Cang Mountain was vibrant with color, its ancient trees deep and secluded. Dense Innate Spiritual Qi had transformed into mist that curled through the air.
In some places, the Spiritual Qi was so concentrated that it liquefied, gathering on the ground into babbling streams.
Yet a Fierce Beast was destroying the beauty of this region.
Lu Ya stood atop an auspicious cloud high in the sky, looking down to see great crowds of living beings scattering in all directions.
The Fierce Beast wreaking havoc below resembled an ape. It stood several hundred zhang tall, with a black head and white body, while terrifying Baleful Qi coiled around it.
"Rumble!"
When the Fierce Beast threw a punch, the force of its fist shook mountains tens of thousands of zhang high.
After observing it for a moment, Lu Ya saw through the Fierce Beast's strength.
This was a True Immortal level Fierce Beast.
Fierce Beasts bore immense malice toward the Primordial World and instinctively sought to destroy it.
The greater their numbers and the stronger they became, the greater the destruction they caused to the Primordial World.
It was likely that most of the Karmic Power in the Primordial World now rested upon the Fierce Beasts.
Thus, once the Heavenly Dao came online, Fierce Beasts became existences disapproved by Heaven and Earth.
Abandoned by the Heavenly Dao, the fate of the Fierce Beasts was already sealed.
At such a time, killing Fierce Beasts meant accumulating Merit.
However, Merit did not hold much appeal for Lu Ya.
His true body received Merit every day.
If he used Merit to raise his cultivation, then even with Lu Ya's poor foundation, creating a Quasi-Saint would be effortless.
"Hmm?"
As though he had sensed something, gold and crimson flashed in Lu Ya's eyes.
Under the gaze of the Sun God Eye, he saw Calamity Qi spreading between Heaven and Earth.
A great calamity was approaching?
This tribulation was undoubtedly aimed at the Fierce Beasts, but they had brought it upon themselves.
Fortunately, the Fierce Beasts were not powerful enough. Otherwise, the Primordial World would have long since been destroyed by them.
If the Fierce Beasts had been powerful enough while instinctively desiring to destroy the Primordial World, how could it have survived until now?
Therefore, the truth was that the Fierce Beasts were weak.
Looking across the Primordial World, wherever there were Fierce Beasts, there was now Calamity Qi.
As time passed, the Calamity Qi would continue to spread until Heaven and Earth alike were engulfed in tribulation.
Even hiding within the countless low-level worlds of the Primordial World would be useless.
The great trend was like the sky collapsing. This was Heaven's killing intent.
Unless one possessed the power to defy Heaven.
"Roar!"
With the Fierce Beast's roar, its Baleful Qi nearly scattered the auspicious cloud beneath Lu Ya's feet.
At the same time, the Fierce Beast's savage gaze locked onto Lu Ya.
"You ignorant beast." Lu Ya chuckled.
The Fierce Beast had an extraordinary foundation, and a True Immortal level Fierce Beast was certainly no weakling, but it was still not worth mentioning before Lu Ya.
Still, the cultivation art practiced by the Fierce Beast was somewhat interesting.
With another roar, the enormous Fierce Beast soared into the air.
Flying was not difficult for a True Immortal level Fierce Beast.
Of course, its speed was another matter entirely.
Even Fierce Beasts of the same level could differ vastly in speed.
Speed was also divided into flight speed, movement speed on land, attack speed, speed in the sea, in the void, beneath the Sky Dome, beyond Heaven...
This Fierce Beast had fairly decent movement speed on land, but its flight speed was rather lacking.
Even if he used only a trace of mana, Lu Ya's flying speed far surpassed that of this Fierce Beast.
However, Lu Ya neither dodged nor evaded. He produced a Flying Dagger.
With a single flash of blade light, the Fierce Beast's head separated from its body, and its soul was extinguished.
Its massive body fell into the dust.
"Boom!"
The ground was smashed into a huge crater.
After casually killing a True Immortal level Fierce Beast, Lu Ya did not forget to examine its residual memories.
Most of the Fierce Beast's memories consisted of destruction.
Killing living beings, destroying earth veins...
Its ultimate goal was to destroy the entire Primordial World.
"God-Demon Body Refinement?"
The cultivation art practiced by the Fierce Beast could also be called Nine Revolutions God-Demon Body Refinement.
The Fierce Beast Lu Ya had slain had completed only the first revolution of God-Demon Body Refinement.
Compared to the Nine Revolutions Golden Crow Art cultivated by Lu Ya, the Nine Revolutions God-Demon Body Refinement was far more powerful.
