Seeing Xi Qu's fate, the beings around Zhou Mountain shuddered violently.
But then they let out long sighs of relief.
Fortunately, they had known better and slipped away early.
Still, they were greatly astonished. Just who was Ancestor Yang Mei? His strength had likely far surpassed that of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
At the very least, after feeling the aura Yang Mei had released earlier, Grand Unity Golden Immortals like them could not stop trembling in terror.
Even after Hong Yuan and Yang Mei had left, they still did not dare breathe too heavily.
At that moment, all those beings committed the name Ancestor Yang Mei to memory.
It was only a pity that they did not know the name of the person beside Ancestor Yang Mei.
Yet even without knowing his name, they firmly remembered Hong Yuan's appearance.
After all, Ancestor Yang Mei's words that the entire Primordial Wilderness was his Daoist friend's territory—
had thoroughly frightened them.
After Hong Yuan and Yang Mei left Zhou Mountain,
Yang Mei decided to return to his Dojo.
After so many years, he wanted to go back and see whether anything had changed there.
Hearing this, Hong Yuan did not say much and simply parted ways with Yang Mei.
Hong Yuan then set off alone on his journey.
Although many living beings had already appeared in the Primordial Wilderness,
they were still sparse compared to the vastness of the Primordial Wilderness.
Thus, Hong Yuan encountered nothing particularly remarkable along the way.
He did come across quite a few spiritual plants and spiritual treasures.
But to Hong Yuan, who possessed the Universe Cauldron, they were hardly worth mentioning.
Hong Yuan did not even bother taking them.
Unless they were spiritual treasures that would become renowned in the future, Hong Yuan might have shown some interest.
As for the obscure ones, he would leave them for those destined to find them.
Just then, a colossal beast at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm suddenly appeared before Hong Yuan.
Roaring, it lunged at him.
Seeing the demonic beast radiating overwhelming fiendish aura, Hong Yuan's eyes gleamed with greater interest.
"A Fierce Beast, huh? I didn't expect them to have emerged already!"
Facing the Fierce Beast's attack,
Hong Yuan merely released a trace of his aura.
In an instant, heaven and earth changed color, as if the sun and moon had toppled.
It was like an immense bell crashing down upon the colossal beast.
With a boom,
the colossal beast before him was crushed until it could not move.
Just as Hong Yuan released a trace of his aura to suppress the Fierce Beast, Hongjun, several tens of thousands of light-years away, suddenly changed expression.
"This aura belongs to a Primordial Golden Immortal. Hong Yuan?!"
Hongjun had never expected Hong Yuan to appear here, so close to him. Could Hong Yuan be after the Jade Plate of Creation fragment he had sensed?
Hongjun had originally wanted to deduce Hong Yuan's exact intentions.
But he was only a Grand Unity Golden Immortal now.
The difference between him and Hong Yuan was like heaven and earth. Even with the Jade Plate of Creation, he could not deduce the slightest thing.
"Hm?" Hong Yuan suddenly frowned.
He slowly looked toward Hongjun's direction.
Then he directly slapped out.
Pfft!
That slap instantly shattered half of Hongjun's body.
He was sent flying hundreds of billions of li.
"Hongjun, I have no interest in an old bastard like you. Stop wandering around in front of me. This time, I'm only teaching you a small lesson. If I catch you plotting against me again, don't blame me for showing no mercy!"
Faced with such domineering power from Hong Yuan, Hongjun did not dare retort. He merely gritted his teeth and no longer cared about the Jade Plate of Creation fragment.
Dragging along the half of his body that remained, he transformed into a rainbow and fled.
Only after feeling that he had escaped far enough did Hongjun finally breathe a sigh of relief.
His expression was ugly. He had thought that, with the Jade Plate of Creation fragment in hand, even if he could not deduce Hong Yuan's intentions, he could at least conceal the heavenly secrets.
He should not have been implicated.
But he had never expected that even though he had obscured the heavenly secrets, Hong Yuan would still discover him immediately.
This time, not only had he gained nothing,
he had even been severely injured.
Who knew how long it would take him to recover?
Yet he never truly went too far away.
Hongjun still harbored a thought.
What if Hong Yuan's goal was not the Jade Plate of Creation fragment he had sensed earlier?
In that case, he could still obtain that Jade Plate of Creation fragment after Hong Yuan left.
In truth, he had not guessed wrong.
Hong Yuan's goal indeed was not the Jade Plate of Creation fragment. He knew well that the fragment was destined for Hongjun. Since it benefited the Primordial Wilderness, Hong Yuan would not have taken it even if he found it.
Hong Yuan had merely taken some interest in the Fierce Beast before him.
But that was on the premise that Hongjun had not plotted against him.
After considering it, Hong Yuan directly entered the heart of a mountain and took away that Jade Plate of Creation fragment.
Hong Yuan had cultivated with the Jade Plate of Creation for a time within the Chaos Green Lotus.
Combined with the origin aura he possessed, which was not much different from Pangu's,
taking the Jade Plate of Creation fragment was effortless.
The fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation did not even resist in the slightest.
Hong Yuan took the Jade Plate of Creation fragment because he did not want to leave it for Hongjun.
If he remembered correctly, Luohu would also obtain and refine part of the Jade Plate of Creation fragments.
It was precisely because of this that the two would become the central figures of the conflict between Dao and demons.
During the creation of heaven and earth, the Jade Plate of Creation that had originally remained with Pangu had directly merged into the not-yet-formed Heavenly Dao after the world was opened.
Thus, no matter which of the two won, a necessary step would be to merge with the Dao, integrating the Jade Plate of Creation fragments they had refined into the Heavenly Dao to complete him.
This Causality had been destined from the moment they began refining the Jade Plate of Creation fragments.
Therefore, Hong Yuan planned to deliver it to Luohu.
As for Hongjun, Luohu could deal with him.
All Hong Yuan needed to do was ensure that the Primordial Wilderness grew stronger with each passing day. He truly had few thoughts about matters involving Kalpas.
After all, the Kalpas produced by the Primordial Wilderness were meant to strengthen the Primordial Wilderness.
It was like when your computer's memory became too full—didn't you need to clear out the junk regularly?
That was roughly what it meant.
Periodically remove the trash steeped in evil and miasma,
in exchange for the healthy development of the Primordial Wilderness.
There was actually nothing wrong with that.
It was only that, in the original course of events, Hongjun sought transcendence and secretly interfered with the Kalpas time and again, repeatedly bombarding the Primordial Wilderness until it gradually declined.
Originally, Hong Yuan did not hold any particularly strong opinion of Hongjun.
After all, from the moment Hongjun refined the Jade Plate of Creation fragments, he had been plotted against by the Primordial Wilderness. Forced to merge with the Dao, he then single-mindedly sought transcendence and to seize the Dao Fruit of the Primordial Wilderness. That was not entirely his fault.
Even if it had been Hong Yuan, discovering that he had been plotted against from the start would likely have left him upset as well.
Therefore, Hong Yuan had not targeted Hongjun at first.
But since Hongjun knew it was him and still dared plot against him, Hongjun could not blame him for siding with Luohu.
Besides, in Hong Yuan's eyes, Luohu was more interesting than Hongjun.
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