When Qin Hong finally let them go, Golden Sword and Bronze Sword ignored both the pain wracking their bodies and the heartache of having all their treasures robbed. They hurriedly got up and left.
Qin Hong was not soft-hearted, especially not in this Primordial World filled with schemes and deceit.
One moment, someone might be your friend; the next, they could become your enemy.
Take True Person Cihang, disciple of Heavenly Lord of Original Beginning. During the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, he had repeatedly plotted against Interception Sect disciples, only to have the Three Flowers atop his head severed, his strength greatly diminished, and his cultivation realm fall.
Under such circumstances, he had once taken pride in being one of the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Sect of Enlightenment and constantly proclaimed his filial devotion to Yuanshi. Yet he directly joined the Western Sect, discarded his male body to sever his past, became a woman, and later became Guanyin Bodhisattva, one of the Western Sect's Four Great Bodhisattvas.
It was incredibly ironic.
As for why Qin Hong had not intended to kill Golden Sword and Bronze Sword, it was because the Investiture of the Gods Calamity had not officially begun yet. Killing them now would accomplish nothing.
If he waited until the calamity began before killing them, their deaths would be of great use—perfect for filling spots on the Investiture of the Gods Scroll.
Two fewer names on the Investiture of the Gods Scroll meant two fewer Interception Sect disciples would have to be listed on it.
Watching the two leave in a miserable state, supporting each other as they went, Qin Hong turned his gaze toward the pile of treasures on the ground.
They were practically garbage. Hardly any of them were worth looking at. If not for the fact that something was better than nothing, Qin Hong would have thrown them all away.
"Those two have been leeching off the East for so long, yet they're still this poor. Tsk, tsk, tsk!"
Qin Hong shook his head slightly and waved his little hand. All the treasures on the ground were swept away at once.
Then, Qin Hong dug up the spiritual root from the ground.
Judging by its appearance, it was a fairly decent spiritual root.
Yet Qin Hong had no interest in it at all.
It could not be helped. His father was Sect Master Tongtian, who possessed the Interception Sect, the largest faction in the entire Primordial World!
Even many Grand Unity Golden Immortals could not compare to Qin Hong's breadth of knowledge!
This was probably the sorrow of having a background that was too powerful!
As for why Qin Hong had seized this spiritual root, it was simply an excuse to take a shot at those two fellows from the West.
After all, Qin Hong clearly remembered that in the original Primordial World, the Western Sect had secretly targeted the Interception Sect more than once.
They robbed treasures and abducted most of its disciples to serve as mounts.
What Qin Hong had done today was merely a small punishment.
"Ding!" "Host has proactively resolved trouble for his own background and possesses a heart devoted to it. Congratulations!" "To ensure the Host's path of relying on his background remains unobstructed, the reward is the Chaos Bead, a Chaos Supreme Treasure!"
The system's mechanical voice rang out. To Qin Hong's ears, however, it brought incomparable joy and shock.
Huh?
A Chaos Supreme Treasure? The Chaos Bead!
"Holy shit!"
After staring blankly for two or three seconds, Qin Hong instantly jumped up in excitement.
This was way too awesome, wasn't it?!
He had merely beaten up two little punks on a whim, and he was directly rewarded with a Chaos Supreme Treasure—the Chaos Bead?
The Chaos Bead was insanely powerful. It was a Chaos Supreme Treasure.
Just look at the other Chaos Supreme Treasures, and one would know how formidable the Chaos Bead was.
The Creation Green Lotus that nurtured Pangu, the Pangu Axe used to split open heaven and earth, and the Creation Jade Butterfly Hongjun now used to merge with the Heavenly Dao were all Chaos Supreme Treasures.
Although all four great treasures were Chaos Supreme Treasures, the Chaos Bead was even more precious and powerful.
It was not because the Chaos Bead possessed overwhelmingly greater offensive power, but because it was simply a bug-like existence.
