Companion Spiritual Treasure Appears

While Great Experts everywhere wanted to get to the bottom of things, Jiang He was worrying over how the Human Race should develop in the future! Although the Human Race was now far stronger than the humans he knew of, not a single one of the problems they faced was missing!

The Human Race had no cultivation techniques, only the energy absorption and circulation routes Empress Nuwa had imprinted within their bodies at the moment of creation! It was a simple incantation, but the clansmen could only absorb energy and had no idea how to use it—even Jiang He did not know!

Perhaps Empress Nuwa had forgotten to teach them, or perhaps she wanted the Human Race to figure it out for themselves! They would have to take things one step at a time!

Jiang He sat cross-legged atop the large stone from before, sensing the unusual movement within his body's energy! Right after absorbing the merit, he had felt that the merit within him had diminished considerably! He hurriedly told Yue to lead the clansmen in continuing to build houses, then ran back to this birthplace to enter seclusion! Perhaps this was where Empress Nuwa had attained sainthood; Saintly Might permeated every corner of the place! Cultivating here felt twice as effective for half the effort! Nor did he have to worry about being disturbed!

An invisible suction force in his Dantian was constantly absorbing the remaining power of merit!

Found it! So it was here. Jiang He saw a tiny golden sphere in his Dantian. An inner core? A Golden Core? Jiang He wondered in confusion!

It did not look like one! Why did it have such strange patterns on it? As Spiritual Power flowed into it, the small sphere flew out of his body, and a stream of information entered his mind. It turned out to be the Companion Spiritual Treasure bestowed upon him by heaven and earth when Empress Nuwa had created him. Since he had been born a Late Profound Immortal, his Roots were not considered low. One had to know that even the other Primordial Sacred Beings and the Three Pure Ones had only been Golden Immortals when they took form! As long as one reached the Golden Immortal level upon taking form, heaven and earth would naturally reward them with a Companion Spiritual Treasure!

Although Jiang He was not a Golden Immortal, he was a Late Profound Immortal. Coupled with his status as the first member of the Human Race beneath heaven, he qualified for a Spiritual Treasure!

This small sphere was called the Red Dust Pearl. It had no means of attack. In gaming terms, it was support gear! Supreme-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure (Upgradeable).

It could simulate and manifest its master's thoughts, open up a little world within the Red Dust Pearl, and record all information discovered by its master!

Huh? Was this some alternative kind of storage? Or a half-finished search platform? My own world? What did upgradeable mean—did it mean he had to feed it?

Forget it, forget it! He could not despise his own Companion Spiritual Treasure! Wasn't it just merit? Here, take it, take it, take it!

As merit continuously flowed in, the patterns on the small sphere flashed without end! And so, Jiang He infused it with merit while cultivating. He had accumulated a huge amount of merit anyway, so it was perfect for use on the Red Dust Pearl. He had never intended to use it to raise his Cultivation Level.

The Golden Crow set and the Jade Rabbit rose! One month later, a cry rang out in his mind: "Full! I'm full! Don't put any more in!"

What the hell was that sound?! Jiang He was jolted awake by the voice. Then he heard the Red Dust Pearl repeatedly calling out in his mind, "Master! I've reached my limit! I can't absorb any more merit!"

Jiang He instinctively withdrew the power of merit and asked, "So you're the Spirit of the Artifact?"

"Mm, I am the Spirit of the Artifact of the Red Dust Pearl. Master used immense power of merit to enlighten me into existence!"

"Oh? Then have you changed at all? How do I pass the information you need to you?" Jiang He asked curiously.

"Master, you can let me gather information from the outside world on my own, or you can imprint information into me with Spiritual Power! The energy within me is sufficient to let me simulate a Small World whose upper limit does not exceed the Heavenly Immortal Realm!"

"Tell me about this Small World."

"The Red Dust Pearl's Small World constructs a complete inner world according to its master's thoughts! Master can simulate any form of world at will! The Red Dust Pearl will then operate the Small World according to Master's settings, tempering Master's state of mind!"

After hearing the Red Dust Pearl's explanation, Jiang He said thoughtfully, "You mean you can simulate anything I think of? Then after I build this Small World, can I build a second one? Would they conflict with each other?"

"Mm... you can, Master! However, to build a second Small World, I need to advance into an Innate Spiritual Treasure. That requires a massive amount of information to nurture me; the power of merit alone cannot completely evolve me into the state Master requires!" After pondering for a moment, the Spirit of the Artifact answered.

I get it! Isn't this creating a Small World exclusively my own? In this world, I can control the flow of time, create cultivation techniques, and even upload complete world information! Right! I'll upload Journey to the West and give it a try!

With that, he imprinted his memories of Journey to the West into the Red Dust Pearl. Once the upload was complete, he waited eagerly for the Red Dust Pearl's response!

"Master! I cannot create this information for the time being. Its upper limit is a little too high!" said the Spirit of the Artifact in a wronged tone!

"Ah! Why can't you create it?" Jiang He asked in surprise!

