My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

Chapter 138 The Birth of the Ancestral Witch

Three thousand years was enough time for Zhao Xuan to analyze the aura of all the spiritual treasures and plants, and incidentally, he also analyzed the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array.

It can be said that over the past three thousand years, he has thoroughly understood the operating principles of this great formation.

All innate spiritual treasures are formed by fusing the innate indestructible spiritual light as their core and the mysterious substances of heaven and earth.

Each magical treasure possesses its own unique number of innate restriction layers, and these innate restriction layers directly determine the level classification of the magical treasure.

Specifically, spiritual treasures are divided into four grades: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. Among them, the low-grade spiritual treasure has a base of eighteen layers of innate restrictions; on this basis, for each grade increase, the number of innate restrictions increases by nine.

In other words, a mid-grade spiritual treasure has nineteen to twenty-seven innate restrictions, a high-grade spiritual treasure has twenty-eight to thirty-six innate restrictions, and a top-grade spiritual treasure has thirty-seven to forty-five innate restrictions.

Its limit is forty-five innate restrictions.

Of course, Lingbao, with the word "Ling" in it, means that Lingbao also has self-awareness, and in some ways it belongs to an alternative form of spiritual practice.

Therefore, spiritual treasures can be upgraded. As long as one continuously perfects one's destiny, merit will descend to evolve new innate restrictions, increasing their quality.

For example, the Three Treasures of Creation: After the Divine Axe of Creation completed its destiny of creating the world, it split into three, transforming into the Chaos Banner, the Taiji Diagram, and the Chaos Bell.

The three treasures' destiny is that, in the process of the evolution of heaven and earth, the Chaos Bell establishes the chaotic earth, wind, water, and fire; the Chaos Banner shatters the chaotic stagnation; and the Taiji Diagram differentiates yin and yang.

After the world stabilized, the Three Treasures fulfilled their destiny and received the merit of creating the world. This directly generated four new innate restrictions, improving their quality and making them supreme treasures.

Once the number of innate restrictions exceeds forty-five and reaches forty-nine, such a spiritual treasure can be called a supreme treasure, and its power is beyond imagination.

Moreover, even innate spiritual roots actually contain innate restrictions.

Similar to spiritual treasures, they are also divided into four grades: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and supreme-grade. In addition, the ten primordial spiritual roots are equivalent to supreme treasures and are listed separately as first-grade.

In this way, spiritual treasures and spiritual roots can be divided into five different grades.

However, the innate restrictions on spiritual treasures and spiritual roots actually involve the clash between the consciousness of Pangu and the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao.

The innate, indestructible spiritual light within a spiritual treasure represents the condensation of a human's fruition, while the innate, indestructible spiritual light within a spiritual root represents the condensation of an earthly fruition. In the laws, the innate, indestructible spiritual light represents the condensation of a heavenly fruition.

According to Pangu's original plan, the primordial world needed to go through three immeasurable eons: Heaven, Earth, and Man. In each of these three immeasurable eons, different rulers would emerge.

They will take charge of these three thousand positions and guide the primordial world to develop and move forward according to the established plan.

In this way, the primordial world will continue to evolve amidst endless wars and conflicts, but at the same time, the position of fruition is a glimmer of hope left by Pangu.

However, things did not go as smoothly as Pangu had hoped.

Originally, the Heavenly Dao should have been the first ruler of the world, evolved from the consciousness of Pangu. However, some powerful beings interfered and enlightened the Three Thousand Laws, giving them the power to rival the consciousness of Pangu. This is the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World as it is now.

From then on, the Heavenly Dao was trying to stop Pangu's plan, which forced Pangu's consciousness to transform into the Law of the Great Calamity to fight against the Heavenly Dao.

The spiritual root and the spiritual treasure should have been born during the second and third immeasurable kalpas, respectively. However, in order to seize the fortune of the earth and human realms and weaken the influence of Pangu's consciousness, the Heavenly Dao actually allowed the spiritual root and the two treasures to be born during the first immeasurable kalpa.

Faced with such provocation, the Pangu consciousness would naturally not sit idly by.

Thus, various complex and ingenious restrictions were created in spiritual roots and spiritual treasures to prevent them from being completely refined by others.

Furthermore, it establishes a destiny for the spiritual root and the spiritual treasure. If the destiny is not fulfilled, then it will be impossible to completely refine the spiritual root and the spiritual treasure.

Therefore, if Heaven wants the fortune of Earth and Humanity, it must ensure that these spiritual treasures and their owners successfully fulfill Heaven's mandate.

Therefore, although the Heavenly Dao differs from the consciousness of the Great God Pangu, it still needs to follow the process set by Pangu, since the destiny of spiritual plants and spiritual treasures is scattered throughout the development history of the prehistoric world.

