"Then it's settled. I'll transform as soon as possible, then take a trip around the Primordial World!"
Xie Fang made up his mind and wasted no more time, immediately immersing himself in cultivation.
This cultivation lasted a full hundred thousand years!
For all that time, he didn't go running around looking for living beings to awaken their spiritual awareness. Instead, he obediently absorbed Spiritual Qi and converted it into Experience Points.
He only had to draw Spiritual Qi into his body for it to automatically become Experience Points. Without the refinement process, his cultivation advanced at astonishing speed!
"Break through!"
That day, a tremendous explosion rang out!
After a hundred thousand years of dedicated cultivation, Xie Fang had finally reached the late stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm!
And his Form Manifestation tribulation had finally arrived!
Rumble—
Thunderclouds rolled across the surrounding area, covering tens of millions of kilometers!
Blue-violet clouds surged into the sky, lightning flashing within them as they stretched into the distance.
"Nine Heavens Annihilation Divine Thunder! You certainly think highly of me."
Xie Fang sensed the strength of the tribulation lightning, and his heart sank slightly.
The Nine Heavens Annihilation Divine Thunder was the most powerful kind of tribulation lightning. Of course, such a formidable tribulation also meant that Xie Fang's origins were extraordinarily powerful.
The Nine Heavens Annihilation Divine Thunder came in a total of eighty-one bolts, each one comparable to a full-force strike from a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
Xie Fang was only at the late stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, so it was no wonder he'd said that!
But far from being afraid, Xie Fang was filled with fighting spirit!
So what if the tribulation lightning was powerful?
If cultivators like us let tribulation lightning scare us off, then what's the point of cultivation?
Boom!
The tribulation lightning crashed down!
Xie Fang stood firm and endured its onslaught. Lightning as thick as a barrel writhed like electric serpents, striking him again and again with tremendous force.
The enormous golden silhouette of the ruler looked tiny amid the blue-violet tribulation lightning!
Boom!
The lightning continued to fall. At last, after the final bolt struck, a handsome young man in a golden robe slowly emerged from the center of the thunderclouds.
It was Xie Fang. After a hundred thousand years of arduous cultivation, he had successfully transformed!
And by successfully overcoming this heavenly tribulation, his cultivation had advanced to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm!
Over these hundred thousand years, apart from continually absorbing and circulating Spiritual Qi, he had also been slowly undoing the Forbidden Seals on the Sea-Calming Pearl and the Pure World White Lotus.
Naturally, with his cultivation at the time, he'd only managed to undo the first twenty Forbidden Seals on each. Still, that was enough.
"The Primordial World must be quite lively by now. The Three Immortal Islands are safe here and won't be lost with the Ten Directions Sky Covering Great Array protecting them. I'll set up a few more arrays, too. Then ordinary people won't be able to find them."
With a wave of his hand, Xie Fang set up several more arrays around the Ten Directions Sky Covering Great Array. He was determined to keep the Three Immortal Islands for himself!
It wasn't that he didn't want to refine the Three Immortal Islands at once. It was just that, with only the Stone Stele of Penglai Immortal Island, his current cultivation would require roughly an entire primordial era to refine it!
If he went off to refine the other two islands as well, he'd probably be waiting until the cows came home!
So, he'd hide the Three Immortal Islands!
What's mine will still be mine, sooner or later!
Once he had hidden the Three Immortal Islands, Xie Fang nodded in satisfaction. He was just about to set off on his journey around the Primordial World when a sudden murderous intent swept toward him!
Xie Fang instinctively turned his head. A huge, foul-smelling maw lined with fangs lunged toward him, jaws snapping shut!
"Damn it, I just got out and someone's already ambushing me!"
In an instant, anger flared in Xie Fang's heart. Mysterious Yellow Qi surged around him as he swung a heavy punch straight into the beast's lower jaw!
Crack—
Under Xie Fang's powerful punch, its fangs, each the size of a fist, shattered one after another!
"Roar—"
A heart-rending howl rang through the heavens!
