Primal Chaos Plate

Lin Yan stared at the octagonal disc floating in the air. Sensing the profound aura it emitted, he felt that it lacked some of the Earth Spirit Seal's solemn weight, yet carried an added hint of liveliness.

Could this Spirit Treasure be on par with the Earth Spirit Seal? Lin Yan suddenly felt his heartbeat quicken.

One had to know that at this early stage of the Prehistoric World, most Innate Spiritual Treasures were still being nurtured and had yet to emerge. Although the Earth Spirit Seal granted to him by the system was merely a mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, it was already considered a treasure of exceptionally high rank.

With his Earth Immortal Realm cultivation, Lin Yan had traveled for a hundred years amid Innate Fierce Beasts lurking all around him. Many times, he had only escaped their jaws by relying on the Earth Spirit Seal's power. The boost to combat power provided by an Innate Spiritual Treasure was incomparable. Someone wielding one could even defeat opponents above their own realm.

No Primordial Creature could refuse the temptation of an Innate Spiritual Treasure. An ordinary person like Lin Yan was even less capable of refusing. The more Spirit Treasures, the better—whether he could use them or not, just keeping them at home and looking at them every day would lift his spirits.

However, Lin Yan did not immediately rush over to seize the treasure by force. The Prehistoric World was fraught with danger, and Spirit Treasures nurtured by heaven and earth often possessed unfathomable power. He had no desire to put himself in danger because of a moment of greed.

Lin Yan sensed that the sphere of light enclosing the Spirit Treasure was formed from pure Spirit Qi intertwined with violent Malevolent Qi. For some unknown reason, these two utterly different energies had achieved a bizarre balance. Once that balance was broken, it could very well trigger a violent energy outburst.

To be safe, Lin Yan first carefully released a thread of Divine Sense and slowly extended it toward the sphere of light. However, the moment his Divine Sense touched it, it failed to stir even the slightest ripple across its surface. Like a clay ox sinking into the sea, it lost contact with Lin Yan.

Lin Yan frowned and circulated the Kun Yuan Thick Earth Art, driving the pure Wu Earth Spiritual Qi within his body to form a Yellow Earth Hand that slowly reached for the sphere of light. Yet when the hand touched its surface, it rapidly collapsed and dispersed like sand meeting water.

Unwilling to accept this, Lin Yan brought out the Earth Spirit Seal and lightly tapped the sphere of light. A dull thud rang out. The sphere trembled slightly a few times before returning to normal, while the Earth Spirit Seal was gently bounced back by a soft force without ever touching the disc body inside.

"Huh? It won't yield to force or gentleness?" Lin Yan was dumbfounded. He had never had much experience collecting Spirit Treasures. After trying several methods without breaking through the sphere's defenses, he found himself at a loss.

He circled the sphere several times and tried a few more methods. He even attempted Blood Recognition and transformed into his true form to bite it with his mouthparts, yet he still could not affect the sphere in the slightest.

"You're really stubborn!" Lin Yan roared in exasperation.

With every method exhausted and no way to break through the sphere, much less subdue the Spirit Treasure inside, Lin Yan gritted his teeth. He drew upon a thread of his divine soul and Origin Power, condensing a thumb-sized fire seed that emitted a milky white glow in his palm.

This was the "Spirit Awakening Fire Seed" generated by the system's newly added [Civilization Inheritance Fire Seed] module. It could accelerate the birth of intelligence and raise the wisdom of living beings.

Since he could not collect this Spirit Treasure through external force, he might as well let it develop intelligence and come recognize him as its master on its own.

Lin Yan carefully suspended the milky white flame before the sphere of light. The instant the flame touched it, the Primal Chaos Plate rolling endlessly within abruptly stopped, like a cat that had caught the scent of fish.

Immediately afterward, the Spirit Qi and Malevolent Qi emitted from both sides of the disc suddenly withdrew. From the core of the disc, a thread of gray light so faint that it was nearly imperceptible extended outward.

This gray light seemed alive as it gently wrapped around the Spirit Awakening Fire Seed, as though enjoying itself immensely. The next moment, the gray light gave a soft curl and dragged the fire seed into the octagonal disc.

This might work! Lin Yan was overjoyed and held his breath as he watched.

