Chapter 255 Establishing the Primordial Currency
"What a fine pill!"
Xuan Qing reached out and took the Five Elements Divine Pill, examining it for a moment before praising it.
This pill was born with five colors, accompanied by a five-colored halo, and possessed all five elements, containing immense innate energy. This single pill was equivalent to a Golden Immortal's thousand years of arduous cultivation.
In other words, a Golden Immortal who consumed this pill could immediately increase their cultivation by a thousand years.
The innate five-element energy is the essence of heaven and earth, extremely gentle. Even cultivators below the Golden Immortal level who consumed a celestial pill made primarily from it would not experience body explosion.
Instead, it would settle within the user's body, continuously releasing power until it was exhausted.
Moreover, this pill was born from the innate five elements, making it essentially of the same origin as heaven and earth. In the primordial world, regardless of immortals, gods, demons, or witches, any living being could consume it without any side effects.
This innate five-element divine pill, while not particularly precious, possessed some miraculous qualities and was quite good.
"From now on,"
"This pill will be called the Creation Pill."
"The Innate Five Elements Creation Pill!"
After a while, Xuan Qing's mind stirred, and he named the Five Elements Divine Pill before him.
The five elements converge, and creation is born!
This pill, refined from the innate five elements, is most aptly named the Creation Pill.
Setting the Innate Five Elements Creation Pill aside, Xuan Qing focused his gaze on the innate Yin-Yang essence.
"Go!"
With a command, the Great Dao Furnace trembled violently, releasing an immense suction force that drew in the innate Yin-Yang essence.
"Rumble!"
The Great Dao Furnace began to operate again, the Dao fire blazing even brighter, the refining power surging forth, the immense power leaking out, distorting the void.
...
Not long after, the Great Dao Furnace returned to calm, and the Dao fire gradually subsided.
A divine pill surrounded by Yin-Yang energy slowly rose from the Great Dao Furnace, radiating black and white divine light, looking exceptionally extraordinary.
This pill, born in black and white, surrounded by yin and yang energies, is the essence of heaven and earth, the brilliance of the sun and moon, capable of generating the essence of creation and creating miniature worlds.
This single pill can increase the cultivation of a Taiyi Golden Immortal by a thousand years out of thin air. It can be consumed by any being of any realm. It is similar in nature to the Innate Five Elements Creation Pill, but of a higher grade.
"This pill is also a Creation Pill, which can be called the Innate Yin-Yang Creation Pill, possessing the power of creation and the wonders of yin and yang."
After examining the Innate Yin-Yang Creation Pill for a while, Xuan Qing named it and placed it beside the Innate Five Elements Creation Pill, setting it aside temporarily.
Then, He turned His gaze to the last strand of innate energy.
The ancestor of all innate energies, the primordial energy of chaos!
This is the true treasure of the primordial world, a treasure even a Great Luo Golden Immortal needs.
Boom!
The Great Dao Furnace trembled violently, the Great Dao runes on the furnace walls lighting up one after another, terrifying power spreading, even the rules were distorted, seemingly unable to withstand it.
Under this force, the primordial chaos energy shrank continuously, gradually condensing into a small ball, transforming into a hazy, grayish-brown Chaos Divine Pill.
No, this should be called a Chaos Dao Pill!
One can see that this Dao Pill, condensed from the primordial chaos energy, possesses a mysterious Daoist aura flowing within it, subtle and innate, seemingly born before heaven and earth.
It appears to be expounding the principles of the universe, illustrating the myriad phenomena of the cosmos, demonstrating the Dao of transformation of primordial energy, and containing supreme creation.
This Chaos Dao Pill can increase the cultivation of a Great Luo Golden Immortal by a thousand years, and can help a Taiyi Golden Immortal enhance their primordial origin, increasing their chances of attaining the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
"The primordial chaos energy, born before heaven and earth, contains the principles of the universe; it is the source of creation, the beginning of all things, the ancestor of all things."
"Therefore, this pill shall be named the Creation Dao Pill!"
With a thought, Xuanqing decided on the name of this Chaos Dao Pill.
This pill is also a type of Creation Pill.
However, compared to the Innate Yin-Yang Creation Pill, the essence of the Creation Dao Pill is undoubtedly superior, making it the best of the three pills!
At this point, all three innate energies have been refined into Innate Creation Pills, and Xuanqing's grand plan is nearing its end.
Only the final step is needed to complete the task.
"Excellent, the three Creation Pills are complete, this matter is accomplished!"
Looking at the Creation Pills before him, Xuanqing was somewhat excited.
His grand plan was to... establish a currency for the Primordial World!
The Primordial World is currently in an era of barter.
From great supernatural beings to acquired beings, everyone who wants to trade items exchanges treasures of equal value, without exception!
Xuanqing has lived in the Primordial World for so long and has gradually become accustomed to this mode of trade.
After the Tongtian Sect Leader accepted Zhao Gongming as his disciple, Xuanqing suddenly remembered Zhao Gongming's identity in later generations. This sparked a flash of inspiration, leading him to decide on a currency for the prehistoric world.
Zhao Gongming was, after all, the God of Wealth!
Xuanqing's idea was good, but finding a currency in the prehistoric world that could be universally accepted by all living beings was no easy task.
For a currency to be accepted, it either needs to possess great value, benefiting all living beings in the prehistoric world, or its issuer must have immense influence, gaining the unanimous approval of all living beings. Only then can something ordinary be transformed into something extraordinary. And in the prehistoric world, only one person possessed this influence— the Dao Ancestor, of noble status, residing in seclusion in the Zixiao Palace, rarely revealing himself unless there were major events in the prehistoric world.
Xuanqing didn't have the ability to invite the Dao Ancestor from Zixiao Palace to guarantee the currency He issued, ensuring its acceptance by all beings in the primordial world and replacing the barter system.
Therefore, He could only focus on the first method.
And if there was anything in the primordial world that all beings would like and that was intimately connected to them, it would only be innate energy.
After all, this was the foundation of cultivation; all beings in the primordial world needed it to cultivate. The fact that spirit stones, containing spiritual energy, became so prevalent in later generations and served as currency in the cultivation world proves this point.
However, this was, after all, the primordial world, and its most prosperous era at that, where innate energy was incredibly abundant, almost transforming into spiritual rain. This was incomparable to the harsh cultivation environment of later generations.
It was probably faster to simply absorb a breath than to refine spirit stones. Therefore, in this environment, using spirit stones as currency would likely not be accepted by the beings.
But where there's a will, there's a way. After thousands of years of pondering, Xuanqing finally came up with a solution.
Spirit stones cannot be used as currency because their value is too low, not because this method is ineffective. So why not find a treasure with similar properties to spirit stones but with even greater value?
Thus, these three Creation Pills were born.
Each Innate Five Elements Creation Pill possesses the cultivation of a Golden Immortal for a thousand years, greatly benefiting cultivators at the Golden Immortal level and below.
(End of Chapter)