Sage Looks On, Innate Thunder Pool

After Xuan Qing left the human tribe, Suiren Shi immediately took up his responsibilities. He not only used his own insight to resolve the doubts of many cultivators but also taught them the ways of Elixir Refining, Artifact Refining, and Formation Refining. He even passed down the Innate Eight Trigrams, allowing them to learn how to calculate fortune and misfortune and conceal their own auras.

Of course, what he taught were only the most fundamental aspects. Without the permission of the Three Pure Ones, he dared not pass on the core teachings to the human race at will.

This was Xuan Qing's instruction.

He understood the principle that the Dharma should not be transmitted lightly and the Dao should not be imparted easily. Even the Jie Sect, which advocated teaching without discrimination, would test its disciples before imparting divine abilities.

As for the things he had realized himself, it did not matter; if he passed them on, so be it. In any case, the karma would be borne by his Other Self Incarnation, "Suiren Shi."

The Other Self bears the karma, while the True Self cultivates the Great Dao—this was the correct way to utilize an Other Self Incarnation.

"Strange!"

At the same time, in the Grand Simplicity Heaven, the Sage Nuwa could not help but frown slightly. "How has that noisy fellow's karma with the human race reconnected?"

Although she had only responded to Xuan Qing once, she had paid no small amount of attention to him in her daily life.

After all, it was not every day that someone would chant her name day and night!

Xuan Qing was an exception.

In fact, the moment Xuan Qing first prayed to her, she had noticed that he possessed a Destiny of Nothingness and a keen, exquisite mind that other humans lacked.

That was why she had bestowed the Dharma Gate upon him!

Moreover, Xuan Qing's actions had repeatedly exceeded her expectations. She had once divined that he would become a generation of sages who would lead the rise of the human race.

Yet, he had chosen to follow Grand Pure One Laozi and join the sect of Sect Master Tongtian, leaving his karma with the human race in a state of being neither fully severed nor fully connected.

Xuan Qing's fate had deviated from its original trajectory, which naturally made her very curious. However, Kunlun Mountain was the dojo of the Three Pure Ones, and she could not pry at will.

Therefore, she had not paid attention to Xuan Qing for a long time!

But now, the development of fate had returned to its original trajectory, which naturally alerted her. She could not help but curiously cast her gaze down from the Grand Simplicity Heaven.

"An Other Self Incarnation, an Incense Deity, an image reflected from the hearts of others?"

"How interesting!"

A Sage can observe the entire Primordial World with a single thought. Unless obscured by another Sage or suppressed by a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, everything is as clear as fire.

Although Nuwa was unwilling to be tainted by worldly affairs, she still occasionally paid attention to the human race she had created. Xuan Qing's return to the Human Ancestral Land and his continuation of past karma through his Other Self Incarnation naturally could not escape her eyes.

"Let nature take its course."

After some thought, she decided not to intervene, merely resolving to pay more attention to Xuan Qing in the future.

Meanwhile, Xuan Qing, who had left the Human Ancestral Land, felt his mind tremble after several years of wandering, as if he had sensed a stroke of fortune nearby.

The Sudden Thunder Zither and the Purple Lightning Hammer, two spiritual treasures containing the Innate Dao of Thunder, vibrated slightly, emitting wisps of Spiritual Treasure Dao Charm as if they had encountered something they craved.

"A treasure with the lightning attribute?"

Xuan Qing immediately utilized the Innate Eight Trigrams to deduce the location. Following the guidance from the void, he headed south and soon discovered a depression filled with lightning.

"This is..."

"Lei Ze?"

Xuan Qing was naturally no stranger to the legendary Lei Ze. It was said to be the dwelling place of the ancient Great God Lei Ze. Later, when Fuxi fell during the Great Calamity and his true spirit reincarnated into the human race, his mother, Hua Xu, had conceived the future Human Sage Emperor Fuxi precisely because she had accidentally wandered into Lei Ze and become infected with the Essence of the Thunder God.

However, he had heard from True Person Huang Long that Lei Ze, as an Innate Dragon God who held the authority over thunder, had fallen during the Dragon-Han Calamity due to his excessive stubbornness!

"Could it be a supreme treasure left behind in Lei Ze by the Great God Lei Ze before his fall?"

Possessing the Innate Wind-Lightning Dao Body and having refined the Xuan Qing Divine Thunder, Xuan Qing's sensitivity to the Great Dao of Thunder was naturally far superior to that of other cultivators.

