The Growth of a God

Chapter 846 - 4: Ascenders on Earth

"A supreme treasure from the Destruction World?"

Carefully examining the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda in his hands, Li Hao couldn’t shake the feeling of familiarity with the inscriptions on it.

"Qin Seal?"

"No, these inscriptions are even older than the Qin Seal..."

Going through the memories in his mind, Li Hao quickly understood the source of this familiarity.

"It’s actually Golden Text? Or possibly Oracle Bone Script?"

With a peculiar expression, Li Hao compared the inscriptions to the Golden Text and Oracle Bone Script he remembered, basically confirming that they indeed came from the Great Seal before the Qin Dynasty.

Prior to the Qin Dynasty’s unification of the six states, each country’s script varied and formed their own systems.

Tracing back to the Spring and Autumn Period, or even to the Western Zhou era.

Writing was extremely rare at the time, mostly engraved on various bronze ritual items, hence named Golden Text.

Going further back to the slave regime of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties.

Due to limitations in metallurgical technology, scripts were usually inscribed on tortoise shells and bones, thus giving birth to the renowned Oracle Bone Script.

Now the question arises, why does this Exquisite Treasure Pagoda from the Destruction World have ancient Chinese inscriptions?

"Moreover, why can it stir the ’Qi’ within me?"

Feeling the boiling Primordial Qi within him, Li Hao harbored a vague suspicion.

After all, the most significant characteristic of the [Qi Refiner] profession is that after achieving success in cultivation, they would fly freely across All Heavens and Myriad Realms, gloriously termed ’Ascension.’

Thus, the Qi Refiner mentioned by Hua She is highly unlikely to be a native-born of the Destruction World.

"Could he be an Ascender from Earth?"

If it were before obtaining this pagoda, Li Hao would consider this guess utterly outlandish.

The [Fallen Area] is the Returning Ruins from where even the Gods couldn’t escape, a graveyard for all Gods.

How could a mere Qi Refiner possibly leave the [Fallen Area]?

Furthermore, the [Fallen Area] is a place where all magic is forbidden.

Even if someone actually obtained the Qi Refining Technique, how could they cultivate to the level sufficient for Ascension?

Li Hao’s current incarnation was just an exception, which he forcibly created through an Automatic Alchemy Furnace.

Even so, this incarnation of Li Hao has no possibility of Ascension or leaving the [Fallen Area], at most living a few additional decades beyond normal people.

However, after feeling the resonance between the Primordial Qi within him and the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, Li Hao hesitated.

The Qi within Li Hao was the purest Life Essence Qi, the only type of Qi that could be cultivated in the [Fallen Area].

Theoretically, as long as Li Hao stayed away from the [Ascension Area], he couldn’t, like other Qi Refiners, cultivate various dazzling Magical Divine Techniques.

This is determined by the type of Primordial Qi and represents the biggest difference between the [Fallen Area] and the [Ascension Area].

Yet during the brief period of holding the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, Li Hao felt a trend of transformation in his Life Essence Qi.

"I’m starting to get a little excited..."

After a long silence, Li Hao turned with a grin to Hua She beside him.

"Do you think the Qi Refiner you saw, who has already passed away, might be the Tao Ancestor himself?"

"If it truly was him, then Ascending from the ’Fallen Area’ to the ’Ascension Area’ would make sense."

On Li Hao’s speculation, Hua She hesitated before decisively shaking her head in denial.

"Impossible!"

"According to your previous description, Tao Ancestor is a ’Reality Distorter,’ meaning he is at least a Supreme God."

"But the Qi Refiner I met definitely couldn’t be a Supreme God."

Supreme God is unlike ordinary Gods; he is the ruler of a world, the master of a Divine Pantheon.

His death would have a lasting impact, enough to cause a world to fall into the [Fallen Area], yet that Qi Refiner clearly hadn’t reached that level.

In Hua She’s view, apart from being a bit special, that Qi Refiner might not even be as strong as a Main God.

After all, the Main God is tied to the workings of the world itself, and the absence of a Main God would directly lead to the collapse of world order.

"If that Qi Refiner isn’t Tao Ancestor, then things get interesting."

Li Hao, who had anticipated this, was not surprised; instead, he once again turned his gaze to the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda in his hand.

"Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda."

As he touched the inscriptions on the pagoda, Li Hao spoke the meaning of those characters word by word.

"This was clearly Tao Ancestor’s Tao Forming Treasure from mythology, so how did it end up with an ordinary Qi Refiner?"

Upon hearing this, Hua She revealed a shocked expression.

Although Hua She didn’t understand the weight of the term ’Tao Ancestor’ in the hearts of the Chinese, it didn’t hinder her understanding of Li Hao’s meaning.

The Exquisite Treasure Pagoda she accidentally obtained is actually a Tao Forming Treasure of a Supreme God?

Making a possibly inappropriate comparison.

The [Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda] for Tao Ancestor is like the [Divine Treasure Vault] for Li Hao, an ultimate Supreme Treasure for settling down and establishing oneself.

"That shouldn’t be the case, right?"

Li Hao ignored Hua She’s mutterings.

He hesitated for a moment and eventually decided not to suppress the already boiling "Primordial Qi" within him.

He’s very curious now about what the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda intends to do?

Hung!

Almost immediately upon releasing the suppression, the flourishing Life Essence Qi surged into the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda from within him.

In an instant, the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, which initially emitted a faint treasure light, burst into dazzling Profound Yellow radiance.

Fortunately, Hua She responded promptly, shielding the radiation from this light.

Otherwise, the entire Lu’an University would have seen the Profound Yellow light shooting from the male dormitory.

"Is it... devouring your Primordial Qi?"

Under Hua She’s incredulous gaze, the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda gradually left Li Hao’s control and autonomously flew to three feet above his head.

During this process, the vast Life Essence Qi continued to flow endlessly into the interior of the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda.

Faced with the Taotie-like appetite of the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, even Li Hao’s incarnation found it hard to endure.

Vital energy transformed entirely into Life Essence Qi, which then rushed entirely into the pagoda.

Li Hao’s face became somewhat pale...

"This thing is quite greedy."

With a low murmur, the weakened Li Hao snapped his fingers gently.

In the next second, the [Divine Treasure Vault] automatically opened, and a bottle of elixir specifically to replenish Life Essence Qi appeared in his hand.

Li Hao promptly swallowed the entire bottle of elixir like it was candy beans, slightly improving his complexion.

"I do want to see just how big your appetite can be."

As more Life Essence Qi poured into the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, the pagoda suspended in mid-air began spinning rapidly like a top.

At the same time, Li Hao sensed a mysterious connection forming between his incarnation and the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda.

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