At the foot of Mount Buzhou, heaven and earth lost their color, and the sun and moon gave no light.
The light of countless stars summoned by the Great Zhou Heavenly Star Array poured down like the Nine Heavens Milky Way bursting its banks, carrying world-destroying power. Wherever the starlight passed, towering mountains vaporized in an instant, rivers stretching for thousands of miles dried up in moments, and even space was torn with countless fine cracks. The opposing Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Array was even more terrifying. Though the Pangu's Phantom it condensed was blurry, its savage, primordial Malevolent Energy was practically solid as it roared and tore the river of starlight apart inch by inch. Wherever it passed, all things returned to nothing, recreating Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.
Yet within this region, where even Grand Unity Golden Immortals had to tread carefully, a figure strolled about as if taking a leisurely walk.
Xuan Wazi pushed the Chaos Bead's Stealth Ability to its limit, making himself seem like an intangible concept. At times, he merged into the violent currents of energy; at others, he hid within the folds of shattered space. He even dared to travel through the pervasive Blood Fiend Qi. He had not come to join the battle. In his words, he had come to "stock up."
[Ding! A limited-time battlefield mission has been triggered: "Snatching Chestnuts from the Fire"!] [Mission Requirements: During the first large-scale conflict between the Witch and Demon Clans, obtain at least ten Innate Spirit Materials/spirit treasures, mark five ownerless spirit vein nodes, and successfully provoke the anger of at least three enemies at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level or above. Helpless rage counts.] [Mission Reward: Evaluated comprehensively based on gains. Guaranteed reward: Houtian Merit ×50,000 strands, Unfilial Points +50,000. Additional special items will be rewarded based on completion.] [Tip: Host, please carry forward the spirit of "looting a burning house" and "plucking feathers from passing geese"! Stay safe. If you cannot win, remember to use the Chaos Bead to run!]
"System Bro, you really get me!" Xuan Wazi grinned, his eyes shining as he swept his gaze across the chaotic battlefield. He looked like a hungry wolf that had spotted a flock of fat sheep.
Look over there! A Demon Clan Demon Saint in the form of a nine-headed bird was locked in an intense battle with a Witch Tribe Great Witch who controlled the power of earth. Each of the nine heads displayed its own divine ability, spewing poisonous flames, Cold Ice Formation, and lightning, while the Witch Tribe Great Witch gave no ground, making the earth quake and boulders fly with every gesture. Suddenly, during a fierce collision, one of the Demon Saint's Natal Feathers, containing pure wind and fire power, was blasted away and spun toward a distant abyss created by the battle.
This item is fated with me! Xuan Wazi silently declared as he quietly activated Spatial Folding. While the feather was still in midair, the surrounding space twisted slightly. In the next instant, it appeared inside the Chaos Bead, keeping company with the many "seniors" he had collected earlier. [Innate Spirit Materials +1]
Elsewhere, two Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level experts were fighting to the death. One was a mighty Demon Clan cultivator who summoned a sky full of ice spikes with a wave of his hand, turning a thousand-mile radius into a frozen hell. The other was a Great Witch of the Zhurong Tribe, whose body blazed with heaven-burning flames that warped even space wherever he went. The shockwaves from their battle completely leveled a towering mountain, exposing a Warm Jade Spirit Vein that had been deeply hidden underground. It radiated a gentle, jade-like spiritual glow.
"What a fine place! It should serve me!" Xuan Wazi approached like a ghost, exquisite Innate Array Dao Comprehension flowing from his fingertips. He swiftly set up a miniature Spirit Gathering and Concealment Composite Array at the spirit vein's core and branded it with the Chaos Bead's Divine Sense Imprint. The entire process flowed as smoothly as clouds and water. In the span of a finger snap, he was done and gone, hiding both his achievement and his name. [Spirit Vein Mark +1]
His behavior became increasingly "Not Being a Person." Sometimes, when a Demon Clan general was using a crucial divine ability, he secretly used a trace of Great Dao of Strength energy to disrupt the flow of the general's mana. This caused the divine ability to lose control and injure its user, leaving the opposing Witch Tribe warriors bewildered as they picked up the advantage. Other times, he quietly laid down an imperceptible "spatial fold" along the charge route of a Witch Tribe battle formation, causing an originally unstoppable charging formation to fall into inexplicable disorder before it was blasted to pieces by the waiting Demon Clan array.
His finest performance came when he set his sights on a Demon Clan Grand Unity Golden Immortal wielding the Xuanming Heavy Water Banner and a Witch Tribe Great Witch controlling the Golden Light Sky-Splitting Axe. Both were top experts within their respective camps. At that moment, they were fighting with great vigor, their magic treasures colliding in dazzling flashes with shocking force.
Xuan Wazi narrowed his eyes and observed for a moment, a wicked smile curling his lips. He seized the right moment. Just as the Xuanming Heavy Water Banner summoned towering black waters that were about to collide with the giant golden axe once more, he secretly used the Chaos Bead's spatial power to shift the trajectories of both attacks by the tiniest fraction!
That insignificant deviation produced astonishing consequences!
"Boom!!!"
The towering black waters did not fully collide with the giant golden axe. Instead, nearly a third of them charged like runaway horses into another group of Demon Clan elites who were forming an array nearby! Meanwhile, the diverted golden axe light narrowly grazed past the Witch Tribe Great Witch's scalp and split a mountain occupied by the Witch Tribe behind him directly in half!
"Idiot! Where are you aiming?!"
"Bastard! Are you trying to kill me too?!"
In an instant, confusion erupted within the Demon Clan, which had previously maintained some semblance of coordination. The Witch Tribe Great Witch was also shocked into a cold sweat by the sudden "friendly fire," before flying into a towering rage.
As for Xuan Wazi, the culprit, he had already absorbed the Unfilial Points crazily surging from both sides' shock, anger, and frustration. Chuckling happily, he began searching for his next target.
[Unfilial Points +15,000!] [Grand Unity Golden Immortal's Anger +2!]
"Now this is living!" Xuan Wazi felt the ever-increasing "spoils of war" within the Chaos Bead and the steadily rising points, and his mood was indescribably wonderful. Like a rat that had fallen into a rice jar, he brought the arts of fishing in troubled waters and snatching chestnuts from the fire to their absolute peak across this chaotic battlefield.
But if you walked by the river often enough, your shoes were bound to get wet. Just as he spotted an Innate Spirit Pearl radiating seven-colored light and prepared to strike again, a warning suddenly flared in his heart!
"Little thief! Die!"
A Demon Clan Grand Unity Golden Immortal whom he had toyed with repeatedly had finally noticed something was wrong and attacked in fury! A blade light stretching across the sky tore through the void, chopping straight at him with the force to annihilate everything! This rage-fueled strike carried power comparable to a Quasi-Saint's blow!
"Oh dear, have you eaten?" Xuan Wazi cried out strangely. Though he possessed the cultivation of a Hunyuan Golden Immortal and was not afraid, would it not be even more satisfying to make a Grand Unity Golden Immortal rage helplessly? The Chaos Bead flashed, and he instantly merged into the void, appearing a thousand miles away in the next moment. The heaven-shaking blade light could only slash helplessly into empty space, splitting the earth with a bottomless canyon.
"Bye-bye!" Xuan Wazi smugly made a face in that direction and continued his "treasure-hunting journey."
And so, he roamed the battlefield for several decades. His harvest was so plentiful that even he found it somewhat astonishing. Only when he sensed the sounds of slaughter gradually quieting did he smack his lips in lingering satisfaction and quietly withdraw from the battlefield as it was about to fall silent.
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