Pangu Creates Heaven, Scheme Succeeds

After Li Yi fell asleep, another ten million years passed, and the trauma caused by his soul splitting fully healed, leaving no lingering issues. Yet Li Yi still did not awaken, intending to use the blank period from now until the Calamity of World Creation to thoroughly reflect on himself and sort through what he had gained.

Time passed silently like this, and the Great Dao Rhythms grew weaker and weaker. The golden age for chaotic beings to cultivate and seek the Dao was drawing to a close. The Calamity of World Creation approached, and tribulations would come thick and fast. Whether one would seize a thread of opportunity and be reborn through Nirvana, or remain stubborn and turn to ashes, depended on their own means.

At some unknown point, the Great Dao Rhythms had completely vanished from the Chaos, replaced by roars like those of ancient primordial beasts. The Three Thousand Divine Demons had fully awakened.

In truth, Li Yi had been awake for roughly ten thousand years. After a long period of sorting things out, he summarized his own situation: first, he had attained the position of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal; second, he had created a great soul divine ability, the "Nine-Colored Pagoda"; third, he had awakened his innate divine ability, "Nirvana Samsara." Once activated, it consumed nearly two-thirds of his Magic Power, making it unusable except in life-or-death moments—only to be kept as a trump card.

Speaking of it, Li Yi was somewhat surprised by the awakening of his innate divine ability "Nirvana Samsara," because this ability was simply too terrifying. It actually drew upon the Cosmic Reincarnation force hidden within the depths of existence. Though only a sliver, that was already horrifying enough. The Cosmic Reincarnation was on par with the supreme Law of Balance; though not a law itself, it surpassed laws.

However, Li Yi discovered that almost every Chaos Demon God had awakened their innate divine abilities at this time, and many were not inferior to his own. Abilities like "Devour All Things," "Chaotic Waylessness," and "Judgment of God" were all devastatingly powerful. Thus, Li Yi felt it was better to keep a low profile.

When Li Yi awoke again, he found the entire Chaos filled with a suffocating atmosphere. Many Chaos Demon Gods had already been driven by instinct, losing their clarity, running around killing and devouring other demon gods. Desolate cries echoed throughout the Chaos World.

Li Yi glanced at the vast, towering figure of Pangu, then departed far away. After tens of thousands of years of travel, he only stopped when he was so far from the center of Chaos that he could no longer sense even a trace of Pangu's presence—where the radiation of Pangu's Axe strikes had grown extremely weak.

Li Yi was not foolish enough to run over and chat with Pangu or reminisce. If he accidentally stumbled upon Pangu about to open the heavens, he would truly have no tears left to cry. Moreover, Li Yi deeply suspected whether Pangu possessed rationality or was merely a tool derived by the Great Dao to open the heavens. If his guess was correct, he might turn to ashes before even getting close—that would be a tragedy.

As always, developing quietly and sneaking advantages was the true path. Besides, during his long journey, Li Yi had also picked up many materials for refining Magic Treasures, including Chaos Star Gold, Kui Water Divine Iron, Black Demon Copper... Most importantly, Li Yi had found three Innate Spiritual Treasures.

One must know that even within the Chaos, Innate Spiritual Treasures were absolutely limited in number. Scattered across the boundless expanse of Chaos, there might not be a single one for billions of miles. The notion of treasures lying everywhere in Chaos could only be seen in dreams.

Of course, compared to the situation after the heavens opened, there were indeed more in Chaos, because during the Calamity of World Creation, most Innate Spiritual Treasures would be destroyed.

The reason Li Yi managed to find three Innate Spiritual Treasures was that many Chaos Demon Gods, driven by their evolutionary instincts, were busy devouring and evolving, neglecting these treasures.

The three Innate Spiritual Treasures were: the Green Lotus Ancient Sword, the Void Battle Armor, and the Black Demon Cauldron. The Green Lotus Ancient Sword condensed a sliver of the Law of Annihilation, incredibly sharp. The Void Battle Armor was primarily made from Two-World Stones, possessing a sliver of Immortal Divine Nature, able to shift between void and reality. Within the Black Demon Cauldron, a black demon flame burned eternally; as long as evil in the world did not cease, the flame would not be extinguished.

Li Yi believed that the most valuable of the three treasures was the Void Battle Armor, because it contained a sliver of Immortal Divine Nature, which would greatly benefit his forging of an Immortal Mo Body. Moreover, if fate allowed, it could evolve into an Immortal Battle Treasure, possessing the characteristics of both an Innate Spiritual Treasure and an Ultimate Dao Treasure, rivaling an Innate Supreme Treasure.

Just as Li Yi was hiding within his self-arranged forbidden formations, silently waiting for the Calamity of World Creation to arrive, while Chaos Demon Gods hunted everywhere for evolution, a voice—majestic and filled with a primordial aura—spread throughout the entire Chaos World. Li Yi knew that the Calamity of World Creation had finally arrived, and his plans were about to be executed.

