After roughly half a month of comprehension, the four of them had nearly digested what they had gained from their first study of the Chaos Stele. They got up and set out beyond Chaos City to hunt Chaos Beasts and collect Chaos True Spirits.
Chaos Beasts were strange creatures naturally born when the universe was in its primordial state.
That was why the geniuses selected in the Giant Axe Martial Arena's Genius Tournament were sent to Original Ancestor's Initial Universe for training. Not only did it contain the many laws manifested when the universe first opened, it also gave rise to rare creatures like Chaos Beasts.
Giant Axe's Miniature Universe, on the other hand, had long since stabilized after all these years of evolution. It served well as a sacred dwelling, but was less effective than Original Ancestor's Initial Universe for training geniuses.
The Chaos Beasts varied widely in strength, yet all were naturally adept at wielding Origin Laws. Some could skillfully control several laws, while others mastered only a handful.
When a Chaos Beast was killed, its body instantly decayed, turning into a mass of chaos energy and a single emerald-green speck of light.
That emerald-green speck was the core of a Chaos Beast—the Chaos True Spirit.
Unlike ordinary living creatures, Chaos Beasts had no souls. The Chaos True Spirit was the essence of their lives.
Cultivators only needed to draw a Chaos True Spirit into their bodies, and their souls would absorb it directly.
After absorbing a Chaos True Spirit, a cultivator's soul underwent a transformation, greatly improving its affinity with the space of the universe.
But for beings above the Immortal Realm, whose souls had already attained an eternal state, Chaos True Spirits no longer had any effect. As a result, they became treasures that cultivators below