Primordial Era: From the Creation Lotus to the First Disciple of the Three Pure Ones

"A myriad-transformation spiritual treasure?" Laozi and Yuanshi asked simultaneously, their voices filled with a mixture of doubt and intense interest.

"Excellent!" Tongtian's eyes shone brightly.

"This treasure does not need a fixed form! It can be a sword, a tower, a bell, or a diagram! As long as its core imprint contains the Dao mark of the corresponding spiritual treasure, the holder can activate its origin to simulate and transform part of the spiritual treasure's form and power!"

While it is impossible to be completely identical to the original, especially those top-tier innate treasures, as long as the imprint is clear enough, simulating sixty or seventy percent of its power, or even evoking a trace of its original Daoist charm, it will be enough to astound the world!

More importantly, it can adapt to any situation, making it a thousand times more powerful than a single-function magic weapon. This truly aligns with the essence of the "Treasure Dividing Cliff," making the most of everything and reaching the heavens!

Tongtian's words were like thunderclaps, exploding in the hearts of Laozi and Yuanshi!

What a bold idea! How ingenious! To transform the mundane into the magical, the chaotic into the ever-changing! To transform the "history" of Treasure Sharing Cliff, which holds countless treasures, into its ever-changing "ability" for the future! This is simply a revolutionary innovation in the art of weapon crafting!

The tranquility of non-action in Lao Tzu's eyes was shattered, and for the first time, he revealed obvious praise and amazement: "Wonderful! Wonderful indeed! Third Brother's idea is unconventional and deeply captures the essence of the Heavenly Dao! Using the Dao Traces of Myriad Treasures as the source and simulating the form of myriad treasures, this path... is feasible!"

Even the majestic face of the Primordial Celestial Venerable showed a rare flush of excitement as he clapped his hands and said, "Excellent! Excellent! If this treasure is completed, it will be neither offensive nor defensive, yet it can be both offensive and defensive, ever-changing and infinitely mysterious!"

Its potential might even surpass that of a top-tier spiritual treasure with a single attribute! This perfectly aligns with our desire to tailor-make a powerful protective artifact for our disciple, Qinglian! Third Brother, this plan is brilliant!

The Three Pure Ones instantly reached a consensus!

To forge an unprecedented "Myriad Transformations Spiritual Treasure"! This is not only to solve the problem of the Treasure Distribution Cliff, but also an ultimate challenge and verification of one's own Great Dao and the Dao of weapon forging!

"Qinglian, watch closely! This is a rare treasure, unprecedented in the primordial world, that the three of us have worked together to forge for you!" Tongtian said to Qinglian with great pride.

Qinglian was already deeply moved by his master's ingenious idea! A myriad-transformation spiritual treasure! Simulating the power of myriad treasures! Such a concept was unheard of! He immediately composed himself and solemnly said, "This disciple will certainly observe it carefully and live up to Master's high expectations!"

The refining process has officially begun! The location is right here in the main hall of the Sanqing Palace!

Lao Tzu made the first move. From the auspicious clouds above his head, the innate treasure Taiji Diagram suddenly flew out, instantly transforming into a massive golden bridge spanning the void!

The Yin and Yang energies, like two living primordial dragons, connected head to tail, flowed slowly, stabilizing all elements within the hall—earth, water, fire, and wind—and solidifying the core space. The entire hall seemed to transform into a gigantic, invisible Bagua furnace!

"Hmph!" Laozi shouted, flicked his finger, and a wisp of pure Samadhi True Fire, seemingly containing the essence of fire, merged into the yin-yang fish eye of the Taiji diagram!

Instantly, a gentle yet all-consuming heat spread out, not violent, but carrying a profound and mysterious power that harmonizes yin and yang and returns to simplicity.

With a flick of his sleeve, the stone seal of the Dividing Treasure Cliff in his palm flew into the core of the Taiji Diagram where Yin and Yang energies intersected!

As soon as the chaotic stone entered, it emitted a soft "hissing" sound, and its surface was covered with a layer of warm luster.

Lao Tzu formed a mudra with his hands, like the most skilled alchemist, using the Tai Chi diagram as a furnace and the Samadhi fire as a catalyst to draw upon the creative power of heaven and earth and begin the "refining" process!

He did not intend to melt this stubborn, chaotic stone, but rather to use his supreme cultivation to guide, organize, and harmonize the chaotic origin within the stone seal!

The Yin and Yang energies act like the most precise carving knife, carefully removing the violent, mixed, and useless chaotic impurities from the stone seal, while preserving and condensing its purest, most resilient, and most malleable chaotic stone essence.

This process is extremely slow and requires incredibly precise control. The slightest mistake could damage the very foundation of the stone seal or trigger a chaotic backlash.

