Chapter 3: The Primordial Spirit Divides into Two, the Nine-Colored Treasure Pagoda

  In the midst of chaos, since the emergence of the 3000 Chaos Gods and Demons, the entire vast world has undergone a transformation every day. Many places have begun to exhibit the phenomenon of chaotic spiritual energy gathering, with some chaotic energy clusters faintly showing the virtual shadow of spiritual treasures.

  This is the period when the treasure of law began to gestate on a large scale. Under the rhythm of the Great Way, different materials gathered in huge amounts of spiritual energy, condensed laws, and self-generated prohibitions, forming various pre-heavenly treasures, even pre-heavenly supreme treasures.

  From the Primordial Chaos to later times, Lingbao was generally divided into the following levels:

  Primordial Spirit Treasure - Sky Opening Axe, 36 varieties of Primordial Blue Lotus, Jade Disc.

  Congenital Treasure - Chaos Bell, Taiji Diagram, Pangu Flag, Qiankun Ding.

  Xiantian Lingbao - Zhuxian Sword, Zhuxian Formation Chart, Hetu Luoshu, Red Embroidered Ball, Shanhe Sheji Chart, Five Directional Spirit Flags, Heavenly Book, Earthly Book, Netherworld Book, 36 Dinghai Divine Pearls...

  The day after tomorrow is treasure - the mysterious and yellow Linglong Pagoda.

  Houtian Lingbao - Hollow Seal, Demon-Calling Flag, Hou Yi's Bow, Xingtian Axe...

  Of course, this classification is imperfect and can only be roughly divided according to the attributes of Lingbao. Among them, the top-grade pre-heavenly Lingbao that exists in the pre-heavenly Lingbao, such as the Exterminating Sword Array, are all composed of five top-grade pre-heavenly Lingbao, with a power not inferior to the pre-heavenly Zhizun. In the post-heavenly Lingbao, there are also top-grade post-heavenly Lingbao, such as the Hollow Seal, which has the effect of suppressing the human tribe's aura.

  This distinction between the innate precious treasure, spiritual treasure and the acquired precious treasure, spiritual treasure is not simply based on the power of the Dharma treasure. For example, the Xuan Huang Linglong Pagoda can be compared to the Taiji Diagram, an innate precious treasure, but the innate spiritual treasure was formed before the opening of heaven, while the acquired spiritual treasure was formed after the opening of heaven. The innate spiritual treasure can only be naturally conceived, whereas the acquired spiritual treasure can be refined, such as the Demon Summoning Flag.

  Congenital treasures and spiritual treasures all have the effect of suppressing Qi, while acquired treasures and spiritual treasures only have the effect of suppressing Qi in extremely individual cases.

  So Xuzi often refers to Xiantian Zhībǎo and Língbǎo as Qìyùn Zhòngbǎo.

  Of course, there are also some powerful but non-spiritual artifacts that are not inferior to the Innate and Acquired Spiritual Treasures. These extremely powerful and extreme artifacts are generally referred to as Extreme Dao Ultimate Treasures.

  Extreme Dao treasures are generally existent for the purpose of slaughter, as they lack spirituality and cannot be refined through sacrifice. They can only exist in the form of war treasures and cannot be absorbed into one's body warmth. Anyone can use them directly without going through the process of acknowledging ownership, but there is also a risk of being devoured by the war treasure itself.

  Since Li Yi formulated the shocking plan, he has been trapped in endless contemplation to solve his own strong evolutionary instinct problem. Because Li Yi found that this instinct is getting stronger and stronger, almost reaching an uncontrollable level, if it's not solved later, there will be big trouble.

  In the midst of chaos, time is not counted, a glance back and forth for millions of years. After long contemplation and endless calculations, Li Yi decided to split his soul in two. He left the absolutely rational part on his original demon body, while one part of his soul stayed with his incarnation, as for the incarnation's body, he would try to choose a pre-heavenly spiritual root after the opening of the sky.

  Actually, Li Yi's choice to split his soul was also a helpless one. The instinct to evolve had become increasingly intense, and even the sealing technique he gained from understanding the rhythm of the Great Dao was powerless against it. Otherwise, Li Yi wouldn't have been in such a hurry to split his soul. One must know that the soul is the most fundamental source of life; if the physical body is destroyed, it can be remade, although the possibility of evolving into an undying body would decrease. However, once something happens to the soul's origin, it would mean losing the chance to contend for the peak.

  Don't be surprised, the people of later generations were able to seize the opportunity to reincarnate under the damage of their souls, or use great divine power to gather spiritual energy and reshape their physical bodies, and then set foot on the path of immortality, seeking truth. This is because although their souls were damaged, they did not hurt the source, and can be repaired and nourished through various methods.

  It is known that the soul's origin is innate and difficult to supplement, only when a leap in life or sublimation of the soul occurs can it transform once, even so, at most it can only be supplemented by a thread.

  To be honest, Li Yi chose to split his soul not only to suppress this instinctual evolution but also because the absolute rational soul would allow this supreme demon body to have a better future development prospect. It wouldn't suddenly lose control of its body and act blindly.

  Moreover, in order to better plan for the future in the Chaos, Li Yi also needs an absolutely calm mind. The Chaos is full of hidden dangers and crises are everywhere. One wrong step could lead to a series of mistakes. Li Yi doesn't believe that having the identity of a Primordial God can make him do whatever he wants.

