"Hmph! If you know what's good for you, get out of here at once, or don't blame this prince for being ruthless!"
Chi Yu grinned.
"Heh heh! Fine! This Seat would like to see what tricks you have!"
Chi Yu's physical body was now at the Quasi-Saint level. It would not be an exaggeration to say that no one in the Primordial World could break through it.
The strongest beings at present were only Quasi-Saints, and Hongjun had yet to become a Saint.
"You're asking for it! Watch this prince destroy you!"
The corners of Mo Lin's lips curled slightly, as though his goal was about to be achieved, and he attacked Chi Yu.
Boom!
The divine ability struck Chi Yu's body without leaving so much as a scratch.
"How is that possible?"
"That was my strongest strike as a Taiyi Golden Immortal Early Stage! How could a mere Golden Immortal withstand it?"
Mo Lin was stunned.
There was only one possibility. Mo Lin raised his head and looked at Chi Yu.
"You hid your cultivation?"
Chi Yu shook his head.
"This Seat is indeed a Golden Immortal. You're just too weak!"
At the same time, the system's voice rang out!
Ding! Detected that the host is battling an enemy! Enemy: Mo Lin? Demon Clan (Taiyi Golden Immortal Early Stage) No matter how strong he is, you are stronger! Congratulations! Host cultivation has risen to Taiyi Golden Immortal Middle Stage!
Immediately afterward, Chi Yu's cultivation began to rise!
Golden Immortal Peak!
Break!
Taiyi Golden Immortal Early Stage!
Taiyi Golden Immortal Middle Stage!
Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Five Energies Towards the Origin!
Mo Lin was completely dumbfounded!
"Y-you just broke through?"
Chi Yu grinned.
"That's right! Well, little qilin? Still want to continue? This Seat will stand still. If you can break my defense or move me even an inch, this Seat will admit defeat and leave immediately without another word!"
Mo Lin hesitated. Seeing that things were going badly, he wanted to leave.
He began backing away slowly.
"Oh? Running away now? What, you offended This Seat and still think you can leave?"
Mo Lin turned and ran down Buzhou Mountain at top speed, but Chi Yu was even faster.
"Y-you'd better not do anything rash! I'm a prince of the Qilin Clan. My clan's Elder is on his way here right now."
"Oh? Is that so? That's quite nice. But you, a member of the Demon Clan, seized the body of a Qilin Clan prince. I wonder what Shi Qilin would think if he found out!"
Mo Lin froze, his heart jolting in alarm!
The matter of him taking over the body of the Qilin Clan prince was known only to a few Demon Kings and the Demon Ancestor.
This is bad! I have to leave quickly!
A stream of Black Qi separated from Mo Lin's body.
"Jie jie jie! Boy, you actually discovered me. Aren't you afraid that my ancestor, Luo Hou, will come looking for trouble with you?"
"Oh? So you really are from the Demon Clan?"
"Tsk tsk tsk! You're pitch-black and hollow like a ghost!"
"You said Luo Hou? Hahaha! This Seat would love for him to come right now!"
"Enough! No more nonsense. This Seat will first destroy you, demon!"
Chi Yu summoned the Creation Green Lotus and covered the Demon Clan member with it.
"Ah! Damn it! My ancestor Luo Hou will never let you off!"
The Demon Clan pawn vanished into smoke.
Chi Yu curled his lips and shook his head helplessly.
"What a pity. He was only a Taiyi Golden Immortal Early Stage, so he couldn't trigger the system!"
He glanced at the corpse of Mo Lin, the Qilin Clan prince, on the ground and pondered for a moment.
"How should I deal with this?"
"Forget it! Let it be! Even if I'm misunderstood, what does This Seat have to fear?"
He looked toward the Red Sparrow nearby, which was leisurely preening its feathers.
"Heh! You little bird sure are carefree!"
"Come on, Red Sparrow. Follow Master and hunt for treasure!"
"Red Sparrow's cultivation is still too low. It would be more convenient if she could transform!"
Chi Yu thought to himself.
Another hundred years passed as he wandered around.
On this day, a Qilin Clan Elder arrived at this place.
"This is bad! Prince Mo Lin!"
The Elder looked down and found that Mo Lin had long since fallen. At this moment, only a body without consciousness remained.
