Wu Mo Is Born, Refining Spiritual Treasures

"Truly stingy—couldn't even spare a little reward."

Styx muttered to himself.

Rahula had even given him several spiritual treasures and cultivation methods, while the Heavenly Dao had given him nothing at all.

What a tiny-minded disposition.

Just as Styx was silently griping about the Heavenly Dao, another tremendous disturbance suddenly erupted beyond the Blood Sea.

Worried that the Chaos Demon Gods might have returned, Styx immediately flew out of the Blood Sea.

He had even made preparations in advance.

If it really was the Chaos Demon Gods, he would run at once.

Fortunately, it was not the Chaos Demon Gods he had expected.

Instead, it was a reward bestowed upon him by the Heavenly Dao.

Styx looked at the eye-dazzling golden merit in the sky, and the smile on his face simply would not fade.

Merit—good stuff!

Though this merit was not much, Styx did not mind.

After all, to be honest, although Styx had contributed a little in the struggle between the Heavenly Dao and several Demon Gods, his contribution had been next to nothing.

So, he was already very satisfied that the Heavenly Dao had bestowed a reward upon him.

Along with the Heavenly Dao merit, Styx was also rewarded with a jade talisman.

The words "Heavenly Dao" were engraved upon it in Dao script.

Styx had no idea what it was.

After all, this thing had never appeared in the novels from his previous life.

For the time being, Styx put it away.

Then he returned to the Blood Sea to restore his magical power and devote himself to cultivation.

Within the Heavenly Dao Sea.

Before an enormous Heavenly Dao Golden Wheel stood a tiny black nine-tiered tower.

A voice rang out from within the tower.

"Heavenly Dao, in your current state, you cannot deal with the nine of us Chaos Demon Gods at once! Rather than wasting time here with us, you would be better off releasing us. I, Shi Chen, can guarantee that from now on, I will never set foot in the Primordial Wilderness again!"

Yet the Heavenly Dao gave him no response. Instead, it mobilized a vast amount of Heavenly Dao power and directly suppressed the Nine Demon Tower!

Heavenly Dao: I may not be able to deal with the eight of you working together for now, but can't I still seal you?

The Chaos Demon Gods were already relics left behind by the times. To recover their strength at their peak would require endless ages.

The Heavenly Dao, however, could draw upon the development of the Primordial Wilderness to strengthen itself.

After a few more calamity cycles, the Heavenly Dao was confident it could completely suppress these Demon Gods.

The Heavenly Dao temporarily sealed these Demon Gods, and the Heavenly Dao Sea returned to silence.

As the Heavenly Dao Sea calmed, the entire Primordial Wilderness seemed to enter a period of tranquility as well.

No one knew how many years passed before Styx finally emerged from his cultivation.

By then, he had already stabilized his mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal cultivation.

Compared to his original early stage, it was a tremendous improvement.

Of course, he had also used up all the merit the Heavenly Dao had originally rewarded him with in cultivation.

But Styx did not care.

Merit was meant to be used after being accumulated—otherwise, why obtain merit at all?

What was more, as a transmigrator who knew the course of the Primordial Wilderness's development, earning some merit was simply too easy for Styx.

But Styx was in no mood to concern himself with such matters right now. Instead, he began taking stock of his assets.

Aside from his four top-grade innate spiritual treasures, he had also obtained several additional treasures.

Namely, the Twelfth Grade Extinguishing Black Lotus, the Twelve Sea Stabilizing Divine Pearls, the Spiritual Root Nether Bone Bamboo, an Exotic Beast Egg, and a Heavenly Dao Jade Talisman whose purpose he did not know—all obtained from the fake system, the real Rahula.

Styx had already checked the items obtained from Rahula. After Rahula's death, all of Rahula's imprints on them had been erased.

In other words, from this day onward, these things belonged to him and had not the slightest connection to Rahula.

Besides those treasures, Styx had another unexpected gain.

It was a drop of Rahula's heartblood on the Yuan Tu Sword!

Styx suddenly recalled the upgraded version of the Blood God Incarnation Great Method that Rahula had given him back then.

