"No...!"
The instant he heard Luo Qing's voice, Bai Yan's eyes turned ferocious, and his expression changed drastically.
He, Bai Yan, was an Innate God. He had yet to become the Supreme God. How could he possibly die at the hands of a mere Acquired Being?
No matter how Bai Yan thought or struggled,
his seriously wounded self still failed to evade Luo Qing's blade.
The Second-tier Immortal Artifact Blazing Fire Saber was certainly no match for a Divine Treasure, but cutting down a Earth God was still effortless.
The blade flashed.
The enormous head of a ten-zhang-tall fiendgod instantly flew into the air.
Before Bai Yan's nascent soul could escape, Chen Xuanzang had already cast a Magic Formula. A streak of Spiritual Light immediately sealed Bai Yan's head and nascent soul together.
After sealing Bai Yan's nascent soul and head,
Luo Qing had no time to rest. Spiritual Light kept flashing across his hands as one Magic Formula after another struck Bai Yan's headless Divine Body.
In the blink of an eye, nearly a hundred layers of sealing power firmly sealed away the power within Bai Yan's Divine Body.
After Luo Qing had sealed the nascent soul, head, and Innate Divine Body one by one,
only then did Luo Qing press Bai Yan's head back onto his Innate Divine Body.
Bai Yan was an Innate God, and his Divine Body was an Innate Divine Body.
As long as his nascent soul remained intact and his Origin Power had not dissipated,
even severed limbs could regrow. Reattaching a head was a trivial matter.
What Luo Qing needed was a living Innate God as a research subject. He had no intention of letting Bai Yan die just like this.
Seeing that Bai Yan's Divine Body had begun to recover again, while the seals in his nascent soul and Divine Body had not loosened in the slightest,
Luo Qing finally nodded in satisfaction.
After putting Bai Yan into a Magic Treasure Space, Luo Qing immediately set off toward the Five Elements Tribe without stopping for even a moment.
This coming-of-age hunt had yielded an Earth Immortal Crocodile Dragon Beast, which was more than enough to fulfill his task.
What excited Luo Qing even more was the living Innate God captive in his hands.
Having Bai Yan as a captive excited him even more than finding a Divine Treasure.
In the Primordial Wilderness, if they had a choice, who would willingly be born an Acquired Being?
Luo Qing was no exception. Although he was an Acquired God, he also harbored the great ambition of Reverting to Innate and Reshaping his Foundation.
Along the way, he avoided the various Heavenly Gods and True Gods. His Fire Escape Technique never stopped, and in just four or five days, Luo Qing covered the distance that had previously taken him a month.
Luo Qing successfully returned to the Crimson Flame Tribe, deep within the Crimson Flame Volcano.
After showing Captain Huoshi the corpse of the Earth God Crocodile Dragon Fierce Beast,
Luo Qing shouted out and hurried straight into his own cave abode.
"Captain Huoshi, I'm going into seclusion for a while. I don't know how long it'll last, so don't disturb me during that time!"
True God Huoshi was quite satisfied with Luo Qing's completion of the Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
He had originally intended to give Luo Qing some guidance regarding his future cultivation, but Luo Qing had unexpectedly gone into seclusion in the blink of an eye.
"This brat, why is he in such a hurry? Who knows what he's up to this time. He's really infuriating!"
True God Huoshi had initially wanted to drag Luo Qing out and give him a thorough scolding, telling him to cultivate properly instead of messing around with all sorts of nonsense.
But after thinking it over, True God Huoshi hesitated. Although Luo Qing had wasted several decades before finally becoming an Earth God,
he had not truly squandered his time. His Artifact Refining Technique was exceptionally impressive, and he had refined Magic Treasures for quite a few Earth Gods and Heavenly Gods.
"Forget it. At least he's already become a god. Wasting a few days won't matter."
In the end, True God Huoshi shook his head.
