Chapter 4

He flew toward Buzhou Mountain. In the blink of an eye, more than fifty years passed, and he finally arrived before the mountain.

But Just as he reached the skies above Buzhou Mountain, an immense Pangu pressure suddenly came crashing down.

This sudden pressure was like being crushed beneath tens of millions of mountains. His body faltered, and he plummeted swiftly downward.

Fortunately, the farther Li Peng fell, the weaker Pangu's pressure became. Only after descending to a certain height did he finally steady himself.

"This pressure is too terrifying. Just the lingering aura makes it impossible for me to fly high in the sky. How powerful must the real Pangu have been? Luckily, I wasn't flying too high. If I had been twice as high, would I have been crushed to death outright?"

At the thought of this, Li Peng could not help but feel a lingering fear.

Li Peng took several deep breaths to calm himself, then began making his way through Buzhou Mountain.

Yet with every stretch he climbed, Pangu's pressure grew stronger. After only two hundred years, Li Peng had to circulate his power with all his might just to resist it.

Fortunately, the Ancestor Phoenix Art cultivated both the physical body and the Primordial Spirit. Although his physical body's progress lagged behind that of his Primordial Spirit, it had still brought his Physical Realm to the peak of the Golden Immortal stage.

But even so, he could not climb even one-twentieth of Buzhou Mountain's height, which showed just how powerful Pangu's pressure was.

"Pangu truly deserves to be called the Creator. Even after being fallen for so long, his pressure is still this powerful," Li Peng sighed.

Along with his admiration came helplessness. Over these two hundred years, he had not found so much as an Innate Spiritual Treasure, let alone even a single Acquired Spiritual Treasure. It left him rather depressed.

Looking at Buzhou Mountain wreathed in clouds and mist, Li Peng suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

He recalled the novels he had read in his previous life. Buzhou Mountain was not only a place filled with treasures, but also an excellent place for tempering the body. Many protagonists had used Pangu's pressure here to refine their bodies. As long as they persisted to the summit, they would surely reap enormous rewards.

After thinking it over, Li Peng decided to give it a try as well.

Thus, he dispersed his mana and relied solely on his physical body to withstand Pangu's pressure.

Yet he had not expected that the instant his mana dispersed, discomfort swept through his entire body. It was as if he bore tens of millions of mountains on his back, making every step difficult.

Li Peng thought to himself, "Only by enduring the bitterest of bitterness can one rise above others. Today, I have to see this contest with Pangu's pressure through to the end!"

With that, he gritted his teeth and climbed upward step by step.

One zhang... ten zhang... a hundred zhang... a thousand zhang... ten thousand zhang... When he reached ten thousand zhang, Pangu's pressure abruptly intensified a hundredfold. Even with Li Peng circulating his mana with all his strength, he could barely hold on.

"I really don't understand why those protagonists insisted on climbing Buzhou Mountain, and even stubbornly used their physical bodies to bear the pressure. Isn't that just asking for trouble?" Li Peng panted heavily, unable to stop himself from complaining.

Suddenly, as though he had thought of something, he fiercely slapped himself.

"That's right! I've already bound the system, so why am I foolishly relying on Pangu's pressure to temper my body? As long as I complete the option quests, **, pills, Magic Treasures, strength—what would I lack? Ignoring such an easy way to grow stronger and coming here to suffer instead, am I sick in the head?"

But on second thought, it was hardly surprising. Li Peng's experiences were still shallow, so he had inevitably been misled by the plots he had read about in his previous life and failed to make the most suitable judgment based on his own circumstances.

After some thought, he decided to slowly make his way down the mountain, searching for his own opportunities as he went. After all, the main purpose of this journey was to find treasures that could raise the Three Flowers Above His Head.

This search lasted thirteen hundred years.

During that time, Li Peng found two stalks of Innate low-grade spirit roots, as well as an Innate Middle-Grade Spirit Treasure—the Yin-Yang Jade Bracelet.

On this day, he was wandering through Buzhou Mountain as usual.

Suddenly, a clear summons rose from the depths of his heart.

Li Peng froze, then immediately realized that perhaps his opportunity had arrived. Didn't the stories of the primordial world often speak of things like "destined to be with me" and "spiritual resonance"? It was simply that what he sensed this time was exceptionally clear.

Following the direction from which the summons came, he swiftly flew over.

Before long, Li Peng arrived at his destination.

Yet the scene before him was no different from anywhere else on Buzhou Mountain. There was nothing unusual at all.

However, the summons grew increasingly urgent.

Li Peng was Not surprising. Treasures were usually concealed by formations. He immediately used his divine sense to inspect the surroundings, but he could never find any trace of a formation.

Yet the summons in his heart truly originated from this place.

