Primordial World

Outside Blackwood Village, the night stars glittered.

Inside Blackwood House.

Qingyu slept soundly, letting out faint snores.

Lu Qingfeng was also fast asleep, but in his mind, a ring carved with dragons and phoenixes flickered with light!

Player detected to have reached sixteen years of age. Login Ring activated...

Login Ring bound. Unique code generated. Basic attributes generated...

Please log into "Primordial World" yourself. Enjoy the game!

Lu Qingfeng suddenly opened his eyes and immediately "saw" the dragon-phoenix ring shining within his mind.

Then, a stream of information came flooding in—

At the dawn of Hongmeng, three thousand Demon Gods roamed Chaos. Pangu the Great split Heaven and Earth, forging the Primordial World. From then on, after countless calamities, the Primordial World endured forever, giving birth to innumerable mighty cultivators of Divine Abilities and countless legends of creation...

The large-scale realistic online game "Primordial World" would take you through the eighth great tribulation of the Primordial World, after the Shushan Sword Duel!

"An online game called Primordial World?"

Lu Qingfeng examined the Login Ring, and a tremor of excitement rose within him.

This was a large-scale realistic online game set in the Primordial World. It was said that not only could one choose to enter the game in one's true body, but one could also bring all sorts of cultivation arts, Divine Abilities, and magical artifacts from the game into reality.

The Human Federation, which had developed "Primordial World," had produced countless experts through this game. There were even legends of immortals guarding the galaxy, crushing the myriad alien races across the universe beneath their might!

"Perhaps this is the golden finger that arrived late!"

"Log in."

There was no panic, no hesitation, and no pointless speculation.

Following the instructions provided by the Login Ring, Lu Qingfeng directly logged into "Primordial World"!

Rumble!

A bolt of Hongmeng lightning thundered through the void and flashed before his eyes.

As far as he could see, there was neither Heaven nor Earth—only a boundless expanse of Chaos.

Within that vast, hazy Chaos stood a giant whose height and size could not be measured. He gripped a colossal axe, and with one mighty swing, Chaos churned and reversed, the Primordial World was first opened, and Heaven and Earth began to emerge.

Within Chaos, three thousand Demon Gods bled and fell. Not a single one survived!

Some perished within Chaos, while others had their blood and divine souls fall into the newborn Primordial World.

In the blink of an eye, who knew how many ages had passed? The flesh, blood, and divine souls of the Chaos Demon Gods gave rise to countless ferocious beast races. Heaven and Earth of the Primordial World naturally nurtured innumerable divine beasts.

Ferocious beasts and divine beasts roamed the Primordial World.

The recently opened Primordial World sank into endless slaughter.

Ferocious beasts slaughtered one another, while the dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans contended for supremacy—one side finished singing before another took the stage.

After that came the conflict between Dao and Devil!

Devil Ancestor Luohou and Dao Ancestor Hongjun unfolded the great Dao-Demon war!

Lu Qingfeng silently watched the evolution of the Primordial World.

The scenes before him began with the Creation Calamity, when Pangu opened Heaven and Earth, then moved to the Beast Turmoil, the struggle for supremacy among the three clans, and the Dragon-Han Primordial Calamity of the Dao-Demon Conflict...

Then came the Witch-Demon Calamity, and Buzhou Mountain was destroyed!

The Human Sovereign Calamity—Xuanyuan and Chiyou fought, and humanity rose to prominence!

The Investiture of the Gods Calamity—the Primordial World shattered, Jiejiao declined, and Buddhism first began to flourish!

The Journey to the West—Buddhist teachings spread eastward, and Buddhism flourished greatly!

The Shushan Sword Duel reenacted the Investiture of the Gods, and the eighth Sage of the Primordial World returned to their rightful place!

Scene after scene swept past before his eyes. The myths and legends so familiar from his previous life were all unfolding before him.

In a daze.

Lu Qingfeng felt a powerful pulling force. When he opened his eyes again, he was already inside a building. The clamor at his ears grew louder, and figure after figure continuously appeared.

A long-lost sense of familiarity filled Lu Qingfeng's heart.

Lu Qingfeng raised his head and saw three great characters above the building, radiating an uncanny aura—

Rebirth Pool!

"Rebirth Pool?"

"Haha! I can finally log into Primordial World!"

"Sixteen years! This damn near suffocated me to death!"

