Chapter 1

The Great Desolation knew no passage of time.

Ever since Pangu created the heavens and earth,

this world had cycled through countless epochs.

Throughout that time, it had endured innumerable calamities.

The Great Desolation's tribulations had begun with the struggle among the three clans during the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation,

and had now evolved into the conflict of the Witch-Demon Tribulation.

At present, nearly ten thousand years had passed since the first great battle between the Witch and Demon races.

The Six Sages had long since attained sainthood.

The lands of the Great Desolation had temporarily returned to peace.

Although the Witch and Demon races occasionally clashed in localized conflicts,

a full-scale war would not break out for the time being.

Ten thousand miles away from Buzhou Mountain,

there stood a mountain called Wuji Peak.

This mountain was a Blessed Land,

and had long since been occupied by a cultivator.

At the summit of Wuji Peak, before Changsheng Palace,

a young and handsome cultivator walked out.

His name was Lu Changsheng. Gazing across the heavens and earth of the Great Desolation, he could not help sighing:

"Alas—it seems I transformed too late after all!"

Lu Changsheng was not native to the Great Desolation,

but was a transmigrator.

Fortunately, unlike other transmigrators with ordinary origins,

his luck was fairly good.

He had transmigrated into an Innate Deity,

and his true form was the Innate Enlightenment Tree.

His cultivation was currently at the early stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Even so, he could not help feeling emotional:

If he had transformed during the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation,

he would at least have become a Quasi-Saint powerhouse by now.

At this thought, Lu Changsheng shook his head again:

"With this origin, even if I transformed a little late, I will certainly reach the Quasi-Saint realm in the future.

Unfortunately, all the Saint positions have already been taken,

so my road ahead is ultimately limited!"

Throughout the heavens and earth of the Great Desolation,

even a Quasi-Saint, hailed as the strongest beneath the saints,

was merely an illusion.

Beneath the saints, everyone was an ant.

Those who failed to become saints could never escape their status as ants.

At this thought, Lu Changsheng felt melancholy,

and he still did not know where his path ahead would lead.

Just as Lu Changsheng was feeling lost about the future, a mechanical voice rang out in his mind without warning.

"Ding—the host has been detected. The Great Dao Spendthrift System is beginning its binding!"

The moment that "ding" rang out,

the confusion on Lu Changsheng's face instantly vanished.

The corners of his lips lifted, and his face filled with delight.

As a transmigrator, how could he not know what a "system" was?

However, after the system announced its name, Lu Changsheng's smile froze on his face.

Several black lines appeared on his forehead.

"What is this? A spendthrift system? Can this thing even work in the Great Desolation World?"

As a transmigrator, Lu Changsheng was extremely familiar with systems.

There were all kinds of them: the Crazy Cool System, the Spendthrift System, the Suicidal System, the Show-Off-and-Slap-Faces System, and countless others.

But a system's compatibility with its world was extremely important.

Using a spendthrift system in an urban world would be an absolutely divine setup.

But in the Great Desolation World... how was he supposed to squander money?

Just as Lu Changsheng was utterly bewildered, the system finally completed its binding.

"Ding—congratulations, host. The Great Dao Spendthrift System has been successfully bound."

"Rewarding the host with one hundred trillion merit points. Please squander them to your heart's content."

"Once all one hundred trillion merit points have been squandered, you will immediately become a saint and achieve the supreme Great Dao Saint realm."

After hearing the system's introduction, Lu Changsheng was stunned.

"It can actually allow me to directly attain the Great Dao Saint realm!"

One had to know that the current Six Sages of the Great Desolation were merely Heavenly Dao Saints.

Even Dao Ancestor Hongjun was only the representative of the Heavenly Dao.

Yet what the system had promised was a Great Dao Saint who surpassed the Heavenly Dao and stood above Chaos!

Thinking back to the ancient supreme god Pangu, who had destroyed three thousand Chaos Demon Gods comparable to Heavenly Dao Saints with a single axe, he had only reached half a step into the Dao Realm.

He was still far from becoming a true Great Dao Saint.

At this thought, Lu Changsheng's smile grew even brighter.