After pondering for a moment, he reached a conclusion: the formation here was of too high a grade, while his attainments in the Way of Formations were limited, which was why he could not perceive its existence.

After a brief consideration, Li Peng decided to break the formation with brute force. It was not the best strategy, but it was the only feasible path at present.

With a thought, black and white currents of energy flowed around him, while wings condensed from mana unfurled behind his back and spread across the heavens. In an instant, countless feather blades shot forward.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The feather blades struck the void, erupting into a succession of deafening blasts. Dense ripples spread through the space ahead, revealing traces of the formation.

Joy surged through Li Peng's heart. He had finally found where the formation was.

For the next ten thousand years, he continuously bombarded the formation while using his own attainments in the Way of Formations to deduce its operating principles. As ten thousand years flowed by, cracks had appeared in the formation, though it Still needed time before it could shatter completely.

Fortunately, Li Peng had already thoroughly comprehended this formation. Though complex and profound, it possessed Yin-Yang attributes. For one like him, born with an Innate Yin-Yang Body, comprehending a Yin-Yang formation yielded twice the result with half the effort.

Those ten thousand years of comprehension not only improved his attainments in the Way of Formations, but also helped him grasp twenty percent of the Yin-Yang Law. One had to know that comprehending Laws was originally a realm only Quasi-Sages could touch. A Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal grasping twenty percent of a Law could be called world-shaking and unprecedented.

With these twenty percent Laws, Li Peng was already rarely matched among those in the Great Luo realm. He further sensed that if he broke through to Great Luo now, he would be able to condense Three Flowers of more than ten grades; only reaching twelve grades still fell short.

Thus, Li Peng continued suppressing his eagerness to break through, consolidating his foundation and quietly waiting for the day his flowers bloomed to twelve grades.

At this moment, the turmoil in his heart was impossible to contain.

He had completely comprehended this formation and was about to obtain the treasure that had been drawing him here all along.

Li Peng steadied his emotions, his hands forming intricate seals like phantoms.

Before long, he stopped moving.

In an instant, streams of seal-light shot from his hands and plunged straight into the Yin-Yang grand formation ahead.

As the spiritual light entered the formation, the entire grand formation immediately began to tremble.

In the blink of an eye, an entrance ten zhang wide appeared right in front of Li Peng.

Looking inside, he saw Yin-Yang Qi flowing without cease, the scene within impossible to make out clearly.

Without hesitation, Li Peng stepped into the formation.

The moment he entered, the entrance silently vanished.

If anyone else came here now, they would only think this was an ordinary corner of Buzhou Mountain, never imagining that a grand formation had once been concealed ahead.

Li Peng felt the world spin around him. When he steadied himself, a treasure pagoda wreathed in Yin-Yang Qi had appeared before his eyes, with a drop of essence blood the size of a basketball floating above its peak.

Yin-Yang Qi flowed ceaselessly across the surface of the essence blood, proclaiming its owner's extraordinary origins.

Li Peng stared at the drop of essence blood, sensing its incomparable pull.

At this moment, he was certain in his heart that this very drop of essence blood had drawn him here.

He took a step forward to the essence blood and excitedly reached out to hold it in his palm.

"If I refine this essence blood, the Three Flowers atop my head will surely bloom to twelve grades! Then I'll be able to claim the system reward."

At that thought, Li Peng could not wait to swallow the essence blood.

Unexpectedly, the instant the essence blood entered his body, a cold, sinister voice rang out in his mind:

"Ha ha ha! In the end, you could not resist ** and swallowed the blood condensed from the essence of my entire life!

"From now on, your body belongs to me. If you must blame someone, blame your own insatiable greed!"

Li Peng's expression changed drastically at the voice. Only now did he realize that the so-called summons had been a trap laid by the remnant soul before him!

"Who exactly are you? Why did you scheme against me?" Li Peng asked, forcing himself to remain calm.

That voice rang out in Li Peng's mind once more.

"Who am I? Ha ha ha! Boy, listen well—I am the Yin-Yang Demon God! For this ancestor to take a fancy to you is a blessing cultivated over several lifetimes."

"How is that possible? Weren't the Chaos Demon Gods wiped out long ago?" Li Peng could not believe it.

"Hmph! When Pangu opened the heavens, I unfortunately fell. Yet my companion spiritual treasure, the Chaos Yin-Yang Pagoda, preserved one drop of my essence blood and part of my remnant soul. Unfortunately, it was damaged when struck by the Pangu Axe, and now retains only the rank of an Innate Supreme Treasure," the Yin-Yang Demon God said coldly.

"But shouldn't the surviving remnant souls of the Chaos Demon Gods have long since taken form? Why are you still here?" Li Peng asked in confusion.

