My Son Green Lotus Has the Makings of an Immortal King!

Li Ming studied the ruined Chaos Small World, silently working through its secrets, but learned nothing.

Chaos had eroded this world. It could shatter at any moment and merge with the Chaos around it.

"Could there still be some treasure here?"

"What could possibly be drawing me in?"

Li Ming was puzzled.

He examined the world closely but found no telltale glimmer or anything that looked like treasure.

The whole world was ruined and desolate, utterly still.

Some plants had withered countless millennia ago and had long since turned to fossils.

After Li Ming devoured all its Immortal Spirit Qi and Longevity Substance, the world grew even more decrepit.

At its center stood a magnificent mountain.

The mountain radiated a mysterious aura. It must once have been an extraordinary divine mountain.

Now it was badly damaged, and the world itself could no longer sustain its former grandeur.

Li Ming peered intently into the mountain, his gaze piercing through it to reveal what lay inside.

To his surprise, there was another space within the mountain.

A lake lay there, brimming with dense spiritual energy.

Its crystal-clear waters radiated the same life-giving aura as Divine Spring Water.

Li Ming was considering digging out the Divine Spring Water Vein when he spotted something else at the bottom of the lake: a place shimmering with mysterious Nine-Colored Immortal Light.

Its distinctive aura startled even him.

He stepped forward for a closer look.

"This is a Fortune Origin Eye!"

No wonder this place had felt so unusual.

"Was this what drew me here? At my level, though, it won't do much for me."

A Fortune Origin Eye could purify bloodlines, improve physiques, and turn someone into a cultivation genius.

In the original story, the Undying Heavenly Emperor used one on the Heavenly Emperor's Son and five on the Heavenly Emperor's Second Son. He had practically emptied the world of Fortune Origin Eyes.

Even Ye Fan, for all his power in later ages, had found only half of one.

Li Ming had not expected to find a Fortune Origin Eye himself.

Barring any surprises, at least five more should still exist somewhere in the world.

As Li Ming examined it, he soon discovered a peculiar seed.

At the bottom of the Fortune Origin Eye lay a dried, lifeless seed.

"Hm? It looks like a dried lotus seed..."

A thought flashed through Li Ming's mind, and surprise entered his eyes.

He reached out and took the dried lotus seed in his hand.

He studied it. Apart from the faintest trace of Chaos Qi, it seemed to have lost all vitality and become nothing more than a dead, dried seed.

Yet the closer Li Ming sensed it, the more certain he became that this lotus seed, with its trace of Chaos Qi, was not so simple.

Perhaps a nearly imperceptible spark of life remained within it.

"Could this be the mysterious Chaos Green Lotus Seed from the original story?"

"The seed that later became the Azure Emperor?"

The longer Li Ming looked at the dried seed, the more it seemed to fit.

The Azure Emperor's origins had been shrouded in mystery in the original story, though the Perfect Era had offered hints.

The Azure Emperor had once been the Chaos Green Lotus. In the ancient immortal age, long before the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's time, he had become the mighty Green Lotus Immortal King.

He had possessed the formidable strength of an Immortal King Giant.

In the end, however, he had fallen to a group of Undying Kings from the Otherworld.

He had then lain dormant for countless ages.

Later, had he happened to help the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, or had the Desolate Heavenly Emperor helped him?

Either way, a bond of cause and effect had formed between them.

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor had probably had a hand in bringing this seed to this world.

Not just anyone could enter a place where the Desolate Heavenly Emperor trained his troops.

"After all these countless years, the Chaos Green Lotus Seed still looks dead."

"No wonder he didn't undergo Nirvana and become the Azure Emperor until tens of thousands of years before Ye Fan's time."

"He must have been damaged terribly!"

The Chaos Green Lotus Seed was all but dead.

Even after undergoing Nirvana and becoming a lotus seed, he had died all over again.

He lacked the vibrant life the Qilin Divine Medicine had shown after its Nirvana in the original story.

