Li Ming silently deduced the mysteries of this ruined Chaos Small World, but found nothing.
This world had been eroded by chaos and could shatter at any moment, merging into the surrounding chaos.
"Could there be some treasure here?"
"Something capable of drawing me in?"
Li Ming was somewhat puzzled as well.
He carefully examined this stretch of heaven and earth, yet found no gleaming radiance or anything that looked like an obvious treasure.
The entire world was ruined and desolate, even deathly silent.
Some plants that had withered countless tens of thousands of years ago had even turned into fossils.
After Li Ming devoured all the immortal spiritual aura and Longevity Substance here, the entire world became even more ruined.
At the center of this world stood a towering, magnificent mountain.
The mountain exuded a mysterious aura. It seemed that it had once been an extraordinary divine mountain.
Yet it was now utterly ruined. This entire world could no longer support the grandeur of such a divine mountain.
His eyes blazed as he observed it closely. His gaze pierced through that mysterious divine mountain and saw the scene within.
To his surprise, he discovered that there was actually another space inside the mountain.
There was a lake there, radiating incomparably dense spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The lake water was crystal clear and exuded the life aura of Divine Spring Water.
Just as Li Ming was considering digging up this Divine Spring Water Vein, he was shocked to discover a place at the bottom of the lake flickering with mysterious Nine-Colored Immortal Light.
That unique aura even startled Li Ming.
He took a step forward and examined it carefully.
"This is actually a Fortune Origin Eye!"
No wonder the aura here was so special.
"Could this Fortune Origin Eye have drawn me here? But with my strength, this thing is not of much use anymore."
A Fortune Origin Eye could purify one's bloodline, improve one's physique, and artificially create cultivation geniuses.
In the original story, the Undying Heavenly Emperor used one for the Heavenly Emperor's son and five for his second son. It could be said that he had emptied out all the Fortune Origin Eyes in the entire world.
Even Ye Fan, despite becoming so formidable in later generations, only found half a Fortune Origin Eye.
Li Ming had not expected to find a Fortune Origin Eye himself.
If nothing unexpected happened, there should still be at least five other Fortune Origin Eyes in the world.
Li Ming observed carefully and soon discovered a strange seed.
At the bottom of the Fortune Origin Eye lay a withered, deathly silent seed.
"Hm? It looks like a dried lotus seed..."
Li Ming seemed to recall something in a daze, and astonishment appeared in his eyes.
With a reach of his hand, he seized the dried lotus seed.
Li Ming examined it and found that it had sunk into deathly silence. Apart from a faint trace of chaotic aura, it seemed to have lost all vitality and had completely become a withered seed.
Yet when Li Ming carefully sensed it, he felt that this lotus seed exuding chaotic aura could not be so simple.
Perhaps it still contained a faint trace of life force that had not been completely extinguished.
"Could this be the mysterious Chaos Green Lotus Seed from the original story?"
"Was it this Chaos Green Lotus Seed that later transformed into the Azure Emperor?"
The more Li Ming looked at the dried lotus seed, the more it resembled one.
The Azure Emperor of the original story had an extremely mysterious origin. During the Perfect Era, hints had been given about his true roots.
It turned out that the Azure Emperor had originally been a Chaos Green Lotus Seed. During the Immortal Ancient Era, which predated even the era of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, he became the powerful Green Lotus Immortal King.
He possessed the terrifying strength of an Immortal King Giant.
Yet he ultimately died beneath the joint assault of the Immortal Kings of the foreign domain.
Then he remained dormant for countless ages.
Later, he seemed to have helped the Desolate Heavenly Emperor by chance, or perhaps the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had helped him?
In any case, he formed karmic ties with the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
For this lotus seed to have ended up in this world, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor must have played no small part.
Just any nobody would not be qualified to enter this training ground of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
"This Chaos Green Lotus Seed has endured countless tens of thousands of years, yet it still looks so deathly silent."
"No wonder it only finally underwent Nirvana and became the Azure Emperor several tens of thousands of years before Ye Fan's time in the original story."
"It is simply too badly damaged!"
This Chaos Green Lotus Seed was practically dead beyond saving.
Even after undergoing Nirvana and becoming a lotus seed, it had died completely once more.
It utterly lacked the vibrant vitality that the Qilin Divine Medicine possessed after its Nirvana in the original story.
As the Chaos Green Lotus formed from the Nirvana of the Green Lotus Immortal King, it later attained the Dao and became the Azure Emperor, yet failed to reach the end. What a pity.
