anger.

With that terrifying Great Dao protecting him, he simply couldn't get in.

However, he did not leave immediately, but continued to sense and capture the aura of the Chaos Pearl's spirit.

At the same time, he suppressed all hostility, greed, and murderous intent, and his primordial spirit power touched and analyzed the "rhythm" and "rules" of the protective membrane of the Great Dao countless times.

It's just a clone anyway, so destroying it won't be a big loss.

However, countless tentative attempts to touch it were like throwing stones into the sea; the protective power did not react at all, neither blocking nor backfiring!
But—this very "ignorance" is the biggest anomaly! An absurd and unbelievable thought arose in Qi Tian's mind:
This protective power of the Great Dao seems to have no defense against him, or rather, against his primordial spirit.
But how is this possible?

He has no relation to Da Dao!
"Could it be because of the spirit of the Chaos Pearl?"

This thought popped into Qi Tian's mind.

After all, when the Chaos Pearl World and the Primordial World merged, the spirit of the Chaos Pearl merged with the Great Dao of the Primordial World.

He was also the owner of the Chaos Pearl's spirit.

"Let's risk it all. At worst, we'll just lose this clone."

Qi Tian's eyes sharpened, and a condensed primordial spirit power, as fine as a crystal thread, cautiously and slowly probed towards the membrane flowing with the patterns of the Great Dao.

"Buzz!"

The protective power of the Great Dao, which was strong enough to block even the peak of the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal, was like the gentlest flowing water, naturally "sliding away" when it came into contact with the primordial spirit threads of the Qitian clone!

Without causing a ripple, the threads of primordial spirit penetrated the membrane of the Great Dao unimpeded!

And at the very moment that Qi Tian Yuan Shen's silk thread entered.

"call out--!"

A tiny point of light, so faint it seemed it might go out at any moment, yet containing an incomparably pure and ancient spirituality, suddenly shot out from the depths of the primordial light cluster.

The speed was so fast that it transcended the constraints of time, and before Qi Tian could react at all, it directly disappeared into the primordial spirit thread that he had extended!
boom!
A massive, chaotic, yet incredibly familiar and ancient torrent of information instantly surged into the core of Qitian's consciousness, far away in the Water Curtain Cave of the Primordial World!
This message is not written or spoken, but rather the most primordial imprint of the soul and fragments of memory!

Qi Tian's body trembled violently, and the stable chaotic energy around his seated body was disrupted for a moment!
Because a series of images appeared in his mind.

He 'saw' the spirit of the Chaos Pearl, a blurry figure of light and shadow, floating in the chaos.

They 'saw' a world of unparalleled splendor, where the laws were so stable as to be almost eternal.

They saw that at the core of the eternal world's origin, sat a being whose aura was overwhelming and whose every move seemed to create eternity!

Then,

It was a collision so devastating it defies description!
The spirit of the Chaos Pearl burned its own essence, drawing upon the deepest power of the Chaos Pearl world's rules, which merged with the fundamental will of the Great Dao of the Primordial World, unleashing the most primordial power of annihilation!

Two supreme rules from different worlds, linked by the Chaos Pearl's spirit as a "fuse," fiercely attacked that terrifying figure!
The figure let out a furious roar of defiance, and its eternally indestructible divine body crumbled inch by inch.

Meanwhile, the spirit of the artifact and the will of the Great Dao also collapsed. The primordial energy and memory fragments of the three were recombined and formed the will of the Great Dao of the new primordial world.

but,

Before its destruction, the spirit of the Chaos Pearl released a wisp of broken spiritual energy, which merged into the origin of the World Tree.

This is precisely why Qi Tian had sensed something earlier.

This is also why the protective forces of the Great Dao outside did not attack him.

"Ah~"

After learning the whole story, Qi Tian sighed deeply.

My mind is somewhat complicated and heavy.

The spirit of the Chaos Pearl, even at the last moment, was still leaving an opportunity for its master.

In the torrent of information from the remnant spirit of the Chaos Pearl, Qi Tian learned secrets unknown to anyone in this world.

