The liver is a late bloomer!

“Our clan…does not…have…the…heavenly…treasure.” Even as a Saintly Venerable, he stammered.

"Then give me five innate spiritual treasure embryos. Senior, you must pay some price for offending me."

"It depends on your wishes, senior. Give it if you want, and don't if you don't." Xu Chen said, getting up to leave.

"No, I'll give it to you!" The Golden Wolf Clan Saint Venerable expert gritted his teeth, heartbroken.

"Please grant me three days. Send it over in three days." After saying this, the Saint Venerable Realm expert of the Golden Wolf Clan disappeared into the secret realm.

"Senior, your title is still very useful," Xu Chen thought to himself with a smile.

"That coward was actually scared by a name. Once I regain my strength, he'll be the first one I cook."

"And you, kid, you're pretty good at bluffing, and you're quite the actor." Qianming felt uneasy when he saw Xu Chen manage to sell five innate spiritual treasure embryos on his turf with just a few words.

"Senior, have you ever heard the saying, 'When you're out in the world, your identity is something you give yourself'?" Xu Chen's lips curled up slightly.

Three days later, the Golden Wolf Clan's Holy Venerable appeared before Xu Chen and respectfully presented him with five innate spiritual treasure embryos.

"In that case, we can consider this matter closed." Xu Chen nodded in satisfaction.

"Young friend, could you please put in a good word for me with your senior master?" The Golden Wolf Clan Saint Venerable had a fawning expression on his face, much like a puppy begging its master for food.

"It depends on my mood," Xu Chen said softly.

"Young friend, do you think this will cheer you up?"

The Golden Wolf Clan's Saintly Venerable expert opened his palm, and a Great Origin Tree of Innate Spiritual Treasure level appeared in his hand.
"The top-tier innate spiritual treasure, the Origin Tree, is indeed quite good; it does improve my mood."

"Then I'll give this to you, young friend," said the powerful Saint Venerable of the Golden Wolf Clan.

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."

After Xu Chen accepted the Great Origin Tree, his smile deepened.

"When I meet Master Qianming again, I will tell him about you. You are a very good being. You are extremely respectful to my master and very friendly to me."

After Xu Chen finished speaking, he left amidst the satisfied gazes of the Golden Wolf Clan's Saint Venerable Realm experts.

The Thousand Machine Ship sails through the Star Sea.

"Senior, your title is really useful. It feels much faster than when I exchanged array inheritance for innate spiritual treasure embryos." Xu Chen had an idea in his mind.

"Don't get any funny ideas. If you use my name to do things and create karma, I won't entrust you with the rest of the business." Qianming snorted coldly.

"Senior, don't be so stingy. You've built up such a large power in the Star Sea Region, isn't it meant to be used for reaping rewards?" Xu Chen laughed.

"I disdain using this method to advance to a powerful figure above the Great Dao. I just casually cultivate this territory for fun; otherwise, the long years and the long river of time would be too lonely."

"You haven't reached our level yet, you wouldn't understand even if I explained."

"You should try to get the treasure I want first." Qianming was a little annoyed as he watched Xu Chen complete the task he had been given so easily.

"Let's wait a little longer, since the most important innate spiritual treasure hasn't been finished yet."

"Senior, you need to be a little patient~"

After Xu Chen finished speaking, he continued to wander among the various races, large and small, in this star sea.

3000 years later, when Xu Chen was enjoying a local specialty dish in a small tribe, he received a message from Da Xu from the Dream Dao Dantian World.

"It's finished being refined so quickly?"

Xu Chen's eyes lit up, and he first returned to the temporary base in this new sea area.

At this moment, this temporary base already contains a massive amount of Dao Origin Immortal Crystals and 145 innate spiritual treasure embryos.

With a wave of his hand, Xu Chen put all these things into his spiritual treasure space and returned to the Great Stream Sect Master World.

Inside the Great Xu Cave, a 10-zhang-tall innate spiritual treasure factory, shaped like a volcano, appeared before Xu Chen.

"How is it?" Da Xu and Er Xu appeared in front of Xu Chen immediately.

"Awesome, so awesome!"

Xu Chen sensed the power emanating from this innate spiritual treasure factory, and he felt that it was no less than the innate supreme treasure, Ten Directions Heaven, in his own hands.

"How long does it take to refine a Primordial Spiritual Treasure?" Xu Chen asked expectantly.

"If you were to refine a single innate spiritual treasure, it would only take one day."

"But this innate spiritual treasure factory can refine ten innate spiritual treasures at the same time, and that's only under my control. If we add the two Xus, then it will be 20."

