A Thread of Chaos Origin for Lingbao Tianzun

After hearing Lingbao Tianzun say this, Netherworld Venerable fell into thought.

After pondering for a while, he said, "This Strange Substance most likely remained from that indescribable Ancient Chaos Era, which predates even the Primordial Ancient Era."

"I once uncovered some records on fragmented stone tablets. They said that in that distant, unknowable age, terrifying Dark Strangeness had once invaded."

"That Dark Strangeness can corrupt a person's flesh and Primordial Spirit. The newly born dark Primordial Spirit then replaces the original one."

Li Ming was also startled upon hearing Netherworld Venerable's words.

He had not expected Netherworld Venerable to seemingly retain some fragmented memories, or to have found some broken stone tablets.

He could actually recall some matters from the Chaotic Ancient Era.

Li Ming knew the truth only because he had read the trilogy.

Naturally, the others knew nothing about it.

"So that was it. No wonder that Strange Substance was so terrifying."

"When I met Boundless Heavenly Venerable back then, I also heard him mention that he had nearly been corroded by that Strange Substance."

Unexpectedly, Lingbao Tianzun and Boundless Heavenly Venerable were both unlucky fellows in this era.

Both of them had been targeted by the dark Strange Substance and had nearly been contaminated by it.

It seemed that the Age of Mythology, with its Nine Heavenly Venerables, was truly far from safe.

Li Ming wondered whether Netherworld Venerable had ever been corroded by the dark Strange Substance.

From this point of view, Emperor Zun had most likely been contaminated by Dark Strangeness.

Another unlucky fellow.

To deal with this Dark Strangeness, one needed the courage to break the cauldrons and sink the boats.

Li Ming even suspected that Netherworld Emperor Duan De had created Reincarnation Lake through transformation precisely to eliminate Dark Strangeness's corrosion.

It was said to be something produced through the transformation of his Primordial Spirit.

It was hard to imagine why that old fellow would transform his Primordial Spirit for no reason.

Lingbao Tianzun recounted what had happened to him, which also cleared up Li Ming's doubts.

No wonder Lingbao Tianzun had been described as so powerful in the original work, yet had died so pitifully.

His body had transformed into such a miraculous world, yet his Immortal Platform Divine Liquid had been completely taken by the Golden Crow Great Emperor.

In the end, he had died silently and without a trace.

"It is truly fortunate that Lingbao Tianzun was able to revive and return!" Daode Tianzun said. "In that case, the Immortal Domain must have suffered a major problem, most likely due to an invasion by Dark Strangeness."

After discussing it, everyone believed that the continuously appearing Immortal Domain Rifts most likely meant that the Immortal Domain had encountered a major problem.

The fact that no one could become immortal now also showed that something had gone wrong with the Immortal Domain.

Lingbao Tianzun said, "Have you fellow Daoists sensed it? Between this world and the Immortal Domain, there seems to be another Strange World!"

"A Strange World?"

"Are you referring to that Strange World beside the Road to Immortality on Mars?"

"Have you also investigated it, fellow Daoist?"

In this era, it was perhaps not strange that Lingbao Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, and Netherworld Venerable knew of the Strange World's existence.

Li Ming had not expected each of them to possess an Immortal Treasure Map.

He had originally thought he was the only one with one, but unexpectedly, these people all had one as well.

"I once charged into the Road to Immortality!"

"Yes, I also tried to charge into the Road to Immortality!"

"Unexpectedly, rather than entering the Immortal Domain, I found an entrance to a Strange World."

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"However, according to my deductions, that world is easy to enter but difficult to leave."

"Unless one never intends to return, it will be difficult to come back after going there."

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Li Ming nodded. He knew that Mars in later generations had a Road to Immortality.

Beside it was another entrance leading to the Strange World, where Beginningless Emperor and the Undying Heavenly Emperor had confronted each other for many years.

Yet after coming to this world, he had vaguely sensed the existence of that world but had never investigated it.

Before becoming a Red Dust Immortal, he had never considered going there.

Even if that world could also produce Red Dust Immortals, Li Ming had always felt that the Red Dust Immortals of this world were the strongest.

According to the descriptions in the original work, the sole Red Dust Immortal born in the Strange World was merely at the bottom tier among Red Dust Immortals.

He was far inferior to a Red Dust Immortal like Ye Fan, who stood at the very pinnacle.

After discussing it, everyone unanimously agreed that the Strange World was also a good destination.

If they truly could not endure in this world any longer, the Strange World would be a good choice.

