Chapter 2: Arrival at Treasure Island

  Zhang Xue held the chaotic-colored bead in front of her and looked at it from left to right, saying, "Could it be that during Pangu's creation of the world, Pangu brother chopped it with one axe?"

  "Splitting the shattered Chaos Pearl... My luck can't be this good, right?"

  At this thought, his eyes suddenly widened and his heart rate accelerated. This small bead actually contained a miniature Chaos Space, which had the effect of suppressing Chaos and was extremely powerful in defense, second only to defensive treasures of the same level.

  Chaotic Blue Lotus. It's stronger than ordinary innate treasures by a huge margin, and even some specialized innate treasures can't compare to it.

  It's incomparable, after all, the Primordial Treasure and the Pre-Heavenly Treasure are not on the same level. The gap is self-evident. If this is really the case with the Chaos Pearl, then I'm going to be rich beyond my wildest dreams! It's impossible not to get rich!

  "If I could use my own abilities to refine and merge the entire Chaos Pearl into my body, absorbing its properties..."

  In the chaotic space, suppressing chaos, defensive power, what's not mine? After all, no matter what kind of magic treasure is refined.

  Even in the depths, it is also possible to be taken away, only one's own flesh and blood can be at ease, because no matter what, it is oneself.

  It's mine, can't be snatched away even if you want to. Haha, it seems that in the primordial chaos and after the opening of the sky, there are many precious treasures and magical artifacts.

  "If all of them are refined and merged into my body, wouldn't I become a human-shaped treasure collection then! Hehe..." Zhang Xue drooled as he fantasized.

  He took out the Devouring God Spear, the Qiankun Ding, the Taiji Diagram, the Hunyuan Bell and countless other precious spiritual treasures and refined them into his own body one by one.

  What a lewd and shameless appearance. The more lustful the better, the more obscene the better.

  Emerging from fantasy, with a calm yet excited mood, Zhang Xue embarked on his first journey of refining treasures.

  He hastily stuffed the Chaos Pearl into his mouth and swallowed it, using his mind to gently lock onto the pearl. A colorless transparent light wave was activated, enveloping the Chaos Pearl, beginning his first journey of refining a treasure.

  Ten minutes passed, an hour passed, a day passed, a week passed, but the Chaos Pearl was still the same, leisurely drifting in the transparent light waves, without any change. Looking at its ease, even if it were to be refined for billions of years, it would not be possible to fully refine it. "Indeed, as expected, the Chaos Treasure is not easy to refine after all. But I, Laozi, have really taken a liking to you and don't believe that I won't be able to subdue you, a small pearl."

  A thought stirred, and the light wave output suddenly increased, compressing the light waves, making the light waves surrounding the Chaos Pearl more numerous and denser. Gradually, from the original formless and colorless transparent light waves, it began to take shape, only to see semi-transparent ripples constantly coming and going, washing over the Chaos Pearl, as if wanting to crush and melt it completely.

  As time passed, more and more semi-transparent wave-like patterns appeared, overlapping and entwining with each other, slowly transforming into a gelatinous substance with a glaze-like color. The surface emitted a faint seven-colored glow. Zhang Xue looked at the changes in his abilities with curiosity, after all, he had never used his powers to their full extent before, and materials like iron, copper, and gold were not worth using his full strength on in his past life.

  The aura was still strengthening and compressing, quantitative change leading to qualitative change. The crystal-like substance with a glassy color had completely transformed into a crystalline solid that tightly enveloped the Chaos Pearl. Seven-colored light rays were flashing on its surface, making it hard to gaze at directly. The Chaos Pearl also began to be assimilated into the crystal-colored mysterious substance at an almost imperceptible speed. At the same time, waves of fatigue and weakness swept in, and the originally brick-red solid-shaped soul began to gradually become hazy and indistinct.

  "It's just as I thought, my abilities come from my soul. Although they've evolved greatly due to the transmigration, their essence hasn't changed at all. If that weren't the case, how could I still have abilities after switching bodies? So it seems I was right that using my abilities consumes soul energy, which is why I'm so exhausted now. It looks like I used too much soul energy and it's starting to dissipate. If I hadn't refined the Chaos Pearl in time, I might have lost my soul. Dammit! This is infuriating - my abilities won't stop until I've refined them. Now all I can do is leave it up to fate and see who can last the longest."

  In the midst of chaos, time was lost track of, and unknowingly, tens of thousands of years had passed. In the chaos, a gigantic turtle floated quietly, its size unknown in billions of meters, its body full of ferocious energy, one look and you knew it was a fearsome beast. Our protagonist Zhang Xue also reached a critical point, where his internal treasure, the Chaos Pearl, had already been refined to one-third, shrinking by three times, and with the reduction of the Chaos Pearl, the speed of assimilation was getting faster and faster. The crystal-like substance formed by his abilities was also growing larger with time, Zhang Xue's soul was becoming thinner and thinner, now the lower half of his soul had already dissipated, leaving only his head and two hands remaining.

  Moreover, as the soul's power was constantly being consumed, negative feelings such as fatigue, weakness and drowsiness emerged one after another. Although Zhang Xue desperately mobilized the chaotic energy within her body to replenish the consumption of her soul's power.

  But still a drop in the bucket, the power of the soul is constantly decreasing, and the negative feelings of fatigue and weakness are increasing. The brain nerves are constantly being stimulated, as if there was a beautiful woman whispering in his ear, "Sleep, sleep, once you fall asleep, you won't have to suffer from these hardships anymore. As soon as your eyes close, it will all be over." Zhang Xue resisted the idea of falling asleep because he knew that if he fell asleep, the highly compressed alien energy would lose control and instantly blow him to smithereens.