"Master! At present, the highest world I can simulate has a power ceiling no greater than the Heavenly Immortal Realm. The information you gave me exceeds that limit! But I have already saved the information. Once my abilities are sufficient, you will not need to upload it again!"

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So that was it! Fine, then! I'll try this one instead! Immediately afterward, Jiang He uploaded his memories of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils! The previous one had been too high-level, so he would test the waters with a wuxia world this time!

"Information received! Small World under construction!"

While waiting for the Red Dust Pearl to construct it, Jiang He uploaded vast amounts of memories into it as well! Movies, games, novels—he uploaded everything he could!

At that moment, the Red Dust Pearl was once again nearly burst apart by the enormous torrent of information! What kind of normal person had so many random, messy thoughts?! But the Red Dust Pearl was, after all, something akin to an intelligent life-form. It quickly learned from this information and put it into practice, sorting the different information into categories before digesting it!

Very soon, dark clouds gathered one after another in the sky, and lightning bloomed like flowers overhead!

"Is this a tribulation?" Jiang He said blankly! Who was undergoing tribulation here?! Turning his head, he saw that the Red Dust Pearl had already flown out of his body!

Just as a bolt of lightning was about to strike the Red Dust Pearl, it flashed and darted into the mud pit where Nuwa had created humans earlier! The Thunder Tribulation in the sky crackled with electric arcs like a short-circuited current, yet did not dare strike down!

Jiang He was dumbfounded at the sight. Damn, that was sneaky! You could do that?!

The Thunder Tribulation in the sky seemed to know it could do nothing to the pearl, so it could only disperse! Then a streak of golden light flashed past, and the Red Dust Pearl transformed into a palm-sized little girl, floating about in the air!

"Master! What do you think? I've become an Innate Spiritual Treasure now!" the little girl said as she flew onto his shoulder!

"You're the Red Dust Pearl? How did you become like this?"

"Master fed me so much information all at once just now that I leveled up immediately! I have now taken the form Master most looks forward to, based on the memories in Master's mind! What do you think? Don't I look like a Golden Finger?"

"You even know about that? Do you have any new functions now?"

"Based on Master's information, I have learned and organized a great deal of optimal information suited to Master's current development! According to Master's memories, I will optimize myself into the system Master most looks forward to! I will create a Datafied World before Master! In the future, please upload more information for me!"

Fuck! I created a system?

Fine! It was merely an AI that needed to grow! Still, that was good enough. Just as Jiang He was indulging in fantasy, the Small World was completed!

"Master, the Small World has been created. Please name it! And give me a name while you're at it!" The Spirit of the Artifact playfully added.

"Mm, the Small World will be called Tianlong World. As for you, you'll be called Ling'er!" Jiang He said casually.

Through the Red Dust Pearl, Jiang He directed his gaze into the Small World. Famous rivers and great mountains stretched out before him, while traditional Chinese architecture gave Jiang He a faint sense of familiarity! Members of the Human Race were created one after another within the Small World. Jiang He saw Qiao Feng, Duan Yu, Wu Yazi, and the rest! The familiar stories of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils were unfolding here, only more real. This was a Small World derived by the Red Dust Pearl, yet it could also be regarded as a real world.

"Master, after its evolution, the Small World has formed a unique cultural world. It has broken free of the story's plot and is evolving toward reality! At present, cultivation techniques that can be extracted include Flame Blade, Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and more. Once the world's actualization is complete, any other cultivation technique can be extracted!"

"Extract cultivation techniques? Actualization? Can you explain that?" Jiang He looked utterly bewildered. He was practically being forcibly dumbed down!

"First, let's talk about actualization. Originally, this was only a story, but after the Red Dust Pearl's evolution, they gradually transformed from falsehood into reality. Based on their deeds and inferred developments, they evolved into a real world, eventually giving birth to a Small World. When that time came, the cultivation methods within the Small World would all be rationalized into reality! Of course, the world's cultivation methods still could not surpass the upper limit of the Red Dust Pearl's deductive capabilities! The current limit is Mystic Immortal."

"Understood! Then extract them. Oh, right—can the second Small World be evolved now?" Jiang He asked.

"Master can only undergo the second evolution after one world has completely evolved! At present, there are still fifty years until the plot concludes and the evolution is complete!"

"Fine, then!" Jiang He knew one couldn't grow fat from a single bite. Besides, this wasn't a real system!

After extracting the Flame Blade and the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, Jiang He continuously deduced and adapted them into martial techniques suitable for the current Human Race!

One day, bored out of her mind, Yue came to the place where Jiang He was in seclusion. Ever since Jiang He had entrusted the Human Race to her, a long time had passed. As someone created alongside him, Jiang He held an inexplicable attraction for her!

She saw Jiang He seated atop a rock. Suddenly, a streak of golden blade qi burst from his hand, splitting the broad river in two. The water vapor in the middle was completely evaporated. Then, a winding, coiling golden dragon also shot from Jiang He's hand, plunging headfirst into the riverbed and blasting out a giant pit hundreds of zhang wide! In an instant, there was an additional lake!

"He!" Yue shouted toward Jiang He. Afraid that he was in danger, she ran toward him.

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