[Ding! The Host Confronted the Heavenly Dao Head-On, Rewarded with a Law of Strength Fragment!]

Just as the will of the Heavenly Dao made its final compromise in an almost ingratiating manner.

Just as the boundless Golden Light of Merit was about to touch Yang Chen's head, and the supreme phenomenon of Purple Qi Coming from the East for thirty thousand miles was about to completely shroud the valley.

Deep within Yang Chen's Sea of Consciousness, a voice older, colder, and more detached from worldly affairs than the will of the Heavenly Dao thundered into being!

The voice carried no emotion, yet contained supreme rules, as though it were the ultimate judgment of the entire chaotic universe.

[Ding!]

[Detected that the host, with a mortal body, confronted the Six Heavenly Dao Sages head-on and successfully forced the will of the Heavenly Dao to compromise!]

[The host has exceeded the requirements of the choice mission and obtained an epic, heaven-defying reward!]

The muscles on Yang Chen's face, twisted by extreme repression, twitched violently beyond his control.

His heart, long tortured nearly numb by endless karmic force, suddenly pounded wildly as though it had been struck by a chaotic divine thunderbolt!

It was here!

This was the true foundation that gave him the courage to overturn the chessboard and make an enemy of the entire primordial world!

This was his only, and final, hope!

[Reward One: Great Dao Law—Law of Strength Fragment x1!]

The instant the system prompt fell silent, Yang Chen did not even have time to react.

A torrent of mysterious information that could not be described in words, grasped by divine sense, or even contained by laws and concepts themselves, surged forcefully into his primordial spirit with an irresistible momentum!

Boom—!

Yang Chen's entire consciousness was instantly dragged into an endless chaos.

He "saw" it!

He saw a giant standing between Heaven and Earth, holding a simple ancient axe, his eyes carrying the persistence and weariness of one who had created a world.

He "heard" it!

He heard that roar that resounded through chaos, the supreme Dao sound of the giant axe cleaving through nothingness and splitting yin from yang!

Strength!

Ultimate strength!

The strength to split Heaven and Earth!

The strength that shattered everything, yet created everything!

That information was not knowledge, nor was it an inheritance. It was the most fundamental kind of "imprint."

Like a red-hot branding iron, it stamped itself viciously onto Yang Chen's True Spirit, forcibly engraving Great God Pangu's supreme mysteries into the essence of his life!

Crack! Crack!

Explosive sounds of bones being forcibly reforged rang out from within Yang Chen's body!

Every inch of his flesh, every cell, underwent an earth-shaking transformation beneath the cleansing force of that Law of Strength fragment.

Though it was merely an insignificant fragment.

The true meaning contained within it was enough to drive any Sage mad!

At this moment, the immeasurable karmic force around him, enough to corrode even saintly might, showed faint signs of being suppressed before this newly born, overwhelmingly tyrannical power!

Before he could fully recover from this profound state of enlightenment.

The system prompt sounded once more!

[Reward Two: Beginner Gift Pack x1!]

[Opening gift pack...]

[Congratulations, host. You have obtained one opportunity to bind one of the following items. Please choose one of three!]

[Option One: Postnatal Merit Supreme Treasure—Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda!]

[Option Two: Postnatal Merit Supreme Treasure—Hongmeng Measuring Ruler!]

[Option Three: Chaos Spiritual Treasure—Chaos Bead (Fragment)!]

Yang Chen's divine sense swept across the three gleaming golden names on the system panel. Even his primordial spirit, freshly tempered to incomparable toughness by the Law of Strength, nearly collapsed from happiness on the spot!

Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda!

Formed from the Profound Yellow Qi when Hongmeng first opened, it was said that whoever stood beneath it would be innately invincible—the supreme defensive treasure!

It was Grand Supreme Elder Lord's personal treasure, the ultimate ceiling of defensive power in the primordial world!

Hongmeng Measuring Ruler!

It was likewise a merit treasure, made for slaughter. With one strike of the ruler, no law could touch it and no karma could entangle it, specially made to strike all immortals, gods, and Buddhas!

Chaos Bead fragment!

This was an even more legendary supreme treasure. Though it was only a fragment, it contained the spatial law on the same level as "strength"!

This was not a reward from the system.

It had directly placed three supreme treasures capable of triggering a new tribulation before him!

Yang Chen's heartbeat stalled for an instant.

His mind spun frantically at a speed unlike anything before.

Attack?

The Chaos Bead's spatial divine abilities?

No!

None of them were right!

For him now, for a debt king burdened with the karma of an Immeasurable Tribulation and simultaneously "targeted" by the Six Sages and the Heavenly Dao, what was most important?

Survival!

Absolute, unquestionable survivability that made it impossible for anyone to harm him!

Only by living could he continue slacking off.

Only by living could he continue fleecing the system.

Only by living could he, this debt king, forever make his creditors tremble in fear!

No matter how powerful his attack was, could it surpass a Sage's?

No matter how mysterious spatial divine abilities were, could they let him escape beneath the Heavenly Dao's watchful eye?

Only defense!

Only the absolute defense said to be "impervious to all laws" was what he needed most right now, and his only choice!

His heart reached a decision in an instant.

"I choose the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda!"

The instant that thought echoed through his Sea of Consciousness.

[Ding! The host has successfully chosen!]

[Binding Postnatal Merit Supreme Treasure—Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda...]

Buzz—!

A faint yet incomparably heavy wisp of Profound Yellow aura was born without warning in the void above Yang Chen's head.

The instant that wisp appeared, the surrounding spatial laws groaned beneath an unbearable burden, as though they were about to collapse under its weight.

The boundless Golden Light of Merit pouring down from the Ninth Heaven even split apart of its own accord before that wisp of Profound Yellow Qi, not daring to touch it in the slightest!

Immediately afterward, the wisp rapidly extended, stretched, and condensed!

A nine-tiered pagoda phantom, entirely Profound Yellow in color, slowly took shape.

Countless Great Dao Runes appeared and vanished across its body, as though they were evolving the supreme mysteries of the birth of Heaven and Earth and the creation of all things.

A heavy, ancient, eternal, and indestructible aura spread from the pagoda.

The next moment, the pagoda completely solidified, then gave a gentle shudder.

Whoosh!

Myriad streams of Profound Yellow Qi cascaded from beneath the pagoda like a heavenly river overturning, forming an incomparably thick Profound Yellow curtain of light that tightly enveloped Yang Chen's body.

The instant the curtain descended, Yang Chen felt an unprecedented, absolute sense of security.

It was as though, from this moment on, neither Sage divine abilities nor Heavenly Dao divine thunder, neither tribulation erosion nor karmic entanglement, could harm him in the slightest!

Stand beneath it, and one would be innately undefeated!

Its reputation was well deserved!

At this moment, Yang Chen's appearance underwent an earth-shaking change.

He still stood at the center of the valley, but the deathly aura of utter despair around him had been replaced by a newly born, tyrannical power.

Above his head, the nine-tiered pagoda floated silently, dropping myriad streams of Profound Yellow Qi to isolate him from the outside world.

His body was being frantically infused and cleansed by the endless Golden Light of Merit, his entire form radiating a dazzling golden glow.

A pagoda above his head, golden light bathing his body.

At this moment, how was he still a mortal tortured by karmic force?

He was clearly an immortal divine king who could make even Sages cast a sidelong glance!