Inherited Information

Time passed quickly. The world within the Grotto-Heaven Pearl had already undergone earth-shaking changes: an endless grassland, flowers in a thousand shapes and colors, and towering trees that reached into the clouds.

Within the forest formed by those towering trees stood a colossal tree that pierced Heaven and Earth.

The giant tree radiated a mysterious yellow light—the light of Merit. This tree was none other than Cheng Jue, the World Tree.

Ever since accidentally creating Knotweed Grass last time, Cheng Jue had discovered that the life they created could also inhale and exhale Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Energy, though the effect was exceedingly weak.

But that was not the important part. What mattered was that Cheng Jue could share in the fruits of their cultivation.

And so, who knew how much time passed before Cheng Jue finally filled the Grotto-Heaven Pearl with all manner of plants. Now that they had arrived in the Primordial World, time no longer mattered. These plants were all plants from Cheng Jue's previous life.

It was not that Cheng Jue did not want to create heavenly treasures and earthly wonders. Rather, plants with unusual abilities were simply beyond their ability to create at present. Whenever they were on the verge of succeeding, they would inexplicably fail.

Vaguely, Cheng Jue always felt that something was missing.

But before Cheng Jue could examine the matter closely, an unexpected event shattered their train of thought. The plants within the Grotto-Heaven Pearl inhaled and exhaled spiritual energy at every moment, and at every moment, enormous amounts of spiritual power flowed back into Cheng Jue's body.

Now that Cheng Jue was the World Tree, their reserves of spiritual energy had become incomparably vast. Perhaps because they lacked a cultivation technique, they felt unable to break through to the next realm no matter how long they waited.

To prevent such an enormous amount of spiritual energy from piling up within their body, Cheng Jue had no choice but to channel the excess spiritual energy into every leaf of the World Tree. Thus, besides the mysterious yellow glow of Merit, a spiritual radiance belonging to the World Tree began to flicker across Cheng Jue's leaves.

Perhaps because Cheng Jue, as a World Tree, should never have appeared in the Primordial World, they did not possess the innate cultivation techniques described in novels from their previous life. Therefore, Cheng Jue also placed the development of a cultivation technique on their agenda.

For a time, the Merit upon Cheng Jue's body was consumed at a rapid pace, and countless ideas regarding cultivation techniques emerged in their mind.

As expected, Merit truly deserves to be called the universal medicine of cultivation, Cheng Jue sighed inwardly.

"Master, has your cultivation technique development succeeded?" A voice came from within Cheng Jue's canopy. Looking closely, it was Xiao Yi.

"It has succeeded." Cheng Jue was extremely satisfied with their results.

They even proudly waved a verdant green leaf. It was a leaf from Cheng Jue's own World Tree. Nourished by abundant spiritual energy, every one of Cheng Jue's leaves was a flawless material.

Thus, Cheng Jue used leaves to record the cultivation technique they had developed.

Just then, a childish voice came from within Cheng Jue's canopy. "Really? Really? Can Xiao Meng take a look?"

A small figure flew out from Cheng Jue's canopy. She was an elf girl who looked extremely similar to Xiao Yi, and she was the artifact spirit of Cheng Jue's other companion spiritual treasure, the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler: Xiao Meng.

Perhaps because of the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler, whenever Xiao Meng put on a stern face, Cheng Jue always felt that she looked adorably fierce.

"Here." Cheng Jue did not mind in the slightest and handed the cultivation technique they had developed to Xiao Meng.

As for the two artifact spirits who had accompanied them through such long years, Cheng Jue had completely treated them as family.

What was wrong with sharing one's achievements with family? Besides, Cheng Jue already knew the cultivation technique recorded on that leaf by heart. Inscribing it upon the leaf was merely to allow later generations to cultivate it more easily.

After the leaf bearing their cultivation technique was snatched away by Xiao Meng and Xiao Yi, Cheng Jue shook their head helplessly. They had thought Xiao Yi would at least be a little reserved, but unexpectedly, she was just as rash and impatient as Xiao Meng.

They closed their eyes, and the cultivation technique they had comprehended surfaced in their mind: Myriad Spirits Profound Light Record.

The Myriad Spirits Profound Light Record had been deduced by Cheng Jue from scattered Daoist phrases from their previous life and cultivation speculations from novels. Therefore, its division of realms also referenced the cultivation settings of their previous life.

They were: Foundation Establishment, a general term for stages before immortality; Earth Immortal; Heavenly Immortal; Profound Immortal; Golden Immortal; and Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

At present, Cheng Jue could only deduce as far as the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. They had not the slightest inspiration regarding the Daluo Golden Immortal realm beyond it, so the technique could only be developed this far. From here on, they could only cross the river by feeling for stones.

