Eat, eat, eat in the primordial world

"Is this the primordial era, or the Lich Age, when humanity had only recently emerged?"

Jiang Yuan, who had just woken from his coma, found it hard to accept the fact that he had transmigrated.

Time travel is great, but traveling to the prehistoric world would be even better. However, after traveling to the prehistoric world, I am not a high and mighty innate god or demon, nor a successor of some great supernatural being, but an ordinary human being.

That's not good.

As everyone knows, in the primordial world, birth determined everything. If you weren't born with many things, you would never have them in this life.

For example, a holy position, a supreme innate treasure, or a top-tier innate merit treasure... all of these can only be obtained by associating with the great god Pangu.

Has nothing to do with the great god Pangu? Then I'm sorry, even if you're lucky enough to dominate for a time, you'll eventually fade away and become ashes.

Lesser treasures, such as ordinary innate spiritual treasures, do not need to be related to the great god Pangu. But they do need to be related to heaven and earth, and must be innate gods and demons born from the origin of heaven and earth.

Only in this way can one be destined to encounter innate spiritual treasures.

If one isn't even a primordial god or demon, then one is just a roadside creature, and shouldn't even dream of primordial spiritual treasures; even if one obtains them, one cannot keep them. Their fate is destined to be reduced to ashes in the great calamity of heaven and earth.

Jiang Yuan was well aware of this, which was why he was very dissatisfied with his transmigrated identity. Before transmigrating, he was an ordinary human, and after transmigrating, he was still an ordinary human. Hadn't he transmigrated for nothing?

Admittedly, ordinary humans from this era would be considered superior beings in later generations. But this is not the future; in this era, ordinary humans are definitely at the very bottom of the primordial world.

He has no treasures, no luck, and no strength; he is truly a person with nothing.

"How did I end up transmigrating into an ordinary human? Even if I can't become a primordial god or demon, it would be good to become one of the first humans created by the Holy Mother. What kind of person is an ordinary human?"

Jiang Yuan felt helpless, but since things had come to this point, he could only accept his fate and try to find a way to change it.

Although birth determines everything in the primordial world, transmigrators are the greatest anomalies in the world, born to break common sense and create myths.

"Am I inside the belly of the Kun fish now?"

After reluctantly accepting reality, Jiang Yuan began to analyze his current situation, and then he couldn't hold back anymore. He had just been collecting seashells on the beach when he was swallowed whole by a giant sea creature.

In other words, he's currently inside the Kun fish's belly. The question then arises: why is he still alive and well, and hasn't been digested?

Sun Wukong survived being eaten because of his extraordinary abilities. Jiang Yuan was just an ordinary person; he didn't possess such power.

Realizing something was wrong, Jiang Yuan quickly got up to check his body, trying to find out why he hadn't been digested.

Immediately, he discovered that his body was radiating a faint divine light. It was this divine light that protected him from being digested by the Kun fish.

"What is this divine light?"

Before Jiang Yuan could think it through, everything suddenly went black. When he could see again, he found himself in a gray, hazy space.

Before him, an ancient and mysterious jade disc floated silently. The divine light that protected him originated from this jade disc.

The surface of the jade disc was covered with densely packed runes, resembling a page of a book filled with text.

The content was too obscure and difficult to understand. Jiang Yuan only glanced at it and before he could see anything clearly, he couldn't help but feel dizzy.

"Isn't this jade disc the one I found on the beach before I time-traveled? Could it be that my ability to time-travel is related to this object?"

Thinking about the origin of this jade disc, Jiang Yuan realized that his cheat code might be about to be unlocked.

Sure enough, as soon as this thought arose in his mind, the jade disc suddenly shone brightly, releasing a large amount of information that flooded into his mind.

The Jade Disc of Creation!

At this moment, Jiang Yuan finally learned the origin of this jade disc; it was none other than the renowned Creation Jade Disc, a supreme treasure of creation.

Legend has it that the Jade Disc of Creation consists of fifty pieces, serving as the carrier of the Great Dao, containing the mysteries of the three thousand Great Daos.