This new world was just as he had guessed.

It's not a simple fusion of the primordial world and the Chaos Pearl world at all!
It even merged with the eternal world created by a terrifying being from the primordial world, a being at the peak of the half-step Great Dao, named "Gu Dao"!

It was the figure he had just 'seen'.

"This must be the Ancient Path of the Father God that the Three Spirit Gods have been talking about!"

Qi Tian murmured to himself.

But in the fragments of memory, the eternal world of the ancient road is not the whole story!

Before the spirit completely lost consciousness, it caught a glimpse of a deeper, more subtle aura—

At the moment when the three merged, it seemed... there was a fourth "thing".

A mysterious entity, incomprehensible and unobservable yet seemingly possessing some kind of "consciousness," also silently and imperceptibly merged into the scene, like a shadow!
The spirit of the artifact instinctively sensed that mysterious object...

"Conscious!"

A storm raged in Qi Tian's heart, and a chill rose from the depths of his primordial spirit.

He instantly recalled the terrifying existence that flashed by and revealed only a trace of its aura when he was fighting for the origin of the Heavenly Dao in the chaos. It scared more than a dozen beings, whom he suspected were extraterrestrial beings, into fleeing for their lives!
Is that it?
Qi Tian could not be certain.

The aura was too fleeting and ethereal to fully correspond with the vague information conveyed by the artifact spirit.

Moreover, he was unable to verify or investigate, and could only forcefully suppress this surprise and unease into the deepest part of his heart.

In addition to the above, the spirit also left behind information about the World Tree.

This information shocked Qi Tian, ​​but also filled him with uncontrollable elation!

because
This merged World Tree is no longer the original Chaos Treasure from the Chaos Pearl World!

It not only absorbed and devoured the primordial essence that dissipated when the three worlds merged, but also absorbed a wisp of the mysterious object's aura.

Finally, it devoured most of the original 'treasure energy' of the new world.

This is why the new primordial world has not given birth to a single chaotic spiritual treasure or supreme treasure.

All the precious energy and essence of creation of heaven and earth were devoured by this World Tree!
Having absorbed such terrifying "nutrients," the World Tree has undergone a complete transformation in its essence!
From the fragmented consciousness of the fallen Ancient Dao Immortal Venerable, captured by the artifact spirit, the World Tree has already advanced to a level even more powerful than a Chaos Treasure.

Eternal Treasure!

This is also the strongest treasure in the original world!

Only the four supreme rulers each possess one!
Its power is enough to allow the holder to transcend a major realm and annihilate a powerful enemy!

Of course, this only applies to those below the Immortal Sovereign realm.

"An eternal treasure... this powerful?"

Qi Tian's heart skipped a beat in shock!
Destroying an enemy across a major realm means that if he succeeds in refining it, even if he only has initial control over it, he will possess terrifying combat power at the half-step Great Dao realm!
At that time, even a mere Hongjun can be destroyed with a flick of the wrist!
However, the artifact spirit also learned from the fragments of the Ancient Dao Immortal Venerable's memories that powerful treasures like the Eternal Treasure could only be refined by experts at the half-step Great Dao realm; even Primordial Limitless Golden Immortals below that level could not do so.

Even worse, forcibly refining it will result in a backlash from its very source, causing it to be reduced to ashes!
But this does not include Qi Tian.

Because the torrent of information revealed that the spirit of the Chaos Pearl had left him with an unparalleled opportunity—

The light that had just merged into his primordial spirit was not merely a fragment of memory, but also a wisp of broken spiritual energy that had separated from the spirit of the Chaos Pearl before its demise.

Because they have always been nurtured within the origin of the World Tree, the two have long shared the same origin.

At this moment, the broken spiritual energy merged with his primordial spirit, as if an invisible bridge had been built between him and the origin of the World Tree!
Through this "bridge", he gained the qualification to refine the essence of the World Tree!

of course,

This refining process is extremely long, and even the remnant consciousness of the artifact spirit cannot estimate how long it will take.

"enough!"

(End of this chapter)