In the Prehistoric World, Spiritual Treasures were divided into Innate and Houtian varieties.
Innate Spiritual Treasures were born from the nurturing of Heaven and Earth. They contained Innate Undying Spiritual Light, naturally formed Innate Restrictions, and possessed partial authority over laws. Even if they suffered damage of varying degrees, they could slowly recover under the nourishment of their Innate Undying Spiritual Light.
In contrast, Houtian Spiritual Treasures lacked Innate Undying Spiritual Light. The strength of the Houtian Restrictions within them depended entirely on the cultivator's realm and skill. Once damaged, they could not repair themselves and required their creator to expend heavenly materials and earthly treasures to restore them.
Did that mean Houtian Spiritual Treasures were inferior to Innate Spiritual Treasures?
Not necessarily.
Some powerful Houtian Spiritual Treasures could rival, or even surpass, Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Take the Sky-Flipping Seal that Primordial Lord of Heaven had refined from half of Mount Buzhou. Was it any less powerful than an Innate Spiritual Treasure?
The Human-Creating Whip in Saint Nuwa's hands was the same.
The only difference between Houtian and Innate lay in the Innate Undying Spiritual Light contained within them.
Yet choice two's reward was a hundred strands of Innate Undying Spiritual Light!
With Innate Undying Spiritual Light, turning Houtian treasures back into Innate ones would be effortless!
He might even be able to nurture a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure into an Innate Supreme Treasure!
Cangyuan already had a complete plan in mind.
"I choose two."
Cangyuan spoke inwardly.
To invite a Saint to act, he naturally needed something that would move a Saint's heart.
Cangyuan looked at the World Purifying White Lotus and asked, "Xiao Bai, you can Suppress Destiny, right?"
The World Purifying White Lotus bobbed up and down. "That's right."
Cangyuan smiled faintly, his expression calm and relaxed. "Then this will be easy."
"Let's cultivate the lotus seeds first."
"Mhm, mhm."
Among the Six Saints, who lacked a Spiritual Treasure capable of Suppressing Destiny the most?
Without question, Sect Master Tongtian.
The Chan Sect had the Pangu Banner to suppress the destiny of its great sect.
The Ren Sect had the Taiji Diagram to suppress the destiny of its great sect.
Even the Western Teach had the Twelve-Petal Golden Lotus of Merit to Suppress Destiny. Only Sect Master Tongtian, the most battle-hardened Saint among the Six Saints, had none. Instead, he used the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, a treasure of slaughter, to suppress a sect's destiny.
It simply could not hold it down.
As the Jie Sect's destiny continued to drain away, it also laid the groundwork for the Jie Sect's destruction in the later Investiture of the Gods War.
If he used the World Purifying White Lotus, a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure capable of suppressing the destiny of a great sect, as payment, his teacher would surely be more than willing to help him.
The methods of a Saint were beyond comparison with those of Great Supernatural Beings.
The Houtian Restrictions personally set by a Saint would be no weaker than Innate Restrictions.
Cangyuan plunged into busyness once more!
Cangyuan took out all twelve milky-white, crystalline lotus seeds that had been nurtured within the World Purifying White Lotus's seedpod.
The World Purifying White Lotus was completely unaffected.
Cangyuan used Three Lights Divine Water to cultivate the seeds. He also destroyed nearly ninety percent of the Innate Spiritual Roots, extracting their origin essence as nourishment to feed the twelve lotus seeds.
Endless Innate Spiritual Energy gathered around them as well!
Time passed swiftly.
Two and a half Yuanhuis passed in the blink of an eye.
Within the Cangyuan Realm.
Before Cangyuan and the World Purifying White Lotus, twelve white lotuses bloomed, radiating purifying white light.
All of these white lotuses were World Purifying White Lotuses, but they had only bloomed to the third grade and were merely Low-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasures.
Their power was far inferior to Xiao Bai's true body.
"They're done! They're done, yay yay yay!"
Looking at the twelve Third-Grade White Lotuses before her, each identical to her own origin, the World Purifying White Lotus jumped about excitedly through the Cangyuan Realm like a child.
After following Cangyuan for so long, the World Purifying White Lotus had also learned quite a few modern expressions.
For example, yay yay yay.
"Alright, let's go find Master now."