"Damn it! Who did this?"
"I must report this to the Clan Leader at once!"
He swept up Mo Lin's corpse and vanished from Buzhou Mountain.
Qilin Clan.
"My son! Damn it! Who harmed you?"
Shi Qilin immediately performed a divination.
"Hmm? What is that? A fleshball? A talking fleshball?"
"No matter what kind of monster you are, I will never let you go!"
Shi Qilin flew into a rage!
He dispatched two Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak Elders to Buzhou Mountain to find Chi Yu.
"Capture that monster immediately! I'll make him beg for death!"
Elsewhere,
Chi Yu wore a disappointed expression as he rummaged through junk—at least, junk in his eyes.
"Pah! What worthless garbage!"
He had found over a dozen items, all of them Lesser Innate Spiritual Treasures.
If it had been anyone else, they would have been overjoyed.
After all, opportunities could be encountered but not sought, let alone Lingbao—Innate Spiritual Treasures, at that.
Ever since obtaining the Twenty-Four Grade Creation Green Lotus, such a Companion Supreme Treasure, Chi Yu's standards had risen considerably.
"At least there's a spatial Lingbao. It has some use."
Void Bracelet (Lesser Innate Spiritual Treasure), containing a Void world within.
Chi Yu looked at the Void Bracelet before him and muttered to himself.
He placed all the treasures into the Void Bracelet.
Then, with Red Sparrow, he found a cave abode and began consolidating his cultivation.
"Hmm? His aura is inside this cave abode!"
The two Qilin Clan Elders followed Chi Yu's aura here.
One of the Elders was about to enter!
"Wait! Let Old Man set up a formation first, in case that monster escapes!"
Once the formation was set,
the two Elders entered the cave abode!
"Chirp chirp chirp! Master, someone has come in!"
Chi Yu opened his eyes.
"Oh? The Qilin Clan? They came quite quickly!"
Chi Yu stopped cultivating, rose to his feet, and smiled faintly.
"They're here!"
"You bold monster! You dared to harm the prince of our Qilin Clan! By order of our Clan Leader, we have come to arrest you!"
The two Qilin Clan Elders attacked Chi Yu without another word.
The pressure of Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak descended upon the cave abode, followed by all manner of Lingbao striking Chi Yu's body.
Ten breaths later,
Chi Yu, who had not moved in the slightest, finally moved.
"Are you finished? Were you two scratching This Seat's itch?"
The two Qilin Clan Elders were shocked!
"What kind of physical body is this? He is only at the Taiyi Golden Immortal Middle Stage, yet his body is this powerful!"
"Heh! I'll tell you the truth. Believe it or not, This Seat did not kill Mo Lin. I suggest you go look for that one in the west!"
"Of course! If you two still wish to continue, This Seat will gladly keep you company!"
Now it was the two Elders' turn to hesitate!
However, what happened next filled them with terror.
Ding! Detected that the host is battling an enemy! Enemy: Qilin Clan Elder (Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak) No matter how strong he is, you are stronger! Congratulations! Host cultivation has risen to Daluo Golden Immortal Early Stage!
The Three Flowers above Chi Yu's head began to bloom!
One flower.
Two flowers.
Three flowers.
Four flowers.
All the way to nine flowers!
The two Qilin Clan Elders could no longer remain standing. But it was not over yet.
Ten flowers.
Eleven flowers.
Twelve flowers.
Boom!
The thirteenth flower bloomed!
Chi Yu's aptitude defied the heavens, and all thirteen of his Three Flowers bloomed!
Even someone as powerful as Hongjun had only bloomed ten flowers, while even Pangu had merely achieved the perfect bloom of twelve flowers.
In other words, Chi Yu's aptitude had now surpassed Pangu's.
Forget the two Elders—even Chi Yu himself could not believe it.
"Uh... what is going on with me? Even if I fused with the Twenty-Four Grade Creation Green Lotus, my aptitude shouldn't be able to surpass Pangu's! Could it be that my own origin is extraordinary?"
Chi Yu thought to himself.
The two Qilin Clan Elders were already too stunned to react, slumped off to the side.
Suddenly! Dark clouds gathered in the sky as thunder rumbled and lightning flashed!
"Th-this... am I about to transform?"
