The Primordial Record

Rowan's mind soon brushed past his age nearing a billion years and focused on what would be one of his foundations in the battle ahead, his present stats.

Even while doing all this mental work as he accessed his present powers, he was still heading towards his destination, it helped that he roughly knew everything about his body, but the Primordial Record still helped in clearing any doubt he would have had about his cultivation. Although Rowan had not been focused on growing his abilities and had simply been focused on crafting, making it possible to reach the level of crafting Source-level treasures in less than a billion years, his attributes and power had been growing without ceasing all this time.

Planning for his battle against Nemesis, Ruler of the Great Desert, and eventually, every Primordial in existence that would seek to stop his rise, even a billion years of planning could be considered too little.

Rowan was aware that this would not be like the stories where the enemy would allow the hero to keep growing stronger after they were aware of his insane abilities and the threat he had to their rule. No, they would snuff him out before he could reach his full potential, and that meant he had only one chance at achieving his goals, and no mistakes could be permitted. Failure was a bitter pill to swallow, but Rowan was willing to accept failure only when he was sure that he utilized every bit of potential that he had and in the end, still fell short. If for any reason he failed because he did not unearth his full abilities, then even in death, he would never rest in peace.

Rowan's present attributes were not surprising to him. When his attributes had broken past the hundred million mark something remarkable happened, which was the birth of his Supreme Cores, and which warranted a Title from the Primordial Record that could be etched on its pages.

With his abilities, earning Titles was not a problem, but earning those that could be etched on the Primordial Record was extremely difficult. This book would not accept anything that was less than supreme, and most likely one of a kind.

Apparently, it was not a simple thing for any life form to reach a hundred million points in any single attribute, which was a very unlikely thing apart from those ancient monsters and titans who had lived for countless Eras and were focused on cultivating the power of their flesh.

Across the entirety of reality, the immortals who could reach this stage were few, and when Rowan reached it, he was aware that Old Man Seed was one of those rare immortals that could reach this level.

Talking about Old Man Seed, this present body of Rowan had not met Old Man Seed, there should be no reason he should be aware of an entity like this because he was outside of time and space, and yet he knew all of this and many other things.

It had taken a while for him to understand the reason why he could gain all this knowledge, and the soul flame fought to keep its mind from knowing the reason for this, as it persevered in understanding who Rowan was at this moment and the actions he was about to take.

With the time Rowan had spent in the universe and roaming reality before he was banished outside of time and space, he had come to discover how few immortals possessed massive attributes like him.

Due to their inherent immortality and treasures, most immortals did not see any reason to painstakingly enhance their bodily attributes because the resources to attain such a thing were stupendous, and many would be shackled by their bloodlines, unable to reach a high attribute standard.

Why should they spend so much resources and effort making their bodies stronger when a spell, technique, or treasure could make up for their weakness?

An immortal could spend a billion years making their body strong enough to resist a black hole, but they could learn a technique in less than a decade that could shield their bodies. It was clear the path that many would take.

However, all of these were external issues and the true reason most immortals would settle for fewer attributes was the cost it would take to recover their bodies if it was destroyed. With the lifespan of an immortal which was basically forever, battles were inevitable, and during the course of battle, their bodies could be destroyed many times in the process, which was considered normal, even certain techniques unleashed by them could shatter their own bodies, like self destruction.

If they possessed an overly powerful constitution, not even Aether and the storehouse of essence inside their varied mental spaces could bear the loss for long.

A single strand of Rowan's hair was worth a million bodies of powerful higher dimensional immortals. From this one could infer how troublesome it would be to regrow his body if it was damaged.

The various traits of Rowan's bloodline especially those of his Primordial Ouroboros that granted him unlimited essence was something that even other Primordial bloodlines lacked, and that was because his Ouroboros bloodline was not a Primordial bloodline but something that was equal to that level but still different.

It was the sort of forbidden power that the Primordials had banished from existence even before the Primordial Era, and after the Primordial Era, no single species in reality, even from their own bloodline could ever possess the ability to have a nearly infinite storehouse of Essence and Aether.

Having unlimited essence meant Rowan could afford to grow his attributes to the extent that would be considered madness by most when he did not have to worry about recovering his loss if his body was destroyed in the future.

Besides at higher dimensional levels, the powers of immortals would become extremely strange, and the importance of attributes would fall to the wayside as techniques and treasures could achieve far greater results than any amount of strength.

This was the accepted conclusion drawn by most, but Rowan knew that this conjecture was not strictly correct.

After reaching the hundred million mark for an attribute, Rowan came to know the truth.

The path of cultivation was broad and it would be difficult to categorize every aspect of it. However, this path could be broadly separated into two parts, which were the cultivation of territory, and the cultivation of the core.

The cultivation of territory implied the immortal focusing on other aspects of their cultivation outside their physical bodies, which could be related to spells, treasures, and the other diverse methods to reach the top, while the cultivation of the core meant the immortal focused on their bodies, making it their supreme treasure and accumulating strength.

At the beginning of cultivation, most humans and other species with weak physical bodies usually follow the route of cultivating territories, and beasts or species with powerful bodies focused on cultivating Core.

Rowan knew of this from the start even while inside the universe as a mortal, and at that time had dreamt of cultivating both core and territory. Soon he had learned that as the progress of cultivation grew deeper, the cost of getting stronger increased nearly exponentially.

For the immortals that cultivated territories, getting stronger was difficult, but it was still acceptable, because increasing the power of their spells or techniques sometimes depended more on their talent than on resources, for immortals who followed the path of Core cultivation, they found that getting stronger became nearly impossible.

It was not strange for celestial beasts like dragons, phoenixes, and other species that focused on cultivating their core to remain in a single location that was rich with resources for many Eras just to break through one small realm in their cultivation, as every step in their cultivation could consume enough resources that could fill up a dozen universes.

Not many immortals would be content with following this path.

As a living dimension, Rowan's path as an attribute monster had become fixed because of the trait he possessed where he gained attribute points for every new seeded world inside his dimension. He did not need to hunt for resources in reality outside, when countless treasures existed within him.

There were trillions of worlds inside of him, and if he chose to seed every one of these worlds, then his attributes would explode to an unfathomable state, but he could not do that yet as a three-dimensional entity, because his metaphysical weight would become too great.

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