Chapter 1548 — The Origin Qi of Hongmeng
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In the third long river of chaos, Shen Mu sensed that his World Tree was growing again. What made this World Tree so strange was that it could draw chaos qi from the kalpa of destruction and strengthen itself.
Even without entering the Jade Capital realm, Shen Mu could feel his own mana swelling. It was not fast, but the improvement in his cultivation was undeniably real, and that was very strange indeed.
"The Jade Capital realm — is it a realm one must pass through?
" He could not help sinking into thought.
Once his cultivation had reached the Nine Hells Platform, any further advance required him to step into the Jade Capital realm. Only after entering the Jade Capital realm could he cultivate the Lingxiao and Imperial Throne realms, and from there march toward the Heavenly Court realm.
Unlike the traditional Heavenly Palace cultivation system, his path had three extra Heavenly Gates beyond the Four Heavenly Gates realm, as well as the Heavenly River realm and the Nine Hells Platform realm. Judged by the traditional Heavenly Palace cultivation system, he now stood roughly somewhere between the Lingxiao realm and the Imperial Throne realm.
But because he did not wish to cultivate the Jade Capital realm, it was extremely difficult for Shen Mu to raise his cultivation any further.
And now, thanks to the World Tree, his cultivation was continuing to rise, which showed that, setting aside the Jade Capital, Lingxiao, and Imperial Throne realms, other realms might yet exist. "Could it be the realm of the five Primordial Ultimates? " He quietly gathered his mind and spirit to investigate the reason for his rising cultivation: "If I could establish the Five Ultimates realm through this, it might be a deed of boundless merit!
" His divine sense followed the World Tree to probe and observe where the growth of his mana came from.
As for the five Primordial Ultimates, though he very much wished to treat them as realms, the five innate great Daos he had cultivated had always been nothing more than comprehending the five great Daos through insight, grasping their mysteries, and comprehending divine abilities. Merely comprehending divine abilities and grasping the great Dao could not be called a realm; it could only be called a means of cultivation.
To serve as a realm, it had to be opened up like the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury or the Heavenly Palace, becoming a path of cultivation.
That required establishing a standard! The seven Heavenly Venerables who had opened up the seven realms of the divine treasury in the early years of Longhan had each established the standard for a realm, and only thus were they called Heavenly Venerables. Heavenly Venerable Yu established the standard of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury; Heavenly Venerable Hao established the standard of the Five Luminaries Divine Treasury; and so on.
The various realms of the Heavenly Palace likewise came from establishing the standard of each realm, which was what made it possible to pass them down.
Shen Mu had opened up five great veins in his own divine treasury precisely in the hope of accomplishing this step. "The World Tree devours the chaos qi of the long river of chaos, and indeed it is transformed through the five great veins!
" Shen Mu observed carefully.
The World Tree first devoured the chaos qi, which flowed through the chaos vein representing the Dao of Taiyi and was transformed into a wondrous vital qi, Hongmeng Origin Qi. Then the Hongmeng Origin Qi flowed from the chaos vein into the Taichu vein, transforming from the chaos state into the Taichu state, becoming Taichu Origin Qi. It then flowed through the Taishi vein, transforming from the Taichu state into the Taishi state, becoming Taishi Origin Qi.
— The egg of Taishi had taken advantage of this to gain a great deal; Shen Mu sensed that the Taishi within the egg had grown stronger than before.