After taking a few deep breaths to calm his pounding heart, Li Xuan looked at the projected screen.
His name and identity were unchanged.
His cultivation, however, had gone from Earthly Immortal Level Six to Heavenly Immortal Level One.
There was also a new entry under magic treasures: the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform.
He still had no cultivation technique.
But the final evaluation had changed to...
"Gar... garbage?"
Li Xuan raised a trembling hand and pointed at the evaluation. "Isn't that even worse than being useless!?"
The system naturally ignored him.
After scratching his head, he seemed to figure it out and muttered, "I get it. Garbage can still be recycled, but something useless is completely worthless. So garbage is a little better than useless, right?"
Having convinced himself he understood, Li Xuan nodded helplessly. "Mm. I'm not useless. I'm garbage..."
Then he plopped down on the Thirty-Six Petaled Creation Green Lotus again and picked up the manual beside him.
Name: Profound Creation Marvelous Art
Grade: Primordial Great Dao-level Art
Seeing the description, Li Xuan's eyes lit up. This thing was amazing!
His luck seemed pretty good!
It had been given to him at random, and yet he'd happened to get a Primordial Great Dao-level art!
Primordial Great Dao level—that had to be the highest grade, right?
Rubbing his hands together, Li Xuan grinned as if he'd just won five million.
Then he slowly opened the first page.
Profound Creation, boundless Great Dao...
With a single glance, Li Xuan was completely drawn in.
The Chaos around him slowly churned, and the Creation Green Lotus turned ever so slightly.
Li Xuan entered a meditative state.
Rumble!
After a hundred thousand years, the dark yellow in the center of Chaos had finally solidified completely!
The Turbid Qi sank, while the Clear Spiritual Qi rose!
The turbid Qi transformed into the Boundless Earth!
The clear Qi transformed into the Boundless Sky!
And between heaven and earth stood Pangu!
Pangu's Body defied description. After a hundred thousand years of bearing the weight and pushing everything apart, this world had grown beyond measure—endless in distance, breadth, and size!
But Pangu continued to hold it up, growing ever taller!
His breath became endless winds and rains, and clouds.
His roars turned into rolling thunder and crashing thunderclaps!
His sweat became rivers and lakes, gathering into a boundless ocean!
Time passed, and no one knew how long.
At last, Pangu let out a low growl, and the strength in his body was completely spent.
Slowly, he fell...
His eyes became the Haotian Sun and Moon and the First Primordial Star!
His blood became Infinite Spiritual Qi and Spiritual Veins, nourishing the earth!
His hair became countless Innate Plants, which began to flourish throughout the Primordial Wilderness!
His bones became Infinite Treasures, buried beneath the earth...
Pangu had fallen!
The Primordial Wilderness was formed!
"Rise!"
Li Xuan casually formed a hand seal and pointed sharply ahead.
A small clump of Chaos Qi immediately stirred, rolling and changing in every direction at his will.
Seeing this, Li Qing raised his brows and laughed heartily, his face full of pride. "Telekinesis! I've mastered it! I really am a damn genius!"
Another full hundred thousand years passed.
Li Xuan had finally learned the Profound Creation Marvelous Art.
But knowing it and using it were two very different things. It was extremely complicated to put into practice.
His cultivation, in particular, had only risen by four levels after a hundred thousand years of cultivation. He was now Heavenly Immortal Level Five.
And in all that time, Li Xuan had only mastered three ordinary immortal arts: Illusory Shift, Telekinesis, and Lightning Summoning Technique...
So, when he thought about it carefully...
He couldn't really blame the system for calling him garbage...
After cultivating the Profound Creation Marvelous Art, Li Xuan had also gained a rough understanding of the ranks and titles in cultivation.
His former Earthly Immortal level was the lowest of the low.
After all, among the Primordial Wilderness's innate lifeforms, any creature with intelligence that wasn't an ordinary beast had to be at least an Earthly Immortal.
Above that were Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Grand Unity True Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Quasi-Saint, Great Dao Saint, Heavenly Dao Saint, and Primordial Great Dao Saint.
At first, Li Xuan had stared blankly at the sheer number of ranks.
If it took him a hundred thousand years to reach Heavenly Immortal, how many tens of thousands of years would it take to reach Primordial Great Dao Saint?
But then he looked on the bright side.
Who cared? He had all the time in the world!
