A vast amount of information flooded Hong Yun's mind.
"Just as I thought—it's the Taiji Diagram!"
Hong Yun nodded.
From the information contained in this treasure, he learned that it was one of the three Innate Supreme Treasures transformed from Pangu's World-Opening Divine Axe—the Taiji Diagram.
The Taiji Diagram should originally have been obtained by Taishang Laojun. It could calm the earth, wind, water, and fire, as well as trap people and defend against attacks. Once activated, a golden bridge would appear above it, and anyone below the Saint realm would be reduced to ashes.
This showed just how powerful this Innate Supreme Treasure was.
But now... it belonged to him, Hong Yun.
"Huh?"
Just as Hong Yun was about to store the Taiji Diagram in his personal space, he suddenly discovered that the treasure carried a certain aura.
This aura...
Hong Yun pondered for a moment. It seemed to be connected to Taishang Laojun.
"So that's how it is!"
After thinking it over, Hong Yun understood.
No wonder that earlier, when he saw the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the others flying toward the Treasure-Splitting Rock, they had seemed to be guided by some inexplicable sensation.
It seemed that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had tampered with the Taiji Diagram, leaving behind an aura that Taishang Laojun could sense.
"Could the other treasures be the same...?"
With that thought, Hong Yun did not immediately take the Taiji Diagram.
He went to the second treasure.
It was a cloud-shaped treasure without a fixed form, constantly flowing and shifting.
The aura it radiated was also extremely powerful.
"Could this be the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud?"
Hong Yun was somewhat doubtful. If it really was that treasure, he would be rich!
Although the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud was not an Innate Supreme Treasure, it had been transformed from the vast righteous energy in Pangu's heart and was incomparably close to the level of an Innate Supreme Treasure.
Once activated, this treasure could drive back all evil and prevent the myriad laws from touching its wielder.
If used for flight, it was the fastest thing in the Great Desolation. Even Demon Master Kunpeng could not match it.
"I happen to have no flying treasure. If this really is the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, it will solve my immediate problem!"
Hong Yun thought to himself.
He then began refining the seal on it.
This seal was equally powerful. Without the strength of a late-stage quasi-Saint, it was impossible to break it by force.
Half a month later.
Hong Yun finally refined the seal. With a casual wave, he drew the cloud into his hand.
Immediately afterward, a vast amount of information flooded into his mind.
"As expected, it's the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud!"
Hong Yun was extremely satisfied.
In just one month, he had obtained two powerful treasures.
At that moment, the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud also emitted an aura. This aura seemed to be connected to Yuanshi.
After investigating this, Hong Yun became certain.
Whether it was the Taiji Diagram or the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had tampered with them.
These treasures had not been left for the destined to obtain at all. They had already been assigned by him.
All he had to do was wait for the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti to arrive, sense the corresponding auras, and take the corresponding treasures.
Moreover, from the strength of the seals on these two treasures, Hong Yun could tell that they corresponded to their owners' cultivation levels.
The seal on the Taiji Diagram required the strength of a late-stage quasi-Saint to break, and the seal on the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud likewise required the strength of a late-stage quasi-Saint.
Taishang Laojun and Yuanshi happened to both be late-stage quasi-Saints.
Furthermore, Yuanshi had only broken through shortly before Dao Ancestor Hongjun's lecture ended.
If Dao Ancestor Hongjun had not secretly tampered with things, Hong Yun would never believe it.
Hong Yun first placed the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud in the distance. The seal had already been broken, so he could take it at any time.
What Hong Yun needed to do now was break the seals on the other treasures as well.
The treasures on the Treasure-Splitting Rock were not limited to the Taiji Diagram and the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud.
Hong Yun made a rough investigation and found several hundred treasures in total.
Among them, however, were several treasures he coveted intensely.
The Taiji Diagram and the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud went without saying.
Next were the Immortal Slaying Four Swords and the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram. Together, they formed a complete set of treasures.
