To find the Origin of the Great Dao, the only thing Luo Qing could rely on was the probing function of the Eye of the Great Dao.
After three thousand years of secluded cultivation, Luo Qing emerged from seclusion.
He discovered that the atmosphere surrounding the war between the fierce beasts and the Divine Race had grown even more intense.
Although the fierce beasts had not launched another large-scale beast tide since they besieged Hundred Gods Mountain last time,
the fiendish aura between heaven and earth had grown denser, and fierce beasts were spawning more frequently.
These were precisely the signs that appeared before every outbreak of the Fierce Beast Calamity.
The entire Five Elements Tribe had already entered a state of martial law. Unless absolutely necessary, its people were no longer permitted to leave.
To search for the Origin of the Great Dao, Luo Qing could not remain cooped up in the tribe forever.
Thus, he joined the Crimson Flame Tribe's patrol and hunting teams, taking responsibility for hunting fierce beasts within ten thousand miles of the Five Elements Tribe.
Luo Qing knew that the possibility of an Innate Spiritual Treasure or a place where an Innate God was being nurtured existing within ten thousand miles of the Five Elements Tribe was extremely low.
However, the situation in the Primordial Wilderness was so severe now that he did not know when a great war might break out.
As a postnatal Celestial Immortal cultivator, Luo Qing was simply too weak. It was impossible for him to travel far from the tribe.
He could only search nearby for now.
Perhaps he might get lucky and discover the Origin of the Dao.
When Luo Qing began searching for the Origin of the Dao around the Five Elements Tribe,
far away in the north of the Primordial Wilderness, deep within the fierce beasts' lair,
the three great innate Beast Emperors—Ghost Mother, Chaos, and Giant Spirit—had gathered inside the Chaos Divine Hall.
From deep within the Beast Divine Hall came waves of immense fiendish fluctuations.
Clearly, a fierce beast was breaking through in cultivation.
Ghost Mother was hidden within a mass of mist, her true form nowhere to be seen. Her voice drifted out eerily, as if it came from the Netherworld.
"Looks like Shen Ni has reached the brink of a breakthrough. Once Shen Ni achieves the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, we can begin the war to exterminate the gods."
"Eat, eat, eat!"
"I want to eat the entire Divine Race, especially the Innate Sacred Beings. They taste so wonderful! This Chaos is already starving! Hahahaha!"
The Chaos Beast Emperor had the form of a toad, but its mouth alone occupied half its body. Chaotic fiendish aura coiled around it.
Its voice sounded like a child's wail as it laughed maniacally with frenzied intelligence.
The Beast Emperor Giant Spirit was a gigantic ball of flesh, from which countless blood-red tentacles sprouted.
At the end of every tentacle was the illusory head of a living being.
"Once Shen Ni breaks through, all four of us Beast Emperors will be at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. We will surely be able to slaughter all the gods and turn the Primordial World into a paradise for fierce beasts."
When Giant Spirit spoke, it sounded as though countless living beings were speaking at once. Their voices included male and female, humble and holy, coarse and sharp tones, among others.
As soon as Giant Spirit finished speaking, the fiendish aura deep within the Chaos Divine Hall suddenly contracted.
At the same time, a fierce voice rang out from the depths.
"Well said! The Primordial World is a paradise for our fierce beasts—and it can only be a paradise for our fierce beasts."
Ghost Mother exclaimed in delight, "Shen Ni, have you completed your breakthrough?"
Chaos cheered, "Shen Ni, Shen Ni!"
Upon hearing Shen Ni's voice, even Giant Spirit's myriad faces revealed joy.
Although the fierce beast clan had four innate Beast Emperors, all except Shen Ni had previously reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
Yet Shen Ni was the true leader of the fierce beast clan, and he was also the foremost of the Four Emperors.
"I have achieved the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. The grudge between our fierce beast clan and the Divine Race will finally be settled."
Shen Ni walked out from the depths of the Chaos Divine Hall. His upper body was human with a dragon's head, while his lower body was a giant python's tail. Killing intent overflowed from his eyes as he spoke.
"Shen Ni, what should we do? We will all follow your orders!" Ghost Mother said.
Chaos and Giant Spirit also looked toward Shen Ni, waiting for his command.
"Mobilize the billions upon billions of fierce beast armies. First, destroy the Divine Race around Buzhou Mountain! Then turn west with the army and exterminate the Wind Spirit Clan, one of the Four Spirits of Heaven-Opening. Finally, deal with the Phoenix, Qilin, and Dragon Race in turn!
"As long as the Divine Race around Buzhou Mountain and the Four Spirits of Heaven-Opening clans are completely destroyed, the entire Primordial God Race will no longer have any chance of resisting our fierce beast clan!"
Shen Ni's blood-red dragon eyes revealed boundless killing intent.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Giant Spirit's billions of faces shouted at the same time.
Fiendish aura soared from Ghost Mother and Chaos as well. The area tens of thousands of miles around the Chaos Divine Hall was submerged in blood-red fiendish aura.
