When Chaos first opened, it gave birth to three thousand laws, corresponding to the Three Thousand Demon Gods. By all reason, time reigned supreme among the three thousand laws, followed by space, then destiny, cause and effect, creation...
Yet an anomaly had emerged within Chaos: Pangu, wielder of the Law of Strength. He had been born accompanied by three Chaos Supreme Treasures, and he was on the verge of breaking through the shackles of the Great Dao by Proving Dao by Force.
Daoist Shichen and the Lord of Destiny were beings second only to Pangu among the Three Thousand Demon Gods. One could see through the future, while the other could see through destiny.
Together, they divined a great calamity. In the future, the Three Thousand Demon Gods would be plotted against by the Great Dao and fight Pangu to the death. In the end, the Three Thousand Demon Gods would fall, with the Demon Gods of Time and Fate bearing the brunt of it.
To resist the Great Dao's scheme, the two intended to join forces with Daoist Yang Mei, the Space Demon God. By gathering the rulers of the three great laws of time, space, and destiny, they hoped to find a way to break the calamity.
But Daoist Yang Mei feared the might of the Great Dao and backed down at the last moment. The Great Dao detected Daoist Shichen and the Lord of Destiny's plan, descended with Divine Punishment, and killed them both.
"Dig, dig, dig in the mysterious garden..."
In his dream, Li Xinghe was meeting a certain goddess, his hands still making digging motions.
Just as he was about to reach the important stage, something suddenly seemed to restrain him.
"My goddess! I'm definitely digging you up today!" Li Xinghe roared.
He became so worked up that he woke up at once. Yet his surroundings were not his familiar room, but a boundless expanse of Chaos.
"What the hell is this place?" Li Xinghe felt as though he were trapped inside an embryo, unable to move.
"This is the endless Chaos, and you will become Chaos's 3,001st Demon God!" A vague voice rang out in his mind.
"Chaos? Demon God? And who are you?" Li Xinghe was utterly bewildered, suspecting that he was still dreaming.
Those are names from Primordial Wilderness novels. Don't tell me I transmigrated?
"I am Daoist Shichen!"
"I am the Lord of Destiny!"
Two distinct voices sounded in Li Xinghe's mind. They belonged to Daoist Shichen and the Lord of Destiny, two of Chaos's Three Thousand Demon Gods.
It turned out that the two great Demon Gods had died fighting the Great Dao. Before their deaths, they had accidentally drawn Li Xinghe into this spacetime and infused the Fragments of Time and Fate into his body.
Meanwhile, the Wheel of Time and the Wheel of Destiny had merged into one beneath the Divine Thunder of the Great Dao, transforming into a shovel according to Li Xinghe's obsession at the moment of transmigration.
Having read countless Primordial Wilderness novels, Li Xinghe naturally knew of these two. Both ranked second only to Great God Pangu among the Three Thousand Demon Gods.
"What the hell is this broken shovel?" I was obviously digging for a goddess! Aren't you Demon Gods? Why didn't you bring your own goddesses over too?
"The thing... in your hand is your Accompanying Spiritual Treasure. It is also the fusion of the Wheel of Time and the Wheel of Destiny. It should be considered a Chaos Supreme Treasure."
The Wheel of Time and the Wheel of Destiny were both Top-grade Chaos Spiritual Treasures. Who would have thought they would accidentally merge into a Chaos Supreme Treasure?
One had to know that treasures of this level were exceedingly rare throughout all of Chaos.
However, the two Demon Gods were speechless over the shovel's appearance. They had never expected this kid to have been thinking about digging, digging, digging before transmigrating...
After some conversation, Li Xinghe finally accepted the fact that he had transmigrated.
Just as the Lord of Destiny had said, he should now be considered Chaos's 3,001st Demon God.
"You two old geezers plotted against the Great Dao. What does that have to do with me? And Pangu hasn't even opened the heavens yet. What if, under the Great Dao's scheme, Pangu chops me apart with one axe? I haven't even dug up my goddess yet."
However, the Demon Gods of Time and Fate had already finished making their final arrangements and completely dissipated into Chaos.
