Five Directions Treasure Banners, Conscience System

Di Jiang felt as if he had just enjoyed a hearty "Family Bucket" buffet—though the process carried a subtle sense of guilt, the surging, roaring vast power that nearly burst his body instantly swept that small regret beyond the clouds.

"Burp—"

A wave of energy fluctuations, mixing the laws of time, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, weather, lightning, wind, and rain, unconsciously leaked from his newly condensed giant egg, shaking the Pangu Divine Hall with a resonant hum.

"Awesome! So this is what power feels like?" Inside the egg, Di Jiang's consciousness excitedly rubbed its hands (if an egg had hands). "Now, time to check out the Novice Gift Pack!"

With a thought, the system space opened. There was no imagined golden radiance; instead, five small, exquisite flags of various colors and five spinning beads containing pure Five Elements origin floated silently.

Novice Gift Pack: Innate Five Directions Banner (Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, Eastern Azure Lotus Treasure Color Banner, Southern Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, Western Plain Color Cloud Realm Banner, Northern Xuanyuan Water Control Banner), Innate Five Elements Spirit Pearls (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth).

System Note: Collect all five flags and five pearls to deploy the complete Innate Five Elements Great Array, creating a self-contained world, reversing the Five Elements, with unmatched defense and integrated trapping and killing. Theoretically, it can trap a Saint (Note: Saints have thick faces; trapping duration depends on the host's mana and the target's willingness to lose face).

"Holy crap!!!"

Di Jiang's eggshell brightened a few shades from excitement. "The Innate Five Directions Banner! The Five Elements Spirit Pearls! This, this gift pack is way too luxurious! Aren't the Five Elements Flags scattered among the big shots of the Primordial World? And the Five Elements Spirit Pearls seem to be in different places too... System, are you a thief?! And a top-tier one who only picks hard bones to crack!"

He could already envision his future—once his eggshell came out... ah, no, once his divine body emerged—the five flags unfurling, the five pearls spinning, deploying the great array, and no matter the army or Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, they'd have to sing him a song of surrender! Even trapping a Saint, even if just theoretically, this was the ultimate Primordial version of "draw a circle and curse you"!

Meanwhile, at Jade Capital Mountain.

Daoist Hongjun, having just endured a bitter battle and, relying on fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation and numerous schemes, narrowly defeated the Devil Ancestor Luohu, had just returned to his Dao field. He sat cross-legged, regulating his breath, preparing to welcome the coming great era of the world and sorting through the gains of this war.

Out of habit, he swept his divine sense over several treasured sites he had secretly marked, planning to retrieve them later when fate allowed...

"Hmm???"

Hongjun's eyes snapped open, a flicker of doubt flashing within.

"The opportunities I sensed in those places—how has their aura completely vanished? As if they never existed in the world? Strange! Even the heavenly mechanism is a chaotic mess!"

He frantically calculated with his fingers, but found the heavenly mechanism as murky as stirred mud, unable to deduce anything. His brow furrowed deeply, feeling that things had slipped beyond some form of control.

"Never mind, fate has not yet arrived. Focus on cultivation!"

Deep within the Blood Sea, where filth and slaughter converged.

A massive blood cocoon pulsed slowly—this was the yet-unformed Old Ancestor Minghe. His nascent consciousness instinctively sensed that a spiritual treasure, one tied to his origin within the Blood Sea, had its causal line abruptly severed? As if erased from existence by something!

The blood cocoon trembled violently, emitting an emotion of anger mixed with confusion, but there was nothing to be done—he didn't even know what the treasure was!

Above the Nine Heavens, the Primordial World Heavenly Dao, hidden in the unseen, also rippled with a barely perceptible disturbance.

Several important Innate Spiritual Treasures, destined to play roles in the predetermined course of fate, had vanished without a trace, snapping causal chains. This left the Heavenly Dao, still perfecting its own rules after the Dao-Demon Conflict, feeling a sense of confusion and discomfort.

An invisible force of investigation began sweeping through the Primordial World, trying to locate the source of the anomaly, but ultimately hesitated outside the Pangu Divine Hall, thick with Pangu's might.

Inside the egg, Di Jiang knew nothing of this. Even if he did, he'd only be happier now. He admired the five flags and five pearls with delight, then suddenly remembered the most important big one.

"System, system! Where's my Chaos Bell? Hurry up and show it to me! Eastern Emperor Taiyi's signature item—from now on, it's mine!"

Di Jiang couldn't wait to feel the majesty of "Bell rings once, parents raise in vain."

But the system, unusually, did not respond immediately. After a moment of silence, a reply came with a faint "electrical static" and a sound of "overexerted panting" (if a system could pant):

"Ding! Host, host... hold your horses! The Chaos Bell... is currently in transit!"

In the background, faint sounds of fierce collision and some kind of rule-based hum could be heard... "Damn! This stubborn bell is quite defiant! This system is currently engaging in... friendly negotiations with the local 'logistics administrator'! Fighting for package ownership! Rest assured... when it comes to grabbing things... ah, no, delivery services, this system is a professional! It'll be... soon... soon... handled!"

Di Jiang: "???"

He could almost picture an intangible system, on the network of Primordial rules, locked in a fierce battle with a firewall named "Heavenly Dao"—or perhaps an antivirus software—over the "data packet" that was the Chaos Bell, code flying everywhere...

A bead of invisible cold sweat dripped from Di Jiang's eggshell: "System, are you sure you're just a choice system, and not some 'Primordial SF Express' or 'Multiverse Express and Robbery Co.'? Doing this, won't you offend Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao to death?"

Ding! Host, rest assured! This system strictly adheres to the "Transmigrator Welfare Guarantee Regulations." All operations are conducted within the loopholes... ah, no, the framework of the rules! The current priority—help the host snatch the Chaos Bell! Host, please patiently hatch the egg and wait for the harvest!

Di Jiang: "..."

Well, it seemed that before he broke out of his shell, he'd have to rely on this somewhat unreliable system to "negotiate" the Chaos Bell into hand. Curled up in the egg, feeling the surging power within, hugging the Five Directions Banner and Five Elements Spirit Pearls, his heart was both expectant and a little uneasy!

"This Primordial World, ever since I arrived, seems to have gotten pretty chaotic, huh?"

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