Gratitude to Father God

After taking a few deep breaths to calm his racing heart, Li Xuan looked at the projection page.

Name and identity remained unchanged.

Cultivation, however, had gone from Earthly Immortal Level Six to Heavenly Immortal Level One.

The artifact column now had an additional Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform.

Still no techniques.

But the final evaluation had changed to...

"Tr, trash?"

Li Xuan raised a trembling hand and pointed at the evaluation. "Isn't this even worse than useless?!"

The system naturally ignored him.

After scratching his head, he seemed to figure it out and snorted, "I get it—trash can still be recycled, but useless waste is completely worthless. So trash is a bit better than waste, right?"

Thinking he understood, Li Xuan nodded helplessly. "Mm, I'm not waste, I'm trash..."

Then he plopped back down onto the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform, reached out, and picked up the manual beside him.

Name: Profound Creation Marvelous Art

Grade: Primordial Great Dao Level Technique

Seeing this description, Li Xuan's eyes lit up. This was good stuff!

His luck seemed pretty decent!

Randomly assigned, and he just happened to get a Primordial Great Dao level technique!

Primordial Great Dao level—that had to be the highest tier, right?

Rubbing his hands together, Li Xuan felt like he'd won five million and chuckled to himself.

Then, he slowly opened the first page of the book.

Profound Creation, Infinite Great Dao...

With just one glance, Li Xuan was completely drawn in.

The chaotic energy around him churned slowly, and the Creation Green Lotus also rotated gently.

Li Xuan entered a meditative trance.

Rumble!

After a hundred thousand years, the Mysterious Yellow Color at the center of the chaos had fully solidified!

The Turbid Qi sank, and the Clear Spiritual Qi rose!

The turbid energy evolved into the Boundless Earth!

The clear energy evolved into the Boundless Sky!

Between heaven and earth stood Pangu!

Pangu's Body was beyond description. After a hundred thousand years of supporting and expanding, this world had long since become immeasurable in distance, breadth, and size!

But Pangu continued to support it, still growing!

His breath turned into endless wind, rain, and clouds.

His roars became rolling thunder and lightning!

His sweat transformed into rivers, lakes, and seas, gathering into vast oceans!

Time passed, and no one knew how long it had been.

Pangu finally let out a low roar, his strength completely spent.

He slowly collapsed...

His eyes became the Haotian Sun and Moon, the First Primordial Star!

His blood turned into Infinite Spiritual Qi and Spiritual Veins, nourishing the earth!

His hair became countless Innate Plants, thriving across the entire Primordial Land!

His bones became Infinite Treasures, buried deep underground...

Pangu perished!

The Primordial Land was complete!

"Rise!"

Li Xuan casually formed a hand seal and jabbed forward with his finger.

Instantly, a small clump of chaotic energy began to pulse, rolling and shifting according to his will.

Seeing this, Li Xuan raised an eyebrow and burst into laughter, smugly declaring, "Telekinesis, mastered! I'm a goddamn genius!"

Another full hundred thousand years passed.

Li Xuan had finally thoroughly mastered the Profound Creation Marvelous Art.

But mastering it was one thing; actually using it was extremely complicated.

Especially his cultivation—after a hundred thousand years of training, he had only risen four levels, now at Heavenly Immortal Level Five.

And in that hundred thousand years, Li Xuan had only grasped three ordinary immortal techniques: Illusory Shift, Telekinesis, and Lightning Summoning...

So when he thought about it carefully...

He couldn't really blame the system for rating him as trash...

After cultivating the Profound Creation Marvelous Art, Li Xuan had roughly understood the levels and titles of cultivation.

His previous Earth Immortal stage was the weakest.

After all, among the innate beings of the Great Desolate, any with intelligence that weren't ordinary beasts had strength no lower than Earth Immortal.

Above that were Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Primordial Unity True Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, Golden Immortal of the Origin, Quasi-Saint, Great Dao Saint, Heavenly Dao Saint, and Primordial Great Dao Saint.

Faced with so many ranks at first, Li Xuan was completely dumbfounded.

Thinking that it took him a hundred thousand years just to reach Heavenly Immortal, how many millions of years would it take to reach Primordial Great Dao Saint?

But soon he became optimistic.

Whatever... time was something he had plenty of!

So he settled his mind and kept cultivating.

"Lightning, come!"

After finishing Telekinesis, Li Xuan formed a hand seal, shouted, and pointed forward.

