Su Yuan no longer paid attention to the battlefield.

At this moment, he had begun to inventory the treasures he had obtained.

Inside an isolated world.

Su Yuan stood in the void as each treasure became wrapped in starforce, turning into individual stars and soaring into the sky.

Soon, the entire world had become a starry realm.

Numerous treasures hung in the firmament, dazzling Su Yuan.

First came nineteen Starry Sky Fruits — originally his items that had circled back. There were a dozen or so fewer than before, but they still brought him substantial gains.

Those missing Starry Sky Fruits might, at some future point, bring him unexpected surprises.

Su Yuan put the Starry Sky Fruits aside for now and fixed his gaze on the brightest star in the night sky.

Within the starforce-wrapped treasure was, astonishingly, a seed.

Insight flashed through Su Yuan’s eyes as he retrieved information about the seed.

[Seed of the True Spirit]: When a true spirit is about to break and vanish, one may plant the Seed of the True Spirit to birth a new true spirit and spawn a new branch.

“This is…”

Su Yuan looked at the seed, and an overwhelming joy surged within him.

Ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortals could already reclaim their true spirits.

But when Su Yuan previously entered the River of Fate, he failed to find his own true spirit, and that had been a persistent knot in his mind.

Later the appearance of true spirit soul-branches explained why the true spirit could not be found, but Su Yuan still felt unsettled.

Now seeing this Seed of the True Spirit, he was eager to test whether he could use it to directly obtain a new true spirit and thus truly achieve great freedom and unrestrained liberation.

This Seed of the True Spirit had been obtained from Zhuyuan Great Emperor, and it had been placed at the very center of Zhuyuan Great Emperor’s array of items — in theory, it should be safe.

Su Yuan attempted to use the law of time to predict his future, but the future remained shrouded in thick mist. His time law could not view his own future at all.

“No need to agonize. Right now it’s very hard for me to die!”

Su Yuan finally placed the Seed of the True Spirit into his main body.

The seed entered Su Yuan’s soul, traveled along the soul down into its core, and ultimately arrived at a certain dimension of his spirit — landing upon the Corridor of Time’s River of Fate.

The Seed of the True Spirit plunged into the River of Fate, began absorbing the river’s fate-force, and slowly started to condense a true spirit.

“It actually worked!”

Su Yuan’s expression turned grave.

He had deduced that the Seed of the True Spirit only takes effect when a true spirit is about to break and vanish. Because of that condition, Zhuyuan Great Emperor had never used this seed and had kept it preserved.

Now that the seed had taken effect, a ridiculous conclusion sprung to mind.

He immediately thought of how Banyan Demon Venerable might have resurrected!

Reincarnation!

Endless reincarnation!

Repairing a true spirit through successive reincarnations, gradually restoring the shattered true spirit back to wholeness!

To support continuous reincarnation, a reincarnated vessel must repeatedly grow and then perish again!

The faster the growth, the faster the fall!

Until the true spirit was fully restored and Banyan Demon Venerable’s consciousness awakened, all those past incarnations would be buried in the River of Fate forever, never to revive!

Su Yuan didn’t know what methods Banyan Demon Venerable had left for his reincarnations, but when he looked back at the system panel a second time, a terrifying chill suddenly ran through him!

Could he himself be one of the reincarnated vessels of some fallen existence?

The entry-system could allow a reincarnation to break through to Golden Immortal level, even Great Luo Golden Immortal, in a short time, and then calamity would arrive to take that vessel’s life — thereby allowing the powerful one’s true spirit to gradually revive!

Su Yuan even imagined that true spirit soul-branches from different Realm Seas killing one another to gain entry-system bonuses — this resembled an ultimate slaughter mechanism, designed to make empowered reincarnations slaughter each other to accelerate a true spirit’s recovery!

There is no free lunch in the world!

Su Yuan even speculated that when he breaks a particular boundary, that could be the moment of his fall!

That boundary might be the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal!

Although these were only Su Yuan’s conjectures, a gut feeling told him it could be so.

“This is an opportunity!”

Su Yuan calmedly considered the matter.

The Seed of the True Spirit was still drawing power from the River of Fate and growing. Looking closely, it was absorbing fate-force.

All past experiences had been transformed into fate-force and poured into the Seed of the True Spirit to nourish it, but his fate-force was far too thin;

his past experiences were extremely simple, so the “nutrients” supplied to the seed were extremely scant — judging the progress, it hadn’t even reached one hundred-millionth!

That would not do!

Su Yuan quickly ran simulations in his mind, searching for items that could speed the seed’s growth.

Memories of past items surged through his thoughts, and before long one object surfaced in the projection.

It was an ordinary-looking stone that had once served as the ferry fee required by the old ferryman in the River of Fate — a Fate Stone!

