Dao Ancestor Hongjun
Ancestor Five Elements was also a top-level Demon God from Chaos, second only to the Yin Yang Demon God.
However, according to the original course of the Primordial Wilderness, there seemed to be no record of Ancestor Five Elements in later generations.
In other words, he had most likely died, but no one knew exactly how.
Li Xinghe had once divined the Primordial Wilderness Demon Gods who had not fallen. He had met people like Cause and Effect, Yin and Yang, and Qian Kun.
Yet he had never been able to find the Five Elements Demon God. None who could rank among the top-level Demon Gods were simple, so Li Xinghe had continually divined this man's whereabouts.
Today, he had finally divined some information and immediately pursued him with Xuan Ming and Houtu.
Deep within the Primordial Wilderness, Ancestor Five Elements was attempting to steal the power of the Five Elements from the Primordial World. If he succeeded, his cultivation would advance by leaps and bounds.
He might even recover his peak cultivation from his previous life within a short time.
Then the entire Primordial Wilderness would bow before him. He would not even regard the Karma Demon God, the Yin Yang Demon God, or the Three Primal Races.
Yet at the critical moment, someone stopped him—someone he had never expected.
"Hongjun, you dare obstruct me?" Ancestor Five Elements' face darkened.
It was not that he feared Hongjun, but that he feared alerting the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World.
Like the other Demon Gods, he did not regard Hongjun at all. He was merely a Qu She, ranked last among the Three Thousand Demon Gods. What was there to speak of?
"Five Elements Demon God, you dare steal the Five Elements Origin of the Primordial World. This is defying Heaven." Hongjun snorted coldly.
"Defying Heaven? You and I are both Demon Gods of Chaos. What does the Heaven of this Primordial World have to do with us? We might as well destroy this world and return the Primordial Wilderness to Chaos. Perhaps the Great Dao will bestow the power of Merit upon us."
Naturally, Hongjun could not agree with Ancestor Five Elements' actions. In Chaos, he had merely been the lowest-ranked Chaos Demon God. Yet after arriving in the Primordial World, he had finally flourished, and now he was no weaker than those reincarnated top-level Demon Gods.
Furthermore, he had found Ancestor Five Elements this time because he had vaguely received guidance from the Heavenly Dao.
Although the Heavenly Dao had not fully awakened, it could still sense certain dangers.
Hongjun had gained the Heavenly Dao's favor for precisely this reason. Later, he successfully slew Luohu and attained the Dao, becoming the first Saint of the Primordial World.
"Ancestor Five Elements, can you guess why I appeared here?" Hongjun said calmly.
Though the Chaos World had existed since time immemorial, this was now the era of the Primordial World. Pangu's creation of Heaven and Earth was the trend of destiny, and this world contained immense opportunities.
Those former top-level Demon Gods still lived in the past. In the end, they all hated Pangu. If not for Pangu, they would now all be Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortals, roaming freely through Chaos.
Only Hongjun and Luohu were more pragmatic. In their eyes, the Primordial Wilderness was a vast treasure trove. So long as they used it properly, reaching the Great Dao Realm in the future might not be impossible.
Ancestor Five Elements' expression darkened. This was deep within the Primordial Wilderness, where the Five Elements Origin lay. The heavenly secrets were chaotic here, and ordinary people could never find this place.
There was only one possibility: guidance from the Heavenly Dao. In other words, the plan he had plotted for so long had held no secrets at all.
Even Li Xinghe, relying on a Chaos Supreme Treasure, had been unable to divine Ancestor Five Elements' existence.
First, there was no Cause and Effect between them. Second, Li Xinghe had not found this man even in the future.
Who would have thought he was hiding in a place capable of obscuring the heavenly secrets?
"Enough nonsense, Hongjun. You think you can stop me? What a foolish dream." Ancestor Five Elements snorted coldly.
Since his reincarnation, Ancestor Five Elements had cultivated bitterly in the land of the Five Elements Origin within the Primordial World.
Over the years, he had long since reached the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Realm, and Hongjun was now the same.
At the same realm, what mattered were spiritual treasures, laws, and combat experience.
As a top-level Chaos Demon God, Ancestor Five Elements naturally did not regard Hongjun highly. Even if Hongjun possessed a fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation, he was unafraid.
