At this thought, East King Duke could not help but feel a trace of regret.
Hearing this, Tongtian immediately let out a derisive laugh.
That laughter carried undisguised mockery.
"Leave room in your words? You think you deserve to negotiate terms with me?"
If he had merely been domineering and forceful before, then now he was openly contemptuous.
That completely unmasked disdain left East King Duke full of frustration, yet he did not dare retort.
He knew that this opportunity had already slipped away, leaving him resentful and unwilling to accept it.
Just as he was about to speak and yield, a spear blade laced with eerie black qi suddenly struck at him.
Sensing the overwhelming killing intent, East King Duke's pupils abruptly contracted.
Every hair on his body stood on end as the shadow of death instantly swept through his heart.
Without time to think, he hurriedly summoned the Dragon Head Crutch in his hand.
He poured all his pure mana into it without holding anything back.
He did not dare show the slightest carelessness in the face of this strike.
He did not even dare blink!
Because he understood that the slightest mistake could mean death and Dao dissolution!
Boom! Boom!
A heaven-shaking aura suddenly erupted above the East Sea.
In an instant, towering waves surged up, and seawater churned backward wildly.
Countless sea creatures were shattered to pieces by the aftershocks!
After that single strike, East King Duke violently spat out a mouthful of blood.
His body flew backward millions of miles like a kite with its string cut.
Such a disturbance immediately drew the attention of many great powers, and countless Spiritual Senses came tearing through the air.
When they saw Penglai Immortal Island blazing with golden light behind Tongtian, along with East King Duke's deathly pale face, everyone revealed looks of eager anticipation.
"This East King Duke truly has guts. Does he really think being named the leader of male immortals by the Dao Ancestor means he can swagger about as he pleases?"
"Could Fellow Daoist Tongtian be the Heavenly Dao's beloved son? He just gathered a haul of treasures at Buzhou Mountain, and now he has run into another opportunity?"
"Honestly, Fellow Daoist Tongtian's luck is beyond anything ordinary people can compare to."
"To speak plainly, I am truly green with envy."
"Others pick up treasures until their hands go numb, while we do not even have a decent Dharma treasure. Life is hard."
On the Sun Star.
Watching East King Duke's chaotic aura and bedraggled appearance, Taiyi's expression shifted uncertainly.
"Big Brother, now that East King Duke has been heavily injured by that bastard Tongtian, should we begin our plan?"
"Not yet." Dijun gently shook his head.
"We still do not know how the Dao Ancestor will respond to this. It will not be too late to decide after the next sermon."
"Besides, East King Duke's Primordial Spirit has already been damaged. He will find it difficult to recover in a short time."
After hearing this, Taiyi fell into thought.
Within Kunlun Mountain.
"Damn it! How is his luck so good? He stole another opportunity!"
Yuanshi's eyes were filled with unwillingness and jealousy.
They were both transformed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit and shared in the Creation Merit.
Why was Tongtian always the one to obtain opportunities?
Yet he, the Second Brother, still did not even possess a Dharma treasure that suited him!
The Heavenly Dao was unfair!
On Mount Sumeru.
"Senior Brother, Tongtian has gained another benefit. When will we be able to take revenge?"
A flash of indignation passed through Zhunti's eyes.
Thinking of how he and his senior brother had long since formed enmity with Tongtian, the resentment in his heart became even harder to suppress.
Tongtian already held so many precious treasures.
Now he had gained another opportunity.
How were they supposed to compete?
This luck was simply absurd!
"Do not rush. The one who laughs last is the winner," Jieyin said calmly.
In truth, he was also filled with envy.
"Fellow Daoist, I truly acted rashly this time. I will leave at once, I will leave at once!"
Realizing that his life might be in danger if he did not leave, East King Duke hurriedly begged for mercy.
At this moment, face, status, and the title of leader of male immortals were all worthless compared to his life.
"You come and go as you please? Where would that leave my dignity?"
Tongtian snorted coldly. Completely unmoved, he refused outright.
With a flick of his spear, he launched another attack.
"You are forcing my hand! Explode! Explode! Explode!"
A ruthless expression flashed across East King Duke's face. Without hesitation, he hurled out the crutch in his hand and immediately triggered his spiritual treasure's self-destruction.
A spiritual treasure was connected to its owner's Primordial Spirit. That explosion inflicted another grievous wound upon his already injured Primordial Spirit.
He spat out blood. Without caring whether the explosion could injure Tongtian, he turned and fled in panic.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Heaven-shaking explosions, accompanied by towering waves, sent layer upon layer of terrifying swells across the sea.
The boundless East Sea was dyed crimson in an instant.
Vast heaven and earth spiritual qi surged and roared through the endless seas, churning wantonly.
As the waves subsided.
Tongtian, standing at the center of the explosion, remained suspended in the air without the slightest injury.
Not even a trace of a wound had been left behind!
In the distant void, all the great powers watching were shaken to the core and secretly marveled.
It was simply too astonishing!
That had been the power of a Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure self-destructing!
Yet it could not even ruffle the corner of his robes.
It had to be said, he was absurdly powerful!
So absurd that even absurdity would have to call him its ancestor!
Seeing that there was no longer any excitement to watch.
Everyone quietly departed without prior agreement, afraid of leaving behind even the faintest trace.
"Hmph! You are lucky to still be alive!"
Tongtian put away the God-Slaying Spear and snorted in dissatisfaction.