Lao Tzu's expression was solemn, his mind completely immersed in the process of refining the form, as if he were carving the most precious piece of jade in the world.

Just as Lao Tzu was sorting out the foundation of chaos, the Tongtian Sect Leader's eyes flashed with a sharp light! He pointed his fingers like a sword and pointed at the stone seal from afar!

"Charge!"

A clear, resonant sword cry echoed throughout the hall! The phantom images of the Four Swords of Zhuxian instantly appeared behind Tongtian, not to display their killing intent, but to evolve into countless fine, mysterious, and unpredictable strands of sword energy!

These sword energy threads contain Tongtian's ultimate understanding of "seizing a single thread" and "destroying all laws," and also carry a sharp edge that sees through the essence of all things!

With a series of sharp points, the Heaven-Reaching Sword Pointer unleashed countless strands of sword energy, like the most skillful embroidery needles, precisely piercing the countless shimmering, intricate spiritual treasure marks on the surface of the stone seal! This was not destruction, but guidance, organization, and engraving!

Using his unparalleled sword cultivation as a brush and the intent of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword as ink, he began to inscribe an unprecedented and incredibly complex "Myriad Treasures Dao Traces Resonance Array" on the relatively pure chaotic stone substrate that Lao Tzu had sorted out!

Each strand of sword energy that falls precisely captures, pulls, and fixes one or more fragments of spiritual treasure Dao traces that are of the same origin or mutually generated, separating them from their chaotic state, like untangling a tangled mess, weaving and embedding them into the nodes of the forming array!

Where the sword energy passed, the originally chaotic and flickering fragments of Dao traces began to become orderly and clear, and faintly resonated with the core of the formation!

Qinglian was mesmerized!

Tongtian's movements were incredibly fast, yet crystal clear. The billions of sword threads seemed to come alive, performing the ultimate art of array formation within a small space!

This requires an incredibly terrifying level of control over one's primordial spirit and a profound understanding of the Dao and the myriad treasures of the Dao! This is no longer weapon crafting, but the dance of the Great Dao!

When Lao Tzu had refined the primordial rock base material into an increasingly warm, resilient, and heaven-reaching "Myriad Treasures Dao Traces Resonance Array" and completed nearly half of it, and countless Dao trace fragments began to flicker in an orderly manner and faintly flow with precious light, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable moved!

His face was solemn and majestic! The jade ruyi above his head shone brightly, and the phantom of the Pangu Banner fluttered in the wind!

"With the blessing of the Dao, order is forever secure!"

The Primordial Celestial Venerable roared in a deep voice, his voice like the divine pronouncement of the Heavenly Dao! He formed hand seals, drawing upon his supreme Daoist essence that governs the order of heaven and earth and elucidates the principles of the Heavenly Dao!

A vast, magnificent, and imbued Jade Purity Immortal Light, containing the will of "establishing principles and constancy" and "all laws returning to their origin," burst forth from his hand, like the Milky Way falling from the heavens, and instantly poured into the core of the stone seal that was being refined!

The moment the Jade Purity Immortal Light merged in, the entire stone seal underwent a wondrous transformation!

The primordial chaotic stone that Lao Tzu refined seemed to have been infused with a "skeleton" and a "soul," becoming more stable and more spiritual.

The countless sword energy threads engraved in the Heavenly Inscription and the fragments of the Myriad Treasures Dao Traces that they were pulling along, under the guidance of the Jade Purity Dao Rhyme, flowed like rivers flowing into the sea, and the originally somewhat awkward resonance instantly became smooth and natural!

Those shimmering fragments of Dao traces seemed to be endowed with the meaning of "order." They were no longer simply piled up together, but formed a mysterious system that could stimulate and transform each other!

The entire "Myriad Treasures Dao Traces Resonance Array" was fully activated, emanating a magnificent Daoist charm that was all-encompassing yet orderly!

The three Qing forces joined together, each displaying their unique abilities, achieving perfect cooperation!

Lao Tzu established a solid foundation, harmonized Yin and Yang, and transformed the chaotic, stubborn rock into the most perfect vessel;

The Heavenly Embroidery of Heaven and Earth, the Inscription of Myriad Arrays, and the Resonance and Manifestation of Myriad Treasures and Dao Traces;

The primordial order was established, laws and principles were infused, and a core soul of infinite change was bestowed upon it!

Time passed by as the crafting process continued with focused concentration.

A golden bridge of Tai Chi symbol spans the sky, with the Yin-Yang fish slowly rotating; the sword threads of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword are as dazzling as a galaxy, weaving endlessly; the Jade Purity Immortal Light descends like a pillar from the heavens, stabilizing the core.

