Peacock King and Golden-Winged Great Peng.
In the later Investiture of the Gods Calamity and Journey to the West Calamity,
they would be incredibly famous powerhouses.
But at this early stage of the Primordial Wilderness,
they were merely two little creatures with no parents.
Li Xuan rubbed his chin and thought for a moment.
Then he suddenly grinned. "Hey, why not send out an incarnation to take a look and find a chance to claim Kong Xuan and Golden Peng? The Original Self can keep cultivating. That way, neither gets in the way of the other."
Li Xuan had already become well-versed in exploiting system loopholes.
In any case, the Original Self absolutely wasn't going out.
Especially now, with five strands of Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi inside him.
He was practically a glaring purple beacon.
Who knew how many flies it would attract?
At that thought, Li Xuan moved both hands, selecting options two and four at the same time.
"Ding! Option: Claim the peacock and Golden-Winged Great Peng—complete."
"Ding! Option: Continue cultivating for 250,000 years—complete."
As the two notifications sounded almost simultaneously, the corners of Li Xuan's mouth lifted. He casually waved a hand and began forming a spell seal.
Spiritual energy gathered, and his Incarnation Outside the Body appeared once more.
But this time, Li Xuan blinked at the incarnation that had emerged.
He stared at it, baffled and at a loss.
Though the incarnation looked just like the Original Self,
it had flowing purple hair that reached its waist!
Even its eyes were a deep purple!
Most astonishing of all, its cultivation had surged past the Golden Immortal and Grand Unity Golden Immortal realms,
and reached the level of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
A Grand Unity Golden Immortal without a Grand Unity Golden Core?
"What in the world..."
The incarnation and the Original Self muttered at the same time.
But then Li Xuan began to understand.
Since it was an Incarnation Outside the Body, it had surely copied everything about the Original Self.
But the Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi that had been suppressed, cleansed, and refined—
the incarnation couldn't copy it. It could only pick up a trace of its aura...
And just that trace of the Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi's aura...
"Turned me into this? I look like some kind of monster that's taken human form..."
The incarnation rubbed its flowing purple hair, muttering as it flew south.
The Original Self, Li Xuan, sighed and closed his eyes to continue cultivating.
With a twentyfold cultivation speed boost, he couldn't afford to waste it.
Half of it would go toward refining the Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi.
The other half was more than enough for his own cultivation!
The Golden Core inside him spun round and round, its patterns growing ever more intricate.
Li Xuan's cultivation began to inch toward the second and third levels of the Golden Immortal realm.
The incarnation was now a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
Throughout the Primordial Wilderness, a Grand Unity Golden Immortal stood at the very top of the pyramid.
Such a being could dwell above the Nine Heavens, and fly billions of miles with ease!
So as soon as Li Xuan left Mount Taixuan, he headed straight into the Nine Heavens Gaseous Wind.
It was a pity he didn't have a true form.
If another creature revealed its enormous true form,
the beings below would see its vast shadow looming above them, pressing down with an immense weight.
None but Grand Unity Golden Immortals could enter the Nine Heavens Gaseous Wind!
The Primordial Beings had just endured the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, a war that had lasted a full 120,000 years.
Who knew how many experts and powerful figures among the Three Tribes of birds, scaled beasts, and walking beasts had died?
As a result, the Primordial Wilderness was now in a state of dwindling talent.
After all, many powerful innate beings of later generations had yet to be born—or had only just been born.
For example, the Three Pure Ones.
The Two Sages of the West.
Nuwa, Di Jun, Tai Yi, the Styx Sect Master, and so on...
But now...
Heh heh heh...
As long as those five bastards didn't make a move,
he seemed to be the strongest under heaven...
Li Xuan thought smugly as he roamed through the gale.
The Nine Heavens Gaseous Wind could shatter gold and melt iron, and even blow a Golden Immortal's body apart. But now it felt like a gentle breeze against his face.
Li Xuan was perfectly at ease!
He flew south.
The Primordial Wilderness hadn't yet been divided into the Four Great Continents.
That was because the great calamity sparked by the most terrifying figures, Hongjun and Luohu—the conflict between the Mystic Gate and the Demon Cult—hadn't begun.
So the Primordial Wilderness was still one vast land, not yet split apart.
Naturally, there were no Four Great Continents yet.
But with the sun as a guide, east, south, west, and north were still easy to distinguish.
The sun rose in the east and set in the west.
With the system's guidance, Li Xuan flew straight toward his destination without stopping.
It was deep in the southern reaches of the Primordial Wilderness.
Divine Phoenix was gravely wounded, her entire body burning with Divine Phoenix True Fire.
Blood streamed from her body in countless drops, falling like fiery rain.
She couldn't withstand a strike from the God-Slaying Spear.
Burning her soul and essence blood, and driven by the thought that she must not die—that she had to safely give birth to Yuanfeng's only direct descendant—she continued flying south.
But no amount of will could undo the injuries to her body.
She hadn't flown for even half an hour
when, roughly 300 million miles from Phoenix Mountain,
she could fly no farther.
With a piercing cry, Divine Phoenix chose a mountain at random and descended upon it.
Divine Phoenix's blood spilled across the entire mountain.
Despite her agony, Divine Phoenix gritted her teeth and built a crude nest on the mountainside.
Then she lay inside it, crying out again and again, filled with boundless sorrow and hatred.
Blood fell as her belly heaved.
Divine Phoenix let out a pained scream.
She was already gravely wounded, and now she had to give birth.
The pain was unimaginable.
As she neared the moment of birth, the world gradually began to change.
All manner of strange phenomena appeared!
Clearly, the child she was about to bear was extraordinary!
But good fortune never came without misfortune.
Divine Phoenix's essence blood was of vital importance to Luohu. How could he let her escape?
As soon as Divine Phoenix had been struck by the God-Slaying Spear and fled by burning her essence blood,
he had sent two of his top generals to hunt her down!
Wufawutian!
Luohu had many subordinates, but four of them were the strongest.
Named by Luohu and personally instructed by him, each had reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm—half a step into the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
Wufawutian, Wuxiang, and Wuxin!
Though Divine Phoenix was a powerhouse at the Primordial Golden Immortal level, the God-Slaying Spear's strike had left her gravely wounded and on the verge of death.
So Luohu had sent Wufawutian to hunt her down. That was more than enough.
Divine Phoenix laid her egg, crying out into the sky!
Blood spilled across the entire mountainside, and misty energy rose into the air.
Having been drenched in Divine Phoenix's blood, this place would surely become an excellent spiritual land in the future...
"Hahaha! You're about to die, and you still want to give birth? Fine! Give birth first. Then we brothers will take your essence blood!"
Suddenly, two dark figures slowly appeared in the sky, and a shrill laugh rang out across the heavens.
Wufawutian had arrived.
Divine Phoenix cried out, her eyes filled with madness and killing intent.
But Wufawutian weren't fools. They had no intention of approaching just yet.
They knew Divine Phoenix was doomed. All they had to do was wait a little longer.
Rumble!
As Divine Phoenix cried out, a huge, crystalline egg slowly emerged from beneath her tail feathers.
And as the egg appeared, the strange phenomena in the sky surged into a frenzy!
Five strands of Primordial Divine Light—blue, yellow, red, black, and white—shot toward it and, in the blink of an eye, entered the egg.
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