Seclusion Reward: The Ancestral Dragon Pearl

After Ao Changsheng made his choice, a divine pearl shining with golden light broke through the void.

It flew straight to Ao Changsheng, who was cultivating in seclusion.

"This is... the Ancestral Dragon Pearl!"

Feeling the rich dragon Qi radiating from the pearl, Ao Changsheng reached out with a dragon claw and caught it.

Perhaps because it was a system reward, Ao Changsheng had no need to refine the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.

A marvelous connection formed in Ao Changsheng's heart, and with a slight thought, the Ancestral Dragon Pearl merged directly into his dragon body.

A rich golden dragon Qi immediately surged from the Ancestral Dragon Pearl and spread out, nourishing Ao Changsheng's dragon body and Primordial Spirit.

"So comfortable!" Ao Changsheng reveled in the transformation of his body and Primordial Spirit. His bloodline was evolving, and his innate foundation was growing stronger.

In his sea of consciousness, the mysteries of the Dragon Principle emanating from the Ancestral Dragon Pearl flowed ceaselessly through Ao Changsheng's heart.

The Ancestral Dragon Pearl was even more wondrous than he had imagined.

The Dragon Principle it contained in particular made it hard to believe that it was a supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure rather than a supreme dragon treasure painstakingly refined by some mighty dragon expert.

Ao Changsheng's realm also began climbing at a tremendous speed.

His cultivation, which had only just broken through from Earth Immortal to Heavenly Immortal after ten thousand years in seclusion, began to soar.

Middle-stage Heavenly Immortal.

Late-stage Heavenly Immortal.

In just a few breaths, Ao Changsheng had broken through to the True Immortal realm, and his progress showed no sign of slowing.

True Immortal!

Mystic Immortal!

Golden Immortal!

As Ao Changsheng cultivated, he experienced for the first time what it felt like to fly.

After a hundred thousand years of cultivation in seclusion, Ao Changsheng had reached the perfection of the Golden Immortal realm, surpassing the results of countless mighty experts' hundreds of millions of years of arduous cultivation in the Primordial World.

"Ding! You have been in seclusion for a hundred thousand years. Please make a new seclusion choice!"

Once again, the system's notification woke him from seclusion.

"Tsk, tsk!" Feeling the vast Golden Immortal Law Power renewing itself endlessly within him, Ao Changsheng grinned so widely that his dragon mouth nearly twisted.

Golden Immortal.

What was a Golden Immortal? Gold meant immortality!

A Golden Immortal was an immortal who neither aged nor died, who was immortal and indestructible, with a boundless lifespan!

For a Golden Immortal, as long as no external demon or calamity befell them, they could live until heaven and earth grew old and the Primordial World was destroyed.

Moreover, thanks to the Dragon Principle he had comprehended from the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, Ao Changsheng's cultivation was absolutely stable.

In the Primordial World, the cultivation realms were divided into Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Daluo Golden Immortal...

Hunyuan Golden Immortal, comparable to the future Quasi-Sage realm.

And Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, equivalent to the Sage realm: nine great realms in all.

Of these, Principles were a path of cultivation only Taiyi Golden Immortals began to explore, a miraculous power born from the cultivation insights of all the preceding realms.

Ao Changsheng, however, had begun comprehending the Dragon Principle, which was exceptionally suited to his identity as a dragon, from the very start.

For Ao Changsheng, the early stages of cultivation were like pouring water from a rooftop, and his foundation was far more solid than that of an ordinary Golden Immortal cultivator.

After a bout of self-admiration, Ao Changsheng opened the system panel to check the new rewards... Ahem, the new options.

"One: End your seclusion and follow Great Immortal Yangmei into Chaos to cultivate in seclusion. Reward: Chaos innate foundation."

"Two: Refuse Great Immortal Yangmei, end your seclusion, and venture out into the Primordial World Continent. The system will shut down."

"Three: Refuse Great Immortal Yangmei and remain in seclusion in the Primordial World for another million years. Reward: the Divine Ability Eye of the Candle Dragon."

Great Immortal Yangmei?

Ao Changsheng stared at the system's choices, stunned.

He did know who Great Immortal Yangmei was.

According to legend, he was one of the strongest Chaos Demon Gods who had tried to stop Pangu from opening the heavens.

He wielded the supreme and mighty Great Dao of Space, and was one of the few powerful beings who had survived Pangu's hands during the calamity of the heavens' opening without being cleaved to death.

In the legends of the Primordial World, he was a mighty figure who would even attain the Dao before Dao Ancestor Hongjun in the future.

But the question was, where was Great Immortal Yangmei?

A little earlier.