Instantly, a bolt of lightning appeared out of nowhere, striking with a crack straight ahead, blasting a patch of chaotic qi into scattering wisps that vanished into nothing.

He raised his hand, blew on his finger, and nodded with satisfaction.

The Lightning Summoning Technique's power was pretty decent after all.

"Ding."

"Choice System generated."

"Choice One: Travel to the Great Desolate World, help the Four Great Fierce Beasts (Qiongqi, Hundun, Taotie, Taotie) kill the Three Divine Beasts (Ancestor Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, Prime Kirin). Mission completion rewards: one random Primordial Supreme Treasure, three Innate Supreme Treasures (Ancestor Dragon Pearl, Phoenix Staff, Qilin Seal), and one thousand jin each of Ancestor Dragon Blood Essence, Primordial Phoenix Blood Essence, and Prime Kirin Blood Essence."

"Choice Two: Travel to the Great Desolate World, help the Three Divine Beasts (Ancestor Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, Prime Kirin) kill the Four Great Fierce Beasts (Qiongqi, Hundun, Taotie, Taotie). Mission completion rewards: one random Primordial Supreme Treasure, six random Innate Spiritual Treasures, and one thousand jin each of Qiongqi Blood Essence, Chaos Blood Essence, Taotie Blood Essence, and Taotie Blood Essence."

"Choice Three: Travel to the Great Desolate World, witness the first calamity of the Great Desolate, the Fierce Beast Calamity. Mission completion rewards: one random Innate Spiritual Treasure and one ten-thousand-year cultivation experience scroll."

"Choice Four: Continue cultivating for ten thousand years, randomly obtain one defensive formation."

Just as Li Xuan planned to practice Lightning Summoning a few more times, the system's voice rang in his ears, and a projection of options appeared before his eyes.

"Hmm..."

Looking at the four choices before him, Li Xuan rubbed his chin and muttered, "I didn't expect the Great Desolate World to have already taken shape, and the Fierce Beast Calamity to have started... I should go take a look..."

As he spoke, he casually tapped the fourth choice...

"Cultivation? Isn't it better to cultivate in the lively Great Desolate than here? As for the Fierce Beast Calamity? Why would I bother helping? None of those are pushovers—with me being just a tiny Heavenly Immortal, wouldn't those fierce beasts swallow me in one bite? Not watching, don't care what happens..."

Li Xuan clicked his tongue, muttering to himself.

At the same time, he shrank the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform down to the size of a palm and put it away.

Then he bent down, dug up the Gourd Vine along with a large chunk of chaotic qi, and hugged it to his chest.

After taking one last look at the chaotic qi he had lived in for who knows how long, he chuckled and said, "Sayonara!"

With that, he moved, using Illusory Shift to head straight toward the center of chaos.

At the center of chaos, there was a world like an egg, slowly rotating, radiating a profound yellow light.

This world was boundless, immeasurable, unimaginable.

"Blow, blow, let the wind blow, carry all the sorrow away, who cares who's in the wind..."

Just then, a cheerful yet clearly mispronounced and awkward song echoed from the depths of distant chaos.

As the chaotic qi rolled and parted, a figure stepped out step by step.

With each step, the figure covered thousands of miles, using Illusory Shift.

Compared to that vast, boundless yellow world, this figure was naturally so tiny as to be unnoticeable, almost as if it didn't exist.

"Three hundred years! Finally here!"

Looking at the endless Great Desolate World ahead, Li Xuan's eyes were full of joy.

After three hundred years of Illusory Shifting through chaos, he had finally made it.

He slowly exhaled, moved his body, and plunged into the membrane-like Pure Qi Layer.

Then, after a few more steps, the world before him suddenly became completely different!

The vast sun shone overhead, the sky a clear azure.

A gentle breeze drifted through the air, rich with spiritual energy.

Below, endless verdant mountains stretched pleasingly, towering trees dense and lush.

Birds sang, flowers perfumed the air, mountain springs surged—a mortal paradise, nothing less.

Two streaks of clear tears slid once more from the corners of his eyes...

Gazing upon this land, Li Xuan's lips trembled as he spoke from the heart, his voice soft: "Father God Pangu, though you nearly split me in half with your axe... I... thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart... thank you for everything you've done..."

And then, he suddenly let out a long, howling cry.

He began to dance, run, and tumble across this land brimming with spiritual energy.