Pangu Bestows Treasure

Brain storage area!

Innate Supreme Treasure collection point!

Innate Deity check-in point!

Innate freak check-in point!

(This is my first time writing a Primordial World story. I hope all you Dao Ancestors will be understanding. Everyone has a different version of the Primordial World in their hearts. The author kneels here to bless all my fellow Chinese Dao Ancestors: may you strike it rich soon and be a groom every night.)

The chaos was vast and boundless, with turbid waves churning.

Great God Pangu's muscles were knotted like billions of primordial divine dragons coiled together. With supreme divine power, he was forcibly holding open the chaotic heaven and earth that were constantly squeezing inward, desperate to fuse back together.

Clear Qi rose while Turbid Qi descended; a prototype of the Primordial World, newly judged from the primordial chaos, was being maintained with great difficulty beneath his towering, heaven-supporting physique.

Just as the world was first opened, a faint, illusory remnant soul—one that seemed as if it might dissipate completely at any moment—drifted quietly into this newly opened Primordial World, carried along by the Spacetime Turbulence.

He remained curled up, trapped in a deep slumber, completely unaware of the cataclysmic power surrounding him.

Pangu's eyes, which could peer through the chaos and traverse the River of Time, fell instantly upon this tiny remnant soul.

With a single glance, he knew its past, present, and future.

The act of Heaven-Opening, while tearing apart the chaos, had also stirred up terrifying spacetime vortices.

It was he who had forcibly dragged this soul, which did not belong to this world, from the distant reaches of spacetime.

"So be it..."

A sigh that spanned the ages echoed in Pangu's heart, carrying a realization born of karmic connection.

"It was I who opened the heavens and stirred the River of Time, drawing your foreign soul into this tribulation. Since you have come, I shall grant you a Thread of Life!"

With a flicker of thought, his gaze turned toward the massive Lotus Platform that supported his form in the chaotic void—the Chaos Green Lotus.

At this moment, the lotus petals had long since withered away due to the immense consumption of the Heaven-Opening, the platform was covered in cracks, and its origin power was rapidly fading; it was clearly at the end of its rope.

Without hesitation, Pangu drew upon the last remaining origin at the core of the Green Lotus.

It was a ray of Chaos Undying Spiritual Light that contained a complete law of the Great Dao!

This spiritual light contained a complete Great Dao law; whether used for enlightenment or to enhance spiritual treasures, its utility was infinite.

"With this light, I alter your fate. In the future... you shall no longer fall!"

Pangu's deep Dao Sound rumbled through the chaos.

With a wave of his massive hand, the brilliant, pure spiritual light streaked across the newly opened world like a meteor tracing the trajectory of the Great Dao, landing precisely in a corner of the Primordial World's prototype—

There, an ancient, sturdy tree was growing, though it lacked a single leaf or branch.

Beside that Undying Spiritual Light, the sleeping remnant soul seemed to be summoned by the origin; it was naturally drawn to the vast, majestic vitality and spiritual charm of the ancient tree, merging into the giant tree's thick trunk silently and seamlessly, like water blending with milk.

BOOM—RUMBLE—!

The very instant Pangu cast the Chaos Undying Spiritual Light and the remnant soul merged with the tree, it was as if the final straw had broken the camel's back.

The three Chaos Supreme Treasures, already fragmented by the act of Heaven-Opening, finally exhausted the last of the origin power that had maintained their forms!

The final stubborn petals of the Chaos Green Lotus withered and scattered, and the massive Lotus Platform collapsed with a roar!

The profound maxims of the supreme Great Dao recorded on the Jade Plate of Creation dimmed instantly, and the plate itself shattered into ten thousand streaks of light!

The Sky-Opening Divine Axe split into three.

The disintegration of the three great Chaos Supreme Treasures was not a silent demise, but rather like the first thunderclap of a universe's birth!

