The Calamity Approaches

"If you dare kill me, the Mountain Lord will not let you go!"

The severely injured Heavenly God Realm Innate God had just roared when Luo Qing beheaded him with a single saber strike, sealing his Nascent Soul.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you!"

Luo Qing chuckled. He hadn't expected to capture another Heavenly God Realm Innate God so easily.

After destroying the corpses of the two severely injured Heavenly God Fierce Beasts, Luo Qing prepared to continue his sneak attacks on other Innate Gods, following the same pattern.

However, Luo Qing was not as lucky this time.

The second Innate God he ambushed actually possessed a Mid-grade Innate Treasure for defense.

Luo Qing's three Blazing Thunder Pearls failed to break through the treasure's defenses.

"Careful, there's a thief attacking from the shadows!"

The Innate God was startled by the sneak attack of the three thunder pearls, his heart pounding.

Using self-detonating treasures to ambush? This was definitely not something a Fierce Beast would do.

He immediately roared, spreading the word that someone was secretly attacking him.

"This is bad!"

Luo Qing's expression changed. He had kicked an iron plate this time.

"Escape!"

Without any trace of luck, Luo Qing, concealed by his stealth Immortal Artifact, quickly fled the battlefield.

An Innate God with Heavenly God cultivation was being ambushed.

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 miles away.

"Warn all Innate Gods to proceed with caution and avoid being ambushed!"

The True God, finding no trace of the culprit, issued a warning to the other Innate Gods with a grim expression.

Innate Gods held a special status in Hundred Gods Mountain. Upon discovering someone assassinating Innate Gods, Hundred Gods Mountain immediately reacted, protecting the lower-cultivation Innate Gods.

The final tally revealed that, besides two Innate Gods who died in battle against Fierce Beasts, two Earth Gods and one Heavenly God were missing. This undoubtedly infuriated the gods of Hundred Gods Mountain.

Someone was assassinating Innate Gods right under their noses; it was truly infuriating.

If not for the ongoing war with the Fierce Beasts, they would have surely invited Golden Immortal elders to seal off tens of thousands of miles and search for the culprit.

After fleeing three thousand miles from the battlefield, Luo Qing finally breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

"What a shame. If that last Heavenly God hadn't been protected by a Mid-grade treasure, capturing two or three more Heavenly Gods would have been no problem."

Luo Qing said with great regret.

After sorting things out, Luo Qing had captured a total of three Innate Gods on the Hundred Gods Mountain battlefield against the Fierce Beasts.

Adding the two he had lured and captured previously, along with Bai Yan, he had assembled a group of six.

"Six Innate Gods, still a bit few, but it should be enough!"

Luo Qing muttered. He definitely couldn't return to the battlefield.

Moreover, Luo Qing didn't have many Blazing Thunder Pearls left.

Without the assistance of the Blazing Thunder Pearls for ambushes, Luo Qing might be able to defeat a Heavenly God-level Innate God with his own strength now.

But capturing them would be a pipe dream.

However, the price Luo Qing paid for capturing these five Innate Gods was not small.

Not to mention the sixty self-detonating, weakened Mid-grade Innate Treasure Blazing Thunder Pearls.

His set of nine Surveillance Mirrors, with all eight subsidiary mirrors lost, Luo Qing dared not go looking for them.

The four Immortal Artifacts used to conceal battle fluctuations were also destroyed.

The Five Elements Arena's five Immortal Artifacts were also on the verge of destruction and needed to be re-forged.

To be honest, for five Innate Gods, Luo Qing had essentially wasted nearly 80 second-tier Immortal Artifacts.

This was only possible because Luo Qing possessed peak mastery in refining Immortal Artifacts; otherwise, even an ordinary Golden Immortal could not afford such a price.

Half a month later, undetected, Luo Qing quietly returned to his Cave Mansion in the Crimson Flame Tribe.

At this time, the news that the Taiyi Fierce Beast King had launched a beast tide attack on Hundred Gods Mountain had already spread throughout the entire Five Elements Tribe.

