Inside the World-Ending Millstone, the Great Sun Golden Flame transformed into a vast net.
Shen Ni's sealed remnant soul had no way up to Heaven and no way down into the earth.
As the Great Sun Golden Flame closed in and the World-Ending Blaze drew ever nearer, the remnant soul despaired.
The space shrank, leaving the remnant soul nowhere to evade. It was refined by the terrifying World-Ending Blaze.
Lu Yang had used only a small portion of his magic power—roughly the power of several thousand Quasi-Saints!
But to Shen Ni's remnant soul, that magic power was far too vast.
Thus, driven by such immense magic power, the World-Ending Blaze unleashed dreadful might.
The refined remnant soul dissipated in less than one Primordial Day.
According to the Heavenly Dao, the unit of cultivation was a "year."
A Quasi-Saint possessed the magic power of one Calamity, or fifty thousand Cosmic Epochs.
Accumulating Immeasurable Tribulation Magic Power allowed one to attain the Primordial Realm.
And what was an Immeasurable Calamity? It was four hundred and eighty million Calamities!
Moreover, the greater one's magic power, the harder it became to advance further.
The cultivation unit of a "year" was not the same as a unit of time.
Therefore, cultivating for the duration of one Calamity did not mean one would become a Quasi-Saint.
If one's foundation was poor, one's cultivation method inferior, and one lacked opportunities and Great Fortune, one might cultivate bitterly through several Calamities without becoming a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
Those blessed with Great Fortune might attain Grand Unity in only a few Cosmic Epochs.
Therefore, accumulating Immeasurable Tribulation Magic Power ≠ cultivating bitterly for the time span of an Immeasurable Calamity.
Was Quasi-Saint cultivation easy to attain? The answer was no.
Even the magic power of one Calamity was difficult to accumulate, much less the magic power of four hundred and eighty million Calamities.
This showed just how difficult it was to attain the Primordial Realm.
It also revealed the gap between Quasi-Saints and Saints.
Truly, all beneath the Sages were ants!
Did the combined magic power of four hundred and eighty million Quasi-Saints equal that of a Saint? Not necessarily. The magic power of one Calamity was merely the minimum standard for a Quasi-Saint, a starting point. Likewise, the magic power of one Immeasurable Calamity was only the starting point for a Saint.
Lu Yang had only come to understand this information after experiencing a Calamity.
All he could say was that he had underestimated Saints too much in the past.
Once a Quasi-Saint attained the Hunyuan Dao Fruit, they became a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and their magic power increased directly by hundreds of millions of times?
A Saint's Primordial Spirit was entrusted to the Heavenly Dao. Once one attained Sainthood, one's magic power might surge by several billion times.
Seen this way, Lu Yang's Body Cultivation was still far from even the minimum standard of a Saint.
Even with the magic power of two million Quasi-Saints, he would probably be nothing more than a somewhat stronger ant in a Saint's eyes!
Only after Shen Ni's remnant soul was destroyed did the World-Ending Millstone truly become ownerless.
After a brief thought, Lu Yang used Merit to repair the World-Ending Millstone.
That was right—Merit could repair Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Calling Merit a universal remedy was truly fitting; it had far too many uses.
With Lu Yang's current Merit, it might even be enough for him to attain Merit Sainthood.
But that was not his ambition.
Attaining Sainthood was not within Lu Yang's considerations.
And in his view, Merit Sainthood was not appropriate either.
Merit was granted by the Heavenly Dao.
If one attained Sainthood through Merit, then once one defied Heaven and their Merit drained away, they would lose their Sage's Fruit Position.
Because the World-Ending Millstone was seriously damaged, it would take a long time to repair itself.
As a massive cluster of Merit wrapped around the World-Ending Millstone, its damage rapidly began to mend.
For the other living beings of the Primordial World, Merit was not something that could be obtained casually. Thus, using Merit to repair an Innate Spiritual Treasure was far too "extravagant."
But Lu Yang received Merit every day, so he truly did not value it too highly.
Repairing the World-Ending Millstone sooner would also make it easier to refine the Innate restrictions within it and comprehend the Devouring Law.
Time was not particularly valuable in the Primordial World.
But one step ahead meant staying ahead at every step.
Next, Lu Yang divided his attention to refine the World-Ending Millstone.
With Lu Yang's current Primordial Spirit Cultivation, thoroughly refining a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure would not be easy. It would take at least several Cosmic Epochs!
As for an Innate Supreme Treasure, even a Quasi-Saint would find it difficult to refine one completely.
Even a Saint would need several hundred years to fully refine an Innate Supreme Treasure.
Yet Lu Yang was simultaneously refining the Chaos Bell, an Innate Supreme Treasure, and the River Diagram and Luo Book, a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure...