Lingbao Tianzun soon looked at Li Ming with a strange gaze. "Fellow Daoist Demon Venerable, I never expected you to be the legendary Chaotic Body!"

"Your strength is so formidable. I can sense that even if I lived into my Fourth Lifetime, I still would not be your match."

"I never expected a Chaotic Body to be so powerful after attaining Enlightenment as Supreme."

Lingbao Tianzun was somewhat emotional as he spoke.

No expert like the Chaotic Body Wang Bo had appeared in his era.

However, people had already deduced the existence of this special physique, and some had even excavated Chaotic Body remains from prehistoric ruins.

They had confirmed that such a special physique truly existed in the world.

Now that he had seen a true Chaotic Body attain Enlightenment as Supreme, one could imagine Lingbao Tianzun's shock.

"Netherworld Venerable, Daode Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, if the three of you can comprehend the essence of the Chaotic Body and transform into true Chaotic Bodies, you can absolutely use that to live a new Lifetime."

After thinking for a moment, Li Ming said, "Although there are some secrets I cannot tell you, I can tell you certain secrets of the Chaotic Body."

"How much you can comprehend, whether you can truly become Chaotic Bodies and live a new Lifetime, will depend on your own aptitude."

"After becoming Chaotic Bodies, you could even cut away all Chaos and transform into Mortal Bodies, thereby living a new Lifetime."

Because he had read the entire trilogy, Li Ming was full of confidence in how to transform and live a new Lifetime.

Having gone through great difficulty to transform into a Chaotic Body, he naturally would not easily cut away everything and become a Mortal Body.

In Li Ming's view, someone who had lived several Lifetimes and then transformed from a Chaotic Body into a Mortal Body would absolutely not be an ordinary Mortal Body.

It would be an even more overwhelmingly powerful Chaotic Body.

A Chaotic Body itself was powerful in every aspect and had no weaknesses.

That super Mortal Body produced through transformation likewise had no weaknesses, possessing all-around strength and being even stronger than a Chaotic Body.

Li Ming seriously explained some secrets concerning the Chaotic Body, though naturally he would not be foolish enough to reveal how he had transformed into one.

The three listened attentively. As for how much they could comprehend, that would depend on their aptitude.

The four discussed the mysteries of the Dao.

Li Ming and the others also obtained from Lingbao Tianzun the method he had used to transform and live a new Lifetime.

He used Nine Secrets: Zu as the guiding principle, gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth with Formation, found a place of Fortune, and buried himself within it.

He wandered between life and death, seeking a spark of life.

To be honest, this Red Dust Immortal Method was not especially innovative.

At the very least, Li Ming knew a little about it.

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor in the original work had used this kind of Formation, while Heavenly Emperor Chu had used it more than once to transform and live a new Lifetime.

Even Ye Fan's Third Lifetime, in some sense, had relied on the earth-shaking Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains Formation within the Kunlun Secret Realm.

Before transmigrating, Li Ming had read fan novels featuring all kinds of bizarre Red Dust Immortal Transformation Methods. Basically, every conceivable method had already been imagined.

Some readers had even begun cursing, believing that those Red Dust Immortal Transformation Methods had become utterly commonplace and lacked novelty.

But after transmigrating, Li Ming discovered that even those supposedly commonplace transformation methods were the most supreme transformation methods in this era.

They were things countless people could only dream of obtaining.

Some vaguely felt that such a path might exist, yet they could never successfully walk it.

The four discussed the mysteries of the Dao here, discussing the Longevity Method and the Red Dust Immortal Method.

Li Ming also generously shared some theories regarding Nine-Life Transformation and Mortal-World Ascension.

Though he called them theories, they were actually facts from the original work.

This discussion of the mysteries of the Dao lasted a long time.

Before leaving Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, Li Ming gave each of the three a mass of Chaos Essence.

He even gave them each a thread of Chaos Origin.

As for whether they could successfully transform into Chaotic Bodies, Li Ming felt that he had already done everything possible.

Li Ming was not their nanny, nor was he their father. He gave them these things merely because he had benefited greatly from their discussion of the mysteries of the Dao.

More importantly, Li Ming did not want to walk the Red Dust Immortal Path alone.

He hoped there would be more companions on the Red Dust Immortal Path.

At the very least, he did not dislike Netherworld Venerable, Lingbao Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, and Boundless Heavenly Venerable.

He felt that these four were worth befriending.

Time passed day by day.

