Like the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent, it was a Spirit Realm creature from the Sea of Sumeru. Its species was called the Touching Yin Star Octopus.

It was a creature that roamed the Sea of Sumeru.

After being severely injured in an accident, it ended up here, passing through a Spirit Realm Sea Eye into this world.

The Touching Yin Star Octopus wanted to devour this world’s origin to recover from its injuries. However, unlike the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent, it lacked the ability to devour a world directly.

It could only find another way to plunder the world’s origin, such as by killing the children of destiny cultivated by this world—the Celestial Fate People—to seize their fortune.

After all, fortune itself is a manifestation of a world’s origin.

If you compared the world to a computer,

the more fortune one possessed, the greater their administrative privileges would naturally be.

Back then, when Mother Earth arrived in this world, the Human Race was still in a primitive age.

The world’s will would normally never expend a vast amount of its Power of Origin to cultivate a Celestial Fate Person with such dense fortune.

There was only one Celestial Fate Person who had discovered fire, leading the Human Race into the Paleolithic era.

The advent of fire allowed humans to rely on it for warmth, light, and protection against wild beasts. They could also cook their food, making it easier to digest and absorb. This provided the crucial conditions for the further development of the human brain and the evolution of the body.

Unfortunately, however, this Celestial Fate Person had already fulfilled their Celestial Mandate.

The Power of Fortune gathered on them had already dissipated by more than half.

After Mother Earth absorbed what was left, her injuries barely stabilized.

To force the world to create even more powerful Celestial Fate People, Mother Earth drove a group of the Human Race to the surface. She then used her own blood, combined with creatures from Earth Star, to create the human-eating Black Blood Species.

This was done to compel the Human Race to constantly seek its own salvation.

As the favored children of the world, the Human Race possessed immense adaptability.

After the first primitive civilization of living in caves and eating raw meat, a second civilization gave birth to a powerful Celestial Fate Person named Nuo Star.

She possessed a terrifying intellect far beyond that of ordinary people and led her civilization to its zenith.

Only when the Celestial Fate Person’s own Power of Fortune reached its Peak would Mother Earth make her move to harvest it. This was the so-called "world-ending event."

Following that came the appearances of the dynastic civilization and the Miwu Civilization.

The Heavenly Fortune Takers among the Secret Martial Artists possessed even greater fortune.

In order to harvest an even greater amount of the Power of Fortune, the Black Blood Species did not destroy the legacy of Secret Martial Arts after the world-ending event. This was solely to rear more powerful Celestial Fate People.

This is why the Black Blood Species always waited for a civilization to reach its Peak before striking to destroy it; their goal was to plunder the world’s Power of Origin.

Faced with this situation, the world’s will was helpless. Mother Earth was like an indestructible parasite, constantly draining its strength.

After tens of thousands of years of scheming, Mother Earth had plundered nearly half of the world’s fortune.

If she had succeeded in harvesting it one more time, she could have used her authority to gain complete control over this world and plunder its entire Power of Origin.

If a world were to lose its Power of Origin, it would be akin to a living being losing its life. Everything in the world, from its lifeforms to the world itself, would rapidly head toward extinction.

Unfortunately, she had been on the verge of success.

But then, the appearance of an anomaly like Hu Qi completely ruined everything.

He even swallowed Mother Earth alive.

This was also the reason why Earth Star had become the way it was.

However, these were not Hu Qi’s main concerns.

What he cared about was the information in Mother Earth’s memories regarding the Sea of Sumeru and the path that lay ahead.

Within the Sea of Sumeru, worlds were as numerous as the stars in the sky, impossible to count.

And Earth Star was just one of the countless, pebble-like worlds located in the Intertidal Zone, at the very edge of the Sea of Sumeru.

The Sea of Sumeru was like a boundless ocean, divided into four regions: the Intertidal Zone, the Shallow Wave Zone, the Deep Dark Zone, and the Bottomless Realm.

As the names implied.

The Intertidal Zone was located at the edge of the Sea of Sumeru.

Like a beach by the sea, it was only at high tide that various creatures adapted to the ebb and flow, such as shellfish, crabs, and seaweed, would be left behind here.