"Hmph, those short-sighted fools depleted their origin in their haste to take form, severely damaging their foundations until they could not even break through to Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. What meaning is there in taking the form of ants? But you—you are a fine seedling I have chosen. Once I possess you and merge with the essence blood I left behind, my aptitude will recover by more than half. Then, I will return this primordial world to chaos and make all of Pangu's painstaking efforts go to waste!" The Yin-Yang Demon God laughed wildly without end.

Li Peng's face turned livid. He had never expected that his arrival might bring such a catastrophe upon the primordial world.

"Enough, boy. Be good and become Part of this ancestor! Ha ha ha!" the Yin-Yang Demon God sneered viciously.

As soon as his words fell, a powerful soul force began to erode Li Peng's Primordial Spirit.

Faced with soul pressure tens of thousands of times stronger than his own, Li Peng's heart filled with despair.

"Is this how it ends for me? Is my journey through the primordial world over already? I..." His thoughts were a tangled mess.

Just then, the system notification suddenly sounded:

"Ding! Virus intrusion detected. System activating automatically!"

"Antivirus program starting..."

"Startup successful. Virus removal in progress... Please wait."

Li Peng was briefly bewildered, unable to understand why the system had reported a virus.

Suddenly, a shrill scream rang out:

"Ah—what is this? What is inside your head? Why is it devouring my soul?!"

Li Peng immediately understood—the system was bound to his soul. When the Yin-Yang Demon God invaded his Primordial Spirit, the system had classified it as a "virus" and activated its antivirus program.

Having fully grasped the situation, Li Peng secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, the Yin-Yang Demon God had not killed him outright and had instead chosen to possess him.

If the other party had truly intended to **, Li Peng would have had no power to resist at all.

But things were different now. With the system in hand, the Yin-Yang Demon God was doomed to die.

"Boy! Spare my life, and I am willing to submit! I have Chaos Spiritual Treasures, **, divine abilities... As long as you let me go, I'll give you everything!" the Yin-Yang Demon God wailed in agony.

Li Peng merely gave a cold smile. He had already seen the other party's viciousness.

If the system had not acted just now, this transmigration of his would already have come to an end.

Time passed, and the Yin-Yang Demon God's voice grew weaker and weaker until it vanished completely.

"Ding! Virus removal complete! Antivirus program shutting down automatically!"

Hearing the system notification, Li Peng was finally certain that the Yin-Yang Demon God was dead.

Just as the weight lifted from his heart, a dense surge of Yin-Yang Qi suddenly ran wild within his body.

It was the essence blood of the Yin-Yang Demon God that he had swallowed earlier, now beginning to lose control.

Because the Yin-Yang Demon God's soul had still remained and its essence blood had been relatively stable before, now that the Demon God was dead, the essence blood turned berserk, rampaging through his body.

Just as Li Peng was about to circulate his technique to suppress it, a surge of pure soul power suddenly flooded into his sea of consciousness, strengthening the foundation of his soul.

Li Peng was startled, then immediately realized that this was the essence left behind after the system had refined the Yin-Yang Demon God's remnant soul.

Though it was merely dregs, it still benefited him immensely, increasing the foundation of his soul by more than tenfold.

After Li Peng absorbed the soul foundation, a vast amount of information surged into his mind.

Once he had digested it, In his heart he was shaken.

There was actually a Great Dao-level **Chaos Yin-Yang Scripture, as well as a Primal Chaos-level **Yin-Yang Rotation Technique!

Unfortunately, the Chaos Yin-Yang Scripture required one to possess both a Chaos Yin-Yang origin and the constitution of a Chaos Demon God to cultivate it. Li Peng had neither, and could only sigh at what lay beyond his reach.

The Yin-Yang Rotation Technique, meanwhile, was a simplified version of the Chaos Yin-Yang Scripture.

It could be said that it was precisely the perfect choice for Li Peng to lay his foundation.

Yet what excited Li Peng most was not this, but the fact that the information actually contained part of the Yin-Yang Demon God's insights into the Yin-Yang Great Dao!

Although Li Peng was currently comprehending the Laws of the Heavenly Dao and knew nothing whatsoever about a lofty realm like the Great Dao Law, that did not prevent him from drawing upon it.

Understand one law, and ten thousand laws become clear. Li Peng believed that after gaining the Yin-Yang Demon God's insights into the Great Dao Law, his speed of comprehending the Heavenly Dao's Yin-Yang Law would increase tenfold—perhaps even a hundredfold.

It was like first mastering university mathematics, then turning back to look at middle school problems; naturally, they would feel incomparably easy.

Just as Li Peng was swelling with pride over these gains, a tearing pain suddenly erupted from within his body.

"Pfft!"

Li Peng abruptly spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning deathly pale in an instant.