  You don't see, even Yang Mei and Hong Jun didn't have much fame before they achieved the Mixed Yuan Realm. Many people hadn't even heard of them, which shows that the waters of the Hongyuan are deep enough to swallow a person whole, and with one misstep, it's easy to end up in a state of nothingness.

  In addition, after the soul is divided into two parts, it can also cultivate better through division of the body. It's not always possible to cultivate with strong desires, thinking about this, Li Yi couldn't help but deeply suspect that Hong Jun created the "Three Corpses Slashing Technique" for this reason.

  However, Li Yi's path is the road of flesh immortality and law becoming Tao, which has no affinity with the "Three Corpses Attaining Tao" method, let alone being inferior to it.

  After making up his mind, Li Yi immediately grasped the mysterious seal with both hands. Only to see a heavy shadow between his hands, layer upon layer, no matter how he looked, he couldn't see his movements clearly, but felt that at a glance, all his attention was drawn in, as if there were great mysteries and endless beauty inside.

  In a moment, the Taoist seals gathered spiritual energy and transformed into illusions, reflecting in the void. In another moment, lotus flowers emerged out of thin air.

  Sometimes forming a mountain of gods, sometimes adding gods and demons, giant beasts... Endless illusions keep appearing, as if there is still the faint sound of the highest sacred heavenly music coming. It's really one seal, one world, one leaf, one Tathagata.

  After an unknown period of time, the space on Li Yi's head was filled with light, and endless illusions overlapped to form a magnificent and desolate world. However, the entire world began to rotate, and the countless illusions started to condense. The world was in a cycle of destruction and rebirth, slowly forming a nine-colored treasure pagoda that emitted an endless sacred aura, surrounded by immortal energy, heavenly music echoed, and all evil was eliminated, eternal and noble.

  This is a great divine ability that Li Yi has prepared for the split soul. After Li Yi decided to split his soul, in order to prevent accidents from happening, he decided to create a special divine ability to guard his soul.

  It's hard not to mention that Li Yi's luck is indeed extremely good, because the Great Dao Rhyme has not yet disappeared. When Li Yi was immersed in creating the divine art, the information about the soul aspect of the Great Dao Rhyme was drawn to him, and he continuously comprehended the information about the soul laws, which were finally created by Li Yi as the "Nine-Colored Treasure Pagoda", a supreme divine art.

  "The Nine-Colored Pagoda" has nine layers, displaying nine colors, with endless illusions flashing by, can attack and defend, most importantly, this "Nine-Colored Pagoda" can always guard the soul's void, of course, once the soul's attack exceeds the limit, the pagoda will collapse, requiring re-condensation.

  But Li Yi can proudly say that this "Nine-Colored Pagoda" divine ability was definitely one of the top few at the beginning of the Hongyuan era, and it's even more difficult to comprehend the secrets of the soul, let alone create a soul divine ability. This time, Li Yi absolutely had a great opportunity and good luck.

  Since the "Nine-Colored Pagoda" appeared, Li Yi had been brewing, and his entire soul gradually began to change. His original purple-golden soul unknowingly divided into two camps.

  The larger camp accounted for about two-thirds, which is the absolute rational part, in silver and white; while the soul that accounts for about one-third, belonging to the divided body, is colorful.

  Suddenly, the "Nine-Colored Treasure Pagoda" suspended above Li Yi's head transformed into a dazzling stream of light. With a burst of speed, it drilled into Li Yi's head and reappeared in the air above his soul.

  "The Nine-Colored Pagoda" began to lower its threads of light, enveloping the entire soul, and the boundaries between the two camps of the soul had become quite clear, everything was ready.

  Li Yi gritted his teeth, pinched his handprint, and a gap suddenly appeared between the two soul camps, which grew larger and larger, slowly separating the two soul camps.

  At this time, Li Yi was drenched in sweat, his veins bulging, his body convulsing, and the pain of his soul being torn apart was impossible to describe. Although Li Yi had been prepared for a long time, this pain still far exceeded his expectations, like countless small knives cutting through his entire body inch by inch, as if trying to split him in two, yet he couldn't even touch it.

  Pain came in waves, one after another, ceaselessly invading and permeating from the inside out. Li Yi could only keep encouraging himself, "I can do it", "I can do it", "I can do it"…

  It's okay, at this time the "Nine-colored Pagoda" finally began to take effect, a thread of flowing light fell down, maintaining the integrity of the two camps' souls, no fragments appeared, and also slightly reduced the pain in the splitting process, allowing Li Yi to hold on.

  When people are in pain, they always feel that time is particularly long. Li Yi felt that the days of suffering were like an endless dark road, and he could never see the end. The unbearable torture became eternal.

  One thousand years, ten thousand years, even Li Yi had an illusion that the billions of years since he crossed over to the Chaos were not as long as this moment, contradictory and real.

  It's been a long time, anyway, Li Yi is numb with pain, his soul finally splits, a slightly larger silver-white yuan god infant and a slightly smaller five-color yuan god infant sit under the dazzling "Nine-colored Treasure Pagoda", at this time Li Yi has not fully woken up.

  After a long, long time, Li Yi finally came to his senses. He pinched his hand seal and cast several spells, temporarily sealing the Five-Colored Primordial Spirit Infant with warmth, allowing the Absolute Rationality Primordial Spirit to dominate the demonic body.

  After doing all this, Li Yi decided to dive into the Tao rhyme and sleep, nourishing his newly split yuan Shen, and then execute the plan at the opening of heaven.