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Bai Chen glared fiercely at Xuanming with his vicious triangular eyes. Not only did this witch fail to comfort the Great God, she even gloated over his misfortune. How hateful!
"Houtu, I was the one who brought you here to Pangu Legacy. If you obtain any treasures later, remember to give the Great God a share."
Seeing that sneaking into the Secret Realm was hopeless, Bai Chen could only place his hopes on Houtu.
"Mm!"
Houtu nodded in agreement. After all, if Bai Chen had not told her about this location, their Ancestral Witch lineage would never have found Pangu Legacy.
"Houtu, the soil beneath the Green Lotus of Creation was formed from the essence of the prehistoric land—the essence of wutu. It should be beneficial to you."
"Houtu, if possible, bring the seeds of the Green Lotus of Creation back for the Great God."
Bai Chen gave her a few instructions and also stated his own request.
He then signaled for Houtu and the Ancestral Witches to hurry inside and seize the opportunity.
Bai Chen watched the figures of the Ancestral Witches disappear into the Secret Realm. He then turned his gaze toward the center of Buzhou Mountain's Heavenly Pillar and began muttering to himself:
"Great God Pangu, although it was this little beast who brought the Ancestral Witches here to snatch the Three Pure Ones' opportunity, you can't blame me!"
"Who told you to block me and not let this little beast in?"
"If I had gone in, at most I would have taken the lotus pod, lotus stalk, lotus seeds, and essence of wutu."
"I definitely would have left the lotus leaves, red flowers, and lotus roots for the Three Pure Ones."
"But now that Houtu and the others have gone in, it all depends on how lucky the Three Pure Ones are."
"If you want to blame someone, go blame the Ancestral Witches. Don't blame this little beast!"
Bai Chen felt that even if the Three Pure Ones' opportunity was snatched by the Ancestral Witches, he could not be blamed.
Bai Chen found a place to lie down. While eating fruit, he waited for Houtu to come out.
Suddenly, above Pangu's Secret Realm, a Green Lotus spanning ten million zhang appeared. It bloomed with thirty-six petals, and Buddhist chants resounded throughout the prehistoric heavens and universe.
When the Chaos Green Lotus fell and shattered, it gave birth to six lotus seeds. One was mature, one was half-mature, and four were immature.
The mature seed became the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation. It was rejected by the prehistoric world, and because Heaven was jealous of it, it eventually fell and disintegrated, being torn apart by the Three Pure Ones.
The half-mature seed became the twenty-four-petal Cycle Purple Jade Lotus Platform. In later generations, it was obtained by Nuwa and became her means of transportation.
The four immature lotus seeds became the Twelve-petal Golden Merit Lotus, the Twelve-petal World-Ending Black Lotus, the Twelve-grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, and the Twelve-grade Pure World White Lotus.
Bai Chen looked at the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation. After letting out an astonished sigh, he immediately mocked it:
"This Green Lotus of Creation must be tired of living. It actually bloomed with thirty-six petals, displaying the number of perfect completion."
"Now the prehistoric world is incomplete and imperfect. Even the Thirty-six Heavens are missing three layers. Yet this Green Lotus of Creation blooms with thirty-six petals in perfect completion. Who is it mocking?"
The number thirty-six represented perfect completion and utter completeness.
Therefore, it was not a number that could be used casually—especially by a spiritual root like the Green Lotus of Creation.
The prehistoric world was incomplete. Bai Chen felt that the Green Lotus of Creation blooming with thirty-six petals was completely provoking Heaven and Earth.
It was destined that Heaven and Earth could not tolerate it. Its fall after incurring Heaven's jealousy and Earth's envy was no one's fault but its own.
Sure enough, things unfolded just as Bai Chen had expected. Above Buzhou Mountain, calamity qi formed thunderclouds. The clouds alternated between white and black, while black-and-white divine thunder began to gather within them.
"It's actually Chaos Divine Thunder!"
Relying on his Innate Inheritance, Bai Chen recognized at a glance that this was the Chaos Divine Thunder wielded by the Great Dao.
"Run!"
Bai Chen brought out his treasures, covered his head, and hurriedly hid far away.
That was right—Bai Chen was afraid.
It was not that Bai Chen lacked courage. The Chaos Divine Thunder was simply too terrifying.
One had to know that even those who had achieved the Dao had to avoid the edge of the Chaos Divine Thunder.
Bai Chen had yet to achieve the Dao. He was merely a High-level Golden Immortal who had condensed the Three Flowers on the Crown. If he were accidentally struck by the Chaos Divine Thunder, he would certainly perish, body and Dao destroyed.
Bai Chen had originally thought that the thirty-six-petaled Green Lotus of Creation would at most attract Purple Firmament Divine Thunder. Who could have expected it to attract Chaos Divine Thunder instead?
Bai Chen thought carefully, then reached out his paw and knocked on his own stupid head.
How had he suddenly become so stupid? It must have been contagious from Houtu and Xuanming, those two witches. He could not let those two witches touch him casually anymore.
Bai Chen suddenly felt that he had become stupid because he remembered something.
Ancestor Hongjun had yet to merge with the Dao, and the Heavenly Dao had not awakened. The Great Dao was still governing the prehistoric world.
With the Heavenly Dao still dormant, where would the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder wielded by the Heavenly Dao come from?
