Before long, he figured out what was going on.
He had transmigrated into the Primordial World.
That's right—the Primordial World, where mighty beings roamed everywhere, immortals were worth less than dogs, and only Sages dared stand tall.
At the same time, he had transmigrated into the Companion Innate Supreme Treasure of the future Demon Race Eastern Emperor, Tai Yi.
The Chaos Bell!!
The Chaos Bell was his body, and he was its Artifact Spirit.
He could hardly believe it.
The Chaos Bell! That name was practically legendary!
One of the Innate Supreme Treasures.
In the future, it would be the peerless treasure used by Eastern Emperor Tai Yi to suppress the Heavenly Court's Fortune.
It could suppress the might of the Primordial Chaos World.
It could manipulate the power of the Myriad Heavens and Time.
It could reveal the Heavenly Dao's Profound Mysteries.
It could refine Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.
It was both an offensive and defensive treasure.
Once the Chaos Bell rang, heaven and earth would lose their color, and Qiankun would tremble.
Without a doubt, the greatest treasure in the Primordial World! (Apart from the Jade Disk of Creation.)
In my previous life, I was human. In this life, I've become the Demon Emperor's Companion Innate Supreme Treasure. Humans want to exterminate demons, and demons want to eat humans. What should I do?
After thinking it over for a while, the corners of his mouth began to curl upward. His eyes shone with incomparable resolve.
In my previous life, I was human, yet I never lived freely or truly lived for myself. Since the Great Dao has granted me this opportunity, why not become this Companion Innate Supreme Treasure? From now on, I'm done being human!
If possible, he'd try to improve relations between the Human Race and the Demon Race. But for now, he was the Demon Emperor's Companion Innate Supreme Treasure, and might even take form in the future and become the Demon Race's Fifth Emperor.
(The Four Emperors of the Yao Race were Demon Emperor Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, Xi Huang Fu Xi, and Wa Huang Nuwa. Kun Peng was the Demon Master.)
But I'll have to make some careful plans for this Eastern Emperor. The stronger he gets, the sooner I can take form.
There was a prompt in his mind: the stronger Eastern Emperor Tai Yi became, the stronger he became. Their lives were essentially bound together.
So he fell into thought again.
The original Eastern Emperor had it so rough. The woman he loved was schemed into becoming the wife of Da Yi of the Witch Race. He was cuckolded so badly his head practically glowed green. In the end, he fought eight Ancestral Witches alone during the Witch-Demon War and died in a self-detonation, wronged to the very end. His self-detonation isn't the important part. What matters is...
The Chaos Bell didn't dare think any further. After Eastern Emperor Tai Yi self-detonated, the Chaos Bell was damaged, and he himself disappeared. Needless to say, Hongjun, that shady bastard, must have taken him. Just imagining himself falling into Hongjun's hands...
"Brr!"
The Chaos Bell shuddered. Would he have any hope of a good ending in Hongjun's hands?
"No, no! I have to make careful plans! There's still time. Tai Yi won't take form for a while yet!"
The Chaos Bell shivered all over. He could clearly sense Tai Yi's Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivation, but for some reason, Tai Yi was still asleep.
"This..."
Hongjun wiped away a cold sweat. The transmigrator had actually ended up inside the bell?
Hongjun immediately checked his Pangu Banner and Taiji Diagram... Thankfully, there were no transmigrators in them.
"But this transmigrator is rather interesting. He wants to plan Eastern Emperor Tai Yi's future."
Hongjun stroked his chin. He felt that there was something a little off about this transmigrator's thinking, too.
Planning someone else's future? And when had Eastern Emperor Tai Yi ever had a woman he loved? Hadn't he always been single? Had Hongjun arranged that for him?
Also, why did every transmigrator think he, Hongjun, was a bad person? He truly had no schemes at all! They'd made all that up themselves. Why was his Primordial World so ridiculous?
"Has the system not awakened?"
Hongjun could clearly see that besides the Artifact Spirit, there was something else inside the Chaos Bell. That golden speck of light was probably the system, though it was already bound to the Artifact Spirit's soul.
"These systems really do have all sorts of abilities."
Take Di Jun's system from earlier, for example. It had indeed given Di Jun magical power, but nowhere near a million billion years' worth of cultivation. That was an exaggeration. It was probably closer to a million years. If Di Jun refined it all, he could reach the Quasi-Saint realm.
He was currently at the late Great Luo Golden Immortal stage. Refining it all and reaching Quasi-Saint was about right.
"These systems are pretty interesting, too."
Hongjun smiled. Shi Chen's system had used Shi Chen's Companion Innate Supreme Treasure as a reward. It hadn't exactly gotten something for nothing, but it hadn't been far off. A million years of cultivation was more or less equivalent to a Quasi-Saint.
"I'll make you spit it all out."
That was Hongjun's plan. He wanted to wait until those systems had given up all their energy before reaping the rewards. After all, not every system was as stupid as Ancestral Dragon's System, which had given Ancestral Dragon most of its energy right from the start.
Most of the energy capable of creating a False Great Dao Sage had gone to waste, turning into all sorts of spiritual treasures. Now the system was so weakened it couldn't even maintain the Intelligence Reduction Halo it was supposed to keep running.
(Intelligence Reduction Halo: The system's most obvious function. Once a host gets a system, it activates automatically, drastically lowering the intelligence of those around the host, sometimes even reducing it to zero and causing them to perform a series of incomprehensible actions.
For example, in a certain novel, the protagonist tricked Sect Master Tongtian into giving up his Sagehood, and Sect Master Tongtian believed him. That's Intelligence Reduction.)
"Alas, I'd originally wanted to hand the responsibility of controlling the Heavenly Dao over to someone else."
Hongjun sighed helplessly.
After the Dao-Devil War, he had originally wanted to hand the Heavenly Dao over to someone else.
But given the current situation...
It seemed he had no choice but to take charge of the Heavenly Dao himself.
In theory, as a Great Dao, he had already traveled all over the Primordial World. There was little left to interest him. Why should he care about the Heavenly Dao now?
But the problem was, he didn't trust anyone else to take charge of it.
Never mind handing it over to the Primordial World's original inhabitants. Every one of them was ambitious, and probably not a single one truly wanted stability for the Primordial World.
If they got the Jade Disk of Creation, wouldn't their first thought be to unify the Primordial World?
Think about all the Honghuang genre novels out there. How many characters had the virtue and conduct worthy of a Heavenly Dao Sage?
Besides, those were just the Primordial World's native inhabitants.
If the transmigrators were included, it would be even worse.
How many transmigrators claimed they wanted to take it easy while actually showing off?
How many transmigrators had turned the Primordial World into a complete mess, then dusted themselves off and left for another world?
In short, until he found a suitable person to take charge of the Heavenly Dao, he, Hongjun, would have to keep doing it.
There were two good candidates at the moment: Primordial Heavenly Venerate and the transmigrator Shi Chen.
But if he gave Shi Chen the position of Heavenly Dao ruler... he'd have to remove his system first.
So Hongjun would just keep control of the Heavenly Dao for now. After all, his memories already contained countless occasions when he'd taken charge of it.
He didn't want someone to suddenly turn this world into a complete mess, leaving him to clean up the chaos afterward.
With him, the Heavenly Dao's ruler, around, both the various powers and the transmigrators would keep themselves in check.
After all, there were just a few too many transmigrators in this world.
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