Primordial Era: The Three Senior Brothers of the Taiqing Clan

After returning to the temple, Chen Qing first went to check on Xuanming's condition.

Xuanming's true spirit slowly floated in Pangu's essence blood, her body faintly glowing. The energy in that drop of essence blood was being slowly absorbed by her true spirit, and a new physical body was gradually being re-formed.

Although the process is extremely slow, everything is moving in a positive direction.

Chen Qing carefully sensed the surroundings and, after confirming that there were no problems, felt relieved and stopped paying attention.

Next, he was going to do something big—transform the chaotic energy to create a continuous source of resources for his microscopic world.

After the war between the Lich King and the Demon King, the innate spiritual energy of the primordial world is dissipating at a visible rate. Although some of the innate spiritual energy is still preserved in those famous mountains and rivers, it won't be long before the entire primordial world is left with only acquired spiritual energy.

For his microscopic world to grow and expand, it needs a massive amount of innate spiritual energy.

After much deliberation, Chen Qing finally turned his attention to the large fragment of Mount Buzhou in his storage space.

Mount Buzhou, formed from the spine of Pangu, is a pillar supporting the sky. Before it broke, it silently absorbed the chaotic energy, transforming it into primordial spiritual energy through the earth's veins, nourishing the entire primordial land.

It can be said that Buzhou Mountain itself is a super-giant converter of chaotic energy.

If one wants to transform the chaotic energy, there is no more suitable material than Mount Buzhou.

But here's the problem: there's only one Mount Buzhou, while Chen Qing's body contains 840 million microscopic worlds. One Mount Buzhou simply isn't enough to divide them all.

However, this was no challenge for Chen Qing. As long as he could decipher the mystery of how Buzhou Mountain absorbed chaotic energy and transformed innate spiritual energy, he could directly evolve the same function in his own microscopic world.

He sat cross-legged, placed the fragment of Mount Buzhou in front of him, and began to use his supernatural powers to analyze its mysteries.

The material of Buzhou Mountain is extremely special. It was transformed from the spine of Pangu and contains traces of the Great Dao left over from the creation of the world.

The principle of transformation is actually not complicated. In Taoist terms, it is "One begets two, two begets three, three begets all things"—the primordial chaos is "one," which separates into yin and yang as "two," the interaction of yin and yang gives rise to the five elements as "three," and the five elements further give rise to all things. What Buzhou Mountain does is accelerate and amplify this forward process.

What truly stumped Chen Qing was the material of Buzhou Mountain.

In his microscopic world, no material of the same level as Buzhou Mountain could evolve. The Pangu Ridge is not something that can be evolved at will.

In other worlds, this might have been a dead end. But Chen Qing found a way around it, a clever trick.

Since he couldn't replicate Buzhou Mountain in terms of material, he would replicate it in terms of function. What he wanted was not a real Buzhou Mountain, but a formation capable of transformation.

The theory was quickly deduced. The core idea of ​​this formation is as follows: use the power of stars to break through space, open a passage to chaos, then draw in the chaotic energy, and through the transformation runes burned in the formation, transform it into innate spiritual energy, and finally distribute the innate spiritual energy to every corner of the particle world.

Now that we understand the principles, the next step is to put them into practice.

Chen Qing chose a microscopic world within his body as his experimental subject. This world already possessed the rudiments of a vast world, with the three thousand Great Daos gathered, lacking only sufficient energy to allow it to grow.

With a thought, countless stars in the sky of this microscopic world began to follow mysterious trajectories. Each of those stars was inscribed with a transformation array.

As the stars revolve, energy channels shoot out from the stars and converge at a single point in the sky.

That point in space began to tremble violently, as if something was tearing it apart from the inside.

"open!"

Chen Qing let out a low shout in his heart.

Suddenly, the point on the horizon cracked open, and a space tunnel the size of a fist appeared above the microscopic world.

At the other end of the passage, there was only chaos, no up or down, no left or right, only endless nothingness and violent energy—this was chaos!

In that instant, a vast surge of chaotic energy poured into the microscopic world from the passage. The energy was so violent and primal that it seemed to crush everything in its path into dust.

Fortunately, the stars that had been inscribed with the formation came into play in time. Beams of starlight shot in from all directions, firmly binding the surging chaotic energy and guiding it through the transformation formation.

The transformation array began to operate, and the chaotic energy was stripped away, decomposed, and recombined under the operation of the array, transforming into pure innate spiritual energy.

A portion of the innate spiritual energy is absorbed by the stars, increasing their own essence.

One part of it maintained the continuous operation of the formation.

The rest were evenly distributed throughout the world by the projection ability of the stars.

Chen Qing's divine sense enveloped this world, sensing the changes taking place within it.

It was an extremely subtle feeling—the boundaries of the world were slowly expanding outwards, the concentration of spiritual energy between heaven and earth was gradually increasing, and even those unborn creatures seemed to be gestating faster under the nourishment of this spiritual energy.

This world is becoming stronger at a visible rate.

He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the changes in the microscopic world within his body.

When that world began to transform the chaotic energy, other worlds, though not directly benefiting, were subtly influenced by the subtle connections between them due to their shared origins.

