"Luo Qing, we're returning to the tribe!"
Just as Luo Qing was hesitating over whether to search farther afield, Captain Huoshi's voice reached his ears.
"Coming!"
Luo Qing called back loudly.
As the Fierce Fiend Qi surged, the fierce beasts became increasingly active.
Any team sent out to exterminate fierce beasts had to be led by a True God.
As a member of Captain Huoshi's squad, Luo Qing naturally joined True God Huoshi's extermination team.
"The area outside the tribe is becoming more and more dangerous. We've already discovered traces of five True God-level fierce beasts entering our territory.
The elders have begun discussing this. From now on, only True Gods and Mystic Gods will be allowed to participate in fierce-beast extermination missions.
Luo Qing, your cultivation hasn't advanced at all over the past three thousand years.
You won't need to participate in extermination missions anymore. Just cultivate properly and strive to achieve the True God realm as soon as possible. That way, you'll have more capital to preserve your life during the Calamity."
On the way back, True God Huoshi pulled Luo Qing to his side and repeatedly warned him.
The more than one thousand members of Captain Huoshi's squad combined had never made True God Huoshi worry this much about anyone.
His cultivation talent was clearly excellent, yet he refused to follow the proper path step by step.
Especially over the past three thousand years, Luo Qing's cultivation had not advanced in the slightest. True God Huoshi had been so furious that he had nearly hung Luo Qing up and beaten him.
"Don't worry, Captain. I'll definitely cultivate properly from now on!"
With True God Huoshi keeping an eye on him, Luo Qing was rather troubled as well.
It was true that his talent was excellent, but Luo Qing knew his own limits.
Without the Eye of the Great Dao, his talent among the acquired beings of the Primordial Wilderness would only be average.
If he cultivated step by step, Luo Qing believed that reaching the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm would be virtually guaranteed. Even becoming a Grand Luo Golden Immortal would not be impossible.
But to advance further, even with the assistance of the Eye of the Great Dao, the chances would be extremely slim.
From the Fierce Beast Calamity to the Journey to the West passed down by later generations, countless yuanhui would elapse.
Throughout the entire Primordial Wilderness, there were quite a few super Grand Luo Golden Immortals and Quasi-Sages whose names were known.
But it could almost be said that very few of them had been ordinary acquired beings who achieved those realms.
An ordinary Grand Luo Golden Immortal seemed to be the limit of acquired beings.
As for the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the Human Race who appeared among them—
The Heavenly Emperor was Saint Nuwa's elder brother. Could anyone say that Fuxi became an ordinary acquired god after reincarnating into the Human Race?
As for the later Earthly Emperor, Human Emperor, and Five Emperors, it was difficult to say how many of them had been purely acquired humans.
Therefore, Luo Qing had to start planning for the future now. He needed an extremely powerful foundation; otherwise, the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm might become his limit.
Below the Sages, all were ants. Even Grand Luo Golden Immortals in the Primordial Wilderness could barely keep themselves alive.
Luo Qing naturally refused to accept that his future Dao Path would stop at the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
He still wanted to look toward the Sages and see what kind of scenery lay above them!
Reverting to Innate and achieving an Innate God's body was the only opportunity Luo Qing could grasp at present.
An Innate God was merely a stepping stone. The Innate Sacred Body was Luo Qing's ultimate pursuit.
Luo Qing had already made a rough plan for his future path.
On the way back to the tribe, his gaze became resolute once more.
Since there was nothing he wanted around the Five Elements Tribe, he would definitely continue searching farther afield.
Even if he died on the road to seeking the Dao, he would have no regrets!
The Five Elements Tribe Territory was already close when Luo Qing, who had just begun considering leaving, suddenly felt his heart stir.
Over the past hundred years, he had searched the land within a radius of ten thousand li, but it seemed he had overlooked the Five Elements Tribe Territory itself.
The Five Elements Tribe's Crimson Flame Tribe occupied Crimson Flame Mountain, which stretched for a thousand li, and guarded the territory's south.
To the west was another thousand-li metal mountain, which served as the Platinum Tribe's settlement.
Opposite Crimson Flame Mountain, a great river a hundred li wide flowed to the north, guarded by the Mysterious Water Tribe.
To the east was a lush forest, within which the Azure Flower Tribe was situated.
The thousand-li basin in the middle belonged to the Thick Earth Tribe.
The Five Elements Tribe occupied quite a large territory, spanning four to five thousand li.
