Crafting an Immortal Race with Daily Hexagrams

”Great-grandfather, please look, here are the symbols transcribed by Xiuchan. There might be some discrepancies.”

Shen Xiuchan said and handed over a stack of papers.

Shen Yuan took them, skimmed a few pages, and set them aside.

”Xiuchan, go get your Third Granduncle. I have something to discuss with him.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Xiuchan bowed and left the Black Water Pavilion.

A moment later, Shen Wen’an arrived on the second floor of the Black Water Pavilion.

After the father and son sat down, Shen Yuan pointed to the broken stone slab before him and said, ”Wen’an, take a look at this.”

Shen Wen’an glanced at the stone slab and immediately frowned.

”It looks like the map of Danzhou and Yangnao Land is drawn on the slab.”

”These circles in different colors...”

He reached out to touch the orange-red circle, frowning and murmuring, ”This should be the Western Wilderness...”

”I think this is Flame Lake City,” Shen Yuan added, ”I remember you mentioned there was a strange stone egg in the Magma Lake at Flame Lake City?”

Mentioning the stone egg made Shen Wen’an suddenly recall the Separation Fire Flame.

That thing swallowed eighty strands of white flame containing Innate Spiritual Qi, claiming it could help open the stone egg for him. It’s been over a year since then, and he doesn’t know how things are going now.

”Ah Die, do you know what’s inside the stone egg?”

Shen Yuan did not speak but turned and selected a few incomplete ancient texts from many old scrolls, and then took a Jade Scroll sent a second time by Shen Chongxu.

”Chongxu said, a mysterious treasure appeared recently in the Southern Border.”

”The location is at the border between Fushan Country and Celestial Sword City.”

”Fushan Country and Celestial Sword City are both Golden Core Influences, and there was quite a conflict between them over the mysterious treasure.”

”These booklets contain the general regions of Fushan Country and Celestial Sword City. After reading, I can conclude the location of the mysterious treasure is here.”

Shen Yuan pointed to one of the circles on the stone slab.

”Oh?”

Seeing this, Shen Wen’an was somewhat surprised.

If the five circles on the slab represent exotic treasures, could the stone egg at the bottom of the Magma Lake in Flame Lake City also be a treasure?

”Ah Die, do you know what mysterious treasure Fushan Country and Celestial Sword City are fighting over?”

The so-called exotic treasure is quite a broad term.

Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, Magical Artifacts, Magical Robes, Cultivation Techniques, and legacies all count as exotic treasures.

Shen Yuan nodded slightly, ”Chongxu mentioned in the Jade Scroll that the mysterious treasure is referred to by a Nascent Soul Influence from the Southern Border as ’Geng and Xin Origin Gold.’”

”But I think it should be a kind of Spiritual Material.”

After a brief pause, he explained, ”I have read a lot of ancient texts and have seen some things about Dao Source and Spiritual.”

”You can consider Dao Source as the core force that maintains the normal operation of a world.”

”And Spiritual Material is the foundation that constitutes the Dao Source.”

After hearing this, Shen Wen’an pondered for a moment, ”So, Spiritual Material is actually the Five Elements Origin?”

There is a consensus in the Cultivation Realm that the normal rotation of the Five Elements is fundamental to the stability of the world.

Since the ”exotic treasure” fought over by Celestial Sword City and Fushan Country is called ”Geng and Xin Origin Gold,” there should be a ”Water of Origin,” ”Origin Wood,” and so on.

And coincidentally, the stone egg at the bottom of the Magma Lake matches the guess of ”Fire of Origin.”

Shen Yuan shook his head after hearing this.

He pondered for a moment and said solemnly, ”The Spiritual is by no means simply the Five Elements Origin but a higher-level, more fundamental manifestation of the Dao.”

”They, like the Five Elements, depend on each other, generate and restrain each other, maintaining the balance and vitality of the Dao Source World.”

Speaking, he found a nearly decaying bamboo slip from the ancient books and unrolled it carefully.

”This is a classic from an ancient sect called the ’Heaven Mending Sect’ of the Southern Border, recording something named ’Primordial Spirit.’”

”The Primordial Spirit is the Primordial Truth, the one generated by the Dao, the mother of all creation.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Wen’an frowned deeply.

He obviously did not quite understand the meaning of this sentence.

Shen Yuan explained, ”An ancient text says, ’Dao gives birth to one, and then the one gives birth to all things. This ’one’ is the inception of all things.”

”The meaning here is probably that ’Primordial Spirit’ is the primal spirit at the start of life, similar to the existence of ’Innate Qi.’”

Shen Wen’an suddenly understood, then he bowed, ”Father’s meaning is that this ’Primordial Spirit’ is one of the Spiritual Materials?”

Shen Yuan did not answer.

Everything he mentioned just now was inferred from some ancient texts and past life memories, along with the stone slab in front of him and the Jade Scroll sent by Shen Chongxu.

Whether it is the Dao Source or Spiritual Material, the power levels involved are very high and not within his current reach.

Managing to infer these things is already quite challenging.

As for whether the ”Primordial Spirit,” ”Tribulation,” and ”Void” recorded in the incomplete bamboo slip of the ”Heaven Mending Sect” are Spiritual Materials, he dared not confirm.

”The reason I called you is to tell you to be extra careful with matters at Flame Lake City.”

”If what’s at the bottom of that Magma Lake is indeed a Spiritual Material, the Chess Player behind the grand scheme won’t let it go unattended.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Wen’an’s expression changed slightly.

He suddenly thought of the item sent by the Old Man with a Conical Hat guarding the boundary between Danzhou and Yangnao Land during the Golden Core Assembly.

Father had speculated then that it was a warning from the Chess Player behind the scenes.

Advising the Shen Family not to interfere with their plans.

Now, it seems, could this warning be because he discovered the stone egg at the bottom of the Magma Lake?

”Father, I have already been trying to open that stone egg...”

Shen Wen’an pondered briefly and described how he intended to use the Separation Fire Flame to open the stone egg.