"Take out the remaining innate spiritual treasure embryos. I'll plan it out and see what other auxiliary materials we need. I'll have Sheng Qing buy them." Da Xu seemed eager to get started.

"That's all for now."

Xu Chen waved his hand and released 145 innate spiritual treasure embryos.

Da Xu quickly scanned these innate spiritual treasure embryos and then placed an order directly with Sheng Qing.

Three days later, all the ordered materials were delivered into the cave.

Looking at the dense and complicated materials, Xu Chen couldn't help but praise Sheng Qing.

"Quickly enough, to gather so many materials in just three days."

Upon hearing Xu Chen's praise, Sheng Qing couldn't help but chuckle sheepishly.

"In order to meet the sudden need for materials by the Second Elder, the Great Stream Sect has established tens of millions of procurement channels to gather the materials as quickly as possible."

Sheng Qing's gaze turned to the colossal innate spiritual treasure factory, which stood 100,000 feet tall.

"Second Elder, recently, several human Grand Venerables have been visiting you, implying that they want you to create a clone of them to refine an innate spiritual treasure."

"Now that this innate spiritual treasure factory has been completed, can it accept commissions from those powerful figures?" Sheng Qing asked.

"Let's accept it. How many orders can a Human Race Grandmaster place? At most a hundred or so. It'll only take a few days," Xu Chen said leisurely.

Da Xu, who was standing to the side, also nodded.

"In that case, I will send a message to those Grandmaster experts."

Sheng Qing couldn't help but feel excited when he heard that hundreds of innate spiritual treasures could be refined in just a few days.

"Then how should the price be set?" Sheng Qing asked again.

"Let them provide their own materials. The first one will be free. For any innate spiritual treasures they want to refine in the future, the price will be half of the market price."

"If there are experts at the Great Luo Realm who also need to refine innate spiritual treasures, then there is a price."

As Xu Chen spoke, he remembered that he still had more than a dozen innate spiritual treasure embryos that he hadn't taken out yet.

So, after rummaging through his spiritual treasure space for a while, he took out the innate spiritual treasure embryo that had been gathering dust for a long time.

"You also helped me refine these," Xu Chen said, looking at Da Xu.

"Is it also a puppet?"

"Use the innate spiritual treasure embryos of the Dream Path and Sword Path to refine them into suitable innate spiritual treasures for me. The rest is up to you," Xu Chen said nonchalantly.

"Okay, come and pick it up in a month," Da Xu said, waving his hand.

"A month is such a long time, can't you train 20 pieces a day?" Xu Chen asked. "Refining a Grand Venerable Realm puppet for you will require some effort. My idea is to combine these puppets into a whole in the form of an array, so that their power will be stronger," Da Xu explained.

"Let's leave it at that then, it won't make a difference if it takes a little more time," Xu Chen said leisurely.
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For the next month, Xu Chen didn't leave; he just watched as the two Xu brothers refined the Great Venerable Realm puppets.

As he watched one Great Venerable Realm puppet after another take shape, Xu Chen suddenly thought of his Puppet Reincarnation Tower.

"Do you think this can be upgraded?" Xu Chen took out the Soul Tower of the Acquired Spiritual Treasure Puppet.

“That’s possible, but it’s not easy to find an innate spiritual treasure embryo with the reincarnation attribute. Once we find one, we’ll help you upgrade it. We’ll also try to get some Great Luo Realm puppets to insert into it so it can become even stronger.”

Da Xu glanced at the puppet Reincarnation Tower in Xu Chen's hand.

"Forget it, I'll just train with this new one. I'll just keep this acquired spiritual treasure in the sect's treasury. A million Golden Immortal realm puppets can be useful in an emergency sometimes," Xu Chen said after thinking for a moment.

"Whatever you want, it's not much trouble anyway."

A month later, 154 Grand Venerable Realm puppets of various colors appeared before Xu Chen, each emanating a different aura of the Great Dao Laws.

"That's about it." Xu Chen said, placing the Great Dao Origin Immortal Crystals into each one.

"It's a pity it doesn't have the Great Dao Divine Source, otherwise its power would be much stronger," Da Xu said regretfully.

"The Great Dao Divine Source is a treasured item that's always kept under wraps. You can get it by tricking people out of the Great Dao Origin Immortal Crystal, but you'll probably have a hard time getting this out of the box."

Xu Chen waved his hand and put these Grand Venerable Realm puppets, which were filled with the Immortal Crystals of the Great Dao Origin, into his spiritual treasure space.

"Take this with you too, so you won't be unsure how to use it later."