At that moment, Li Xinghe felt dazed and quickly lost consciousness.
He had originally been an ordinary mortal. If not for the embryo protecting him, he would likely have died long ago.
Yet under Daoist Shichen and the Lord of Destiny's scheme, he had now become Chaos's 3,001st Demon God, nourished by Chaos Spiritual Energy.
Only once Li Xinghe possessed the strength to protect himself would the embryo surrounding him dissipate.
No one knew how much time passed. One day, Li Xinghe groggily opened his eyes and suddenly saw a pair of deep eyes staring at him.
"Holy shit, what is that?!" Li Xinghe jumped in fright. Before him stood a giant, motionlessly watching him. Who knew how long he had been staring?
"Who are you? Why do you carry Shichen and Destiny's aura?" the giant boomed, his voice like a great bell.
"Big brother, we're on the same side!" An idea flashed through Li Xinghe's mind. Legend said that Chaos Demon Gods came in all forms. The Space Demon God was a willow tree, for example, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun's true form was a Qu She.
The person before him looked much like him in appearance, so he had to be the legendary Great God Pangu who would create heaven and earth.
The giant looked puzzled, but seeing that Li Xinghe had a similar appearance, he seemed to truly believe him.
"You are too weak!" Pangu did not know how long he had been watching. He seemed to be growing impatient.
He had sensed the abnormality in Chaos and come to investigate. Logically speaking, with the Chaos World's three thousand laws, it should have been impossible for a 3,001st Demon God to be born.
Li Xinghe was speechless. Who could compare to Pangu? He was a being even the Great Dao feared, capable of killing a Chaos Demon God with a single axe strike.
Just as he was wondering how to cling to Pangu's thigh and make him spare his life when he slaughtered Demon Gods in the future, Pangu suddenly squeezed out a drop of essence blood directly toward his embryo.
At once, Li Xinghe felt his blood boil. It was as though he had taken some stimulant, and he was filled with inexhaustible strength.
"Pangu's Essence Blood!" No matter how foolish he was, he knew what it was.
"Bro, from now on, you're my real big brother!"
The power of Pangu's Essence Blood was beyond doubt. A single drop brought Li Xinghe immense benefits.
However, with his ordinary mortal body, he simply could not absorb it. Most of the energy went to waste, but even so, his Pseudo-Demon God Body grew significantly and ultimately burst through the embryo around him.
Chaos's 3,001st Demon God had been born. Energy churned throughout the entire Chaos World, and Demon Gods from every direction seemed to sense it.
"An anomaly. He looks very weak, yet his Accompanying Spiritual Treasure is actually a Chaos Supreme Treasure." Pangu was greatly shocked.
Li Xinghe waved the shovel in his hand with a helpless expression. Other than digging, digging, digging, what use could this thing possibly have?
"Big brother, only you and I are of the same kind in the Chaos World. You must protect me." Li Xinghe immediately hugged Pangu's thigh.
That was right. Even though his Demon God Body had grown considerably, he only barely reached Pangu's thigh—and that was after Pangu had compressed his body to its limit.
Fortunately, these Chaos Demon Gods did not interact much after being born, so they were relatively simple-minded. Pangu soon accepted that he had a clansman.
"Don't worry, second brother. Follow me, and no one will dare bully you from now on." Pangu nodded.
Li Xinghe was initially delighted, but then he suddenly sensed that something was wrong. "Big brother, can you call me something else? My name is Li Xinghe!"
"Alright, second brother!"
Forget it. He was a stubborn blockhead. Second brother it was. It was not as if he could possibly chop up his own second brother in the future.
Now that all Three Thousand Demon Gods had been born, any random one of them could probably kill him. He could only stay obediently by Pangu's side.
Since he was already here, he would make the best of it. Li Xinghe had resigned himself to his fate. His only regret was that other transmigrators at least got a system, while he had nothing but a shovel.
Speaking of the shovel, Li Xinghe's heart stirred. Its appearance was a little awkward. Fine, it was downright embarrassing. But it was still a Chaos Supreme Treasure. As far as he knew, only the Pangu Axe, the Jade Plate of Creation, and the Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Green Lotus could be called supreme treasures in the entire Chaos World.
