novelraw Chapter 206 : The Marvel of 【Dao Birth One】
Chapter 206 : The Marvel of 【Dao Birth One】
Chapter 206: The Marvel of 【Dao Birth One】
That formless giant sword seemed to have pierced straight through the Nascent Soul at this moment.
The Heart Sword's effectiveness against such spiritual bodies was simply overwhelming.
Very soon, Ye Kongxuan’s Nascent Soul was already on the brink of death, with only the last wisp of his Soul Seed remaining.
Chu Huaixu thought for a moment, then took out the Golden Alms Bowl from his Storage Token.
“Old Nascent Soul dog, you love barking so much—might as well capture you.”
He began activating the formation within the Golden Alms Bowl and sucked Ye Kongxuan’s Nascent Soul into the 【Jiligulu Holy Water】—whose name he still hadn’t remembered properly.
Very quickly, a wisp of air rose in the water.
However, its hue was different from the previous Soul Seed.
It was golden.
The golden airflow darted around like a frantic little fish in the water, crashing about wildly as if trying to escape the seal.
Yet no matter how hard it struggled, all was in vain.
The Soul Seed of the Nascent Soul was in fact very fragile—it was just that its Rank was too high, making it impossible for cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm to utterly annihilate it.
Seeing it so agitated, Chu Huaixu reenacted the scene from the grand hall that day.
He slightly lowered his head and glanced at it.
In that instant, the golden airflow froze completely!
Because it sensed—that one glance could erase it entirely!
The so-called undying and indestructible Nascent Soul, now, its life and death lay within a single thought of his!
Chu Huaixu held the Golden Alms Bowl, quietly observing it for a while.
After making sure there were no issues, he stored it into his Storage Token.
Then, he walked over to that body that had nearly been drained dry.
Ye Kongxuan’s Possessed body now barely resembled a human anymore.
It had already aged significantly due to the effects of the 【Profound Nether Blood Ignition】—transforming from a young man into someone in his forties or fifties.
Now, it looked even more withered, with parts of it completely drained.
Aside from that, although Chu Huaixu had been heavily injured, the other side was in no better shape.
The Possessed body was covered in wounds, some of which were quite horrifying.
Only now did he have the leisure to glance at his own injuries.
“Yo, these two bloody holes are pretty scary.” He looked utterly unconcerned.
Chu Huaixu squatted down and placed his hand on the forehead of the dried corpse.
With a firm press, he dug out the 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】 embedded in the center of the brow.
Once he obtained it, the moment he opened his palm, it floated up on its own.
“Ugh, embedded in his flesh… I feel like it’s tainted.” Chu Huaixu frowned slightly, a bit regretful.
Just then, he heard the call of his life-bound item in his mind.
The Artifact Spirit of the Medicinal Cauldron—usually only known for crying about hunger—was reacting intensely at this moment!
So much so that the black bead on the sword scabbard floated into the air!
It was, again, crying out in hunger.
But this time, it didn’t want to consume the Dao Canon power within Chu Huaixu’s body.
It wanted the Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin!
Even more outrageously, the degree of craving shown by 【Dao Birth One】 at this moment was already bordering on uncontrollable.
Were it not for Chu Huaixu being its master and actively suppressing it, it might have devoured the fragment on its own.
“You want it that badly?” Chu Huaixu asked.
Unfortunately, the Artifact Spirit remained as dumb as ever, simply wailing louder.
“Is it of great use to you?” Chu Huaixu asked again.
The hunger cries intensified even more.
This caused him to fall into brief hesitation.
First of all, he wasn’t even sure if both Origin Fragments could belong to him.
Because according to the original agreement, once Chu Huaixu entered the Origin Spirit Realm, the fragment within was promised to him.
However, the rest of the spoils were to be temporarily borrowed by the Dao Gate.
The reason was simple—the Xuanhuang Realm's understanding of the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven was limited.
Bringing back corpses, magical treasures, and Storage Bags for research might improve their knowledge of Kunlun Grotto-Heaven.
Know thyself and thy enemy, and a hundred battles without loss.
Chu Huaixu didn’t mind this arrangement.
Since the items were just being kept in the sect temporarily, if he wanted to participate in research, he could.
For instance, if the Storage Bag contained Kunlun Sect’s cultivation methods or techniques, he naturally had the right to view them.
If there was something he wanted to use, he could take it.
On top of that, the Dao Gate would also pay him generous Sect Contribution Points as rental compensation.
“But the 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】... it concerns the Nine Realms Grand Dao,” Chu Huaixu thought to himself.
Yet 【Dao Birth One】 was his life-bound magical treasure—his most vital possession.
Its power and marvel were beyond need for explanation.
Moreover, even if he wanted to hide it, he couldn’t.
Even if he put the 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】 into his Storage Token, it couldn't escape Jiang Zhi’s detection.
Because his body already contained Origin Power!
Still, just as Chu Huaixu thought earlier—now that he possessed uniqueness, then——he was the grand design!
“I’ll just act first and explain later, saying the Dao Ancestor’s Sword Scabbard somehow absorbed it on its own.”
