Battle Against the True God

After the battle, Luo Qing took Heavenly God Mu Sang into custody and summarized the fight.

Overall, Mu Sang, as an Innate God, certainly possessed strength; otherwise, three Blazing Thunder Pearls would have been enough to kill him.

However, his combat experience could be described as severely lacking.

For instance, when faced with Luo Qing's three unknown thunder pearl immortal artifacts, Mu Sang's first instinct was to defend rather than dodge or evade.

Furthermore, he lacked a suitable magic treasure to use, relying solely on divine arts, supernatural powers, and his formidable divine body when facing enemies.

When encountering someone like Luo Qing, who possessed Innate Spiritual Fire that countered them, he proved to be very poor at adapting.

Reflecting on Bai Yan's performance earlier, he was not much stronger than this Heavenly God Mu Sang.

It seems that Innate Gods are not born exceptionally powerful. Even with their noble innate status, they still require a process of growth and learning.

Luo Qing now had a better understanding of Innate Gods.

Among the Innate Gods, there was no shortage of peerless, ruthless experts, but there were just as many weaklings.

To avoid alerting Hundred Gods Mountain to anything unusual, Luo Qing went into hiding for a month after capturing Heavenly God Mu Sang.

Seeing that everything at Hundred Gods Mountain and within the valley remained normal, he began to take action once again.

Hundred Gods Mountain, for its part, was completely unaware of Heavenly God Mu Sang's disappearance.

After all, Heavenly God Mu Sang had only left Hundred Gods Mountain a few months prior.

For a deity, such a span of time was truly insignificant.

Only a deity like Bai Yan, who had been away from the mountain for thousands of years, would be considered a missing person.

Luo Qing had spent only a few months luring Heavenly God Mu Sang.

However, it seemed his luck had been exhausted at the start, as for the next five years, he only managed to lure a few fierce beasts and two Natural Heavenly Gods from Hundred Gods Mountain; he did not even catch a glimpse of another Innate God.

This was not entirely due to bad luck on Luo Qing's part; after all, the number of Innate Gods below the True God cultivation realm within Hundred Gods Mountain was limited.

Most Innate Gods remained in a state of closed-door cultivation every day.

Those who traveled outside were few and far between.

And the number of Innate Gods who happened to discover Luo Qing's bait was even smaller.

Capturing Heavenly God Mu Sang had already been a stroke of great luck for Luo Qing.

Another few years passed.

On this day, another Innate God descended from Hundred Gods Mountain, and this one was an Innate True God of the wind attribute.

Because the Primordial World was home to a vast number of naturally conceived Fierce Beasts, and these beasts reproduced at an incredibly rapid rate, Hundred Gods Mountain, much like the Five Elements Tribe, needed to conduct a sweep of the nearby Fierce Beasts every so often.

This time, the mission fell to True God Feng Chao.

True God Feng Chao led his subordinates—three Natural Heavenly Gods and seven Natural Earth Gods—to form a hunting squad.

They began to clear out all Fierce Beasts above the God Realm, gradually moving outward from the vicinity of Hundred Gods Mountain.

After successively exterminating dozens of Earth God and Heavenly God level Fierce Beasts, the hunting squad found themselves moving further and further away from Hundred Gods Mountain.

True God Feng Chao remained in the center to oversee the formation; unless they encountered a large-scale horde of Fierce Beasts or a True God level Fierce Beast, he generally would not take action.

Just as True God Feng Chao was beginning to feel bored, a Heavenly God who had been chasing a Fierce Beast rushed back in excitement.

"Lord Feng, I have discovered signs of a low-grade or mid-grade Innate Treasure manifesting!"

"Oh! An Innate Treasure? Let's go take a look!"

The Heavenly God's words piqued the interest of True God Feng Chao.

True God Feng Chao didn't care much for low-grade Innate Treasures, but a mid-grade Innate Treasure was still worth moving his body for.

There was no helping it; this region around Hundred Gods Mountain was a remote corner of the Primordial World.

Not to mention Spirit Treasures, the fact that not even a single high-level Innate God had ever appeared here showed just how desolate it was.

Innate Treasures rarely manifested here; it couldn't compare to the prosperous regions of the Primordial World.