Finally, when the last, intricate Dao trace was precisely incorporated into the array node by Tongtian using threads of sword energy, when the Primordial Jade Purity Immortal Light completely merged with the core of the stone seal, and when the Samadhi True Fire source invoked by Laozi slowly receded, the Taiji Diagram's light dimmed—

hum! ! !

A grand, resounding hum, seemingly originating from the very source of all things in the primordial world, echoed across the summit of Kunlun Mountain! Its clear and melodious sound carried joy and a sense of new life!

In the center of the main hall of the Sanqing Palace, the grayish-white stone seal had vanished. In its place was a small, ancient seal, about the size of a fist, floating in the air, its surface displaying a warm, murky luster, neither gold, jade, nor stone!

This seal has a simple design, with the seal knob shaped like a miniature, layered mountain cliff, which is a microcosm of the Treasure Dividing Cliff.

The seal was no longer covered with chaotic Dao marks, but instead with countless intricate and mysterious runes that shimmered with various colors of precious light!

These runes seem to be alive, sometimes as sharp as a sword, sometimes as heavy as a pagoda, sometimes as solid as a bell or tripod, and sometimes as ethereal as a scroll... They take on countless forms, flowing endlessly, and contain the Daoist aura of countless spiritual treasures from the primordial world!

What's even more astonishing is that the moment this seal was formed, all the treasures collected in Kunlun Mountain—whether it was the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, the Four Swords of Zhuxian, and the Zhutian Qingyun in the hands of the Three Pure Ones, or the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, the Pure World White Lotus, and the Qingping Sword on Qinglian's body, or even Sun Wukong's Ruyi Iron Pole Soldier, the Chainmail Golden Armor, and so on.

All the magical treasures involuntarily emitted a soft hum, their precious light flowing, as if paying homage to this newly born seal! This was a wondrous sight triggered by the resonance of the myriad treasures' Dao traces—the myriad treasures paying homage to the ancestral temple!

"It's done!" The Tongtian Sect Leader roared, filled with joy and pride!

"This seal shall be named—the Myriad Transformations Treasure Seal!" the Primordial Heavenly Venerable solemnly named.

Lao Tzu nodded slightly, his eyes filled with satisfaction: "Excellent. Chaos is the foundation, myriad traces are the source, infinitely transformative, profound and unfathomable. Azure Lotus, accept the seal!"

Qinglian was already deeply moved by the refining process and the extraordinary phenomenon of the seal's formation! He suppressed his excitement and respectfully extended both hands.

The warm and ancient Myriad Transformations Seal seemed to possess a spirit, transforming into a stream of light and steadily landing in Qinglian's palm.

It felt slightly heavy to the touch, yet carried a sense of intimate connection, like blood ties. Probing it with her divine sense, Qinglian instantly grasped the profound mystery of this seal!

The core of the seal is a stable base made of the essence of chaotic, stubborn stone refined by Lao Tzu, like a chaotic world that bears all things.

Above the base is the "Myriad Treasures Dao Traces Resonance Array," an extremely complex array inscribed to the heavens, like a neural network covering the entire world.

The Jade Purity Order Daoist Rhyme injected by the Primordial Beginning is the supreme core that drives this neural network and manages all changes!

As long as Qinglian's thoughts lock onto one (or several related) spiritual treasure Dao mark imprinted in the great formation, and she urges her magic power and primordial spirit power to be injected into the core, triggering the Dao rhyme of the Jade Purity Order, the Myriad Transformations Treasure Seal can instantly simulate and transform into the corresponding spiritual treasure form, and trigger part of its power!

Although limited by the material, the completeness of the Dao traces, and the cultivation level of the Azure Lotus itself, the simulated power of the spiritual treasure cannot be completely equivalent to the original top-level treasure. However, simulating 60-70% of its power and even triggering a trace of the original Dao rhythm is enough to deal with most situations! Its ability to change in countless ways is unique in the primordial world! Its grade has also reached the level of a post-natal treasure.

"Disciple Qinglian kowtows to express gratitude for the generous gifts from our three masters! Your master craftsmanship in refining artifacts is so extraordinary that it rivals the very essence of heaven and earth; this disciple is utterly awestruck!"

Qinglian, holding the precious seal, excitedly performed a deep bow. With this seal in hand, his strength and adaptability would be enhanced immeasurably!

Looking at his excited disciple, Sanqing also showed a long-lost, heartfelt smile.

This collaborative weapon-forging not only created a powerful treasure with immense potential for Qinglian, but also allowed them to verify their respective paths to enlightenment through cooperation while they were at a bottleneck. The anxiety in their hearts seemed to have faded somewhat.