For example, the destiny of the Red Embroidered Ball, the supreme innate spiritual treasure of the sage Nuwa, is to witness the marriage ceremony of Heaven, Earth, and Man. Therefore, if the Red Embroidered Ball is to take another step forward, the human race must appear; otherwise, how can it witness human marriage?

For example, the destiny of the Fallen Treasure Coin is to serve as a monetary template, so the way of trade must emerge in the primordial world.

Furthermore, regarding the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, the "Heaven" mentioned here is truly full of mysteries.

Whether this "heaven" refers to the Way of Heaven, the primordial world, or destiny, perhaps only the Primordial Heavenly Venerable himself knows.

The mystery of the Myriad Treasures Body Refining Array lies in its ability to temporarily ignore the inherent limitations of destiny imposed on spiritual treasures or plants, thereby allowing them to fully unleash their inherent power.

The word "treasure" in the so-called "ten thousand treasures" not only encompasses spiritual treasures and precious objects, but also implies the three treasures of the cultivator himself.

In short, the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array works by burning the three treasures within a cultivator's body, as well as the precious energy contained within those treasures, to continuously supply a limited number of spiritual treasures and plants, ultimately pushing them to the perfect state where all innate restrictions have been refined.

The existence of the innate, indestructible spiritual light allowed Wanbao to replace the Zhou Tian Xing Dou (a constellation of stars) and successfully set up the Wanbao Refining Heaven Array, which was even more agile and infinitely powerful than the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Array.

After three thousand years of fierce battles, Zhao Xuan had completely understood all the secrets of the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array.

Then, taking advantage of the situation, when the spiritual treasures and plants were completely unsealed, they struck at their vital points, using their powerful strength to disintegrate their bodies and release the innate, indestructible spiritual light hidden within.

Whether representing the Way of Heaven, the Way of Earth, or the Way of Humanity, the total number of Dao Fruits is only a mere three thousand.

However, the number of spiritual treasures and spiritual plants is far more than that.

The reason why those low-grade and mid-grade spiritual treasures or spiritual plants cannot be used to sever the corpse and prove the Dao is precisely because the innate immortal spiritual light contained within them is incomplete.

Normally, a complete innate immortal spiritual light will split and give rise to several spiritual treasures or spiritual plants.

Although most of the powerful spiritual treasures have been taken away from the prehistoric world by various powerful beings, or have long been used to sever corpses, even just a small portion of the innate immortal spiritual light that remains is enough to drive most cultivators in the prehistoric world crazy.

Not to mention those magical treasures that are refined later in life. To successfully create such treasures, one usually needs to consume an astonishing number of various rare and precious natural materials.

After these magical treasures disintegrate, the original power of the natural treasures they contain will gradually return to the primordial world.

This process is like a gentle rain falling on the primordial land, bringing boundless vitality to it.

After Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi self-destructed, the true spirits that originally belonged to Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi in the River of True Spirits instantly returned to their proper places.

This creates the illusion that Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi escaped from the River of True Spirits and were then suppressed.

With the self-destruction of Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, many immortals and gods suffered heavy blows, and the losses were extremely serious.

Even so, they breathed a deep sigh of relief.

After all, at least their lives were temporarily spared, which was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune for them.

Unfortunately, it's clear that these gods and immortals were celebrating too soon.

Even before the war began, the human race openly defied Yuanshi Tianzun. At that time, out of consideration for the greater good of maintaining the safety of heaven and earth, Yuanshi Tianzun suppressed his anger and did not retaliate.

But now, the human race is within the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array.

The Chaos Banner held by Yuanshi Tianzun served as the base of the formation, giving him complete control over the aura of the one who set up the formation.

For him, this was the perfect opportunity to teach the human race a lesson, so he didn't hesitate to use his array authority to decisively sever the connection between the array and the human race.

All human members who participated in the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array suffered the backlash of the array.

Fortunately, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors did not step into that formation. They quickly stabilized the auras of the humans in danger by relying on their own auras.

However, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors merely glanced coldly at the Primordial Heavenly Venerable before retreating to the human territory without a second thought.

This sudden turn of events caused all the immortals and gods present to change their expressions drastically.

It should be known that humans are known for their vengeful nature and their capacity for remembering and seeking revenge.

If Yuanshi Tianzun is to leave the prehistoric world as expected, then the innocent immortals and gods will have to bear the brunt of humanity's future resentment.

Upon realizing this, the immortals and gods couldn't help but feel fear and unease.

After the human race had completely left, the Primordial Celestial Venerable held a grand Heavenly Peace Assembly to celebrate.

The banquet was extremely luxurious, with a dazzling array of delicacies and fine wines, and a lively and festive atmosphere filled with singing and dancing.