In the past, Pangu had been nurtured within the Creation Green Lotus. Wielding the Pangu Axe, which possessed the power to split open heaven and earth, he had forcibly opened up the Primordial World and created a world of his own.
But how could creating something from nothing, bringing existence out of nonexistence, be so easy? Pangu's death, the shattering of the Pangu Axe, and the fragmentation of the Creation Jade Butterfly showed just how severe the damage suffered by Pangu and the three Chaos Supreme Treasures had been.
The Chaos Bead, however, was different. It had directly evaded the great calamity of Pangu creating the Primordial World. It was not within the Five Elements and wandered beyond the Six Paths.
The Great Dao had fifty, Heaven derived forty-nine, and one escaped.
That escaped one was called the single thread of survival, and the Chaos Bead was that escaped one.
The Chaos Bead could conceal Heavenly Secrets.
Within the Chaos Bead was a Primordial World. One could evade heavenly punishment there and become a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal free from the Heavenly Dao's restraints.
Put simply, with the Chaos Bead, Qin Hong would not need Primordial Violet Qi when becoming a saint, nor would he need to imprint his primordial spirit upon the Heavenly Dao.
He would become a true saint, completely free and unfettered.
"This is just too awesome!"
Qin Hong's excitement was impossible to conceal. He directly took the Chaos Bead from the system and began studying it.
He sent a thread of divine sense into the Chaos Bead and saw that it was filled with vast, incomparably dense Primordial Violet Qi.
When the Six Saints had attained sainthood, they had succeeded with just a wisp of Primordial Violet Qi bestowed by Hongjun.
Yet inside Qin Hong's Chaos Bead was an inexhaustible amount of Primordial Violet Qi. It was simply terrifying!
As he continued examining it, Qin Hong could clearly sense that within the Chaos Bead was a complete Primordial World.
As long as Qin Hong became strong enough, he could directly create a world that belonged to him within the Chaos Bead.
Furthermore, that world would have nothing to do with the Heavenly Dao or the Great Dao. It would belong solely to Qin Hong, granting him true freedom and ease!
With the Chaos Bead, Qin Hong became even more confident that he could defy fate and change the Interception Sect's destiny.
Swish, swish, swish!
Qin Hong formed hand seals and directly set up forty-nine formations around himself, preparing to refine the Chaos Bead on the spot.
This thing was far too precious. Even Hongjun would be unable to resist snatching it if he learned of it. It was better to refine it first, lest complications arise later.
As for formations, Qin Hong was Sect Master Tongtian's son, so his skill in arranging formations was not weak either.
Once the formations had been arranged, Qin Hong's location became isolated from the outside world, forming a domain of its own.
Moreover, Sect Master Tongtian's handiwork was woven into it, so even the other saints could not peer into the formation.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Qin Hong brought out the Chaos Bead and prepared to refine it.
But Qin Hong quickly discovered that he had been happy for nothing. The Chaos Bead was far too unfair—at his current strength, he simply could not refine it!
Damn it!
Fortunately, although Qin Hong could not refine the Chaos Bead, he could still use some of its abilities.
For example, concealing Heavenly Secrets and blocking the saints' prying eyes.
This ability would allow Qin Hong to do bad things to his heart's content without being discovered.
Like secretly watching saints bathe or something?
Uh, nonsense, nonsense!
This way, when Qin Hong intervened in the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, he would no longer need to worry about the Heavenly Dao discovering it.
Not only that, but the massive amount of Primordial Violet Qi within the Chaos Bead could be used for Qin Hong's cultivation. As for freely entering and leaving the Chaos Bead, that was child's play.
"Hehe, Heavenly Dao, Laozi, Yuanshi, Zhunti, Jieyin—every last one of you should prepare to face this young master's wrath!"
Qin Hong stood up and laughed happily. Then he removed the formation restrictions, rose upon the clouds, and headed toward Kunlun Mountain.
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