The Primordial Great Earth brimmed with life and was rich in spiritual qi.
However, after enduring a Calamity, Chaos Primordial Qi had all but vanished from the Primordial World.
Innate Spiritual Qi, on the other hand, remained abundant.
"Roar!"
A colossal beast was being besieged by hundreds of human warriors.
It was an An Beast, shaped like a deer with a camel-like long nose, hence its other name: camel deer.
In the present-day Primordial World, An Beasts could be considered "docile," yet they still posed no small threat to humanity.
Even when all the warriors of a small human tribe mobilized together, they often found it difficult to hunt an adult An Beast.
This An Beast stood dozens of zhang tall, its eyes icy and its entire body radiating ferocity.
The human warriors began their assault.
Some humans bore Totem Marks on their bodies, clearly identifying them as Totem Warriors.
Every Totem Warrior possessed vigorous vitality and blood.
There were also cultivators among them, wielding magical power and a few Minor Divine Abilities.
Humanity's actions also provoked the An Beast's savage nature.
Thus, a battle began.
In the eyes of these human warriors, the An Beast was food.
Hunger had always been something humanity had to confront.
From humanity's emergence until now, countless people had starved to death.
To fill their stomachs, humans hunted birds and beasts, caught fish and shrimp, and gathered wild fruit.
Many wild fruits and exotic beast meats were poisonous, and many humans had died because of them.
Others died from injuries or succumbed to disease.
For humanity at present, the word survival carried tremendous weight.
Still, after the Calamity, humanity's circumstances had improved somewhat.
As the Totem Method spread, one totem after another emerged among humanity.
Totem Warriors had also become the mainstream of humanity's power system.
Every Totem Warrior held an extremely high status among humans.
Of course, this was not to say humanity had no internal conflicts, but unity remained the priority. After all, the continuation of the race came first.
Of these hundreds of warriors, only seventy-eight were Totem Warriors, and they did not belong to the same tribe.
Fifty-three Totem Warriors believed in Heavenly Spirit, while twenty-five believed in Earth Spirit.
"Heavenly Spirit, heed us!"
"Earth Spirit, heed us!"
"Ancestors above, pray, bless us."
The vitality and blood of the Totem Warriors surged like beacon smoke.
Amid furious roars, the An Beast met the human warriors in battle.
With dozens of Totem Warriors at the core and hundreds of people besieging it, the An Beast soon fell into a disadvantage.
Yet several people were killed or injured as well.
If they could hunt this An Beast, even losing a dozen or so people would be acceptable.
Blood Food was not easy to come by. Hunting without paying some price was difficult.
Hunting an adult An Beast was certainly not easy, but if they succeeded, its flesh and blood might allow humanity to gain several more Totem Warriors.
This was no longer merely about filling their stomachs.
After fighting for a long time, the An Beast had suffered severe injuries and was nearly unable to hold on.
Victory was right before them. The human warriors howled, their morale soaring.
However, just as the An Beast was about to collapse, a shadow descended, and fierce winds swept down from the sky.
Even the nearby Totem Warriors could barely keep their footing and found it difficult to open their eyes.
A huge monstrous bird swooped down, its claws clamping around the An Beast.
Under the tremendous force of the bird's claws, the An Beast breathed its last.
Immediately afterward, the monstrous bird flapped its wings and flew away.
The human warriors were all unwilling to accept this. They had fought bitterly for so long, only for their spoils to be stolen. No one would feel good about that.
Yet this was reality.
In the end, humanity was still too weak. If humanity were powerful enough, the An Beast would not have been taken, and the monstrous bird would instead have been hunted by humans.
The eyes of these human warriors were filled with a longing for power.
The Totem Method was a shortcut for humanity to grow stronger.
Humanity's Power of Faith could strengthen totems, while powerful totems raised the limits of Totem Warriors. Powerful Totem Warriors, in turn, could provide vast amounts of Power of Faith, forming a virtuous cycle.
As for the limits of totems, humanity would not be able to touch them anytime soon.
Perhaps by the time humanity reached the limits of totems, human sages would have improved the existing Totem Method. In that way, the limits of totems would rise.
Of course, the Totem Method was only suitable for humanity as it currently was.
Humanity's future could not rely solely on the Totem Method.
Lu Yang had also been observing the changes among humanity on the earth.
After he taught humanity the Totem Method, humanity had changed greatly and grown increasingly powerful.
Retracting his gaze, Lu Yang focused once more on the Golden Crow divine egg.
That was right, he had created another Golden Crow.
This time, it was a Golden Crow with a Golden Immortal level Origin/Foundation.
