Inheritance

Crimson Sun Flame sprayed outward from the surface of the crimson sun.

Amid countless blazing flames stood a Three-legged Golden Crow ten thousand meters tall, its eyes shut tight and its body utterly motionless.

Beside the Golden Crow stood a human body, its eyes likewise closed. Strands of scorching flame passed through it, yet caused no harm whatsoever.

Inside the Golden Crow, Li Ze's soul felt utterly submerged by inherited knowledge. Vast quantities of foundational cultivation knowledge, profoundly mysterious special secret techniques, Golden Crow Bloodline Inheritance, and deep, intricate diagrams and texts of secret techniques flooded continuously into his soul. It was as though a film were playing, scene after scene, as an enormous amount of knowledge poured in.

The knowledge was boundless! Having remained within the Chaos Bell for years, Li Ze's soul had been influenced by it and carried traces of Chaos Aura. After a long period of nurturing, it had become countless times stronger than it had initially been.

Yet the inherited information was simply too immense to be completely received all at once.

Li Ze felt waves of pain surge through his soul. Even his past memories seemed as if they would be crushed beneath the overwhelming images of knowledge.

One minute! One hour! One day!

Ten days! One month!

These memories surged in like tides, endless and unceasing! All kinds of memories flashed past.

Before Li Ze's soul could process any of it, it was swallowed once more by the knowledge rushing in afterward.

A full sixty-seven days!

Simply transmitting the information into Li Ze's memories took sixty-seven days.

On the crimson sun's surface, the enormous Three-legged Golden Crow stood silently. Then, its eyes suddenly opened, and a flicker of fire shot from its pupils.

"Hoo!"

Li Ze seemed to let out a long breath. "Just how much knowledge was there?"

"If my soul hadn't become countless times stronger, this vast amount of knowledge would probably have turned me into an idiot long ago!" Li Ze sighed with emotion, before a glimmer of excitement appeared in his eyes.

Thinking back to the Original Work, when Luo Feng had possessed the Golden Horned Beast and received the Golden Horned Beast clan's inheritance, the knowledge transmission alone had taken sixteen days. That inheritance contained the knowledge passed down through generation after generation of Golden Horned Beasts!

Of course, Luo Feng had only been a Planet Level lifeform at the time. No matter how strong his will was, it likely could not compare to the current state of Li Ze's soul.

Even with his present soul state, receiving this inherited information had taken a full sixty-seven days!

At this thought, Li Ze slowly suppressed the excitement in his heart and calmed himself.

Let's see what these inheritances contain. Li Ze thought.

Time passed soundlessly. Perhaps it was an instant, perhaps it was a year.

"Hoo."

His soul seemed to let out a long breath as Li Ze stopped examining the knowledge within his mind.

"I never expected that merely skimming through it, sorting it out, and categorizing it would take nearly three years!"

Still, even from a rough examination, he could see how important this knowledge was to him. It would guide his early cultivation!

The inherited knowledge could broadly be divided into three categories.

The first category consisted of the various pieces of information and cultivation knowledge from within the Primordial Universe that had been recorded by the Chaos Bell.

This knowledge accounted for ninety-nine percent of the total inheritance.

How to break through the foundational cultivation levels of Apprentice Level, Planet Level, Star Level, Universe level, and Domain Lord level.

How Controllers, Illusionists, Beast Tamers, Puppeteers, Hunters, Martial Fighters... and many other professions cultivated.

Introductions to Flesh and Blood Life forms such as the 'Human Race,' 'Demon Race,' 'Bug Race,' and 'Starry Sky Beasts.'

Besides Flesh and Blood Life, there were also Metal Life forms such as the Mechanical Race, Rock Life, Spirit Life, Plant Life...

There were also some exceedingly rare lifeforms even more powerful than Starry Sky Beasts...

Beyond that information, it also contained much common knowledge about the universe.

Just the explanations of Humanity's countless races, cultures, and so on would be endless knowledge if recorded in Huaxia Script!

And the Human Race was merely one Peak Clan within the vast universe.

Naturally, an even greater portion consisted of the many secret techniques that had been collected.

In this inheritance of knowledge,

there were a total of 6,943 special secret techniques and as many as 137,651 ordinary secret techniques, along with countless incomplete secret techniques.