With the arrival of the Calamity of World Creation, the entire Chaos World began to boil. In that instant, almost every Chaos Demon God seemed to have an intuition: devour Pangu, and they could take a step further, achieve a leap in life, attain the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin, and become immortal and indestructible from then on.

This feeling came so strongly that even Li Yi, whose absolute rationality controlled his demon body, felt a stirring urge, let alone the other demon gods whose reason had been nearly consumed by evolutionary instincts. One by one, they flew at the fastest speed toward the Great God Pangu.

Soon, what came into Li Yi's view was a scene far more terrifying than the end of the world. Chaos shattered, Space Storms raged, massive axe lights flashed continuously with the might to annihilate everything, and the sound of mirrors breaking came intermittently.

The desolate screams of Chaos Demon Gods rang out without pause. At this moment, the world bled. The entire Chaos World seemed coated in a layer of scarlet paint. The aura of death seeped into Li Yi's heart bit by bit, and even his Main Body, governed by absolute rationality, could not help but show a trace of shock.

Mountains and rivers overturned, fire spread across the sky, blood flowed like rivers, the earth shattered, and screams filled the air... These apocalyptic scenes lasted for over three hundred years before gradually calming down.

Of course, Li Yi did not simply stay within his formations to weather the crisis safely. Long ago, Li Yi had devised a shocking plan, and now it was time to act.

A long time ago, Li Yi had formulated a cultivation plan to forge an Immortal Mo Body and attain the Dao through laws. But forging an Immortal Mo Body was no easy task. Neither Pangu of the Primordial World nor Hongjun or Yang Mei, who attained the Dao after the heavens opened, had managed to forge an Immortal Mo Body.

Among them, Pangu's physical body had achieved the highest level, possessing a sliver of Immortal attributes—one could say he was half-step Immortal. But even so, there was still a long way to go before true immortality.

Immortal, immortal—meant indestructible, never decaying, hard to erase even by the Great Dao. The most important and crucial step for an Immortal Mo Body was to transition from reality to void.

This was not about using any law or divine ability to hide in the void, but about becoming supremely hard, supremely firm, and supremely soft. After possessing Immortal attributes, the demon body would gradually detach from laws and reality, existing as both void and real—like a mirage overlapping with a real city. It was both real and non-existent.

Thus, Li Yi devised a mad plan: during this Calamity of World Creation, he would devour the injured demon gods on a large scale, and even devour a part of Pangu's body.

It could be said that to achieve an Immortal Body, Li Yi had thrown caution to the wind. This situation was hardly safer than directly attacking Pangu. However, compared to other demon gods, Li Yi's greatest advantage was that he remained clear-headed—that was his thread of survival.

Because Li Yi would not foolishly confront and kill those Innate Demon Gods head-on. He generally chose to first devour those already killed by the Great God Pangu, then ambush and kill those on the verge of death or severely injured, before devouring them.

Thus, during this period of the Calamity of World Creation—when Pangu opened the heavens, demon gods ran wild, Chaos shattered, and Space Storms raged—one would occasionally see an unusual demon god carrying eight wings carefully grabbing a giant demon god's corpse and vanishing in a flash, or suddenly leaping out of a cave to ambush and kill a severely injured demon god before soaring into the sky...

Events like these made some Innate Demon Gods, reincarnated from the remnant souls of Chaos Demon Gods after the heavens opened, tremble uncontrollably when recalling these memories. Later, when Li Yi's Main Body appeared and was recognized by these Innate Demon Gods, they secretly called him the Devouring Devil Master, spreading Li Yi's fearsome reputation far and wide.

After a long time, Pangu finally fell, and the Primordial World stabilized. Then, twelve drops of blood and three groups of Primordial Spirit flew out from Pangu's body. At that moment, Li Yi flew at top speed to Pangu's side, sliced off an arm with his sword, and quickly flew away.

Soon after, Pangu's body began to shatter, evolving into the myriad things of heaven and earth. His eyes—one became the sun, the other the moon. His flesh and blood transformed into the thick earth and high mountains. His veins became endless river channels. His blood turned into surging floods...

After Pangu fell, the Heavenly Dao descended boundless Mysterious Yellow Merits. One-quarter of the merits transformed into a post-heaven supreme treasure, the "Heavenly Exquisite Pagoda," also called the "Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda," impervious to all laws. One-quarter of the merits descended upon the Primordial World. The remaining half was split: half went to the Three Pure Ones' Primordial Spirits, and half went to the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Then, "whoosh," the Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda flew into Lao Zi's Primordial Spirit. Afterward, the Three Pure Ones' Primordial Spirits and the Twelve Ancestral Witches flew off in different directions.

The Chaos Era ended, and the Primordial Era officially began.