"Mhm, mhm."
Cangyuan smiled slightly, and his figure vanished from the Cangyuan Realm, returning to his cave abode on Jin'ao Island in the outside world.
Cangyuan stretched and muttered, "Since the apprenticeship ceremony and treasure distribution, I have been in secluded cultivation for three and a half Yuanhuis—three hundred seventy thousand years. I wonder whether Yunxiao and Brother Gongming have broken through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm yet."
Upon reaching the Golden Immortal realm, living beings began to come into contact with laws, thereby determining their future path.
The path Cangyuan had chosen was the Path of Creation!
The Innate Five Elements—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—were the foundation of a world's operation. Ninety-nine percent of all things in the world were born according to the laws of the Innate Five Elements.
Yin Yang were the fundamental laws and primal driving force behind the construction of a world. They embodied the Dao and ran through nearly the entire process of a world, from nothingness to existence, from extinction to rebirth.
After that came space and time.
Neither could be absent from a world.
Lastly came Creation.
It was the key to a world's nurturing of life.
They appeared to be ten different laws, yet Cangyuan was striving to integrate them into one!
To become the Law of Creation!
However, the difficulty of merging ten different laws into one was obvious.
In particular, it required Cangyuan to possess extremely profound comprehension of all ten laws.
At present, Cangyuan had only gained fairly deep comprehension of the Law of Water, Law of Space, and Law of Creation.
His comprehension of the other seven laws had merely entered the door.
He had not even achieved ten percent comprehension.
It was not even as profound as his comprehension of the Law of Clouds.
The road ahead was long and arduous.
Fortunately, Cangyuan still had time.
Cangyuan walked out of his cave abode and made his way across Jin'ao Island.
There were quite a few living beings on Jin'ao Island.
Their auras varied greatly in strength.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Hummm! Hummm! Hummm!
At that moment, Karmic Tribulation Energy churned through Heaven and Earth, while the laws of Heaven and Earth rang out and trembled violently.
An aura of slaughter so chilling it drove the mind to despair spread from the center of the Prehistoric World.
It swept through the entire Prehistoric World!
"Kill! Kill these savages!"
"Damn food! You dare challenge the status of our Witch Race!"
"..."
Terrifying roars echoed between Heaven and Earth, shaking the universe. Golden Spears and Iron Horses clashed, and the commotion caused by the war shook the entire Prehistoric World to its core!
Cangyuan's expression changed slightly. He looked toward the center of the Prehistoric World and could vaguely see a prolonged battle erupting there, with masses of living beings dying every moment.
The deaths of those living beings continuously raised the Prehistoric World's Karmic Tribulation Energy until it reached an uncontrollable level.
"The Heavenly Court and the Witch Race have gone to war?"
"It's too terrifying. If we were on that battlefield, we probably wouldn't even last a breath before being ground to pieces."
"Too terrifying."
"..."
The surrounding living beings were shaken to their core and could not help sighing in awe.
Cangyuan merely smiled and said nothing.
This was nothing yet.
This was only the First War of the Witches and Demons.
At this stage, the war was still merely two armies confronting one another and filling the battlefield with lives.
The Second War of the Witches and Demons would be a clash between the Great Array of Zhou Tian Stars and the Great Array of Twelve Du Tian Shen Sha.
Both supreme arrays possessed the power of Saints.
They were truly terrifying.
Even the Six Saints had been shocked.
In the end, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had personally intervened to call a ceasefire.
Only then came the Ceasefire forbidding the Witches and Demons from starting another conflict for ten Yuanhuis.
As for the final battle...
The demon race of the Heavenly Court discovered the Human Race's secret and slaughtered the Human Race on a massive scale to refine the Witch-Slaying Sword.
With nine of the Ten Little Golden Crows dead,
and the Witch Race losing the two Great Witches Kuafu and Houyi as the catalyst, the Third War of the Witches and Demons erupted.
It was also the Decisive Battle of Witches and Demons.
In the end, both the Witch Race and demon race fell from the stage.
It has nothing to do with me. Asking Master to act at Biyou Palace is more important.
Cangyuan withdrew his gaze and continued toward Biyou Palace.
At that moment, Cangyuan found the scenery around him blurring. When it became clear again, he had already arrived inside Biyou Palace.
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