The Only Beneficiary

Just like that, forty-nine days later, Yuanshi had refined all several hundred Chaos crystals into a vast mass of pale blue Xuanqing Qi.

Afterward, Chu waved his hand and removed the seal above the Nine Heavens, sending the mass of Xuanqing Qi into the enormous hole.

When Pangu had first split Heaven and Earth, he had used the clear and turbid qi to evolve the world. This Xuanqing Qi was precisely ideal material for Heaven Mending.

Legend had it that Pangu had diligently cultivated Xuanqing Qi, then deduced and innovated upon it, dividing it into three: Yuqing Qi, Taiqing Qi, and Shangqing Qi. He merged them into his primordial spirit, and Yuanshi and the Three Pure Ones were said to have been transformed from the three strands of his primordial spirit fused with the Three Pure Qings.

Whether it was true or not, no one knew. Still, rumors did not arise from nowhere. Since such a legend existed, it might not have been false.

As the Xuanqing Qi gradually spread, an invisible force transformed the clear qi. Yuanshi's Law of Creation continuously created Heaven and Earth, remolding the cosmos.

Gradually, the Xuanqing Qi sealed the breach. Xuan light burst forth, radiating in every direction. Once the light faded, the sky finally returned to its former azure blue.

After Chu finished mending the heavens, he discovered that another mass of Xuanqing Qi remained inside the Qiankun Cauldron.

Suddenly, he gave a strange smile, one that made no sense. Then he sent several streaks of spiritual light into it, and the Xuanqing Qi immediately transformed into five crystals of different sizes and colors.

One was black, releasing a terrifying demonic nature that stirred a bloodthirsty impulse in anyone who looked upon it.

One was white, pale as snow, with a frigid aura