Chapter 15: Chaos God's Meditation Method

"Divine Soul cultivation has four stages: Ethereal Stage, Solid Stage, Transformation Stage, and Spirit Wandering Stage."

"Only with a powerful Divine Soul can one inscribe high-level Genesis Runes. Your Divine Soul talent is good, but it doesn't even qualify as Ethereal Stage yet." In the stone pavilion, a girl's clear voice rang out. Sunlight poured down, falling on her jade-like, flawless face, making her appear exceptionally beautiful and captivating.

"The Divine Soul is originally formless. Only through continuous tempering can it transform from formless to tangible. The first tangible stage is the Ethereal Form, also known as the Ethereal Stage."

"There are two ways to strengthen one's Divine Soul. First, you can wait for your own strength to improve; your Divine Soul will naturally grow with your cultivation, but this method is slow and offers limited enhancement. The second way is to practice Soul Forging arts, but such techniques are quite rare in the world, typically possessed only by major powers."

At this point, Yaoyao glanced at Zhou Yuan and said, "The 'Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique' that Grandfather Hei taught you is an extremely top-tier Soul Forging art. However, practicing it requires great courage to overcome immense fear. You'll understand this when you begin your practice."

"With your current Divine Soul, you cannot yet inscribe first-grade Genesis Runes. I suggest you start practicing the 'Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique' early to elevate your Divine Soul to the Ethereal Stage. Once your Divine Soul enters the Ethereal Stage, I will teach you how to inscribe first-grade Genesis Runes."

Zhou Yuan nodded. He had long wanted to try the Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique. He immediately took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the stone bench, and slowly closed his eyes.

As his eyes closed, his vision instantly turned dark. Zhou Yuan's heartbeat gradually slowed, bringing his mind into a state of absolute tranquility.

Thump! Thump!

The sounds of birds and wind from outside quietly faded away, leaving only the echo of his heartbeat in the darkness.

In the darkness, Zhou Yuan activated his Divine Soul, sensing the imprint transmitted by Cang Yuan. The "Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique" was contained within that imprint.

As Zhou Yuan sensed it, a faint glow suddenly appeared in the darkness. The glow slowly rotated, its depths unfathomable, as if concealing something terrifying.

However, just as Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul hesitated for a moment, the faint glow suddenly erupted with a powerful suction, directly pulling Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul into it.

A brief dizziness came over him, and Zhou Yuan noticed the surroundings beginning to shift. The darkness receded, replaced by a chaotic void. This chaos swallowed time and space; everything seemed as if the heavens and earth had not yet been separated.

Zhou Yuan's formless Divine Soul stood in this vast chaotic void, and a feeling of insignificance welled up, leaving him at a loss.

Boom! Boom!

As Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul gazed at the endless chaotic void, a colossal sound suddenly reverberated through the chaos. Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul looked on, and in the next instant, a trembling sensation surged wildly, causing his Divine Soul to tremble frantically.

This was because, within that chaos, he saw an immense black shadow slowly appearing. The shadow resembled a black hole, continuously devouring everything.

Yet, it was not a black hole, but an enormous, boundless millstone.

The colossal millstone was mottled and covered with traces of time. Its surface was dark and seemed to be formed from the crushed blood of gods and devils.

Rumble! Rumble!

The massive millstone stood in the chaos, slowly rotating. Under its rotation, all things were being ground into oblivion.

Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul stood before the colossal millstone, as minuscule as dust. At this very moment, a mysterious message began to flow into his mind.

It was the cultivation method for the "Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique."

"Within chaos, a divine mill is born. One turn of the divine mill, and gods and devils alike perish...""Contemplate the divine mill, guide it with your Divine Soul, and let it grind you...""The divine mill turns nine times, each turn a new heaven..."

Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul trembled slightly. At this moment, he finally understood why Yaoyao had said that practicing the "Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique" required overcoming immense fear. Any Divine Soul standing before this boundless divine mill, capable of grinding worlds, would be overwhelmed by an uncontrollable dread...

Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul trembled as he gazed at the divine mill in the chaos. Just standing there required immense courage, let alone the fact that this Soul Forging art demanded one's own Divine Soul be cast into it, to be ground...

If Zhou Yuan's willpower hadn't been relatively resilient, he would likely have turned and fled long ago.

"If I die, I die!"

The trembling continued, but ultimately Zhou Yuan maintained a shred of rationality. With a fierce bite of his teeth, his Divine Soul floated out, directly descending into the boundless colossal millstone.

The instant Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul entered the colossal millstone, he watched as a dark shadow enveloped him, followed by a terrifying surge of pain exploding from his Divine Soul.

In just a few breaths, Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul was ground into nothingness by the turning of the divine mill.

The chaos trembled slightly, and formless fluctuations converged. It was Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul. If Divine Souls could have expressions, Zhou Yuan's would likely be deathly pale, his eyes filled with terror.

