novelraw Chapter 1346 - 1345 - Origin Complete
Chapter 1346 - 1345 - Origin Complete
What makes a person who they are? Where do thoughts originate? Is morality inborn or learned? So many questions were debated on the fundamentals of existence but Lind realized he was but a child as he faced the pieces of origin around him.
Some were happy conversations where he learned of joy and success or simple companionship. Others were confrontational to desperate bids to live again.
Some were in denial too but the trial did not allow either party to accept such a path.
As time passed, Lind changed. He had studied every facet of cultivation to an almost ridiculous extreme but he had sorely underestimated the depths he was treading.
His harmony and Soul Cores were the beginning. He had to fully grasp the tempo of tempering vs building up his cultivation foundation. It was a slow but necessary process. One slip and he would be crippled like all the other 6 elementals.
After that, he had been confronted quite literally with the barebones truth of the World Realm. It transformed the dantian to prepare for the Sky Realm.
It condensed, transfigured, and broke through the limits until the first step to shedding mortality could be achieved.
The Sky Realm was the first cultivation realm that seemed easy to Lind. Once the Sky Core was created, it was simply a matter of condensing elements and moving up the tiers. His had been complicated by his unique existence.
He learned about sub cores and that should have been the first true hint he had not fully plumbed the depths of the cultivation path.
It was the Heaven Realm that truly revealed how wrong his assumptions were. He was confronted not only with the literal skipping of the Star Tier but the subsequent wars with the Soulmancers and the Fiends revealed the limits of his understanding.
He was introduced to Laws far earlier than he should have been and he also learned he could be more. He could actually grasp all 18 elements!
That was the true origin of his cultivation path. His desire to understand it all and not mess up so badly again led to his body no longer being compatible in the Immortal Realm.
He had to literally almost die and lost it to have a chance to lay a new foundation for his body. He was truly walking a far more complex path but had overlooked one last aspect of his existence.
His soul.
He had thought that combining the 3 elemental systems into half-step Dao elemental nodes would refine his harmony but the truth was his harmony was not entirely merged with his original soul.
Things had changed too quickly and far more drastically than even his harmony could keep up with. His harmony had literally grown too dangerous for his Immortal soul!
It was closer to the Divine than any other part of him!
A solution had escaped him but the beginning of his path seemed to now offer a solution one last time.
The 6 Primordial Immortals had survived to become Divine Realm cultivators. Some of them had anyway. They knew the importance of refining all aspects of an Immortal and sent 3 Inheritances to do just that.
They could only increase the chances, no more than that, but a quirk had shown up. They had not realized one of the Ruins they left behind would awaken the 6 elemental mortal path!
Lind was an anomaly far beyond their best projections!
Now, he was in the midst of refining his soul to the limit. He was confronting the source of his existence from the long samsara of his existence. James was his Earthly life that directly preceded his cultivation life. They were truly one.
The beings around him were all the souls that had been scattered for various reasons over untold epochs that eventually led to James.
He was unsure when things began to blur but what had been a long process was getting faster. His soul was changing but not being buried by the past.
He was stronger! He could actually feel a connection to Heaven and Earth ever so faintly! The connection was not weak, it was just his perception of it that was. He was a mere Immortal and he was starting to realize how limited the Immortal path had become.
Complacency, wars, and various reasons combined but the Celestial Fields had lost too much. What was once common sense had been lost because it was never recorded. What was once a relatively known process became shrouded in mystery and a lot of luck.
The Primordials were right to create the Inheritances. Lind slowly grasped how much he had ignored his soul out of an assumption.
An Immortal was defined by their soul fusing to their crystal due to the Laws changing them. As the comprehension of Laws improved, the power of the crystal advanced. It was how an Immortal Realm progressed in the tiers.
It was also how the life of a soul was improved but that did not improve the quality much at all!
Ideas formed and Lind suddenly stopped. There were far more souls but some had a knowing look as he assumed a lotus position.
He was making things harder than they had to be. He was in a trial but the concept was the point of it! Refine his soul!
Laws were only part of the equation as he really took a look at his dragon soul. The coiled shape was strong, massive, and much more solid than before.
