Li Qingshan slowly opened his eyes. With a thought, the chaos Dao seed appeared before him.
It was a Dao seed unlike any he had ever seen.
Neither gold nor silver, neither black nor white, it bore an indescribable color of chaos.
It seemed to have condensed from the chaotic energy that existed before heaven and earth were born. A hazy halo flowed across its surface, seemingly intangible yet undeniably real.
The Dao seed was the size of a millstone, radiant as the sun, and rotated slowly. With every revolution, a visible ripple spread outward. Wherever it passed, the once-disordered immortal power submitted of its own accord, pouring into the Dao seed like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea.
Li Qingshan extended his divine sense and carefully examined the Dao seed he had just condensed.
Patterns emerged across its surface.
They were not engraved upon it, but seemed to grow from within, winding around its surface like divine chains of order and emanating a pressure that made his heart tremble.
Every pattern contained an indescribable power of law, as though the most fundamental order of heaven and earth had crystallized there.
Li Qingshan counted them, and his pupils abruptly contracted.
One, two, three...
He counted three times. Each time, he arrived at the same number.
Ninety-nine.
Ninety-nine layers of Dao patterns!
Li Qingshan froze, his face filled with utter shock.
"Ninety-nine layers of Dao patterns? I only just broke through, and I've already condensed ninety-nine layers?! Hiss..."
He could not help drawing in a sharp breath, disbelief filling his eyes.
The Immortal Lord realm was divided into nine heavens according to the number of Dao patterns on one's Dao seed.
At immortal lord first heaven, the Dao seed bore one Dao pattern. At Immortal Lord Ninth Heaven, it bore