Not long after the Spirit Awakening Fire Seed entered the disc, the entire disc suddenly erupted with dazzling light. An intense spiritual fluctuation spread from within it, growing stronger and clearer at an astonishing speed.

Somehow, Lin Yan sensed a faint connection forming between himself and the spirituality within the disc. Through that connection, he could perceive a newly born, pure and flawless Spiritual Body slowly drifting within the disc, trying its best to express some sort of emotion to its surroundings.

Like a newborn infant, this Spiritual Body was not only curious about everything around it, but also radiated pure, unconditional closeness and attachment toward him, the provider of the "fire seed."

Why does it feel like I just had a child? A strange feeling rose in Lin Yan's heart.

"Buzz..."

The octagonal disc suddenly let out a faint hum. It slowly flew toward Lin Yan, happily circled him once, then obediently landed in his palm. Its formerly radiant disc body also withdrew its light and became plain and unadorned.

Touching the disc's warm, smooth surface and sensing the spirituality within it that faintly resonated with his own intentions, Lin Yan knew that this treasure now belonged to him.

He tried sending a strand of Divine Sense into the disc.

In an instant, an enormous amount of information flooded into his mind.

Primal Chaos Plate: High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

This treasure had been formed when a strand of undispersed Chaos Qi from the Primordial Beginning happened to merge with a piece of Innate Chaos Stone. After enduring endless years and absorbing Earth Vein Spiritual Qi and Heaven and Earth Sha Qi, it was finally nurtured into existence. At its core lay a Primal Chaos Seed, the most heaven-defying aspect of the Primal Chaos Plate.

The Primal Chaos Seed could break down and refine Fierce Sha Qi into the most primitive, most fundamental Chaos Qi, then transform it into Innate Spiritual Qi. Likewise, it could work in reverse, breaking down absorbed Innate Spiritual Qi into Chaos Qi before converting it into Fierce Sha Qi.

This Primal Chaos Seed was located at the very center of the Primal Chaos Plate's internal space.

The Primal Chaos Plate's internal space was boundless, with clear and turbid regions distinctly separated. It was divided into nine layers in total. The Upper Four Layers were all Clear Spirit Space, filled with misty Spirit Qi like an immortal realm. They could store spiritual objects and nourish spiritual roots. The Lower Four Layers were entirely Turbid Fiend Space, filled with Fierce Sha Qi and resembling a Demon Realm. They could suppress vicious beings and refine filthy objects. Between the clear and turbid regions was where the Primal Chaos Seed resided. There, clarity and turbidity converged, Hundun remained undefined, and the mysteries were boundless.

Previously, the Primal Chaos Seed within the Primal Chaos Plate had been unable to develop intelligence, so it had remained dormant here while awaiting its emergence. Unexpectedly, Lin Yan's Spirit Awakening Fire Seed had ignited the light of its wisdom in a single stroke. From then on, intelligence was born, giving rise to an illusory yet tangible Spiritual Body. However, this Spiritual Body had only just been born, and its intelligence was still too immature to communicate with him for now.

Yet this Spiritual Body was like a blank sheet of paper and possessed immense potential for growth. Once it matured, it would naturally remain close to him.

Moreover, since the Spiritual Body had been born from the Primal Chaos Seed, it could fully control the Primal Chaos Plate. As its intelligence grew, the Primal Chaos Plate's rank would continuously rise as well. In the future, it might even advance into a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure or perhaps a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.

"Haha, it's actually a growing High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure?" After learning all this information about the Primal Chaos Plate, Lin Yan instantly felt himself enveloped by an overwhelming sense of happiness.

The Primal Chaos Plate's ability to convert Spirit Qi and Malevolent Qi into one another was somewhat similar to the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Chaos Cauldron that Lin Yan remembered, or the killing weapon Yin Yang Mirror.

And this ability of the Chaos Plate was even more useful to him at present than the Chaos Cauldron. With it, Lin Yan could convert all the Malevolent Qi in the Outer Area of the Canyon into Spirit Qi. Wouldn't the entire Outer Area of the Canyon then become an Immortal Blessed Land overflowing with Spirit Qi in no time? Wouldn't completing the system's three missions become effortless?