Revert to Innate

Another five hundred years passed.

A full millennium had elapsed since Luo Qing entered seclusion.

On this day, Luo Qing emerged from seclusion and finally stepped out of his Cave Mansion.

A white flame danced and burned upon Luo Qing's fingertip.

"The White Spirit Fire; it truly lives up to its reputation as an Innate Spiritual Fire."

Putting away the flame on his fingertip, Luo Qing muttered to himself.

Compared to the White Spirit Fire, the divine fire Luo Qing had cultivated on his own seemed somewhat inadequate.

Ever since he had thoroughly researched the secrets of the Innate Gods five hundred years ago, Luo Qing had not been in a rush to leave seclusion. Instead, he had honestly and diligently focused on his cultivation.

Luo Qing practiced the True Understanding of Gods and Demons and the True Understanding of the Immortal Path.

The True Understanding of Gods and Demons had been modified using the Eye of the Great Dao, based on the Gods and Demons cultivation techniques of the Five Elements Tribe.

Meanwhile, the True Understanding of the Immortal Path had also been improved by Luo Qing using the Eye of the Great Dao, based on an Immortal Path cultivation technique.

Luo Qing surmised that during this period, founders of the Immortal Path like Ancestor Hongjun must have been spreading their Daoist teachings and distributing cultivation methods throughout the Primordial World.

That was likely how this Immortal Path cultivation technique had ended up in the Five Elements Tribe, though the exact reason remained unknown.

After five hundred years of dedicated cultivation, Luo Qing's cultivation base had now stepped into the Heavenly Immortal realm.

Back then, True God Huoshi had said that Luo Qing was the most talented junior the Crimson Flame Tribe had seen in years.

In fact, he had not been wrong.

Although Luo Qing's cultivation speed might not necessarily compare to that of the Innate Gods, it was still significantly faster than that of other Acquired Beings.

Even while cultivating both the Immortal and Divine paths simultaneously, five hundred years had been enough for Luo Qing to cross the threshold into the Heavenly Immortal realm.

There was a reason why Luo Qing had waited until he reached the Heavenly Immortal realm to emerge from seclusion.

Five hundred years ago, after Luo Qing had grasped the secrets of the Innate God Bai Yan, he discovered that his desire to Revert to Innate—to achieve the body of an Innate God despite his origins as an Acquired Being—was exceptionally difficult.

First, he required a portion of the Origin of the Great Dao.

Whether it was an Innate God or an Innate Spiritual Treasure, they were all born alongside the Dao, and each possessed, to a greater or lesser extent, a portion of the Origin of the Great Dao within them.

For instance, Bai Yan possessed a trace of the Origin of the Great Dao of Fire within his body.

This is the most fundamental difference between an Innate God and a Nature Spirit.

Although Nature Spirits are also birthed by heaven and earth, unfortunately, they lack an Origin of the Dao and thus cannot be considered Innate Gods.

Most crucially, the Origin of the Great Dao that Luo Qing requires cannot belong to an Innate God or a spiritual treasure that has already been born.

The trace of the Origin of Fire within Bai Yan's body has already been branded with Bai Yan's life imprint; Luo Qing has no way to claim it as his own.

Therefore, if Luo Qing wants to find an Origin of the Great Dao now, the simplest method is to find an Innate God that is still gestating and has yet to be born.

He would have to directly devour the Origin of the Great Dao within its embryo, seizing its creation for his own use.

However, this is also extremely difficult, as unborn Innate Gods are generally hidden within concealed spaces.

They are protected by Innate Grand Formations and sheltered by the Primordial Heaven and Earth.

Finding one is difficult enough, let alone breaking inside.

And beyond this Origin of the Great Dao, the second hurdle is that every Innate God is unique.

Even if Luo Qing could perfectly replicate everything about Bai Yan, he would likely end up like the imitation Blazing Flame Blade.

He would self-destruct and die.

Therefore, Luo Qing needs to construct the framework of an Innate God himself using Innate Runes.

This is where it gets difficult.

With only Bai Yan, the weakest of Innate Gods, available for reference, Luo Qing is powerless to do this.

Thus, Luo Qing needs more Innate God samples for research and reference.

To capture an Innate God for research, having low cultivation is certainly not an option.

This is why Luo Qing raised his cultivation to the Heavenly Immortal realm. The reason he did not continue to raise it further is because of the third hurdle.

The third hurdle is that the higher one's cultivation, the greater the difficulty of Reverting to Innate to become an Innate God.

To Revert to Innate, a True Immortal would need to pay a price several times higher than a Heavenly Immortal.