Looking at the one hundred trillion merit points in the system, he chuckled:

"If I use all one hundred trillion merit points on myself, can I become a Great Dao Saint directly?"

As Lu Changsheng muttered to himself, the system prompt sounded again.

"Ding—the one hundred trillion merit points gifted by the system cannot be used to increase your own cultivation or strength."

"They also cannot be given to others without reason. They may only be bestowed according to the principle of equivalent exchange."

It would have been wonderful if he could use these one hundred trillion merit points to let himself squander them to his heart's content.

Why go to all the trouble of messing around with other things?

At that moment, Lu Changsheng suddenly recalled the Bihu Forum he had often browsed before transmigrating.

An impulse surged through him. He really wanted to make a post right away:

"Living in the Great Desolation with one hundred trillion merit points—how can I squander them all in the shortest possible time?"

Just as Lu Changsheng was silently complaining, the system prompt sounded once again:

"Ding—the host has bound the system for the first time. A mysterious gift pack is being specially awarded. Please claim it promptly!"

Hearing the prompt, delight flashed through Lu Changsheng's eyes. He muttered:

"As expected of a spendthrift system. It just gave me one hundred trillion merit points, and now it's giving me a gift pack too!"

With a thought, he opened the system panel and selected Receive.

At once, a gift pack shining with golden light appeared in his mind.

Lu Changsheng opened it without hesitation.

"Ding—congratulations, host. You have obtained the Great Dao technique: Primordial Creation Art 1."

"Ding—congratulations, host. You have obtained the Innate Supreme Treasure: God-Slaying Spear 1."

"Ding—congratulations, host. You have obtained the Great Dao divine ability: Sacred Azure Tribulation Light 1."

"Ding—congratulations, host. You have obtained the Chaos spirit fruit: Ascending Dao Profound Spirit Fruit 1."

Listening to the system prompts ringing out one after another and looking over the rewards displayed on the panel,

even Lu Changsheng, a transmigrator who had long understood the Great Desolation World,

could not help feeling his heart race and his breathing quicken.

The rewards in this mysterious gift pack were truly astonishing.

"As expected of the Spendthrift System. These rewards are simply beyond imagination!"

Lu Changsheng stared at each reward on the system panel, his heart surging with excitement.

Take the first reward, the Primordial Creation Art,

for example.

This Great Dao technique could condense three thousand Dao Seeds within the body and evolve the Three Thousand Laws.

When facing an enemy, with the Three Thousand Laws empowering him, he would be virtually invincible.

If he could completely comprehend all the laws, his combat strength would increase by more than ten thousand times, producing astonishing power.

More importantly, cultivating this technique would allow him to automatically deduce the Three Thousand Laws afterward.

There would be no more bottlenecks or obstacles on his path of cultivation.

He could smoothly advance directly toward the supreme realm of the Great Dao Saint.

That was the true value of the Great Dao technique.

By contrast, the other techniques of the Great Desolation World,

even the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique cultivated by the Three Pure Ones,

were already worthy of being called top-tier techniques of the Great Desolation if they could cultivate someone to the Quasi-Saint realm.

At a higher level, there was the Primordial Unity realm, like that of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Being able to cultivate to the point of severing the Three Corpses was enough to make countless cultivators throughout the Great Desolation yearn for it.

The Dao Realm was clearly unimaginably far away.

"What a pity. Due to the system's restrictions, I will never be able to attain the Great Dao Saint realm before I squander all one hundred trillion merit points."

Lu Changsheng gazed at the Primordial Creation Art and spoke helplessly under his breath.

After sighing, Lu Changsheng turned his gaze to the second reward—

the Innate Supreme Treasure, the God-Slaying Spear.

In an instant, his mood brightened again.

After all, this was the treasure once wielded by Demon Ancestor Rahula. It was hailed as the most vicious supreme treasure in the Great Desolation, and its power was astonishing. The baleful aura it released could even corrode a saint's primordial spirit.

After recalling the records concerning the God-Slaying Spear, Lu Changsheng took it out without hesitation.

At once, baleful energy filled the area outside Changsheng Palace. Cold light flickered at the spearhead, and its sharpness was so overwhelming that even without being struck directly, a physical body could easily be shattered by its mere edge.