The cheers of one youth after another rang in his ears.

"A realistic online game... the Rebirth Pool is probably the initial login point."

Lu Qingfeng looked at the youths around him, some excited and lively, others putting on an air of profundity, and could not help smiling.

Such a sight was rarely seen in the oppressive Blackwood Village. Even during the annual harvest season, the villagers' faces held more sorrow and lifelessness than joy.

"It has been a long time."

Amid the uproar, the emotions Lu Qingfeng had suppressed for sixteen years eased somewhat.

Then, following the cheering youths, he walked out of the Rebirth Pool.

It was as though he had passed through a layer of space. When he appeared again, he had already arrived in a bustling town.

"This game allows players to enter in their true bodies. It is no longer merely a virtual online game."

"But why didn't the system give me the option of choosing whether to log in with my true body?"

Lu Qingfeng was puzzled.

His current body was incomparably real, yet it was indeed only a body created within the game, not his true body entering it. In other words, without any choice on his part, the system had defaulted to sending only his consciousness and soul into the game, while his physical body remained in reality.

This did not match the game's explanation before login.

"I wonder whether that is good or bad."

Lu Qingfeng shook his head. Then, recalling the tropes from online-game novels in his previous life, he silently thought, "Attribute Panel."

A virtual panel appeared before him—

Name: Lu Qingfeng

Race: Human

Faction: None

Title: None

Cultivation: None

Level: Level 0 (0/1)

Lifespan: 16/68

Root Bone: 1

Merit: Unknown

Karma: Unknown

Cultivation Art: Yellow Court Scripture, First Layer (Not Initiated) Traits: Evolving Method (First Layer); Dominion over All Arts (First Layer); Karmic Power Erasure (First Layer)

Spells: None

Divine Abilities: None

Equipment: None

Just as Lu Qingfeng had expected, the Attribute Panel was utterly bare—poor as a church mouse. However, the values he had anticipated, such as physique, strength, attack, and defense, were not displayed on the Attribute Panel.

"A realistic online game..."

Lu Qingfeng pondered.

Turning to look around, he saw that the pedestrians and buildings were no different from reality. If he had awakened here after a night's sleep, Lu Qingfeng might have thought he had crossed over once again.

"Look!"

"A sword immortal!"

Suddenly, cries of alarm rose beside his ears.

Lu Qingfeng looked up at the sound and saw a streak of white light flash across the sky before vanishing swiftly. Immediately afterward, dozens of lights—white, azure, and crimson—flashed past. Sharp Sword Qi spilled from the heavens, tearing open the clear sky and making Lu Qingfeng's entire body tremble.

"A sword immortal?"

"Riding sword light through the skies! That ability is far more powerful than the so-called 'immortals' of the Return to Truth Sect."

Lu Qingfeng stared upward as the dozens of sword lights vanished, inwardly astonished.

The disciples of the Return to Truth Sect were, at most, at the level of martial arts. They had yet to break free of the mortal realm. Though their strength was great, they could only split steles and shatter stones; though their speed was swift, they could merely dart about across level ground.

How could they possess the Divine Ability of those sword immortals in the sky, who rode sword light through the air?

"Then how is this game supposed to be played? And what help can it offer me?"

Lu Qingfeng examined the Attribute Panel, his gaze falling upon the cultivation art section.

Every other section was barren, with only the cultivation art section containing information.

"Yellow Court Scripture."

"This was supposedly passed down by Dao Ancestor Hongjun in mythological legends. In Primordial World, it should be one of the highest-grade cultivation methods. Why would it appear in my cultivation art section?"

"Could it be a basic cultivation art that all players possess?"

Lu Qingfeng pondered as he silently opened the cultivation art section.

Cultivation Art: Yellow Court Scripture

Grade: Dao Ancestor Tier

Cultivation Requirement: None

Cultivation Art Traits: Evolving Method; Dominion over All Arts; Karmic Power Erasure

Note: Cultivation art grades are divided into Basic, Exquisite, Unorthodox, Orthodox, Profound, Supreme, Sect Master, and Dao Ancestor Tier.

"Dao Ancestor Tier."

"As expected, it is the highest-tier cultivation art in Primordial World. It seems it is not a basic cultivation art possessed by every player."

After examining the detailed information on the Yellow Court Scripture, Lu Qingfeng came to a rough conclusion.

