Hun Xing's Conspiracy

Based on Captain Huoshi's message, Luo Qing now roughly understood what had happened during the years he had been reverting to the innate.

From the beginning to the end of his seclusion, only four thousand years had passed.

And when he had been in seclusion for nearly three thousand years, shocking news that stunned the myriad races of the Primordial Wilderness spread from the Central Primordial Era.

The Fierce Beast Clan and the Divine Race had fought a decisive battle in the Buzhou Mountain region of the Primordial Wilderness.

The battle lasted for several hundred years and ultimately ended with the defeat of the Divine Race.

Nearly sixty percent of the Divine Race in the Central Primordial Era had died in battle, while more than twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals had been slain by Shen Ni and his followers.

The survivors had either retreated into Buzhou Mountain or fled in all directions. Quite a few Innate Gods had escaped to other regions of the Primordial Wilderness.

This was also one of the reasons news of the Divine Race's defeat had spread so quickly.

With the defeat of the Primordial God Race, the Fierce Fiend Qi in the Primordial Wilderness had risen even further.

This had also triggered further upheavals among the beast tribes on the eastern, southern, and western continents of the Primordial Wilderness.

It was under these circumstances that the Five Elements Tribe encountered an assault by a beast tide led by a Grand Unity Golden Immortal beast king.

In the beginning, relying on its vast foundation and its many Golden Immortal elders, the Five Elements Tribe had firmly held back the Fierce Beasts' attacks.

But an accident had occurred not long ago.

Lord Hun Xing of Hundred Gods Mountain had ambushed the Five Elements Tribe's Grand Unity Golden Immortal ancestor, who had been confronting the Grand Unity beast king.

This had left the ancestor of the Five Elements Tribe seriously wounded. The entire defensive line had collapsed, and the Five Elements Tribe had suffered heavy losses.

In the end, a hundred years ago, they had been forced to abandon the Five Elements Tribe Territory and migrate southward with the entire tribe.

When the beast tide had begun, True God Huoshi had gone to Luo Qing's cave abode to look for him.

But he had not found him and had assumed that Luo Qing had secretly slipped out of the Five Elements Tribe Territory.

Then, when the tribe began its migration, Luo Qing still had not returned.

True God Huoshi did not know whether Luo Qing had met with an accident. Worried that Luo Qing might return later without knowing the truth, he had left Luo Qing a message.

"Why did Lord Hun Xing ambush the tribal ancestor?"

Luo Qing naturally believed True God Huoshi's message.

But he did not understand why Lord Hun Xing had done this.

Although the Five Elements Tribe and Hundred Gods Mountain had never seen eye to eye, they were both part of the Divine Race. The Fierce Beast Clan was their only mortal enemy at present.

Especially with the Divine Race having just lost its decisive battle against the Fierce Beast Clan.

At a time like this, should Hundred Gods Mountain and the Five Elements Tribe not have banded together for warmth?

Moreover, Luo Qing had just emerged from underground and had immediately been discovered by Hun Xing. That was clearly abnormal as well.

The Five Elements Tribe had evacuated a hundred years ago, and the entire tribal territory had already been searched several times. What was Hun Xing doing there at this time?

"Could it be related to the Five Elements Spiritual Ring nurtured by the Five Elements Space?"

That was the only thing Luo Qing could think of that Hun Xing might covet.

After all, the Five Elements Tribe was merely an Acquired Race. It truly had no treasure worth a Grand Unity Golden Immortal's attention.

"Whew! The most urgent thing is still to find a way out of Hundred Gods Mountain!"

He first pushed his doubts about Hun Xing coveting something from the Five Elements Tribe to the back of his mind.

Luo Qing was also somewhat despairing over his current predicament.

Seeing how Hun Xing had arranged for him to stay right under his nose as soon as he entered Hundred Gods Mountain, Luo Qing knew that there was absolutely no chance of quietly finding an excuse to leave.

Most likely, he would not even be able to leave Hundred Gods Mountain. Hun Xing would not give him the opportunity.

"What does that old thief Hun Xing want from me?"

Luo Qing was temporarily helpless in the face of his current predicament. He first had to figure out Hun Xing's objective.

However, recalling how Hun Xing had repeatedly urged him to achieve the "Metal God" cultivation realm as soon as possible, Luo Qing roughly felt that he should be safe before reaching the Metal God realm.

Even if Hun Xing intended to use him, he might need Luo Qing to have Golden Immortal cultivation first.

Suddenly, an idea struck Luo Qing, and he took out the high-grade Innate Treasure, the Flame Fire Pearl, that Hun Xing had bestowed upon him.

Since Hun Xing had taken him as a disciple with ulterior motives, Luo Qing naturally did not believe that Hun Xing would willingly bestow a high-grade treasure upon him.

There had to be something wrong with this treasure.

It was just that Luo Qing had had no other choice at the time and could only refine it first.

Now, Luo Qing could properly investigate whether the Flame Fire Pearl concealed any hidden danger.

