Multiple Choice or Single Choice? That Was the Question

"Ding-dong! Detected that the Purple Cloud Palace's third lecture was about to begin. At this critical moment, please make the correct choice in accordance with the Homebody Choice System."

"Choice One: Leave the palace immediately and travel to the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace to listen to the Dao. Reward: one strand of Primordial Violet Qi."

"Choice Two: Remain steadily hidden on the Sun Star and become a saint of the Dao of Stealth. Reward: the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus."

"Choice Three: Remain steadily hidden on the Sun Star and become the Ten-Mile Slope Sword God. Reward: the Godslaying Spear."

Sun Star.

Taiyi looked at the three choices that had appeared before him and fell into deep thought.

The system was not playing by the rules this time.

Choice One could be ignored outright.

No matter how good Primordial Violet Qi was, it was honey laced with arsenic.

As for Choices Two and Three, those two options gave Taiyi a headache for a time.

Because according to the unwritten rules of the Homebody Choice System, Taiyi could freely choose both of them.

After all, neither required him to leave the palace. Staying hidden was the right move.

However, Taiyi hesitated between the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and the Godslaying Spear.

"Legend has it that the Godslaying Spear was formed from the lotus stem of the Chaos Green Lotus combined with the baleful aura of the Three Thousand Chaos Gods and Demons after Pangu opened heaven and earth. It is ranked among the Heavenly Dao's baleful treasures and possesses extraordinary ferocity, no weaker than the Immortal Slaughtering Sword."

"The baleful aura of the Heavenly Dao contained within it can even wound a Sage's primordial spirit. It once belonged to Demon Ancestor Rahu."

"It was merely damaged by Hongjun during the Dao-Demon War and fell to the rank of a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure."

"Yet its nature as a baleful treasure of the Heavenly Dao remains. It can still wound a Sage's primordial spirit."

Thinking of this trait of the Godslaying Spear, Taiyi became even more conflicted.

As for the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, there was no need to say much. It was a treasure of the same rank as the Twelfth-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit and the Twelfth-Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus.

Furthermore, Taiyi had previously obtained a Twelfth-Grade Reincarnation Purple Jade Lotus Platform.

If he obtained another one, then among the five lotus platforms formed from the five lotus seeds of the Chaos Green Lotus, Taiyi would possess two.

Except for the thirty-sixth-grade Creation Green Lotus, which had already fallen and split apart, Taiyi would own half of the remaining four lotus platforms.

If he could gather all four lotus platforms...

Faced with such a stamp-collecting-like temptation, Taiyi's heart stirred.

But the Godslaying Spear's ability to wound a Sage's primordial spirit still made it difficult for Taiyi to choose.

Thinking of this, Taiyi gritted his teeth and boldly asked, "System, can I only choose one, or can I make multiple choices?"

"Beep. This is a multiple-choice question. Please make your selection as soon as possible. Once the deadline passes, the offer will expire."

Upon hearing this, Taiyi's face immediately darkened.

Fuck!

System, you were really underhanded!

So underhanded that you went to your underhanded grandma's house for New Year's greetings—you were underhanded all the way home.

"System, why didn't you say so earlier?"

Taiyi asked with a dark expression.

"You didn't ask."

Looking at the answer the system gave him, Taiyi was nearly angered to death.

"Looks like the Homebody Choice System isn't that simple after all!"

"I fucking thought it was just some idiot-proof choice system before!"

Taiyi complained helplessly to himself.

However, seeing the system's countdown warning light already flashing red, Taiyi hurriedly made his choice.

"System, I choose Two and Three."

In an instant, a long spear overflowing with baleful aura and a twelve-grade lotus platform filled with an aura of destruction appeared in Taiyi's hands.

They were the Godslaying Spear, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure that had fallen in rank, and the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.

"Tsk, tsk. So this is the Godslaying Spear that can wound a Sage's primordial spirit? And the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, said to be capable of destroying worlds?"

Taiyi clicked his tongue in wonder as he examined the two treasures before him.

One had to know that these had once been Demon Ancestor Rahu's supreme treasures.

But now, they were Taiyi's.

"I'll refine this Godslaying Spear first! Maybe I'll have a chance to restore it to its peak state someday."

"Then this supreme treasure will be my trump card against Sages!"

Holding the weighty Godslaying Spear, whose baleful aura was astonishing, Taiyi chuckled and immediately began refining it.

Perhaps his current cultivation realm could not compare to those Three Thousand Purple Cloud Guests, but when it came to Laws that had reached the level of control, who in the entire Primordial Wilderness could compare with him?