  The soul energy kept flowing into the Chaos Pearl, accelerating its refinement. Zhang Xue's soul power was also constantly decreasing. The two arms gradually began to mistify from the fingertips, slowly rising to the palms, wrists, and arms were also being mistified.

  Time passed like flowing water, and the two arms had already been completely fogged up, leaving only a head that had not yet been fogged up, but it was also starting to be fogged up slowly from the neck.

  Xue Zhang is now only left with a thread of consciousness due to the various negative feelings, but her heart is filled with joy because the Chaos Pearl has been refined to just a small point. With the remaining spiritual power, she can completely refine the Chaos Pearl. As long as she can withstand the negative influences and not fall asleep, it can be said that she will succeed 100%. Xue Zhang's excited mood makes her feel that the negative influences have also decreased significantly. Her consciousness is tightly fixed on the constantly shrinking Chaos Pearl, and her mood becomes more agitated as the pearl gets smaller.

  With a loud crack, the Chaos Pearl was cut in half and refined. The water crystal substance that the Chaos Pearl had transformed into split into two parts, one large and one small. The smaller part quickly broke into small particles and flew towards all directions of the body, dispersing and merging into the body after vaporizing, disappearing without a trace.

  The body underwent earth-shaking changes, with cells throughout the body beginning to merge and reorganize with new substances. The distance between cells continued to shrink, density increasing constantly, cell membranes becoming increasingly hard, and cellular vitality ceaselessly strengthening and dividing. The entire body was undergoing astonishing transformations.

  From the outside, all that can be seen is a giant turtle constantly shrinking and growing in size, with each transformation bringing about tremendous improvements to its physical attributes, including speed, defense, and recovery abilities.

  Another large part of it quickly entered the sea of recognition and merged into Zhang Xue's soul. The soul, which had almost completely dissipated, quickly condensed, and her limbs rapidly crystallized. In a short while, her soul had returned to its original state and was still changing, with the crystal formations becoming denser and larger. At the same time, she discovered that the spiritual energy consumed when using her abilities hadn't disappeared but had merged with the material transformed by the Chaos Pearl. When it was fully refined, it would return to her body and soul together. A pleasant sensation slowly rose from the bottom of her heart, similar to the last time she had strengthened herself, but this time it was tens of thousands of times stronger. She couldn't resist for long and soon became lost in the pleasure.

  Mysterious powers surged out from the refined object of the Chaos Pearl, nourishing and strengthening Zhang Xue's soul. His soul grew larger and larger, like a towering deity in the Sea of Consciousness, radiating colorful glows all over his body.

  Inside the body of a gigantic soul, a regular polyhedral crystal appeared at some point. The inner wall of the crystal was filled with gray gas that kept rolling and made it impossible to see clearly what was inside. In the center of the crystal, there was a black hole that seemed to be constantly rotating, but had no suction power.

  If Zhang Xue woke up now and looked through the black hole with his consciousness, he would find that it was a private miniature chaos space that he had dreamed of.

  In the blink of an eye, more than 30,000 years had passed. Zhang Xue's physical body and soul were almost simultaneously strengthened to completion, and his consciousness also awakened at this moment. Immediately, the super spiritual power brought by the soul swept around, and everything within billions of miles appeared in his mind. He also discovered a tea tree-like innate spiritual root, which was the first time Zhang Xue had found an innate spiritual root on his own in the chaos. In this space that was gray and misty everywhere, he discovered a plant, and he was excited to the point where he almost couldn't wait to go take a look. However, he still managed to restrain himself internally.

  "Never mind, I'll just check my own cultivation results first." The thought arose and the entire body's everything was clear from head to toe, down to every cell.

  "How did this happen, it's not even clear yet, but the appearance has changed to be more handsome, yeah, power increased by a hundred million times, defense increased by a billion times, relying on transformation, ah, recovery ability increased by tens of millions of times, agility at least only ten thousand times. But also, turtles are originally slow, can understand. Haha, indeed the Chaos Pearl's Chaos Space was obtained by me, but how did it run into my soul, can't think about it, anyway, I got it, don't care anymore, hehe this is truly a private space, in the future, open up a small world inside and collect all the beautiful women of the universe, snatch all the spiritual roots. Let others envy, haha." Zhang Xue indulged in fantasies of a wonderful future.

  Not long after waking up from daydreaming, Zhang Xue fell into deep thought. This was one of his strengths - he would always think about the problems in everything he did. This was also one of the main reasons why his special ability had not been discovered.

  "Nowadays, the heterodox ability seems to have some problems. The kind of pleasure is too easy to get lost in, although there's no negative effect, but if I cultivate like the first time, I might never wake up again. Fortunately, the Chaos Pearl woke me up, otherwise, I would have had to wait until Pangu opened the sky and was struck by lightning. That would be too tragic. It seems that heterodox ability can't be used for cultivation anymore, but eating the Innate Treasure is no problem, as long as it's not too much at once. However, calling it heterodox ability always feels off, from now on, I'll just call it Divine Communion haha. Now there's nothing good to cultivate anyway, let's learn from our ancestors and go treasure hunting in Chaos!" Our protagonist Zhang Xue thought for a moment before setting off on his journey through Chaos without another word.