Five Source Spirit Disk

After leaving the Phoenix Clan with an unsolved mystery, Luo Qing fled ten thousand li without stopping.

Only then did he find a secluded, inconspicuous hill, excavate a cave, and hide himself inside.

After laying down various concealment measures, even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal passing by would not discover him so long as they did not investigate carefully.

Only then did Luo Qing let out a sigh of relief.

The reason he had fled Hundred Gods Mountain so urgently was also to avoid the Phoenix Clan.

With Ancestor Hun Xing as a great enemy before, accepting the Phoenix Clan's overtures had merely been a temporary expedient.

Now that Hun Xing was dead, Luo Qing naturally no longer wished to grow close to the Phoenix Clan.

If the Phoenix Clan forced him to join them, wouldn't he end up becoming a slave or servant within the Phoenix Clan?

For the time being, he cast the Phoenix Clan's problems to the back of his mind and began eagerly inspecting his spoils.

First, he had killed four Metal Gods in the middle and late stages, then exterminated Ancestor Hun Xing, the Lord of Hundred Gods Mountain.

He had also inherited the belongings of the four Metal God "senior brothers."

All in all, Luo Qing had looted the wealth of eight Metal Gods and one Taiyi.

There was also a huge pile of Innate Treasures and six or seven Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures, but those were not worth mentioning.

Now that Luo Qing possessed Golden Immortal cultivation, treasures of that level were no longer worth his attention.

Even Low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures were nothing special. As long as he had the materials, Luo Qing could refine them casually.

What delighted him instead was the huge pile of spiritual materials containing the Origin of the Great Dao.

Compared with the Acquired Spiritual Treasures he had seized, Luo Qing still preferred spiritual materials.

There was also a heap of other cultivation resources, but many of them were useless to Luo Qing.

And the greatest harvest was undoubtedly this Innate Spiritual Treasure in Ancestor Hun Xing's possession.

[Five Source Spirit Disk]

Quality: Low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure

Description: A Five Elements fetal disk nurtured by the Five Elements Great Dao. It can balance the five elements, circulate the five elements, and contain and assimilate the origins of the five attributes.

Seeing the appraisal of this treasure, Luo Qing frowned.

No wonder Ancestor Hun Xing, a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, had been able to devise a method of assimilating the origins of the Five Elements deities to transform his own foundation.

It turned out that he had relied entirely on this Five Source Spirit Disk.

However, this spiritual treasure was useful only to a deity like Hun Xing, who had been born from the Five Elements Great Dao.

For an immortal god like Luo Qing, who cultivated only the Great Dao of Fire, its function was not so great.

The key function of this treasure was balancing and circulating the five elements.

Luo Qing's entire body was filled with the Origin of Fire. He had no need to balance or circulate them!

It was an Innate Spiritual Treasure, after all. Even if it did not meet his expectations, using it as a defensive treasure for protection was still quite good.

At this moment, Luo Qing, who had five Innate Spiritual Treasures at his side, wore an awkward expression.

Damn it, not one of these five spiritual treasures belongs to the fire element.

If not for the fact that the four Innate Spiritual Rings had been born from the same source as Luo Qing, as well as the Fire Spirit Ring regulating them from the center, it truly would not have been easy for Luo Qing to wield the four Innate Spiritual Rings as smoothly as his own limbs.

Just like now, even though Luo Qing had completely refined the Five Source Spirit Disk,

because its attributes ultimately did not match, he could not operate it as smoothly as the Five Elements Spiritual Ring.

After organizing his gains, Luo Qing finally turned his attention to himself.

He had only just broken through to Metal God and Golden Immortal, yet he had already fought two consecutive battles, leaving his cultivation unstable.

Daring not to be careless, Luo Qing began his first closed-door cultivation after becoming a Golden Immortal in this remote place.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand years passed.

At the place where Luo Qing had entered seclusion, the sound of the stone door opening finally rang out.

Spotless and bearing the appearance of an astonishingly handsome jade immortal, Luo Qing walked out of this temporary cave dwelling.

After a thousand years of cultivation, Luo Qing had merely stabilized his Golden Immortal cultivation, sweeping away all his restlessness.

"The cultivation of a Golden Immortal is truly difficult!"