Lu Ya rode upon auspicious clouds, wandering leisurely through the Five Mountains and idly roaming the Four Seas, free and carefree.
During his travels through the Primordial World, he also collected some ownerless treasures.
Lu Ya knew the locations of many ownerless treasures in the Primordial World like the back of his hand.
Whenever he obtained a treasure, it was almost always transported to the Sun Star.
As for refining Innate Spiritual Treasures and Refining Postnatal Spiritual Treasures, those matters were handled by his main body.
The clone sought amusement, cultivated, and involved himself in the various forces of the Primordial World.
Even during a Calamity, the clone could run wild as he pleased.
At worst, if he died, he would return to the Sun Star.
For the Sun Star, creating Golden Crows with Mystic Immortal level foundations was simple.
The reason Lu Yang had not created more Golden Crows with Mystic Immortal level foundations was that he had too many other matters to attend to.
He needed to deduce Golden Crows with Golden Immortal level foundations, refine Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Supreme Treasures, comprehend laws, study divine abilities, and consider the direction of the world's greater trends.
At present, the Primordial World's greater trend rested with the three clans favored by destiny.
Lu Ya had joined the Phoenix Clan and held no low position, so he had the ability to influence the direction of those greater trends.
It was still necessary to consider the greater trends and make some arrangements.
Before he realized it, Lu Ya spotted a Human Tribe.
Over the course of one Calamity, more than half of humanity had died.
But there were fewer Fierce Beasts, and many powerful exotic beasts had also dwindled. Thus, humanity's living environment was much better than before the Calamity.
The Human Tribe was flourishing.
The Innate Humans transformed from the countless creatures upon Pangu's body were still somewhat different from the Postnatal Humans created by Nuwa.
Halting his auspicious cloud, Lu Ya looked down at the Human Tribe below.
For humanity to survive in the Primordial World, they truly struggled greatly!
Lu Ya decided to help humanity and, at the same time, verify some of his ideas.
At once, Lu Ya formed seals with both hands. Magic power flowed between his ten fingers and transformed into hundreds of millions of talismans.
Next, the hundreds of millions of magic-power talismans merged into one, evolving into a blurry pattern.
The blurry pattern instantly enveloped the Human Tribe below.
At once, some information appeared simultaneously in the minds of the tens of thousands of humans in the tribe.
"Totem?"
The people of the tribe looked at one another.
The so-called Totem Method gathered a clan's Fortune to condense a totem and used the Power of Faith to strengthen it.
Once one gained a totem's recognition, they would bear a Totem Mark and become a Totem Warrior.
The stronger the totem, the higher the upper limit of its Totem Warriors.
Naturally, the Totem Method Lu Ya imparted to humanity had limits.
In theory, as long as one possessed sufficient Fortune and immense faith, one could condense a Grand Unity level totem.
But with humanity's current Fortune, it would already be good enough to condense a Grand Unity level totem.
"Heaven watches over our people."
Tens of thousands of people prostrated themselves upon the ground, their faces filled with excitement.
In truth, a tribe of only tens of thousands of humans was merely a small tribe.
A large tribe had at least a million people!
The Totem Method allowed these humans to see the light of a "path forward."
In the Primordial World, where the weak bowed low and the strong flourished, strength was everything.
And the appearance of the totem gave humanity an opportunity to grow stronger quickly.
They would condense a powerful totem and make every warrior in the tribe a Totem Warrior.
As for the tribe's cultivators, that did not conflict with the totem.
They thanked Heaven.
The Human Tribe then began its ritual sacrifice.
They erected a crude earthen altar and piled stones into a strange-looking Heavenly Staircase.
Quite a few livestock animals were carried over and slaughtered.
Fresh blood stained the altar red.
No one dared eat those sacrifices.
There were many Human Tribes, and their methods of ritual sacrifice varied widely, though they were largely similar.
After the sacrifice to Heaven, the people of the tribe began condensing their totem.
After some discussion, the tribe decided to use the Heavenly Spirit as its totem.
The Heavenly Spirit was humanity's great ancestor.
"Ancestral Spirit above."
"Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit!"
Ten thousand people united as one, their spiritual power blending together as their blood and qi surged.
Without eating, drinking, sleeping, or resting, the tens of thousands of people successfully condensed a totem.
The Heavenly Spirit had thirteen heads.
Among humanity today, brothers were referred to by the number of heads.
Yet this tribe's totem was not thirteen humans, but an image with thirteen heads and twenty-six arms.
It combined the thirteen Heavenly Spirits into one.
Their Fortune was sparse and their Power of Faith was not immense, so the totem was not yet powerful.
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