Reverse to Innate

Another five hundred years passed.

A full millennium had passed since Luo Qing entered seclusion.

On this day, Luo Qing emerged from seclusion and finally walked out of his cave abode.

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

"White Spirit Fire. As expected of an Innate Spiritual Fire."

Luo Qing extinguished the flame on his fingertip and muttered.

Compared with White Spirit Fire, the divine fire Luo Qing had cultivated himself was somewhat unimpressive.

After Luo Qing had thoroughly studied the secrets of Innate Gods five hundred years ago.

He had not rushed out of seclusion. Instead, he had honestly and earnestly cultivated for a while.

Luo Qing cultivated 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 from the Five Elements Tribe's Gods and Demons cultivation technique using the Eye of the Great Dao.

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

Luo Qing reckoned that, during this period, Ancestor Hongjun and the other founders of the Immortal Dao should have widely spread their teachings and disseminated their cultivation methods throughout the Primordial Wilderness.

That was likely how this Immortal Dao cultivation technique had somehow found its way into the Five Elements Tribe.

After five hundred years of painstaking cultivation, Luo Qing's cultivation had now entered the realm of a Celestial Immortal.

When True God Huoshi had said that Luo Qing was the most talented junior the Crimson Flame Tribe had ever produced.

He had not been wrong.

Although Luo Qing's cultivation speed was not necessarily comparable to that of the Innate Gods.

It was still far faster than that of other Acquired Beings.

Even while cultivating both the Immortal and divine paths, five hundred years had allowed Luo Qing to cross the threshold of a Celestial Immortal.

The reason Luo Qing had only emerged from seclusion after reaching the Celestial Immortal realm was also significant.

Five hundred years ago, after Luo Qing had unraveled the secrets of the Innate God Bai Yan.

He had discovered that if he wanted to revert to innate and achieve an Innate God's body with an Acquired Being's foundation, the difficulty was extraordinary.

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

Whether Innate Gods or Innate Spiritual Treasures, all had been born alongside the Dao, and more or less possessed a portion of the Origin of the Great Dao within them.

For example, Bai Yan possessed a trace of the Origin of the Great Dao of Fire within him.

This was the most fundamental difference between Innate Gods and Nature Spirits.

Although Nature Spirits had also been nurtured by heaven and earth, without the origin of the Dao, they could not be considered Innate Gods.

Most importantly, the origin of the Dao Luo Qing needed could not belong to an Innate God or treasure that had already emerged into the world.

For instance, the trace of the Origin of Fire within Bai Yan had already been imprinted with Bai Yan's life mark. Luo Qing had no way to claim it for himself.

Therefore, if Luo Qing wanted to find a portion of the Origin of the Great Dao now, the simplest method was to find an Innate God still in the process of gestation, one that had yet to be born.

He could directly devour the Origin of the Great Dao in its embryonic body and seize that creation for himself.

But this was equally difficult. Unborn Innate Gods were generally hidden in secluded spaces.

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

Finding one was already difficult, let alone breaking in.

Apart from the Origin of the Great Dao.

The second obstacle was that every Innate God was 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 needed to construct an Innate God's framework himself through Innate Runes.

That was difficult.

With only Bai Yan, the weakest Innate God, available as a reference, Luo Qing was helpless.

Thus, Luo Qing needed more Innate God specimens for research and reference.

To capture Innate Gods for research, having a low cultivation realm certainly would not do.

That was why Luo Qing had raised his cultivation to the Celestial Immortal realm. He did not continue advancing because of the third obstacle.

The third obstacle was that the higher one's cultivation, the greater the difficulty of reverting to innate and achieving the body of an Innate God.

For the same process of reverting to innate, a True Immortal would need to pay several times the price required by a Celestial Immortal.

A Mystic Immortal would need several times more than a True Immortal, and once one reached the Golden Immortal realm, the difficulty became absurdly high.

Upon reaching the Grand Unity Golden Immortal or Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, one had virtually no chance of reverting to innate.

