Ning Fa couldn't help but look at Liuying with a bit of surprise upon hearing that.
He had to admit that this artifact spirit was truly special. Its intelligence and understanding of human nature were on par with Nascent Soul Old Monsters who had cultivated for many years.
He didn't say much more, just smiled, and took a step forward.
He first carefully observed the sheepskin scroll within the ball of light. After confirming there was no danger, he cautiously sent his Spiritual Sense into it and began to examine it closely.
The sheepskin scroll contained only a little over three thousand characters, but Ning Fa spent more than an hour reading it.
His expression changed repeatedly, as if he had witnessed something incredibly unbelievable.
After a long while, Ning Fa let out a long sigh. He flicked his right hand, and a Golden Lightning Arc turned the sheepskin scroll into ashes.
At this moment, Ning Fa could no longer hide the shock on his face, and his heart was churning like a stormy sea.
Through Yan Yuan Daoist's record, he finally understood what this Primordial Realm Pearl actually was.
It was actually formed from a nascent small interface!
The term "interface" here referred to interfaces like the Human Realm.
This was no wonder Ning Fa was so aghast.
Although the Primordial Realm Pearl was still in its initial nascent state as a small interface, it was still very, very far from being a mature interface like the Human Realm.
However, with enough time, the Primordial Realm Pearl had the potential to evolve into a complete interface like the Human Realm, though the time required would be unimaginably long.
According to Yan Yuan Daoist, interfaces were actually divided into different stages.
There were a total of six stages: Chaos Mustard Seed, Primordial Spirit Realm Embryo, Star Array Dharma Realm, True Realm Grotto-Heaven, Lesser Thousand Origin Realm, and Greater Thousand Origin Realm.
Chaos Mustard Seed referred to the initial birth of an interface, where space was as minuscule as a mustard seed, the interior was chaotic and undifferentiated, with only primordial chaotic airflow surging, unable to support life.
Primordial Spirit Realm Embryo referred to the interface developing Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, where chaos separated into clear and turbid energies, and rudimentary mountains and rivers began to form, with life beginning to appear within the interface.
Star Array Dharma Realm referred to the initial formation of basic Five Elements laws within the interface, the projection of sun, moon, and stars, and the interface could support low-level life forms, such as the proliferation of flowers, birds, fish, and insects.
True Realm Grotto-Heaven referred to the further completion of time and space laws within the interface, allowing for the evolution of sentient civilizations, such as high-level races like humans, and within it, some favored individuals could cultivate the Dao and become cultivators, but they could at most become Core Formation Cultivators.
Lesser Thousand Origin Realm referred to the further completion of various laws within the interface, making the interface more stable, and at this point, higher-level cultivators could appear, with the highest reaching the Deity Transformation Realm.
Greater Thousand Origin Realm was a further advancement of the Lesser Thousand Origin Realm, where all laws reached their most complete state. At this point, the upper limit of cultivator levels that the interface could support was unimaginably high, such as the highest known cultivation realm – the Mahayana Realm.
And generally, Lesser Thousand Origin Realms were subordinate interfaces to Greater Thousand Origin Realms.
For example, the Human Realm belonged to the fifth stage – Lesser Thousand Origin Realm, and the Human Realm's superior interface, the Spirit Realm, belonged to the sixth stage, Greater Thousand Origin Realm.
And it was said that there were even higher interface levels above the Greater Thousand Origin Realm, but Yan Yuan Daoist did not know about that.
And the Primordial Realm Pearl in front of Ning Fa belonged to the first stage – Chaos Mustard Seed, in a state of initial interface birth.
The reason Yan Yuan Daoist was so concerned about it was not because the Primordial Realm Pearl had the potential to become a Lesser Thousand Origin Realm, allowing him to cultivate it and become the master of a realm.
This was because it was impossible for ordinary cultivators to achieve this. Perhaps only legendary Mahayana cultivators possessed such heaven-defying means and longevity to accomplish it.
Yan Yuan Daoist simply wanted to cultivate the Primordial Realm Pearl to a state close to the third stage – Star Array Dharma Realm.
This way, he might be able to use the Primordial Realm Pearl to sneak into the Spirit Realm.
Yan Yuan Daoist mentioned in his records that the origin of this small interface was the Spirit Realm, the superior interface of the Human Realm.
Therefore, once the Primordial Realm Pearl evolved into a Lesser Thousand Origin Realm like the Human Realm, cultivators within it would ascend to the Spirit Realm when they broke through to the peak of Late Spirit Transformation to ascend.
Precisely because of this special connection between small interfaces and the Spirit Realm, once it advanced to the third stage, when the laws within the interface began to evolve, the connection with the Spirit Realm would also be further strengthened.
At that time, Yan Yuan Daoist could use the Primordial Realm Pearl to sense the weak points in space between the Human Realm and the Spirit Realm.
Then he could sneak into the Spirit Realm through these weak points in space, and by leveraging the special connection with the small interface, weaken the interface power he would receive, thereby greatly increasing his chances of successfully sneaking into the Spirit Realm.
According to Yan Yuan Daoist's own estimation, the possibility of such a sneak through was at least fifty percent, which was already outrageously high.
Yan Yuan Daoist specifically mentioned in his records that the path of ascension in the Human Realm was currently broken. Cultivators of all races in the Human Realm could at most cultivate to the middle stage of Deity Transformation, and could not reach the peak of Late Spirit Transformation, which was the threshold for ascension.
Therefore, for hundreds of thousands of years, many exceptionally talented Deity Transformation cultivators of all races in the Human Realm could only remain in the Human Realm.
Furthermore, they could not act recklessly, because the spiritual energy of the Human Realm was insufficient. Once they acted recklessly, they would consume their own origin, thereby shortening their lifespan.
