bioinnovel Chapter 523 Gathering Everything Branch
Chapter 523 Gathering Everything Branch
Chapter 523 Gathering Everything Branch
After being teleported to the Purple Gold Creation Cauldron, Chen Yuan immediately prepared to head to the treasure space.
But just then, the spirit of the Creation Cauldron, "Little Cauldron," suddenly appeared and asked, "Master, why can't I sense Little Saint's aura anymore? Has something happened?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan was taken aback for a moment before realizing that the "Little Saint" mentioned by the small cauldron referred to the spirit of the Hundred Saints Refining Weapon Diagram.
As for this little saint—
When he broke through to the Manifestation Realm, he needed the Dream Dao energy contained in the Weapon Refining Diagram, so he used the Primordial Hand to extract the Dream energy from this secret treasure.
The weapon-forging diagram also fell into dormancy due to a lack of dream energy. In order to prevent the weapon spirit from suffering irreversible damage, he had no choice but to store it in other treasures and deal with the matter later.
As a result, he later broke through to the Manifestation Saint and True God realms one after another, and had a lot of things to do, so the question about the weapon refining diagram was naturally left unresolved.
"I've been so busy lately that I almost forgot about it."
Chen Yuan slapped his forehead and quickly took out a Primordial Tower, where he temporarily stored the spirit of the weapon-refining diagram, Little Saint.
Thanks to the nourishment of the Primordial Tower, the artifact spirit Xiao Sheng was in good condition, though he looked somewhat listless. After all, the Primordial Tower's quality was far inferior to that of the Weapon Refining Diagram.
"Little Saint!" Upon seeing that the weapon spirit of the weapon forging diagram had no problems, the weapon spirit Xiao Ding immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
As the only two Divine King-level artifact spirits of the Sacred Weapon Sect, they naturally had a very close relationship. Back then, Chen Yuan was able to easily gain the recognition of the Creation Cauldron as his master, and the communication between the artifact spirit Xiao Sheng was crucial.
However, seeing that Little Saint was not in the weapon-refining diagram, Little Cauldron was also puzzled: "Master, where is Little Saint?"
"It's like this—" Before Chen Yuan could speak, the artifact spirit Xiao Sheng spoke first to explain.
Before Chen Yuan broke through, he naturally communicated with this artifact spirit, so Xiao Sheng also knew some of the background information.
After listening to Xiao Sheng's explanation, the artifact spirit Xiao Ding pondered for a moment, and then said, "Therefore, due to the breakthrough in the master's mental will, it is necessary to temporarily borrow the power of the weapon refining diagram."
"So, Master, have you successfully broken through?"
"It's a success." Chen Yuan nodded. "My willpower is now equivalent to the peak of the Chaos Realm. Unfortunately, the consumption of the weapon refining diagram is too severe, and it will take some time to recover. That's why I temporarily transferred Little Saint out."
Peak of the Chaos Realm?
The two artifact spirits exchanged a glance. If they remembered correctly, their master's willpower was not even at the Chaos Realm before his breakthrough.
At this moment, Chen Yuan continued, "Don't worry, I guarantee that I can repair the weapon-refining diagram within a hundred epochs at most, allowing the Little Saint to re-enter."
"And during this time, I'll just have to ask you to make do."
"It's alright." The spirit Xiao Sheng shook its head. As the spirit of the weapon forging diagram, it could sense the extraordinary nature of its master's will. It wasn't that the strength of the will was particularly high, but rather that the master's mind possessed a certain quality.
Just like—it shares the same origin as the world of the Forging Weapon Diagram.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have so readily relinquished the weapon-forging diagram.
"However, Master, the treasure you provided for me to stay in is of a much lower grade." Little Saint's face fell; heaven knows how he had managed to get through this period of time.
Chen Yuan gave an awkward smile: "I'm sorry, with my crafting skills, I can't forge a treasure of your grade for the time being."
He revised the "Jin Dynasty's Art of Refining Treasures" mainly to master the power of the world branch contained within it through weapon refining, but he neglected the level of the secret treasures.
