Primal Chaos Plate

Lin Yan stared at the octagonal disc floating in the air, sensing the profound aura emanating from it. He felt it lacked the solemnity of his Earth Spirit Seal, but possessed a touch more dynamism.

"Could... this spiritual treasure's grade rival the Earth Spirit Seal?" Lin Yan's heart suddenly began to race.

One had to know, in this nascent stage of the Primordial World, most Innate Spiritual Treasures were still gestating and had yet to emerge. The Earth Spirit Seal, though only a Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, was already considered a treasure of very high grade.

With his Earth Immortal Realm cultivation, Lin Yan had roamed this beast-infested environment for a hundred years. Many times, it was the power of the Earth Spirit Seal that allowed him to escape the jaws of those Innate Fierce Beasts. An Innate Spiritual Treasure provided an unparalleled boost to combat power. Wielders of spiritual treasures could even challenge and defeat opponents of higher realms.

Among the Primordial Creatures, no one could refuse the temptation of an Innate Spiritual Treasure. For an ordinary person like Lin Yan, refusal was even less possible. Spiritual treasures, the more the merrier. Even if he couldn't use it, just having it at home to gaze upon daily would bring joy.

However, Lin Yan didn't immediately rush forward to forcibly seize this treasure. The Primordial World was fraught with peril. Treasures born from Heaven and Earth often possessed unfathomable power. He didn't want to put himself in danger out of momentary greed.

Lin Yan sensed that the light cluster enveloping the spiritual treasure was formed by the interweaving of pure spiritual qi and violent malevolent qi. For some unknown reason, these two energies of completely different natures had achieved a strange balance. Once this balance was broken, it was highly likely to trigger a violent energy outburst.

To be safe, Lin Yan first cautiously released a wisp of his Divine Sense, slowly probing towards the light cluster. However, upon contact, his Divine Sense couldn't even stir a ripple on the surface of the light cluster. It vanished like a clay ox entering the sea, and he lost contact with it.

Lin Yan frowned. He circulated the Kun Yuan Thick Earth Art, channeling the pure Wu Earth Spiritual Qi within him to form a Yellow Earth Hand. He slowly reached for the light cluster. However, as the hand touched the surface of the light cluster, it rapidly disintegrated and dispersed, like sand meeting water.

Lin Yan refused to believe it. This time, he brought out the Earth Spirit Seal and gently touched the light cluster. A dull "thud" sounded. The surface of the light cluster trembled slightly before returning to its original state. The Earth Spirit Seal was repelled by a gentle force and did not touch the disc body within.

"Huh? It's impervious to both soft and hard methods!" Lin Yan was dumbfounded. He had no prior experience in how to collect spiritual treasures. Seeing that his attempts to breach the light cluster's defense with several methods had failed, he was momentarily at a loss.

He circled the light cluster a few times and tried several more methods. He even resorted to Blood Recognition and transforming into his true form to bite it with his mouthparts, yet he couldn't disturb the light cluster in the slightest.

"So stubborn!" Lin Yan roared in frustration.

Seeing that all his methods had failed to breach the light cluster, let alone subdue the spiritual treasure within, Lin Yan gritted his teeth. He mobilized a wisp of his soul and Origin Power, condensing a thumb-sized fire seed radiating milky white light in his palm.

This was the "Spirit Awakening Fire Seed" generated by the system's new function, the Civilization Inheritance Fire Seed module. It could accelerate the birth of intelligence and improve the wisdom level of living beings.

Since he couldn't collect this spiritual treasure with external force, he decided to let the spiritual treasure develop its own intelligence and recognize him as its master.

Lin Yan carefully suspended the milky white flame in front of the light cluster. As soon as the flame touched the light cluster, the Primal Chaos Plate, which had been tumbling within, stopped abruptly as if it had smelled something enticing.

Immediately, the spiritual qi and malevolent qi emanating from both sides of the disc suddenly retracted. From the core of the disc, a wisp of gray light, so faint it was almost imperceptible, emerged.

This wisp of gray light seemed to have a life of its own. It gently entwined itself with the Spirit Awakening Fire Seed, appearing to savor it. In the next moment, the gray light gently coiled, dragging the Spirit Awakening Fire Seed into the octagonal disc.

