Innate Gods

"Five Earth Gods and one Heavenly God?"

"No, one Innate God and five Nature Spirits!"

Even without deliberately analyzing its essence, the Eye of the Great Dao was still extremely convenient for simple identification alone.

When Luo Qing slew the second Crocodile Dragon Fierce Beast, he had already sensed an extraordinary fluctuation coming from the distance.

One look, and it was truly remarkable.

It was actually an Earth God-level Innate God, accompanied by five Innate Spirits protecting the Dao.

One of them was even at the Heavenly God level.

The one who had attacked Luo Qing was undoubtedly the Earth God-level Innate God who had just shouted.

Moreover, it was an Innate God of the Five Elements Fire Attribute.

"An Earth Immortal-level Innate God? Was it born not long ago? And it should only be the lowest-grade Innate God. It isn't impossible to fight it."

A fierce glint flashed in Luo Qing's eyes. His enormous Demon God Body raised a hand and sent out a crimson flaming palm.

It collided head-on with the white flaming giant hand.

The red and white flaming palms clashed, erupting with a fierce, scorching blaze.

Boom!

Luo Qing's crimson flaming palm was ultimately no match for the Innate Fire of the Earth God-level Innate God.

The crimson palm held out for less than three seconds before being shattered.

However, the crimson giant palm had not achieved nothing. After dispersing Luo Qing's attack, the white giant hand had also exhausted its momentum.

By the time it flew before Luo Qing, it no longer possessed much power.

Luo Qing casually swept it away with his blade.

The white flaming giant hand was destroyed, and six figures instantly appeared not far from Luo Qing.

They stood high in the sky. The leader had a human body and a serpentine tail, with a pair of burning white dragon horns on his head.

As soon as he appeared, he looked down at Luo Qing arrogantly and said,

"Oh? A Lesser Postnatal God? Your strength isn't bad! You actually managed to block one of my attacks."

"Offer up the Blade Artifact in your hand. This god can allow you to follow me and become my Divine Servant. How about it?"

"Your Excellency is an Innate Divine Being. Surely you wouldn't take a fancy to this Immortal Artifact in my hands? I think I'll spare myself the embarrassment."

Although Luo Qing had just entered the world and did not want to cause trouble, a trace of greed still flashed through his eyes as he looked at this Innate God.

When Bai Yan, the Innate God, was flatly rejected by Luo Qing, flames of fury immediately ignited across his face.

A mere lowest-grade Acquired Being actually dared reject his goodwill.

Born an Innate God, Bai Yan was proud.

But as the lowest-grade Innate God, Bai Yan was also inferior.

As a result, he had not even possessed a companion artifact when he was born.

Ordinary gods refined artifacts according to intuition, and their work was extremely crude.

As for the Blazing Fire Blade in Luo Qing's hand, if one had not specifically studied the Art of Artifact Refining,

then without at least Golden God—Golden Immortal—cultivation, it was absolutely impossible to refine.

Otherwise, Innate God Bai Yan would not have taken a fancy to the Blazing Fire Blade in Luo Qing's hand at a glance.

An Acquired Being's rejection was no different from an insult to an Innate God like Bai Yan.

"Hmph!"

Bai Yan glanced at Luo Qing disdainfully and clasped his hands behind his back.

The Heavenly God guarding the Dao behind him immediately understood and stepped forward. Looking coldly at Luo Qing's Divine Demon Body, he said:

"You should be the newly born Earth God of the Crimson Flame Tribe from the Five Elements Tribe!

What a coincidence. His Excellency Bai Yan is a new core member of Hundred Gods Mountain.

You rejected him, so I cannot let you leave!"

"Hundred Gods Mountain?"

Luo Qing was startled when he heard those words.

This was another divine force within a hundred thousand kilometers that stood alongside the Five Elements Tribe.

However, unlike the Five Elements Tribe, where Acquired Beings held power,

Hundred Gods Mountain had been founded by a group of low- and mid-level Innate Gods who had gathered a large number of Nature Spirits.

One was Innate, the other Acquired.

The relationship between the two could be imagined.

If the Five Elements Tribe had not appeared several epochs earlier and accumulated several hundred thousand years more than its opponent,

the Five Elements Tribe would likely have already been driven from this region by Hundred Gods Mountain.

No wonder the other party could recognize his identity.

Within a hundred thousand li, most Acquired Five Elements Beings came from the Five Elements Tribe.

The two factions had never been on good terms, and friction between them was common.

It was only natural that the other side wanted to kill him and seize his treasure.

"However, I'm not someone who likes to wait helplessly for death."

Killing intent flashed through Luo Qing's heart.

The Heavenly God Nature Spirit had already transformed into a body that towered over the heavens. A huge Heavenly God palm descended toward Luo Qing.

Luo Qing did not dare use an Earth God's Divine Demon Body to contend with a Heavenly God.

He was not limited to Divine Demon techniques. His divine body retracted.

Luo Qing revealed a human form, and with a flash of the Fire Escape Technique, he dodged the Heavenly God's palm.