"This is a Three-Clawed Golden Dragon!"
Only after punching the beast away did Xie Fang get a clear look at it.
It was a gigantic golden dragon, its body seemingly cast from gold and radiating the heat of magma!
The dragon was enormous, a thousand zhang long, and its cultivation had reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm!
"How is this possible? What is your cultivation? Why can't I see through you?"
The Golden Dragon's mouth was full of golden blood, and terror filled his eyes.
He'd come out looking for food, never expecting to stumble upon Xie Fang, who was wreathed in an immense aura of Merit.
Xie Fang's true form was the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, created from twenty percent of the merit of the creation of heaven and earth. Merit filled his entire being. Though the dragon couldn't make sense of that aura, he knew it was a great tonic!
Greed took hold of the dragon, and he decided to swallow Xie Fang whole and refine him!
On the East Sea Dragon Clan's territory, wasn't it easy for a dragon to find a meal?
But today, he'd picked a fight with someone he couldn't afford to provoke!
Not only had he failed to devour Xie Fang, he'd lost out instead, with Xie Fang's punch shattering all his fangs!
"Hmph! You're nothing but a little mudfish, and you dare act ferocious in front of me?"
Since the Golden Dragon had tried to kill him, Xie Fang naturally wouldn't show mercy.
In the Primordial World, the strong preyed on the weak, and might made right!
Besides, the Golden Dragon was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Xie Fang was rather curious how many Experience Points he'd gain for killing one!
At that thought, Xie Fang unleashed his full power. The Pure World White Lotus appeared beneath his feet, spinning incessantly. In his hands, thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls formed a Chaos space, whirling as they hurtled straight toward the Three-Clawed Golden Dragon!
A seven-foot-tall figure stood upon a white lotus, holding the Sea-Calming Pearls as he faced a golden dragon a thousand zhang long. He looked like an insect trying to shake a tree.
And yet, a sudden sense of danger welled up in the Golden Dragon's heart!
The being before him was terrifying!
So terrifying that he couldn't see through or understand him at all!
An intense urge to flee flooded the Golden Dragon's mind.
Right now, all he wanted was to get as far away from Xie Fang as possible...
But Xie Fang naturally had no intention of letting him escape. The thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls evolved into thirty-six heavenly worlds, then came crashing down toward the thousand-zhang Golden Dragon!
The next instant!
An incomparably powerful and terrifying force burst forth!
Boom!
Boom!
The deafening blasts of sound waves swept outward, and surging air currents churned the waters of the East Sea. Towering waves immediately swallowed the Golden Dragon.
And that wasn't all. The thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls, each containing its own space, slammed into the dragon. He let out a heart-rending howl and was sent flying!
"Roar—"
The howling dragon looked as though he'd been struck by lightning. His eyes were filled with terror!
A searing pain spread through every limb and bone. The tremendous impact seemed poised to obliterate his organs and extinguish his life!
With a wet crunch—
The flesh of his internal organs shattered under the force!
Fragments and bloody pulp burst out, instantly staining the waters of the East Sea red!
Even with the Golden Dragon's status as a Grand Unity Golden Immortal and the Dragon Clan's formidable body, he lost his life in the blink of an eye at the hands of Xie Fang, whose true form was the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler and whose cultivation had reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm!
"Ding! Congratulations, host. You killed a Three-Clawed Golden Dragon and gained 200,000 Experience Points."
Thump!
As the system notification sounded, the Golden Dragon's mangled corpse crashed into the sea.
"A single Three-Clawed Golden Dragon gave me 200,000 Experience Points. Killing and looting really does make a fortune!"
Xie Fang nodded in satisfaction. This was much faster than painstaking cultivation. He'd gotten off to a great start as soon as he left the island, and it made him even more eager to see what the Primordial World had to offer.
The Primordial World might be fraught with danger, but it was also full of opportunities. As the saying went, fortune favored the bold. If he wanted to grow stronger, he had to temper himself through one crisis after another!
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