Primordial World: Primordial Gourd Vine

In the Primordial World, towering Mount Buzhou connected heaven and earth, while Pangu's vast pressure blanketed the heavens and earth, past, present, and future.

Halfway up Mount Buzhou lay an unusual valley, concealed within a primordial formation.

Within the valley, dense primordial spiritual energy condensed into visible seven-colored spirit mist. Some of it even liquefied into trickling streams that slowly flowed into the Primordial Gourd Vine growing at the center of the valley.

Suddenly, the Primordial Gourd Vine swayed gently, and a vast, indestructible consciousness awakened.

"The Primordial Gourd Vine! I actually became the Primordial Gourd Vine! Is this good fortune or bad?"

"If it is bad fortune, the Primordial Gourd Vine is a top-grade primordial spiritual root. In the future, it will give birth to six top-grade primordial spiritual treasure gourds and one immature gourd. If I can take form, I will at worst be a top-tier primordial divine being."

"But if it is good fortune! The primordial gourds nurtured by the Primordial Gourd Vine will all be divided up, while it itself will wither away and even be taken by Nuwa to fling mud around."

"I wonder what time it is now. I wonder whether I can change my fate." As he thought this, Yuan Yan could not help feeling somewhat uneasy.

If it was already too close to that point in time, then even if he had awakened, he might not meet a good end.

After all, aside from Taiyi, the great cultivators of that era were poorer than the last. They might not spare him merely because the Primordial Gourd Vine had developed intelligence. Even if a few were willing to spare him, they likely could not stop those great cultivators who were unwilling to do so.

"Right, I was just an utterly ordinary human from Earth. It was impossible for me to cross into the Primordial World on my own. How did I get here?" Yuan Yan suddenly thought.

In his previous life, he had been an utterly ordinary human. His family had been utterly ordinary; his parents had not died, nor had he been born into wealth. His studies had been utterly ordinary; he had not gotten into a 985 or 211 university and had only attended an ordinary college. After graduation, he had been utterly ordinary as well. He had not started his own business, merely found some random company and taken a job that would not let him starve but would not let him live well either...

Before crossing over, he had not even done anything special. He had simply stayed up all night reading novels over the weekend until he could no longer hold on and fell asleep... Uh! It was also possible that he had died suddenly.

"Could it have been a system, or some powerful Chaos treasure like the Jade Disc of Creation or the Chaos Pearl that brought me here?" At that thought, Yuan Yan could not suppress the excitement in his heart.

If he truly had a system, or a treasure like the Jade Disc of Creation or the Chaos Pearl, then not only could he escape his original fate, he could soar straight to the heavens.

As for whether there might be some scheme behind a system bringing him into the Primordial World?

He felt that even if there truly was some scheme, as long as it allowed him to roam freely through the Primordial World for countless yuanhui and enjoy what he had never been able to enjoy before, he would accept it.

However, after Yuan Yan carefully inspected the valley again and again with his divine sense, he felt slightly disappointed.

There was nothing else on or around him besides what the Primordial Gourd Vine already possessed.

Although he felt he could accept a system even if there was some scheme behind it, he still hoped that a treasure, rather than a system, had brought him across. If he had a choice, he was not particularly willing to be controlled by a system.

But things had already come to this, and there was nothing he could do but accept it.

"System?"

"System, come out quickly!"

"System! Where are you?"

"System buddy, are you there? Don't tell me you went to draw Pangu's blood essence during the opening of heaven and got cleaved apart by Pangu?"

"Brother System, come out!"

After calling out for who knew how long without receiving any response from a system, Yuan Yan finally gave up hope. Perhaps he had neither a treasure nor a system.

"So what if I have no system? So what if I have no treasure? My fate is mine, not heaven's!"

"The seven gourds on the Primordial Gourd Vine are still far from maturity. There should be a long time before that point arrives. I will definitely be able to take form through my own efforts."

"Once I take form, as a top-tier primordial divine being formed from the Primordial Gourd Vine, even if I cannot attain the Dao of Hunyuan Great Luo or seize a saintly throne and become a saint, I will definitely become one of the Primordial World's top great cultivators. So long as I do not enter a calamity, I can still roam freely between heaven and earth." Yuan Yan secretly encouraged himself, igniting his fighting spirit.

He no longer paid attention to the nonexistent system or treasure, instead turning his attention back to his own primordial inheritance.

In truth, he had not just crossed over, nor had he only just become the Primordial Gourd Vine. Countless yuanhui ago, he had already become the spiritual consciousness of the Primordial Gourd Vine.

It was simply that he had been too weak at the time and had no choice but to fall into slumber, deeply merging with the Primordial Gourd Vine, receiving its primordial inheritance, receiving its nourishment... and even being bestowed a name by heaven and earth: Yuan Yan.

After briefly sorting through his primordial inheritance, Yuan Yan was delighted to discover that his foundation was not poor.

As a Yin-Yang and Five Elements spiritual root, the Primordial Gourd Vine naturally contained the Great Dao of Yin-Yang and the Great Dao of the Five Elements.

Furthermore, the Primordial Gourd Vine nurtured seven primordial gourds. Absorbing the Dao charm and spiritual opportunities of Mount Buzhou and the Primordial World, and using the Great Dao of Yin-Yang and the Great Dao of the Five Elements as their foundation, they evolved many Great Daos: such as yin-yang, soul, karma, creation, slaughter, chaos, space, water and fire, destruction...

(P.S. A single gourd contained more than one Great Dao.)

Although the seven primordial gourds were still far from maturity and were currently only mid-grade primordial spiritual treasure embryos, with the Great Daos they contained not yet fully evolved, they had already evolved part of them.

As the Primordial Gourd Vine and the mother body of the seven primordial gourds, he could naturally comprehend the Great Daos contained within them.

Moreover, after crossing over to the Primordial Gourd Vine, he had been nurtured for countless yuanhui and possessed a deep foundation. Not only had he passively condensed a primordial soul and a primordial true spirit, he had also passively gained an initial understanding of the laws of yin-yang and the five elements. He had already condensed a Golden Immortal Dao Fruit. Nourished by the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, his true spirit and primordial soul were indestructible, and his cultivation had already reached the early Golden Immortal stage.

Next, as long as he comprehended one law to perfection, he could transform his Golden Immortal Dao Fruit into a Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Afterward, by comprehending more laws and using them to nourish the Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit until it reached its limit, he could break through to the perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

At that time, he should be able to take form and enter the world.

Yes, that was right. He should be able to take form and enter the world at the perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, rather than at the Great Luo realm or any other realm.

His primordial inheritance contained records on this matter: primordial living beings should take form and enter the world between the early True Immortal realm and perfected Mysterious Immortal realm, while primordial divine beings should take form and enter the world between the early Golden Immortal realm and perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

As for the exact realm, that depended on one's specific status. For example, lower-tier primordial divine beings took form and entered the world at the early or middle Golden Immortal realm, while top-tier primordial divine beings did so at the perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

His origin was the Primordial Gourd Vine, a top-grade primordial spiritual root whose potential might even exceed that by half a step. If he could take form and enter the world, he would certainly be a top-tier primordial divine being. Naturally, he would take form and enter the world at the perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.