by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“It’s treating my Pill Flame as food?” Long Chen was startled and furious. His Pill Flame was rapidly running out, and in less than a breath’s time, it had all been devoured by the Earth Flame.
Realizing there was no more Pill Flame to consume, the Earth Flame became furious, and a terrifying heat attacked Long Chen.
“Damnit!” Long Chen felt despair. At the same time, he had an urge to slap himself to death. Did he have to be so greedy?
Just as Long Chen thought he was dead, his Dantian suddenly shook and emitted a rumbling sound.
The fierce Earth Flame immediately stopped attacking and released Long Chen. It seemed to be shivering, and it immediately turned to flee back into the lava pool.
Buzz…
Suddenly, space trembled, and the Earth Flame involuntarily flew back to Long Chen. Although it was struggling as hard as it could, it was useless.
Long Chen also had no idea what was going on. All he saw was that despite the Earth Flame struggling all-out, it still flew over, touched his abdomen, and then silently disappeared.
He was dumbfounded, but when he thought of a certain possibility, he hastily looked inside himself and finally saw that bead in his Dantian.
His jaw dropped. Back when he had first merged with the primal chaos bead, a large amount of information had flooded his mind.
At that time, he had been filled with inconsolable grief due to Ye Zhiqiu’s death, and he hadn’t had time to examine the changes that had occurred in his body.
Now that he looked at the primal chaos bead again, he clapped himself in the head. He really was screwed. When the primal chaos bead had merged with him, some information had appeared in his head, but he hadn’t looked through it.
Now, that information had disappeared. Other than the fact that it was called the primal chaos bead, he knew nothing else about it at all.
But the fact that that information had disappeared was also something he had no way of fixing. His mind entered the primal chaos bead, and he let out a startled cry.
He felt as if he had entered a small world. This was a space of three miles, and the ground was completely barren. It was just a flat land with nothing on it.
At the center of the space was a ball of flames. Currently, the Earth Flame seemed to be suppressed by something, and it was terrified.
Long Chen also had no idea what this bead’s abilities were for it to be able to suppress an Earth Flame. But he felt that it seemed just like a spatial ring. The only difference was that his soul was able to enter this world.
“Since you’re called a primal chaos bead, then I’ll call this the primal chaos space.”
Long Chen sized up his surroundings. This place was completely empty. However, it did possess a primal chaos aura that made him feel extremely comfortable.
Suddenly, he let out a startled cry as he remembered something. Back when he had first entered the secret realm, he had been completely stuck at the peak of Blood Condensation. Breaking through had been impossible.
But after entering the secret realm, he had almost immediately broken through. In other words, this world was lacking something that he needed in order to advance.
But now that he had this primal chaos bead, he wouldn’t need to go to any secret realms like that to advance.
He walked up to the Earth Flame that was quivering in fear.
“Come with me. I’ll make it worth your while.” Although he didn’t know how the primal chaos bead had suppressed the Earth Flame, Long Chen could sense that within the primal chaos space, he was the ruler. He could control everything here. It was an extremely strange feeling.
So he didn’t feel any more fear towards the Earth Flame. That was a feeling that came with having absolute control.
As he attempted to communicate with the Earth Flame, it was still constantly quivering. Long Chen could sense that the only thing it was feeling was terror.
That made him feel slightly helpless. But he had to find a way to make use of such a powerful weapon. Long Chen forcefully squeezed out another ball of his exhausted Pill Flame for the Earth Flame.
The Earth Flame immediately transformed to become a small serpent that swallowed his Pill Flame with a single gulp. Now, Long Chen could sense a feeling of joy coming from it.
“There’s hope!” Long Chen hastily circulated his spiritual qi to recover his Pill Flame. Feeding it ball by ball to the Earth Flame, after a few dozen feedings, he clearly sensed the Earth Flame was feeling a bit friendlier towards him.
