Is She Considered Human Now, or a Transformed Soul Beast?

The aura of creation continued to gather across the sky.

The dark firmament Qing Xuan had formed from the World Dao completely isolated the inside and outside of the Lotus Pond.

The outside world could not see what was happening within.

Even the Primordial World Firmament, which had always used Qing Xuan as its anchor, could only capture a patch of profound dark light.

Within the Lotus Pond, the twelve grades of Creation Origin continuously reshaped themselves.

The lotus platform, roots, and leaves that had originally belonged to a spirit treasure gradually vanished. The vast aura of creation contracted inward, eventually condensing into a true innate Dao body.

The entire process lasted several hundred years.

Only when the final wisp of Creation Origin had completely merged into the Dao body did the green light that had shrouded the Lotus Pond finally begin to settle.

Qing Xuan did not immediately disperse the world barrier.

He still stood with his back to the Lotus Pond, waiting quietly. A moment later, faint footsteps sounded behind him.

They were not ripples caused by magical power, nor were they phenomena manifested by the Great Dao.

They were merely the sound of someone using her own feet to truly step upon this world for the first time.

"Done."

The voice was clear, still carrying the slight awkwardness of speaking for the first time, yet it did not sound weak.

Only then did Qing Xuan wave his sleeve and disperse the dark firmament. Boundless World Dao Resonance retreated to either side.

The Lotus Pond was revealed once more.

The Twelfth-Grade Green Lotus that had once bloomed at the center of the pond had disappeared. In its place stood a figure in green upon the emerald waters.

Her dark hair cascaded down to her waist like a waterfall.

Her long green dress had naturally formed from the Dao Resonance of creation. Its layered hem resembled lotus petals, swaying gently in the clear breeze above the pond.

She wore no extravagant jewelry and had made no deliberate effort to adorn herself.

Only a green lotus mark rested between her brows, adding a touch of pure elegance to a face that was already flawless.

Her features were tranquil.

Her clear eyes were like the purest water in the Lotus Pond. They held neither the confusion of a newly transformed lifeform nor the aloofness that kept others at a distance.

She simply gazed quietly at the world around her.

It was as though she had finally broken free from a long confinement and, for the first time, possessed the freedom to choose where to go.

Qing Xuan looked at her for a moment.

"How does it feel?"

"Better than staying in the lotus platform," the girl answered earnestly.

A faint smile appeared in Qing Xuan's eyes.

The girl crossed the Lotus Pond and came before Qing Xuan.

Though she and Qing Xuan had never truly spoken before, they had accompanied one another through the Great Dao for a thousand years.

The World Dao had carried her path of transformation, while her Creation Origin had likewise left its traces within Qing Xuan's world.

Thus, there was none of the awkwardness of a first meeting between them, nor was there any need for polite pleasantries meant to deliberately close the distance.

Her gaze passed Qing Xuan and settled upon the faintly visible world behind him.

At the center of that world, the Twelve-Petal Creation Azure Lotus bloomed quietly.

After a brief silence, the girl suddenly asked, "What is your name?"

"Qing Xuan."

She softly repeated the name.

"Qing Xuan."

This time, it sounded far more natural than before.

She raised her eyes to him. "Then what about me?"

Qing Xuan's gaze fell upon the Lotus Pond behind her as the breeze swept across it.

Fine ripples spread across the calm water, reflecting the green Dao light still lingering across the sky.

"Qing Yi."

The girl followed his gaze and looked at the water.

A moment later, her brows curved slightly.

"Alright."

From that day onward, the second name in the Primordial World to share a karmic origin with Qing Xuan truly appeared.

Qing Yi.

That name also passed through the restored reflection of the Primordial World Firmament and reached Blue Star.

Countless people who had waited hundreds of years for the scene finally saw the figure that had transformed from the Creation Green Lotus.

Yet no discussion appeared in the public channels right away.

Many people simply watched.

When Qing Xuan transformed, the sun, moon, and stars had surrounded him, while mountains, rivers, and the Four Seas had returned to his being.

What he displayed was the grandeur and profundity of a world at its dawn.

They had not seen Qing Yi's transformation, but when she stood upon the Lotus Pond, every wisp of spiritual energy around her naturally gathered toward her, and every blade of grass and tree swayed without wind.

It was as though she herself was the most complete part of heaven and earth's creation.

She needed no dazzling phenomena to accentuate her.

Nor did anyone need to tell them what an innate Dao body was.

Merely seeing her was enough to understand what it truly looked like when beauty and temperament reached a state without the slightest flaw.

Spirit Hall Academy.

Su Qingxue stood in the cultivation room, unable to look away for a long time.

The Ice Phoenix Martial Soul had given her more than Innate Full Soul Power and exceptional talent.

As her Martial Soul awakened, her appearance and temperament had been affected as well. After entering Spirit Hall Academy, neither teachers nor other new students could easily ignore her presence.

Su Qingxue had always known that she was outstanding enough.

But at this moment, as she looked at the green-clad figure within the firmament, she understood clearly for the first time that appearance was not merely a matter of whether one's features were exquisite.

There was not a trace of deliberate embellishment on Qing Yi.

That green dress was so simple that it seemed to bear no pattern at all.

Yet as she stood there, the Lotus Pond, the clear breeze, and even the Dao Resonance of creation filling heaven and earth seemed to exist for her.

Su Qingxue lowered her head and glanced at the Spirit Hall Academy uniform she wore.

