Spirit in the Stone

In a cave shrouded in dense, swirling mist, a stone pillar several yards high stood firm.

Hum. With a slight vibration, spirituality spontaneously emerged from the jade encased within the smooth stone pillar, and a consciousness quietly awakened.

Hmm? Where is this? Why is it so dark? Having regained consciousness, Shi Mo felt only darkness before him, as if he had gone blind.

But immediately after, his intangible perception extended, and Shi Mo felt as if he were looking at a piece of crystal-clear, flawless jade.

The jade, resembling a stalactite, connected to a larger mass of jade below, which then branched out into three distinct veins.

Shi Mo's consciousness clearly felt thick, gentle streams of energy surging and gathering from the jade veins below like a spring, making him feel as if he were soaking in a hot spring. He felt incredibly comfortable.

What is going on? Didn't I die? Shi Mo was filled with confusion.

Following this, the stone pillar trembled once more, and a wave of formless information flooded into Shi Mo's consciousness.

A stone pillar formed from the spiritual bones of a fallen Chaos Divine Demon? I've transmigrated to the Primordial World and inherited the legacy of a Chaos Divine Demon?

Realizing what had happened, Shi Mo could not help but feel a complex mix of emotions.

While being reborn in such a way after death was certainly a cause for joy, the fact that he would never have the chance to see his family and friends again left him feeling lost. At the same time, knowing this was the Primordial World, he felt both expectant and curious, yet also somewhat anxious about the future.

The Primordial World is crawling with powerful beings, and cultivators are as common as dogs. I don't know what era this is, and I'm still just a stone. I wonder when I'll be able to take human form, Shi Mo thought to himself.

Fortunately, my true form is the spiritual bone of a Chaos Divine Demon, which counts as an extraordinary origin. Plus, having obtained the legacy of a Chaos Divine Demon, my starting point is not low at all.

The most urgent task now is to take human form as soon as possible. Shi Mo did not want his consciousness to remain trapped inside a stone forever.

As for the method of cultivation, the stone pillar was not only formed from the spiritual bones of a Chaos Divine Demon, but it also contained that Chaos Divine Demon's cultivation techniques and insights into the Great Dao.

This cultivation technique doesn't seem too complicated. It's just about absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, using the power of the earth's veins to temper and refine the physical body, and condensing the soul.

After pondering the Chaos Divine Demon's cultivation method, Shi Mo felt a sense of relief. He had been worried that the techniques of a Chaos Divine Demon would be too complex and profound to understand!

As expected of a Chaos Divine Demon's cultivation method, this technique seems to have body-tempering effects as well. With this thought, Shi Mo focused his mind and began to practice.

As Shi Mo operated the cultivation technique, the jade spiritual veins connected to his jade body within the stone pillar suddenly acted like pipes, sharply accelerating the absorption of pure, surging spiritual energy from the earth's veins.

Under the scouring of this earth-vein energy, mysterious, vein-like patterns gradually emerged within the jade encased in the stone pillar.

These are... Chaos Divine Patterns? A flash of insight struck Shi Mo, and he immediately understood what these patterns were.

Chaos Divine Patterns were the external manifestation of the mysteries of the Great Dao and served as the foundation for the evolution of various talismans and scripts in the later Primordial World.

As those Chaos Divine Patterns emerged, the earth-vein energy seemed to boil. Passing through the grid-like divine patterns, it became even purer and, in fact, somewhat violent.

The violent earth-vein energy tempered the jade, making it increasingly crystal-clear, and the overflowing energy caused the stone layer encasing the jade to shimmer with a faint, flowing fluorescence.

While Shi Mo's jade body was being continuously tempered, his soul and consciousness also became increasingly refined and powerful.

Time passed quickly during his cultivation, and it was difficult to distinguish the years.

Immersed in the process, Shi Mo did not know how long he had been practicing when he suddenly felt a brightness before his eyes. A pair of bright, luminous eyes had manifested on the stone pillar.

Finally, I've cultivated eye apertures. No more stumbling around in the dark. The ability to see clearly filled Shi Mo with surprise and excitement.

At the same time, Shi Mo could clearly see the situation inside the cave. Through the swirling mist, he could vaguely see some beautiful jade ore embedded in the stone walls of the spacious cavern.

In the corner of the cave, there was a cold pool radiating frigid air. Growing within it was a crystal-clear Ice Lotus, appearing as if it were about to bloom, flickering with mysterious fluorescence amidst the cold mist.

Simultaneously, Shi Mo noticed a dark red spiritual pearl hovering above the stone pillar.

The dark red pearl emitted a surging, mysterious aura that caused the surrounding space to subtly distort and tremble; the mist-like spiritual energy could not even come near it.

What a powerful and mysterious aura. Could this pearl be an Innate Spiritual Treasure? And that Ice Lotus growing in the cold pool—could it be an Innate Spiritual Root? Even if it isn't an Innate Spiritual Root, it must be a rare and precious Innate spiritual treasure.

Shi Mo stared intently at the dark red pearl and the Ice Lotus.

The dark red spiritual pearl was, in a sense, his companion spiritual treasure.

Since this cave was his birthplace and his territory, the spiritual materials and treasures nurtured here naturally belonged to him.

Thinking of this, Shi Mo felt a surge of heat. Two tangible beams of light shot from his eyes, and his formless soul power followed his gaze, landing upon the dark red pearl.

Hum. As the dark red pearl hummed and vibrated, his soul power invaded the interior of the pearl without much resistance, and a stream of mysterious energy information flooded into Shi Mo's consciousness.

A top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Wind-Fixing Pearl? Isn't this the spiritual treasure of True Person Du'e of West Kunlun? Could it be that this is the Eight Treasures Cloud Light Cave on Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain? Will my true form become True Person Du'e after I take human form? Shi Mo was both pleasantly surprised and somewhat taken aback.

Although it was mentioned in the Investiture of the Gods that the Wind-Fixing Pearl, the treasure of True Person Du'e of West Kunlun, possessed immense power—capable of rendering all Five-Element Daoist arts and flight techniques useless within a vast area—Shi Mo had not expected it to be a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

One had to know that in the Primordial World, apart from a handful of Innate Supreme Treasures, top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures were the most elite, and their numbers were extremely scarce.

The most famous among them, such as the Innate Five-Element Banners, the Twelfth-Rank Lotus Throne, the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, the Landscape and Society Map, the River Diagram and Luo Writing, the Golden Bushel of Primordial Unity, and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, were all treasures with immense power and incredibly profound functions.

The most famous figures to possess top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures as companion treasures were Di Jun, Old Ancestor Minghe, and Zhen Yuanzi.

Those who possessed top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures were all renowned figures in the Primordial World, including many Quasi-Sage powerhouses and even Sages.

With my origin and a companion treasure like the Wind-Fixing Pearl, even if I cannot obtain the Primordial Violet Qi to become a Sage in the future, becoming a Quasi-Sage powerhouse shouldn't be difficult, right? Shi Mo was filled with anticipation.

A Quasi-Sage powerhouse—in the future, whether in the Eastern Daoist Sect or the Western Buddhist Sect, I will absolutely be a figure akin to a sect founder or ancestor.

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