With a slight shift in his thoughts, he transformed into a streak of rainbow light, dove into Lei Ze, and began to search carefully.

As an Innate Dragon God and a powerful being at the realm of the Golden Immortal of the Origin, Lei Ze had been one of the top five powerhouses of the Dragon Clan. It was just that during the Dragon-Han Calamity, he had been unwilling to submit to the Ancestor Dragon and was ultimately suppressed and killed by the Ancestor Dragon himself.

This was all that Xuan Qing knew.

As for other matters, such as Lei Ze's divine abilities and magic treasures, he did not know much.

Logically speaking, after the Ancestor Dragon suppressed and killed Lei Ze, he should have taken away all of his companion spiritual treasures. How could he have left an opportunity for a successor in Lei Ze?

Xuan Qing could not figure it out no matter how he thought about it.

However, he soon had his answer!

Relying on his affinity with the Great Dao of Thunder, Xuan Qing quickly entered the depths of Lei Ze. In an instant, thunder roared, pulling him into a world of lightning.

In this world, apart from lightning, there was nothing else. No other laws existed; only an Innate Thunder Pool seemed to be gestating at the center of the world.

"This is an Innate Sacred Land?"

Xuan Qing suddenly realized.

Some top-tier Innate Beings had an Innate Sacred Land where they took shape. If he was not mistaken, this place was where Lei Ze had taken his form.

"No, there's more!"

Soon, Xuan Qing made his judgment: "I fear that when Lei Ze was heavily wounded and dying, he returned to this place and returned his insights into the Great Dao of Thunder to the heavens and the earth!"

Dao Transformation!

Looking at the Innate Thunder Pool before him, this term suddenly popped into Xuan Qing's mind.

Born of heaven and earth, returning to heaven and earth—at the moment of his fall, Dragon God Lei Ze chose to voluntarily dissolve into the Dao.

Perhaps it was because the Ancestor Dragon saw that Lei Ze was beyond saving, and after collecting his spiritual treasures, he granted him a final shred of dignity, allowing him to pass away in peace.

After all...

Lei Ze was also a Dragon God!

As the master of the Dragon Clan, even if the Ancestor Dragon could not subjugate Lei Ze, he could not bring himself to skin and dismember a fellow member of the dragon race.

The Dragon Clan would not allow it.

He himself would not allow it.

Xuan Qing utilized the Innate Eight Trigrams to deduce the past, and in an instant, he reconstructed the scene as it had been. At the moment of his death, Lei Ze had returned to the Innate Sacred Land where he first took form, returning his cultivation to the heavens and earth. After hundreds of epochs of evolution, his Dao essence had transformed into this Innate Thunder Pool, a treasure comparable to a top-grade spiritual treasure!

"What fortune! What incredible fortune!"

Xuan Qing could not hide the excitement in his heart. He leaped directly into the Thunder Pool, attempting to refine it. The Sudden Thunder Zither and the Purple Lightning Hammer also flew out, taking advantage of the Dao essence within the Innate Thunder Pool to nourish their own Innate Restrictions.

The Purple Lightning Hammer was a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with forty-eight restrictions. Even with the nourishment of this Innate Thunder Pool, it would be difficult for it to advance further and transform into an Innate Supreme Treasure, but increasing its power slightly was not a problem.

The Sudden Thunder Zither, however, was only a high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-six Innate Restrictions. With the help of the Thunder Pool's Dao essence, it might just be able to transform into a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Do not underestimate the difference of just a few Innate Restrictions. Even a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with only thirty-seven restrictions is in a completely different league compared to a high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-six.

Otherwise...

There would be no need for such classifications!

Of course, the greatest benefit was to Xuan Qing himself. If he could refine this Innate Thunder Pool and this world of thunder, his mana would become inexhaustible in the future.

Furthermore, he could combine the Forge of Creation with this Innate Thunder Pool to smelt more thunder, allowing his thunder techniques to evolve toward the Origin of Ten Thousand Thunders.

"This Lei Ze is truly worthy of being an Innate Dragon God who governed the Great Dao of Thunder. This Innate Thunder Pool alone contains seventeen different types of Innate Divine Thunder!"

Xuan Qing felt as if he had discovered a priceless treasure.

In his eyes, this Innate Thunder Pool was in no way inferior to a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

It was perhaps even better!

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