Perhaps once Cheng Jue's own realm reached Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, they would naturally come to understand the method of Daluo.

Now that they possessed their own cultivation technique, Cheng Jue began cultivating the Myriad Spirits Profound Light Record.

With the spiritual energy stored within their body over all these years as their foundation, Cheng Jue broke through into the Earth Immortal realm with effortless ease.

Breaking through to Earth Immortal took only a few breaths.

Just as Cheng Jue broke through to Earth Immortal, a piece of information surfaced in their heart.

Cheng Jue's eyes filled with a strange expression. "So that's how it is."

Perhaps Cheng Jue's expression was too obvious, for Xiao Yi at the side asked, "Master, what is it?"

"Nothing. I just finally understand where my phone went." Cheng Jue spoke as though life held no further meaning.

The information that had just appeared in Cheng Jue's sea of consciousness was the World Tree's innate inheritance.

The World Tree was a conceptual network connecting all things in the world. Different elements flowed through it. It was said that everything occurring in the world would be recorded within the World Tree, and at the same time, the World Tree was also a network for transmitting consciousness.

That was the World Tree. Yet no matter how Cheng Jue looked at it, it resembled a phone from their previous life.

Moreover, after breaking through to Earth Immortal, one was supposed to condense a Primordial Spirit. What Cheng Jue had not expected was that their Primordial Spirit would take the form of an exceptionally beautiful young woman.

Her black, beautiful hair cascaded like a flying waterfall; her face was snow-white and flawless; her cherry lips were brilliantly red; her crystal-clear eyes shimmered with life; her willow-leaf brows were slender; her delicate nose was charming. Her exquisite little pointed ears were hidden amid the black cascade of her hair, occasionally peeking out mischievously and exuding an unusual charm. Each perfect feature combined flawlessly with the rest—she was beautiful as a goddess.

That made sense. In certain myths, the World Tree was called the Goddess of Life and the Mother of Nature.

Fortunately, the World Tree was a Primordial Divine Saint. Appearance was merely an outward manifestation; it had no absolute distinction between male and female.

From now on, Cheng Jue himself would have to become Cheng Jue themself.

Cheng Jue guessed that, during their transmigration, for some unknown reason, their phone assistant had attached itself to the Grotto-Heaven Pearl, while their phone had become the World Tree. Of course, that was only Cheng Jue's personal speculation.

Let us turn our gaze back to the World Tree's inheritance. Within it was an enormous amount of information from their previous world, all of it games Cheng Jue had played in their past life. So long as the conditions were met, they could create the characters and items from those games.

Since that was the case, Cheng Jue immediately summoned the game Genshin Impact from their previous life. Since they could create characters, naturally they had to create a character they liked: Eula.

But just as Cheng Jue began the creation, an unseen warning stopped them from creating humans.

"Could it be that humanity is not yet meant to take the stage?" Cheng Jue looked toward the sky thoughtfully.

They did not know whether the one who had just warned them was Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao, or the karma connecting them to the future Saints.

Thinking of this, Cheng Jue shook their head. "Forget it. I can't afford to provoke any one of them right now."

"Since I can't create humans, then I'll create a half-immortal beast instead." As they spoke, information on Ganyu from Genshin Impact surfaced before them once more.

But just as Cheng Jue was about to create Ganyu, their World Tree inheritance gave a negative answer.

It turned out that Ganyu possessed Qilin blood within her. To create the Ganyu from the game, Cheng Jue would also need Qilin blood.

Likewise, to create Albedo, Cheng Jue would need knowledge of artifact refinement.

In that case, the only one they could create was Klee. Since Klee's race was Elf, it was only natural for Cheng Jue, as the World Tree, to create an Elf.

Yet Cheng Jue still dismissed the idea of creating Klee.

It was not that Cheng Jue did not like Klee. Rather, they looked up at the desolate Grotto-Heaven World before them, then thought of that lively and adorable Spark Knight.

Thus, Cheng Jue made up their mind to properly build this world.

With a lift of their branches, seven elemental elves were born among them: wind, rock, lightning, grass, fire, water, and ice.

"This is the world you will protect in the future," they said to the seven newly born elemental elves upon their branches.

For some reason, although Cheng Jue clearly knew that their intelligence was still extremely weak, they said it anyway.

After saying this, Cheng Jue waved a hand, and the seven newly born lives in their palm drifted toward different directions of the Grotto-Heaven World.