As True God Feng Chao led the ten Earth Gods and Heavenly Gods toward the valley where the treasure was manifesting, Luo Qing wore a grave expression.

One Innate True God, three Heavenly Gods, and seven Earth Gods.

If they were to clash head-on, Luo Qing might be blasted to death in a single exchange.

But for Luo Qing to let this Innate True God go and retreat first, he felt a bit hesitant.

Ten full years had passed since he captured Heavenly God Mu Sang.

If he dragged this out any longer, who knew how long it would take to encounter the next Innate God!

Forget it, I'll take the gamble!

It's just one True God and three Heavenly Gods, right? I'll smash them to death with Immortal Treasures if I have to.

Luo Qing gritted his teeth, ultimately deciding to bite the bullet and take on this tough challenge.

With his decision made, Luo Qing reached out, and at least 50 Blazing Thunder Pearls appeared before him.

These were the payment for refining dozens of Immortal Artifacts for others, along with the remaining materials.

Aside from the ones Luo Qing had used to refine a set of Surveillance Immortal Mirrors, a Five Elements Arena, a set of Concealment Immortal Artifacts, and several Defense Immortal Artifacts, all the remaining materials had been crafted by Luo Qing into Blazing Thunder Pearls.

Only these thunder pearls could grant Luo Qing the ability to challenge those of a higher realm.

These 50 pearls already accounted for eighty percent of his entire stock. If even these couldn't defeat a True God, then Luo Qing would simply have to accept his bad luck.

After True God Fengchao and his party passed the Surveillance Immortal Mirrors that Luo Qing had set up, it took them only a short while to reach the space above the valley.

This was only because they had deliberately slowed their pace to accommodate the few Earth Gods; otherwise, True God Fengchao could have arrived here in just a few breaths.

After True God Fengchao descended upon the valley, he discovered that the aura of the treasure had been suppressed significantly, making it difficult to locate for the moment.

He then spoke:

"The aura of the treasure emanates from this valley. All of you, go down and search. Whoever finds the treasure will be heavily rewarded by this deity!"

"Thank you, Lord Feng!"

The others were immediately overjoyed. They didn't dare covet the treasure itself, but no one would turn down a reward from a True God.

However, before the few Earth Gods and Heaven Gods could descend into the valley to search, the Five Elements Arena instantly locked down the battlefield.

"Someone is here!"

The fluctuation of the spatial force field from the Five Elements Immortal Artifact was detected by the gods immediately.

"It's an ambush, be careful!"

Just as the gods were bracing themselves for battle, ten Blazing Thunder Pearls were launched by Luo Qing from different directions toward True God Fengchao and the others.

True God Fengchao possessed profound cultivation and immediately sensed the world-destroying power contained within the Blazing Thunder Pearls.

"Everyone, be careful! Do not let their Immortal Artifacts hit you."

True God Fengchao issued a warning and flicked his sleeve, using the power of a Divine Wind to block the three pearls flying toward him from several kilometers away.

Unfortunately, the other gods did not possess strength as formidable as True God Fengchao.

The moment the Blazing Thunder Pearls were activated, they were genuine, albeit weakened, Mid-grade Innate Treasures.

Without high-quality defensive treasures, how could a few Earth Gods and Heaven Gods possibly withstand such an attack?

In an instant, ten Blazing Thunder Pearls detonated simultaneously above the valley, turning the entire area into a sea of fire.

Because True God Fengchao was wary of the thunder pearls and had kept his distance, he was left covered in soot and grime by the explosion, but he suffered no substantial harm.

His ten subordinates, however, were not so lucky.

Including the three Heaven Gods, all ten deities were instantly blasted into wisps of essence by the Blazing Thunder Pearls, dissipating into the Primordial Wilderness.

Even their crude Divine Artifacts were completely obliterated.

"Which fellow Daoist dares to ambush us at the gates of my Hundred Gods Mountain? Do you not fear the retaliation of the Hundred Gods Mountain?"

With all ten of his subordinates dead, True God Fengchao's face flushed crimson with extreme rage.

But the only response True God Fengchao received was another ten Blazing Thunder Pearls.

And these ten Blazing Thunder Pearls were all aimed directly at True God Fengchao himself.