Over this era, his weapon-refining skills improved to the point of being able to refine Eternal Early Stage Treasures. However, for the sake of materials, he usually refined the Primordial Tower, which was at the peak of the Void level.
But whether it's Void level or Eternal level, it makes no difference to the Little Saint; the living space is just as cramped.
"Master, that's not what I meant."
Xiao Sheng shook his head, then glanced at the artifact spirit Xiao Ding, "What I'm trying to say is, since we have to wait for a hundred epochs, let me reside in the Creation Cauldron during this time. With the grade of this treasure, it's more than enough to hold both me and Xiao Ding, the two artifact spirits."
"Is that so?" Chen Yuan turned to look at Xiao Ding upon hearing this. "I have no objection, but we still need to see what Xiao Ding thinks."
"Of course," Xiao Ding replied immediately.
"Then it's settled."
Chen Yuan released Xiao Sheng from the Tower of Primordial Beginning, saying, "Then you stay here and rest well. I need to go to the treasure space."
"By the way, Little Cauldron, I've cultivated the 'Great Evolution Creation Body' to the Perfection of the Myriad Things Realm. I should be able to take those Void-level treasures now, right? Do you have any other requests?"
"That's all." The little cauldron shook its head. "As long as you have sufficient authority, you can take as many of those treasure spaces as you want."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, in addition to the information about the Great Dao of Matter, he should also be able to gain a source of the Great Dao.
After settling the artifact spirit, he opened up a space and stepped into the first Void-level treasure room.
The familiar Purple Ridge Stone Mountain was where Chen Yuan first started collecting materials when he first came to the treasure space. At that time, he had not yet cultivated the Creation Body, so he had to stop after picking up only a hundred pieces of materials.
And now—
"receive!"
With a thought, Chen Yuan's body instantly swelled to a height of hundreds of millions of kilometers, and then he reached out towards the many materials below, including the "Purple Ridge Stone Mountain".
Under the cover of milky white light, these materials were converted into energy reserves without resistance, and at an extremely fast speed.
In just half a day, the space was completely emptied, and all the materials were eventually transformed into 300 trillion Sources of the Great Dao.
Among them, the energy of the Material Dao accounts for more than 10 trillion, which is more than the total energy he has accumulated over the years.
"Truly worthy of being called the treasure of the Holy Weapon Sect."
Chen Yuan took a deep breath. Three hundred trillion sources of the Great Dao, which is equivalent to three million units of cosmic sand, is already quite a lot in terms of Void-level collections.
"It seems that there is no shortage of matter and energy. Let's just switch the source space to the conversion of destructive energy."
After adjusting his avatar in the original space, Chen Yuan turned his attention back to his main body.
"Let me see how many branches of the myriad things have been collected—"
A moment later, he opened his eyes: "It has improved by less than 10%, and now it has reached about 40% of the branches."
Previously, the collection rate of all branches was one-third of the complete set, roughly equivalent to 33%. Now it has been increased to 40%, which means that this part of the material has brought about a 7% increase.
"This is not good," Chen Yuan frowned slightly.
7% seems like a lot, but the information about the Great Dao is often repeated. As he collects more materials, he will actually obtain less and less information about the Great Dao in the future.
Recalling the situation when collecting those ordinary materials, if the decline rate remained unchanged, even if all the treasures in the 17 Void-level treasure spaces were combined, they might not exceed 70% of the branches.
"Let's take it one step at a time. What if the Void-grade materials are different?"
Chen Yuan composed himself and then, according to the plan, refined all the Void-level treasures into energy one by one, while also obtaining the information about the myriad branches contained within them.
Several days later, the last Void-level treasure was also converted into energy reserves.
"The 17 Void-level treasure spaces yielded a total of 5000 trillion Origins of the Great Dao, of which approximately 160 trillion were material Great Dao energy."
"The information collection rate of all branches is 68%."
Chen Yuan summarized what he had gained over the past few days.
The energy gains were decent, but unsurprisingly, the information gathered about the branches of the Great Dao did not exceed expectations.
