A Bountiful Harvest

The terrifying magma containing Sun True Fire took the form of a giant, every gesture seeming to carry the might to destroy heaven and earth.

Golden-red divine light blazed so brilliantly that no one could look directly at it.

Magma flowed ceaselessly. When the giant raised its hand, great sheets of magma cascaded down like waterfalls.

Yet when the magma neared its ankles, it flowed back upward.

It was as though every rule between heaven and earth had no effect on this giant.

The Fierce Beast facing the Molten Giant was filled with apprehension.

Though it was an Innate Demon God with Grand Unity level cultivation, it felt an unprecedented danger at this moment.

Even at the Grand Unity level, could life and death still rest on another's whim?

This feeling of being utterly dominated...

The rage filling its heart did not erupt. Fear swallowed its Mind and Spirit like a dark abyss.

"Run!"

At that moment, the Fierce Beast instinctively formed this thought.

Yet golden-red divine light instantly dyed all four directions.

The Sun Star illuminated heaven and earth. On the Sun Star, endless sunlight enveloped everything and contained all realms.

Yet beneath the golden-red divine light, even that endless sunlight paled into insignificance.

When it met the Molten Giant's gaze, it saw Myriad Stars revolving within its eyes, as universes were born and perished.

Boom!

As the Molten Giant's left hand came crashing down upon the Fierce Beast, it felt as though the Sky Dome had collapsed.

The world before its eyes was shattering apart.

There was no escaping!

Its heart sank. The instinct to survive drove the Fierce Beast to exert every ounce of strength.

This might sound drawn out, but it had actually taken billions upon billions of times less than a femtosecond.

What exactly was a femtosecond?

One finger snap was sixty kshanas, one kshana was nine hundred moments of birth and destruction, and one such moment was not even five microseconds.

Below a second came milliseconds, below milliseconds came microseconds, then nanoseconds, picoseconds, and femtoseconds...

Before certain units of time, even the speed of light was hardly worth mentioning.

Not only had the Molten Giant struck swiftly, it had also drawn upon the power of heaven and earth.

This power had already far surpassed the Grand Unity level.

"What kind of magnificent power is this?"

"Is it at the level of a Chaos Demon God?"

"This Molten Giant does not seem to be its true body, only an incarnation. Yet even an incarnation is so powerful—how powerful must the true body be...?"

Countless thoughts flashed through the Fierce Beast's mind.

The disparity in strength was so immense that it was difficult to even think of resisting.

But the Fierce Beast would not simply await death.

Magic Power condensed throughout its body as it unleashed a Great Divine Ability. Gray-black bones emerged from its spine and formed an enormous shield.

These gray-black bones were astonishingly hard, comparable to certain Innate Materials. Enhanced by Grand Unity level Magic Power, their defensive strength was self-evident.

However, as the Fierce Beast unleashed its divine ability with all its strength, the Chaos Talisman sealing its Karmic Power also became unstable.

Once the seal broke, its Karmic Power would erupt, and Heavenly Punishment would descend.

Nothing can be taken away in death; only karma follows one along.

Like a shadow, it never leaves; one reaps what one sows.

This Fierce Beast harbored immense malice toward the Primordial World.

The stronger a Fierce Beast was, the greater the destruction it inflicted upon the Primordial World.

This Fierce Beast was at the Grand Unity level, so it was hardly strange for it to bear immense Karmic Power.

Boom!

With a deafening crash, the giant magma hand struck the gray-black bone shield.

With a crack, the bone shield split open.

Though it had not shattered into pieces, a large section had caved in, and numerous cracks had appeared.

The Molten Giant had shown mercy. Otherwise, the bone shield would have been reduced to dust.

Killing this Fierce Beast would not have been difficult for Lu Yang.

However, an Innate Demon God had great research value.

There was also the Chaos Talisman and the complete God-Demon Body Refinement technique.

This Grand Unity level Fierce Beast certainly possessed the complete God-Demon Body Refinement technique.

When the Chaos Talisman on the Fierce Beast flickered in and out of sight, the Molten Giant withdrew even more of its strength.

It would be troublesome if it triggered Heavenly Punishment.

Heavy Karmic Power could trigger Heavenly Punishment, whose power varied in severity.

Yet even the weakest Heavenly Punishment was enough to erase a Grand Unity expert.

Under powerful Heavenly Punishment, even a Quasi-Saint would perish.

Otherwise, this Fierce Beast would not have hidden beneath the abyss while also sealing its own Karmic Power.

If it had not recklessly pursued Lu Ya, it would never have ended up in its current predicament.

In truth, beneath Heavenly Punishment came Heavenly Tribulation.

Heavenly Tribulation was further divided into the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.

Only above the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation came Heavenly Punishment.

As the Heavenly Dao continued to improve, Heavenly Tribulations would become increasingly common.