His new understanding let him see the weaknesses in it. Structure was simply a projection. The substance behind it was what mattered!
His senses finally saw his soul in a new light and his crystal changed. It became sharper in his body and far more resilient. The beings around him became fainter as incorporated elements, Laws, and even pseudo-Dao into his very essence.
He shored up the weaknesses until his actual soul opened its eyes!
The world changed in that moment and his projection was yanked back into his body. His emerald eyes snapped open and the world around him was changed.
He suddenly felt closer to the elemental Qi and the Laws than ever before! His body was a vessel, housing him, but it was no longer as integral as before.
"Separation of soul and body. We stopped doing that." Lind grasped it and realized the Divine Realm cultivators must be seeing the poor start of the Celestial Fields. The number of Divine Realm cultivators were dropping faster than they could be replaced.
Solution: re-educate the Immortal Realms on the missing pieces!
The understanding was not all that Lind achieved. His soul was complete! His origin was now truly fused to his harmony!
The roar of a dragon was joined with a feeling of joy from the Heavens.
[Congratulations, Master.] Haro's voice made him narrow as a lot of questions appeared but he then recalled that Haro was under a lot of restrictions.
{Origin Trial Complete - Assessment Commencing}
Lind snapped up as that update reminded him he was in a trial. Had he wasted too much time or used a method that was unacceptable?
He sighed as he pushed his worries aside to quickly imprint one jade slip after another. He had to ensure what he had just learned was spread across the Celestial Fields.
Doing it all at once as a Radiant Tier was dangerous and unnecessary if he had started as a Sliver Tier or even laying the foundation at the peak of the Sun Tier in the Heaven Realm.
He was just wrapping up a 3rd copy when the prompts appeared in his mind once more.
{Assessment results: Candidate has Divine analytical ability, acceptable integration, and Divine Soul perfected.}
He arched an eyebrow at that. Was that all good or simply an evaluation of his final result? Could he advance?
He was about to ask when the previously revealed corridor echoed with footsteps once more. There was only a pair but he drew his full attention as felt an aura far above his own.
He had only felt such a difference once before.
It was no mere remnant coming, but a full blown Divine Realm!
A figure slowly emerged but did not leave the corridor. Their features were hidden but the pressure was clear as day.
"So, you are the odd ball, eh?" The irreverent words broke the tension but then Lind felt an attempt to probe him. He retaliated out of instinct but did not expect to succeed in repelling it with ease!
A smart nod came from the figure.
"Good! I trust the blasted formations about as far as I can throw the whole realm! They can be fooled with the right approach so a final confirmation is good! Now, stop looking like a lost lamb and follow me. You need to face the next phase of the Foundation Trial." The figure whipped around but Lind was frozen.
What was going on? Why could he understand the words but no voice was heard? Not even a mental message lacked a tone to it like that! Further, just what happened?! What was–?
He was suddenly forcibly pulled into the cold corridor and the door slammed shut behind him.
"Listen here, sonny boy, you have spent the better part of 3000 years already here. While that is impressive, that little girl of yours is breezing through her trials like they are so many stick figures. Stop lollygagging and get to it!" So many questions came to Lind but he had no chance to voice them as he was unceremoniously tossed down the corridor like a missile!
The world blurred until another golden door appeared. He barely saw the sigils light up before it slammed open and he crashed into a glass pane.
He felt pain after the distinct crack of bone echoed in his body. He quickly healed but mentally he was still back in the corridor.
"Haro, was that–?" He did not even finish when the connection to all 3 of his spirits vanished.
"Enough of that. While they won't break the rules, you like to talk too much. Think too much too but at least it is fast. The seal will break once the full trial is over. Get going and do not waste more time!" Lind saw the figure still in the corridor.
"You are the Soul of the Primordial Incarnate?" His question finally made the figure freeze before an irritated sigh left him.
"I am what is left and whatever that annoyingly obsessed healer told you should be ignored! You have better things to do, Lind Frey! Get to them or by the time you leave, all you love will be long dead!" The golden door slammed shut and Lind was left with so many more questions.
The Divine Creator was odd but he was mostly like him. A researcher and a person with a vivid desire to know what was possible. It seemed the current Primordial was a cranky old person!