Li Ming sat cross-legged within Reincarnation Sea, silently comprehending the Dao and cultivating.

According to his deductions, Netherworld Venerable was already nearing his later years, and Emperor Zun should be about to emerge.

Otherwise, that old fellow would never have enough time to attack Kunlun, establish the Heavenly Court, forge the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, refine the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, and invite the Dark Supremes to become immortals.

Sure enough, it was exactly as Li Ming had deduced.

Before long, an earth-shaking rumble suddenly came from the depths of the universe.

That special aura and phenomenon made it obvious at a glance that a Perfected Sacred Spirit had been born.

The entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands rejoiced over the birth of this Sacred Spirit.

The entire universe trembled without end.

The moment it appeared, it carried an aura that overawed the entire world.

Sacred Spirits called themselves the children of Heaven and believed themselves to be blessed by heaven and earth.

Their physiques were powerful, and their divine abilities and secret arts arose naturally. Even their Dao-Proving Weapons were nurtured within their bodies.

These creatures, born and nurtured by heaven and earth, had cultivated all kinds of forbidden secret arts even while still inside their stone embryos.

It could be said that every Perfected Sacred Spirit born and nurtured by heaven and earth was inconceivable.

Aside from true Dao-Provers, ordinary people truly could not contend with such Perfected Sacred Spirits.

"A Perfected Sacred Spirit has emerged!"

"I never expected a Perfected Sacred Spirit to be born in this era."

"Legend says that a Perfected Sacred Spirit is a true Sacred Spirit. It only needs to take one more step forward to attain Enlightenment as Supreme."

"Several Heavenly Venerables already coexist in this era. This Perfected Sacred Spirit likely has no chance to take that step."

"Damn it, another Sacred Spirit?"

"These scourges always slaughter until mountains of corpses and seas of blood form whenever they emerge..."

"Could this Perfected Sacred Spirit also be planning to slaughter all directions?"

The myriad living beings of heaven and earth generally had no favorable impression of the Sacred Spirit Race.

This race was simply too unique.

They looked down on all living beings of heaven and earth, believing that they alone stood above all else.

In Shrouding the Heavens, every era had records of Sacred Spirits causing chaos.

There were even records of them slaughtering all life across an entire planet as soon as they appeared.

It could be said that aside from the Dark Turmoil caused by the Dark Supremes, Sacred Spirits were the greatest calamity in the world.

If Lingbao Tianzun was famous for suppressing and killing Corpse Calamities, then Daode Tianzun was famous for suppressing Sacred Spirits.

He had even used Perfected Sacred Spirits to refine divine liquid.

With Daode Tianzun alive at this time, many people were looking forward to some sort of clash between this Perfected Sacred Spirit and Daode Tianzun.

At this moment, numerous beings within several Sacred Spirit Forbidden Zones scattered throughout the universe were awakened.

One vast divine mountain after another emitted an indescribable aura.

Those places were all forbidden zones that nurtured living beings, and ordinary beings did not dare approach them at all.

It was said that varying numbers of Perfected Sacred Spirits were sealed within those forbidden zones, and there might even be true Sacred Spirit Supremes.

Now that a Perfected Sacred Spirit had emerged, it was a momentous occasion for every Sacred Spirit Forbidden Zone.

Regardless of their cultivation level, all the beings cheered.

"Will this Perfected Sacred Spirit attain Enlightenment as Supreme the moment he emerges?"

"Our Sacred Spirit Lineage will gain another ancestor."

"So what if multiple Heavenly Venerables stand side by side in this era? We will still have a true Sacred Spirit Supreme."

Sacred Spirits possessed extreme confidence in their own strength. Even the legends of Perfected Sacred Spirits challenging Supremes had been spread by them.

Though one Perfected Sacred Spirit after another had been killed by Supremes, the legend had continued to circulate.

And Sacred Spirits firmly believed it.

Li Ming silently observed the Sacred Spirit's aura and quickly discovered something wrong.

Although it carried a Sacred Spirit's aura, that person had not transformed into a true Sacred Spirit.

His body still emitted the aura of the Human Race.

Clearly, this person had used a special Sacred Spirit Transformation Method.

If nothing unexpected happened, he should be the legendary Emperor Zun.

The Eternal Emperor of later generations had used a Sacred Spirit Transformation Method to live a new Lifetime. He had absolutely obtained Emperor Zun's inheritance before.

Throughout history, anyone capable of transforming into a Sacred Spirit had been renowned.