When the Fierce Beasts had been inactive for thousands of years, this sudden onslaught caused heavy losses for Hundred Gods Mountain. No less than five Golden Immortal elders died in battle, and over ten thousand gods bled on the land, buried at the foot of Hundred Gods Mountain.

Even the core personnel of Hundred Gods Mountain, the Innate Gods, had lost nearly twenty.

Although the Five Elements Tribe wasn't the one heavily damaged in this beast tide.

The tragic state of Hundred Gods Mountain still served as a wake-up call for the Five Elements Tribe.

The Five Elements Tribe's strength wasn't much greater than Hundred Gods Mountain's. If a fierce beast tide attacked them, they would likely suffer heavy losses as well.

As Luo Qing returned to his Cave Mansion and went into seclusion once more.

Within a few days, the entire Five Elements Tribe was put on high alert.

No fierce beasts with Divine Realm cultivation were allowed within a ten-thousand-mile radius. Furthermore, five Gold God elders took turns patrolling the area, vigilant against the approaching beast tide.

"Luo Qing, during this period, do not leave the tribe unless absolutely necessary, understand?"

"Captain Huoshi, rest assured. I will be in seclusion cultivation for a while and won't be going out."

"That's good. In the past thousand years, the fierce beasts have become increasingly active. Improving your cultivation is a good thing!"

Captain Huoshi gave Luo Qing a few instructions before hurrying away.

"Seeing how tense the tribe is, could it be that the Fierce Beast Calamity is about to begin?"

Watching Captain Huoshi's departing back, Luo Qing secretly guessed.

At the same time, a sense of urgency rose within Luo Qing.

The Fierce Beast Calamity was no joke.

It wasn't just a battle between top-tier divine beings and the Beast Emperor Shen Ni, which was glossed over in a few words in novels from his past life.

According to the records passed down through the Five Elements Tribe since ancient times.

Almost every Era, at most tens of thousands of years apart, and at least ten thousand years, fierce beasts would riot on a large scale.

And after each fierce beast riot, the population of all living beings in the Primordial Era would be halved.

In the most tragic instance, the Five Elements Tribe even lost all of its Gold God elders.

If it weren't for the fact that surrounding forces also suffered heavy losses, and everyone was licking their wounds after the beast calamity, The Five Elements Tribe would have truly become history.

But things were different now.

The Immortal Path cultivation methods had appeared, which meant that the history of the Primordial Era was approaching some fragments that Luo Qing knew.

It also meant that the most severe Fierce Beast Calamity in history was gradually approaching.

Once the calamity erupted, let alone Heavenly Immortals, even Gold Immortals would merely be cannon fodder under the calamity.

"I must Revert to Innate as quickly as possible!"

Luo Qing secretly resolved.

He had a premonition that he might not have much time left.

Deep within the Cave Mansion.

Two Earth Gods, two Heavenly Gods, and one True God.

A total of five Innate Gods lined up.

With the experience of studying Bai Yan last time, the Eye of the Great Dao's analysis speed of Innate Gods had significantly increased.

Five hundred years passed, and the two Earth God Innate Gods were the first to be completely analyzed by Luo Qing.

Their status, Divine Body, and Nascent Soul were all understood by Luo Qing.

Another thousand years passed.

The secrets of the two Heavenly God Innate Gods were finally deciphered by Luo Qing, and all their codes were mastered.

With the experience of analyzing five Innate Gods, it still took Luo Qing one thousand five hundred years to analyze the last True God Innate God.

Before finally cracking its gene core code completely.

A total of three thousand years, nearly three times longer than Luo Qing's previous life trajectory.

"So that's how it is, the relationship between the Innate Divine Body, status, Nascent Soul, and the Origin of the Great Dao is..."

After three thousand years, the blue light in Luo Qing's eyes finally receded.

With six Innate Gods as references, the structure of the Innate Divine Body, the birth of innate status, and the transformation of the Nascent Soul.

These were all clear to Luo Qing. He was confident in creating his own unique Innate Divine Body and status.

Now, only the most crucial Origin of the Dao was missing.

The Divine Body and status were all born dependent 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 status could not be finalized.

However, the Origin of the Great Dao was something that Luo Qing could hear but not reach.