"Tsk, tsk. Is this the number-one vicious supreme treasure of the Great Desolation, capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the Immortal-Slaying Sword?"

Lu Changsheng watched the sharp edge of the God-Slaying Spear and could not help praising it repeatedly.

In the Great Desolation, it was an existence comparable to the Immortal-Slaying Sword, which was said to be "unbreakable unless four saints joined forces." It belonged among the supreme treasures of the Great Desolation.

After examining it carefully, Lu Changsheng began refining it.

As an Innate Supreme Treasure, the God-Slaying Spear required eighty-one restrictions to be established before it could be completely refined.

A thousand years passed in the blink of an eye, and he finally refined this foremost killing treasure of the Great Desolation for his own use.

After playing with it for a while, Lu Changsheng continued looking toward the third reward—

the Great Dao divine ability, Sacred Azure Tribulation Light.

He was unfamiliar with this divine ability, so he directly checked the relevant introduction in the system.

Sacred Azure Tribulation Light: After being unleashed, it could shoot out a tribulation light. Wherever it passed, yin and yang would be thrown into disorder, space-time would be annihilated, and the heavens and earth would return to extinction!

Upon seeing the description, Lu Changsheng was deeply shaken.

"What a terrifying divine ability!"

Although the divine ability's power was boundless, his cultivation was currently only at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. He was afraid he could not unleash even one ten-thousandth of its might.

After recovering from his shock, Lu Changsheng turned his gaze toward the final reward—

the Chaos spirit fruit, Ascending Dao Profound Spirit Fruit.

Just this name alone made his heart surge.

After all, Chaos spirit fruits were supreme spiritual roots that had vanished at the beginning of the creation of the world.

Nowadays, the greatest spiritual root in the Great Desolation was merely the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

As for Chaos Spirit Roots and other Chaos-born entities, the living beings of the Great Desolation had never even heard of them, much less seen one with their own eyes.

Even those saints of the Great Desolation had only heard of their names and had never seen the real thing.

"Tsk, tsk. It even gives something like this directly. This system is far too generous!"

Amid his astonishment, Lu Changsheng eagerly examined the effects of the Ascending Dao Profound Spirit Fruit.

Its effect was simple yet astonishing—

it could transform one's origin.

That ability was truly earth-shaking.

Seeing such bountiful rewards, Lu Changsheng could no longer hold himself back.

He immediately took out the Ascending Dao Profound Spirit Fruit and began refining it.

As the spirit fruit was refined, three thousand Great Dao incantations appeared around Lu Changsheng, circling endlessly,

and radiating supreme pressure.

At the same time, the countless apertures within the Violet Palace in his body

each evolved into a world.

Upon closer inspection, each aperture contained its own heaven and earth,

An independent world formed,

Within it, the starry cosmos stretched vast and boundless, its radiance dazzling.

When the countless apertures bloomed with resplendent light all at once,

A terrifying aura belonging to a top-tier Chaos Demon God erupted with a thunderous roar,

Blasting open the apertures throughout his body and shooting straight through the boundless heavens and cosmos,

Causing countless great powers across the Primordial World to turn their gazes toward him,

They wanted to investigate, but discovered that the aura had already vanished without a trace.

The transformation was complete. Lu Changsheng let out a long breath:

"Whew—finally done. I wonder what level my innate foundation has reached?"

As he muttered to himself, he used his divine sense to examine his own body,

And discovered that his innate foundation had already advanced from that of an Innate Deity,

All the way to the realm of a top-tier Chaos Demon God.

Even Lu Changsheng, a transmigrator himself, could not help marveling at this result:

"Is this the power of the Chaos Spirit Root? It's simply unbelievable!"

One had to know that his innate foundation had originally already been top-notch,

Yet the Six Sages of the Primordial World currently possessed only the innate foundation of Innate Deities,

While he had already become a top-tier Chaos Demon God comparable to Great God Pangu.

As his innate foundation improved,

Lu Changsheng's cultivation naturally took a major step forward as well,

Rising from the early stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm to the late stage.

After refining the Chaos Spirit Fruit,

Lu Changsheng began cultivating the Great Dao.