This East King Duke truly deserved to be one of the three thousand listeners in Purple Heaven Palace.
His resolve to sacrifice an arm to save his life alone showed how firm his will was.
If it had been an ordinary cultivator, setting aside whether they could even think of such a method.
Whether they could bring themselves to do it would already have been a problem.
After resolving the trouble, Tongtian flashed forward and stepped onto Penglai Immortal Island.
The moment he set foot on the island, his spirits lifted, and joy immediately appeared on his face.
He had sensed the existence of the other two immortal islands!
"It is actually an Innate Three Talents Grand Formation. That saves me quite a bit of effort."
After sensing it carefully, Tongtian could not help smiling.
Perhaps because all three immortal islands had evolved from Chaos Fragments, their auras naturally drew one another together, forming an Innate Three Powers Formation.
Finding one of them was equivalent to finding all three islands.
Originally, he had planned to slowly search for the other two islands after thoroughly searching Penglai Island for treasures.
He had not expected such a pleasant surprise!
How could such a situation not stir his heart?
Fortunately, due to the karmic pull of East King Duke, the Innate Three Powers Formation had leaked a trace of its fluctuations under the Heavenly Secrets' response.
Otherwise, this opportunity might truly have been easy to miss!
Of course, it was also thanks to Tongtian's Primordial Spirit being far stronger than that of ordinary people.
If it had been someone else, such as East King Duke, they would likely have been distracted by the rare treasures on this immortal island and failed to notice the hidden Heavenly Secrets.
With a raised hand, Tongtian used great mana to link the three immortal islands into one.
His expression turned solemn as he began to search and explore the immortal islands in earnest.
Only then did he truly understand why the Three Immortal Islands ranked among the Primordial Wilderness's greatest blessed lands.
Just the heaven and earth spiritual qi, so dense it had nearly condensed into liquid, revealed enough.
Since he already possessed several spiritual treasures, with the lowest grade among them being Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, Tongtian had long since lost interest in ordinary spiritual roots and exotic herbs.
The only things that could catch his attention were the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots and Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
He had not gone far when something wrapped in endless purple light shot out from nearby.
"Trying to run? It will not be that easy!"
Tongtian shouted angrily, and the Sect Master's Edict instantly rose from within him.
Within the span of a single breath, it had arrived above that mass of purple light.
Golden radiance fell, and the purple qi trembled slightly before being completely suppressed.
As an Innate Supreme Treasure, the Sect Master's Edict was not only an unparalleled defensive treasure; it also possessed the power to suppress space and time.
"Let me see what exactly the first treasure I encounter is."
With a soft laugh, Tongtian moved and appeared in the void.
Retracting the Sect Master's Edict, he reached out.
He seized the mass of purple light and slowly sent his Divine Sense into it.
"It is actually this!!!"
He blurted out, his face instantly filling with wild joy.
When heaven and earth had first opened, he, Laozi, and Yuanshi had divided thirty percent of the Creation Merit among themselves.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches received twenty percent, while another thirty percent merged into the Great Desolation Continent.
Of the remaining twenty percent, ten percent fused with the first wisp of Mystic Yellow Qi in heaven and earth, becoming the Houtian Treasure of Merit, the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, whose might rivaled an Innate Supreme Treasure.
The other ten percent combined with a mass of Primordial Qi and Mystic Yellow Qi, forging a Houtian Treasure of Merit that possessed both offense and defense and astonishing power—the Primordial Measure-Heaven Ruler!
This was one of the rare Dharma treasures in the Primordial Wilderness that combined offense and defense. It was not inferior even when compared to Innate Supreme Treasures.
Its preciousness was self-evident.
But more importantly, it was not its power.
It was the fact that it could kill without incurring karma!
In the Primordial World, as long as one harbored killing intent, one would become tainted by karma and Karmic Force.
Once karma accumulated excessively...
When the great tribulation arrived, even if one wished to enter Closed Door Meditation, disaster would descend from the heavens.
Only by becoming a Saint could one transcend karma, for a Saint was not bound by worldly ties.
As his Primordial Spirit imprint settled upon it, the purple qi on the Primordial Measure-Heaven Ruler gradually receded.
Only at this moment did Tongtian have the leisure to carefully examine this supreme treasure.
It was an ancient ruler roughly three feet long, entirely violet and crystalline.
Countless profound and unfathomable Dao patterns were engraved upon its body, as though they contained the ultimate truths of heaven and earth.
Looking closely, the purple qi that had just returned to the ruler flowed slowly as if alive, like a living creature.
I need to find a chance to take Laozi's Heaven and Earth Mystic Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
Muttering inwardly, Tongtian's lips curled upward as scenes of future battles emerged in his mind.
The Primordial Measure-Heaven Ruler in his left hand, the God-Slaying Spear in his right, the Heaven and Earth Black-Yellow Tower above his head, the Twenty-Four Petal Green Lotus beneath his feet, and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation surrounding him.
With such equipment, let alone fighting four Saints alone, even fighting forty people would be no problem!
Grinning, he temporarily dismissed the thought of refining the restrictions within the Primordial Measure-Heaven Ruler.
With a thought, he drew it into his body.
Afterward, he continued his treasure-hunting journey.
The Three Immortal Islands truly were a treasured land dreamed of by countless transmigrators, and they had not disappointed him.
In just a few days,
he had gathered an unknown number of spiritual roots and exotic herbs.
Wherever he went, not even a blade of grass remained.
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