Mother Earth was just like that; after being injured, she was washed ashore here by the Spiritual Tide of the Sea of Sumeru.

Intertidal Zone: The worlds here were basically the most ordinary, containing no Extraordinary Power whatsoever.

Earth Star was originally like this as well.

However, Mother Earth’s arrival, and the influence of the Spiritual Tide she brought with her while plundering the world’s origin, caused this otherwise ordinary world to give rise to Extraordinary beings like Secret Martial Artists over time.

Shallow Wave Zone: The worlds here, influenced by the waters of the Sea of Sumeru, almost all involved the Extraordinary. These worlds were more powerful than those in the Intertidal Zone.

Various forms of Extraordinary Power could appear, such as Magic, Superpowers, and so on.

The only difference between them was their relative strength.

As for the Deep Dark Zone: this was where True Gods existed.

And the final region, the Bottomless Realm.

The only information related to it was even scarcer—just its name.

In the end, Mother Earth herself was merely a Spirit Realm creature from the Shallow Wave Zone.

She had only ever roamed the fringes of the Deep Dark Zone and had never actually entered it.

For the Spirit Realm creatures in the Sea of Sumeru, the dangers in each zone were different.

If they entered a new zone rashly, they would most likely be hunted down by even more powerful Spirit Realm creatures.

’True Gods, huh!?’

Hu Qi’s gaze flickered.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the path of the True God was what came after the Void Realm.

However, because the systems of each world were different, there were also variations.

But in this regard, the Spirit Realm—that is, the Sea of Sumeru—had its own system of classification.

From lowest to highest, they were: Mayfly, Spirit Level, Apostle, and True God.

Mayfly: Equivalent to a Qi Dao Grandmaster. In the Sea of Sumeru, one at this level was like a mayfly. If they entered rashly, a single crashing wave would most likely mean their death and the dissipation of their Dao. If it were a Spirit Realm creature born in the Sea of Sumeru, it might survive for a while longer.

Spirit Level: In equivalent terms, this was a Refining God Venerable. They possessed the ability to survive briefly in the Sea of Sumeru. If they were lucky, they could travel to other worlds, possessing the ability to traverse realms.

Apostle: This was the current level of both Mother Earth and Hu Qi. They were basically immune to the Erosion of the Sea of Sumeru’s waters, could ignore the dangers of the Intertidal Zone, and were able to roam the Shallow Wave Zone.

True God: No lifespan limitations; eternal and Immortal.

This information was a revelation from the Spirit Realm that one would receive upon entering the Sea of Sumeru.

It was considered the most orthodox path.

As for whether other Realms existed beyond True God, Mother Earth’s memories held no records of it.

Perhaps one could only find out after reaching the level of a True God and achieving immortality.

Mother Earth didn’t have much information on this subject. She only knew that one had to become a True God to achieve eternal immortality.

As for the method of becoming a True God, one had to find a way to enhance their own essence and give birth to Divinity.

As for what this so-called "essence" was, or how to enhance it, there were no records.

But regardless, Mother Earth’s memories had already pointed him in a direction.

He wouldn’t have to grope around in the dark, completely clueless.

He pulled his thoughts back to the present.

Hu Qi looked ahead.

"Crimson!"

He called out in his mind.

SWISH!

A translucent panel suddenly unfolded before him.

[Host: Hu Qi]

[Status: Normal]

[Age: 24]

[Bloodline: Three-Eyed Primordial Snake (Mutation 13%) △]

[Talent: Spirit Devouring, Twisted Light, Primordial Eye]

[Divine Techniques: Water Control, Intention Sword, Celestial Silk, Ten Thousand Thunders, Buddha Realm, Heart Inference]

[Skill: Taiyu Serpent Cosmos Ring Scripture △ (Void Realm Chapter: Third Layer) Main Life Map: Taiyu Serpent Life Map]

[Taiqing Immortal Slaying Sword Technique (Energy Storage: 15 days) △]

...

[Modification Point: 14681 (96%)]

The panel hadn’t changed much from before.

The Mutation progress in the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Bloodline entry had increased from the original 9% to 14%.

This was all because the energy he gained from devouring Mother Earth had fed back into his own body, deepening the Mutation’s progress.

Thinking back on the habits of the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent, this result was to be expected.