"This is going to be difficult."
He has refined all the materials that he can refine, but he has not been able to collect all the branches of the myriad things. With the information he has collected so far, he can only optimize the "Great Evolution Creation Body" to the middle stage of the Chaos Realm at most, and he cannot even reach the later stage.
"We'll have to try the eternal treasure again."
Chen Yuan sighed.
As envisioned, his Great Evolution Creation Body should be strong enough to rival the first level of the Chaos Realm under normal circumstances, but whether the authority left by the Holy Weapon Sect is recognized has not yet been tested.
If the other party doesn't acknowledge it, there's nothing he can do.
But one must try. Chen Yuan soon arrived at the 18th treasure space, which was also the first space to store eternal-grade materials.
"receive!"
To his surprise, under the guidance of divine power, these eternal-grade material mountains did not resist at all and were obediently refined into primordial energy by the Primordial Hand.
In less than half a day, Chen Yuan's energy reserves surged by another 30 quadrillion, and the information of all things branches also increased by 11% in one go, reaching 79%!
"It seems promising!" A hint of joy flashed in Chen Yuan's eyes. As expected of an eternal-grade material, the power of the Great Dao contained within it was indeed high.
Most importantly, his secret technique realm has been recognized by the Holy Weapon Sect. Although it is the Perfection of the Myriad Things Realm, its strength is equivalent to the first level of the Chaos Realm.
"If I remember correctly, of the eight eternal-level treasure spaces, five only require the first level of Chaos Realm authority to open, while the remaining three require the third level of Chaos Realm authority."
"In that case, let's collect the materials from the first five spaces first. With the information collection ratio of the Eternal level, these five spaces might be enough."
So Chen Yuan spent several more days scavenging the remaining Eternal Space.
"The total amount of eternal-grade materials collected amounted to 1.5 trillion of the Source of the Great Dao, and 98% of the information from all branches of the universe."
Chen Yuan was somewhat helpless. Another percentage would have been fine, but it just wasn't close!
Although 98% of the branch information is enough to optimize a peak Chaos Realm figure, it still feels a little lacking compared to the ultimate 99.99%.
How could Chen Yuan, who was a perfectionist, tolerate this?
"Why not try the third level of Chaos Realm authority again—as expected, it didn't work."
Seeing the access barrier appear before him, Chen Yuan had no choice but to stop. He hadn't expected the collection progress to be stuck at the last 1%, which made him very upset.
While optimizing 98% of the tasks is not out of the question, Chen Yuanzhen doesn't want to settle for less if possible.
"After all, I still have one last option."
He silently thought to himself, "That is—to collect the primordial universe's great principles!"
Under normal circumstances, the Great Dao contained in the three thousand primordial universes are all the Great Daos of the origin of life, but judging from Di Yuluo's journey through the universe, this may not be the case.
It is known that the primordial universe would be tainted by the Great Dao of the Controller, and this information would be washed away by the long passage of time after the Controller's fall.
Chen Yuan had already asked Di Yuluo, and at least in the history that the other party knew, he had never heard of the previous ruler.
In other words, even tens of thousands of reincarnation eras would not be enough to completely wash away the Dao information of a controller, just like the one percent of the extreme point that remained in the Emperor Feather Fall universe.
Therefore, he can observe the original origin of the universe, not for the information of the Great Dao of Life, but for the Great Dao information that may not have been cleansed!
Whether it's the branches of all things he desperately needs, or other branches of the Great Dao that he has never encountered before, they could all be directly opened up through these primordial universes!
"There's no other way but to pin our hopes on finding any remaining branches of all things in the primordial universe that has already been explored."
Chen Yuan shook his head, preparing to start with the original path of his hometown.
He was too rushed last time and only focused on observing the structure of the universe, so he didn't have time to check the situation of the fundamental Dao.
"Perfect. The will of the Manifestation Realm is enough to transcend dimensions. As long as it is a known place, my mind can directly descend there."
