Arriving at the Battlefield, The Little Fellow is Excited

The Three Pure Ones rode auspicious clouds, their speed reaching the absolute limit.

They all understood in their hearts that their eldest disciple, Taishang Laojun, had not decided to bring Lin Shen out on a whim. Their youngest disciple was restless due to the Calamity Fiend Qi; it was better to guide him than to restrain him. Perhaps letting him see and feel it firsthand could resolve his inner turmoil.

The deeper meaning was that Lin Shen, as an Innate Spiritual Root, was of the same origin as heaven and earth. His very existence was a form of "Dao." Exposing him to this Calamity Fiend Qi might trigger some changes they hadn't anticipated.

This was both a trial and a gamble.

The gamble was whether the three brothers could protect the greatest variable in the Primordial World.

The auspicious clouds traversed endless space, quickly transitioning from the spirit-rich Eastern Continent to the fiend qi-filled Western lands.

The spiritual energy in the air became thin and violent. The ground was no longer verdant green but a dark red, as if stained by blood. The mountains were bare, the rivers dry, and everything exuded a sense of deathly stillness and desolation.

"Yiya?"

Lin Shen, held in Tongtian Jiaozhu's arms, blinked his large eyes curiously.

He extended his little nose and sniffed the air intently.

The "rusty smell" he had sensed earlier at Kunlun Mountain, which had made him feel stuffy and oppressed, was now a thousand times more potent here. Yet, strangely, as he truly immersed himself in this aura, that feeling of oppression vanished.

In its place was a novel sensation, tinged with a hint of excitement.

It was like... like someone accustomed to bland food suddenly smelling the aroma of chili peppers.

Choking, yet inexplicably... appetizing?

The worried and troubled expression on Lin Shen's small face disappeared, replaced by a barely concealed excitement. He wriggled his small body, pointing his little finger in the direction of the densest fiend qi, and let out "iya, iya" sounds of urging.

"Good disciple, what's wrong?" Tongtian Jiaozhu looked down at him, utterly bewildered.

He had looked like the sky was about to fall just moments ago at Kunlun Mountain, so why was he happy in this desolate place?

"Look at him, he seems to have found something fun," Yuanshi Tianzun frowned, equally puzzled. He reached out and felt Lin Shen's forehead, his spiritual power flowing gently as he confirmed his young disciple was not unwell.

Taishang Laojun stroked his long beard, his profound gaze fixed on the distant horizon, where blood-red light and black mist intertwined, soaring into the sky. Faint roars of clashing laws could be heard.

"It seems we have arrived."

The auspicious clouds slowly stopped above an inconspicuous mountain peak. The Three Pure Ones concealed their forms with spiritual power. From here, they could clearly see the Blood Maple Plain battlefield tens of thousands of miles away.

The sight before him completely stunned Lin Shen.

Although he possessed an adult soul, in his past life, he had only seen war scenes in movies. Compared to the epic battle unfolding before him, like gods and demons dancing, those movie special effects were like child's play.

Dragons tens of thousands of feet long tumbled through the sky, their dragon breath erupting, splitting the earth, and lava surging. Phoenixes with wingspans that blotted out the sun soared through the nine heavens, their Southern Bright Vermilion Flames incinerating all things, even distorting space.

A powerful Dragon Clan expert, clad in golden dragon scale armor and wielding a Fangtian Huaji, swung his halberd, instantly slicing thousands of flying beasts in half, raining blood.

"Ao Lie! How dare you kill my Phoenix Clan's younglings!"

A stunningly beautiful female immortal of the Phoenix Clan shrieked. The seven-colored divine light in her hand flickered, transforming into a colorful ribbon that instantly ensnared the Fangtian Huaji.

"Feng Yao! Today is the day of your demise!" the Dragon Clan expert named Ao Lie roared. The two immediately engaged in a fierce battle, their spiritual powers and magical treasures clashing. Each impact caused spiderweb-like cracks to appear in the void.

On the ground below, bodies lay scattered like corpses, and rivers of blood flowed.

A giant crab the size of a house had just used its massive claw to break the wing of a Qing Luan. Before it could rejoice, it was crushed into a pulp by a colossal foot that descended from the sky. The owner of the foot was a Kirin, a thousand feet tall, covered in earthy yellow scales.

But the Kirin did not escape unscathed. Just as it crushed the giant crab, it was tightly bound by dozens of tentacle as thick as buckets that emerged from the ground. These were experts from the East Sea Octopus Clan.

Countless beings perished on this land. Their unwillingness, hatred, anger, and fear in their final moments transformed into pure fiend qi and karma, rising like billowing smoke straight into the heavens.

This black fiend qi made even Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu feel uncomfortable. Calamity Qi was the most detrimental to one's cultivation; cultivators avoided it like the plague.

But Lin Shen, cradled in their arms, reacted in the exact opposite way.

He watched the fiend qi soaring into the sky, his eyes growing brighter. His small mouth opened unconsciously, and a trickle of clear saliva even dripped down.

"Yiya! Yaya!"

He extended his chubby little hand, pointing at the battlefield, and looked back at his three masters, his small face filled with longing.

He looked like a starving ghost who had just seen a table full of delicacies.

"This..." Tongtian Jiaozhu was completely dumbfounded. "Eldest Brother, Second Brother, look at him, he... he seems to want to eat that?"

Yuanshi Tianzun's face turned dark: "Nonsense! That is Calamity Fiend Qi, a deadly poison! How could he possibly eat it!"

He thought his young disciple was frightened, or perhaps his innate nature made him curious about this destructive power.

"Lin Shen, don't be afraid, your master is here, those things won't harm you," Yuanshi Tianzun comforted him gently.

But Lin Shen couldn't hear him at all.

His mind was filled with only one thought: I want to eat! I really want to eat!

That black smoke smelled so "fragrant"!

Seeing that his three masters couldn't understand him at all, he became anxious.

How could he make them understand that he wanted to eat?

Right!

A flash of inspiration struck him. He remembered his new, sometimes effective, divine ability – Words Manifest Reality!

The last time he said "grow" to the character "forest," it had indeed turned into a forest.

So this time, if I say "eat" to that black smoke, will I be able to eat it into my mouth?

Once this thought arose, it could no longer be suppressed.

Lin Shen gathered all his strength and poked his little head out from Yuanshi Tianzun's embrace.

His big, round eyes were fixed on the sky above the battlefield, at the densest mass of Calamity Fiend Qi, a cloud formed from the deaths of tens of thousands of living beings.

Then, he opened his small mouth and, with all his might, in a childish, milky voice, yet incredibly clearly, uttered a single word.

"Eat!"