A Mystic Immortal would need to pay several times more than a True Immortal, and by the time one reaches the Golden Immortal realm, the difficulty becomes absurdly high.

By the time one reaches the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal or Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realms, there is almost no chance left to Revert to Innate.

Relatively speaking, the Earth Immortal realm is the easiest.

However, the strength of an Earth God is too weak; it is almost impossible to frequently capture Innate Gods for research.

Bai Yan, who wandered out blindly not long after he was born, is truly a rarity.

It is only when they reach the cultivation level of a Heavenly God or True God that more Innate Gods come out to move about.

And Luo Qing's targets are precisely these low-level Innate Gods at the Heavenly God and True God cultivation levels.

After Luo Qing came out of seclusion, he first found Captain Huoshi.

The Crimson Flame Tribe is headed by Golden Immortal Elders, who govern the entire tribe.

Below them are over a dozen large battalions, managed by the True Gods of the tribe.

All things considered, True God Huoshi holds a position of high authority within the Crimson Flame Tribe.

"Luo, you've broken through to Heavenly God? Excellent! I knew you were a genius; it took you less than a thousand years to become a Heavenly God."

Seeing Luo Qing emerge from seclusion, True God Huoshi was both surprised and delighted.

Luo Qing had been in the Huoshi Battalion since he was born, and True God Huoshi had watched him grow up.

The Five Elements Tribe does not emphasize blood relations; True God Huoshi is both the manager of the Huoshi Battalion and the guardian of juniors like Luo Qing.

In later generations, this would be somewhat akin to the relationship between a foster father and an adopted son.

Luo Qing also holds True God Huoshi in exceptionally high regard.

After exchanging warm pleasantries with True God Huoshi, Luo Qing finally stated his purpose.

"Captain, now that I've emerged from seclusion, I feel I am capable of refining Tier 3 Divine Artifacts and Immortal Artifacts.

Could you help me spread the word in the tribe? I plan to spend the next period of time focusing on refining some Dharma treasures."

"Tier 3 Divine Artifacts? Good! Good! Good!"

"Leave it to me!"

True God Huoshi was ecstatic once again, repeating the word "good" three times.

The Crimson Flame Tribe is generally composed of fire-element clansmen, and while there is no shortage of artifact refiners, there are not many who can refine high-quality Divine Artifacts.

Divine Artifacts and Immortal Artifacts are generally refined by imitating Innate Treasures.

They are divided into five tiers.

Generally, once an Immortal Artifact reaches Tier 3, its power is equivalent to a Low-grade Innate Treasure.

However, even the highest Tier 5 Immortal Artifact can only compare to a Mid-grade Innate Treasure.

Acquired Spiritual Treasures are the same; even the top-tier Acquired Spiritual Treasures can only compare to mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.

This is the limitation of the acquired.

However, Tier 3 Divine Artifacts are still highly sought after by the vast number of Acquired Gods.

After all, no matter how many Innate Treasures there are, they cannot compare to the sheer number of gods scattered across the Primordial World.

Due to the promotion by Captain Huoshi and the excellent reputation Luo Qing had built from crafting treasures in the past.

Not only the Crimson Flame Tribe, but even the Five Elements Great Tribe and gods from other tribes came to find Luo Qing to craft Divine Artifacts.

Luo Qing accepted the crafting tasks for dozens of Divine Artifacts in one go.

If this were a normal Celestial Immortal, it would take several years just to craft a single Divine Artifact.

Dozens of them would likely take over a hundred years.

But for Luo Qing, who had mastered a vast number of Innate Runes, it only took some time to design and engrave the Acquired Immortal Restrictions.

In a month's time, Luo Qing could craft a Divine Artifact.

Dozens of Divine Artifacts only cost Luo Qing a few years.

However, the crafting materials accumulated in Luo Qing's hands were enough to craft double the amount of Immortal Artifacts.

This was the reason why Luo Qing was mass-producing Divine Artifacts.

To avoid causing a sensation, Luo Qing remained in seclusion within his Cave Mansion for a hundred years.

Only then did he emerge to hand over the completed crafting tasks.

After another hundred years of cultivation, Luo Qing's Immortal Dao cultivation had already stepped into the mid-stage of the Celestial Immortal realm.

Looking at the nearly one hundred Immortal Artifacts before him, Luo Qing muttered to himself, then flicked his sleeve and put them all away.

The God Catching Plan can begin!

Without telling anyone, Luo Qing quietly left the territory of the Five Elements Tribe and headed toward the Hundred Gods Mountain.