Extraordinary Great Antiquity Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Mount Buzhou's Inspiration: Becomes Aware of a Cultivation Technique

During the creation of the world, the first vitality absorbed the breath of chaos, making it strong, brutal and infinitely wonderful.

With the birth of chaos vitality the evolution of heaven and earth gradually improved. But this unfolding led to its transformation into an innate vitality capable of nouris.h.i.+ng all living things. This process hasn't ended and it will not end until every chaos vitality becomes innate.

After the complete evolution of the Great Antiquity, the vitalities of the world will undergo another transformation. Innate vitality will gradually become acquired, the main vitality of the world.

This change from chaos->innate->acquired will take countless generations. Therefore, the time is calculated by the yuan meeting (129,600 years) and by the measuring disaster (6.48 billion years).

Chaos and innate vitality possess all sorts of abilities the acquired vitality does not, especially on the development of life.

When chaos vitality interweaves into the processes of evolution, it can produce all manner of powerful lives without the union of flesh. Every life wandering the Great Antiquity World at this time is born from chaos vitality.

Although innate vitaity is somewhat worse than chaos vitality, it is the initial progenitor of longevity. Every being that constantly absorbs it can survive for an endless amount of years.

That is why, after less than 100,000 years, the first batch of creatures evolved from chaos vitality still live. Their life forces are extremely intrepid and their lifespans are inexhaustible. They are the innate G.o.ds.

Pixiu Luo Fan is an innate G.o.d. However, he definitely does not feel like one. His only instincts have been to absorb innate vitality and seek chaos vitality to strengthen the body. He has not learned any fabled cultivation technique.

The instinct of all life is to make itself formidable. But as an innate G.o.d born from chaos vitality, it is not enough to instinctively absorb innate vitality. Luo Fan has occupied this burrow for countless years and has only swallowed a small amount of chaos vitality.

However, Luo Fan knew the benefits of chaos vitality, so once more, he deeply inhaled. As he inhaled, chaos vitality smoothly entered his body following his nostril, and when he exhaled, it left through the same place.

But at most, only slight, imperceptible traces were absorbed because of the formation of his divine soul. Without it, even that would have been impossible.

Tiring quickly, Luo Fan took a glance outside the burrow. Everything within three miles looked bleak under the pessimistic mist of chaos vitality. But beyond that area, lush vegetation and dense, ancient forests grew. Together, these two scenes produced an impressive contrast.

After feeling refreshed, Luo Fan decided to try absorbing chaos vitality in different ways. It didn't take long for him to feel helpless, regardless of what or how hard he tried, the absorption speed of his body never accelerated.

Suddenly, Luo Fan had an idea.

"Formally, my divine soul appeared because I was observing Mount Buzhou and feeling the breath it gave off. Do I need to do the same to absorb the vitality of chaos? Yes! It's definitely possible! Now that it is the beginning of the universe, everything is still evolving and is bound to contain some mysteries of the evolution of heaven and earth. Mount Buzhou is the backbone of Pangu; so it definitely contains many of the world's mysteries. If I observe Mount Buzhou and feel its breath, I will certainly become aware. It might even be possible for me to comprehend my own cultivation technique!"

The eyes of Luo Fan sparkled with hope.

He remembered in previous stories (wuxia / xianxia), a certain senior always said he had observed a certain phenomenon or a particular thing before comprehending some cultivation technique.

He had come to this world of Great Antiquity, a world created not so long ago. This meant it was still evolving so the conditions for comprehension should be more than ideal.

There is no reason he should be wrong!

With this self-confidence, Luo Fan faced upward to send out a long roar.

"Roar!"

The surrounding chaos vitality shook against the thunder of his dragon roar. Then, without any hesitation, he s.h.i.+fted his stature to a comfortable, squatting position, preventing any outward flow of the burrow's chaos vitality.

Afterward, he looked into the distance to Mount Buzhou, relaxed his mind, and began inducing its boundless, unyielding breath.

With little warning, the burrow started filling with the fragrance of irises and orchids.

Soon, his mind further relaxed, and he once again felt that indescibable feeling.

Surrounded by this breath, he felt immovable and unbending like he could fight with the heavens and the earth.

As Mount Buzhou's vivid inverted image reflected in his eyes, his mind slowly condensed and his vision gradually increased.

Mount Buzhou is Pangu's spine, the heavenly pillar of the northwest. It contains endless secrets of heaven and earth and its shape has immeasurable power! In this moment, Luo Fan had fully integrated into that type of boundless, unyielding breath. Ascending straight from the ground, it was as if he had become a heavenly pillar, towering into the sky, merging completely with the vast land and that distant, infinitely mystical sky.

Luo Fan's body started changing gradually. Chaos vitality started rus.h.i.+ng into every acupoint of Luo Fan's body. Once inside, the chaos vitalities divided into the several hundred channels, circulating in mysterious lines. Moving faster and faster, each circulation produced all sorts of extremely mysterious changes that were then swallowed into his Mud Pill Palace (泥丸宫).

Still in the heavens and earth unity state, Luo Fan's absorption rate became faster and fiercer.

Then a thousand years pa.s.sed in a blink of an eye.

Luo Fan had absorbed all the chaos vitality around the burrow and incorporated every mysterious change into his Mud Pill Palace (泥丸宫) .

The area around the burrow was clear, and the surrounding three miles were covered in vegetation. Even though chaos vitality still radiated, it was not disseminating in all directions, but pouring into Luo Fan's body.

After a thousand years, he had more than doubled in size from three meters long and two meters high to six meters long and four meters high.

Inside him, the several hundred circulation cycle routes had slowly evolved into a single route. The new circulation route was 1,000 times stronger and contained all the merits of its predecessors. In his Mud Pill Palace (泥丸宫), the tempered chaos vitality had transformed into another completely different but incomparably mysterious energy.

At this time, the pupils of Luo Fan still reflected that lofty and unimaginable mountain. For him, these thousand years had felt like a mere instant. But his body could now absorb chaos vitality a 1,000 times faster than he could release it with his new cultivation technique.

Millenniums of absorption, however, had made this burrow unstable.

Finally, on this day, the ground around the burrow swung. A ma.s.sive group of chaos vitality, turned black due to richness, rushed out and slammed into Luo Fan!

"Bang!"

A noise resounded like the rumbling of heavenly thunder.

All at once, Luo Fan felt an unspeakable pain in his entire body causing his mind to separate from the state of unity between heaven and earth!

~Translator Suyi