Primordial Era: Refusing Hongjun's path to sainthood, I attained the Dao of Hunyuan.

Chapter 1 Huangzhong Plum Tree

"It'll be soon," Ye Xuan murmured to himself as he regained consciousness.

Around him were swirling wisps of chaotic energy.

However, compared to the beginning, it is already very thin.

During the long years of Ye Xuan's slumber, he continuously absorbed these chaotic energies.

Yes, Ye Xuan did travel through time, but not into the Chaos Realm.

It didn't turn into a chaotic demon god.

Instead, they traveled to the primordial wilderness, a wilderness that had just been created and where the world had just begun to evolve.

His identity is also quite extraordinary; he is the most mysterious of the ten spiritual roots, the Yellow Plum Tree.

The Huangzhong Plum Tree is a top-grade Yi Wood spiritual root. This tree blooms once every Yuan Hui, bears fruit once every Yuan Hui, and matures once every Yuan Hui.

Its flowers resemble lotus flowers, and its fruit resembles pearl stamens.

The flowers and fruits are all inscribed with the characters "Huang Zhong". If an immortal smells it, he can gain ten thousand years of cultivation; if he is lucky enough to eat a fruit, he can instantly become a Great Golden Immortal.

This shows how powerful the Huangzhong plum tree is.

Ye Xuan's transmigration into this Huangzhong plum tree is truly an incredible stroke of luck.

However, from the beginning of time until now, countless years have passed.

Ye Xuan remained asleep, almost passively absorbing the surrounding chaotic energy.

After the creation of the primordial world, much chaotic energy remained in the universe.

However, as the world gradually evolves, sooner or later, all the primordial chaos will disappear.

Gradually decomposed, it evolved into innate spiritual energy.

This is the inevitable process of the evolution of heaven and earth.

For a top-grade innate spiritual root like the Yellow Plum Tree, the remaining chaotic energy in the world is absolutely a great tonic.

Therefore, Ye Xuan instinctively began to continuously absorb the chaotic energy around him.

At the same time, with the help of this chaotic energy, Ye Xuan was also constantly accumulating his own origin.

Waiting for the opportunity to take human form.

The transformation of a spiritual root into a physical form is much more difficult than for most other living beings.

However, since Ye Xuan was a transmigrator, he had a slight advantage and did not need to spend a long time nurturing his own intelligence.

Even so, absorbing and devouring the chaotic energy still took him a very long time.

During this period, Ye Xuan vaguely sensed that many great changes seemed to have occurred in the primordial world.

Ye Xuan guessed that it was the eruption of a great calamity in the primordial world.

Occasionally, a malevolent aura would waft over, but it was blocked by the dense chaotic energy surrounding him.

It failed to affect Ye Xuan.

That's why Ye Xuan was able to spend those long years peacefully.

However, as Ye Xuan continues to absorb this chaotic energy, the chaotic energy is becoming increasingly thin.

When another great calamity erupts and evil energy surges forth, it will probably be impossible to withstand it.

However, even so, Ye Xuan didn't want to be just a tree forever, always shrouded in the vast chaos.

He wants to transform into human form.

And so, Ye Xuan continued to devour the chaotic energy, one eon, two eons, three eons...

Ye Xuan noticed that the duration of his sleep sessions was getting shorter and shorter each time.

Meanwhile, as he absorbed more and more chaotic energy, his origin became increasingly powerful.

In the darkness, he received a great deal of information from the heavens and earth.

Is this information what Heaven and Earth have passed down to us?

At the same time, Ye Xuan had a premonition that the date of his transformation was drawing ever closer.

After about several hundred years, Ye Xuan woke up again on this day.

Then came the shocking discovery.

He had actually developed a primordial spirit.

During this period of slumber, he actually condensed his divine consciousness and transformed it into a primordial spirit.

With his primordial spirit formed, Ye Xuan finally felt his own power for the first time.

The vast primordial energy accumulated within the body, along with the mobilization of the primordial spirit, instantly transformed into boundless magical power.

At the same time, Ye Xuan began to absorb the surrounding chaotic energy even faster.

So much so that a huge vortex formed around him, centered on the yellow plum tree.

However, the chaotic energy was becoming increasingly thin, and faintly, one could see the sky outside through it.

It was very bright.

After acquiring the primordial spirit, Ye Xuan essentially gained a second body, and the primordial spirit flew out from the tree.

