Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls

Li Xinghe's hand trembled. This girl truly couldn't stand the sight of treasures. Stealing the Twelve-Grade White Lotus of Purity from him hadn't been enough—she had even set her sights on the Chaos Pearl.

"You can't handle this thing." Li Xinghe immediately put away the Chaos Pearl, afraid that if he delayed even a second, Xuan Ming would hug it and refuse to let go.

"Since that one won't do, I think this Dragon Pearl is pretty good too." Xuan Ming turned to look at the Ancestral Dragon.

The Ancestral Dragon glared furiously. This was an inherited treasure of the Dragon Clan. If it were taken from him, where would he put his pride?

Li Xinghe frowned. The Ancestral Dragon Pearl carried tremendous Cause and Effect. He might be able to bear it, but Xuan Ming certainly could not.

"Once the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation is over, Father will snatch it for you." Like the God Slaying Spear, this thing's time had not yet come.

Xuan Ming also knew that Li Xinghe had his own principles. If it could be taken, he would likely have done so long ago.

"But the Ancestral Dragon Pearl being off-limits doesn't mean other things can't be taken." Li Xinghe smiled faintly and proceeded to beat the Ancestral Dragon senseless.

"Hand over all the good things on you. Don't tell me that, as the Dragon Clan's leader, you only have one Ancestral Dragon Pearl."

The Ancestral Dragon finally understood. Li Xinghe could easily kill him, but seemingly did not want to be stained by Cause and Effect. Even so, he did not dare resist.

The deterrence of Chaos Supreme Treasures was simply too great. Besides, this guy kept beating people half to death at every turn. Did he, the dignified Ancestral Dragon of the Dragon Clan, not have any pride?

"I have Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls here. They are Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures." The Ancestral Dragon suddenly took out a string of pearls.

"Hm?" Even Li Xinghe was greatly surprised. He had not expected the Ancestral Dragon to possess such a thing.

But the Sea-Calming Pearls of legend numbered twenty-four. "Are you sure there are only twelve?"

The Ancestral Dragon was so frightened that he hurriedly swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao, guaranteeing that there were only these twelve.

Only then did Li Xinghe let him go. "Get lost. Keep a lower profile from now on, or I'll beat you every time I see you."

The Ancestral Dragon heaved a sigh of relief and turned to leave. Proud as he was, he no longer dared provoke Li Xinghe.

Li Xinghe, meanwhile, played with the Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls in his hand and studied the restrictions upon them.

After examining them, he confirmed that the twelve pearls were indeed a set. Yet he had read quite a few Primordial Wilderness novels and had never heard of the Ancestral Dragon possessing these things.

The only possibility was that these twelve differed from the legendary Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls.

Or rather, the legendary Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls were not a complete set. Only with these twelve added would they become a true complete set of Sea-Calming Pearls.

No matter what, obtaining this set of treasures was not bad.

"Xuan Ming, you are an Ancestral Witch of ice. These Sea-Calming Pearls match your attributes well enough, so keep them as a bracelet." Li Xinghe casually gave them to Xuan Ming, lest she keep coveting his Chaos Pearl.

If he could obtain the complete Thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls in the future, they would become another Innate Supreme Treasure, even more powerful than the Five Innate Banners.

It was said that Daoist Randeng later used the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls to evolve the Twenty-Four Heavens, making them almost like a miniature Chaos Pearl.

Xuan Ming was overjoyed. Though she had nearly been killed by the Ancestral Dragon, obtaining such a treasure now was still quite nice.

At that moment, Li Xinghe shifted his gaze to Si Bu Xiang, the Son of the Beginning Qilin.

During the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, the Three Races fell from prominence. Only a small number of Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races members survived, but none of them ended well.

Take the Four Seas Dragon Kings, for example. When they followed the Ancestral Dragon, they were incomparably majestic. Later, after submitting to the Heavenly Court, even summoning wind and rain required the Heavenly Court's approval. They would be punished for a single drop too many or too few.

And this Son of the Beginning Qilin before him had once held an unimaginably noble status when the Three Races ruled the Primordial Wilderness.

