"Good, good!"
Looking at the top-grade artifact-refining materials before him, Luo Qing was quite satisfied.
It seemed the title of Artifact Refining Grandmaster had already spread throughout Hundred Gods Mountain.
He had merely gone out for a stroll, yet more than a hundred deities had come looking for him to refine artifacts.
There were simply too many people seeking his services, so Luo Qing had selected only some commissions for refining Five Elements magical treasures and fourth-tier Divine Artifacts.
He no longer cared for third-tier Immortal Artifact materials.
Even so, Luo Qing had received nearly a hundred commissions for refining fourth-tier Divine Artifacts.
All he could say was that the deities of Hundred Gods Mountain had suffered from a scarcity of magical treasures for far too long, while high-quality Divine Artifacts were even rarer.
The White Flame Spirit Pearl had finished being reforged and was now a fourth-tier Divine Artifact.
It could perfectly conceal Luo Qing's aura, and it had already been linked with the Flame Fire Pearl.
The reason Luo Qing had gone to such lengths to gather artifact-refining materials was to prepare for imitating the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Five Elements Spiritual Ring.
If he wanted to ambush a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, even becoming a Golden Immortal himself would not be enough.
Even the explosion of a top-tier Innate Treasure would probably struggle to injure a Grand Unity Golden Immortal in the slightest.
But what if an Innate Spiritual Treasure self-destructed?
Luo Qing refused to believe that a Grand Unity Golden Immortal could become so powerful as to ignore the self-destruction of an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
However, with Luo Qing's current True Immortal cultivation, let alone imitating an Innate Spiritual Treasure, even analyzing one with the Eye of the Great Dao was exceedingly difficult.
He was merely preparing in advance. Imitating an Innate Spiritual Treasure would certainly be difficult and would require vast quantities of precious artifact-refining materials.
For now, he could at most use the superior-grade treasure, the Flame Fire Pearl, and the top-grade treasure, the Fire Spirit Ring, for practice.
The Fire Spirit Ring in particular had fallen into a treasure only at the final moment before becoming an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
Moreover, it belonged to the same set as the other four Innate Spiritual Treasures. The Innate Runes and Innate Spiritual Restrictions upon it were well worth studying.
While Luo Qing was frantically refining artifacts and gathering precious materials,
Hengxing Mountain Lord was no longer paying much attention to what Luo Qing was doing.
As long as Luo Qing did not kill himself, flee, or let his cultivation decline, Hunxing did not care.
Most of Hunxing's attention was now focused on the western part of the Primordial Wilderness.
Hundred Gods Mountain lay far from the Central Primordial Era, in the western part of the Southern Domain.
The news that the Fierce Beast Clan was running rampant across the Western Continent had already reached the region around Hundred Gods Mountain.
Hunxing had reigned supreme at Hundred Gods Mountain, but even he could not help feeling uneasy now.
The countless Divine Race members at Buzhou Mountain had all been defeated. Could the western deities and the Wind Spirit Clan alone stop the Beast Tide?
If the Wind Spirit Clan was defeated and the Western Continent fell, then the Southern Domain would be next to suffer.
Hunxing had already begun considering where to flee.
The Western Continent, Wind Spirit Mountain Range.
The Wind Spirit Mountain Range had now gathered more than eighty percent of the powerful beings across the entire Western Continent.
The fierce beast powerhouses led by Chaos, Ghost Mother, and Giant Spirit had also surrounded the entire Wind Spirit Mountain Range from afar.
A thousand years had flashed by since the Beast Tide entered the Western Continent.
The Beast Emperor Shen Ni had finally led the boundless Beast Tide of countless fierce beasts to the outskirts of the Wind Spirit Mountain Range.
The boundless baleful aura and endless stream of fierce beasts stretched beyond the sight of even a Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
They pressed down on the western deities within the entire Wind Spirit Mountain Range until they could barely breathe.
"Today shall be the day the Wind Spirit Clan returns to heaven and earth! Kill!"
Shen Ni's determination to exterminate the Wind Spirit Clan was firm. Without another word, he directly gave the order for the Beast Tide to begin flattening the Wind Spirit Mountain Range.
"Shen Ni, don't get arrogant! You want to exterminate my Wind Spirit Clan, yet aren't you afraid of breaking all four of your Innate Beast Emperors?
"Western fellow daoists, either he dies or we perish in this battle. There is no room for luck.
"Canghai, the southeastern reinforcements are already on their way. Our Divine Race will win this battle! Kill!"
With a heaven-shaking tiger roar, Wind Spirit Tiger Ancestor annihilated hundreds of thousands of fierce beasts and charged straight toward Shen Ni.
In the battle at Buzhou Mountain, Shen Ni had slain more than a dozen Grand Unity Golden Immortals. His strength was heaven-defying.