Although the original work only explicitly recorded the Eternal Emperor.

But Li Ming could be certain that Emperor Zun had definitely once used the Saint Spirit Transformation Method to live out a new lifetime.

Now, the aura of that Perfected Sacred Spirit blanketed heaven and earth.

Even Li Ming could sense a threat from it, showing just how formidable Emperor Zun's strength was.

"Something's wrong. This isn't a true Sacred Spirit!"

"This is clearly the aura of a Heavenly Venerable who has lived out a new lifetime!"

"What? Someone really succeeded in transforming into a Sacred Spirit?"

"Someone used the Sacred Spirit Transformation Method to live out a new lifetime?"

"Unbelievable. How exactly did he survive?"

"Lingbao Tianzun lived out a new lifetime, Boundless Heavenly Venerable lived out a new lifetime, Daode Tianzun lived out a new lifetime, Netherworld Venerable lived out a new lifetime, and Demon Venerable also lived out a new lifetime. Has the era of great transformation begun?"

"Yes, more and more people are living out new lifetimes. It feels as though this world has become different."

"Everyone is alive in this era. Are they all waiting for the Road to Immortality to open?"

"Could this also be a method of becoming immortal?"

"Living on lifetime after lifetime... can anyone truly accomplish that?"

"Impossible. No one in this world can possibly become immortal. Entering the Immortal Domain through the Road to Immortality is the only chance."

The many Dark Supremes found it hard to believe.

They had never expected someone to quietly transform and live out a new lifetime, and with an aura completely different from before.

They could not even find the aura of that Ancient Venerable anywhere in history.

Feeling that incomparably powerful Heavenly Venerable aura, Li Ming could basically confirm that it was Emperor Zun.

This person's strength was simply too great. Neither Boundless Heavenly Venerable, Lingbao Tianzun, Netherworld Venerable, nor Daode Tianzun had ever made Li Ming feel such a threat.

Yet Emperor Zun's aura left Li Ming deeply affected.

This also confirmed Emperor Zun's strength from another angle.

No wonder some said Ye Fan was Emperor Zun's shadow.

Similar Flower.

From another perspective, Emperor Zun was also Ye Fan's Similar Flower.

Emperor Zun was truly powerful.

"What? He isn't a Sacred Spirit?!"

"Who exactly is this undying Ancient Venerable?"

"He transformed into a Sacred Spirit. He must have seized the Dragon Veins of our Sacred Spirit Race!"

"Yes, he must have slaughtered more than one Perfected Sacred Spirit. He may even have devoured Saint Spirit Immortal Embryos."

One Sacred Spirit Forbidden Zone after another had initially been cheering in celebration, but the more they sensed it, the more something felt wrong.

That was not a Sacred Spirit at all.

One icy voice after another rang out, filled with intense malice and killing intent.

Before this, no one had ever truly transformed into a Sacred Spirit and used the Saint Spirit Method to live out a new lifetime.

When Boundless Heavenly Venerable had first taught the Saint Spirit Transformation Method, they had dismissed it with contempt.

They believed it was simply impossible for anyone to succeed.

Later, they watched as the Sacred Spirits of that Sacred Spirit Divine Mountain were devoured completely by Boundless Heavenly Venerable. They were furious beyond measure, yet they did not dare emerge to seek justice.

Because Demon Venerable had been suppressing that place, and had moved that Sacred Spirit Divine Mountain into the Reincarnation Sea.

Demon Venerable had killed so many Dark Supremes that no one dared challenge his edge.

Those Perfected Sacred Spirits did not dare make a sound.

As for the Sacred Spirit Supreme, it dared not utter a word either, terrified that Li Ming might take an interest in studying Sacred Spirits and capture them all.

But now, an unknown and nameless Ancient Venerable actually dared profane the Sacred Spirits.

He had actually transformed into a Sacred Spirit. Who knew how many living beings he had slaughtered to deduce such a method?

An Ancient Venerable transforming into a Sacred Spirit and living out a new lifetime through transformation caused a tremendous sensation throughout the world.

It would have been one thing if it were a Perfected Sacred Spirit.

But someone had truly used the Saint Spirit Transformation Method to live out a new lifetime.

Especially after Boundless Heavenly Venerable had explained the Saint Spirit Transformation Method to everyone, the many Dark Supremes found it utterly unbelievable.

Someone had actually succeeded in secretly transforming through the Saint Spirit Transformation Method before Boundless Heavenly Venerable.

They were profoundly shaken.