He carefully sensed the Chaos Green Lotus Seed, yet detected neither any life force nor any fluctuation of consciousness.
"Judging from the descriptions in the original story, this Chaos Green Lotus Seed should not be completely dead."
"I wonder what Fortune opportunity it encountered later that allowed it to revive."
"Now that it has fallen into my hands, perhaps I can help it revive."
Looking at the azure chaotic aura upon it, Li Ming then looked at his own Chaos Origin. Suddenly struck by an idea, he stored the seed inside his body.
He let it keep the White Tiger Divine Medicine, True Dragon Elixir, and Flat Peach Divine Medicine company.
After entering Li Ming's body, the Chaos Green Lotus Seed soon fell into his Bitter Sea.
The Chaos Immortal Essence gushing from the Life Spring continuously flowed into the dried seed.
Nourished by the divine liquid of the Life Spring, Li Ming faintly sensed that an incomparably weak trace of life force seemed to have appeared within the dried seed!
This Chaos Green Lotus could perhaps be called the Chaotic Body and Chaos Bloodline among lotuses.
It seemed to resonate naturally with Li Ming's Chaos Origin, as if chaos itself had some special connection.
Just as Sacred Bodies possessed special mutual senses with one another.
Li Ming stared intently at the dried, deathly silent Chaos Green Lotus Seed. Under the nourishment of the divine liquid of the Life Spring, faint threads of life force began to emerge.
Though they were incredibly weak, so weak that they were almost impossible to detect.
Li Ming still firmly believed that, as time passed, the Chaos Green Lotus Seed would surely be able to truly undergo Nirvana and regain its vitality.
"If this Chaos Green Lotus revives within my Bitter Sea, why does it feel like it has become a son I gave birth to..."
Li Ming muttered to himself, "This feeling is so strange. It is as if I have become a surrogate..."
"My son Green Lotus has the bearing of an Immortal King?"
"Or if the True Dragon Elixir, White Tiger Divine Medicine, and Flat Peach Divine Medicine also undergo Nirvana within my body, become human, and cultivate anew into Immortal Kings, wouldn't my body have nurtured four Immortal Kings?"
Li Ming shook his head, trying to fling that strange feeling from his mind.
"They are merely using my Bitter Sea to revive. I am overthinking this!"
After seeing the Chaos Green Lotus Seed, the Flat Peach Divine Medicine, White Tiger Divine Medicine, and True Dragon Elixir all opened their eyes and stared curiously at the lotus seed.
There seemed to be a mysterious connection between Immortal Medicines as well.
The Flat Peach Divine Medicine swayed slightly, then spat out its essence.
The White Tiger Divine Medicine then spat out its own divine medicine essence as well.
The True Dragon Elixir did the same. It released not only its origin essence, but also mysterious golden dragon aura.
These mysterious essences contained the aura of longevity and brimmed with vitality.
They flowed into the Chaos Green Lotus Seed, helping speed up its revival—in other words, helping it successfully undergo Nirvana.
Li Ming was extremely attentive to the Nirvana and revival of the Chaos Green Lotus.
Originally, he had wondered whether he needed to comprehend the Humanoid Immortal Medicine in order to use it to live a new Lifetime.
Yet this Chaos Green Lotus allowed Li Ming to faintly sense another opportunity.
Perhaps by carefully sensing the Nirvana and revival of the Chaos Green Lotus, he could deduce a method for living a new Lifetime.
This was a Fortune opportunity unique to Li Ming.
The Chaos Green Lotus itself had been nurtured in chaos and was innately a chaotic seed among green lotuses.
Just as Li Ming was a Chaotic Body among the Human Race.
Living beings with Chaotic Physiques and bloodlines were naturally compatible with one another.
Now that the Chaos Green Lotus Seed had fallen into Li Ming's Bitter Sea, it was both Li Ming's Fortune opportunity and the Chaos Green Lotus's Fortune opportunity.
With the Chaos Green Lotus Seed now inside Li Ming's Bitter Sea, he could observe and sense the entire process of its Nirvana from every angle.
It was because of this special symbiotic relationship that an exceptionally wondrous connection would arise.
"I never expected that the Chaos Green Lotus, which no one had obtained in the original story, would simply fall into my hands like this."
"The original story did say that someone had accidentally discovered traces of the Chaos Green Lotus, but no one ever managed to catch up with it."