"Looks like I'll need to thoroughly investigate the tribe's settlement next!"
Luo Qing gazed at the vast Five Elements Tribe, his eyes flickering with Spiritual Light.
As far as he knew, the Five Elements Tribe's original territory had been in a fertile region closer to the Central Primordial Era.
But the richer the land, the fiercer the competition, and the harder it was to resist the fierce beasts.
The Five Elements Tribe was only a race of acquired beings. Unable to hold out any longer, they had begun moving toward the remote fringes of the Primordial Wilderness.
In the end, they had chosen this region.
They had remained here for countless years.
"Since the ancestors moved the tribe's territory here back then, this place should not be simple!
Perhaps my opportunity lies within the tribe."
The more Luo Qing thought about it, the more he felt that the Five Elements Tribe Territory might conceal a great secret.
After greeting Captain Huoshi, Luo Qing impatiently returned to his cave abode.
Upon entering the core chamber, Luo Qing sat down cross-legged and immediately activated the Eye of the Great Dao.
He began investigating whether there were any traces of origin energy or hidden blessed lands and Cave Heavens throughout the Five Elements Tribe.
Luo Qing had lived in the Five Elements Tribe for several thousand years, but honestly, he had never carefully examined the tribal territory.
He was not a pervert with a voyeuristic obsession. He would not recklessly investigate the tribe for no reason.
Furthermore, his cultivation had been low before, and there were Golden Immortals and Grand Unity Golden Immortals in the tribe. Luo Qing had not dared to search without restraint.
But Luo Qing had now reached the Celestial Immortal realm, and he also understood that the Eye of the Great Dao was something that surpassed even the Grand Unity and Grand Luo realms.
At this moment, he no longer cared whether he was spying on anyone and began searching inch by inch.
Crimson Flame Mountain, the Crimson Flame Tribe's territory. Even the air was filled with fire-elemental essence, carrying an irritable aura.
The south belonged to fire, the north to water, the east to wood, the west to metal, and the center to earth.
The details of the Five Elements Tribe appeared one by one in Luo Qing's eyes.
The Five Elements Tribe consisted of five tribes, each born from and inheriting the Five Elements Great Dao.
Luo Qing found this very difficult to understand. Logically speaking, when the Primordial Wilderness had just been created, many Great Daos had not yet fully emerged.
As the foundation of all things, the Five Elements Great Dao should have emerged first and been complete.
That was also one of the reasons that gods with Five Elements attributes could account for a tenth of all gods in the current Primordial Wilderness.
Yet the Five Elements Tribe, which had been born from the Five Elements Great Dao, was faring far too poorly.
Only a handful of Grand Unity Golden Immortals had ever emerged among them.
And it was not only the Five Elements Tribe. Throughout the entire Primordial Wilderness, although there were many gods with Five Elements attributes, he had never heard of more than a few truly formidable ones.
Compared with the enormous number of gods, the scarcity of experts was pitifully abnormal.
At this moment, Luo Qing could only hide his doubts in his heart and investigate them later.
After spending several years, Luo Qing finally finished investigating the entire Five Elements Tribe.
But to his disappointment, aside from its relatively dense Five Elements essence, the Five Elements Tribe showed no abnormalities.
"Could I have guessed wrong? Was the ancestors' relocation here merely a coincidence?"
Luo Qing could not help feeling troubled. Did he really have to leave the tribe?
"I've finished searching aboveground. I can't overlook underground either!"
Unwilling to give up, Luo Qing clenched his teeth and directed the Eye of the Great Dao into the depths of the earth.
The aura of the Primordial Great Land was turbid and heavy, with fiendish energy filling the air.
Any investigative technique would be affected upon reaching underground.
Even the power of the Eye of the Great Dao was affected. Below ten thousand zhang, everything became a blur, making it impossible to see clearly.
But ten thousand zhang was deep enough.
When Luo Qing's Eye of the Great Dao looked ten thousand zhang into the depths of the earth,
a speck-sized radiance of Five-Colored Divine Light instantly seized all of Luo Qing's attention.
The moment Luo Qing saw the Five-Colored Divine Light, he became excited.
There was no mistake about this aura. It was extremely similar to the aura of the Origin of the Great Dao he had seen on Bai Yan and the other Innate Gods.
He had searched everywhere for it and found it without effort.
He had painstakingly searched outside for a hundred years, never expecting that his opportunity would lie beneath his own feet.
Luo Qing's excitement at this moment was obvious.
He had found the Origin of the Great Dao!
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