Like throwing a pebble into a calm lake, the ripples will spread across the entire surface.

Chen Qing felt much more at ease. This method would work!

Next, he needs to replicate this array into every microscopic world.

Eight hundred and forty million worlds—this is a massive undertaking, but Chen Qing is not in a hurry.

He has plenty of time. Moreover, by operating through the micro-incarnations simultaneously, the project is not as difficult as imagined.

He named this formation the "Chaos Transformation Formation".

From this day forward, his microscopic world will no longer rely on external innate spiritual energy, but will instead draw energy directly from chaos.

As long as chaos persists, his world will never dry up and will grow endlessly.

Chen Qing turned his gaze back to the fragment of Mount Buzhou in front of him.

Now that the transformation formation has been deduced, this fragment of Buzhou Mountain cannot be wasted.

He planned to refine it into a magical artifact—not like the Heaven-Turning Seal of the Primordial Celestial Venerable. While the Heaven-Turning Seal was indeed incredibly powerful, aptly named "Heaven-Turning Seal," capable of suppressing a Great Luo Immortal with a single strike, that would be a complete waste of its potential. The purpose of Mount Buzhou was to transform chaotic energy, not to smash people.

Waste is shameful.

Chen Qing put the fragments of Buzhou Mountain into the Qiankun Cauldron and began to refine them.

The True Fire of Creation within the cauldron burned fiercely, gradually melting the hard fragment into a mass of dark brown liquid.

The liquid churned and changed, gradually solidifying into a magical artifact shaped like a small mountain under Chen Qing's control.

This small hill is seven parts similar in shape to Buzhou Mountain, but it is more refined and more ancient.

The mountain was covered with dense array patterns, which were the "Chaos Transformation Array" that Chen Qing had previously deduced, enhancing the transformation ability.

Unlike the arrays in the microscopic world, the conversion efficiency of this small mountain is much higher—after all, it is a material transformed from the spine of Pangu, which is inherently more powerful than the arrays that Chen Qing himself evolved from stars.

What's even more ingenious is that Chen Qing also burned an offensive formation onto this magical artifact. This formation shares the same energy source as the transformation formation—chaotic energy.

When the enemy attacks, activating this magical artifact will draw upon the chaotic energy to create an attack that will hurtle the enemy.

The chaotic energy is violent and primal, posing a great threat to cultivators without the protection of supreme treasures.

The way this magical artifact is used is quite novel. Normally, it silently absorbs chaotic energy and transforms it into innate spiritual energy.

If anyone attacks, Chen Qing will unleash his magic weapon and use it to smash them. After smashing them, if the opponent cannot defend themselves, they will be eroded by the chaotic energy.

If the attack is successfully defended, it's not a big deal—while receiving the attack, the opponent also indirectly interrupted the magical artifact's process of converting chaotic energy. In doing so, it becomes entangled in cause and effect.

Transforming the primordial chaos is a contribution to the primordial world and a meritorious deed for heaven and earth.

If you interrupt it, you are obstructing the operation of heaven and earth, and karma will naturally come knocking.

While it may not result in being struck by lightning on the spot, it will certainly have some impact on one's future fortune and luck.

After much thought, Chen Qing gave this magical artifact a rather fitting name – "Auxiliary Type Prankster Artifact".

He tossed it toward the mountain peak of Penglai Island, and the small mountain grew taller in the wind, transforming into a verdant peak tens of feet high, which landed steadily on the ground.

The array patterns on the mountain lit up one by one, and an invisible suction force emanated from the mountaintop, breaking through the great array on the island and reaching straight into the chaos.

The chaotic energy was absorbed through this invisible channel, and after being transformed by the array within the mountain, it became gushing innate spiritual energy, permeating the entire Penglai Immortal Island.

The concentration of spiritual energy on the island is increasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The spiritual roots, immortal herbs, and rare flowers seemed to sense this change as well, stretching out their branches and leaves, appearing exceptionally vibrant.

Chen Qing nodded in satisfaction as he watched this scene. This magic weapon was well worth the effort to refine.

However, this magical artifact has one problem: it needs someone to activate it. Although the transformation array can execute automatically, its efficiency will be greatly reduced. To unleash its full potential, someone needs to constantly inject magical power into it to accelerate the array's operation.

Of course, this wasn't a problem for Chen Qing. He didn't lack that kind of power, but this thing was truly useless to him.

This magical artifact will eventually have to be given away, and this is the key issue. We can't expect the recipient to keep this magical artifact running all the time, can we?

Should we still cultivate Taoism then? Although we can gain merit, we can't maintain it forever.

But there's no rush. Right now, he has more important things to do.

Chen Qing sat cross-legged on the mountaintop, probed his body with his divine sense, and began to gradually replicate the "Chaos Conversion Array" into 840 million micro-particle worlds.

This is a massive project, but he's not in a hurry.

He has a promising vision—that one day, each of the 840 million worlds within him will be no less magnificent than the primordial world.

At that time, he will be the master of all the heavens and myriad realms, above the Heavenly Dao, and transcending the chaos.