"You dare kill me? The mountain lord won't let you off!"
This severely wounded Innate God in the Heavenly God Realm had just let out an angry roar.
Luo Qing beheaded him with a single slash and sealed away his primordial spirit.
"Rest easy. I won't kill you!"
Luo Qing chuckled. He had not expected to capture another Innate God at the Heavenly God Realm so easily.
After erasing all traces of the two severely wounded Heavenly God Fierce Beasts, Luo Qing followed the same method and prepared to ambush more Innate Gods.
But this time, Luo Qing was not so lucky.
The second Heavenly God Innate God he ambushed actually possessed a defensive Mid-grade Innate Treasure.
The three Blazing Thunder Pearls Luo Qing used failed to blast through the treasure's defenses.
"Careful! There's a thief attacking from the shadows!"
This Innate God had been ambushed by three thunder pearls without warning and was terrified.
Using a treasure's self-detonation to launch an ambush? That was definitely not something a fierce beast would do.
He immediately shouted that someone had attacked him from the shadows, spreading the news far and wide.
"Not good!"
Luo Qing's expression changed. This time, he had kicked an iron plate.
"Run!"
Daring not to take any chances, Luo Qing immediately fled beyond the battlefield under the concealment of the Immortal Artifact.
An Innate God at the Heavenly God Realm had been ambushed from the shadows.
This immediately attracted the attention of a True God from Hundred Gods Mountain.
However, by the time the True God descended to investigate, Luo Qing had already fled a thousand kilometers away.
"Warn all Innate Gods to act carefully. Don't let yourselves be ambushed!"
The True God found nothing and, with a dark expression, immediately warned the other Innate Gods.
Innate Gods held a special position in Hundred Gods Mountain. Once it was discovered that someone was assassinating Innate Gods,
Hundred Gods Mountain immediately responded by protecting all the lower-level Innate Gods.
After tallying the casualties, they discovered that, apart from the two Heavenly God Innate Gods who had died fighting the fierce beasts,
two Earth Gods and one Heavenly God were also missing. This infuriated all the gods of Hundred Gods Mountain.
Someone had actually assassinated Innate Gods right under their noses. It was truly infuriating.
If they had not been in the middle of a great battle with the fierce beasts, they would have summoned the Golden Immortal elders to seal off tens of thousands of kilometers and search for the culprit.
Only after fleeing three thousand kilometers from the battlefield did Luo Qing finally let out a heavy sigh of relief.
"What a pity. If that last Heavenly God hadn't been protected by a Mid-grade Innate Treasure, capturing two or three more Heavenly Gods would have been easy."
Luo Qing spoke with great regret.
After sorting everything out, Luo Qing had captured a total of three Innate Gods on the battlefield where Hundred Gods Mountain fought the fierce beasts.
Adding the two he had lured and captured earlier, along with Bai Yan, he had gathered six people.
"Six Innate Gods. It's still a little few, but it should be enough!"
Luo Qing muttered. There was no way he could return to the battlefield.
Moreover, there were only a few Blazing Thunder Pearls left in Luo Qing's possession.
Without the assistance of the Blazing Thunder Pearls, Luo Qing might be able to defeat an Innate God at the Heavenly God Realm by relying on his own strength.
But capturing one would be nothing short of wishful thinking.
However, Luo Qing had paid a considerable price to capture the five Innate Gods in his possession.
The sixty self-detonating, weakened Mid-grade Innate Treasures—the Blazing Thunder Pearls—were not even worth mentioning.
A complete set of nine Treasure Mirrors, including the eight sub-mirror Immortal Artifacts, had all been lost, and Luo Qing did not dare search for them.
The four Immortal Artifacts that concealed the fluctuations of battle had also been destroyed.
The five Immortal Artifacts of the Five Elements Arena were on the verge of being ruined and needed to be reforged.
To be honest, for the sake of five Innate Gods, Luo Qing had more or less scrapped nearly eighty Tier-Two Immortal Artifacts.
The only reason he could afford it was his peerless mastery of refining Immortal Artifacts. Otherwise, even an ordinary Golden Immortal would not have been able to bear the cost.
Half a month later, without anyone noticing, Luo Qing silently returned to his own cave abode in the Crimson Flame Tribe.
By then, news that a Taiyi Fierce Beast King had launched a beast tide assault on Hundred Gods Mountain had spread throughout the Five Elements Tribe.