Earth Flames were things born from the world, and they had their own spirituality. However, this Earth Flame was still in its infancy and needed to be guided.
Long Chen constantly fed it his Pill Flame. When he had fed it over a thousand balls, the little fellow finally stopped being terrified of him and became friendly, transforming into a blue serpent that coiled around his arm. It actually began to ask for more Pill Flame from him.
Long Chen smiled. It was said that after an Earth Flame grew up, its intelligence wouldn’t be any lower than a human’s. However, when Earth Flames matured, they would become even more berserk, and it was even harder to subdue them.
So, if you wanted to subdue an Earth Flame, you needed to do it before it completely matured.
Long Chen had truly benefited. Once this Earth Flame matured, it would become an extremely powerful killing tool for him. Most importantly, he could even use the Earth Flame for alchemy, which would allow him to refine even higher tier medicinal pills.
Long Chen pushed out his Pill Flame as fast as possible for three straight days. He didn’t even know how much of his Pill Flame had been fed to the Earth Flame during this time, but it finally completely calmed down.
Now, it merged its way into Long Chen’s arm, and a blue serpent tattoo appeared there. The tattoo was three inches long and remarkably lifelike.
That meant the Earth Flame had already accepted Long Chen as its master. In the future, he would be able to use its flame energy for attacks.
However, for now, the Earth Flame had descended into slumber, and Long Chen didn’t want to wake it. Instead, he decided to experiment. Looking at the vast and empty primal chaos space, a certain possibility shook his heart.
He took out a medicinal ingredient from his life ring. Although this life ring could keep herbs alive, their vitality would still be impacted, and they would become listless.
After a moment’s thought, Long Chen dug a hole and planted the herb. He was shocked to find that as soon as he planted the herb, it gradually recovered from its listless state, and in just a few breaths’ time, it began to thrum with vitality.
“This place can be used as a life ring, and it has a much better effect!”
Realizing that, Long Chen hastily dug a larger hole and planted the Qilin Fruit Tree. As expected, it also quickly recovered.
But the most exciting thing to him was that it was actually growing! He saw that the blossoms on the tree that had yet to bear fruit had clearly grown slightly in just a few breaths’ time.
“It can increase the rate of growth as well?!” That made Long Chen ecstatic. He hastily began to crazily plant all the medicinal ingredients from his life ring into the primal chaos space. Under his rapid planting, a large medicinal field appeared in the primal chaos space, and the entire area became filled with a dense spiritual qi.
Within this three-mile space, this medicinal field only took up a small portion, which made Long Chen feel like it was a waste. After pondering it for a moment, he decided to set a certain region for spatial rings he had picked up and whatever was inside them.
Spatial rings were not very safe since they could easily break, and once they broke, everything inside them was doomed.
He took out all the comparatively precious things in his spatial ring to a certain region on the edge of the space.
The primal chaos space was connected to his mind. Placing and withdrawing items from it was even more convenient than using a spatial ring, and it was safer
and faster.
He also threw in the spatial rings he had gathered from battle. However, he didn’t bother going through them. There were just too many of them, and he was too lazy to classify them. He decided to leave that work to Tang Wan-er and the others. He trusted them to handle it.
He was in the midst of tidying things up when he saw a certain something at his feet that made him turn expressionless.
Chapter 471 Miraculous Primal Chaos Bead
“No way!”
What Long Chen had noticed was a withered vine that had come from his spatial ring. It was a medicinal ingredient, but it was already completely dead.
However, after landing on the ground, it had begun to thrum with life force again. Its cracked skin split apart, and a soft shoot was currently growing out of the ground. Its leaves waved ever so slightly, seeming to be breathing.
“It can allow living things to grow and withered things to revive, transforming garbage into something miraculous…” Long Chen was simply stunned as if he looked at the little shoot.
“Hahahaha…!” Then he suddenly laughed uproariously. This discovery made him practically go crazy with joy.