It can also devour chaotic energy, just like the main body of the Huangzhong Plum Tree.

As the chaotic energy was continuously devoured, it became increasingly thinner and thinner, until finally, the concentration of the chaotic energy even decreased.

These chaotic energies even began to decompose themselves, transforming into innate spiritual energy.

Ye Xuan knew that the day he would take human form was drawing ever closer.

There was no heavenly tribulation, no extraordinary phenomena; on this day, Ye Xuan simply transformed into human form.

From a tree, it transformed into a flesh and blood body, an innate Dao body.

Ye Xuan closed his eyes to sense his own strength. Upon transforming, he directly reached the cultivation level of the mid-stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Moreover, due to the various information inherited from heaven and earth, many supernatural powers and Taoist methods are learned and understood without a teacher or enlightenment; they are mastered and familiar with them from birth.

Suddenly, Ye Xuan let out a muffled groan, his body swayed slightly, and several streaks of light flew out from his body.

It hovered in front of Ye Xuan.

These rays of light dispersed, revealing their true form: fruits.

These are the fruits of the Yellow Plum Tree, Ye Xuan's original form, a total of nine Yellow Plums.

It turns out that Ye Xuan had been continuously absorbing chaotic energy throughout these long years.

It has accumulated a vast amount of origin.

Even if he were to take human form, he wouldn't be able to use up such a vast amount of origin energy. Yet, through a stroke of luck, he still managed to produce these nine fruits.

Looking at the nine fruits in front of him, Ye Xuan couldn't help but shake his head slightly, feeling somewhat speechless and helpless.

Each of these nine fruits, according to their effects, could create a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Although he was the weakest of the Great Luo Golden Immortals, he had no cultivation or spiritual power, only magical abilities.

And future promotions will be fraught with difficulties. But even then, it's still a Grand Luo Golden Immortal!

So, after thinking for a while, Ye Xuan waved his hand and put away the nine fruits.

These nine fruits are practically extinct. They might come in very useful later.

After collecting nine fruits, Ye Xuan had another thought, and when he opened his palm, a fragment appeared in his hand.

Ye Xuan stared at the fragment, his eyes flickering, seemingly lost in thought.

The fragment in his palm was none other than a fragment of the famous Jade Tablet of Creation.

The Jade Tablet of Creation is one of the four great treasures of chaos. After it shattered during the Great Calamity of Creation, countless fragments fell into the primordial world.

Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor, collected the vast majority of the fragments and refined them into a new Jade Tablet of Creation.

And in doing so, one aligns oneself with the Way of Heaven.

Well, as a time traveler, it's quite normal to have a Jade Tablet of Creation by your side, isn't it?

Ye Xuan saw that the fragment of the Creation Jade Tablet in his hand suddenly absorbed a torrent of innate spiritual energy.

It kept pouring in, and then the fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation flashed and transformed into an ancient mirror.

Time Mirror.

Ye Xuan probed into it with his divine sense and learned the name of the mirror.

This mirror is somewhat similar to the Kunlun Mirror; both are treasures with spacetime attributes.

Moreover, they are all top-grade innate spiritual treasures.

It is a primordial spiritual treasure transformed from a fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation.

It sounds unbelievable, but it happened right before Ye Xuan's eyes, and it couldn't be more real.

Because this fragment is the core fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation.

For some unknown reason, Ye Xuan was reborn in this prehistoric world.

Moreover, it became a Huangzhong plum tree.

However, since things had come to this, Ye Xuan didn't dwell on it. He was extremely grateful for all the opportunities and good fortune that had brought him.

At the same time, he also wants to seize the opportunity of this life.

"In that case, you shall become my treasure for proving my Dao!" Ye Xuan said solemnly, looking at the Time-Space Mirror.

The treasure for attaining enlightenment is something that almost every person with great supernatural powers possesses.

For example, the Three Pure Ones, Lao Tzu's flat crutch, Yuan Shi's Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and Tong Tian's Qingping Sword.

There is also the divine banner of the Guide and the seven-jeweled tree of the Cundi.

And Zhen Yuanzi's whisk, Hongyun's Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Red Gourd, Kunpeng's Demon Master Palace, etc.

Ye Xuan, on the other hand, planned to use this Time-Space Mirror as his treasure for proving his Dao.

(End of this chapter)