The Innkeeper

Chapter 1895: Proper Introduction

"Undeaed Deities?" Lex repeated, intrigued. "You mean like zombies that turned into Deities"?

"No," Eclipse answered. "I mean Deities who died - their followers wiped out and their faiths extinguished, their Divine fires put out, leaving only an empty body behind. The bodies then became undead, but retained the powers of Deities, hence turning into Undead Deities. They’re scarily powerful, but can’t survive in an environment without Primordial energy, so the rest of the universe doesn’t really have them."

Lex whistled as he marveled upon the wonders of the universe, before turning his attention towards something he might need. Honestly, he had just entered his level and wasn’t entirely familiar with his powers just yet. It would take him some time to familiarize himself with what he could do, and only afterwards could he decide how he wanted to progress.

But time waited for no man. He went through all the things he needed to do and came to a rather drastic conclusion. In fact, as the idea developed in his mind, Lex began to grin, completely unaware that he was slowly adopting the mad grin Marlo used to wear whenever he was going to do something crazy himself.

Although they had not spent much time together, the influence of that crazy meat behemoth was evident.

Lex couldn’t wait until becoming a Dao Lord because, for better or for worse, he had to deal with a bunch of Dao Lords even now. There was no way he was equipped to deal with that, even he knew that.

But what if... what if he increased the percentage of Dao material in his body? For the sake of convenience, Lex titled it achieving a Dao body. If the Amber Chaos Resin gave him a 1% Dao body, and cultivating on the Gabana fruit slowly increased that percentage, could he find other ways to increase that as well?

Lex was almost certain this wasn’t how one became a Dao Lord, but that wasn’t his aim to begin with. He was just replacing the materials his body was made out of, and turning it into Dao level materials. He said body, but that also translated to spirit and soul.

In that case, if the percentage was high enough, would he reach a point where he might be able to tolerate the aura of Dao? The answer was yes.

He’d already proven it by not automatically dying when he was exposed to the aura of Sekhmet. Although she was only a Demi-Dao Lord, her aura still technically counted as a Dao aura.

If he was able to achieve a full Dao body before even becoming a Dao Lord, how cool would that be? Even his Domination, which currently had the deterrence of a Primordials aura, would see a massive upgrade!

Something like this shouldn’t be possible, but his cultivation technique made it possible. What’s more, the Primordial Garden might be the one place in the universe where resources that could help him achieve that might exist! After all, the Gabana fruit came from here!

He looked towards Eclipse, still unsure about her identity just yet, and exactly how much he could trust her. His instincts didn’t warn him that she was dangerous, but his instincts could only tell him so much.

Lex finally turned towards Eclipse.

"You have asked what subjects I might be interested in, but there are too many things I could mention. If you don’t mind, may I ask some questions before I answer?"

Eclipse shrugged, as if she didn’t mind. It was just asking some questions after all. What was the big deal?

"You said that no one can have their Dao tribulation here? Does that mean there are no Dao Lords in the Primordial Garden?" he asked hesitantly. In truth, this was not entirely a relevant question, but if there were Dao Lords here, then they probably owned all the resources Lex might want.

"Yes, of course there are," Eclipse said. "I have an agreement with old Ventura. Whenever some of the elders in his school reach the peak of the Celestial realm, they can enter the Primordial Garden to strengthen their foundations and expand their horizons. I’ve given them an entire sector of the Garden for it. In exchange, whenever one of my pets wants to experience a Dao tribulation, I send them over to his place.

"He has renovated an entire portion of a Major realm to assist with Dao tribulations. It’s really nice, to be honest. Even so, although most of the pets end up dying, some have survived. I have around 37 of them in the Garden, while the rest asked for their own freedom and are out there somewhere in the universe."

Lex froze, though his eyes widened. What had he just heard? Was he casually walking aside the owner of the Primordial Garden? Was she... so easy to talk to? She had no aura at all, and he didn’t even feel pressured!

"You... you’re the owner of the Primordial Garden?" he couldn’t help but ask, even if it was fairly obvious.

"Huh? Don’t you know? Oh right, you’re probably one of the fellows who came with that new piece of the realm, so it makes sense that you wouldn’t know. Well in that case I’ll introduce myself properly. I am Eclipse, the Primordial Eclispecrawler, owner of the Primordial Garden, and the strongest recognized Dao Lord in the universe!"

Eclipse spread her arms out, as if she was waiting to bathe in the shock and awe that naturally followed her introduction. With a sly smirk on her face, as if she was showing off, she even looked a little cute.

Blood rushed to Lex’s face and he became red like a cherry tomato when he realized two things. Eclipse had seen him naked, and he had called the strongest Dao Lord in the universe cute.

Lex’s eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fainted, falling right into Eclipse’s open arms. To be fair, it wasn’t his fault. Eclipse had just randomly dropped some of the biggest secrets in the universe on him, and the backlash for suddenly gaining that knowledge knocked him out.

Lex might have survived some ordinary universal secrets - after all, he already knew quite a few - but Eclipse had just told him her true name, true identity, and true strength. If one could not understand what such a thing meant... basically, he would be out for a while.

Eclipse was taken by surprise when Lex fell into his arms - not because she was surprised that he fainted. No, that kind of stuff happened all the time. She was surprised because he was a lot heavier than he looked. If she had to guess, he weighed around 50 tons.