On the shores of the East Sea, an old man with green hair and long eyebrows walked upon the sea. As he gazed at the brilliant, colorful Primordial World before him, a trace of reluctance showed in his eyes.

Perhaps hundreds of millions of years ago, as a Chaos Demon God, he had chosen his Dao Path and chosen to stop Pangu from opening the heavens.

But the Primordial World was a fine place to cultivate!

In the Primordial World, the heavens were clear and the earth turbid, and the ways of the Dao were distinct. Cultivating here was far easier than in Chaos, where the Great Dao was in disarray.

Having been reborn in the Primordial World and experienced a cultivation speed far greater than in Chaos, Great Immortal Yangmei did not want to leave the Primordial World and return to Chaos.

But even though he had been reborn in the Primordial World, he was ultimately an outsider, with the innate foundation of a Chaos Demon God.

He had even tried to stop Pangu from opening the heavens when the Primordial World was first created.

Previously, when the Primordial World had no powerful experts, it had been fine. The Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World could not forcibly expel a Chaos Demon God as powerful as Yangmei.

But Hongjun was about to attain the Dao.

A Sage of the Primordial World was about to emerge.

If he did not leave the Primordial World before then, he would be completely unable to leave.

Suddenly, Ancestor Yangmei stopped in his tracks.

He looked toward a stretch of sea spanning hundreds of millions of li in the distance, his eyes filled with shock!

"That is... a piece severed from the heavens and earth of the Primordial World?"

The sight before him stirred a towering wave in Great Immortal Yangmei's heart.

"To sever a piece of the Primordial World without even drawing heavenly punishment... what kind of method is this..."

Great Immortal Yangmei stared in utter shock at Ao Changsheng's seclusion cultivation ground, which spanned hundreds of millions of li in the distance, but his thoughts soon began to stir.

Why was he unwilling to leave the Primordial World for Chaos? Wasn't it because cultivation in Chaos was harder than in the Primordial World?

If...

He could sever a piece of the Primordial World's heavens and earth and steer it through Chaos...

Great Immortal Yangmei's heart pounded. Circulating his Law Power and unleashing the full extent of his cultivation, he stealthily began investigating the area spanning hundreds of millions of li.

"What a truly marvelous method." Great Immortal Yangmei's eyes shone as he looked.

If he could master this method of cutting apart heaven and earth, perhaps his idea really might succeed.

"It's just... the only living being in this area spanning hundreds of millions of li is actually a little white dragon at the Golden Immortal realm?"

Great Immortal Yangmei raised an eyebrow.

How could a little white dragon at the Golden Immortal realm possibly have used such a wondrous method?

"Could it be a contingency left behind by the Ancestral Dragon?"

The moment the guess arose, Great Immortal Yangmei dismissed it.

If the Ancestral Dragon of the dragon race had possessed such a method, how could he have fallen prey to Luohou's schemes, ending up dead with his Dao extinguished and his entire race in decline?

"Could that little white dragon really have obtained a strange Secret Method from somewhere?"

Great Immortal Yangmei's heart stirred. If this Secret Method could let a little white dragon at the Golden Immortal realm sever a piece of heaven and earth spanning hundreds of millions of li...

Then how much of the Primordial World's heavens and earth could he, a Hunyuan Golden Immortal on the verge of attaining the Dao, sever?

At the thought, Yangmei felt a tension he had not felt in a long time, and wanted to go closer for a look.

But when he stepped forward, he discovered that he could not enter that stretch of heaven and earth spanning hundreds of millions of li.

"This..."

Great Immortal Yangmei was truly frightened this time. He... a Hunyuan Golden Immortal, could not even get in?

What kind of power was this?

The next instant, Great Immortal Yangmei's expression froze. The Divine Sense and Law Power he had sent out had been destroyed outright.

Great Immortal Yangmei's expression shifted slightly, and only after a long while did he calm down. "This old Daoist underestimated the Primordial World after all!"

Inside the cultivation ground, while Ao Changsheng was puzzling over the system options...

A hidden Divine Sense suddenly swept over him, immediately drawing his attention.

An ordinary Golden Immortal would certainly not have detected it.

But Ao Changsheng was different. Within his seclusion cultivation ground, his own will stood in for heaven's will. Within the bounds of the cultivation ground, he, Ao Changsheng, was a Dao-Merging Sage.

"Again?"

He noticed that after sweeping over him once, the Divine Sense had reached out again, this time going even further by sending a stream of Law Power along with it.

Ao Changsheng's expression turned cold. With a thought, he unleashed the power of the cultivation ground, directly shattering the Divine Sense sweeping toward him.