Ancestor Five Elements was doing quite well himself. He held the Chaos Spiritual Treasure, the Five Elements Pagoda. It had been his Accompanying Spiritual Treasure when he was still a Chaos Demon God.
After falling, he had found the Five Elements Pagoda and restored it to completeness here.
The Accompanying Spiritual Treasures of highly ranked Chaos Demon Gods were all incomparably powerful, not much inferior to Innate Supreme Treasures.
Besides that, he had obtained other treasures in this land of Five Elements Origin—something no weaker than an Innate Supreme Treasure.
More accurately, there were five of them. Each was a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure: the Five Innate Banners that would shake the world in later generations.
They were the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner, Southern Ground-Leaving Flame Light Banner, Western Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Banner, and Northern True Martial Black Eagle Banner, also known as the Xuan Yuan Water Controlling Banner.
These five banners had also been transformed from the leaves of that unlucky Chaos Green Lotus. There was nothing to be done about it—the lotus simply had many leaves.
"Then let's give it a try!" Guided by the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun's confidence was soaring.
The two powerful experts immediately began fighting. Only when their auras leaked out did Li Xinghe manage to divine them.
By the time Li Xinghe arrived, the two had already fought to a fever pitch.
Ancestor Five Elements truly lived up to being a top-level Demon God. When the Five Innate Banners were combined, their defensive power rivaled that of an innate defensive supreme treasure.
Even the fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation could not break Ancestor Five Elements' defenses.
In the shadows, Li Xinghe concealed the heavenly secrets with the Law of Space. Xuan Ming stared in shock. "They are too powerful. The Primordial Wilderness really is dangerous!"
"Foster Father, I finally understand your painstaking intentions." Houtu was terrified as well.
Either one of these two could easily destroy the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
Originally, they had thought the Three Pure Ones formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit were nothing special, so they believed themselves invincible. They had even considered causing trouble for the Three Primal Races.
"And you call this powerful? Do you know that the leaders of the Three Primal Races—Ancestral Dragon, Yuan Feng, and Beginning Qilin—are already Middle Golden Immortals of the Origin?" Li Xinghe continued to frighten them.
This made them even more afraid. Fortunately, they had not gone to demand treasures from the Three Primal Races, or they would not even have known how they died.
Seeing that they were frightened, Li Xinghe said no more. The Three Primal Races possessed flourishing Fortune; anyone trying to provoke them now would simply be courting death.
The leaders of the Three Races had gained Merit from the Fierce Beast Tribulation and had actually taken a step ahead of him in entering the Middle Golden Immortal of the Origin.
But realm did not represent everything. If he wanted to break through, he could do so at any time.
Moreover, if they truly fought, Ancestral Dragon, Yuan Feng, and Beginning Qilin together would still not be enough for him to handle.
As Yuanshi Tianzun would put it, they were fools who cultivated only mana and not Merit.
The Three Primal Races were precisely too obsessed with pursuing strength, which was why they later triggered the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation.
"You two wait here. Foster Father will go get you some good treasures." Li Xinghe smiled.
"Foster Father, perhaps we should forget it. I'm afraid they'll beat you to death." Houtu was kind-hearted and did not want Li Xinghe to take the risk.
"That's right, Foster Father. Let's just return to Pangu Temple and lie low. So long as we don't come out, no one can break in." Xuan Ming said cautiously.
"Damn it, you two underestimate your father too much! I have to rob someone today." Li Xinghe immediately jumped up.
Who was he? The fusion of the Time Demon God and the Destiny Demon God, Pangu's brother, and more importantly, a transmigrator.
You said he was inferior to Hongjun? He was just a Qu She.
"I'll go buy some oranges... ah, spit, I'll go rob someone. Stay right here and don't run around." Li Xinghe slowly approached while controlling the Chaos Pearl.
As the saying went, even a lion gave its all when hunting a rabbit. Hongjun and Ancestor Five Elements were both far from ordinary.
"I am the Primordial Wilderness's number one schemer. If I can ambush someone in a fight, I'll never face them head-on. I wonder whether I can kill Hongjun." Li Xinghe could not help looking up at the sky. He knew the Heavenly Dao was certainly watching this place.
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