546: Chapter 546 is wrong

"Husband, I am returning to the Biyou Pool. Take good care of our child!"

Peach Blossom's tone was somewhat resentful. She hadn't been able to stay for long during this trip back, yet Liu Xuan had been busy with who knows what every day and hadn't spent a single day properly accompanying her.

"I know. Once I complete my Nascent Soul Formation, I will go see you when I have time." Liu Xuan said, holding his son, Yuan Zun, with a look of reluctance.

Too perfunctory. Peach Blossom saw through it at a glance. She snatched the child from Liu Xuan's arms. "I'd better ask Aunt Miao to look after him. If he stays with you, you might lose our son without even realizing it."

With that, Peach Blossom ignored Liu Xuan and flew toward the Clan School with their son, Yuan Zun.

Peach Blossom valued this son of hers extremely highly. Not only had she expended her Origin to help him conceal his Bloodline, but she had also instructed Bai Jie to watch over him at all times, ensuring that the situation from the other night would not happen again.

Liu Xuan was left bewildered. He looked at Peach Blossom's departing back, shook his head, and chuckled. He had been busy researching the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Cauldron and the Earth Immortal Spiritual Qi, so he had indeed neglected to show Peach Blossom enough care.

'Women just shouldn't be spoiled!'

Liu Xuan clasped his hands behind his back. The space rippled in a circle as he cast an escape technique and departed dashingly.

...

Half a year later.

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for the birth of your 1100th offspring. Spiritual Root is Ninth-Grade Spirit Root. Obtained Low-Grade Spirit Stone * 100]

"Hmm?"

"The reward has been halved again. It seems my first great-grandchild has been born."

No children were born in the Liu Mansion today; this child was most likely from a branch of the Red Pine Sect.

The System reward was only one-fourth that of an offspring with the same Ninth-Grade Spirit Root, so it must be a great-grandson or great-granddaughter.

"It's probably a child from Dao Hong's lineage!"

The nineteenth, Dao Hong, had been the first to have children, and he had been very active in the early years. One-third of the adult grandchildren were his descendants.

With the birth of a great-grandchild, Liu Xuan felt no joy; instead, he felt somewhat disappointed.

"As expected! There is no reward for 1,100 offspring; it requires 2,000."

Although he had long guessed this would be the case, he still felt a bit disappointed when it was truly confirmed.

"No matter!"

"Descendant reproduction grows exponentially. Now that the great-grandchildren generation has been born, reaching the number of 2,000 won't take long."

The disappointment was only for a fleeting moment—just greed, really—and it was not enough to affect Liu Xuan's state of mind.

Star Space.

Liu Xuan calmed his mind and withdrew all his Divine Sense into his body. He clearly felt that his Nascent Soul Formation was right before him, yet it was always missing just that little bit.

Inside his body, he was different from normal Cultivators. He had no Dantian, no heart, and not even his internal organs resembled those of a human.

A Golden Core sat in his chest cavity, replacing his heart. It radiated a void-like color that was neither black nor gray, intermingled with the red representing Qi and blood, and the gold representing the metal element.

Complex runes flowed across the surface of the Golden Core. It contained the Hunyuan Great Dao of the Five Elements, as well as the Great Dao of Space, the Dao of Alchemy, the Dao of Artifacts, the Dao of Arrays, and the Dao of the Sword...

Above the Golden Core burned the golden True Fire of the Sun and the crimson, bewitching Avici Karma Fire, all surrounded by the mysterious, five-colored Devilish Qi of the Six Desires...

It was too messy!!

Any one of these things would require an ordinary Nascent Soul True Lord a lifetime to comprehend, yet he had them all mixed together.

Although the System could instill profound and mysterious things into his Divine Soul all at once, without the passage of time to settle them and without the support of cultivation base, it was impossible for him to thoroughly comprehend their underlying logic.

It was like certain profound mathematical or physical theorems; learning and understanding the surface meaning was easy, but if one were to get to the bottom of it, they would find it infinitely more complex than imagined.

"If I chose one of these to specialize in, I could break through immediately!"

Liu Xuan realized this in his heart. He clearly had no Bottleneck, yet his cultivation was stuck, primarily because what he had mastered was too much and too messy.

He only needed to choose one thing to specialize in and set the others aside, and he could immediately begin to break through.