A Fate Stone is what remains after all true spirit soul-branches have perished and only the true spirit itself fades away, with the River of Fate continuously buffeting and condensing the residue into a stone.

Su Yuan looked up to the sky.

Among the many treasures, Fate Stones were conspicuously included.

He gestured, and a tremendous number of Fate Stones flew through the starry sky toward him — as many as ninety thousand.

Although these Fate Stones appeared ordinary, they actually condensed mysterious fate-force and true-spirit force.

Su Yuan took one and refined it.

The Fate Stone melted into his soul, entered that inner dimension, and transformed into strands of force that poured into the Seed of the True Spirit.

The Seed of the True Spirit trembled slightly, but showed little reaction.

Su Yuan continued refining Fate Stones rapidly.

When he had consumed ten thousand of them,

the Seed of the True Spirit finally received sufficient nourishment. A fissure opened, and a delicate sprout leapt out, immediately connecting to Su Yuan’s soul.

A sense of rebirth arose in Su Yuan’s heart.

His soul seemed to have acquired a root and underwent a strange change.

Su Yuan’s enlightenment of the cosmic Way condensed into tangible power and began to integrate into the sprout, helping it grow rapidly.

Without hesitation, Su Yuan continued refining Fate Stones.

After another fifty thousand Fate Stones were consumed, the sprout rapidly grew into a small true-spirit tree, its branches splitting into two. One branch bore a Starry Sky Fruit, while the other branch remained vacant.

Su Yuan’s expression brightened: “So that’s how it is. Ordinary true spirits can normally hold only one Dao fruit, but now I can possess a second Dao fruit!”

However, the true spirit remained too weak. Once it bore the Starry Sky Fruit, it trembled precariously.

That was because his comprehension of the starforce-law had already reached the Hunyuan Golden Immortal level, equivalent to a thirty-two-grade golden lotus.

Su Yuan continued to refine Fate Stones.

With more fate-force pouring into the true-spirit tree, it grew another large segment. The previously shaky support for the Starry Sky Fruit immediately improved significantly.

This situation left Su Yuan both amused and exasperated.

He was certain other cultivators would not encounter this problem, because when they obtained a true spirit they normally had plenty of time for the true spirit to grow. By the time a true spirit reached the capacity to sustain a Hunyuan Dao fruit, the cultivator himself generally could not yet comprehend the Hunyuan Dao fruit. True spirit growth usually outpaced a cultivator’s law comprehension.

But his true spirit had only just been born. Even if it had been fished out of the River of Fate, there would not have been enough time for it to grow — his cultivation speed was simply too fast.

Su Yuan felt the changes as the true spirit integrated into him.

With a brand-new true spirit as his origin, in practical terms Su Yuan was now his true self;

he was no longer merely someone’s reincarnation or a tool for another’s revival!

He possessed his own true spirit and was no longer a soul-branch of another — he was the sole main soul of his own true spirit!

At that moment,

Su Yuan suddenly noticed a dimensional region deep within his soul undergoing an anomaly.

That place seemed to be perceivable only after Su Yuan’s true spirit had been birthed!

Su Yuan immediately used true-spirit power to probe that area.

Soon, he found three jade-disk fragments deep within his soul. One fragment was exceptionally large, occupying roughly two-fifths of a circle;

the remaining two fragments were tiny, mere specks not even a ten-millionth of that large piece.

Despite their small size, those two fragments still radiated a strong sense of presence.

On the main half-circle jade disk sat ten shining light clusters, each emitting different radiance.

Su Yuan sensed familiar system-entry fluctuations.

“Is this the core of the system itself?”

Su Yuan stared, astonished and surprised.

Those two small fragments were likely obtained from the true spirit soul-branches of two other beings and had somehow fused into his soul.

But he quickly noticed that the jade disk represented on the system panel was connected to his soul rather than to his true spirit. In Su Yuan’s understanding, if this treasure had been the spiritual relic of someone else’s true spirit, that other true spirit could easily have erased his soul imprint — and the system panel would have naturally left with them.

Su Yuan pondered for a moment, then an idea struck him.

Under Su Yuan’s directing, the system-panel’s core shifted and moved. When it reappeared it had already come above the River of Fate.

On Su Yuan’s true-spirit tree, the vacant branch pointed toward the semicircular jade disk.

Attracted by the true spirit, the jade disk came to the tree and hung from that empty branch.

Su Yuan’s true-spirit force began pouring into the half jade disk.

In that misty connection, Su Yuan perceived a vague true-spirit imprint inside the disk!

Su Yuan’s eyes narrowed as he immediately used true-spirit power to scour that illusory true-spirit imprint.

Although that imprint was extremely vague, it proved more tenacious than Su Yuan had expected. Even after a massive flush of his true-spirit force, the imprint did not budge an inch.