Chaos Path, plans for refinement

There was a tale passed down through the eras. It was the story of how the universe came to be, the story of heaven and chaos.

It went like this:

Heaven had always existed, a plane above all levels of existence and all concepts, the only domain truly transcendent of all things. Before anything else existed, heaven existed by itself as an entity unparalleled by anything.

Time passed and heaven grew bored of existence, it decided to create something to ease its boredom. Heaven halved its power and created an existence with equal strength and power to it, this was chaos.

Chaos and heaven existed together in perfect harmony until chaos grew arrogant and tried to defy heaven. This began the war between chaos and heaven, a war still ongoing at this moment.

As chaos and heaven fought, the energy they used while engaging in battle fell out of their realm and formed a new realm directly underneath the heaven and chaos realm.

This realm was the universe, as heaven and chaos used more energy, more things were created in the universe, eventually, humans and soul beasts were created. This is the reason why the universe expands, heaven and chaos are still fighting and still using energy.

As a past immortal, Fang Xian knew the truth of this story, however, he was not thinking of that at this moment.

'There is only one chaos path rank one soul beast that I know of, that is the most crucial soul beast of chaos path, chaotic harness soul beast. This is the foundation of all immortal techniques in chaos path, it allows the user to harness energy from chaos and use it to enhance their abilities, weapons and even their bodies. Chaotic harness soul beast is present in all ranks, I have refined the immortal rank six version of it before.' Fang Xian recalled his first life. 'I remember the method of refinement quite clearly, I refined it a total of four times. The method is similar throughout the ranks. The rank one method is the absolute basics of chaotic harness soul beast refinement, the higher ranks just add more materials.'

Fang Xian looked over at the pile of rubble his adversary, the rank eight weapon path cultivator, was trapped under. He saw that the person wasn't struggling, his soul qi must have all been used up.

A cultivator's soul land produces soul qi but it only produces it when there is no soul qi left. The size of a soul land directly influences how quickly it can produce soul qi. Fang Xian's soul land was huge; it could produce soul qi in half a day, which was tremendously greater than other cultivators.

Fang Xian left his soul land, his consciousness returning to his main body. He extended his hand and kept all of his fingers tightly together. He walked over to a tree and chopped it with his hand, causing significant damage to it. He chopped it again and the tree snapped in two, the upper part hitting the ground.

Fang Xian picked the upper part of the tree up and placed it inside his soul land, far away from the pile of rubble trapping the rank eight being.

He did this for two days without rest, harvesting a total of seven hundred and fifty-six halves of trees. This was a necessary material for chaos harness refinement.

Chaos path was the essence of defying heaven, the unyielding demon immortal soul beast was derived from the idea of chaos path, but it wasn't strictly a chaos path soul beast.

There were many soul beasts without any path, unyielding demon was one of these soul beasts,

'Chaotic harness refinement is what I need to focus on at this moment, I need to somehow obtain one thousand ounces of human blood, ten human souls and twenty-five human hearts.'

Fang Xian was quite conflicted as he walked through the forest. He needed two supportive soul beasts to help him with his material acquisition, a rank one general storage soul beast and a rank one soul storage soul beast.

These were common soul beasts, he could refine them with ease. As he walked he, picked up fifty kilograms of grass, two hundred soul leaf flower petals and a few more kilograms of wood, placing them all in his soul land.

He exited the forest with all the necessary materials to begin refinement but there was still something he needed to do.

He walked for a while, taking in the majestic scenery of the Southern Continent.

The Southern Continent was ranked second in battle strength over the four continents, Southern, Middle, Northern and the last one which hadn't been discovered yet at this point in time. As for scenery, there wasn't a debate to be had, Southern Continent was the most idyllic out of the four continents by far. Fang Xian had lived here for a large portion of his life, before moving to the strongest continent in terms of strength, the Northern Continent. He knew this forest like the back of his hand and he knew the surrounding area quite well too.

It didn't take him long to arrive at his destination, the village full of non-cultivators, Zhi Village. Fang Xian was a rank one cultivator, his status and power was hundreds of times above this entire village, and he had great confidence in achieving his task with ease.

Fang Xian reached the fence of Zhi Village and without hesitation, he raised his leg and kicked a sizeable hole in the wooden fence. He entered the village and instantly unleashed his rank six unyielding demon immortal soul aura but restrained it a little bit so as to not kill any civilians.

Fang Xian saw the villagers, all of them huddled up in a group, watching him with fearful and tearful gazes.

Fang Xian grinned at this sight.

He charged at the villagers, using his martial arts abilities acquired from his nine hundred years of battle experience to absolutely destroy them. It was a massacre. He ripped the hearts out of twenty-five of them and his objective was complete.

However, he didn't leave.

He murdered every single mortal in that village, not paying any attention to their screams.

"Please don't kill me, I will do anything!" A villager begged Fang Xian, his hands touching Fang Xian's shoes. Fang Xian scoffed and kicked his head off his neck, more blood splattered on his already blood-stained robe.

Fang Xian looked up to check if there was anyone left. He saw a young man standing there, without any emotion or fear in his eyes. He stood there defiantly as if he wanted to battle Fang Xian. Fang Xian laughed and pointed to the broken fence, saying, "You can leave, I will not kill you."

The young man had a hint of emotion in his eyes as he sprinted toward the hole in the fence.

Fang Xian waited until he was a foot away from the exit before laughing coldly and fully unleashing his unyielding demon immortal soul aura, killing the hopeful young man, and completely disintegrating his body.

Fang Xian had killed two birds with one stone here, he had gathered the twenty-five hearts and had gotten himself a nice place to live, which was the former Zhi Village, now it was Fang Xian's temporary residence.