The fierce beasts had not made any major moves for thousands of years, yet they had suddenly launched such an attack.
Hundred Gods Mountain had suffered heavy losses. No fewer than five Golden Immortal elders had died in battle, and over ten thousand gods had stained the earth with their blood, buried at the foot of Hundred Gods Mountain.
Even among Hundred Gods Mountain's core forces, nearly twenty Innate Gods had died in succession.
Although it was not the Five Elements Tribe that had suffered the brunt of the beast tide,
the tragic state of Hundred Gods Mountain still sounded an alarm for the Five Elements Tribe.
The Five Elements Tribe was not much stronger than Hundred Gods Mountain. If the Beast Tide attacked them, they would probably suffer similarly heavy losses.
After Luo Qing returned to his cave abode and began another retreat,
within just a few days, the entire Five Elements Tribe went on high alert.
No fierce beast at the God Realm was allowed to exist within ten thousand kilometers. Five Metal God elders even took turns patrolling the region, staying vigilant against a beast tide attack.
"Luo Qing, unless it's absolutely necessary, don't leave the tribe during this period. Understood?"
"Rest assured, Captain Huoshi. I'll enter seclusion and cultivate for a while. I won't be going out."
"Good. The fierce beasts have grown increasingly active over the past thousand years. Raising your cultivation a little will do you good!"
Captain Huoshi gave Luo Qing a few more instructions before hurrying away.
"Seeing how tense the tribe is, could the Fierce Beast Calamity be about to begin?"
Watching Captain Huoshi's departing back, Luo Qing secretly wondered.
At the same time, a sense of urgency rose in his heart.
The Fierce Beast Calamity was no joke.
Nor was it merely a battle between a supreme divine being and the Beast Emperor Shen Ni, glossed over in a few words in the novels of his previous life.
According to records passed down through the Five Elements Tribe since ancient times,
almost every epoch cycle, the fierce beasts would erupt in a large-scale rampage—sometimes after tens of thousands of years, sometimes after only ten thousand.
And every time the fierce beasts rampaged, the population of living beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness would be cut in half.
During the most devastating incident, the Five Elements Tribe had even lost every Golden Immortal elder.
If the surrounding factions had not suffered similarly heavy losses and everyone had not been licking their wounds after the beast calamity,
the Five Elements Tribe might truly have become history.
But things were different from the past.
The Immortal Dao cultivation methods had now appeared, which meant the history of the Primordial Wilderness was drawing closer to certain fragments Luo Qing knew.
It also meant that the most devastating Fierce Beast Calamity in history was gradually approaching.
Once the calamity erupted, let alone Celestial Immortals—even Golden Immortals would be no more than rolling fodder beneath it.
"I must revert to Innate as soon as possible!"
Luo Qing made up his mind.
He had a premonition that he might not have much time left.
Deep within the cave abode,
two Earth Gods, two Heavenly Gods, and one True God stood in a row.
Together, they were five Innate Gods.
Having gained experience from researching Bai Yan last time, the Eye of the Great Dao now analyzed Innate Gods noticeably faster.
Five hundred years passed, and the two Earth God Innate Gods were the first to be completely analyzed by Luo Qing.
Their positions, Divine Bodies, and primordial spirits were all fully understood by Luo Qing.
Another thousand years passed.
Luo Qing finally deciphered the secrets of the two Heavenly God Innate Gods, mastering every last one of their mysteries.
With the experience of analyzing five Innate Gods, the final True God Innate God still took Luo Qing fifteen hundred years.
Only then did he completely decipher the core genetic code.
Three thousand years had passed in total—nearly three times as long as the span of Luo Qing's previous life trajectory.
"So that's how it is. The Innate Divine Body, Innate Position, primordial spirit, and Origin of the Great Dao are actually related..."
After three thousand years, the Azure Light in Luo Qing's eyes finally subsided.
With six Innate Gods as references, the structure of the Innate Divine Body, the birth of the Innate Position, and the transformation of the primordial spirit
had all become clear to Luo Qing. He was confident that he could complete an Innate Divine Body and Innate Position belonging solely to himself.
Now, only the most important Origin of the Dao remained.
The Divine Body and Innate Position were both born in dependence on the Origin of the Dao.
If the attributes of the Origin of the Great Dao could not be determined, the Innate Divine Body and Innate Position could not be determined either.
But the Origin of the Great Dao was something Luo Qing could hear of, yet could never reach.
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