At present, among the factions in the Primordial Wilderness, the only force with enough strength to barely resist the Chaos Divine Hall's fierce beasts was the large gathering of Innate Gods at Buzhou Mountain.
The other forces were the four great clans born from the Four Spirits of Heaven-Opening, which embodied Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water.
To exterminate the Divine Race, they first had to destroy these five forces.
As for the other scattered factions in the Primordial Wilderness, as numerous as ox hair—such as the Five Elements Tribe and Hundred Gods Mountain—
once the Chaos Divine Hall had its hands free, destroying them would be as easy as turning over a hand.
"Warriors, unleash an endless beast tide! Kill toward Buzhou Mountain for this emperor!"
With the four Beast Emperors in agreement, Shen Ni immediately began the Fierce Beast Calamity in the name of the Beast Emperors.
Shen Ni's voice spread from the Chaos Divine Hall across the million miles surrounding it.
The Grand Unity Golden Immortal fierce beasts, Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and Metal Gods gathered around the Chaos Divine Hall all threw back their heads and roared.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Kill the Divine Race!"
One after another, divine senses spread from around the Chaos Divine Hall, issuing a summons for a beast tide across the entire northern continent of the Primordial Wilderness.
The northern continent of the Primordial Wilderness was the fierce beast clan's lair, as well as the place where fierce beasts were born in the greatest numbers and highest density.
When the order from the Beast Emperor Shen Ni to unleash an endless beast tide and attack Buzhou Mountain spread,
the fierce beasts throughout the northern continent, whether they were currently fighting or hiding in their lairs to lick their wounds,
responded to the summons without exception as long as they possessed cultivation above the Earth God realm.
Countless Metal Gods and Grand Unity Golden Immortal Beast Kings began driving groups of divine-realm fierce beasts toward Buzhou Mountain.
With the fierce beast clan throughout the northern continent on the move, the Calamity Fiend Qi gathering above the northern continent began to surge.
It started invading toward Buzhou Mountain in the central Primordial Era.
At this moment, countless mighty cultivators throughout the Primordial Wilderness sensed it.
The heavens were about to change!
"The final battle between the fierce beasts and our Divine Race is finally coming!" Deep within Buzhou Mountain, an Innate Sacred Being at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm emerged from seclusion, his expression solemn.
On Jade Capital Mountain, Ancestor Hongjun was also startled by the Calamity Fiend Qi between heaven and earth. He looked north with a grave expression.
"The fierce beast clan is advancing with tremendous momentum. It looks like I need to find some allies soon!"
The various Divine Race factions gathered at Buzhou Mountain naturally sensed the signs of the calamity approaching as well.
"Summon all the Divine Race around Zhou Mountain and prepare for battle. In this battle, we must completely crush the fierce beast clan and elevate the might of our Divine Race!"
"The fierce beast clan has defied the will of heaven. They must be destroyed!"
As the most wondrous region of the Primordial Wilderness, the land stretching tens of millions of miles around Buzhou Mountain was the central Primordial Era.
The number of Innate Gods and Nature Spirits born there naturally surpassed the total from all other regions combined.
It could be said that eighty percent of the Divine Race's elite forces in the central Primordial Era had gathered around Zhou Mountain.
As the favored Children of the Great Dao, the Innate Gods naturally possessed their own pride.
Faced with the fierce beast clan advancing with tremendous momentum, they intended to completely annihilate this enemy of the Divine Race at Zhou Mountain.
The Dragon Race of Canghai Sea, the Qilin of eastern Zhou Mountain, the Wind Spirit Clan of the west, and the Phoenix of the Southern Domain.
The Four Spirits of Heaven-Opening sensed that the ultimate battle between the fierce beasts and the Divine Race was about to erupt, but they did not act immediately.
Instead, they all began watching from the sidelines.
Although the fierce beast clan was also their mortal enemy, the Divine Race around Zhou Mountain was not friendly toward them either.
They intended to observe how the battle between the Divine Race of Zhou Mountain and the fierce beast clan developed. Unless the situation reached a critical juncture, they would not personally enter the fray.
The atmosphere throughout the central and northern regions of the Primordial Wilderness was tense. Just as a shocking war was about to begin,
in the southern Primordial Wilderness, in a remote region,
after a century of searching, Luo Qing had combed through everything within ten thousand miles, leaving only digging ten thousand feet into the ground undone.
Yet, let alone an Innate God or a Divine Treasure, he had not even found a place where an ordinary treasure artifact was being nurtured.
"Do I really have to leave the tribe and search for the Origin of the Dao across the vast Primordial Wilderness?"
After finishing his investigation of the final region and finding nothing, Luo Qing looked disappointedly beyond the tribe's ten-thousand-mile boundary.
Fortunately, tribe members came to clear out fierce beasts near the tribe every few days.
But once he left the safety line, the density of fierce beasts would soar.
Groups of Earth God and Heavenly God fierce beasts roamed about, while True God and Mystic God fierce beasts were nothing unusual either.
Compared with when Luo Qing had ventured out three thousand years ago, the danger had risen by at least two levels.
Even Luo Qing now could not guarantee that he would return safely after leaving.
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