The Chaos Green Lotus had arisen from the Green Lotus Immortal King's Nirvana and later attained the Dao as the Azure Emperor, but he had never reached the end of his path. What a pity.

Li Ming sensed the seed carefully, yet detected neither vitality nor the slightest stir of consciousness.

"Judging by the original story, the Chaos Green Lotus Seed shouldn't be completely dead."

"I wonder what opportunity he encountered later that brought him back to life."

"Now that he's in my hands, perhaps I can help him revive."

Li Ming looked at the green Chaos Qi around the seed, then at his own Chaos Origin. A thought struck him, and he drew the seed into his body.

It could keep the White Tiger Divine Medicine, the True Dragon Elixir, and the Flat Peach Divine Medicine company.

Once inside Li Ming's body, the Chaos Green Lotus Seed soon settled into his Bitter Sea.

Chaos Immortal Essence gushed from his Life Spring and flowed into the dried seed.

Nourished by the Life Spring's divine liquid, the seed seemed to gain a faint spark of vitality, so weak Li Ming could barely sense it!

The Chaos Green Lotus was, in a sense, the Chaotic Body of lotus flowers, born with a Chaos Bloodline.

He seemed to resonate naturally with Li Ming's Chaos Origin, as though a special bond linked beings of Chaos.

It was much like the peculiar connection between Sacred Bodies.

Li Ming stared at the dried, lifeless Chaos Green Lotus Seed. Under the nourishment of his Life Spring, the slightest hint of life had appeared within it.

It was extraordinarily faint, almost impossible to detect.

Even so, Li Ming was convinced that time would allow the Chaos Green Lotus Seed to undergo true Nirvana and flourish once more.

"If the Chaos Green Lotus comes back to life in my Bitter Sea, why does it feel like I'll have given birth to a son...?"

Li Ming muttered to himself, "What a strange feeling. It's like I've become a surrogate..."

"My son Green Lotus has the makings of an Immortal King?"

"And if the True Dragon Elixir, White Tiger Divine Medicine, and Flat Peach Divine Medicine also undergo Nirvana inside me, take human form, and cultivate into Immortal Kings, won't my body have brought forth four Immortal Kings?"

Li Ming shook his head, trying to rid himself of the bizarre thought.

"They're only using my Bitter Sea to recover. I'm overthinking it!"

As he watched the Chaos Green Lotus Seed, the Flat Peach Divine Medicine, White Tiger Divine Medicine, and True Dragon Elixir all opened their eyes and stared at the lotus seed with curiosity.

There seemed to be a mysterious connection among Immortal Medicines.

The Flat Peach Divine Medicine swayed gently, then released some of its essence.

The White Tiger Divine Medicine released some of its own essence too.

The True Dragon Elixir did the same, offering not only its source essence but also a mysterious golden dragon qi.

These mysterious essences were brimming with vitality and the aura of longevity.

They flowed into the Chaos Green Lotus Seed, hastening his revival and helping him complete his Nirvana.

Li Ming took the Chaos Green Lotus's Nirvana and revival very seriously.

He had originally wondered whether he would need to study a Humanoid Immortal Medicine to live another lifetime.

But the Chaos Green Lotus had given him a glimpse of another possibility.

Perhaps, by carefully sensing his Nirvana and recovery, Li Ming could work out a way to live another lifetime.

This was an opportunity meant for Li Ming alone.

The Chaos Green Lotus himself had been nurtured within Chaos. He was born a Chaos seed among lotus flowers.

Li Ming, likewise, was a Chaotic Body among the Human Race.

Beings with a Chaotic Physique and Chaos Bloodline were naturally compatible.

Now that the Chaos Green Lotus Seed had entered Li Ming's Bitter Sea, it presented an opportunity for both of them.

With the seed inside his Bitter Sea, Li Ming could observe and sense every aspect of his Nirvana.

Their unusual symbiosis would forge a remarkable connection.

"Who would've thought the Chaos Green Lotus, whom no one obtained in the original story, would end up in my hands?"

"The original story did mention people who stumbled across traces of him, but no one ever caught him."

