Chapter 2

"Where is this?"

After the world spun around him, Lu Changsheng opened his eyes, his face filled with shock. The place he was in was actually a vast, boundless void!

Within this void, countless stars flickered like a dazzling painting of a river of stars.

He could sense the ancient ripples emanating from this space. Like a pure land of the Immortal Realm, it was filled with an ancient, sacred, primordial aura.

Within this ancient space, Lu Changsheng was like a mayfly, incomparably tiny. He carefully surveyed the area and soon realized that this should be the space inside that Golden Cauldron!

For a mere Miscellaneous Servant Disciple like Lu Changsheng, this was simply too inconceivable. Inside that tiny Golden Cauldron lay such a vast space!

Hum—

At that moment, an intense ripple suddenly came from the depths of the space.

Immediately afterward, Lu Changsheng saw in shock that ancient golden runes were condensing in the depths of the void.

"That is..."

Lu Changsheng focused his gaze and saw golden characters the size of tadpoles floating densely in the air not far ahead.

These golden characters resembled ancient incantations, radiating an age-old, weathered aura, as though they contained some miraculous power.

Boom!

Lu Changsheng stepped closer to look, only for those golden characters to surge into his glabella like a flood.

"Ah!"

Lu Changsheng clutched his head and let out a pained roar. His head felt as though it were splitting apart. The golden characters flooded into his mind, gradually forming an ancient scripture.

Before long, the splitting headache ebbed away like the tide.

"Heaven Swallowing Creation Art!"

Lu Changsheng's pupils contracted.

An ancient cultivation art had actually appeared in his mind!

"I wonder what grade this Heaven Swallowing Creation Art is. How does it compare to my Azure Origin Art?"

Lu Changsheng was both shocked and delighted.

Lu Changsheng was merely a Miscellaneous Servant Disciple of the Lingxiao Sect. The cultivation art he practiced was called the Azure Origin Art, and it was only Yellow-tier first-grade.

In the martial world, cultivation arts were divided into Heaven, Earth, Black, Yellow, with each tier further divided into grades one through nine.

Because of his lowly status, Lu Changsheng could only cultivate the lowest-grade art.

At that moment, Lu Changsheng vaguely realized that the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art was far more powerful than his Azure Origin Art.

He simply did not realize that the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art was one of the foremost supreme Emperor Scriptures in the Immortal Realm!

Not to mention the lower realm—even in the upper Immortal Realm, it would be enough to drive countless Great Emperors mad with desire to seize it!

But how could a mere Miscellaneous Servant Disciple like Lu Changsheng understand the extraordinary nature of the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art?

After pondering for a moment, Lu Changsheng immediately sat cross-legged. He intended to comprehend and cultivate the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art!

His expression solemn, he formed hand seals at lightning speed according to the scripture in his mind. As the seals circulated, dazzling light runes suddenly erupted from Lu Changsheng's body!

Hum!

Countless Great Dao runes circled continuously around him as all kinds of astonishing phenomena emerged. There were blooming azure lotuses of the Great Dao, ancient and sacred bronze palaces, countless holy sigils, and beastly shadows.

Lu Changsheng discovered with delight that a miraculous force was cleansing his body. His flesh became crystal clear, his bones turned lustrous like jade, and his entire body seemed to be undergoing a complete rebirth!

"This is..."

Even more astonishingly, Lu Changsheng discovered that a pitch-black opening had appeared within his dantian!

This black opening was surrounded by chaotic qi, like a terrifying, writhing maw.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

At that moment, the black opening within his dantian erupted with suction. In an instant, spiritual energy from heaven and earth was drawn in from all directions before being crazily swallowed into his dantian.

Hiss!

Lu Changsheng was so stunned that he was nearly dumbfounded. When he had cultivated the Azure Origin Art in the past, he had absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at an extremely slow pace.

This black hole, however, was like a mouth that swallowed the heavens, frantically devouring the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. The spiritual energy it swallowed in this brief minute was even greater than what Lu Changsheng had absorbed through several months of bitter cultivation!

"What a domineering cultivation art!"

Lu Changsheng was deeply shaken.

Only then did he understand why this cultivation art was called the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art.

This cultivation speed was as fierce and swift as swallowing the heavens!

Generally speaking, the higher the grade of a cultivation art, the faster it absorbed spiritual energy, and the less time was needed to break through realms.

Clearly, the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art was far more powerful than the Azure Origin Art!

As time passed, the black hole devoured a tremendous amount of spiritual energy, and Lu Changsheng's aura steadily rose.

Boom!

Third Level of Qi Condensation!

Boom!

Fourth Level of Qi Condensation!

Boom!

In just one hour, Lu Changsheng broke through to the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation!

In the martial world, cultivation realms could be divided into the Qi Condensation Realm, Core Condensation Realm, Divine Palace Realm, Transcendent Realm, pháp kiếp Realm, Heaven Merging Realm, Heaven Transformation Realm, Heaven Piercing Realm, Martial King Realm, Martial Marquis Realm, Martial Venerable Realm, and so on...

Before long, Lu Changsheng slowly stopped cultivating, and the black hole within his dantian returned to stillness.

"Ninth Level of Qi Condensation!"

Lu Changsheng opened his eyes, so shocked that he could scarcely believe it. He had cultivated at the Lingxiao Sect for more than ten years, yet had only reached the Second Level of Qi Condensation. He had always been regarded as the useless good-for-nothing at the bottom of Labor Peak.

Yet after cultivating the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art for merely one hour, his realm had surged to the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation!

This was simply inconceivable!

Lu Changsheng secretly rejoiced. He had never expected that, through such a twist of fate, he would obtain such a heaven-defying fortune!

With the Heaven Swallowing Creation Art, his cultivation would surely advance by leaps and bounds from now on.

Perhaps one day, he could shed his identity as a Miscellaneous Servant Disciple and be promoted to an Inner Disciple of the Lingxiao Sect!

"How do I get out?"

Lu Changsheng frowned.

Yet as soon as this thought surfaced in his mind, the surrounding void began to spin. By the time he came back to his senses, Lu Changsheng found that he had returned to the dilapidated hut.

The golden cauldron had appeared in his palm.

"What a treasure!"

Lu Changsheng cherished it as though he had obtained the greatest treasure.

He knew that this treasure cauldron was certainly no ordinary item.

However, Lu Changsheng suddenly remembered that when the woman in red had left earlier, she had placed the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron with him. It was highly likely that she would return to retrieve it in the future.

Lu Changsheng was somewhat puzzled. Just who was that woman in red?

And what kind of treasure was this Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron?

Lu Changsheng guessed that the woman in red had previously been hunted because of this divine cauldron. From what she had said, she seemed to come from a place called the Immortal Realm.

When he came back to himself, Lu Changsheng realized that dawn had long since broken.

"Lu Changsheng! You useless trash, get the hell out here!"