The Primordial Path of Kong Xuanming

After enduring nine days and nine nights of trials, Yan Nanfei finally survived the once-in-millions-years Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. Suddenly, a golden light descended from the sky, bathing him in its warmth. He felt the golden light transforming his physical body and the three souls and seven spirits within his sea of ​​consciousness. His previously transparent souls and seven spirits turned golden, and the consciousness network within his life soul became increasingly crystalline and translucent! Guided by the golden light, Yan Nanfei continued to ascend. Suddenly, a black hole appeared out of thin air above his head, generating an immeasurable force of absorption. Even the gravitational pull of the golden light could not escape the black hole's grasp. Yan Nanfei was involuntarily sucked into the black hole. This black hole was no ordinary one; it was a spacetime black hole, appearing only once every hundreds of billions of years. Spacetime black holes connect to three thousand great universes, appearing randomly, their location unknown, and lasting only a few seconds. Being sucked into a spacetime black hole meant that, with the aid of a supreme treasure, there might be a one in ten million chance of survival.

Yan Nanfei was involuntarily sucked into the black hole. In his hundreds of years of cultivation, he had never felt so powerless. Suddenly, he felt an immeasurable, powerful pressure emanating from his body. Yan Nanfei used all his strength to circulate his Undying Profound Technique to resist, but instantly his physical body was compressed into a ball of blood, then further compressed into a droplet-sized blood bead. Yan Nanfei's mind trembled violently, and he instantly pulled the blood bead into the spatial crystal where his main consciousness resided. The chaotic-colored bead emitted a strange light, protecting his life-soul sword body.

Yan Nanfei sensed his surroundings with his mind, knowing only that the passage was filled with immeasurable spatial energy and another unknown energy, forming a boundless ocean of energy. Suddenly, the chaotic-colored bead generated a powerful suction force, drawing large amounts of energy into the river. At the same time, Yan Nanfei felt the chaotic-colored bead converting the two energies and transferring a small amount into his main consciousness's sea of ​​consciousness. The chaotic-colored bead continued to move forward along the flow of the boundless ocean of energy, and the sea of ​​consciousness, under the transformation of the strange energy, unknowingly expanded. The sword body and spatial crystal formed from the three souls and seven spirits within the sea of ​​consciousness, under the erosion and transformation of the two energies, unknowingly evolved in an unknown direction.

Unaware of how much time had passed, Yan Nanfei only knew that the spatial crystal had evolved into a purplish-gold color, covered with countless profound rule runes, and the small space within the crystal had evolved into a small world tens of millions of kilometers in diameter, filled with boundless spatial energy and another unknown energy. After a long period of comprehension, Yan Nanfei realized that this was time energy.

After absorbing immeasurable energy, the Chaos Pearl finally broke through its ten layers of restrictions, allowing Yan Nanfei to obtain information about it. It turned out that this pearl was originally named the Primordial Pearl, and along with the Primordial Creation Jade Butterfly, the Primordial Heaven-Opening Axe, and the Primordial Creation Green Lotus, it was known as one of the four great treasures of the Primordial World. After Pangu created the world, the Creation Jade Butterfly shattered into countless fragments, evolving into the Heavenly Dao, which governs the balance of all things. The fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe's blade transformed into three Chaos Treasures. The Primordial Creation Green Lotus was completely destroyed; its six lotus seeds transformed into five lotus platforms, and its other leaves transformed into countless innate spiritual treasures. Although the Primordial Pearl possessed the laws of spacetime and moved quickly without breaking, it was downgraded to the Chaos Pearl, a Chaos Treasure, and its intelligence was severely damaged, plunging it into a slumber that lasted for countless billions of years.

The Chaos Pearl instinctively accepted the consciousness imprint Yan Nanfei implanted because his bloodline possessed spatial energy. After Yan Nanfei activated his spatial abilities with the Chaos Pearl, the Pearl's spirit underwent a slight recovery through centuries of absorbing spatial energy. The energy from the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and the unknown amount of time-space energy absorbed after entering the spacetime passage allowed the Chaos Pearl to fully recover and unlock its ten layers of restrictions, enabling Yan Nanfei to initially control some of its functions. Otherwise, how could a cultivator of relatively low strength easily control such a powerful Chaos Treasure? However, to further break through the remaining restrictions and unleash the treasure's full power, it would depend on Yan Nanfei's increased strength and the immeasurable time he would spend; the Chaos Pearl's spirit could no longer assist him!