However, when Pangu separated heaven and earth, this treasure was destroyed by the Chaos Demon God, leaving only thirty-seven pieces. Of these, thirty-six pieces were obtained by Hongjun Daozu, who used them to merge with the Dao and mend the deficiencies of the Heavenly Dao.

The last remaining piece, the one in Jiang Yuan's hand, had been lost in the world for countless years, and by chance, he obtained it. Then, it carried him across the river of time and space, arriving in the era when the human race had just been born.

"What a stroke of luck!"

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but exclaim excitedly, "The Dao Ancestor obtained thirty-six Jade Discs of Creation and achieved the highest position!"

He was almost there, only getting one piece. Doesn't that mean he's equivalent to one thirty-sixth of a Dao Ancestor? That's still amazing, probably no less than a Sage!

The Jade Disc of Creation is the first supreme treasure for enlightenment in the Chaos Realm. It has no offensive or defensive capabilities; its sole purpose is to aid in the enlightenment of others.

Regardless of one's level of understanding, with the blessing of the Jade Disc of Creation, one can reach the pinnacle of the world.

When the Great God Pangu obtained this item, he became the strongest Chaos Demon God. When Dao Ancestor Hongjun obtained this item, he became the first Saint of the Primordial World.

Jiang Yuan obtained this item and became...

In short, the Jade Disc of Creation is very powerful. After all, in the path of cultivation, besides luck, the most important thing is comprehension.

With sufficient comprehension, one can see through the essence of heaven and earth at a glance, and then learn from heaven and earth to create all sorts of supernatural powers and methods.

In addition, if one has high enough comprehension, one can create techniques that defy fate and change destiny, making one almost omnipotent.

"Unfortunately, although the treasure is excellent, my strength is too low to unleash its full power."

After the initial excitement subsided, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but sigh as he considered his situation. Activating a magical artifact required magical power, and his magical power was meager.

His level of understanding is too low; it's practically the same as having none at all.

In the primordial world, the cultivation realms, from lowest to highest, are the seven realms of Innate, Refining Emptiness, Celestial Immortal, Taiyi, Daluo, Quasi-Saint, and Hunyuan.

As for Jiang Yuan, he is at the Acquired Realm, a realm unique to the human race, which is considered the lowest level in the primordial world below the Innate Realm.

Simply put, at this point, a cultivator in the Acquired Realm is defined as a mortal who does not understand cultivation!

Mortals in the Lich Age—listen to that, what a ridiculous term! The two are completely unrelated.

But this absurd thing actually happened. Within the human race, there are far too many mortals like Jiang Yuan.

The first generation of humans, the ones whose mud splattered out by the Holy Mother using the gourd vine, were alright.

The top-tier innate spiritual treasure, the Nine Heavens Breath Soil, combined with the Three Lights Divine Water, one of the Ten Great Divine Waters, and the essence blood of the Holy Mother, created this being from birth as an innate being with the cultivation level of Refining Emptiness.

As for the few that the Holy Mother sculpted by hand, namely the ancestors of humanity, she poured her heart and soul into them. They were born as innate gods and demons, possessing the cultivation of celestial immortals.

Our ancestors were so powerful, but their descendants are not. As they reproduce generation after generation, their bloodline degenerates alarmingly. In just over ten generations, they can no longer maintain their innate status and degenerate into beings born of later generations.

Jiang Yuan, the thirty-sixth generation descendant of the ancestor Suiren, was as powerful as a primordial god or demon. However, by the time his bloodline reached his generation, he had lost much of his divine nature and was born no different from an ordinary person.

It was the birth of these humans that created an additional realm in the prehistoric world, a realm similar to the acquired realm of mortals.

It can be said that the human race gave birth to history, but this is clearly not a good thing.

For mortals to cultivate, they need methods of cultivation. However, since there is no acquired realm in the primordial world, it means that there is no method of cultivation for this realm.

Without the methods of cultivation, how can one talk about cultivation?

In the primordial world, the consequences of not being able to cultivate are severe, worse than death, and worse than being alive.

Any creature can shit on your head, bully you, laugh at you, or even eat you.

And so, Jiang Yuan, who was unable to cultivate, was swallowed by the Kun fish.