Chapter 4: Refining the Treasure, No Trivial Matters
Time passed unknowingly, and it was unknown how long it had been. The chaos remained the same, without any change. Zhang Xue also unconsciously refined all the innate spiritual treasures in her body.
He opened his enormous eyes, a ray of light flashed by, and disappeared into the boundless chaos after piercing through the thick chaotic air. This was also a phenomenon caused by Zhang Xuelian's inability to control the massive energy inside his body after his transformation, causing it to leak out.
Just by looking at Zhang Xue's current appearance, you can tell that his body has grown more than twice as big as before. Now, the Pangu egg is only about half the size of his palm, which is quite impressive. Zhang Xue is extremely proud of this, and no matter whether Pangu will grow bigger than him after birth, at least for now, there's no comparison.
His body's enlargement has made his defense reach an unprecedented level, even he himself doesn't know how strong it is. His strength has also become unimaginable, just like his defense. The originally murky-colored turtle shell has turned black, and the sharp spikes on the shell are emitting a chilling glow that makes people feel their souls will be mercilessly destroyed in an instant.
The scales on his limbs also changed from their original chaotic color to a dark gray, greatly enhancing his defensive capabilities. The dark gray limbs were constantly burning with black flames, the surrounding chaotic aura was distorted by the high temperature of the flames, these flames were obtained by Zhang Xue after refining a special ability innate spiritual treasure, the chaotic fire bead this innate spiritual treasure's special ability is to control the million fires that can refine all things. After being refined by Zhang Xue, these abilities also became his own. As for other innate spiritual treasures, because they didn't have very special abilities, they could only be refined to enhance the strength of the flesh and soul.
In the future, only those congenital spiritual treasures with special abilities may bring some special divine powers to Zhang Xue. Moreover, the divine powers cannot be repeated, otherwise they will only be slightly strengthened. To put it simply, if two congenital spiritual treasures have special abilities related to fire, then the divine power obtained after refining them will also be a fire-related divine power, but this divine power is the complementary divine power of the two congenital spiritual treasures.
But it's really hard to get a congenital treasure with special abilities. Haven't seen one that fits among all these spiritual treasures being refined!
"I don't know if I'll be able to get such a treasure again in the future. Forget it, there will be plenty of opportunities later."
"Now that the spiritual treasures have all been refined, should I wait for Pangu to wake up or go find some more spiritual treasures nearby? Alas, it's a difficult decision. After considering for a long time, Zhang Xue decided to go outside and search for spiritual treasures first. The aura of chaos is so dense here, there must be many spiritual roots, how can I miss this opportunity? Just thinking about waiting in one place for billions of years makes me feel tragic. I think even before Pangu wakes up, I'll go crazy first."
"Pan Gu, Pan Gu, I'm going to take a look around now and come back later to see you. You must recognize me then." With that said, he got up and walked away into the distance.
In walking, one leaves behind a soulful mark on Pangu's egg, so as to find direction in the boundless and endless chaos.
Zhang Xue set off again, and before he knew it, hundreds of yuan had passed. In this dense and chaotic central area, Zhang Xue made a big harvest, for the spiritual treasures and roots were abundant here. It was far from comparable to the thin and scattered spiritual energy on the outskirts. Indeed, people tend to go to high places and water flows to low places, it seems that spiritual treasures and roots also choose their locations.
In these years, many spiritual roots and treasures were obtained. Among the pre-heavenly spiritual roots, the most precious one is the Pre-Heavenly Chaos Merit Fruit Tree. The whole fruit tree looks ugly, with a dry and cracked trunk, and its top is completely bald without any leaves, only growing eighty-one fruits that emit a purple-gold color. After Zhang Xue took it into her space, she also knew everything about it.
This ugly fruit tree actually has a terrifying origin. It was originally the first spiritual root in the chaos, named Chaos Source Wood, and it was the source of all trees. The later pre-heavenly spiritual roots were all nurtured by him and scattered to the boundless chaos, giving the originally lifeless chaos some vitality, while he himself withered due to nurturing too many spiritual roots. Later, because the chaos increased countless vitality, he descended with infinite pre-heavenly merits and transformed into a Pre-Heavenly Chaos Merit Fruit Tree. Using his infinite pre-heavenly merits, he nurtured 81 Pre-Heavenly Merit Fruits. Each merit fruit was filled with boundless pre-heavenly merits, which cannot be compared to the post-heavenly merits after the creation of the world. It also has the ability to convert post-heavenly merits into pre-heavenly merits.