However, after refining it, Luo Qing had not discovered anything amiss. It was simply an ordinary high-grade Innate Treasure.

But this involved the schemes of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, so Luo Qing did not dare be careless in the slightest.

As Luo Qing opened the Eye of the Great Dao to analyze the Flame Fire Pearl, Lord Hun Xing also entered his own cave abode.

Hun Xing's cultivation cave abode consisted of one main hall and five side halls. At present, each of the five side halls housed a disciple.

After Lord Hun Xing used the changes in the main cave abode's restrictions to inspect the conditions inside the five cave abodes one by one, if Luo Qing had been there, he would have recognized them.

Inside the five side halls, the five disciples of Hun Xing actually belonged to the five elements respectively.

Moreover, each disciple was an intermediate-level Innate God. The first four had already reached the Golden Immortal realm.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual in any of the five cave abodes, Lord Hun Xing finally burst into unrestrained laughter.

"Hahaha! It seems Heaven has not forsaken me, Hun Xing. I failed to find what I wanted in the Five Elements Tribe, but Azure Heaven has actually delivered this opportunity right to my doorstep."

"Scarlet Fire is truly a fine name. Hurry up and cultivate to the Metal God realm! This ancestor can hardly wait to transform his foundation!"

Lord Hun Xing had originally cultivated in the Central Primordial Era, but an intermediate-level Innate God's Grand Unity Golden Immortal had truly held no status in the vicinity of Buzhou Mountain.

His Innate Position could only support him in cultivating to the early stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Ever since he had become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, an entire epoch had passed. What left Hun Xing despairing was—

Without the blessing of an Innate Position during this epoch, his cultivation speed had been as slow as a crawling turtle, and his progress had been extraordinarily sluggish.

At this rate of cultivation, he would need to spend at least ten kalpas before he had any hope of advancing to the mid-stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

After the middle stage came the late stage, and the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm beyond that was even more distant and hopeless.

Hun Xing was naturally unwilling to continue muddling along and cultivating slowly like this.

That was why he had conceived the idea of transforming his own foundation, evolving from an intermediate-level Innate God into an advanced-level or even top-level Innate God.

And Hun Xing happened to be an Innate God born in accordance with the Five Elements Great Dao.

This gave Hun Xing a chance to transform his Foundation. The most convenient way for him to transform his Foundation was to devour the five elemental Origins.

That would replenish his own Origin Power.

Devouring the Origin of other Innate Gods to supplement oneself was undoubtedly contrary to the nature of the Divine Race.

If all Innate Gods did this, the entire Divine Race would inevitably slaughter itself.

There were many Grand Unity Golden Immortals and countless Grand Unity Golden Immortals in the Central Primordial Era, making it highly inconvenient for Hun Xing to act.

In pursuit of his Dao Path, Lord Hun Xing had therefore come to the remote southern continent.

Afterward, Hun Xing had unexpectedly discovered the Five Elements Tribe, an Acquired Being race.

At first, he had thought that the Five Elements Tribe was a group of Acquired Beings born after being imbued with the aura of the Five Elements Innate Spiritual Treasures.

The origins of Divine Treasures and the origins of Divine Gods were both acceptable to Hun Xing.

However, the five Divine Treasures belonging to the five elements had previously been far too unattainable for Lord Hun Xing.

Now that he had a chance to find the Five Elements Divine Treasures, Hun Xing naturally had no intention of letting it go.

Thus, Hun Xing had made two preparations.

On one hand, he had established Hundred Gods Mountain and secretly searched for and nurtured intermediate-level Innate God disciples belonging to the five elements.

On the other hand, he had sought a way to find the Five Elements Divine Treasures within the Five Elements Tribe.

The result was obvious. After all these countless years, Hun Xing had found only four qualified Divine Gods with different attributes.

Then, relying on the beast tide, he had successfully ambushed the Grand Unity Golden Immortal ancestor of the Five Elements Tribe and seriously wounded him.

Even that had failed to force his opponent to reveal a Divine Treasure to defeat the enemy. Hun Xing thus knew that the Five Elements Tribe most likely did not possess the Five Elements Divine Treasures.

After the Five Elements Tribe fled, Hun Xing had refused to give up and searched back and forth around the Five Elements Tribe Territory for another hundred years.

In the end, he had still found nothing.

Just as Hun Xing was growing disappointed, Luo Qing, an intermediate-level Innate Fire God, had appeared.

And among the Five Elements disciples Hun Xing had gathered, only the fire-element candidate had been missing.

A loss in one place was a gain in another.

Although he had not found the Five Elements Divine Treasures, he had completed the Five Elements Divine Gods in one stroke.

Thinking of all the hardships he had endured over the years, Hun Xing was filled with anticipation for Luo Qing.

"After bitterly seeking for tens of thousands of years, the flowers are finally about to bloom and bear fruit! Scarlet Fire, you must not disappoint your master! My good disciple!" Hun Xing laughed with a strange look in his eyes.