Creation Jade Disk

"Is this the Primordial World, and is it the Era of Liches and Demons, not long after the birth of the Human Race?"

Waking from his stupor, Jiang Yuan found it difficult to accept the reality of his transmigration.

Transmigration was fine, and transmigrating to the Primordial World was even better, but to transmigrate into the Primordial World not as a lofty Innate God or Devil, nor as the descendant of some great power, but as an ordinary human—that was truly unfortunate.

As everyone knew, in the Primordial World, one's origin determined everything. If you weren't born with certain things, you would never have them in this lifetime.

For instance, the status of a Saint, Innate Supreme Treasures, or top-tier Innate Merit Spirit Treasures—all of these required a connection to Pangu to be obtained.

No connection to Pangu? Then, unfortunately, even if you were lucky enough to dominate for a time, you would eventually fade away and be reduced to cosmic dust.

Lesser treasures, such as ordinary Innate Spirit Treasures, did not require a connection to Pangu. However, they required a connection to the world itself; one had to be an Innate God or Devil nurtured by the origin of the world.

Only then could one have an affinity with Innate Spirit Treasures.

If you weren't even an Innate God or Devil, but merely a roadside weed, you shouldn't even dream of Innate Spirit Treasures; even if you obtained one, you couldn't keep it. Your fate was destined to be reduced to cosmic dust during the great calamities of the world.

Jiang Yuan understood this well, which was why he was so dissatisfied with his transmigrated identity. He had been an ordinary human before, and he was still an ordinary human now. Hadn't his transmigration been in vain?

Admittedly, an ordinary human of this era would be considered a superior being if placed in later ages. But this was not the future; in this era, ordinary humans were absolutely at the very bottom of the Primordial World.

No treasures, no destiny, no strength—a true "three-nothing" individual.

"Why did I have to transmigrate as an ordinary human? Even if I couldn't be an Innate God or Devil, being one of the first generation of humans created by the Holy Mother would have been fine. What is an ordinary human supposed to do?"

Jiang Yuan felt helpless, but since things had reached this point, he could only calmly accept his fate and find a way to make a change.

Although origin determined everything in the Primordial World, then again, a transmigrator was the greatest anomaly in the world, born to break common sense and create myths.

"Am I currently inside the belly of a Kun Fish?"

After barely accepting reality, Jiang Yuan began to analyze his current situation, and then he couldn't hold it together. He had just been picking up seashells on the beach when he was swallowed whole by a Kun Fish from the sea.

In other words, he was currently inside the belly of a Kun Fish. The question was, why was he still alive and not digested?

Sun Wukong could survive after being eaten because he possessed vast supernatural powers. Jiang Yuan was just an ordinary person; he didn't have such abilities.

Realizing something was wrong, Jiang Yuan scrambled to check his body, wanting to find the reason he hadn't been digested.

Immediately, he discovered that his body was emitting a faint divine light. It was the protection of this divine light that had spared him from the fate of being digested by the Kun Fish.

"What is this divine light?"

Before Jiang Yuan could ponder it further, his vision suddenly went black. When he could see again, he found himself in a gray, hazy space.

In front of him, an ancient and mysterious jade disk floated silently. The divine light that protected him originated from this disk.

The surface of the jade disk was covered with dense, intricate runes, resembling a page of a book filled with text.

The content was too obscure and difficult to understand; Jiang Yuan only took a glance, and before he could see anything clearly, he couldn't help but feel dizzy.

"Isn't this the jade disk I picked up on the beach before I transmigrated? Could it be that my transmigration is related to this object?"

Thinking of the origin of this jade disk, Jiang Yuan realized that his "golden finger" might have finally arrived.

Sure enough, as this thought arose, the jade disk suddenly shone brilliantly, releasing a vast stream of information that surged into his mind.

Creation Jade Disk!

At this moment, Jiang Yuan finally knew the origin of the jade disk; it was the famous supreme treasure of creation, the Creation Jade Disk.

Legend had it that there were fifty pieces of the Creation Jade Disk in total, serving as the carrier of the Great Dao, containing all the mysteries of the three thousand Great Daos.