What was more, this was Buzhou Mountain. Even if the Heavenly Dao had awakened, it could not govern Buzhou Mountain.
The Purple Firmament Divine Thunder wielded by the Heavenly Dao could not strike Buzhou Mountain either.
"The Cycle Purple Jade Lotus Platform obtained by Nuwa in later generations bloomed with twenty-four petals, yet it was already a supreme treasure of the Heavenly Dao."
"I wonder what grade this thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation is?"
Bai Chen was now somewhat curious about the grade of the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation. He estimated that its might should be approaching that of a Chaos Supreme Treasure and a Chaos Spiritual Root.
If the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation survived this tribulation, it should be able to advance into a Chaos Spiritual Root.
"What a pity. The thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation is about to be struck by lightning and fall!"
Bai Chen felt that the Green Lotus of Creation deserved its fall.
It had caused him to search for it throughout Buzhou Mountain for so many yuanhui without finding it.
"Green Lotus of Creation, if you had let the Great God find you earlier, I could have taken a few bites and eaten away a few petals. Then you wouldn't have had to fall!"
As for saving the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation, Bai Chen truly had a way.
That was to cripple the Green Lotus of Creation as well—for example, by eating a few petals.
As long as the grade of the Green Lotus of Creation fell below thirty-three petals, and it bowed its head to Heaven and Earth, it would no longer incur Heaven's jealousy and Earth's envy and thus would not fall.
Bai Chen hid far away and watched everything unfold. The Chaos Divine Thunder within the tribulation clouds had finished gathering.
The Chaos Divine Thunder came crashing down, as vicious as a flood dragon. It mercilessly tore apart the vitality of the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation, striking it down with brutal force.
After the vitality of the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation had been severed, the tribulation clouds dispersed, and everything returned to calm.
Pangu Legacy...
The Three Pure Ones watched as the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation fell. Innate death qi coiled around it, causing its divine radiance to dim.
"Sigh!"
Taishang Laozi could not help sighing. If the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation had survived the tribulation, the three brothers would have possessed a Chaos Supreme Treasure and a Chaos Spiritual Root.
At that time, even if they encountered a powerhouse who had achieved the Primordial Fruit Status, the three brothers would have had the strength to protect themselves!
Unfortunately, the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation had failed to survive the tribulation. What a pity!
Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Tongtian were not as sorrowful. At this moment, all the attention of the two brothers was focused on the Green Lotus of Creation.
They were truly too poor.
Who could have imagined that the three brothers of the Three Pure Ones, as Pangu's Orthodox Lineage, possessed only one treasure between them—and even that one had to be shared?
Would anyone believe such a thing if they said it aloud?
Although the three brothers of the Three Pure Ones had only one companion Supreme Treasure, that companion Supreme Treasure was the prehistoric world's foremost defensive treasure: the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
There were many treasures in the prehistoric world, but when it came to the foremost defensive treasure, there was only one—the acquired merit supreme treasure, the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
Even the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, the twenty-four-petal Cycle Purple Jade Lotus Platform, and the Innate Five Directions Banners—those supreme defensive treasures—had to take second place.
"Eldest Brother, you first!"
Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Tongtian were already eager to divide the treasures.
However, because Taishang Laozi was the eldest brother, Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Tongtian chose to let him pick first as a sign of respect.
Taishang Laozi looked at the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation, which was about to disintegrate. After meditating for a while, he made his decision:
"Red flower!"
Taishang Laozi could sense that the red flower of the Green Lotus of Creation was fated to be his.
He reached out, and the red flower of the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation flew out. It extracted a portion of the sixteen-petal Green Lotus of Creation's Innate Origin and transformed into the Coiled Dragon Flat Crutch, which fell into Taishang Laozi's hand!
When the Chaos Green Lotus disintegrated, it transformed into an unknown number of Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Although this thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation had not become a Chaos Spiritual Root, it had already approached one infinitely.
Now that its red flower had disintegrated into the Coiled Dragon Flat Crutch, it was naturally an innate object and a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
Seeing Taishang Laozi obtain a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, Yuqing Yuanshi immediately brightened.
When his turn came, he meditated for a while before speaking:
"White lotus root!"
Yuqing Yuanshi reached out, and the white lotus root of the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation flew out. It transformed into the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure—the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi—and fell into Yuqing Yuanshi's hand.
After Shangqing Tongtian saw his two elder brothers obtain Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, he became excited as well and hurriedly said:
"Green lotus leaf!"
As soon as Shangqing Tongtian spoke, the green lotus leaf of the thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation transformed into the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Green Duckweed Sword.
The types of treasures obtained by the Three Pure Ones were actually connected to their own natures.
For example, Taishang Laozi looked like an old man, so the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure he obtained became a crutch!
Yuqing Yuanshi looked middle-aged, exuding an imposing and noble air, so his supreme treasure transformed into a jade ruyi!
Shangqing Tongtian looked young. He had an innocent heart, was forthright and broad-minded, expressed his emotions openly, and clearly distinguished love from hatred. Thus, his supreme treasure transformed into a sword!
The thirty-six-petal Green Lotus of Creation had now had its red flower, white lotus root, and lotus leaves taken away, but its lotus pod, lotus stalk, lotus seeds, and lotus soil remained.
Just as the Three Pure Ones were preparing to continue dividing the treasures, a loud shout rang out:
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