"The Chaos Green Lotus is fiercely proud. Other Immortal Medicines follow Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, but he alone runs the moment he sees one!"

"Even the Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors of their eras could do nothing about him."

"No wonder someone as aloof as the Chaos Green Lotus eventually underwent Nirvana and became the Azure Emperor!"

Li Ming thought it over. According to the original story's timeline, the Chaos Green Lotus later entered the Immortal Ascension Pool on Beidou Star.

There, he successfully underwent Nirvana and revived.

He then drew on the mysterious aura and Immortal Dao Runes of an Immortal Ascension Cauldron fragment to undergo Nirvana once more, becoming a human—or perhaps a demon.

"Does the Chaos Green Lotus really need an Immortal Weapon to spur him on?"

After some thought, Li Ming moved the Bronze Immortal Hall and the Heavenly Demonic Saber from his Immortal Platform Secret Realm to his Wheel Sea Secret Realm.

He placed them on either side of the Chaos Green Lotus.

The Chaos Green Lotus Seed showed no special reaction.

Nor did he sprout roots or shoots.

After watching for a while, Li Ming withdrew his gaze and divine sense.

The Chaos Green Lotus would not revive overnight, any more than Li Ming would discover a way to live another lifetime overnight.

Both would take time.

Li Ming turned his attention back to the small world and examined it carefully.

He wanted to see whether it held any other treasures besides the Divine Spring Water and the Fortune Origin Eye.

Before long, he withdrew his gaze.

With a sweep of his hand, he dug out the Fortune Origin Eye.

The earth and mountains broke apart as he extracted both the Fortune Origin Eye and the Divine Spring Water Vein.

The Divine Spring Water Vein was remarkable: it even held the aura of an Immortal Spirit.

It transformed into a dragon of spiritual energy about a foot long, which Li Ming held in his hand.

It contained an extraordinarily rich essence of spring water.

It also held a fair amount of Longevity Substance and Northern Polar Immortal Light.

Li Ming considered the Reincarnation Sea. It already contained several Divine Spring Water Veins: some had formed there naturally, while others he had seized from Forbidden Zones or Supremes.

He looked at the little dragon formed from the vein, bit off half of it with a crunch, and chewed.

The flavor of fried chicken burst across his tongue.

He had not tasted fried chicken in so many years that the flavor seemed to awaken an old memory.

"Fried chicken. Not bad!"

"Immortal Spirit dragon or not, I'll swallow it in one bite!"

"If this world had continued to develop, the vein's dragon of spiritual energy might truly have become a Perfected Sacred Spirit someday, perhaps even a Spirit Emperor."

"But now that it's in my hands, it won't get that chance."

Li Ming opened his mouth wide and stuffed in the other half of the dragon.

Crunch, crunch. He chewed and swallowed it.

He looked as though he still wanted more.

"That tasted good. Maybe I should visit the other Forbidden Zones more often. Each one must have at least two or three Divine Spring Water Veins that taste this good."

Li Ming turned to the Fortune Origin Eye. It was hard to imagine something so mysterious forming in this ruined Chaos Small World.

It held a rich concentration of source essence, enough to create an extraordinary genius through artificial means.

It was more precious than a so-called Dao Source, more precious even than an Immortal Medicine.

Unfortunately, it worked only on young beings who had not yet begun to cultivate.

After a moment's thought, he bit into it with a crunch.

"It tastes like a crumbly peach pastry!"

"Not bad!"

Crunch, crunch. Li Ming ate the Fortune Origin Eye.

Whatever treasure it might be, it was only truly his once it was in his stomach.

Anyone else who saw him would likely have been heartbroken.

Li Ming, however, thought nothing of it.

He had not even considered saving it to nurture an extraordinary genius of a later generation.

For now, at least, Li Ming had no intention of playing the saint.

If he changed his mind in the future, that would be a matter for his future self.

The Li Ming of today did as he pleased.

Divine Spring Water Vein or Fortune Origin Eye, if he wanted to eat it, he ate it.

If the Dragon Wood of the Chaotic Dragon Nest had tasted better, Li Ming would probably have eaten that too.