Because the sensation of being annihilated in that previous moment was too real.

However, although he trembled with shock, his Divine Soul seemed to have subtly condensed a bit between the crushing and reshaping.

"What a perverted Soul Forging art!"

Zhou Yuan's heart trembled. If someone with weaker mental fortitude had tried this, they would likely have been destroyed by the fear. And once a person's mind was imprinted with the terror of the divine mill, the Chaos Divine Mill, a mere imprint from Cang Yuan, would dissipate, and the practice of the "Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique" would end in failure.

"This Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique requires continuously casting one's Divine Soul into the divine mill, undergoing countless cycles of destruction and reconstruction through billions of grindings, thereby transforming and strengthening itself..."

"According to the cultivation method, the Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique has nine turns, with each turn representing a new heaven. These 'nine turns' essentially mean the divine mill completes nine full rotations. As long as one's Divine Soul can withstand a single complete rotation of the divine mill, it will undergo a transformation."

Zhou Yuan looked at the divine mill in the chaos. The millstone was divided into upper and lower layers, and between them, a dark golden vertical line was faintly visible, like a marking.

As the divine mill rotated, the upper golden vertical line would move. When it returned to its original position and coincided with the lower golden vertical line, it signified one complete turn.

However, Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul had only lasted a few breaths before being ground to oblivion when it entered earlier. It seemed that enduring a complete rotation of this divine mill would not be easy.

"But this Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique is truly extraordinary. Just trying it out subtly strengthened my Divine Soul. It truly lives up to what Sister Yaoyao called a top-tier Soul Forging art."

Zhou Yuan took a deep breath, painstakingly suppressing the fear of the Chaos Divine Mill in his heart. Gritting his teeth, his Divine Soul flew out once more, plunging into the slowly turning, mottled divine mill.

Boom! Boom!

The divine mill rotated, and Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul was once again crushed into nothingness.

Formless fluctuations emerged, and Zhou Yuan's Divine Soul was reconstructed. His Divine Soul fluctuated violently, clearly still calming its emotions. After a while, he gritted his teeth again and cast himself into the divine mill.

Boom! Boom!

In the chaos, the divine mill turned repeatedly, grinding every speck of dust cast into it into oblivion.

Yet, through each cycle of grinding, the continuously reconstructed Divine Soul gradually began to transform from formless to a faint, transparent color.

Eighty-eight times.

After his Divine Soul was ground and reconstructed for the eighty-eighth time, he finally stopped, feeling intense fatigue and sharp pain surge from within his Divine Soul.

This told him that his cultivation for the day had reached its limit; forcing himself further would only cause harm.

Although his Divine Soul was exhausted, Zhou Yuan's heart was filled with joy. After more than eighty cycles of grinding, his originally formless Divine Soul had completely transformed into a transparent color.

Ethereal Stage!

When the Divine Soul transforms from formless to ethereal form, it signifies that his Divine Soul has entered the Ethereal Stage!

"What an amazing contemplation technique," Zhou Yuan exclaimed again. Just his first practice had allowed his Divine Soul to reach the threshold of the Ethereal Stage. Although he knew this was likely due to his strong Divine Soul foundation, it still demonstrated the extraordinary nature of the technique.

In the stone pavilion, Zhou Yuan slowly opened his tightly closed eyes. Although his face was pale, the excitement in his eyes could not be concealed.

"I've entered the Ethereal Stage!"

Hearing Zhou Yuan's words, Yaoyao paused, then asked with some doubt, "That fast? How many times did you endure the divine mill?"

"Eighty-eight times."

Yaoyao's slender, beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, a peculiar glint in them. Typically, a person practicing the Chaos Divine Mill Contemplation Technique for the first time could only endure it a dozen times at most. Yet Zhou Yuan had endured it eighty-eight times, far surpassing ordinary people.

"As expected of someone who once possessed the Saint Dragon's Fortune," Yaoyao praised softly, "compared to your heavily traumatized body, your Divine Soul is remarkably unharmed." She then added, "Your Divine Soul is too weak today. Once you recover, I will teach you first-grade Genesis Runes."

Holding Tun Tun, she stood up gracefully, then glanced at the mottled black brush tucked into Zhou Yuan's waistband. "You must carefully nurture the Genesis Yuan Brush that Grandfather Hei gave you and quickly illuminate its first Genesis Rune."

Zhou Yuan lowered his head, drew the Genesis Yuan Brush from his waistband, expertly spun it in his palm, and nodded with a smile.

Cang Yuan had said that the souls of Genesis Beasts could be used to restore the Genesis Yuan Brush's spirituality. This would not be difficult for him, as his status as a prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty would allow him to easily obtain some Genesis Beast souls.

Zhou Yuan was also extremely eager to see the changes in the Genesis Yuan Brush after its first Genesis Rune was illuminated. After all, he was curious how this brush, which seemed only about a foot long, would transform into a Genesis Weapon.