He hastily found some more dead medicinal ingredients and planted them. In just a short time, those withered ingredients began to recover, becoming green again.
In less than an incense stick’s time, he personally saw a medicinal ingredient go from dead to thriving. If he hadn’t seen it personally, he wouldn’t have dared to believe it.
Whether it was a seed or a withered herb, Long Chen would be able to grow any medicinal ingredient in his primal chaos space.
That made him think of a certain way to get rich. If he bought a medicinal herb that had almost gone extinct in the outside world, placed it in his primal chaos space, and then sold the medicinal herbs that were born from it, then his profit would be in the hundreds or thousands of times.
Long Chen had his Pill Sovereign memories, but he had never managed to obtain that many medicinal ingredients to refine. This primal chaos space was practically tailor-made for him.
“Hmm… it seems this primal chaos space is something I can control slightly.” Long Chen suddenly thought of how the FengFu Battle Armor he had summoned in the previous fight had been slightly different than usual.
He began to slowly circulate the FengFu Star and Alioth Star. Previously, their energy would directly pour into his body.
But this time, it was different. Their energy was pouring into the primal chaos bead, and the primal chaos bead began to slowly revolve now. Primal chaos energy poured into his body, causing him to feel full of power.
“So that’s how it is. My Dantian was empty, and this primal chaos bead has now taken the place of my Dantian. Then does that mean this was all foreordained?”
Someone with a Dantian was unable to cultivate the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, while those without a Dantian were incapable of cultivation.
Even Wilde had a Dantian, but he didn’t have other people’s complicated meridians. He only had five meridians, one for each of his limbs and another for his head.
As for Long Chen’s Dantian, it was something that had been destroyed after he was born. Long Chen thought of his Pill Sovereign memories, the scenes that had appeared in his mind previously, as well as the primal chaos bead in his Dantian now.
That couldn’t possibly be coincidence. Coincidences couldn’t occur over and over like this. But if it wasn’t coincidence, what was it?
“Whatever. In any case, I’m the one who benefits.”
Long Chen let his imagination run wild for a while, but he couldn’t come up with anything plausible. Rather than just stupidly wasting time on that, he focused on the changes in the primal chaos bead.
He noticed that the output of his FengFu Star and Alioth Stars directly affected how quickly the primal chaos bead rotated and how much power it released.
Suddenly, the primal chaos bead stopped revolving, causing Long Chen to jump in shock. But then he laughed involuntarily. It wasn’t a problem with the primal chaos bead, but because his spiritual qi had run out. His FengFu Star and Alioth Star had also stopped circulating.
His previous struggle with Luo Bing had almost used up his spiritual qi. Then his spiritual qi had completely run out when fighting against the Earth Flame, and then again when he had been feeding it his Pill Flame.
Now that little bit of spiritual qi he had recovered had been used to circulate his two stars. It was no wonder his spiritual qi was exhausted.
After figuring out the principles of the primal chaos bead, Long Chen’s attention once more focused on the primal chaos space. This space was something he could only enter with his Spiritual Strength.
Now that he was inside, he was startled to find that quite a few of those medicinal ingredients he had planted had already bloomed.
Furthermore, the hardest thing to believe was that the Qilin Fruit Tree now had seven more flowers, and its immature Qilin Fruits had already become completely ripe.
“I really struck gold!” Long Chen couldn’t help clenching his teeth. If he didn’t clench his teeth, he wouldn’t be able to express his emotions.
The primal chaos bead was actually able to increase the growth of plants by such an extent. It had to be known that the Qilin Fruits matured extremely slowly. These unripe Qilin Fruits would have required many months, and perhaps even years to fully develop.
However, now, years of growth had been condensed into just two incense sticks’ worth of time. How could that not make Long Chen go wild with joy? With enough Qilin Fruits, he could bring the Alioth Star to its fully condensed state and summon the true Two Star Battle Armor.