At the same time, using the Fire Origin Divine Pearl artifact, he once again unleashed the Nine Dragon Divine Fire.

Nine fire dragons that blotted out the sky and sun bared their fangs and brandished their claws as they charged toward the six people from Hundred Gods Mountain.

"Not a bad divine ability, but using the power of flames in front of me is somewhat overestimating yourself."

Innate God Bai Yan stood behind the Heavenly God's body, treating Luo Qing's Nine Dragon Divine Fire with disdain.

As an Innate Fire Attribute God, even the lowest-grade Innate God possessed a trace of the power of the origin of fire.

Ordinary Acquired flames and divine abilities could not injure him in the slightest.

Even less so with a Heavenly God present.

"Such a trifling technique, yet you dare display it? Brat from the Crimson Flame Tribe, you can die now."

The Heavenly God of Hundred Gods Mountain cultivated an Earth Attribute Divine Body. His defense was formidable, and he was not afraid of the divine ability of a mere Earth God.

He opened a huge hand, intending to slap apart the nine fire dragons before capturing and killing Luo Qing.

Facing the two men's mockery, Luo Qing licked his dry lips in excitement.

Naturally, he did not believe that a single divine ability alone could contend with a Heavenly God.

Therefore, Luo Qing had added a little seasoning to this Nine Dragon Divine Fire.

It also served to test the research artifact he had developed earlier regarding the Blazing Fire Blade.

The three self-destructing artifacts engraved with sixteen Innate Treasure Restrictions each—the Blazing Thunder Pearls—

had already been activated by Luo Qing in advance and sent into three of the fire dragons.

The Heavenly God of Hundred Gods Mountain slapped apart all nine fire dragons.

Before he could celebrate, the three Blazing Thunder Pearls mixed among the fire dragons exploded instantly.

"Not good!"

The expression of the Heavenly God of Hundred Gods Mountain changed. It was already too late to escape.

An explosion equivalent to the self-destruction of three weakened Mid-grade Innate Treasures swept across the sky, the earth, and a hundred-li radius in an instant.

The violent explosion completely engulfed the Heavenly God of Hundred Gods Mountain at its center, Innate God Bai Yan slightly farther behind him, and the other four Earth Gods.

Even Luo Qing, who had prepared in advance, was pushed back hundreds of meters by the explosive shock wave.

However, Luo Qing had no time to marvel at the power of the Blazing Thunder Pearls.

Holding the Blazing Fire Immortal Blade, Luo Qing's eyes shone with Azure Light. The Eye of the Great Dao pierced through layer upon layer of explosive flames and looked toward one of the figures within.

Although the Blazing Thunder Pearls Luo Qing had created did not possess the true might of a Mid-grade Innate Treasure's self-destruction,

the combined explosive power of three Blazing Thunder Pearls was absolutely greater than that of a single Mid-grade Innate Treasure.

With power enough to kill even a True God, the Heavenly God of Hundred Gods Mountain at the center of the explosion had naturally been annihilated without even leaving ashes behind.

Under Luo Qing's observation through the Eye of the Great Dao, only the figure of Innate God Bai Yan among the five Earth Immortals charged out of the explosion.

"As expected of an Innate God. Even that couldn't kill him!" Luo Qing exclaimed.

The four Nature Spirit Earth Gods had all died completely.

However, although Bai Yan had escaped with his life from the explosion, it was not without paying a price.

When Bai Yan charged out of the Blazing Thunder Pearl explosion, he had already revealed a hundred-zhang divine body.

Even that divine body had lost most of its serpentine tail. One arm had vanished from the shoulder, and his abdomen had been pierced through by the explosion.

Divine blood poured downward in a torrent, as though it cost nothing.

However, he was an Innate God after all. Bai Yan's divine body began visibly healing.

After fleeing nearly a thousand li, Bai Yan threw back his head and roared, "Damn Acquired Being! Damn Crimson Flame Tribe! Sooner or later, I, Bai Yan, will destroy all of you!"

With lingering fear, he glanced back toward the sea of flames, gnashing his teeth in hatred.

He did not hate Luo Qing for killing the five gods of Hundred Gods Mountain. Rather, he was enraged that an Acquired Being had actually severely injured his Innate Divine Body.

When Bai Yan escaped the Blazing Thunder Pearl explosion, Luo Qing had already locked onto his figure with the Eye of the Great Dao.

Luo Qing's Acquired Fire was not as powerful as Bai Yan's Innate Fire.

But the Fire Escape Technique Luo Qing had studied deeply was considerably faster than Bai Yan's escape technique.

Bai Yan had just finished roaring when Luo Qing appeared behind Bai Yan's divine body.

"God Bai Yan, I'm afraid you won't have a future. You'd better turn into my Great Dao Sustenance!"

Before his voice had even faded,

greed flashed through Luo Qing's eyes as the Immortal Artifact Blazing Fire Blade in his hand slashed toward Bai Yan's neck.