“With how important I am, they wouldn’t deny me the other fragment, right!?”
Chu Huaixu puffed up his chest, clenched his butt, tucked in his belly, and confidently believed—absolutely impossible!
But if he brought out both fragments, the situation would change.
“My original plan was that if conditions allowed, I’d keep one for myself, then gradually get another for Big Ice Block and Little Xu each.”
“Why did you suddenly pop up too!” he thought, both amused and exasperated.
Yet from a rational standpoint, without love-brain interference, 【Dao Birth One】’s priority was actually higher than Han Shuangjiang’s.
“Because next year, the second layer of the Origin Spirit Realm will open.”
Given Chu Huaixu’s vanity and arrogance, of course he believed he was the only rightful choice!
And 【Dao Birth One】 and the Heart Sword were his two biggest trump cards.
The stronger his life-bound magical treasure was, the greater his odds when entering the second layer of the 【Origin Spirit Realm】.
“As long as I win, I can get at least one more Origin Fragment.”
“If Kunlun Grotto-Heaven continues their buy-one-get-one promotion, then I can get two again!”
As long as he kept killing all the way up, there would be a Fragment of Origin on every level!
While deep in thought, Chu Huaixu suddenly felt an itch on his back.
He was currently carrying the black sword scabbard, and the black bead had floated up, rubbing against his back.
Clearly, it was craving far too much—it couldn’t hold back any longer.
Chu Huaixu gritted his teeth and muttered,
“Senior Sister Han, this 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】 was embedded in someone else’s flesh—it’s filthy.”
“Your junior here will go get you another one next year.”
He raised his palm and gestured: “Here, eat up.”
The 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】 was instantly absorbed into the black bead and then refined and devoured by the Medicinal Cauldron.
Honestly, Chu Huaixu still didn’t understand—this thing was meant for cultivators to reach the Ninth Realm. Yet a magical treasure could absorb it?
Still, he had to admit—after being fed a Fragment, the gluttonous cauldron stopped whining for the first time.
He sent his Divine Sense into the black bead, wanting to see how the Medicinal Cauldron was absorbing the Fragment.
“Damn, you can multitask too? Grabbing with both hands, huh?” he muttered, speechless.
Inside the cauldron, it was still refining the remaining Baleful Aura, attempting to condense them into 【Baleful Pills】.
From the looks of it, not much Baleful Aura remained, and just as Chu Huaixu had thought earlier, at most, it could make 1 or 2 more.
“If it runs out, can I go absorb more from the Evil Sword?” Chu Huaixu wondered.
But he guessed that, for the Bronze Sword, Baleful Aura wasn’t something that could regenerate infinitely.
He felt that every bit 【Dao Birth One】 absorbed would be permanently lost from the Bronze Sword, never replenished.
Meanwhile, on the cauldron’s inner right side, it was absorbing the wisp of Origin Power within the Fragment.
The fragment was visibly shrinking at a rate the naked eye could see.
“The Sect Master said, with my cultivation and realm, to digest and absorb this wisp of Origin Power, I’d have to enter seclusion for at least one or two months.”
“The exact duration varies from person to person.”
“Also, during this time, I must keep my mind clear, or I could suffer Qi Deviation.”
“Looking at this cauldron now, I wonder if it’ll finish absorbing it before I even leave the Origin Spirit Realm!”
“How are you even doing this?”
“You seem weirdly skilled at absorbing it…” Chu Huaixu was puzzled.
Could it be that the Dao Ancestor had fed it too?
Maybe the reason it was so greedy was because it had tasted it before and still savored the flavor?
Chu Huaixu found that entirely plausible.
“Then what level of magical treasure is 【Dao Birth One】 exactly?”
“Even that old geezer Jiang Zhi only refined one Origin Fragment!” he began to daydream wildly.
But soon, his attention turned to that Baleful Pill.
“What… is that?” He was slightly stunned.
Previously, to prevent the Baleful Pill from devouring everything, including Ye Kongxuan’s Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin, Chu Huaixu had stashed it away inside 【Dao Birth One】 early on, without even inspecting it.
In fact, he couldn’t even summon it back using his Spiritual Energy—it had to be absorbed using the power of 【Dao Birth One】.
Because any Spiritual Energy that touched the Baleful Pill was instantly devoured.
Now, inside the Medicinal Cauldron, it was clearly separated from everything else.
It wasn’t mixed with the rest of the Baleful Aura, and it was far from the fragment on the right side.
As if everything inside was being completely controlled by 【Dao Birth One】!
Baleful Pills, Baleful Aura, Origin Fragments… wherever Master Cauldron tells you to sit, you sit. Stay in line!
But the strange part was, previously, the Baleful Pill had looked like a semi-transparent bead with swirling dark bluish-black Baleful Aura inside.
“Now though, what’s this thing inside?”
Within the Baleful Pill, Chu Huaixu saw a cluster of four-colored light.
He tried casting an 【Information Probe】 toward it—surprisingly, he actually got a result.
According to the system’s feedback, this thing turned out to be:
——【Four Symbols Spirit Root】!