Yan Yuan Daoist was extremely unwilling because he believed that with his peerless talent, once he could reach the Spirit Realm, he would definitely not be merely at the Deity Transformation realm.
Even becoming a legendary Mahayana cultivator, he was confident it was not impossible.
Therefore, after he became a Deity Transformation cultivator, he had been visiting various ancient sites in the Human Realm and communicating with other Deity Transformation cultivators.
Although he had also learned of some powerful Deity Transformation cultivators who attempted to sneak into the Spirit Realm through some spatial nodes.
However, according to Yan Yuan Daoist's investigation and deduction, the success rate of such attempts was even less than five percent, so he was naturally unwilling to try easily.
Later, by chance, he obtained this Primordial Realm Pearl from the depths of the Illusionary Light Heavenly Domain.
He didn't know what it was at the time, but by chance, he learned the secret information about the six stages of interfaces from other ancient sites.
He immediately thought of using this Primordial Realm Pearl to sneak into the Spirit Realm, and was naturally overjoyed.
Although cultivating the Primordial Realm Pearl, which was in the first stage of Chaos Mustard Seed, to the second stage of Primordial Spirit Realm Embryo was extremely difficult, its high fifty percent chance of sneak through still drove Yan Yuan Daoist to madness, and he naturally spared no expense to achieve it.
As for how to cultivate the Primordial Realm Pearl, which was in the first stage of Chaos Mustard Seed, to the second stage of Primordial Spirit Realm Embryo, it was necessary to evolve Yin and Yang and the Five Elements within it.
According to Yan Yuan Daoist, there should be several methods for this, such as using Solar Essence Fire and Tai Yin True Fire, these two primordial fires, to evolve Yin and Yang.
Alternatively, by gathering all five types of Divine Thunder of the Five Elements that had reached the Innate Realm, it was also possible to evolve Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.
Yan Yuan Daoist was extremely tempted by the second method because he possessed the extremely rare Void Thunder Body, which was the most elite thunder-attribute Spiritual Body known, second only to the Five Elements Thunder Body.
This type of Spiritual Body could freely accommodate, absorb, and simulate other thunder-attribute powers. It was precisely because of this that Yan Yuan Daoist was able to cultivate all five types of Divine Thunder of the Five Elements according to the Thunder Derivation Method left by Ancestor Juelei, and have them all reach the third stage.
But the problem was that he couldn't cultivate the fourth-stage Innate Divine Thunder, or more accurately, he couldn't cultivate all of them.
This was because Innate Divine Thunder was extraordinary. Once he cultivated it, his Void Thunder Body would completely transform into that attribute of Innate Divine Thunder, making it impossible to cultivate the Innate Divine Thunder of the other four elements.
Yan Yuan Daoist couldn't help but resent himself for not possessing the Five Elements Thunder Body like Ancestor Juelei.
If that were the case, he could have used his own body to directly evolve this Primordial Realm Pearl to the second stage.
He had no choice but to seek the Solar Essence Fire and Tai Yin True Fire.
Yan Yuan Daoist was basically certain that these two Origin Fires no longer existed in the Human Realm, so he had to find a way to derive them himself.
Although this would be extremely difficult for other cultivators, it was still possible for someone like him, who stood at the pinnacle of the Human Realm, to achieve it, and there was more than one method.
Ultimately, due to unforeseen circumstances, he chose the Sky Furnace Fire Marsh and Sun Peak.
Using the pure Fire Spiritual Power from these two major fire-attribute secret lands, combined with the Origin Power of his Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, the Haolei Tower, he slowly evolved the Solar Essence Fire.
This was the origin of his arrangements.
In addition to this, Yan Yuan Daoist also made a trip to the Ice Sea at the northernmost part of the Nine Dragons Sea and stole the sacred artifact of the Ice Phoenix clan, a royal clan among the Northern Sea Monster race – the Ice Glaze Pearl.
This was an Ice Attribute Spirit Treasure of the Spirit Treasure level. It did not possess actual destructive power, but it was extremely important to the Ice Phoenix clan.
This was because in the sacred land of the Ice Phoenix clan, it could evolve the Ice Spiritual Qi that was crucial to the Ice Phoenix clan.
It could be used to enhance the bloodline of the Ice Phoenix clan members, thereby allowing the Ice Phoenix clan to maintain its strength at an extremely high level.
Yan Yuan Daoist also believed that with the Ice Glaze Pearl as a guide, combined with the Supreme Water Divine Thunder, it should also be possible to evolve the Tai Yin True Fire.
Although the Ice Phoenix clan was extremely powerful, with Yan Yuan Daoist's overwhelming strength that dominated the entire Nine Dragons Sea at that time, he still managed to steal the Ice Glaze Pearl and even cleverly framed the Brilliant Moon Palace, a powerful Deity Transformation force in the Great Qin Cultivation World.
This was because Yan Yuan Daoist harbored deep hatred for the Brilliant Moon Palace of Great Qin.
This brings us to the origin of how he obtained the Primordial Realm Pearl.
In the Nine Dragons Sea, there was a most hidden place called the Illusionary Light Heavenly Domain.
This type of secret realm had existed for hundreds of thousands of years and was not an ordinary secret realm ruin.
It was more like a Void Realm, containing numerous bizarre scenes and peculiar places, making it extremely dangerous.
Even Nascent Soul Old Monsters entering it were very likely to perish, but it also contained many unimaginable opportunities and rare heavenly treasures that had long since disappeared from the outside world.
Although the entrance to the Illusionary Light Heavenly Domain was fixed, the entrance was usually filled with spatial storms, making it impossible to enter.
Only during the periods when the spatial storms at the entrance weakened, which occurred every few hundred years, could various Nascent Soul Old Monsters enter to explore and seek treasures.