Zhang Xue's eyes turned red at that moment, and without thinking, she swallowed all 81 gongde fruits in an instant. A large amount of innate gongde dissolved in her stomach, dividing into two parts: one part merged with her physical body, causing her originally black body to display golden patterns that rapidly spread throughout her entire body, adding a hint of mystery. Her defense was slightly enhanced, but her body underwent mysterious changes, which even Zhang Xue herself didn't understand, only vaguely feeling that these changes were beneficial to her. In fact, Zhang Xue's intuition wasn't wrong; now that she had evolved into an abnormal physique, it could be said that transforming in the future would be basically impossible, without a glimmer of hope. However, with this boundless innate gongde, there was still a possibility - as long as she acquired more gongde in the future and worked hard, it might still be feasible.
And another part came to the sea of consciousness and merged with the soul, in an instant the soul turned into a dazzling golden light, and behind it appeared a huge wheel of merit, illuminating the entire sea of consciousness.
As for the other tens of thousands of good and evil spiritual roots, they were all planted in the small world.
For the great harvest of congenital spiritual roots, the harvest of spiritual treasures is also good, and several congenital supreme treasures have been obtained. However, after refining, no divine powers were gained, which is a pity. The body has grown bigger again, and defense has become stronger, and it's unknown who can break through in the future.
The gains from the Innate Spirit Treasure are quite large, with several different divine abilities obtained. These include control over the primordial waters, primordial winds, and primordial earth, in addition to the previously acquired primordial fire, which together allow for mastery of the five elements. Additionally, the Innate Divine Thunder Pearl granted control over the Primordial Heavenly Purple Thunder, the Myriad Poison Flag granted control over poison and detoxification abilities, and the Primordial Dream Fantasy Pearl granted control over souls and illusion magic abilities.
The most precious one is the Hunyuan Lingbao World Map, which contains an incredibly vast world. What's surprising is that inside, there are numerous pre-heavenly spiritual roots, with over 100,000 varieties, each in large quantities, forming mountains and forests. This might be because the world map has been absorbing things around it through instinct, and over a long period of time, it has absorbed more and more, developing into this state.
"Haha, but I've got a good deal out of it, all these are mine now."
Moved all the congenital spiritual roots in the world map to the small world, and started the refinement of the world map. This refinement was very smooth, after all, it's not yet at the chaotic treasure level! After refinement, the body is still a bit bigger, defense has increased, power has risen, now thinking about upgrading, congenital spiritual treasures are no longer useful. Congenital treasures still have some use, but they will soon be of little use as well. In the future, we can only rely on chaotic-level upgrades. Our timid protagonist thinks about improving his defensive power every day for the safety of his life.
And the world diagram also brought a good outcome, which is that a huge world appeared in Zhang Xue's chaotic space and was connected to the small world, but was separated by space. The two worlds merged together to form a special space, with the big world below and the small world above. It's similar to the relationship between the mortal realm and the immortal realm before.
Zhang Xue plans to find various types of spiritual beasts, ferocious beasts, divine beasts, and other species such as the demon tribe and witch tribe. He will collect all the species he sees and place them in the vast world to breed. After some time, under the influence of his imprint, they will become his loyal subordinates. In his free time, he might play with faith and create a divine religion to see if there is really power in faith. As for the small world, it must be made into the most beautiful place on earth, where his wife and children can live, and of course, servant girls are also essential.
In the midst of chaos, there was desolation, a boundless and endless expanse of deathly stillness in the sky and earth. There was only one color. No matter who stayed in such an environment for long, they would go crazy. Just when Zhang Xue was about to collapse, the mark left on Pangu's egg started to move.
"Could Pangu be about to emerge? I'd better hurry and take a look." Zhang Xue thought, immediately turning around to rush back.