Luo Qing sighed. Over the past thousand years, his cultivation progress had been negligible.

The accumulation of quantity was secondary. Although a Golden Immortal required an ocean of essence, there would always be a way to fill that need.

But in Golden Immortal cultivation, accumulating energy was only one aspect.

More important was comprehending the Great Dao, understanding its laws, and mastering them.

As an Innate God possessing the Innate Chi Wang Fire God Dharma Form,

the laws of fire were constantly merging into the Chi Wang Dharma Form.

However, the Chi Wang Dharma Form was only at the early stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level.

Its speed of absorbing the laws of fire was simply too slow. If he proceeded step by step, he probably would not even touch the threshold of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level after several epochs.

At this moment, Luo Qing had the urge to travel far and explore the world.

To accelerate his Golden Immortal cultivation, he still had to rely on the Eye of the Great Dao.

However, this region was truly barren, and there were too few Innate Treasures capable of providing experience to the Eye of the Great Dao.

Now that he had advanced to the Golden Immortal realm, Innate Treasures could no longer bring Luo Qing any surprises.

The Eye of the Great Dao's analysis speed for Innate Treasures had increased dozens of times.

It could complete roughly one analysis mission in a year.

To Luo Qing, treasures were now merely a channel for accumulating Innate Runes and Innate Treasure Restrictions.

A single spiritual treasure could replenish the Eye of the Great Dao dozens of times more than a treasure.

Luo Qing urgently hoped to see more Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Once the idea of traveling far and exploring the world arose, he could no longer suppress it.

With the chaos of the Fierce Beasts gone, even Golden Immortals more or less possessed the qualifications to travel across the Primordial Great Land.

"It's decided!"

Luo Qing firmed up his resolve.

If he stayed in this region and ruled as its king, by the time he became a Grand Unity Golden Immortal and emerged from seclusion, the outside world might already be filled with Great Luo experts.

However, even though he had made plans to travel far, Luo Qing was not about to set out immediately.

He looked toward the former homeland of the Five Elements Tribe.

The only thing he could not put at ease now was the Five Elements Tribe that had moved away back then.

Luo Qing's figure flashed, and the cave dwelling beneath his feet instantly collapsed.

When he passed by Hundred Gods Mountain, Luo Qing cast a distant glance toward it.

He saw a phantom image of a Fire Phoenix coiled above Hundred Gods Mountain in the void.

Just as Luo Qing had expected, after Hun Xing's death, the Phoenix Clan had occupied Hundred Gods Mountain.

Regardless, Hundred Gods Mountain had ruled the land for tens of thousands of li in every direction. With no leader remaining, the Phoenix Clan certainly would not let this free territory slip away.

"After wiping out the Fierce Beast Remnants, the days of the gods in the Southern Primordial Territory will probably become even more difficult!"

Luo Qing muttered as he watched the phantom of the Phoenix.

Compared with the Fierce Beasts, who knew only slaughter, the intelligent Phoenixes of the Avian Clan were even more domineering and harder to deal with.

This was also one of the reasons Luo Qing wanted to travel far and leave the Southern Domain.

As an Innate Fire God, Luo Qing would naturally stand opposed to the Fire Spirit Phoenix Clan so long as he was unwilling to live beneath others.

The Divine Dao was a path that grew narrower the farther one traveled along it.

An avenue was only so wide. The more you occupied, the less remained for others.

This was not yet obvious at the Metal God and Taiyi stages.

Once one reached Great Luo, walking the Divine Dao required fighting for the Dao.

Beyond that, at the Hunyuan realm, a single avenue might allow only a few people—or perhaps just one person—to climb it.

Unless one willingly remained beneath someone else, the Divine Dao would ultimately end in a battle to the death.

This might also be one of the reasons the Immortal Dao later overtook it.

The avenues of the gods had all been occupied by their predecessors. If gods and saints born later did not wish to defeat those above them, they could only abandon the Divine Dao and switch to cultivating the Immortal Dao.

Luo Qing naturally would not abandon cultivation of the Divine Dao, nor was he willing to live beneath another and become someone else's Subordinate Deity.

Thus, he and the Phoenix Clan were destined to be unable to walk the same path.

After taking a deep look at the phantom of the Phoenix, Luo Qing turned and headed toward the former homeland of the Five Elements Tribe.