Only a very small number of these secret techniques suited him. Most could merely serve as references to strengthen his foundation.

The second category of inherited knowledge was the Bloodline Inheritance contained within the Golden Crow Essence Blood.

The Golden Crow Essence Blood that had nurtured Li Ze's two current bodies contained many inheritances Emperor Taiyi had left behind within it. After being absorbed into the Devouring World by its highest will, these inheritances had undergone certain changes.

As the emperor who ruled the Demon Race in the Primordial World, Emperor Taiyi had been just one step away from becoming an Eternal Indestructibility Sage.

Even after undergoing changes, the inheritance he left behind could fully reach the upper limit of the Devouring World.

Rainbow Transformation Art, Golden Crow Body Refining Art, Divine Bell Method, Emperor Sword, Feather Ascension, Sun Divine Flame, Treasure Refining Secret Art, Taiyi Divine Art, Heluo, Zhou Tian Star Dou, and many other supreme inheritances;

Naturally, these inheritances were too advanced. At present, he could cultivate only a small portion of them.

Among them, the Golden Crow Body Refining Art would be the greatest help to him in the early stages, and it was one of the few he could cultivate now.

Through controlling his two bodies, Li Ze discovered

that both of his bodies had been nurtured from Golden Crow Essence Blood. This lifeform, which had never before appeared in the Devouring World, had been born as the Sole Special Life of the Swallowing Starry Sky World.

As the most supreme Special Life, Li Ze should have been nurtured as a lifeform with a perfect Gene Level.

However, on one hand, there had been too little Golden Crow Essence Blood. On the other hand, due to special circumstances, his nurturing period had ended after a very short time. The sun where he had been nurtured also lacked the abundant Origin of Law and energy found in a Cosmic Secret Realm. Furthermore, the two bodies had been nurtured simultaneously, slowing the rate at which they absorbed energy.

His Life Gene Level had reached only 160 times that of an ordinary Human Race member, far from matching his status as the Devouring World's Sole Special Life. In the Original Work, the Beast God, as the Primordial Universe's Sole Special Life, had been born with a Life Gene Level 10,081 times greater.

Yet the Golden Crow Body Refining Art within the inheritance could solve the problem of his Gene Level.

The third category of knowledge within the inheritance was merely an introduction to several Talent Secret Techniques.

But in Li Ze's eyes, these talents were the greatest help this inheritance offered at his current stage.

As a Special Life, while he was being nurtured, the Origin Will that covered the entire Primordial Universe had discovered this brand-new lifeform.

The emergence of the Golden Crow lifeform also made the Primordial Universe's life system more complete. As a reward for Li Ze, the Primordial Universe bestowed upon him four innate abilities.

The first was called Yanbao.

It could perfectly unleash the Three-legged Golden Crow's extraordinarily powerful Fire Attribute talent. The deeper his comprehension of the Law of Fire Origin, the stronger the combat power it could unleash. By stacking his own Law of Fire Origin, he could erupt with up to one hundred times his usual combat power.

This kind of Burst Talent was likely the most common type of talent in the universe. Even many non-Special Life races possessed it, though very few could achieve a hundredfold burst of combat power. It was enough to allow Li Ze to fight above his level.

The second was called Extreme Speed.

It could break through the flight limits of one's cultivation stage, allowing him to easily reach sub-light speed and even attain the universe's speed limit: the speed of light! Whether for traveling or preserving his life, it was an extremely powerful talent.

The third was called Space Freeze.

The High-level Law of the Law of Fire Origin was the Law of Space. The Three-legged Golden Crow also possessed powerful spatial talent, though compared to its even more outstanding Fire Attribute talent, its spatial talent was somewhat ordinary.

The Space Freeze secret technique could freeze the space around him, allowing only himself to move freely. The size and strength of the frozen area would depend on his strength and comprehension of the Law of Space.

This talent was relatively rare in the universe and would be of enormous help to Li Ze in the future. However, before he became powerful enough, he likely could not use it.

The final one was Clone.

Although the other three talents were all powerful, they somehow did not seem worthy of his status as the Sole Special Life. Yet the talent of Clone was extraordinarily powerful.

Below the Immortal level, he could nurture three Clones. These three Clones would be completed at the Universe level, Domain Lord level, and World Lord level stages respectively.