"The Chaos Green Lotus is extremely proud. Other Immortal Medicines all follow Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, but the Chaos Green Lotus runs away the moment it sees one!"
"Even the Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors of the current age could do nothing about it."
"The Chaos Green Lotus is so aloof. No wonder it could undergo Nirvana and become the Azure Emperor in later generations!"
Li Ming thought about it. According to the original story's timeline, the Chaos Green Lotus later entered the Immortal Ascension Pool on Beidou Star.
It successfully underwent Nirvana and revived within that Immortal Ascension Pool.
Then, using the mysterious aura and Immortal Dao Runes upon fragments of the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, it underwent Nirvana again and became human—or perhaps a demon.
"Come to think of it, does the Chaos Green Lotus really need an Immortal Weapon to stimulate it?"
After some thought, Li Ming moved the Bronze Immortal Hall and the Heavenly Demonic Saber from the Immortal Platform Secret Realm into the Wheel Sea Secret Realm.
He placed them at the sides of the Chaos Green Lotus.
The Chaos Green Lotus Seed displayed no unusual reaction.
Nor did it take root or sprout.
After observing for a while, Li Ming withdrew his divine sense and gaze.
The revival of the Chaos Green Lotus was not something that could be accomplished overnight, just as comprehending a method to live a new Lifetime was not something that could be done overnight.
Everything still required long-term planning.
Li Ming then turned his gaze toward this small world again and examined it carefully.
He wanted to see whether there were any other treasures besides the Divine Spring Water and Fortune Origin Eye.
Soon, he withdrew his gaze.
With a wave of his hand, he directly dug out the Fortune Origin Eye.
The earth and mountains shattered as the Fortune Origin Eye and Divine Spring Water Vein were excavated.
This Divine Spring Water Vein truly was remarkable. It actually contained the aura of an Immortal Spirit.
The Divine Spring Water Vein was like a dragon of Immortal Spirit aura. It shrank to about a foot long and was held in Li Ming's hand.
It contained extremely rich springwater essence.
It also contained quite a bit of Longevity Substance and Northern Polar Immortal Light.
Li Ming thought about it. There were already several Divine Spring Water Veins in the Reincarnation Sea, aside from the water veins that had originally formed there, there were also those seized from other forbidden zones or Supremes.
Looking at the little dragon formed from this Divine Spring Water Vein, he took a crunching bite and bit off half of it.
After chewing it in his hand, the aroma of fried chicken spread out.
The taste of fried chicken, which he had not eaten in countless years, seemed to awaken his memories.
"It tastes like fried chicken. Not bad!"
"What Immortal Spirit dragon? I will swallow it in one bite!"
"If this world continued to evolve, this spiritual dragon of the Divine Spring Water Vein might really become like a Sacred Spirit, eventually turning into a Perfected Sacred Spirit or even a Spirit Emperor."
"But now that it has fallen into my hands, it will have no such chance."
"Li Ming opened his mouth and stuffed the other half of the dragon's body into it as well."
Crunch, crunch. He chewed it up and swallowed it.
He even looked as though he wanted more.
"This thing tastes good. Perhaps I should set my sights on more forbidden zones. There should be at least two or three Divine Spring Water Veins of this flavor in every forbidden zone."
Li Ming looked at the Fortune Origin Eye again. It was hard to imagine that such a ruined Chaos Small World had actually produced something as mysterious as a Fortune Origin Eye.
It contained dense origin essence and could indeed artificially create peerless prodigies.
This thing was more precious than the so-called Dao Source, and even more precious than Immortal Medicines.
Unfortunately, it was only effective on young living beings that had not yet begun cultivation.
After thinking for a moment, he took a crunching bite from it as well.
"It tastes like peach pastry!"
"The flavor is all right!"
Crunch, crunch. Li Ming ate the Fortune Origin Eye.
No matter what treasure it was, only after it entered his stomach would it truly be his.
If others saw this, they might be heartbroken.
But Li Ming did not care in the slightest.
He had not even considered using it to cultivate peerless prodigies for later generations.
At the very least, the current Li Ming had no intention of playing the saint.
Even if his thoughts changed in the future, that would be a matter for the future.
It was not a matter for the current Li Ming. The current Li Ming did as he pleased.
Whether it was a Divine Spring Water Vein or a Fortune Origin Eye, if he wanted to eat it, he ate it.
If the Dragon Wood of the Chaotic Dragon Nest had not tasted so bad, Li Ming would likely have eaten that Chaotic Dragon Nest long ago.