Currently, he was able to summon the Two Star Battle Armor, but one of the stars that appeared in his eyes was extremely faint. It wasn’t the true Two Star Battle Armor, and he was sure that once both stars were fully condensed, its power would be incomparable.
Thinking of that, Long Chen did his best to calm himself down. He felt a bit dizzy from the primal chaos bead’s heaven-defying abilities.
“Wait… if the primal chaos bead can revive dead plants, then does it have an effect on humans as well?” A brazen idea suddenly popped into Long Chen’s head.
He gathered Luo Bing’s corpse into the primal chaos space. Throwing her spatial ring to the side, he planted her onto a specific batch of earth at the center of the space.
Within the primal chaos space, all the soil was yellow. Only at the center was there a three-meter wide patch of black soil.
“Black soil should be more fertile than yellow soil. Let’s try it.”
Previously, Long Chen had already noticed that patch of black soil, but whenever he looked at it, he felt it was a bit frightening. So he hadn’t planted his medicinal ingredients there.
Despite being the master of the primal chaos space, Long Chen still felt intimidated by this black soil. He decided to use Luo Bing’s body to test it.
He dug a hole in the black earth and stuck her in feet first, planting just half of her. If the earth was a precious resource, then this really was an excellent method. This way, he saved on space and on the cost of a tombstone.
After burying her, Long Chen closely observed her neck. If Luo Bing really did grow out a new head, then he would immediately summon the Earth Flame to kill her.
On the extremely off chance she revived, then he really was afraid he might not be able to handle her. But after several breaths’ time, nothing changed with Luo Bing’s headless corpse.
“It has no effect on humans?”
Long Chen couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed. If it really had been able to revive the dead, then he could revive Ye Zhiqiu and Lu Fang-er.
But then suddenly, Luo Bing, who had been motionless this entire time, suddenly moved, causing Long Chen to jump in fright. He was just about to summon the Earth Flame when he noticed that Luo Bing hadn’t grown a new head, but had instead sunk deeper into the earth.
Long Chen’s jaw dropped. T
he black soil was like a monster’s mouth, slowly devouring Luo Bing’s corpse.
In less than an incense stick’s time, Luo Bing’s corpse disappeared beneath the ground. At the same time, vast life energy filled the primal chaos space, and the herbs he had planted began to grow even faster, almost singing with vitality.
“Oh? Devouring flesh can invigorate this space?” Long Chen gulped. What a terrifying ability.
Even Long Chen’s heart was pounding at this shocking ability. Furthermore, he found that his injuries were now quickly recovering.
Suddenly, Long Chen became nauseous. Just now, he had essentially absorbed Luo Bing’s corpse in order to heal himself.
“How nauseating.”
Long Chen spat on the ground. However, he didn’t feel too terrible. If a bad person died, he wouldn’t feel any burden on his heart.
However, he decided that in the future, he definitely wouldn’t bury people in this black soil again. If he had to bury something, he’d use Magical Beasts.
Other than healing him, some of that life energy was being sent to the medicinal ingredients. Furthermore, once the medicinal ingredients were planted in the primal chaos space, they formed a special connection, and Long Chen could draw out their life energy to heal himself.
“Unfortunately, the amount of life energy in these medicinal ingredients is too low. I’ll need to find some huge trees to store life energy. But this space is also too small and can’t store that much.
Looking at this three-mile primal chaos space, all kinds of ideas of how to use this treasure popped into Long Chen’s mind.
However, those ideas were for later. Right now, he cleaned up the remains of this battlefield, and after summoning Little Snow, he left the region.
Right now, he had to act extremely carefully. He erased all traces of his passage. The wind in this desert was powerful, so his tracks were already being covered naturally. Now, even if further pursuers came, it would be as if he had disappeared into thin air.
Within the next two days, Long Chen had found a secluded place deep within the mountains. There, he summoned his divine ring and circulated his two stars. All the medicinal ingredients in his primal chaos space rapidly grew.