Besides, within the Primordial Wilderness, having a high realm alone was not enough to prove Dao and become a Sage.

Without the approval of the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun, what use was an even higher realm?

Even someone as powerful as the Ancestor of Earth Immortals, Zhenyuanzi, who stood equal to the world and held the Heaven and Earth Membrane, the Earth Book, still fell beneath the calamity.

Even Nether River Ancestor, as steady as an old dog, could only shut himself within the Blood Sea and guard that dead place. He no longer had the slightest potential; his Great Dao had come to an end.

Taiyi might have progressed slowly, but he progressed steadily!

Physical cultivation, primordial spirit cultivation, mana cultivation, realm cultivation, and Law cultivation—five powers as one!

Taiyi advanced in all of them simultaneously.

He had no weaknesses whatsoever!

Although Taiyi cultivated several paths of the Laws of the Dao, this did not conflict with or affect his future path of Law Proving Dao in the slightest.

That was because Taiyi regarded the Great Dao of the Sun Law Source as his primary Law. The Innate Five Elements Law domain, the path of Reincarnation Laws, and the rest were merely supplementary cultivation.

If, later on, the Innate Five Elements Law and the others could not be merged into his Sun Law, Taiyi would decisively abandon them.

He would instead walk the path of proving Dao through the single Sun Law Source.

Perhaps the Primordial Chaos fruit attained through such Dao proving would not be of a particularly high grade, but as long as he became a Grand Primordial Luo Golden Immortal, he would have already transcended this Primordial World.

When that time came, with heaven and earth so vast and chaos so boundless, where could he not go?

Why insist on remaining in the Primordial Wilderness and competing with these descendants of Pangu?

Why endure the surveillance and exploitation of Heavenly Dao Hongjun?

How foolish!

Of the thirty-six stratagems, fleeing was the best!

Once he escaped this circle, what could even the most formidable schemes and plots do to him?

Not a shred of karma would touch him!

He would simply go live freely and happily.

Taiyi happily refined the Godslaying Spear, a baleful treasure of the Heavenly Dao, as well as the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus afterward.

Seated upon the Twelfth-Grade Reincarnation Purple Jade Lotus Platform, his primordial spirit became cool and clear under its enhancement, and he felt no fatigue whatsoever.

Meanwhile, at the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had already begun his lecture.

At this very moment, Hongjun Daozu looked upon the nearly full hall of Quasi-Sage great powers, and a sense of accomplishment could not help rising in his heart.

He had created hundreds and thousands of Quasi-Sage great powers in a single evening. Who would have dared believe it in the past?

Even during the Dragon-Han Calamity, the Quasi-Sage experts of the Innate Three Clans combined numbered no more than ten.

Now, during this Witch and Demon Cataclysm, the experts on the Primordial Continent far surpassed those of the previous Dragon-Han Calamity in both quality and quantity!

In contrast, Taiyi and Dijun had not come to the Purple Cloud Palace to listen to his lectures and were still lingering at the late Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.

They had already fallen far behind the Three Thousand Purple Cloud Guests.

Hongjun Daozu glanced at the two Golden Crow brothers, who had remained hidden on the Sun Star without ever coming out, then silently shook his head.

"Since you are unwilling to involve yourselves, your opportunities will naturally be gone as well."

"At your current cultivation speed, how could you possibly touch the threshold of Quasi-Sage without accumulating mana for more than ten yuanhui?"

"Once the Witch and Demon War begins, all beneath Quasi-Sage will be ants. You two brothers, merely two Grand Luo Golden Immortals, will still become cannon fodder in the great calamity."

"How foolish!"

Hongjun Daozu's life had truly been filled with tremendous rises and falls. From being a supreme Chaos Demon God, he had fallen into the abyss in a single day, able only to endure hatred and humiliation while inhabiting an earthworm in the Primordial Wilderness to cultivate and attain the Dao.

Only countless years later did he transform into a Dao body.

He then experienced the Beast Calamity, the Dragon-Han Calamity, and finally the Dao-Demon War. Only after struggling on the line between life and death did he win an opportunity to become a Sage.

Thus, Hongjun Daozu understood better than anyone that to attain the Great Dao, one first had to survive.

Perhaps Taiyi and Dijun had avoided being entangled by the karma of the Witch and Demon Cataclysm, but they had also lost the opportunities within that calamity.

Where there was gain, there was loss.

"They are merely two ants. Without you, the Witch and Demon Cataclysm can still proceed just fine."

Hongjun Daozu snorted coldly, no longer paying them any attention, and focused wholeheartedly on explaining the Dao of Sages to the Three Thousand Purple Cloud Guests.