For now, however, Heavenly Tribulations remained rare.

Lu Ya had traveled throughout the Primordial World and had seen Heavenly Tribulation only a few times, all of them Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulations.

At present, most Heavenly Tribulations targeted Fierce Beasts.

Who could blame them for being despised by the Heavenly Dao and burdened with Karmic Power?

When the Molten Giant withdrew some of its strength, the suppressed Fierce Beast still struggled desperately.

Just as the Chaos Talisman on its body was about to vanish, the Fierce Beast could no longer spare attention for struggling. It hurriedly circulated its Magic Power to stabilize the talisman.

The ground turned into magma. The Fierce Beast's enormous body sank into it and continued descending.

Time passed in a flash.

Several Primordial Moons slipped quietly by.

Dark clouds gathered over the Sun Star. It appeared that Heavenly Punishment was about to descend.

Yet after the pitch-black clouds churned for a while, before heavenly might could fully gather, the Tribulation Clouds dispersed.

Within a vast space inside the Sun Star.

A golden sphere of light floated unsteadily. It was Lu Yang's Primordial Spirit.

By now, Lu Yang's Primordial Spirit Cultivation had also reached the Grand Unity level.

As for his first clone, the Golden Crow Lu Ya, both his Body Cultivation and Primordial Spirit Cultivation were still only at the Mystic Immortal level.

The Grand Unity level Fierce Beast that had been transported to the Sun Star had already met with Death and Dao Annihilation.

By killing a Grand Unity level Fierce Beast burdened with immense Karmic Power, Lu Yang gained a mass of Merit.

To Lu Yang, it was merely equivalent to several days' worth of Merit.

A large mass of Merit that would have made others wildly excited held little attraction for Lu Yang.

After all, the Merit he had accumulated was simply too vast.

He could confidently say that no one in the Primordial World possessed more Merit than him.

This time, Lu Yang's harvest was considerable.

Besides a large mass of Merit, he had also obtained a mass of Innate God-Demon Essence Blood.

He had acquired the complete God-Demon Body Refinement technique as well.

He had also grasped the basics of the Chaos Talisman capable of sealing Karmic Power.

Innate Talismans were the Primordial Common Script, aligned with the Heaven and Earth Laws, yet Chaos Talismans surpassed them still.

As for acquired talismans created by others, they were merely superficial imitations of Innate Talismans.

However, Chaos Talismans would incur Heaven's Jealousy in the Primordial World.

Just as Innate Demon Gods could remain in the Primordial World without issue, Chaos Demon Gods could only leave for the Outer Chaos.

If a Chaos Demon God remained in the Primordial World, being struck by lightning every day would be perfectly normal.

Studying Innate God-Demon Essence Blood would help Lu Yang create Golden Crows with superior innate foundations.

Golden Crow One's innate foundation was only at the Mystic Immortal level, which left Lu Yang dissatisfied.

Golden Crow Two should at least possess a Golden Immortal level innate foundation!

At present, creating Golden Crows with Mystic Immortal level innate foundations was no difficult task for Lu Yang, but he was still incapable of creating Golden Crows with Golden Immortal level innate foundations.

As for Golden Crows with Grand Unity level or Grand Unity level innate foundations, that was still far too distant.

It was good to have goals, but one could not aim beyond one's reach.

As for True Immortal level and Heavenly Immortal level beneath the Mystic Immortal level... there was no need for those.

The Golden Crow was, after all, a Sun God Bird. An innate foundation that was too poor would be embarrassing.

Even Golden Crows with Mystic Immortal level innate foundations seemed subpar to Lu Yang.

For now, he would simply make do.

One Lu Ya was enough. There was no need to create another Golden Crow with a Mystic Immortal level innate foundation.

Once he could create Golden Crows with Golden Immortal level innate foundations, he would also upgrade Lu Ya's innate foundation.

In the Primordial World, innate foundations were simply too important.

Too many living beings exhausted their entire lives yet could not obtain even Heavenly Immortal cultivation.

One only needed to look at when a being could Assume Human Form to judge its innate foundation.

Those who could Assume Human Form upon reaching Heavenly Immortal cultivation possessed Heavenly Immortal level innate foundations. Those who could Assume Human Form upon reaching True Immortal cultivation possessed True Immortal level innate foundations.

For those who could only Assume Human Form after reaching Mystic Immortal cultivation, the one with slightly greater Magic Power possessed the better innate foundation.

Though God-Demon Body Refinement focused primarily on refining the body, it also took the Primordial Spirit into account.

Lu Yang could cultivate the "Primordial Spirit Chapter" of the God-Demon Body Refinement technique.

His understanding of Chaos Talismans was still too shallow.

His main focus still had to remain on the Innate God-Demon Essence Blood.