"Set aside..."

"Specialize?"

"Specialize my ass! I want it all!"

Liu Xuan's Divine Thought sank into the interior of the Golden Core, attempting to forcibly fuse the Great Dao of Space with the Hunyuan Great Dao of the Five Elements.

The Hun Yuan of the Five Elements derives all things in heaven and earth.

The Great Dao of Space is neither square nor round, neither inside nor outside; it is the mother of void and the foundation of all Laws—it is the basis of all 'existence'.

"I was wrong!"

"So, I was wrong from the beginning!"

"The Great Dao of Space is higher than the Hunyuan Great Dao of the Five Elements. It should be the Hun Yuan of the Five Elements that integrates into the power of space."

Because the Hun Yuan of the Five Elements had the attribute of fusing all things, and the Cultivation Technique Liu Xuan specialized in was his self-created Hun Yuan Method of the Five Elements, he had always wanted to fuse everything using the Law of Hun Yuan.

But he had underestimated the level of the Great Dao of Space. The true Great Dao of Space was not simple spatial shifting, but the foundation of all things and even the existence of Karma.

Shattering the Void Realm was merely a trifle; spatial teleportation was just the surface. To truly master the Law of Space was to be able to fold time, sever Karma, and reorganize all phenomena...

The Laws of the Great Dao are the order of all things in heaven and earth, while the Great Dao of Space is the order of the Laws of the Great Dao.

The birth and death of stars, the rise and fall of the Great Dao, the circulation of all worlds... everything exists within space.

With this shift in thinking, a brilliant silver-white light burst forth from the Golden Core, instantly expanding to fill his entire chest cavity.

"Hum~"

The Golden Core began to vibrate violently. The various colored runes flowing complexly on its surface materialized and flew out, merging into the space within Liu Xuan's body.

Hun Yuan magic power poured out frantically, reforming into the Five Elements Spiritual Qi of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

At the same time, with Liu Xuan as the center, Spiritual Qi surged wildly throughout the entire Star Space, converging toward the central Cultivation Chamber like a tornado.

The original Spiritual Qi in the Star Space was soon insufficient. The Array automatically connected to the underground Spiritual Vein, directly drawing up the most concentrated Spiritual Qi.

The Star power accumulated over many years also descended from above, merging into the vast ocean of Spiritual Qi.

Outside, in the Star Immortal City.

"Why is the Spiritual Qi gone?"

"Look quickly, ten thousand stars are descending!"

...

The Spiritual Qi had all been sucked away by the Star Space, causing the Spiritual Qi in most parts of the city to be severely weakened, which aroused the dissatisfaction of countless Cultivators.

The sky-curtain barrier formed by the Star Array had ten thousand stars raining down brilliant starlight; countless Cultivators were shocked by this phenomenon.

"Do not panic, all of you!"

"My Liu Family will certainly compensate for all losses afterward. Anyone who dares to cause trouble will be executed without exception!"

Chen Beiming, Yun Yao, Bai Jie, and Zhou Qingwei—four Nascent Soul True Lords—appeared, and the slight disturbance was instantly quelled.

"Two Fellow Daoists, could it be that Brother Liu is undergoing Nascent Soul Formation?" Zhou Qingwei felt more and more that something was wrong, so he cupped his hands and asked Yun Yao and Bai Jie.

Yun Yao and Bai Jie exchanged a glance. "We do not know either. Please wait patiently, Senior."

The two women looked at Zhou Qingwei with some wariness. Their husband had instructed them that Chen Beiming could be trusted to a great extent, but Zhou Qingwei must be guarded against; if he made any overstepping move, they need not have any scruples.

'Brother Liu just likes to hide everything. It's just Nascent Soul Formation, what is there to hide?'

Seeing the expressions of Yun Yao and Bai Jie, Zhou Qingwei knew he had guessed correctly.

The Spiritual Qi in the city had been sucked away, starlight was raining from the sky, and the Spiritual Qi for hundreds of miles around was faintly forming a massive vortex. It was clearly someone undergoing Nascent Soul Formation, only the phenomenon had been suppressed by the Array.

'Nascent Soul Formation at seventy years old, and you still say you aren't a Reincarnation of a great power!'

'Old Liu... forget it, I'll call him Brother Liu from now on.'