Infinite Potential System

Chapter 426 Primordial Mana

Wait, System. I'm not done yet. William said in his mind as he drew more of the surrounding Mana into close proximity of him. It had started evaluating his Cultivation Technique on its own, but there was more to be done.

After absorbing so many World Cores over the last few months, William had gained a general understanding of Chaotic Qi. The System explained a little bit about how Chaotic Qi worked, but there was much more to it than that.

First, he understood that the only Mana suitable to become Chaotic Qi was what had been stored within the World Cores. The stronger the World Core, the more Primordial Mana, as the System called it, was stored.

Both of these things became obvious after he tried to create Chaotic Qi of his own, despite the System claiming he couldn't harness it yet.

Second, Chaotic Qi was formed by the compression of Primordial Mana, which explained why the System said his Cultivation Technique wasn't strong enough. In order to compress Primordial Mana into its Qi counterpart, the force of his new Cultivation Technique needed to be at least a thousand times stronger than the Epic-Ranked Mana Devourer Technique.

If one wasn't able to meet this standard, the compressed Mana would never exceed the level of Spirit Qi. The only bonus was that highly compressed Spirit Qi was still more useful than regular Spirit Qi and could enhance one's combat power, just not as much as Chaotic Qi.

The final and least obvious characteristic of Chaotic Qi was its character. While absorbing the Light Veins a few months prior, William noticed that the Primordial Mana within wouldn't react to his call no matter how he tried to extract it on his own.

Only the System was able to do so, and it took him weeks to figure out that the System was actually using Mana of the Chaos Element to resonate with the Primordial Mana. It quickly activated and deactivated the Chaos Element from somewhere deep within his body, drawing the Primordial Mana out of the Vein and into William's body where the System took it for itself.

After reviewing his memories and going all the way back to when he absorbed the first Lesser Life Vein, William realized that the System had been doing this even then. Of course, it would have been impossible for the old him to notice this fact, since he hadn't acquired the Chaos Affinity until much later.

With a much greater understanding of how Primordial Mana worked and how it could be compressed into Chaotic Qi, William teleported to the Dragon Continent and expanded his range even further. Instead of targeting everything within range of him, however, William decided to go one step further and target only the Greater Elemental Veins.

With Cultivation at the Soul Formation Realm and not yet at the peak, William didn't have the ability to absorb the Superior World Cores on his own. He still needed the System for that. Regardless, the Greater World Cores would serve as a suitable enough experiment.

The Dragon Continent housed the Elemental Veins of the Plant, Ice, Wind, Dream, and Summoning Elements, which allowed William to simultaneously target twenty-five Greater Veins at once! William used the Chaos Affinity to draw out the Primordial Mana the same way the System did, then pulled it all towards him at the same time.

After the Primordial Mana had all been drawn to him, William switched to the Order Element and performed the same movements as he did before, organizing and compressing the Mana into Spirit Qi.

-Created a new Cultivation Technique: +5 PP

-Evaluating Technique quality...

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-Invented a Mythic Cultivation Technique: +1000 PP

-Name your Technique.

William was prepared for a high rating from the System, but he had completely forgotten to choose a suitable name for his Cultivation Technique beforehand. Considering he spent three months devising it, one would have thought a name would already be prepared.

This will probably be the last Cultivation Technique I create on the Mortal Realms. Eventually I will Ascend, and this final Technique will be a new beginning for me.

One day I may use even better Techniques, but this will be the end of the beginning, then the beginning of the end.

To a regular human, my Cultivation range seems near infinite... infinity...

The end of the beginning, the beginning of the end, but infinite. Omega is infinite, and it's also the last letter of the Greek alphabet. But if I want to call it reverse infinity, I should flip the word around...

As William's mind spun at a rapid pace, a phrase formed in his mind, perfectly describing the Cultivation Technique he had just created.

System, I think I'll name it Agemo Primordial Compression.