Sensing the abnormal changes in himself, Chi Yu rose and flashed outside the cave abode.
To transform, he had to undergo the baptism of heavenly tribulation. He could not afford to be careless.
Chi Yu waited eagerly for the heavenly tribulation to descend!
One breath later.
The first heavenly tribulation descended!
Yet this heavenly tribulation was unlike ordinary heavenly tribulations. It was actually black.
"Th-this is a Chaos Thunder Tribulation?"
Before Chi Yu could finish speaking, the first bolt of lightning struck his body.
Boom!
Ding! Detected that the host is battling an enemy! Enemy: Chaos Ninety-Nine Lightning Tribulation No matter how strong he is, you are stronger! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained 50% of the Law of Thunder. 50% of the Chaos Law. Physical cultivation has risen to Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal!
"Hahaha! Just what I needed. Now we're set!"
Chi Yu burst into laughter!
The first bolt ended quickly, and Chi Yu was completely unharmed!
Immediately after,
The second bolt.
The third bolt.
The fourth bolt.
The fortieth bolt.
The forty-first bolt.
The seventy-ninth bolt.
The eightieth bolt.
Even after the eightieth bolt ended, the lightning tribulation seemed angered. The final bolt had yet to descend, as though it was gathering something.
It gathered power for a full three days and three nights!
On the fourth day, all kinds of exotic beasts roared in the sky! Then, they charged at Chi Yu all at once.
Brimming with confidence, Chi Yu curled his lip! Then he disdainfully closed his eyes and began resisting them.
The eighty-first bolt lasted an entire year.
That day, the sky suddenly cleared, and the dark clouds dispersed.
Chi Yu yawned and woke up.
"Tch~ That scratching felt pretty good. I even fell asleep."
"Alright! I've finally finished the tribulation!"
Chi Yu rose to his feet, only to suddenly freeze!
"This... why the hell am I still a meatball? What a scam, Father damn it~"
Chi Yu blurted out curses at the sky!
After a long while!
A massive pillar of light descended from the sky, shining upon Chi Yu.
It was warm and comfortable!
Then Chi Yu began to transform!
The meatball began to crack, releasing waves of Azure Light.
Ten breaths later, a refined and elegant, handsome and extraordinary Young Master with an air of nobility walked out from within.
He had red hair and wore an earthy brown robe, decorated with azure lotus flowers in just the right measure. Fine golden patterns lined its edges, and he wore a pair of azure Cloud-Strand Jade Boots with brown trim, making him appear exceptionally noble.
His bronze skin and well-proportioned muscles further emphasized his masculine, domineering aura.
"Phew~"
Chi Yu opened his eyes!
"Damn it, I thought I wouldn't be able to take human form! Turns out This Seat was just too impatient!"
Looking at himself, Chi Yu could not help becoming enamored.
"I'm much more handsome than I was in my previous life!"
Just then, Red Sparrow walked over.
"Chirp chirp chirp! Congratulations, Master, on successfully taking human form! Your cultivation has soared!"
Chi Yu stroked Red Sparrow's head and chuckled.
"Right! Where are those two Qilin Clan Elders?"
"Master, those two Qilin Clan Elders secretly fled while you were undergoing the tribulation. I was worried about Master's safety, so I did not pursue them. Please punish me, Master!"
"Hehe! It doesn't matter! They were just two rookies. Let them run. It would be even better if they could bring Shi Qilin here himself."
Then Chi Yu thought of something.
"Red Sparrow! You need to take human form as soon as possible. If This Seat weren't afraid of affecting your potential, I would already want to enlighten you into an Innate Dao Body!"
"Thank you for your concern, Master! Red Sparrow understands. Red Sparrow will definitely cultivate diligently!"
After thinking for a moment, Chi Yu took out a pile of precious herbs from the Void Bracelet and handed them to Red Sparrow. Now that he had reached Daluo, he had no use for them.
"Here! Take them and cultivate well!"
Red Sparrow excitedly accepted the precious herbs, bowed in thanks, then happily ran back to the cave abode to cultivate and absorb them.
Watching Red Sparrow act like a child, Chi Yu smiled and shook his head.
Then he looked toward the west.
"Luo Hou! You must already know, right? What new move will you make next?"
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