Among the western deities, only Wind Spirit Tiger Ancestor could fight Shen Ni.
"Kill!"
"Roar!"
Ever since the battle between the Divine Race of Buzhou Mountain and the Fierce Beast Clan thousands of years ago,
another bloody battle between countless deities and fierce beasts had erupted in the Wind Spirit Mountain Range of the Primordial Wilderness.
However, the western Divine Race, including the Wind Spirit Clan, was inherently weaker than the myriad deities of Zhou Mountain.
They were even less of a match for the Fierce Beast Clan that had defeated the Divine Race of Zhou Mountain.
After barely more than a decade of fighting, the entire outer region of the Wind Spirit Mountain Range had been occupied by fierce beasts.
The fallen western deities and members of the Wind Spirit Tiger Clan were beyond counting.
"Ancestor, when will the three armies of reinforcements from the Dragon Race, Phoenix Clan, and Qilin Ancestor arrive?" a Grand Luo Wind Spirit Tiger asked the old ancestor.
Only a little over a decade had passed. For deities, that was merely the blink of an eye, but the western deities had already been slaughtered into terror.
The Wind Spirit Clan was clearly on the verge of extermination.
Faced with his people's question, Tiger Ancestor fell silent in exhaustion for a moment before slowly saying:
"Don't hold on to any false hope. They won't appear until our Wind Spirit Clan is exterminated."
"Arrange for some of the younger clan members to enter the core hall. Our Wind Spirit Tiger Clan may perish, but our bloodline cannot end here!"
After Tiger Ancestor finished speaking, all the remaining Wind Spirit Clan powerhouses fell into gloom.
The four clans transformed from the Four Spirits of Heaven-Opening were not on friendly terms.
The fact that the four clans each occupied one region of the Primordial Wilderness and usually ignored one another was enough to show how terrible their relationship was.
At this moment, the other three clans were probably hoping that the Wind Spirit Clan and the Fierce Beast Clan would fight until both sides suffered heavy losses.
Then they could enter the fray and clean up the aftermath!
"Hmph! The fierce beasts want to exterminate my Wind Spirit Clan? Then I'll at least knock out a few of their teeth!"
Looking at the endless fierce beast army outside, Tiger Ancestor's eyes gleamed coldly.
The Fierce Beast Clan was determined to exterminate the bloodline of the Wind Spirit Clan.
An Peak Grand Unity Innate Beast Emperor guarded each side around the core of the entire Wind Spirit Mountain Range.
They left the Wind Spirit Clan no chance to escape.
The Wind Spirit Tiger Clan and the western deities were also ferocious to the bone.
Seeing that escape was hopeless, they abandoned all thoughts of fleeing and resolved to tear a chunk of flesh from the fierce beasts.
During the battles that followed over the next several years, whenever a western deity reached a life-or-death moment, they did not hesitate in the slightest and immediately self-destructed.
Metal Gods, Taiyi, Grand Luo...
Across the boundless battlefield, little suns rose one after another.
The western deities suffered tremendous losses, but under the self-destruction of the deities who perished together with their enemies, the Fierce Beast Clan also had a hard time. Fierce beasts with high cultivation likewise suffered severe casualties.
"Do you want to see who is more ruthless? How could my Fierce Beast Clan fall behind? Explode!"
A severely wounded Grand Unity Golden Immortal fierce beast, seeing that escape was impossible, had eyes filled with scarlet fury. With a roar, it self-destructed on the spot.
With a boom, a gigantic sun rose from the battlefield, flattening the surrounding ten thousand miles.
Countless members of both sides were caught in the blast and killed or injured.
The self-destruction of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal failed to attract any attention. It was no longer the first Grand Unity Golden Immortal to self-destruct on the battlefield.
As both the fierce beasts and the Divine Race began using self-destruction to attack, the war entered its final, white-hot stage.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One western Grand Unity Golden Immortal after another was grievously wounded and self-destructed, while fierce beast Grand Unity Golden Immortals were also repeatedly injured or killed in the explosions.
Both sides had completely lost themselves to slaughter.
At this moment, the Chaos Beast Emperor swallowed a hundred thousand deities in one gulp, infuriating the western deities.
"Chaos, even if I die, I won't let you off easily!"
A severely wounded late-stage Grand Unity Wind Spirit Tiger roared and threw himself into Chaos's mouth.
A series of thunderous explosions followed, along with a miserable howl from the Chaos Beast Emperor.
The self-destruction of a late-stage Grand Unity immediately blew away half of the Chaos Beast Emperor's enormous mouth.
"Kill Chaos!"
Seeing that the Chaos Beast Emperor had been severely wounded, the western Grand Luo deities nearby immediately turned their blades and charged toward it without a second thought.
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