Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler

With the Chaos Bell at hand, Lu Ya felt more confident.

Among the three Innate Supreme Treasures, the Pangu Banner possessed the fiercest offensive power, the Taiji Diagram unparalleled defense, while the Chaos Bell combined offense and defense.

But from another perspective, the Chaos Bell's attacks could not match the Pangu Banner's, and its defense could not match the Taiji Diagram's. It was somewhat awkward.

Furthermore, due to his insufficient Primordial Spirit Cultivation, he had yet to completely refine the Chaos Bell.

At present, he had refined less than half of the Chaos Bell's forty-nine Innate restrictions.

The moment he stepped into the chaotic Primordial Great Array, everything before his eyes turned gray and hazy.

It was a violent aura evolved from a mass of Chaos Primordial Qi, far less dangerous than the Outer Chaos.

Lu Ya had been overly cautious. There was no need to use the Chaos Bell at all.

A patch of auspicious clouds appeared above Lu Ya's Mud Pill Palace. Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, mysterious radiance protected him completely.

The violent aura around him could not come near his body.

He strolled through the array as if taking a leisurely walk.

Suddenly, purple light flashed. Lu Ya's expression shifted, and he immediately raised his Evasion Light and hurried over.

After quite some time, Lu Ya steadied himself and stared at the treasure light in the distance.

Pale purple mysterious primordial qi coiled around an object: a jade-green ruler.

Primordial Spiritual Light shone brilliantly, Profound Dao Rhyme flowed through it, clouds and auspicious colors drifted around it, and light and shadows gleamed. It was truly extraordinary.

With a single glance, Lu Ya recognized it as an Innate Spiritual Treasure, and its grade was likely not low.

Just then, a wisp of the pale purple mysterious primordial qi transformed into a large amount of Chaos Primordial Qi.

"...This..." Lu Ya's eyes widened.

Clearly, this pale purple primordial qi was of a higher level than Chaos Primordial Qi.

Chaos Primordial Qi was of a higher level than Innate Spiritual Qi. Thus, a single wisp of Chaos Primordial Qi could transform into a large amount of Innate Spiritual Qi.

And Innate Spiritual Qi was of a higher level than Postnatal Spiritual Qi. A single wisp could transform into a large amount of Postnatal Spiritual Qi.

Now, this mysterious primordial qi, of which a single wisp could transform into a large amount of Chaos Primordial Qi, was right before Lu Ya's eyes. He could not remain calm.

After giving it some thought, Lu Ya had a guess.

It was likely Primordial Qi.

The so-called Primordial Chaos was the existence before Heaven and Earth were divided, when time and space did not yet exist. It was the origin of all concepts and the beginning of all Time and Space.

It was easy to confuse Primordial Chaos with chaos, but there was actually a difference.

Primordial Chaos generally referred to an "era," while chaos referred to a "state."

Before Pangu's Creation was the "Primordial Chaos Era," and the state at the time was one of "chaos."

As the saying went, before chaos parted, Heaven and Earth were in turmoil, boundless and dim, unseen by any being. Since Pangu shattered Primordial Chaos, creation began, and clear and turbid were distinguished.

As for Primordial Qi, it could be regarded as Chaos Primordial Qi containing the Great Dao.

By using the divine essence of the Great Dao to construct the Great Dao and merging it with Chaos Primordial Qi, one could evolve Primordial Qi.

No wonder the Heavenly Dao could not tolerate it.

Even Chaos Primordial Qi would transform into Innate Spiritual Qi in the Primordial World, let alone Primordial Qi, which was of a higher level than Chaos Primordial Qi.

It could only survive until now because it was housed within an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Looking again at the Innate Spiritual Treasure, it had not yet been fully nurtured, though it was close.

Taking one step forward, Lu Ya arrived beside the spiritual treasure and reached out to grasp it.

His divine sense extended outward.

Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler, Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure, currently with forty-three Innate restrictions.

Once this treasure was fully nurtured, it would possess forty-four Innate restrictions.

However, if it lost its Primordial Qi, it would become merely a Heaven-Measuring Ruler and fall to the rank of a High-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure.

This spiritual treasure also possessed a profound property. For example, it could absorb Postnatal Spiritual Qi and transform it into Innate Spiritual Qi, then further transform Innate Spiritual Qi into Chaos Primordial Qi.

When a large amount of Chaos Primordial Qi merged into Primordial Qi, this treasure's grade could also rise.

At the very least, raising it to forty-eight Innate restrictions would not be difficult.

But upgrading it into an Innate Supreme Treasure would be difficult.

One had to know that merely transforming Postnatal Spiritual Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi was no easy task. Few in the current Primordial World could accomplish it.