Relatively speaking, an Earth Immortal found it easiest.

But Earth Immortals were too weak. They had virtually no chance of frequently capturing Innate Gods for research.

An Innate God like Bai Yan, who had gone wandering around shortly after being born, was truly rare.

Only when they reached the Heavenly God or True God realm would more Innate Gods venture out.

And Luo Qing's targets were precisely these low-level Innate Gods with Heavenly God or True God cultivation.

After emerging from seclusion, Luo Qing first found Captain Huoshi.

In the Crimson Flame Tribe, the Golden Immortal elders were revered and governed the entire tribe.

Below them, more than a dozen divisions had been established and placed under the management of the tribe's True Gods.

By that calculation, True God Huoshi could also be considered a powerful and influential figure in the Crimson Flame Tribe.

"Kid Luo, you've broken through to the Heavenly God realm? Good! Good! I told you that you were a genius. In less than a thousand years, you've become a Heavenly God."

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

Luo Qing had been born in the Huoshi Division, and True God Huoshi had watched him grow up.

The Five Elements Tribe did not emphasize blood relations. True God Huoshi was not only the manager of the Huoshi Division but also the one who raised juniors like Luo Qing.

Placed in a later era, this would more or less count as the relationship between an adoptive father and an adopted son.

Luo Qing held True God Huoshi in extraordinary respect.

After exchanging a few warm pleasantries with True God Huoshi, Luo Qing finally explained why he had come.

"Captain, after emerging from seclusion this time, I feel that I can refine third-tier Divine Artifacts and Immortal Artifacts.

"Could you help me spread the word throughout the tribe? For the next while, I plan to properly refine some treasures."

"Third-tier Divine Artifacts? Good! Good! Good!"

"Leave it to me!"

True God Huoshi was ecstatic once again and repeatedly called it good three times.

The Crimson Flame Tribe generally consisted of fire-aspected tribesmen. It did not lack Artifact Refiners, but there were not many who could refine excellent Divine Artifacts.

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

They were divided into tiers one through five.

Generally speaking, once an Immortal Artifact reached the third tier, its might was comparable to a low-grade Innate Treasure.

But even the highest fifth-tier Immortal Artifacts could only rival mid-grade Innate Treasures.

The same applied to Acquired Spiritual Treasures. Even the finest Acquired Spiritual Treasures could only compare to mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.

This was the limitation of the acquired.

Even so, third-tier Divine Artifacts were still highly sought after by the many Acquired Gods.

After all, no matter how many Innate Treasures there were, they could not compare with the number of gods scattered throughout the Primordial Wilderness.

Because of Captain Huoshi's publicity and Luo Qing's excellent reputation from refining treasures in the past.

It was not only people from the Crimson Flame Tribe. Gods from the Five Elements Great Tribe and other tribes also came to have Luo Qing refine Divine Artifacts.

Luo Qing accepted dozens of Divine Artifact commissions in one go.

For an ordinary Celestial Immortal, refining a single Divine Artifact would take several years.

Dozens of them would probably consume more than a century.

But for Luo Qing, who had mastered a large number of Innate Runes, the only time-consuming part was designing and engraving the Acquired Immortal Restrictions.

In a month, Luo Qing could refine one Divine Artifact.

Refining dozens of Divine Artifacts took Luo Qing only a few years.

But the Artifact Refining materials that accumulated in Luo Qing's hands were enough to refine twice as many Immortal Artifacts.

That was why Luo Qing had refined so many Divine Artifacts.

To avoid shocking the world, Luo Qing still cultivated in seclusion inside his cave abode for a hundred years.

Only then did he emerge from seclusion and hand over the completed commissions.

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

Looking at the nearly hundred Immortal Artifacts before him, Luo Qing muttered, waved his sleeve, and collected them all.

"The God Catching Plan can begin!"

Without informing anyone, Luo Qing quietly left the Five Elements Tribe Territory and headed toward Hundred Gods Mountain.