And so he settled down and kept cultivating.
"Lightning, come!"
After practicing Telekinesis, Li Xuan formed another hand seal, shouted, and pointed ahead.
A bolt of lightning appeared out of thin air. With a crack, it struck a small patch of Chaos Qi in front of him, scattering it in every direction until it vanished completely.
He raised his hand and blew on his fingertip, nodding with satisfaction.
The power of Lightning Summoning Technique was pretty impressive.
"Ding."
"Choice System generated."
"Choice One: Go to the Primordial Great World and help the Four Great Fierce Beasts (Qiongqi, Chaos, Taotie, and Taotie) kill the Three Divine Beasts (Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Prime Kirin). Upon completing the task, receive one random Primordial Supreme Treasure, three Innate Supreme Treasures—Ancestor Dragon Pearl, Phoenix Staff, and Kirin Seal—and one thousand jin each of Ancestor Dragon Blood Essence, Primordial Phoenix Blood Essence, and Prime Kirin Blood Essence.
"Choice Two: Go to the Primordial Great World and help the Three Divine Beasts (Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Prime Kirin) kill the Four Great Fierce Beasts (Qiongqi, Chaos, Taotie, and Taotie). Upon completing the task, receive 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: Go to the Primordial Great World and witness the first calamity of the Primordial Wilderness, the Fierce Beast Calamity. Upon completing the task, receive one random Innate Spiritual Treasure and one scroll containing ten thousand years' worth of cultivation experience.
"Choice Four: Continue cultivating for ten thousand years and randomly receive one defensive formation."
Just as Li Xuan was about to practice Lightning Summoning Technique some more, the system spoke in his ear, and a set of projected choices appeared before him.
"Hmm..."
Looking at the four choices before him, Li Xuan rubbed his chin and muttered, "I didn't expect the Primordial Great World to have already taken shape, and the Fierce Beast Calamity to have begun... I should go take a look..."
As he spoke, he casually tapped the fourth choice...
"Cultivating in the lively Primordial Wilderness has to be better than cultivating here, right? As for the Fierce Beast Calamity, why would I go help? Those guys are all vicious. I'm just a lowly Heavenly Immortal. Wouldn't those fierce beasts swallow me in one bite? I'm not even going to look. Whatever happens, happens..."
Li Xuan clicked his tongue as he muttered.
At the same time, he shrank the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform to the size of his palm and put it away.
Then he bent down and dug up the Gourd Vine along with a large chunk of Chaos Qi, cradling it in his arms.
He glanced at the Chaos Qi where he'd lived for who knew how long, then grinned. "Sayonara!"
With that, he moved in a flash, using Illusory Shift to head straight for the center of Chaos.
At the center of Chaos was a world that looked like a slowly rotating egg, radiating a dark yellow glow.
This world was boundless, immeasurable, and beyond imagination.
"Blow, wind, blow, take all my sorrow away, whoever's in the wind..."
Just then, a cheerful song came drifting from the distant depths of Chaos. The accent was clearly off, and the lyrics sounded awkward.
As the Chaos Qi rolled and parted, a figure emerged, taking one step after another.
Each step carried the figure thousands of miles, an Illusory Shift.
Compared to the boundless dark yellow world, the figure was so tiny as to be imperceptible, as if he didn't exist at all.
"Three hundred years! I finally made it!"
Looking at the endless Primordial Great World ahead, Li Xuan's eyes filled with joy.
After using Illusory Shift to cross Chaos for three hundred years, he had finally arrived.
He slowly exhaled. Then, with a flash, Li Xuan slipped through the membrane-like Pure Qi Layer.
After taking a few more steps, the world before his eyes suddenly changed!
The Heavenly Sun shone overhead, and the sky was deep blue.
A gentle breeze stirred in the air, rich with spiritual energy.
Endless mountain ranges spread below, lush and green, while towering trees grew thick and dense!
Birdsong and flowers, bubbling mountain springs—this was a paradise on earth.
Two clear tears slid from the corners of his eyes once more...
Looking at this land, Li Xuan's lips trembled. He spoke from the heart, his voice soft. "Father God Pangu, even though you nearly killed me with one swing of your axe... I... thank you... I truly thank you... Thank you for everything you did..."
Then he suddenly let out a long, exuberant whoop.
He danced, ran, and rolled across this spiritual-energy-rich land.
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