What excited Li Ze most was that while he had been nurtured, both the Three-legged Golden Crow and human bodies had been nurtured at the same time.

When the Primordial Universe Origin Will detected this situation, for some unknown reason, it acknowledged that the two true bodies belonged to the same lifeform.

Since he had been born with two true bodies, combined with the three future Clones, he would possess five sources of combat power.

This was probably also why the Primordial Universe Origin Will had not granted Li Ze more powerful talents.

After examining the inherited knowledge within his soul, Li Ze did not immediately begin comprehending it.

Next, he needed to examine his current condition. He spread his consciousness outward, filling his entire body.

"Here!"

Within the Three-legged Golden Crow's abdomen was a crimson Crystal Ball over three meters in diameter. This Crystal Ball had 10,081 facets and was covered in countless profound crimson secret patterns. The transparent Crystal Ball emitted streams of red light.

This transparent Crystal Ball was called the Origin Core, also known as the 'Starry Sky Origin Core,' 'World Origin Core,' and 'Soul Origin Core.' It was the source of this Three-legged Golden Crow body.

With a thought, his soul entered the Three-legged Golden Crow's Origin Core.

Inside the Origin Core was a vastness like a starry sky.

At its center

was a crimson-shrouded region. Looking closely, it consisted of countless nebulae, star clusters, dust, and innumerable tiny planets, forming a Giant vortex galaxy. At the very core of this Giant vortex galaxy, tiny stars were most densely packed, numbering in the tens of millions. The entire vortex galaxy also had eight spiral arms.

At the core of the vortex galaxy, where density was greatest, lay a tiny dark region.

There was the central Black Hole of the entire vortex galaxy. This tiny Black Hole slowly devoured the surrounding stars, dust, and other matter, while at the same time producing threads of pure power in some unreachable place.

The entire vortex slowly revolved clockwise around the central Black Hole.

At present, however, the movement of this nebula seemed rather mechanical, lacking a trace of liveliness. It was obvious that it lacked the guidance of Li Ze's own soul.

Seeing this, Li Ze hesitated no longer. In an instant, he moved his soul beside the Black Hole at the center of the nebula and stepped into it.

The moment Li Ze's soul took command, the nebula's rotation paused for an instant before slowly beginning to spin again. This time, however, its movement was more natural and lively.

At this moment, Li Ze's Soul Core in the Swallowing Starry Sky World truly formed.

Apart from the memories of his first two worlds, Li Ze no longer had any ties to his former self.

Within the nebula's Black Hole, his soul rapidly nourished itself and grew stronger.

"'Universe level First Order.' I never expected the Golden Crow Physique to reach the Universe level the moment its nurturing was complete!"

Li Ze's consciousness could not help sighing.

But on second thought, it made sense. In the Devouring World, the stronger a lifeform's original Life Gene Level, the stronger the lifeform it would nurture. A Starry Sky Beast such as the Golden Horned Beast had a Gene Level ten times that of an ordinary human and was already a Planet Level lifeform upon birth.

Not to mention his own Life Gene Level was one hundred and sixty times greater!

Reaching the Universe level upon completing its nurturing was not particularly outrageous.

Afterward, Li Ze's consciousness followed the direction in which the Gene Force within his body flowed and found the place where the Golden Crow Physique's Gene Force converged.

It was in the upper-middle part of his spine, at the central point connecting to both Wings. It was the closest point to the Golden Crow's Wings and also where its Wings exerted force for flight. Storing Original Force here would also allow him to quickly channel it to every part of his body.

"Inner World."

When his soul had achieved a perfect fit with his body, Li Ze had sensed another world within it.

The vast space within the Origin Core seemed to possess an invisible connection to another world.

Inner World

This was an independent continent, roughly 1,600 kilometers in length and width. Beyond the continent, 1,600 kilometers up in the sky, everything was Crimson Mist. Endless Crimson Mist also surrounded the continent. The continent itself was crimson, with many hills, rivers, and lakes. Its area was not large, yet what flowed within it was lava-like liquid.

Retracting his consciousness, Li Ze's Three-legged Golden Crow body opened its previously closed eyes.

Lowering his head, he saw the human body standing beside him.

Now, he needed to resolve the matter of using the Golden Crow Physique and the Human Body!

To be continued.

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