There was also the legendary Chaos Pearl, supposedly another Chaos Supreme Treasure. However, after the Chaos Demon Gods were killed, the pearl vanished without a trace.
In other words, this shovel was now Chaos's fifth greatest supreme treasure. As long as he was not stupid enough to shout, "If you're my brother, come chop me up!" then once he survived until the Primordial World, would he not be invincible with this shovel?
When the time came, whether it was the Chaos Bell, the Taiji Diagram, or the Pangu Banner, one swing of his shovel would wipe out their entire families!
Thinking of that, he suddenly felt wonderfully pleased and could not help laughing aloud.
"Dig, dig, dig in the Primordial Wilderness, dig up beauties and have pretty babies..."
"Second brother, dig what?" Pangu was utterly confused. His bargain-bin second brother seemed a little mentally underdeveloped. It looked like he needed more nourishment.
Li Xinghe looked at Pangu, his eyes wide. This was the true number one ruthless man of Chaos!
Pangu stood upon the Chaos Green Lotus, with the Jade Plate of Creation above his head and the Pangu Axe in his hand, while the All-Heavens Celebration Clouds surrounded him. He was the very picture of a nouveau riche.
Other people had at most one Accompanying Spiritual Treasure, and even that would only be an ordinary Chaos Spiritual Treasure. He alone possessed three, all Chaos Supreme Treasures. He truly was Chaos's favored child.
Li Xinghe stared until he was practically drooling. In the Primordial Wilderness of later generations, every weapon capable of suppressing heaven and earth was related to these supreme treasures. If he could trick Pangu into giving him one or two, he would be invincible even if he just sat still.
However, Li Xinghe was no fool. Their relationship had not reached that point yet. If he asked now, he would likely become the first Demon God to fall beneath the Pangu Axe.
To establish himself in Chaos, he needed great strength. Li Xinghe had inherited the abilities of Daoist Shichen and the Lord of Destiny, so his foundation far surpassed that of ordinary Demon Gods.
After spending some time learning about it, he became increasingly fond of the shovel in his hand. It was ugly, but its abilities were damn powerful.
The shovel combined all the effects of the Wheel of Time and the Wheel of Destiny. It could alter the flow of time, and as his cultivation increased, it could even freeze time in certain areas or turn it back.
It could also rewrite destiny, see through the future, and bring its owner good luck. After all, it was something that could rule destiny. With a few casual digs in Chaos, he could unearth some treasures.
However, he was still too weak to fully control it. According to Pangu, a Chaos Supreme Treasure contained 129,600 Chaos Divine Prohibitions, matching the number of a primordial cycle. Only by completely refining them could one unleash the treasure's power. At his current cultivation, he did not even know how many years it would take to refine a single divine prohibition.
However, as his strength increased, the speed of his refinement would also rise greatly.
"Second brother, I think I heard you mention something about wiping out entire families earlier. Is that this supreme treasure's name?"
"Big brother, you heard wrong." Are you kidding? This weapon is so awesome. It is ugly enough already; its name has to sound imposing.
"From now on, it shall be called the Chaos Shovel!" Li Xinghe shouted.
Suddenly, a force of Merit descended from the heavens and attached itself to the Chaos Shovel.
Well damn. No wonder Chaos Supreme Treasures were so heaven-defying. Just naming one granted Great Dao Merit. This was useful for everything: increasing cultivation, offsetting Karmic Force, and even helping him refine Chaos Divine Prohibitions.
"I think Wipe-Out-Entire-Families Shovel sounds pretty good too. Maybe I should rename my axe the Wipe-Out-Entire-Families Axe," Pangu muttered to himself.
Li Xinghe imagined Pangu striking with his axe and wiping out the entire families of all Three Thousand Demon Gods. It actually did seem fitting.
Still, he feared that changing names carelessly would make the Great Dao burden him with Cause and Effect, which would not be worth it. After much persuasion, Pangu finally gave up on the idea.
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