It was merely an unconscious gesture, yet it already explained many things.

In Linjiang Class Seven's training channel, someone finally sent a message.

"Are all the Innate Divine Beings of the Primordial World like this after transforming?"

No one answered.

Qing Xuan's transformation had already caused many people to marvel at his appearance and bearing.

Now that a second Innate Divine Being had appeared, she too possessed an innate Dao body far beyond ordinary people.

If there had only been one, it might still have been a coincidence.

But with two in a row, people could not help forming further guesses.

Inside the monitoring hall.

Shen Qinghe was also watching Qing Yi.

As a level ninety-eight healing-type Super Dou Practitioner, she understood better than ordinary people what Qing Yi's nearly perfect state represented.

"Her body has not undergone any acquired adjustments."

"Her bones, blood, meridians, and even every minute structure of life reached the state most suitable for her own Dao the instant her transformation was completed."

Shen Qinghe looked toward the completed life-monitoring results.

"Her appearance was not deliberately molded during her transformation."

"That is simply the most natural appearance of Creation Origin after taking human form."

Zhou Ruolan fell silent for a moment.

As a Seven-Ring Soul Sage, she rarely experienced obvious emotions because of someone's appearance anymore.

Yet when Qing Yi truly appeared in the firmament, she had still been briefly lost in thought.

That was not an effect mere beauty could produce.

Rather, it was the instinctive gap that acquired cultivators could not entirely avoid when facing a genuine innate Dao body born from the Great Dao.

"Is she considered human now, or a transformed Soul Beast?" Zhou Ruolan asked.

This time, Shen Qinghe was not the first to offer a judgment.

A complete analysis had already been sent into Linjiang Class Seven's public channel.

The sender was Li He.

He was the student with the best Soul Beast theory grades in Class Seven. After entering Douzhe Continent, he had been assigned to an intermediate academy specializing in research on the relationship between Soul Beasts and Martial Souls.

Unlike the other students, who could only make casual guesses based on the images, Li He had consulted existing information on Soul Beast transformations in Douzhe Continent.

"Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in Douzhe Continent have two paths."

"They can retain their Soul Beast bodies and continue cultivating, or they can abandon most of their cultivation and transform into human form to grow anew."

"Qing Yi's original body was a green lotus, and during her transformation, she gave half of her origin to Qing Xuan. This is very similar to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast transforming."

"Her life force may far surpass that of an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but life force does not represent combat strength. After separating half her origin, her actual power may have declined greatly."

Li He was not belittling Qing Yi.

He was merely comparing the facts currently visible with the closest available data from Douzhe Continent.

His analysis quickly received widespread approval.

The Transcendent Association even included it in the Primordial World Life Research Archive as one current possibility.

[Provisional Type: Plant lifeform with an extremely high life-energy level.]

[Current State: Transformed.]

[Transformation Cost: Suspected loss of half her origin.]

[Actual Combat Power: Unknown.]

This conclusion still left plenty of room for uncertainty.

It did not treat Qing Yi as weak.

Nor did it directly conclude that she possessed strength beyond that of a Titled Dou Practitioner simply because of her astonishing life force.

After reading it, Shen Qinghe did not immediately reject it either.

"Using Soul Beast transformation as an analogy is not rigorous, but there is indeed no closer reference at present."

She paused briefly before looking once more at Qing Xuan in the firmament.

"What truly deserves attention is Qing Xuan instead."

"Qing Yi previously rejected any power approaching the Lotus Pond, yet she willingly accepted his World Dao."

"Not only did he enable a lifeform that originally could not leave the lotus platform to complete her transformation, he also obtained half of her origin."

"At the very least, in Qing Yi's eyes, his taking that Twelve-Petal Creation Azure Lotus was a fair exchange."

Yet the people of Blue Star still could not determine what value the Twelve-Petal Creation Azure Lotus truly possessed.

Its life force had completely withdrawn inward along with Qing Yi's transformation.

From the outside, apart from having a different number of petals from an ordinary lotus, it possessed no sign of power whatsoever.

Even when Qing Xuan took it into his world, it did not trigger any new phenomenon.

Some believed it was a life-type treasure similar to Living Beings' Gold.

Others believed Qing Xuan had merely kept a special immortal herb that could continuously produce life energy.

As for concepts such as defense, suppression, or Supreme Innate Spirit Treasures, no one on Blue Star knew anything about them yet.

What they paid closer attention to was Qing Yi's existence itself.

Qing Xuan had been nurtured from the Origin of the Chaos Pearl.

Qing Yi had transformed from a green lotus.

The two humanoid lifeforms that had appeared in the Primordial World had not been born through parental reproduction.

Did this mean that all life in the Primordial World was nurtured by heaven and earth?

Did this world have no bloodline families and no normal races at all?

After his analysis, Li He added a second conjecture.

"There are only two existing samples, so we cannot directly determine how every form of life in the Primordial World is born."

"But at the very least, it proves that the earliest high-level lifeforms in the Primordial World may have been directly nurtured by the energy of heaven and earth and special substances."

"This can also explain why cities, nations, and academies have yet to appear in the Primordial World."

"These innate lifeforms are independent of one another and do not need to rely on racial reproduction, so naturally there is no need to establish a civilized system."

It was a sufficiently cautious judgment, and one consistent with the available evidence.

It quickly became one of the Transcendent Association's main theories regarding the form of Primordial World civilization.