They consisted of the Immortal Slaying Sword, the Immortal Slaying Sword, the Immortal Trapping Sword, and the Immortal Severing Sword.
Each of these four swords was a Postnatal Supreme Treasure.
Once the Immortal Slaying Four Swords and the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram were activated to form the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, their power was unbelievably great.
If a Saint set up the formation, it could not be broken unless four Saints gathered together.
The sword formation was filled with boundless killing intent and extremely perilous. Anyone whose strength had not reached the Saint realm would turn to ashes the instant they entered.
There was even a saying that the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation was the greatest killing formation in the Great Desolation.
There was also the Pangu Banner.
This was another Innate Supreme Treasure, transformed from the blade of Pangu's World-Opening Divine Axe. It could split open chaos, and its single-target offensive power was second only to the World-Opening Divine Axe.
There were also the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner, Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, Red Embroidered Ball, Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit, and many other treasures.
These treasures were all extremely powerful.
The five banners in particular—the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner, Green Lotus Precious Color Banner, Plain Cloud Boundary Banner, and True Martial Black Eagle Banner.
The Innate Five Elements Banners had been transformed from the five great lotus leaves of the Chaos Green Lotus. Their power was second only to that of Innate Supreme Treasures.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
Hong Yun began refining the seals covering the treasures one after another.
Time passed, and three years quickly went by.
During these three years, Hong Yun refined the seals covering dozens of treasures.
These were all treasures he considered worthy of taking.
As for the others, they were not worthy of entering Hong Yun's eyes.
At that moment, Hong Yun waved his hand again.
"Offer!"
Hong Yun took out the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.
"Collect!"
Then Hong Yun waved his hand, storing the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, Immortal Slaying Four Swords, Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram, Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, Innate Five Elements Banners, Merit Golden Lotus, and dozens of other treasures into the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.
These treasures were all at the level of Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures or Innate Supreme Treasures. To truly use them, he would need to refine the innate restrictions within them.
But Hong Yun did not have that much time now.
He could also have stored them in his personal space, but if he did, the auras drawing the others toward the treasures would disappear.
By storing them in the Great Dao Treasure Gourd, the auras remained.
Hong Yun had completely refined the Great Dao Treasure Gourd and could control it at will.
Now, Hong Yun placed the Great Dao Treasure Gourd on the Treasure-Splitting Rock. It radiated auras that drew the others toward it as he quietly waited for the arrival of the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti...
As for Hong Yun himself, he flew billions of miles away and activated his vision to investigate.
Several years later.
"I never expected Taishang Laojun to be in front!"
Through his investigation, Hong Yun saw that, countless billions of miles away, Taishang Laojun was the first to fly toward the Treasure-Splitting Rock.
However, at Taishang Laojun's speed, it would probably take another two or three months to reach the Treasure-Splitting Rock.
Hong Yun was in no hurry to put away the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.
After all, having cultivated the Mythical Grand Unity Method, he could store the Great Dao Treasure Gourd in his personal space with a single thought.
Hong Yun continued activating his vision to investigate.
Behind Taishang Laojun, at a distance of roughly two or three days of flight, Yuanshi followed closely.
Several days of flight behind Yuanshi was Nuwa.
As for Tongtian of the Three Pure Ones, he had not reached the late-stage quasi-Saint realm and was only at the mid-stage. Thus, his speed was inferior even to Nuwa's.
After all, the great powers of the Great Desolation did not possess many treasures at present.
Flying treasures in particular were almost never very powerful.
Thus, flying speed generally still depended on one's cultivation realm.
Taishang, Yuanshi, Nuwa, and Tongtian were the first group, with no more than ten days between them.
After them came Jieyin and Zhunti, Dijun and Taiyi, Kunpeng and Fuxi, Minghe, Zhenyuanzi, and the other great powers of the Great Desolation.
Under Hong Yun's watchful gaze, there were more than a hundred of these great powers.
However, they were separated from the four people ahead by more than half a month of flight.