It was merely still gestating within the egg.
The second incarnation shall be called Di Jun. Lu Yang pondered.
With a crack, the divine egg split open.
A Golden Crow broke out of its shell, magnificent and divine.
Great Destiny also appeared upon Di Jun.
This was also part of the Sun Star's Fortune.
The Sun, Moon, and Stars had possessed Fortune from the start. Once the Sun Star became a "living being," its Fortune became immensely vast.
To Lu Yang, Di Jun was his incarnation, so giving him a share of Fortune was nothing.
Since he could give some Fortune to Di Jun, he could naturally take it back as well.
Furthermore, if Di Jun unfortunately perished, the Fortune upon him would return to the Sun Star.
In a flash of sunlight, Lu Ya teleported from the earth to the Sun Star.
The magical power consumed was negligible to Lu Yang.
He had summoned Lu Ya back to conveniently upgrade Lu Ya's Origin/Foundation.
This had been part of the plan from the beginning.
Having created a Golden Crow with a Golden Immortal level Origin/Foundation, he would also upgrade Lu Ya's Origin/Foundation.
According to the plan, the third incarnation would be Donghuang Taiyi, who would possess a Grand Unity level Origin/Foundation. At that time, he would upgrade both Lu Ya's and Di Jun's Origin/Foundation.
Once he could create Golden Crows with Grand Unity level Origin/Foundation, Lu Yang would begin creating them in large quantities.
After allowing Di Jun to cultivate on his own, Lu Yang became busy upgrading Lu Yang's Origin/Foundation.
Within the largest space inside the Sun Star, the enormous Chaos Bell appeared.
This was the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell, containing forty-nine Innate restrictions.
When Pangu's Creation took place, Pangu exhausted his strength and died. The giant axe in his hand seemed to respond, splitting into three and transforming into three supreme treasures.
The axe blade became the Pangu Banner, the back of the axe became the Taiji Diagram, and the axe handle became this Chaos Bell.
This treasure could suppress the heavens, annihilate eternity, and shatter space-time.
Although Lu Yang had yet to completely refine the Chaos Bell, he could already wield part of its power.
The Sun Star could already isolate Heavenly Dao Qi, and with the Chaos Bell added, there was even less chance of anything going wrong.
Under this double concealment, Lu Ya revealed his true form.
The enormous Golden Crow spread its wings, imposing and majestic, while a cluster of Great Sun Golden Flame flickered at its brow.
Sun True Fire burned across the Golden Crow's entire body.
Its million-Calamity worth of magical power was as vast as a sea of stars, seemingly capable of suppressing the entire cosmos.
At the same time, the Sun Star separated off another tiny portion of its origin.
As that bit of Sun Origin merged into the Golden Crow's true body, an incomprehensibly profound Dao resonance flowed forth.
A mysterious Dao Fruit manifested as well.
The Dao Lu Yang had comprehended was already extraordinary. In a Great Thousand World, overturning heaven and bearing earth would be effortless for him; he could expand in all directions, split apart the eight extremities, rise beyond measure, and plunge beyond fathom.
It encompassed heaven and earth, bestowed the formless, gave rise to flowing springs, surged forth before slowly filling, muddled and rolling, turbid before gradually clearing.
It spanned the four dimensions and contained yin and yang, enveloped the universe and illuminated the three lights.
Having blocked his incarnation's senses, Lu Yang could not feel the pain either.
Upgrading one's Origin/Foundation inevitably involved pain, and this pain was no less severe than having one's divine soul ground to dust.
It was not that he could not endure it; there was simply no need to.
Time in this space moved at the same pace as the outside world.
In the blink of an eye, several Primordial Days had passed.
Lu Ya's Origin/Foundation upgrade was complete.
Acquired Origin/Foundation was comparatively easier to improve, but improving Innate Origin/Foundation was exceedingly difficult.
As for improving Chaos Origin/Foundation, that was a difficulty that defied heaven itself.
Though Lu Ya was merely a Golden Crow with a Mystic Immortal level Origin/Foundation, he still belonged to the innate category.
Thus, upgrading Lu Ya's Origin/Foundation was no easy task.
Raising an Innate Origin/Foundation from the Mystic Immortal level to the Golden Immortal level in just a few days would be enough to leave anyone dumbfounded.
Along with the upgrade to his Origin/Foundation, Lu Ya's cultivation also increased considerably.
In fact, even if his cultivation had remained unchanged, Lu Ya's strength would still have increased because his Origin/Foundation had improved.
Furthermore, Lu Ya's cultivation efficiency greatly increased.
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