The Great Primordial Labyrinth, 49th Floor
Before Anna stood a massive door leading to the 50th floor of the labyrinth. Instead of stepping through, she paused to assess her current situation, realizing she hadn’t taken the time to examine her appearance or the items bestowed upon her by her grandmother.
Suddenly, Anna found herself enveloped in a realm filled with primordial energy—her newly formed inner world, which was half the size of Earth from her previous life. Within this realm flowed a river of primordial energy, surrounded by barren land. She began rummaging through her spatial ring, utilizing her soul sense—a gift she had received upon advancing to the Heaven Realm. Other races possessed a similar ability called divine sense, acquired at the Foundation Establishment Realm, but it was inferior to her soul sense.
Inside the ring, Anna discovered a treasure trove of items: pills, artifacts, exquisite dresses, various talismans, weapons, and a plethora of top-grade spiritual and immortal stones, which served as currency outside. She retrieved the housing artifact crafted by her grandmother and infused it with primordial energy. The house expanded from the size of a fist to a towering 20-meter-tall bamboo structure. Inside, spatial arrays were installed, making it appear like a traditional bamboo house from the outside.
Curious, she stepped inside to explore. The house featured three bedrooms, a living room, a hall, and a kitchen that reminded her of the delicious food she had longed for. While primordial cultivators could sustain themselves with energy, Anna craved real food. There was also an alchemy hall, an artifact forging hall, and an array hall. After a brief exploration, she headed straight to her bedroom, where she caught her first glimpse of her new appearance.
In the mirror stood a stunning girl with white hair, matching her scales, and striking red eyes. Her beauty was ethereal—light, airy, and delicate. She stood nearly two meters tall, and overall, Anna was very satisfied with her appearance. While she did not know how she looked in her previous life, she was certain she was exceptionally beautiful now.
Her attention was drawn to the wardrobe, which contained many exquisite dresses made from various precious materials. These dresses were also defensive treasures capable of withstanding blows from Dao Realm cultivators and above. All her garments were enhanced with cleansing and self-repair arrays. Although the clothes made from her own scales were good, it was every girl's dream to wear different beautiful dresses.
Looking at the comfy bed in her room, she thought, "Now that Grandma is not here to punish me, why don’t I sleep until I wake up naturally?" But then she shook her head, remembering her clone waiting on the next floor. Anna glanced around the place, feeling a bit reluctant to leave. However, no matter how much she hesitated, she had to move on. Taking one last look at her inner world, she exited and made her way toward the 50th floor.
'50th floor'
"The 50th floor is much simpler than I thought," Anna remarked as she surveyed the only normal house structure present.
"Of course, it's simple because everything you need to learn on this floor is inside the house," a voice suddenly sounded behind her, causing Anna to jump in surprise. Instantly recognizing the voice, she turned around and exclaimed, "Grandma!"
"Now let's start the training, my dear Anna," said the clone, ignoring Anna's greeting. It was then that she remembered this was a clone without consciousness, only responding to the instructions given. Feeling a bit sad about it, she quickly moved on and asked, "What will the training on this floor entail? Grandma said this is a special floor."
When asked about the training, the clone answered, which once again puzzled Anna regarding her upcoming lessons. "First, come inside the house, and then you will know about it."
They entered a room that resembled a study, and the demeanor of the clone suddenly shifted to that of Grandma when she began sparring with Anna, filling her with a sense of foreboding. The clone injected energy into one of the arrays present in the room, transforming it into a library. "Now your task is to read every book in this room after my classes and then learn to fight in your humanoid form with weapons in the evening," the clone instructed.
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Anna watched with wide eyes at the sight of the library, which contained more than 10,000 books. "Why do I have to read all these books, like 'How to Manipulate the Economy of the World,' 'How to Destroy a Country in 10 Days,' and 'The Art of Manipulation', 'The art of torturing physically and mentally to extract confessions' , 'How to assassinate a Sect leader' ? Why do I need all this knowledge?"
"I knew you would ask this question, so read this book called 'Important Knowledge to Survive in the Outside World as a Primordial Dragon.' Now let's start your training with 'Royal Etiquette for Primordial Dragons.'"
Thus began Anna's training for the outside world, covering topics such as psychology, economics, and many other important subjects. After her classes, she had to learn to use weapons. Anna chose the sword as her primary weapon, where she learned sword intent, sword aura, sword domain, and much more.
After ten years of rigorous training, Anna's studies satisfied the clone, which was no small feat, as even a simple mistake could lead to disappointment. Now, she was ready to proceed to the next floor.
The 51st to 60th floors were dedicated to alchemy. In the cultivation world, alchemy is divided into 1st tier to 10th tier pills of the mortal world, while in the immortal world, there are 1st tier to 5th tier immortal pills. The same applies to potions. However, if one possesses a light spiritual or immortal root, the effect and quality of the pills greatly increase.
The 51st floor featured an artificial spiritual energy herb garden containing all types of spiritual herbs. In the dungeon, the time rate could be altered at will, allowing the herbs to age up to 100,000 years. The 52nd to 54th floors focused on learning about mortal world pills and potions. The 55th floor housed an immortal energy herb garden, while the 56th to 59th floors were dedicated to creating immortal pills.
Making alchemical items was relatively easy for her, but she discovered a significant problem: when crafting alchemical items, she had to use her primordial energy, which increased the levels of the pills by at least three tiers. If she used light primordial energy, the results were on a whole other level. She decided to try again when she had access to spiritual or immortal energy.
On the 60th floor, there was an alchemy trial that included both theory and practical applications. After mastering alchemy to the level of an alchemy sage, Anna decided to move on to the next stage: studying formations and arrays. The tiers and levels for arrays were mostly the same as those for alchemy pills.
Creating arrays and formations was enjoyable, and she participated in trials to break ancient arrays. Immortal-level arrays could even create secret realms or pocket dimensions for trials. One particularly fun illusion trial on the 70th floor required her to defeat a version of herself, but it was a trap and instead of defeating it the main was to break the array core.
After learning arrays to the level of an array sage, Anna decided to progress to the next stage: learning artifact forging from the 71st to the 80th floors. The tiers and levels for artifacts were mostly the same, with the distinction of soul weapons containing a soul or spirit within them. Beyond immortal weapons, there were primordial weapons that only a primordial could wield.
The materials in the dungeon were abundant, and similar to pills, if the artifact forger used primordial energy, the tiers would improve. The trial on the 80th floor involved creating a primordial weapon for herself. A primordial weapon for a primordial was akin to a natal life weapon for other cultivators, meaning it would accompany her for a lifetime.
For this, Anna chose the most precious materials available in the dungeon: her bone, blood, and scales, along with a piece of meteorite from outer space that she had found in the family treasury. She crafted a soul sword for herself. The resulting sword was a beautiful obsidian black, which she placed inside her soul core for nourishment. Anna named her sword 'DRAKE'; now this weapon would grow alongside her.
Currently, Anna was sleeping on her bed inside her house on the 81st floor. It has been more than 20 earth years to progress from 51st floor to the 81st floor, but this much time was nothing to her. As she stared at the ceiling, a sudden idea struck her, and she decided to implement it immediately with an excited expression.