Da Xu handed over a Dao artifact jade slip.

"Alright, I'll be going then." Xu Chen took the jade slip and opened the spatial portal to leave.

Within the star sea controlled by Qianming, Xu Chen flew towards the treasure vault provided by Qianming.

Within a star-filled sea, Xu Chen formed hand seals, and hundreds of divine runes of the Great Dao combined to condense into a key, which he then inserted into the void.

Turn left 3600 times, turn right 7800 times, and then pause for half an hour.

A towering gate of light appeared in the starry sea.

“Senior Qianming, we are now bound together. You know the terrifying existence behind me. This karma will not be resolved until I reach the Great Dao.”

"I will surely become a powerful figure on the Great Dao. If I cooperate well with you then, I will not mention the past grievances."

"Perhaps we'll give you a chance then, senior, to advance to the Great Dao."

“I should have had that ability back then, senior, don’t you think?” Xu Chen looked at the magnificent gate of light before him, but instead of stepping into it, he started chatting with Qianming.

“Of course, being watched by such a terrifying being will surely make you a powerful figure on the path to greatness.” Qianming continued, following Xu Chen’s words.

"So, if I wanted to drag you down with me when the time comes, would I also have the ability to do so?" Xu Chen continued.

"Correct."

"So, before I enter, senior, is there anything else you'd like to say?"

Xu Chen admired the magnificent gate before him, its endless divine runes inscribed within, shimmering with countless rays of light.

"Although I like to plan ahead, I would never do anything that would affect my future fate."

"Do you think I would set up a trap here to take advantage of you and steal your body?" Qianming retorted.

"I feel that you know how, senior. I trust my intuition." Xu Chen's lips curled up slightly.

“I do have such a backup plan, but I won’t use it on you. You need to understand that as a top-tier, invincible Saint Venerable, I would never do something so foolish,” Qianming said confidently.

"Senior, you're still not being sincere."

"Then I swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao!"

"Senior's realm is infinitely close to that of a powerful being above the Great Dao. Do you think I would believe the oath of Heaven?" Xu Chen said leisurely.

“Senior, we’ve been together for so long, and you’ve never given up on replacing me.”

"I have never given up on taking advantage of my seniors."

"To be honest, neither of us wanted the other to have an easy time from the beginning."

After listening to Xu Chen's words, Qianming remained silent for a while.

How did you figure it out?

"Is there any need to realize this? One day I will fall to the same state as you, possessing other beings, and I will be the same."

As Xu Chen spoke, he formed a hand seal, and a profound and mysterious aura of the Great Dao enveloped the entire light gate.

A light screen appeared in front of Xu Chen, and the space behind the light gate was presented to him.

“Senior, I am a divine-grade array master and a divine-grade Qi cultivator. Furthermore, my Dao can be applied to all paths.”

Xu Chen gently tapped the screen, and it expanded.

All the array formations in the entire space were displayed before Xu Chen.

"The array set up in this secret realm is considered to be among the top-tier divine-grade arrays."

“The dream path, soul, flesh and blood, which are attached to the long river of myriad paths, are the seeds.”

"As long as I enter it, this seed will be planted in my body, and slowly my predecessor and I will merge into one, becoming a new whole."

"At that time, the senior's will will gradually take over and eventually completely replace me." Xu Chen said slowly, looking at the divine array.

"Kid, believe it or not, I really want you to take out that treasure. As for the seed planted in your body, I won't activate it. I'm not that stupid," Qianming continued to argue.

Upon hearing this, Xu Chen smiled slightly.

With a gentle wave of his hand, he released 154 Grand Venerable Realm puppets, and then began to inscribe the foundation of a grand formation on these Grand Venerable Realm puppets.

"Senior, don't you find what you're saying ridiculous?"

"That seed is already planted inside me. Do you think I'd believe you if you said you didn't know how to use it?"

"How about this? I'll take control of this seed and plant it into your karma, how about that?" Xu Chen said.

“It’s different. I never intended to do this. Planting it in your body is the same as not having it at all.”

“But if you plant the seed you control inside me, it won’t work. You’ll definitely use it then,” Qianming said.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Senior, it's alright. We can still cooperate in the future. If it doesn't work out, then we'll break up."

"Senior, you feel that I have no way to deal with you, but I can still seal you away."

As Xu Chen spoke, he formed a hand seal, and a power of cause and effect condensed in his hands into a small cage.

"Senior, state your choice."

Qianming sensed the small cage in Xu Chen's hand and felt a sense of fear rise in his heart for some reason.

"Our karma has already merged, so why can you still seal me away!" (End of Chapter)