Radiant Strange Flower, the Immortal Gates' Origins

Dim.

Endless dimness.

Within that blurred line of sight, hand after hand swayed inside a cave.

No—if one looked closely, one would find that they were not hands at all, but strange flowers. Beneath them lay corpses scattered across the ground, along with a slowly writhing carpet of flesh and fungal filaments that seemed almost alive.

The scene of a land polluted by spiritual energy radiation was recreated in this cave.

"Sure enough, the spiritual energy here has mutated..."

At this moment, in the dim cave, a voice that seemed to be muttering to itself sounded.

"Spiritual energy possesses an exceedingly intricate internal structure. It has its own self-contained logic, a stable framework, and a complete information repository. Only then does it manifest outwardly as Yin Yang Five Elements attributes, ultimately creating all things in the world."

"Yet these strange flowers emit spiritual energy radiation, causing deficiencies or foreign additions within that internal system. While it cannot completely shake the entire system into collapse, it is enough to mutate spiritual energy and transform it into another kind of spiritual energy."

"Actually, this process is similar to the formation of elements in my previous life. Just as basic hydrogen could be used to synthesize all sorts of other elements, in this world, spiritual energy combines with the five poisons of the human heart to form demonic qi that drags the world into ruin; it combines with the faith and aspiration power of sentient life to give rise to so-called divinity; it combines with madness, curses, and pollution to transform into the spirituality that serves as the extraordinary source beyond the domain... It feels like a periodic table."

"So Chaos Power is the original source, while spiritual energy is something ranked near the top of the periodic table?"

Lin Chen stroked his