Chaos True Spirit

There are no such "Chaos Beasts" within the Primal Universe, so even with Ye Muxuan's experience, he did not know the true strength of this creature. However, he would not fear even an average Immortal-level Chaos Beast!

Not to mention, it was highly probable that this was merely a World Lord-level beast. If there truly were an Immortal-level Chaos Beast, someone from the City Lord Mansion would likely have come to clear it out long ago; after all, for normal Universe-level, Domain Lord-level, or even most World Lord-level beings, an Immortal is simply beyond their pay grade.

Ignoring the massive body that spanned over a thousand meters, a cold glint flashed in the depths of Ye Muxuan's eyes. His right hand rested on the hilt of his blade, and in the next instant, a flash of light vanished.

One strike, split in two!

The first form of his self-created blade technique, a Marquis-level technique: Wind Severing.

As the Wind Shadow Blade returned to its sheath, the Chaos Beast's massive body, evenly cleaved in two, slammed heavily onto the ground. The splashing golden blood and the severed fur and bones began to corrode and decompose in mid-air, turning into chaotic airflow and dissipating in the blink of an eye. At the same time, a verdant green speck of light floated in the air.

This was a Chaos True Spirit!

Ye Muxuan reached out, using his World Force to manipulate the green speck of light until it entered his Origin Bead.

Boom, boom, boom...

As the Origin Bead touched the green speck, his entire Internal World trembled slightly, and the five differently colored light spots located at the center of his Internal World flickered with light.

Ye Muxuan calmed his mind to sense the changes in the Origin Bead. Only after a long while could he perceive a subtle change in the soul core within.

He could feel that the clarity of his comprehension regarding the laws had slightly improved.

Although the improvement was minute, it was not negligible, and it applied not only to the Origin Law of Wind but to the other nine major Origin Laws as well.

One must know that he had long since reached the peak of the World Lord realm, and the evolution of his soul core had reached its limit. To evolve further and achieve a breakthrough, he would have to become an Immortal!

Yet now, his soul core had undergone a subtle transformation, and there was even another indescribable change. His instincts told him that obtaining the Chaos True Spirit might very well be the greatest harvest of this trip to the Initial Universe, perhaps even surpassing the insights gained from the Chaos Stele!

Ye Muxuan furrowed his brows, his eyes calm as water. With a flicker of his figure, he vanished into the vast wilderness.

The hunt had begun!

Six months later, above Chaos City, on the rooftop of a dark gray building, a man in black armor suddenly appeared, stepping onto the terrace. No one paid this scene any mind.

Sitting quietly on the rooftop once more, Ye Muxuan looked up at the flickering secret patterns of the Origin Laws in the sky. Within his Origin Bead, the "Ye Muxuan" formed by his soul core had storms brewing in its eyes!

From the moment Muxuan was born until now, a total of nearly 130,000 years had passed. Even when he took control of this body eight or nine years ago, there had been no discordance. Because he had coexisted with Muxuan since he was a weak Planet Rank, acting like a second personality along the way, fighting together and growing together, until now, nearly 130,000 years later, he had fully taken charge of this body.

But in these nearly 130,000 years—or more accurately, 129,600 years—neither he nor Muxuan had discovered that he, and he, were both incomplete souls!

Even at the very end, trapped in a cycle of dozens or hundreds of dreams, causing the two souls to fuse completely into one, becoming the sole Ye Muxuan, that Muxuan's soul had dissipated, and his own soul remained incomplete!

The "Ye Muxuan" inside the Origin Bead suddenly flashed its eyes!

On the Outer Battlefield, there were many human warriors from the Universe Secret Regions; in terms of sheer numbers, they were second only to humans from God Kingdoms. But this only applied to those below the Immortal level—the Domain Lords and World Lords. At the Immortal level, even among ordinary Immortal generals, those from Universe Secret Regions were extremely rare. He hadn't even met any; he had only heard in the Barracks Base that some Immortals hailed from Universe Secret Regions. As for Immortals from God Kingdoms? He hadn't even heard of them!

For a World Lord to break through to become an Immortal, comprehension of laws, control over the body, and most importantly, mental consciousness and willpower were all indispensable.

Mental consciousness was like a soldier, willpower was the general commanding the troops, and the soul was the vessel carrying both. He had reached the peak of the World Lord realm 110,000 years ago and gained the recognition of the Origin Law of Wind 100,000 years ago; theoretically, he hadn't been far from becoming an Immortal back then! He had a fierce and battle-hardened general, and his willpower was comparable to those at the Marquis or King Rank. The only issue was his soldiers—the level of his consciousness was merely that of an average World Lord, far from matching a typical peak World Lord! So, even though he could control his body perfectly and his law comprehension had reached or even exceeded the standard, he could not break the barrier of the Origin Bead, could not communicate with the ocean of Origin Laws of the Primal Universe, and thus remained without hope of becoming an Immortal!

If he had intentionally stopped at the 13th level of the Heavenly Bridge before, his stagnation at the 14th level of the Illusion Sea was genuine, and this, too, was related to his consciousness.

No matter how fierce and battle-hardened the general, if his subordinates were not elite soldiers, but rather a lack of even the weak and disabled, how could he conquer cities and lands?

Before entering the Initial Universe, he had never known that humans like him, born in Universe Secret Regions, were born with incomplete souls. Therefore, without a great opportunity to mend this soul deficiency, it was basically impossible for his soul core to take the final step of complete evolution and become an Immortal. And the Chaos True Spirit had mended this defect! It was for this reason that while Muxuan's tribe had produced Domain Lords and even World Lords throughout the generations, the strongest had only ever been a World Lord; an Immortal had never appeared!

In the past, because everyone knew that achieving Immortality was extremely difficult, failing to do so was considered normal.

While it might not be true that all life born in every secret region in the universe was like this—it was likely a specific case for the secret region Muxuan belonged to—the fact remained that he and his tribesmen had encountered it.

But now...

Ye Muxuan, standing on the rooftop, felt his gaze flicker, the depths of his eyes dark and bottomless.

City Lord Mansion, Chaos Ruins.

The gentle man in white robes withdrew his gaze from the young man on the rooftop and looked at his disciple, saying, "It seems this little fellow has discovered it."

"Teacher..." The Chaos City Lord, who presided over the Initial Universe, looked at the man in white robes beside him. Even now, years later, he still felt a sense of disbelief.

Compared to the little fellow from the Universe Secret Region who was currently absorbing the Chaos True Spirit to mend his soul defect—with a breakthrough to Immortality in sight—he was clearly more concerned about his teacher.

"I told you before, this is just a wisp of my consciousness that luckily escaped suppression. Calling it a 'stray soldier' is an exaggeration; it isn't even my own willpower. It is only by relying on the origin power of my Miniature Universe that I can condense this body, barely comparable to an Immortal. Now, let alone leaving the Initial Universe, if I were to appear in the Primal Universe or the Universe Ocean, I fear that the Origin Will would suppress me once again." The gentle man in white robes looked at the Chaos City Lord. "Or perhaps, this time, it would kill me outright."

"However, I will not admit defeat!"