However, when Pangu opened the heavens, this treasure was destroyed by the Chaos Demon Gods, leaving only thirty-seven pieces. Of these, thirty-six were obtained by Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who used them to merge with the Dao and mend the flaws of the Heavenly Dao.

The last remaining piece was the one in Jiang Yuan's hand, lost to the world for countless ages until he obtained it by a stroke of luck. It then carried him across the River of Time and Space to this era where the Human Race had just been born.

"A great fortune!"

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but exclaim in excitement. The Dao Ancestor obtained thirty-six pieces of the Creation Jade Disk and achieved the supreme position.

He was a bit short, having only one piece, but didn't that mean he was equivalent to one-thirty-sixth of a Dao Ancestor? That was also very powerful; he shouldn't be any worse than a Saint!

The Creation Jade Disk was the number one treasure for enlightenment in the chaos. It had no offensive power and no defensive power; its only function was to assist people in attaining enlightenment.

No matter one's innate talent, under the blessing of the Creation Jade Disk, one could reach the pinnacle of the world.

Pangu obtained this object and became the strongest Chaos Demon God. Dao Ancestor Hongjun obtained this object and became the first Saint of the Primordial World.

Jiang Yuan obtained this object and became...

In short, the Creation Jade Disk was very strong. After all, on the path of cultivation, apart from destiny, the most important thing was enlightenment.

As long as one's enlightenment was high enough, one could see through the essence of the world at a glance, then learn from the world and create all kinds of supernatural powers and Dao techniques.

Beyond that, if one's enlightenment was high enough, one could even create cultivation techniques that defied the heavens and changed one's fate, making one nearly omnipotent.

"It's a pity that although the treasure is good, my strength is too low to unleash its full power."

After the excitement, thinking of his own situation, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but sigh. Activating a magic treasure required magic power, and his magic power was thin.

His realm was too low; it was as if he had none at all.

The cultivation realms of the Primordial World, from low to high, were the seven realms of Innate, Void Refining, Heavenly Immortal, Taiyi, Daluo, Quasi-Saint, and Hunyuan.

As for Jiang Yuan, he was in the Post-Heaven Realm, a cultivation stage unique to the Human Race. Below the Innate level, it was practically the bottom of the food chain in the Primordial World.

Simply put, the definition of a Post-Heaven Realm cultivator at this time was nothing more than a mortal who knew nothing of cultivation!

Mortals in the Era of Liches and Demons—just listen to that, what a ridiculous term. The two concepts were completely incompatible.

Yet, such an absurd thing had truly come to pass. Within the Human Race, there were far too many mortals like Jiang Yuan.

The first generation of humans, those created by the Holy Mother flicking mud from the Gourd Vine, were still doing fine.

They were crafted from the top-tier Innate spiritual treasure, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, supplemented by the Three Lights Divine Water—one of the ten great divine waters—and the Holy Mother's own essence blood. Consequently, they were born as Innate Living Beings with cultivation at the Void Refining Realm.

As for those the Holy Mother had molded with her own hands, the Human Ancestors, she had poured her heart and soul into them. They were born as Innate Gods and Devils with cultivation at the Heavenly Immortal level.

Their ancestors were so formidable, yet their descendants were not. As generation after generation passed, their bloodlines degenerated at a terrifying rate. Within a mere dozen generations, they could no longer maintain their Innate status and fell into the ranks of Acquired Living Beings.

Jiang Yuan, the thirty-sixth-generation grandson of the Human Ancestor Suiren, was descended from beings as powerful as Innate Gods and Devils, but by his generation, there was little divinity left in his bloodline. He was born no different from a mortal.

It was precisely the birth of these Acquired humans that forced an extra realm into the Primordial World: the Post-Heaven Realm, which was akin to being a mortal.

One could say that the Human Race had given birth to history, but this was clearly not a good thing.

If mortals wanted to cultivate, they needed a method of cultivation. Since the Primordial World lacked a Post-Heaven Realm, it meant that no such cultivation methods existed for it.

Without a method of cultivation, how could one even speak of cultivating?

In the Primordial World, the inability to cultivate had dire consequences—something far worse than death, a fate truly worse than being dead.

Any creature at all could ride on your head and defecate, bully you, mock you, or even eat you.

And so, Jiang Yuan, unable to cultivate, was swallowed by a Kun Fish.