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Time passed quickly. The world within the Grotto-Heaven Pearl had undergone earth-shaking changes: endless grasslands, flowers in countless forms, and towering trees that reached into the clouds.

Amid the forest formed by these towering trees stood an enormous tree that seemed to connect heaven and earth.

The giant tree radiated a dark yellow glow—the light of Merit. And this tree was none other than the World Tree, Cheng Jue.

Ever since accidentally creating Knotweed Grass, Cheng Jue had discovered that the lifeforms they created could also absorb and exhale Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Energy, though the effect was extremely weak.

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

And so, after an unknown amount of time had passed, Cheng Jue had filled the Grotto-Heaven Pearl with all manner of plants. Now that they had arrived in the Primordial World, time no longer mattered to them, and all these plants were species from Cheng Jue's previous life.

It was not that Cheng Jue did not want to create heavenly treasures, but plants with unusual abilities were simply beyond their ability to create at present. Every time they came close to succeeding, they would inexplicably fail.

Vaguely, Cheng Jue always felt as though something was missing.

But before Cheng Jue could investigate further, an unexpected event interrupted their thoughts. The plants within the Grotto-Heaven Pearl constantly absorbed and exhaled spiritual energy, and constantly returned immense spiritual power to Cheng Jue's body.

Now, as the World Tree, Cheng Jue's 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.

To keep such an enormous amount of spiritual energy from accumulating within their body, Cheng Jue had no choice but to channel the excess energy into every leaf of the World Tree. Thus, aside from the dark yellow light of Merit, spiritual light belonging to the World Tree began to flicker across Cheng Jue's leaves.

Perhaps because Cheng Jue was a World Tree that should not have appeared in the Primordial World, they did not possess the innate cultivation techniques described in novels from their previous life. Thus, Cheng Jue added developing a cultivation technique to their plans.

For a time, the Merit surrounding Cheng Jue was rapidly consumed, and countless ideas regarding cultivation techniques came to them.

"Sure enough, Merit truly is a universal medicine for cultivation," Cheng Jue sighed inwardly.

"Master, have you successfully developed your cultivation technique?" A voice came from within Cheng Jue's canopy. Looking closely, it was Xiao Yi.

"It has succeeded." Cheng Jue was extremely pleased with the result.

They even proudly shook a jade-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 an exceptionally perfect material.

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

At that moment, a childish voice came from 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 very 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 least 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 completely regarded them as family.

What was wrong with sharing their achievements with family? Besides, Cheng Jue had already memorized the cultivation technique on that leaf. Recording it on the leaf was merely so that those who came later could cultivate it more easily.

After the leaf containing the cultivation technique was snatched away by Xiao Meng and Xiao Yi, Cheng Jue helplessly shook their head. They had thought Xiao Yi would be a little more reserved, but she turned out to be just as impetuous 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 the cultivation theories found in novels. Therefore, its division of realms also drew upon the cultivation settings of their previous life.

They were: Foundation Establishment, the collective term for realms before immortality; Earth Immortal; Heavenly Immortal; Profound Immortal; Golden Immortal; and Taiyi Golden Immortal.

At present, Cheng Jue could only deduce as far as the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. They had no inspiration whatsoever regarding the Daluo Golden Immortal realm beyond it, so the technique could only be developed this far. From here on, they could only take things one step at a time.

Perhaps once Cheng Jue's own realm reached Taiyi 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 a foundation, Cheng Jue effortlessly broke through to the Earth Immortal realm.

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 mind.

Cheng Jue wore a strange expression. "So that's how it is."

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

"Nothing. I just finally understand where my phone went," Cheng Jue said listlessly.

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 everything 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 the World Tree was also a network for transmitting thoughts.

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

Furthermore, after breaking through to Earth Immortal, one was supposed to condense a primordial spirit. Yet to Cheng Jue's surprise, their primordial spirit manifested as an exceptionally beautiful young girl.

She had beautiful black hair cascading like a waterfall, a flawless snow-white face, cherry-red lips, crystalline eyes brimming with life, slender willow-leaf brows, and a delicate little nose. Her exquisite pointed ears were hidden amid her cascade of black hair, occasionally peeking out mischievously and lending her a strange charm. Each of her features was beautiful in its own way, and together they formed a face as lovely as a goddess's.

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 an innate sacred being. Appearance was merely an outward manifestation, and it had no absolute distinction between male and female.

From now on, Cheng Jue could no longer call themself "he." They had to call themself "they."

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

Turning their attention back to the World Tree's inheritance, it contained an enormous amount of information from their previous world. It was all from games Cheng Jue had played in their previous life. So long as the conditions were met, they could create the characters and items from those games.

With that in mind, Cheng Jue immediately brought up Genshin Impact, a game they had played in their previous life. Since they could create characters, of course they wanted to create a character they liked—Eula.

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

"Could it be that it isn't yet time for humanity to appear?" Cheng Jue looked thoughtfully toward the sky.

They did not know whether the one who had just warned them was Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao, or karmic ties with future Saints.

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

But when Cheng Jue was about to create Ganyu, the World Tree's inheritance gave them a negative answer.

It turned out that Ganyu possessed Qilin bloodline. To create the Ganyu from the game, Cheng Jue would also need to possess Qilin bloodline.

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

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 gave up on the idea of creating Klee.

It was not that Cheng Jue disliked Klee. They merely looked up at the cold and desolate Grotto-Heaven World before them, then thought of that lively and adorable Spark Knight.

Cheng Jue thus 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 elemental Elves who had just been born upon their branches.

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

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