The Primordial Seed, the Life Progenitor personally created by the Creation Goddess, could be called the source of life in the Dream Plane—or at least, that was what the information available so far suggested. Hao Ren had once seen something resembling the Primordial Seed in an illusion. It was a blood-red sphere. Once it came into contact with a habitable planet, it would expand explosively, growing into a superlifeform like the Firstborn and rapidly creating an entire ecosystem. The "source blood" nurtured from the Primordial Seed served as nourishment for the early ecosystem, while the Firstborn's bodily fluids were the substance currently known to be most similar to the "source blood."
Hao Ren had originally thought that the Primordial Seed on Planet Horleta had completely withered away, with all its primal energy transformed into the Firstborn and the second ecosystem. He had not expected a little of that "seed" to remain. The first pope of the Radiant Church had found some source blood and used its power to create the earliest Church warriors and an entire system of divine arts.
"We're still investigating these things." Archbishop Aubin carefully weighed his words. "We only recently discovered where the Church's inheritance went wrong, and finding information about the Church's origins in those ancient, fragmentary records is extremely difficult. However, we can basically confirm by now that this sacred blood is the source blood of the Primordial Seed... Strictly speaking, it's a copy."
Vivian raised an eyebrow. "A copy?"
"The amount of 'source blood' discovered at the beginning was very small," Archbishop Aubin explained. "When His Excellency the first pope discovered it, it was already almost dried up. But he found a way to make the source blood multiply. By applying external stimulation, the source blood could continuously replicate itself. That was what