After eating the Fortune Origin Eye and Divine Spring Water Vein, Li Ming carefully examined the area and discovered some ruined Divine Spring Water Veins still suffused with immortal aura.
There were also some other treasures and essences that had already lost their Divine Substance.
These things were no longer worth much.
At least, in Li Ming's eyes, none of them counted as anything good anymore.
However, Li Ming could see that this world still contained some Immortal Dao Essence.
After this world had been compressed by chaos for countless tens of thousands of years, the Immortal Dao Essence had deeply fused into the Chaos Small World.
To Li Ming, this Immortal Dao Essence was still good stuff.
Of course, it could not let him live another Lifetime like Immortal Medicine, but it could increase his lifespan in this life and allow him to live longer.
Both his physical body and primordial spirit would receive some mysterious enhancements.
It could make his primordial spirit purer or make his physical body sturdier and more imperishable.
"These Immortal Dao Essences seem to have been left behind during the Chaotic Ancient Era."
"The Chaos Green Lotus Seed failed to achieve Nirvana even in such an exceptional world."
"This world is about to be destroyed!"
Li Ming thought for a moment. It would be a pity to throw away this Immortal Dao Essence.
So he waved his hand, collected the entire world into his palm, and after kneading it a few times, turned it into a biscuit.
Crunch, crunch.
All the Immortal Dao Essence within that world had been kneaded into this World Biscuit.
Li Ming finished the World Biscuit in just a few bites.
The Immortal Dao Essence within burst apart in his mouth, making it truly delicious.
With that world gone, the chaotic energy in the area immediately surged over and filled the gap.
Before long, the Chaos Sea in this area had calmed down.
It was as though the Chaos Small World had never existed.
Only the Chaos Green Lotus Seed in Li Ming's Bitter Sea could prove that this Chaos Small World had once existed.
Li Ming swayed slightly and left the Chaos Sea.
After parting ways with Li Ming, the fat Daoist Duan De continued wandering in all directions, searching for an opportunity to attain the Dao and become a Supreme.
Although his strength was already so formidable, he had yet to attain the Dao and become a Supreme.
He felt that he could continue advancing along this path of the Great Dao and further perfect this unique Great Dao path.
He felt that this method of Source Arts was extremely important to him.
He would not allow the slightest flaw or the slightest regret.
He still had to straighten out this Great Dao path and deduce it to its utmost limit.
This was a path no one had ever walked before. He needed to repeatedly scrutinize and refine it.
Over the following years, the fat Daoist Duan De traveled across different planets, through the starry skies of the universe, and along the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.
He analyzed the natural patterns of heaven, earth, and all things, continuing to create and organize his own Source Heaven Book.
He wanted to deduce Source Arts to their utmost limit.
At last, he had deduced Source Arts to the true realm of a Supreme.
Then he continued his deductions, even reaching the realm of a Heavenly Venerable.
Yet even so, he still failed to break through and still had not attained the Dao to become a Supreme.
He came to another mysterious and deadly terrain. Sitting cross-legged in its most perilous place, he was surrounded by endless Source Art Runes.
He himself was the Great Dao, with countless dense runes interweaving around him.
The Origin Heaven Divine Art opened heaven and earth. Where he stood seemed to transform into laws of the Great Dao, manifesting invincible scriptures and secret arts.
He completed another transformation.
He had not attained the Dao to become a Supreme; instead, he had completed a transformation.
He looked at his transformed body and was extremely satisfied.
Sure enough, he had evolved once again at this realm.
He wanted to evolve himself to the utmost limit, break through naturally, and naturally attain the Dao to become a Supreme.
Time passed day by day.
When the fat Daoist was nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old, he stood in the Chaos Sea of the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.
Endless Source Art Runes erupted with brilliant radiance.
Countless Source Art Runes throughout heaven and earth converged there from Life Source Grounds everywhere and from the starry skies of the universe.
He broke through forcefully and attained the Dao to become a Supreme.
Without merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, he rose in a single leap and stepped above it.
He became an incomparably powerful Heavenly Venerable.
"What?"
"Isn't that the dead Tribulation Heavenly Venerable?"
"How did he come back to life?"
"He actually attained the Dao to become a Supreme again?"
"How is that possible!"
That incomparably powerful aura awakened one Dark Supreme after another.
All of them looked toward the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, toward that utterly terrifying heavenly tribulation, with disbelief in their eyes.
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