Still, this was not something he could easily ask other players about. Fortunately, whether or not it was a basic cultivation art all players possessed did not affect Lu Qingfeng.

In any case, it was a good thing.

"Before entering the game, there was a general introduction to Primordial World and login guidance. Yet after entering the game, there is no guidance at all. Everything must be explored on one's own."

Lu Qingfeng increasingly felt how real this game was.

However, for him, the most important matter now was not playing the game, but finding out what help it could offer him in reality.

"There are no more than three possibilities."

"First, cultivation, levels, skills, equipment, and the like from the game can be brought out and materialized in reality. If that is the case, given the level of Primordial World, even a random treasure would be enough to help me cross the immediate hurdle."

"Second, they cannot be materialized. But the experience gained from leveling in Primordial World, along with its cultivation arts, spells, Divine Abilities, and so on, can be cultivated independently in reality. Primordial World is so realistic that perhaps its cultivation arts can also be practiced in the real world."

"Third is the worst possibility—nothing can be materialized, and the cultivation arts and such within the game cannot be cultivated in reality either. It is purely a game useless to reality."

Naturally, Lu Qingfeng hoped for the first possibility.

The introduction to Primordial World had also described the first possibility. Yet when Lu Qingfeng entered the game, there had been no option to enter with his true body. This made him suspect that treasures within the game, even cultivation arts and Divine Abilities, might all be impossible to bring back into reality, and that Primordial World's cultivation arts might be impossible to practice there as well.

If that were the case, then this game would be as tasteless as chicken ribs to him—something one could eat but find no flavor in.

But what exactly was true would still need to be tested.

"Log out."

With a thought, Lu Qingfeng's consciousness returned, and he had already logged out of the game.

Inside Blackwood House, Qingyu was still deeply asleep.

Lu Qingfeng sat up from the darkness and said in a low voice, "Bring up the Attribute Panel."

Within the silent Blackwood House, there was only Lu Qingfeng's voice, hoarse with tension, and Qingyu's almost inaudible snores.

Name: Lu Qingfeng's True Body

Race: Human

Faction: None

Title: None

Cultivation: None

Level: Level 0 (0/1)

Lifespan: 16/68

Root Bone: 1

Merit: Unknown

Karma: Unknown

Cultivation Art: Yellow Court Scripture, First Layer (Not Initiated) Traits: Evolving Method (First Layer); Dominion over All Arts (First Layer); Karmic Power Erasure (First Layer)

Spells: None

Divine Abilities: None

Equipment: None

"The Attribute Panel can be brought into reality!"

Lu Qingfeng felt a surge of joy in his heart.

Being able to bring up the Attribute Panel in reality at least proved that this game could affect reality.

"Let's try the cultivation art."

Lu Qingfeng touched the Yellow Court Scripture, and passages of obscure text instantly surged up from the depths of his heart.

"Before the Supreme Dao's Jade Dawn Lord, the Upper Pure Purple Glow stood in the Void Sovereign's presence. Dwelling idly amid jeweled stamens, he composed seven-character verses, scattering into the five forms and transforming into ten thousand gods.

This is called the Yellow Court, the Inner Chapter; the zither-heart thrice folded, the embryonic immortal dances. Nine breaths shine brightly and emerge between the skies, while the divine canopy youth gives birth to purple mist.

This is called the jade scripture, worthy of careful study; chant it ten thousand times, and ascend to the Third Heaven. A thousand disasters vanish, a hundred illnesses heal; fear not the ferocity of tigers and wolves,

for it can also drive away old age and prolong one's years forever..."

A cool sensation welled up within his body. Lu Qingfeng felt comfortable all over, and his mind cleared.

After a moment, it stopped. He checked his body over, then brought up the Attribute Panel.

His cultivation, level, lifespan, cultivation technique, and everything else remained unchanged.

"Cultivation was never easy. The Yellow Court Scripture is a supreme Dao Ancestor Tier cultivation technique in the Primordial World. It must be even harder to cultivate, with even slower progress."

Lu Qingfeng was not discouraged. Instead, he was even more delighted.

Since the Yellow Court Scripture could indeed be cultivated in reality, then at least the second possibility he had guessed was correct!

"I'll enter the game again. This time, I need to explore it properly and see whether I can materialize cultivation and items into reality."

Lu Qingfeng silently lay down and logged into Primordial World once more.