Accustomed to having Spiritual Roots and spiritual treasures fly to his feet every day without moving, Zhou Jun felt somewhat reflective after Heavenly Fortune ended and he spent another full ten years wandering Chaos without gaining anything.
"That makes sense. Chaos is so vast, yet there are only so many treasures. Many Demon Gods may not encounter any treasure for a thousand years. That's the norm!"
Zhou Jun knew that continuing to wander Chaos would only waste time. Without the title, he was no different from the other Demon Gods, with no luck bonus. Finding Spiritual Roots or spiritual treasures would be like searching for a needle in the ocean.
"Forget it. Over the past thousand years, I've obtained more than a thousand Innate Spiritual Roots and spiritual treasures. Even if all the treasures on Hongjun's Treasure Distribution Cliff during the later Primordial era were added together, they probably still wouldn't match mine!"
Looking at the thousand-plus Spiritual Roots and spiritual treasures in the Chaos Bead, glittering with treasure light like stars, Zhou Jun was delighted.
"This journey ends here. I'll find a place to enter secluded cultivation, refine those Innate Spiritual Treasures, then continue cultivating! Improving my strength is what truly matters!"
Zhou Jun quickly made his decision, but things did not go as he wished.
Just as he was about to find a quiet place to cultivate properly, trouble came looking for him.
Rumble!
Waves of Chaos Energy surged one after another, accompanied by ripples of magical power that gave off an earth-shaking, terrifying presence.
Not far ahead, a ball of golden light flickered faintly. Clearly, a Spiritual Being was being nurtured there, and judging by its state, it was about to be born.
Beside the Spiritual Being, two Chaos Demon Gods stood in confrontation. While guarding against each other, they hurled insults.
"Greed Demon God, you're too shameless! I clearly found this treasure first, yet you came to snatch it by force. Do you have any sense of reason at all?!"
"Hmph, Chaos Demon Ant, you're one of the Three Thousand Demon Gods too. Don't you know that among us, the strongest fist is the only reason? The weak are prey to the strong. You are weaker than me—that is your Original Sin!"
"Damn it! You're only a Late Quasi-Saint as well. We're at the same realm, yet you dare look down on me like this!"
The Three Thousand Demon Gods were all proud and arrogant. The Chaos Demon Ant, a high-ranking Demon God who had possessed Quasi-Saint cultivation the moment he took form, was even more so. How could he tolerate anyone looking down on him like that?
At that moment, he had actually been called weak, someone else's prey. How could he swallow such humiliation?
Without another word, the two immediately began fighting!
The Chaos Demon Ant and the Devouring Demon God instantly reverted to their true forms and grappled with each other.
One was a white ant with three heads. The other was a creature with black wings but no head, its body shaped like that of a pig.
Both stood several hundred zhang tall. Every gesture stirred up Chaos Turbulence, their battle so grand that it was breathtaking. If such a fight took place in the later Primordial era, it would certainly be a spectacular sight.
But in Chaos? It was merely an insignificant dispute.
If they had not been so close that Zhou Jun noticed them, probably no one would even have known.
After all, things like this happened everywhere in Chaos.
"Ding! A battle has been discovered ahead. Please choose:
1. Leave quietly and pretend nothing happened. Reward: one Houtian Artifact.
2. Step forward to stop them and persuade the two Demon Gods to reconcile. Reward: one Good Person Card, which doubles the two Demon Gods' favorability toward you.
3. Kill the two Demon Gods and seize the spiritual treasure being nurtured. Reward: Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Root Yellow Middle Plum!"
Yellow Middle Plum!
Upon hearing the reward for the third option, even Zhou Jun could not help feeling tempted!
That was the foremost of the Ten Great Top Innate Spiritual Roots!
In the later Primordial era, several of the other great Spiritual Roots were already astonishing. The Gourd Vine split into seven and became seven Innate Spiritual Treasures. Bitter Bamboo was Saint Jieyin's Dao-attaining artifact. The Ginseng Fruit Tree even nurtured a supreme expert like Zhen Yuanzi!
Even the weakest of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots, the Peaches of Immortality, had nine thousand peach trees grown from their pits. Their fruit could allow mortals to become immortals upon eating them.
One could well imagine the effects of Yellow Middle Plum, ranked first among them!
Legend had it that this tree took one yuanhui to blossom, one yuanhui to bear fruit, and one yuanhui to mature. Only after another yuanhui could its fruit be eaten. If an ordinary person were fortunate enough to eat one, they could instantly become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
Even if it was not particularly useful to the current Zhou Jun, with one fruit only adding ten thousand years of cultivation, one had to remember what realm Zhou Jun was in.
Zhou Jun was a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, equivalent to a Saint of the Primordial era!
Even Saints could gain ten thousand years of cultivation from it. Its preciousness needed no explanation!
"System, I choose the third option!"
Zhou Jun made his decision in an instant and immediately flew swiftly ahead.
How could he possibly let a treasure like Yellow Middle Plum slip away so easily? Even if it was not very useful to Zhou Jun, what about his disciples and descendants in the future? It would always come in handy someday.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With Zhou Jun's speed, he arrived before the battling Chaos Demon Ant and Greed Demon God in no more than the blink of an eye.
"Bastard, where did this insect come from? You dare interfere in our affairs? Get lost!"
"If you don't want to die, leave at once. Otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless!"
Because Zhou Jun had appeared openly, he was immediately noticed by the Chaos Demon Ant and the Greed Demon God.
As Late Quasi-Saint powerhouses, the Chaos Demon Ant and Greed Demon God ranked fairly high among the current Three Thousand Demon Gods. Naturally, the only ones worth remembering were the several dozen supreme Demon Gods with Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation.
However, Zhou Jun kept a low profile. No one in all of Chaos had ever heard his name, so naturally he was not among those several dozen supreme Demon Gods.
Since he was not one of those several dozen beings they remembered and could not afford to provoke, then he was merely a weaker insect.
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