Fragments of the supreme treasures, mixed with the spiritual treasures and remains of the Three Thousand Demon Gods, rained down like a meteor shower, carrying an unstoppable, majestic momentum as they shot toward every corner of the newborn Primordial World, across the nine heavens and ten earths!

The three thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures of later legends were born at this moment, accompanied by Great God Pangu's final gift and the ripples of creation!

These spiritual treasures hid in famous mountains and great rivers, sank into the deep seas of the Nine Netherworlds, or hung among the stars of the nine heavens, quietly waiting for their fated owners in the future.

Time was not counted in the Primordial World!

As the chaos flowed, who knows how many Kalpas passed.

At the foot of the towering Buzhou Mountain, in a deep valley.

That giant tree, which had been bare since time immemorial, now quietly sprouted four tender leaves on its branches.

The leaves were as large as fans, perfectly oval, thick and sturdy, with veins as clear as carvings of the Heavenly Dao, flowing with the luster of primordial chaos.

Each leaf seemed to be a microcosm of a world, each containing one of the four origin powers from the beginning of Heaven-Opening.

The vast and heavy Earth, the formless and imageless Wind, the infinitely soft and resilient Water, and the violently destructive Fire.

Dense, complex spiritual energy churned around the tree, forming a natural barrier, a chaotic energy field that isolated the inside from the outside.

More strangely, the Yin-Yang Qi, which symbolized the foundation of all things, tightly coiled around the thick trunk, nourishing the life origin of this miraculous tree.

"Uh... where is this?"

A confused consciousness awakened deep within the core of the giant tree.

"AH--!"

Suddenly, intense pain pierced into his mind as if billions of steel needles had struck at once!

Zhou Yang's consciousness curled up in agony deep within the heart of the tree, his illusory face twisted and contorted, his invisible teeth nearly shattered.

A massive torrent of information slammed violently into his consciousness, as fragments of memories that did not belong to him, yet were inextricably linked to him, flashed frantically by.

Ten thousand years of time passed in the blink of an eye.

His consciousness coalesced once more, and an unprecedented clarity swept over him.

"G-good heavens!"

"I... I... I have... transmigrated to the Primordial World?!"

The immense shock caused Zhou Yang's consciousness to freeze for a moment, his manifested expression becoming incredibly complex, filled with both an absurd, bitter smile and the bewilderment of facing the vast changes of the ages.

He was nothing more than an ordinary person who had just graduated from university.

A sudden car accident had brought his short life to an end.

How could he have been so fortunate after death that his soul bypassed the cycle of reincarnation, crossing the barriers of time and space to be born at the very beginning of Heaven-Opening, in this Primordial World where divine beings were everywhere and murderous intent lurked in every corner?!

However, after digesting that vast amount of memory, Zhou Yang quickly grasped the key information.

The good news was: his true form was one of the ten famous Ultimate Innate Spiritual Roots of the Primordial World—the Banana Tree! His foundation was extraordinary, and his potential was boundless!

The bad news was: as an Ultimate Innate Spiritual Root, the path to Transformation was a life-or-death struggle!

Even while the Heavenly Dao was still in its nascent, developing stage, it would never allow such heaven-defying creatures to be born easily.

The Thunder Tribulation that would descend for his Transformation was bound to be terrifying, sufficient to annihilate the soul of an ordinary Golden Immortal or Primordial Unity Golden Immortal!

Once the rules of the Heavenly Dao were completely perfected, the power of that tribulation... it was simply unimaginable!

According to the Primordial history he knew, the only ones among the Ultimate Innate Spiritual Roots to successfully undergo Transformation were Daoist Zhunti of the West and Great Immortal Yang Mei.

And these two had only succeeded by luck during the "lenient period" before Dao Ancestor Hongjun had Attained Sagehood and while the rules of the Heavenly Dao still contained many loopholes.

If it were in an era where the Heavenly Dao was perfected, they likely wouldn't have even had the chance to be born!

What made Zhou Yang's heart turn cold was that his situation was even more perilous than that of Daoist Zhunti or Great Immortal Yang Mei!