Great Scarlet Heaven.
"Primordial Chaos."
Xu Xuan stood in the boundless heights, endless torrents of Chaos Qi already surging around him. Two objects lay before him: a battered purple copper bell and a Dao Text wreathed in chaos-the [Divine Sound World-Warning Bell] and the [Aperture Restoration Book].
After long deliberation, Xu Xuan decided to first refine a Dharma Treasure that lay somewhere between shock thunder and mixed swallowing.
After he had re-attained [roaming union], pursuing it toward primordial heaven actually connected not only to altar thunder, but also to mixed mysteries. This was also the foundation that allowed him to comprehend primordial chaos.
After stripping the chaos-inflicted injury from Qing Yu, Xu Xuan's attainment in "mixed swallowing" had reached extraordinary heights. At least among the Golden Cores of the present age, none could compare.
This came from his fundamental origins. No one else could learn to replicate it, however hard they tried.
"Recklessly sending my consciousness and divine status into 'mixed mysteries' is extremely dangerous. That hasn't changed just because my attainment has risen... but I can refine a Dharma Treasure to open a sluice gate and let the authority of primordial chaos flow through!"
Xu Xuan did not intend to swim upstream and return to primordial heaven. Instead, he would secretly open a breach in primordial chaos and let its supreme power flow down! Although it could not possess the inexhaustible might of the primordial chaos countenance he had envisioned, it would be stable and carry very few hidden dangers. Nothing could suit his present circumstances better.
Thus, he brought forth the Immortal Stele, sensed harmonious union, and began refining the three things before him.
Xu Xuan was no expert at artifact refining; his workmanship was abysmal. But he was not truly trying to refine some wondrous Dharma Treasure.