Rahula had originally intended to lower Styx's guard before eventually possessing his body.

So, he had not tampered with anything he gave Styx.

After all, in Rahula's eyes, everything he gave Styx now could be taken back in the future.

Everything Styx possessed would become a wedding dress for him.

Yet Rahula had never expected that he would actually fall at Styx's hands.

So...

Without the slightest hesitation, Styx began using Rahula's heartblood to refine a Blood God Incarnation avatar.

In Styx's view, there was no need for him to refine too many Blood God Incarnation avatars.

Now that he had the upgraded Blood God Incarnation Great Method, he could devote his resources to cultivating several Blood God Incarnation avatars.

Not only would this make it more convenient for him to act within the Primordial Wilderness, but it might even yield unexpected results in the future.

Refining a Blood God Incarnation avatar was not particularly difficult.

The troublesome part was that the Blood God Incarnation avatar Styx was refining now was not an empty shell devoid of consciousness.

Rather, it was an avatar with its own awareness, capable of cultivating independently—almost a real living being.

Styx's mana flowed out without end.

Before long, Rahula's drop of essence blood was gradually molded into a humanoid form.

Watching the Blood God Incarnation avatar steadily take shape before him, Styx felt rather conflicted.

"Damn it, why does it look more and more like Rahula?!"

Fortunately, once this Blood God Incarnation avatar had taken form, the first thing it did was voluntarily pay respects to Styx.

"Greetings, Original Body!"

Styx suppressed that trace of complicated emotion in his heart and nodded.

"Good. From this day forth, you shall be Wu Mo! Take care not to reveal the relationship between you and me."

A Blood God Incarnation refined from Devil Ancestor Rahula's heartblood being named Wu Mo was perfectly reasonable!

Wu Mo gave an evil grin. His black robes billowed around him, making him resemble Rahula in more than a few ways.

"Wu Mo understands!"

With a thought, Styx could sense that he was able to control Wu Mo's actions.

If necessary, he could even temporarily descend into Wu Mo's body from afar.

Styx was quite satisfied. While he was at it, he mentally lit a stick of incense for the already dead Rahula.

Wu Mo had only just been born, and his cultivation was merely at the early Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage.

His strength was not bad, but neither could it be called powerful.

However, his foundations were excellent, only slightly inferior to Styx's.

After all, Rahula had once been one of the Chaos Demon Gods. After reincarnating into the Primordial Wilderness, he had become one of the two great ancestors of the Primordial Wilderness, standing alongside Hongjun.

Naturally, an avatar refined from his heartblood would not have poor foundations.

Given enough time, he would surely step into the Zenith Heaven realm.

After refining a Blood God Incarnation, Styx had Wu Mo enter secluded cultivation.

As for himself, he began refining the spiritual treasures Rahula had given him.

His own four spiritual treasures were innate companion treasures, so refining them was not particularly difficult.

As for the remaining spiritual treasures—

The Twelfth Grade Extinguishing Black Lotus was Rahula's signature spiritual treasure.

Styx intended to give it to Wu Mo. If he had the chance to obtain the Merit Golden Lotus and the Creation Green Lotus, Styx might consider merging the origins of all four lotus flowers into one.

The other Twelve Sea Stabilizing Divine Pearls were merely High-Grade Connate Spiritual Treasures. Though they were fairly good, with his current Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal-level cultivation, he could still refine several layers of their restrictions.

As for the remaining Exotic Beast Egg and Nether Bone Bamboo, Styx simply tossed them aside and left them alone for the time being.

After all, there was no one else in the Blood Sea, so he did not need to worry about losing them.

After roughly refining the spiritual treasures, Styx entered secluded cultivation once more.

After all, spiritual treasures and the like were external things.

Only when he himself became strong would he be truly strong.

Countless years passed again.

On this day, strange phenomena suddenly arose throughout the Primordial Wilderness.

Even the Blood Sea churned with surging waves of blood.

The commotion directly woke Styx from his secluded cultivation.

Understanding dawned on Styx. It had finally come!