In Star River Emperor, a Saint Realm expert is enough to have their will descend across the star sea, and Chen Yuan's will is even more powerful than in the original work, capable of crossing dimensions.
In other words, although Chen Yuan's physical body cannot teleport across dimensions, his will can directly travel through dimensions and descend into another universe through the virtual universe.
The next second, his will appeared directly in the core of the Primal Universe, the place where he had last observed the structure.
After blocking the perception of the primordial will, Chen Yuan activated the Primordial Eye and confidently observed the primordial Dao here, while simultaneously unfolding the panel.
"System, investigate the situation of the primordial Dao here."
[Exploration complete. Testing revealed that the original pathways of this location are: Life Path (complete), Time Path (incomplete, with a future branch of 32.68%), and Space Path (incomplete, with a change branch of 26.68%).]
"Um?"
Chen Yuan was somewhat surprised. "My home universe actually has a fragmented spacetime Dao? Is this a trace left behind by the previous controller?"
"The fact that so much information has remained despite the passage of time suggests that this controller is quite powerful."
A thought struck him, and he suddenly thought of the source of spacetime in his universe. Could it be that the reason his universe was able to produce this kind of power was because the original universe contained related remnants?
"The future and the branches of change — it seems that's exactly what happened."
Even the branches match up, so his guess is probably true.
"I just don't know if the information from these branches can become nourishment for the source of spacetime. I'll just record it first."
Unfortunately, although the Great Dao of Time and Space brought Chen Yuan a pleasant surprise, this power was not what he urgently needed, as his home universe did not have information about the branches of all things.
"We'll have to find them one by one."
After about half a month, Chen Yuan finally finished collecting the information from the incomplete spacetime Dao here, and then jumped to the second primordial universe.
The additional primordial Dao contained in this universe is the Dao of the Extreme Point, but it is another branch: the Eternal Origin Branch, which is a branch that pursues the constancy of power.
However, the information here was severely eroded, leaving only about 3% of the branch information. Chen Yuan collected it in just a few hours and then headed to the next universe.
Time flies by, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Chen Yuan explored a total of 37 primordial universes. Some of these universes were empty, with no other Dao information besides the Dao of Life, but most of them contained information about different Daos.
After six months of collecting, he had gathered quite a few branches of the Great Dao, including a rare branch of the Great Dao of Cause and Effect. Unfortunately, it had been severely eroded, and he hadn't even collected one percent of it.
In addition, many of the spacetime branches he had mastered were also completed, and even the Extreme Path found two other major branches, both of which were completed to more than 10%.
However, progress on the material path has been less than satisfactory.
It's not that he hadn't encountered it before; in fact, there are four universes that contain the Great Dao of Matter, but unfortunately they belong to two other branches: the World and the Origin, and not the Myriad Things branch.
He had already collected all the world branches through the "World Map of Teacher Zuoshanke", so he only collected about 10% of the original branches during this period.
"Let's continue. We've only searched 37 universes so far."
Chen Yuan quickly calmed down. He had decided that he would never activate the optimization of the Great Evolution Creation Body before collecting all known universe data.
The next second, he descended directly into the 38th universe.
Within the Origin Land, Chen Yuan's will instantly appeared. Ignoring the Origin Will that was fast asleep beside him, he immediately turned his gaze to the Origin Great Dao.
"Hmm?" His face suddenly lit up with joy, because he sensed a familiar aura from the primordial Dao here.
Everything branches out!
"What a relief!" Chen Yuan couldn't help but smile. He had just been wondering why he hadn't encountered any branches of the myriad things, but he hadn't expected to see one so soon.
Without hesitation, he immediately activated the Primordial Eye to gather information about the area.
Not many branches remain here, only about 3% of them are intact. But fortunately, the information that has survived happens to be the highest level of data in the One Lineage of All Things.
What Chen Yuan lacked was precisely this information!
After half an hour.
"It's all complete!" Chen Yuan's face lit up with joy, and he suddenly let out a long sigh of relief.
The panel in front of them clearly displayed:
【All Things Branches (Collection Progress: 100%)】