Transformation (Part 1)

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Whether the Primordial Continent was lively, prosperous, or anything else had nothing to do with Yuan Tian for the time being. All he needed to do now was cultivate and strive to transform and be born as soon as possible.

Time flowed like water. Who knew how many more years had passed? Yuan Tian cultivated continuously, and Xuantian felt that his rate of absorbing spiritual energy was growing faster and faster. Yuan Tian knew that he was about to break through once again.

As his cultivation deepened, Yuan Tian's true form, the Innate Green Willow, grew taller and tougher without cease. Finally, after a burst of rapid growth, his true form stopped only after reaching a million zhang in size. Yuan Tian knew that he had finally reached the fourth turn of the Ninefold Soul-Origin Mystic Art, the Zenith Heaven Loose Immortal realm. In a hundred years, he would face his Transformation Tribulation.

Yuan Tian prepared to properly cultivate his divine abilities in readiness for the Transformation Tribulation a hundred years later.

Just then, two little saplings appeared within Yuan Tian's divine sense—two Innate-grade willow saplings.

Yuan Tian could not help but find it strange. There clearly were no other spirit roots around him, so how had two saplings appeared? He could not help but calculate silently in his heart.

It turned out that this cultivation session had lasted for 1.8 billion years. When Yuan Tian had cultivated the Ninefold Soul-Origin Mystic Art to its third turn, the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, he had unconsciously cultivated the two great laws of time and space. Time was yin, while space was yang. By a fortunate coincidence, two branches of his true form, the Green Willow, had broken off and embedded themselves beside it. Influenced by the spiritual energy produced during Yuan Tian's nearly one billion years of cultivation, the two branches had actually survived and grown into the two saplings they were now. A willow planted without intent had grown into shade.

No one should underestimate these two saplings. They were originally branches of the Creation-grade Innate Spirit Root, the Green Willow, and after being nourished by Yuan Tian's spiritual energy for a billion years, their quality had already reached the rank of Innate Spirit Roots. Though they had not reached the level of the Ten Great Innate Spirit Roots, they were only slightly inferior. More importantly, over the past tens of millions of years, the two had developed spiritual intelligence. Although it was still extremely weak, they had awakened intelligence nonetheless. That meant they had hope of transforming. It had to be said that these two spirit roots possessed great fortune.

Moreover, when Yuan Tian had calculated silently just now, he discovered that after the two willow trees transformed, they would share a father-son or father-daughter bond with him. This was understandable, since these two spirit roots had grown from branches of Yuan Tian's true form, the Green Willow.

What was this? Getting pregnant before marriage? No, that wasn't right. I'm a man—I can't steal the work of all the women out there. Besides, I don't think I drank the Mother-Child River water from the Kingdom of Women. How could I have children? This isn't scientific.

Science? How many things in the Primordial Wilderness could be explained by science? Yuan Tian, do not forget that you were no longer human—you were a tree. Even if you were the Green Willow among the Ten Great Innate Spirit Roots, you were still a tree. Why was a tree worrying about such things? He should prepare properly instead. He must not forget that in a hundred years, he would have to endure the Transformation Tribulation.

At last, under the pressure of the Transformation Tribulation, Yuan Tian could only set the matter of his children aside for now and focus on preparing to face it. As for how he would prepare for the Transformation Tribulation, he could only rely on his true form to withstand it head-on and on his divine abilities. As for magical treasures and formations, sorry, Yuan Tian currently had only one magical treasure, the Great Dao Secret Record. Yet the Great Dao Secret Record possessed neither offensive nor defensive power; using it to resist heavenly tribulation would simply be courting death. Then there were formations—but setting up formations required materials. Yuan Tian could not use his own true form as formation materials, could he? That would be worse than directly using his true form to resist the heavenly tribulation. So what could he do now? It seemed he could only work hard at cultivating divine abilities.

It had been mentioned before that there were divine abilities above the Taiyi Realm. Cultivators of the Primordial Unity Realm were already capable of cultivating divine abilities, and Yuan Tian had been in the Taiyi Realm for more than a billion years.

How could he possibly have no divine abilities? It had also been mentioned before that the Ninefold Soul-Origin Mystic Art contained methods for cultivating certain divine abilities. Yuan Tian himself possessed six innate divine abilities: the Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand, Star Vortex, Illusory-Extinguishing Star Eye, Star Devouring, Absolute Defense, and Absolute Spatial Domain. The Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand involved using a secret art to fuse Innate objects of the five elements into one's hands. Then, through a spatial divine ability, one could seize anything within heaven and earth's five elements. It was somewhat similar to Zhunti's Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree and Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light, both of which could draw in objects and people. The difference was that they used magical treasures to draw objects and people into their respective treasures, while Yuan Tian's Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand used a divine ability to draw objects and people into his own hands.

Star Vortex was one of the star divine abilities. It could devour the force of an enemy's attack and transfer it into a dimensional space. The amount of power that could be devoured and transferred depended on the user's strength and the attacker's energy. The devoured and transferred power could not exceed the user's own energy. Space in the Primordial World was incomparably solid; without the strength of a Quasi-Sage, one could forget about opening a dimensional space. Therefore, if Yuan Tian wished to use Star Vortex in the Primordial World, he would need at least the cultivation of a Quasi-Sage.

The Illusory-Extinguishing Star Eye was also one of the star divine abilities. It could destroy all formations, restrictions, and seals in the world. Above, the Star Eye could observe the stars of the heavens; below, it could see the Netherworld Ghost Realm; in between, it could borrow Stellar Power to attack others. Its might was beyond compare.

Star Devouring was likewise one of the star divine abilities. It contained the Devouring Law and could convert the power of those it killed into the user's own power. It could also devour the energy contained within formations, restrictions, and seals. With this divine ability, one need not fear insufficient magical power or being sealed away by others.

Absolute Defense, as its name implied, possessed absolute defensive power. Of course, this "absolute" was relative. So long as the attack did not exceed a hundred times the user's own energy, the user would be absolutely safe within its defensive range. If it exceeded that by a hundredfold, then the user would be in danger. Its duration depended on the user's cultivation and the energy of the attack combined.

Absolute Spatial Domain was one of the spatial divine abilities. Once deployed, the user became a god within the domain's range. Within that range, the user could be considered invincible. If an enemy trapped within the domain was stronger than the user, however, the shorter the time they would need to break free from it.

Of the six innate divine abilities, Yuan Tian could not cultivate the Five-Elements Heaven-Seizing Hand and the Illusory-Extinguishing Star Eye, because these two divine abilities required the support of a physical body after transformation. However, he could still cultivate the remaining four divine abilities.

Of course, Yuan Tian had begun cultivating the four divine abilities, such as Star Vortex and Star Devouring, as soon as he had reached the Taiyi Realm. Even after cultivating them for more than a billion years, he still had not brought the four divine abilities to Great Accomplishment. It was not that Yuan Tian's talent was poor; rather, his innate divine abilities were simply too heaven-defying. Even though they had not reached Great Accomplishment, he had at least attained Minor Accomplishment. During these hundred years, Yuan Tian did not intend to cultivate the four divine abilities to Great Accomplishment. Even if he wanted to, that would be impossible. All he needed to do now was integrate and master the four divine abilities more thoroughly. That was all.

No, to be precise, it should be three divine abilities, because Star Vortex required one to reach the Quasi-Sage realm before it could be used. This divine ability was practically useless for now. If it could not be used, was that not the same as being useless? He could not count on it for the time being. Focusing on integrating just three divine abilities would be a little easier in terms of time. Though time would still be tight, it was better than handling all four at once.

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