"There's hope!" Lin Yan's heart rejoiced. He held his breath and observed intently.

Not long after the Spirit Awakening Fire Seed entered the disc, the entire disc erupted with dazzling light. A strong spiritual fluctuation emanated from within the disc, rapidly growing stronger and clearer.

In the depths of his being, Lin Yan felt a faint connection form between himself and the spiritual entity within the disc. Through this connection, he could perceive a nascent, pure, and flawless spiritual body slowly drifting within the disc, earnestly trying to express some emotion to its surroundings.

This spiritual body was like a newborn infant, filled with curiosity about everything around it. Towards him, the provider of the "fire seed," it exuded a pure, unreserved closeness and attachment.

"Why does it feel like I've given birth to a child?" A strange feeling surfaced in Lin Yan's heart.

"Buzz..."

The Octagonal Disc suddenly let out a soft hum, and it actually flew slowly towards Lin Yan. It circled him joyfully before obediently landing in his palm. The originally radiant disc body retracted its light, becoming simple and unadorned.

Touching the disc's warm material and feeling the spirituality within, which seemed to subtly connect with his own thoughts, Lin Yan knew this treasure now belonged to him.

He tentatively sent a wisp of his divine sense into the disc's interior.

Instantly, a massive amount of information flooded his mind.

Primal Chaos Plate: High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

This treasure was formed when a wisp of residual Chaos Qi from the Primordial Beginning coincidentally merged with a piece of Innate Chaos Stone. After endless years, it absorbed Earth Vein Spiritual Qi and Heaven and Earth Sha Qi before finally being nurtured into existence. At its core lies a Primal Chaos Seed, which is the most heaven-defying aspect of the Primal Chaos Plate.

The Primal Chaos Seed can decompose and refine Fierce Sha Qi into the most primitive, most fundamental Chaos Qi, and then transform it into Innate Spiritual Qi. Similarly, it can do the opposite, decomposing absorbed Innate Spiritual Qi into Chaos Qi, and then transforming it into Fierce Sha Qi.

This Primal Chaos Seed is located at the very center of the Primal Chaos Plate's Internal Space.

The Primal Chaos Plate's Internal Space is vast and boundless, clearly divided into upper and lower sections, with nine layers in total. The upper four layers are Clear Spirit Spaces, filled with spiritual energy like a fairyland, capable of storing spiritual items and nurturing spiritual roots. The lower four layers are all Turbid Fiend Spaces, permeated with Fierce Sha Qi, resembling a Demon Realm, capable of suppressing stubborn fiends and smelting filth. Between the clear and turbid sections lies the location of the Primal Chaos Seed, where clear and turbid qi converge, chaos is not yet defined, and it is profoundly mysterious.

Previously, the Primal Chaos Seed within the Primal Chaos Plate had been unable to develop intelligence for a long time, thus it remained dormant, waiting for its emergence. Unexpectedly, Lin Yan's Spirit Awakening Fire Seed instantly ignited the light of its wisdom, giving birth to intelligence and a seemingly illusory Spiritual Body. However, this Spiritual Body had just been born, its intelligence was still very immature, and it was temporarily unable to communicate with him.

But this Spiritual Body, like a blank slate, had extremely strong plasticity. As it grew in the future, it would also be naturally close to him.

Moreover, since the Spiritual Body was born from the Primal Chaos Seed, it could completely control the Primal Chaos Plate. As its intelligence grew, the Primal Chaos Plate's grade would continuously increase, and in the future, it might even be promoted to a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure or even a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.

"Haha, it's actually a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with growth potential?" Upon learning all this information about the Primal Chaos Plate, Lin Yan instantly felt enveloped by a wave of immense happiness.

The Primal Chaos Plate's ability to mutually transform spiritual energy and fiendish energy was somewhat similar to the Chaos Cauldron, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, or the Yin Yang Mirror, a Killing Weapon, in Lin Yan's memory.

And this function of the Chaos Plate was even more useful to him at this moment than the Chaos Cauldron. With it, Lin Yan could transform all the fiendish energy in the Outer Area of the Canyon into spiritual energy. In this way, wouldn't the entire Outer Area of the Canyon instantly become an Immortal Blessed Land brimming with spiritual energy? Wouldn't completing the three tasks in the system become as easy as picking something up?