But the requirements for cultivating God-Demon Body Refinement were also much higher.
With Lu Ya's current foundation, he did not yet meet the requirements to cultivate God-Demon Body Refinement.
Unfortunately, the Fierce Beast he had slain was low-level, and Lu Ya had read only its residual memories.
Thus, the God-Demon Body Refinement he obtained was incomplete. Only the first revolution was complete, the second was missing much of its content, and the third contained only a tiny fragment. Beyond that, there was nothing.
Still, with the complete first revolution, he could slowly perfect the later stages.
The Sky Dome was studded with brilliant stars.
The Sun Star was incomparably dazzling, its radiance illuminating more than half of the Primordial World.
Terrifying flames danced upon the Sun Star.
As a result, few living beings ever set foot on the Sun Star.
Compared to the Sun Star's surface, the sea of magma and fire within it was even more terrifying.
Occasionally, great powers came to the Sun Star to gather some materials for artifact refinement and the like.
The spiritual roots and spiritual treasures born on the Sun Star were all hidden away, making them difficult for beings who came to the Sun Star to find.
That said, if any being found an Innate Spiritual Treasure on the Sun Star and wished to leave unscathed, they would first have to ask Lu Yang.
Now, Lu Yang was multitasking. While controlling his Golden Crow avatar in Kunlun Mountain in the lower realm, he also tried cultivating God-Demon Body Refinement.
God-Demon Body Refinement was not merely a method of cultivating the body. It also cultivated the primordial spirit, refining both within and without.
It was simply a cultivation art focused mainly on body refinement.
Cultivating this art demanded a very high foundation.
Lu Ya's foundation did not currently meet the requirements to cultivate this art.
The Sun Star, naturally, had no such problem.
As Lu Yang cultivated it slightly, immense quantities of Innate Spiritual Qi surged toward him.
Innate Spiritual Qi formed a storm around the Sun Star.
The Spiritual Qi storm was extremely chaotic.
Meanwhile, countless living beings on the Primordial Great Earth saw the sun flickering between light and darkness, while unease began to grow in their hearts.
Many great powers were confused and alarmed.
After all, the Sun Star was immensely important to the Primordial World.
If the Sun Star vanished, creating another sun would be difficult.
A moment later, the Spiritual Qi storm around the Sun Star dissipated.
Everything returned to normal.
Somewhere in the Western Great Earth, a black-robed young man sat upon a Twelve-grade Lotus Platform, calculating with his fingers.
Even after a long while, he calculated nothing, leaving him somewhat uneasy.
A cold, sinister gleam shifted through his eyes.
"Was the anomaly of the Sun Star one of Pangu's arrangements? Or perhaps..."
"My plan must also be moved forward."
"Let the Fierce Beasts become the first stepping stone for me, Rahu, to become a Great Dao Sage!"
Kunlun Mountain.
Lu Ya looked toward the Sky Dome with lingering fear.
His true body had merely tested God-Demon Body Refinement, yet it had caused quite a disturbance.
Fortunately, it had stopped in time. Otherwise, the Heavenly Dao would have delivered punishment.
Every movement of the Sun Star had a significant impact on the Primordial World.
The Sun, Moon, and Stars existed in a delicate balance. God-Demon Body Refinement was also a powerful cultivation art, and if the Sun Star cultivated it, that balance would be broken.
The Heavenly Dao would not permit it.
For Lu Yang, this was both protection and restriction.
As the Primordial World continued to grow, Lu Yang's Body Cultivation would become increasingly powerful. But if the Primordial World declined one day, the Sun Star would also grow weaker and weaker.
When the Immeasurable Calamity arrived, what should he do then?
It seemed that the Golden Crow avatar was not merely a way to pass the time. It was also a path forward.
He needed to create more Golden Crows, and the next Golden Crow had to be stronger.
Once he created the second Golden Crow, he would also upgrade the first. Once he created the third Golden Crow, he would upgrade the first two together, and so on.
The disturbance caused by the Sun Star earlier had been too great. It seemed it would attract quite a few great powers to inspect the Sun Star.
As he pondered, Lu Ya traveled through West Kunlun.
As one of the Primordial World's top blessed lands, Kunlun Mountain truly possessed no shortage of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Whenever Lu Ya saw something good, he stored it away.
West Kunlun made up only a small half of the Kunlun Mountain Range. East Kunlun was even larger.
Yet thoroughly exploring West Kunlun was no easy task.
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