Yet he later became Yuanshi's mount. That was not even the worst of it—Yuanshi eventually gave him to Jiang Ziya as a mount.

Jiang Ziya was not even the lowest-ranked immortal, yet Si Bu Xiang, who possessed the cultivation of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, had to serve as his mount. It was truly pitiful.

"Si Bu Xiang greets Great God. Thank you, Great God, for saving my life."

Li Xinghe nodded. The Qilin Clan was destined to decline. Protecting the Phoenix Clan alone had already entangled him in immense Cause and Effect.

He could do nothing to help the Qilin Race, though this little Qilin was rather clever.

"If you have nowhere to turn in the future, you may contact Xuan Ming or Houtu." Leaving those words behind, Li Xinghe drifted away.

Naturally, he took Xuan Ming and Houtu with him as well. Their intervention in the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation this time had already broken the rules.

Still, the Ancestral Dragon truly needed a beating. After beating him up today, Li Xinghe felt much better.

"Godfather, you're so powerful. Why don't you unify the Primordial Wilderness? That would spare it some warfare..." Houtu asked in confusion.

During this period, she and Xuan Ming had traveled through the Primordial Wilderness and witnessed far too much slaughter. Kind-hearted as she was, she could not bear it.

She cultivated the Earth Element Law. The earth was the mother of all things, and seeing countless living beings die in war while being powerless to save them pained her deeply.

Li Xinghe's heart stirred. After the Witch-Demon Calamity, most of the Twelve Ancestral Witches would perish, with only Houtu surviving. Perhaps that was related to her personality as well.

Disheartened, Houtu later entered the Earthly Dao, created Reincarnation, and became an Earthly Dao Saint.

Although her ending appeared rather good, Li Xinghe knew that she was lonelier than anyone. Her creation of Reincarnation was also driven by the hope of reviving the other Ancestral Witches.

He had not expected Houtu to have such thoughts when she was only a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. She truly deserved to be the Earthly Dao Saint destined by Heaven.

"It is not that Father does not want to, but that Father cannot." Li Xinghe explained.

First of all, the Primordial Wilderness was a small world created by Pangu within Chaos. Its development followed its own rules.

The previous Fierce Beast Calamity, for instance, had been meant to wear away the baleful resentment left behind after the Three Thousand Demon Gods fell.

The current Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation was the same. Every era had its own protagonists.

The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races had dominated the Primordial Wilderness for two Eons. Now, it was time for them to leave the stage.

Besides, the Primordial Wilderness was filled with hidden experts, and above them stood the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao. If he acted too high-profile, at most he would only be like the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races—dominating an era before eventually fading away.

"The Primordial World is still developing and has not yet reached its final form. In the future, someone blessed with immense Fortune will take control of the Primordial Wilderness. Perhaps Father will compete then. For now, it is better to lie low." Li Xinghe rubbed Houtu's head.

Houtu seemed somewhat bewildered, yet she also seemed to understand.

"The Primordial World is still developing. In the future, the Witch Race will also become the protagonists of heaven and earth, and they too will fall from prominence like the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races."

"What?" Xuan Ming and Houtu were both shocked. This was the first time Li Xinghe had mentioned this to them.

"Father controls the Law of Time and Destiny, so Father sees more than you do. If you wish to rewrite Destiny in the future, you must work harder." Li Xinghe was giving them a warning in advance.

Whether it was Xuan Ming or Houtu, they had mostly treated their travels through the Primordial Wilderness as play and had not clearly seen the situation awaiting them.

Perhaps it was time to put some pressure on them. Then, when they entered the tribulation in the future, they would have more confidence.

Because of Li Xinghe's intervention, the Tribulation Qi between heaven and earth grew much denser once again.

After being beaten by Li Xinghe and having the Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls stolen from him, the Ancestral Dragon had nowhere to vent his resentment. He could only direct all his hostility toward the Phoenix Clan and the Qilin Clan.

Little did he know that Li Xinghe stood behind the Phoenix Clan, and with Li Xinghe's help, Yuan Feng had actually broken through to the Late Golden Immortal of the Origin.