After returning to his own cave abode, Luo Qing first added another layer of restrictions to prevent it from being spied upon.
Only then did he enter his usual place of research.
He released the sealed Innate God Bai Yan's Divine Body.
"These muscles, these proportions, these teeth and bones..."
"Perfect, perfect!"
"As expected of an Innate God's Innate Divine Body. Even the lowest grade is this perfect."
Looking at the hundred-zhang-tall Divine Body before him, Luo Qing's eyes shone brightly.
After several days, Bai Yan's Divine Body had already recovered completely, without leaving behind even the slightest trace of injury.
Luo Qing had seen quite a few Divine Bodies cultivated by Earth Gods, Heavenly Gods, and even True Gods in the Crimson Flame Tribe.
Yet none of them was as perfect as the Innate Divine Body before him. Even Luo Qing's own Divine Body was slightly inferior by comparison.
After admiring the Innate Divine Body to his heart's content, what pleased Luo Qing even more was that Bai Yan, this Innate God, was also a Fire Attribute God.
This made him even more valuable as a reference for Luo Qing.
"All right, let's begin! Let me see what secrets an Innate God truly contains!"
Luo Qing calmed his excitement, sat cross-legged before the Divine Body, and began urging the Eye of the Great Dao to analyze the Innate God before him.
Luo Qing had already made up his mind. Even if it took a thousand years, he would excavate every secret contained within this Innate God.
"Analysis One complete:
Low-grade Innate Fire Attribute God.
Contains the Innate Spiritual Fire, White Spirit Flame.
Nascent Soul Rank Dharma Image, White Fire Guardian Divine General."
In just one day, the preliminary analysis of the Innate God was complete.
But when it came to further analysis, the time required stretched out endlessly.
Ten years later.
Luo Qing, who had remained motionless, saw the contents of Analysis Two flash before his eyes.
"Analysis Two complete... Contains a trace of the Origin of the Great Dao of Fire... The Innate Spiritual Fire is structured as follows... The Nascent Soul Dharma Image is analyzed as follows..."
The contents of Analysis Two were still not detailed enough. Although Luo Qing could understand some of it, it was insufficient for him to use as a reference and reproduce it.
"Not enough. It's still not enough! Continue analyzing!"
With a resolute expression, Luo Qing continued maintaining the Eye of the Great Dao and deepened his analysis of the Innate God.
Although Luo Qing could not cultivate normally while the Eye of the Great Dao was operating,
it did not hinder him from thinking about other matters.
As his eyes analyzed the Innate God, Luo Qing was also contemplating Innate Runes.
From his Analysis Two of Bai Yan, Luo Qing had discovered that
whether it was an Innate God's Innate Spiritual Fire or Innate Position Dharma Image, both contained Innate Runes.
A rune was the Dao. Innate Runes were Innate Dao Texts—the comprehension and depiction of the Great Dao.
This discovery once again raised the importance Luo Qing placed on Innate Runes by an entire level.
"Looks like I'll have to pay more attention to collecting Innate Runes in the future."
Luo Qing thought to himself.
Mastering more innate runes was undoubtedly very helpful for understanding the Great Dao.
Having command of more Innate Runes would undoubtedly be extremely helpful for understanding the Great Dao.
In the blink of an eye, Luo Qing had already been in seclusion for more than five hundred years.
However, in the early days of the Primordial Wilderness, time was especially worthless.
Even Acquired Beings who had not become gods generally lived for more than five thousand years.
Earth Gods and Earth Immortals could live for ten thousand years with ease.
Five hundred years was not even enough time for some Great Divine Ability Users to take a nap.
"Hahaha! It's complete! It's finally complete!"
Luo Qing's cave abode rang with cries of heartfelt joy.
After spending five hundred years, Luo Qing had analyzed the Innate God Bai Yan all the way to the fourth level.
At this point, Bai Yan, the Innate God, finally no longer held any secrets for Luo Qing.
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