After eating the Fortune Origin Eye and the Divine Spring Water Vein, Li Ming examined the area and found several damaged Divine Spring Water Veins still wreathed in immortal qi.

There were also other treasures and essences that had already lost their Divine Substance.

These things were worthless now.

At least, Li Ming no longer considered any of them worth keeping.

But he could see that this world still held some Immortal Dao Essence.

After countless millennia of compression by Chaos, the Immortal Dao Essence had become deeply embedded in this Chaos Small World.

To Li Ming, the Immortal Dao Essence was still valuable.

It could not let him live another lifetime like an Immortal Medicine, but it could extend his lifespan in this one.

Both his body and Primordial Spirit would receive a mysterious boost.

It might purify his Primordial Spirit or make his body tougher and more enduring.

"This Immortal Dao Essence seems to date back to the Chaotic Ancient Era."

"The Chaos Green Lotus Seed couldn't achieve Nirvana even in a world as favorable as this."

"This world is about to be destroyed!"

Li Ming thought it over. It would be a shame to waste the Immortal Dao Essence.

So he swept out a hand, gathered the entire world into his palm, and kneaded it into a biscuit.

Crunch, crunch.

All the Immortal Dao Essence in that world had been kneaded into the World Biscuit.

Li Ming ate the World Biscuit in a few bites.

The Immortal Dao Essence inside burst across his tongue. It was deliciously crisp.

With the world gone, chaotic energy surged in to fill the empty space.

Soon, the Chaos Sea here grew calm.

It was as though the Chaos Small World had never existed.

Only the Chaos Green Lotus Seed in Li Ming's Bitter Sea proved that it ever had.

Li Ming's figure flickered, and he left the Chaos Sea.

After parting with Li Ming, the plump Daoist Duan De continued roaming, searching for an opportunity to attain Enlightenment as Supreme.

Though he was already immensely powerful, he had yet to attain Enlightenment as Supreme.

He believed he could go further along this path of the Grand Dao and continue refining it.

To him, this method of Source Arts was crucial.

He would accept neither the slightest flaw nor the slightest regret.

He still had to straighten out this path of the Grand Dao and develop it to its utmost limit.

No one had walked this path before. He would have to examine and polish it again and again.

In the years that followed, the plump Daoist Duan De traveled across planets, through the starry universe, and along the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

He studied the natural patterns of all things and continued writing and organizing his Source Heaven Book.

He intended to push Source Arts to their utmost limit.

At last, he developed Source Arts to the true Supreme realm.

Then he kept going, developing them even to the Heavenly Venerable realm.

Yet even then, he still did not break through. He still had not attained Enlightenment as Supreme.

He came to another mysterious and deadly terrain, where he sat at its most dangerous point. Countless Source Art Runes swirled around him.

He himself was the Grand Dao, woven through with densely packed runes.

The Origin Heaven Divine Art seemed to split heaven from earth. Where he stood, it took the form of Grand Dao Laws and unfolded invincible scriptures and secret techniques.

He underwent another transformation.

He had not attained Enlightenment as Supreme. Instead, he had transformed once more.

He looked over his transformed body, thoroughly satisfied.

As he had hoped, he had evolved again within this realm.

He would evolve to his utmost limit, then break through naturally and attain Enlightenment as Supreme.

Day after day passed.

At the age of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, the plump Daoist stood in the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

Countless Source Art Runes erupted with dazzling light.

Source Art Runes from Life Source Grounds and the starry universe converged on that place.

He broke through in a surge of power and attained Enlightenment as Supreme.

Without merging with the Heavenly Heart Imprint, he leaped above it.

He had become an incomparably powerful Heavenly Venerable.

"What?"

"Isn't that the dead Tribulation Heavenly Venerable?"

"How is he alive again?"

"He's attained Enlightenment as Supreme again?"

"How is that possible?"

That overwhelmingly powerful aura awakened one Dark Supreme after another.

They all stared in disbelief toward the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland and the terrifying Heavenly Tribulation.