However, just as everyone was enjoying the joyful atmosphere, no one expected that a dramatic upheaval was quietly about to unfold.

Before the banquet of the Heavenly Assembly had even come to an end, a loud "boom" was heard, and the entire Heavenly Court was instantly thrown into chaos.

A colossal figure, wielding a giant axe and topped with a thirty-six-petaled lotus platform, suddenly appeared on the Flowing Sand River.

At this moment, Tang Xuanzang, the Six-Eared Macaque, Zhu Wujing, the White Dragon Ao Lie, and Sha Wujing himself, who had just arrived at the banks of the Liusha River and had not yet subdued Sha Wujing, were directly suppressed to the bottom of the Liusha River by a force.

In an instant, the once bustling An Tian Conference seemed to be struck by a thunderbolt, instantly becoming completely silent.

Immediately following was an uproar, as everyone realized that the figure wielding the giant axe was none other than Pangu, the legendary ancestor who created the world.

Upon seeing this, the primordial celestial being's anger erupted like a volcano.

He felt that this behavior was a desecration and insult to him.

Therefore, without even needing the Buddhists to speak, Yuanshi Tianzun had already made up his mind to immediately launch an attack on the other side in order to maintain his own dignity.

Surprisingly, despite the enraged Yuanshi Tianzun, almost no one responded to his call.

Even the Sage Taiqing and the Sage Nuwa chose to remain silent and did not express their support for the decision of the Primordial Heavenly Lord.

The reason why so many immortals and gods were unwilling to respond to the call of Yuanshi Tianzun is actually very simple and clear.

Back when they fought against the Emperor and Donghuang Taiyi, at least they had the powerful Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Formation to rely on, and each of them had some extremely precious spiritual treasures to defend themselves and their enemies.

But who would have thought that after setting up this formation just once, all the magical treasures he possessed would be destroyed and disappear without a trace.

Moreover, if we were to redeploy our forces now to meet the enemy, wouldn't that mean we would have to face them bare-handed? This is clearly unacceptable.

In fact, if the Chaos Banner and the Auspicious Clouds of the Heavens, which were once the spiritual objects of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, were also damaged, then perhaps people could feel a little more at ease.

After all, even the sage Yuanshi Tianzun himself suffered such a huge loss, so naturally no one else could say anything.

But that's precisely where the problem lies—neither the Chaos Banner, nor the Heavenly Auspicious Clouds, nor the Taiji Diagram of the Supreme Purity Sage, nor the Mountain and River Map of the Nuwa Sage, nor the Red Embroidered Ball suffered any damage.

Furthermore, by resisting the great calamity, they gained countless benefits.

The spiritual treasures of Yuanshi Tianzun, Taiqing Shengren, and Nuwa Shengren could not be completely refined and subdued.

This is why, despite their fame, these magical treasures are actually unable to unleash their full power.

These treasures are all top-grade spiritual treasures, and some of them are even at the level of supreme treasures, so refining them is extremely difficult.

Even saints have not been able to completely refine it, or perhaps they dare not to completely refine it.

Without the constraints of innate restrictions, spiritual treasures or spiritual plants will naturally take shape.

For example, when a Quasi-Saint slays a corpse, the reason why the severed corpse sometimes develops self-awareness and does not obey the original body's command is because the spiritual treasure has not been fully refined, and the spiritual treasure's self-awareness has an influence.

Therefore, when setting up an array, the spiritual treasures activated by the three treasures of the person setting up the array and the spiritual energy emitted by the treasures can only be these spiritual treasures.

The Sage Taiqing is currently in a predicament of being sealed, so the base of the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array naturally does not contain the Taiji Diagram, the Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda, the Boundless Whisk, the Immortal Binding Rope, or the Vajra Bracelet, which are spiritual treasures that the Sage Taiqing carries with him.

However, the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the Purple Gold Gourd, and the Taiji Talisman were still brought out by the Primordial Celestial Venerable from the Eight Trigrams Palace, along with the Chaos Banner, the Heavenly Auspicious Clouds, the Nine Dragon Chariot, the Primordial Talisman, the Map of Mountains and Rivers, and the Red Embroidered Ball.

The nine supreme spiritual treasures and supreme treasures serve as the nine core array bases of the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array.

A sage is called a sage because he or she possesses extraordinary qualities.

Their perception abilities were far beyond those of ordinary people. Just as Zhao Xuan transformed into Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, according to the usual logic, as the core array base of the Myriad Treasures Refining Heaven Array, they should have gone to help the people who set up the array to bear the damage.

However, to everyone's surprise, at this critical moment, the Primordial Celestial Venerable subtly transferred the fatal damage that should have been borne by the core array base to the spiritual treasures and spiritual roots held by those who participated in setting up the array.