As for transforming Innate Spiritual Qi into Chaos Primordial Qi, perhaps no one possessed such a method now.

This showed just how powerful the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler was.

Of course, no matter how good a magic treasure was, it still depended on the person using it.

Without immense magical power, even with the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler in hand, transforming Postnatal Spiritual Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi would be difficult.

"This thing is excellent, but unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao cannot tolerate it." Lu Ya felt quite helpless.

Everything still came down to the "Primordial Qi."

The best method seemed to be using it for cultivation.

Absorb the Primordial Qi and refine it.

It could increase magical power, while comprehending the Great Dao could advance one's cultivation. It would kill two birds with one stone.

But refining the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler would also allow him to comprehend the Great Dao contained within the Primordial Qi.

The problem now was that the Heavenly Dao would not permit Primordial Qi to exist.

How should he solve this?

Sealing it within the Sun Star was possible.

But having a treasure and being unable to use it—would that not be agonizing?

After thinking it over, Lu Ya could only come up with one method: Merit.

Merit could solve the problem, but it would have to be continuously consumed.

Fortunately, Lu Yang received Merit every day, so it was not much of a problem.

On the Sun Star, a mass of Merit enveloped the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

Feeling the consumption of Merit, Lu Yang found it was less than he had imagined.

Lu Yang also breathed a sigh of relief.

He used the Merit accumulated over the past few days to fully nurture the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

If the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler were left to nurture naturally, it would take at least tens of thousands of years before it was complete.

Next, he would divide his attention to refine the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

While refining the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler, Lu Yang also came up with an idea: use the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler as a medium to draw in Outer Chaos Qi, then transform it into Innate Spiritual Qi.

Benefiting the Primordial Era in this manner would also bring Great Merit.

Compared to that, the small amount of Merit consumed because of the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler was nothing.

Of course, this would cause quite a commotion, and the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler would very likely be exposed.

It required careful consideration.

This was not something he could decide in a moment of impulse.

First, he had to completely refine the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

Since he intended to use the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler as a medium, fully refining it was necessary.

How to conceal it was also important.

Deceiving Ancestor Dragon, Rahu, and the others would not be easy.

It was only possible because this was the Sun Star.

Speaking of which, no one in the Primordial World had yet seen through the fact that Lu Ya was an avatar. On one hand, the Golden Crow possessed the Sun Star's origin, and the Sun Star's immense magical power concealed him. On the other, Merit also played a role.

But just because no one could see through it now did not mean they never would.

A Great Luo could not see through it, but what about a Quasi-Saint? What about a Saint?

In truth, Lu Yang was not afraid of others seeing through him.

If they discovered that Lu Ya was merely an avatar, they would instead deeply fear the true body behind him.

The unknown was the most terrifying thing.

Therefore, it was not that the Golden Crow avatar could not be exposed. It was simply that exposure would be rather troublesome.

At worst, Lu Yang's circumstances would be exposed.

So what if they learned that the Sun Star was a living being?

Seal the Sun Star?

Destroy the Sun Star?

The sun was part of the Primordial World, and an extremely important part at that.

One could even say that Lu Yang's fate was bound to the Heavenly Dao's.

Under such circumstances, what did Lu Yang have to fear?

All right, there were things he feared.

He feared boredom.

He feared the Immeasurable Calamity.

When the Immeasurable Calamity arrived, Heaven and Earth would return to chaos, including the Sun Star.

After sending the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler to the Sun Star, Lu Ya continued traveling through Buzhou Mountain.

He also continued gathering Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Passing through the Gale Layer, he arrived at the Thunder-Fire Layer.

Heavenly thunder boomed as Lightning Power coursed through the void, densely packed enough to make one's scalp tingle at the sight.

Heavenly fire had formed vast seas of flames.

The violent power was enough to threaten those at the True Immortal level.

But with Lu Ya's current cultivation, he could easily resist it using magical power alone.

Because thunder and fire raged everywhere, the land as far as the eye could see was almost entirely barren. There were no flowers, grass, or trees, nor any birds or beasts.

His divine sense spread billions of miles, yet he sensed a vein of Innate Profound Gold.

This was not the first time Lu Ya had sensed Innate Grade mineral deposits on Buzhou Mountain. Besides Profound Gold, there were also red copper, Grand Unity Golden Crystal, and more.

Innate Profound Gold was also an excellent material for refining artifacts.

Retracting his divine sense, Lu Ya went mining.

Though he already possessed quite a bit of Innate Profound Gold, there was no such thing as too much of it.

"This Profound Gold mine isn't large enough. It might not even yield a hundred billion tons of Innate Profound Gold." As Lu Ya mined, he thought to himself.