Behind these several hundred great powers of the Great Desolation came the remaining two or three thousand great powers at the Great Unity Golden Immortal realm.
Their flying speed, however, was far inferior to that of the people ahead.
Hong Yun estimated that after the hundred or so people in front reached the Treasure-Splitting Rock, several more years might pass before this group of great powers arrived.
"A hundred or so people are enough!"
Hong Yun thought to himself.
Now he only had to wait for Taishang to be the first to reach the Treasure-Splitting Rock, and then he would collect the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.
Two and a half months later.
Taishang Laojun's divine sense finally detected the traces of the Treasure-Splitting Rock.
"Hahaha! I never expected to be the first to find the Treasure-Splitting Rock!"
"Excellent! All the treasures on the Treasure-Splitting Rock belong to me, Taishang!"
Taishang Laojun laughed joyfully.
There was no one else here, so he no longer cared about maintaining his image.
Relying on an inexplicable pull from the unseen, he had found this place after spending a full fifteen years.
At one point, he had even begun to doubt whether the aura he sensed was real.
But now, Taishang Laojun could finally relax.
The Treasure-Splitting Rock was right before his eyes!
Whoosh!
Taishang Laojun accelerated again, unable to wait any longer.
Several days later.
The instant Taishang Laojun had just stepped onto the Treasure-Splitting Rock, Hong Yun's mind stirred, and he collected the Great Dao Treasure Gourd.
At the same time, the auras of the treasures inside the Great Dao Treasure Gourd also disappeared.
"Huh?"
Just moments ago, Taishang Laojun had sensed the auras of many powerful treasures. Several of them had even strongly drawn him here.
Yet in this instant, how had they all disappeared?
Taishang Laojun was somewhat stunned.
He did not know what had happened, but the powerful treasure auras he had sensed earlier had vanished in an instant.
In Taishang Laojun's field of vision, there were still dozens of treasures on the Treasure-Splitting Rock.
It was just that these treasures...
Taishang Laojun sensed them and found that most were only at the level of High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures. There were barely any Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Unable to figure out what had happened, Taishang Laojun could only take these treasures first.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Taishang Laojun began bombarding the seals on the treasures.
At the same time.
Yuanshi, Nuwa, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the others who were flying over were all somewhat stunned.
The aura that had drawn them from the unseen had suddenly disappeared.
"This is bad! Could Big Brother have taken all the treasures on the Treasure-Splitting Rock?"
Yuanshi's expression changed, and he felt that something was wrong.
Although the Three Pure Ones had all been transformed from Pangu's primordial spirit, they each had their own dojo, and their treasures were not shared.
If Taishang Laojun had taken all the treasures, Yuanshi would not even get a sip of the soup.
"Could Taishang and Yuanshi have taken all the treasures?"
Nuwa, who was flying over, also became anxious.
Her speed was somewhat slower than Taishang's and Yuanshi's.
Thus, she was flying behind them.
But now, she too had sensed the location of the Treasure-Splitting Rock.
Moreover, the auras of the treasures drawing her toward it had all disappeared.
It was difficult for Nuwa not to suspect that Taishang and Yuanshi had reached the Treasure-Splitting Rock first and divided the treasures between themselves.
Likewise, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the others behind Nuwa all looked extremely grim.
"Faster, faster! We can't let Big Brother, Second Brother, and Nuwa take all the treasures!"
Tongtian accelerated again and flew at full speed.
"The Three Pure Ones and Nuwa couldn't have taken all the treasures, could they? Our Western Lands are impoverished. We're the ones who need treasures the most!"
"Speed up! Perhaps we can still get a share!"
Jieyin and Zhunti were both extremely anxious.
By then, their speed had also surged to its absolute limit.
But no matter how fast they were, they still could not compare with Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and the others, who had already reached the early Quasi-Saint stage.
"Quick, pick up the pace!"
Dijun shouted.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and the others were like streaks of light,
swiftly overtaking Jieyin and Zhunti.
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