Pangu looked at the Sky-Opening Axe and the Jade Disk of Creation in his hands, then at the Chaos Green Lotus beneath him, and quietly considered how to break out of this predicament.
Neither the Sky-Opening Axe nor the Jade Disk of Creation—not even the Chaos Green Lotus—could help Pangu break out of it.
They were all good treasures, but the original Pangu had used these Chaos Supreme Treasures too, and still failed to attain the Great Dao.
So the first thing he needed was a new spiritual treasure.
He already had a target in mind: the Chaos Bead, which was on the same level as the Three Great Chaos Supreme Treasures.
According to legend, the Great Dao had fifty paths, the Heavens evolved forty-nine, and one escaped.
And the Chaos Bead was that one that escaped!
The Chaos Bead contained a chaos of its own. If he could create a world inside it... there would be no Great Dao scheming within the Chaos Bead.
If he succeeded in creating a world inside the Chaos Bead, then he would have attained the Great Dao!
"Hm? You want the Chaos Bead? To create a world of your own?"
Hongjun gazed at Pangu in the chaos, his expression odd.
The Chaos Bead? That thing didn't exist at all.
It was nothing but an illusory legend. There was no such thing in this world.
Of course, he was the Great Dao. If Pangu wanted it, he could just give it to him!
Hongjun shifted his thoughts, and a golden bead appeared in his hand.
He gave it a gentle puff of breath. The bead instantly lost all its radiance and turned a hazy gray, nearly indistinguishable from the chaos around it.
The Chaos Bead contained a chaos of its own, but it wasn't as vast as the real chaos. This chaos had an end.
The next moment, Hongjun moved the hazy gray bead to the edge of Pangu's Spiritual Sense. Pangu only had to take a few steps to sense its presence!
As for why he did it this way—
Hongjun didn't want the Great Dao to be branded a scheming old bastard again. If he moved it directly into Pangu's Spiritual Sense, the whole thing would be full of holes. Even a fool would grow suspicious.
Of course, this wasn't a plot against Pangu. Hongjun was simply granting his wish.
A thousand years later, Pangu emerged from his cultivation, feeling that his power wasn't advancing at all. Perhaps it was because his mind was unsettled.
In any case, he stopped cultivating and went searching for the Chaos Bead in the boundless chaos.
Pangu rose and walked a few steps through the directionless chaos. Then he sensed something drawing him closer.
His Spiritual Sense reached toward it. There was a gray bead, stripped of all its radiance, so plain and unremarkable in appearance.
This was—
Pangu's eyelids twitched.
Could it be...?!
An inexplicable anticipation welled up in his heart. It seemed that this plain, ordinary bead was the very thing he had dreamed of finding!
Realizing that it might be possible, Pangu immediately wrapped the gray bead in his Spiritual Sense.
Crack!
A tiny fissure appeared on the bead, revealing a brilliant golden light, as if it had been startled.
But the light vanished in an instant, and the bead returned to its dim state.
Pangu was overjoyed.
A divine treasure concealing its own radiance—and he had been focused entirely on it just now. Otherwise, he might not have noticed it at all.
Pangu sent his Spiritual Sense into the bead. The joy on his face only grew.
The Chaos Bead!
It really was the Chaos Bead!
Trying to hide its radiance and pass itself off as an ordinary bead?
Hmph! How naïve!
In the chaos, apart from the Great Dao, I, Pangu, am the strongest!
Pangu thought disdainfully.
There were four Chaos Supreme Treasures in the chaos, as mentioned earlier.
As far as Pangu knew—
Of the four Chaos Supreme Treasures, the Chaos Bead was unquestionably the strongest!
Unlike the first three, the Chaos Bead was rather unique, since it had almost no offensive power.
But it had an even more powerful use, one the other three couldn't compare to!
It contained a chaos of its own.
The bead was small, but it held a chaos within, just as vast as the original one.
And after creating a world within it, he could also use the Chaos Bead to smash people!
That would give it offensive power, too.
Smashing someone with the weight of an entire world—not even the Twenty-Four Heavens of the future Ancient Buddha Dipankara could compare.
Those were merely twenty-four small thousand worlds. This, on the other hand, was a world as vast as the Primordial World!
Smash someone with the power of the entire Primordial World—even the Sky-Turning Seal would have to admit it was an expert.
"Ha ha ha ha ha! The Great Dao has fifty paths, the Heavens evolved forty-nine, and one escaped. The ancients... no, web novels really don't lie to me!"
Pangu snatched the Chaos Bead into his hand and threw his head back, laughing with delight.
The novels he had read had clearly stated that the Chaos Bead contained a chaos of its own and could shield itself from all Heavenly Secrets. Even the Great Dao couldn't calculate where the Chaos Bead was. That was the one that escaped.
The one that even the Great Dao couldn't grasp!
And now, he had it firmly in his hands!
Great Dao! Just watch how I, Pangu, break out of this predicament!
Hongjun: "Oh, I really can't calculate where the Chaos Bead is. Great God Pangu was right! Even the Great Dao can't figure out that the Chaos Bead exists."
Pangu's original plan had been to create the world inside the Chaos Bead and then attain the Great Dao.
But after refining the Chaos Bead, he discovered that it wasn't big enough inside!
He could still create a world and attain the Great Dao, but what he attained wouldn't be the true Great Dao. It would be the False Great Dao.
"Ugh, what should I do?"
Pangu was once again at a loss.
If he attained the False Great Dao, he wouldn't stand a chance against the real Great Dao.
Suddenly, Pangu's eyes lit up. He had thought of a good solution.
"Right! The Chaos Bead can also conceal the Heavenly Secrets! As long as I deceive the Great Dao, I can use the opportunity to escape into the Primordial World!"
At that moment, Pangu couldn't help admiring his own intelligence. As expected, ancient beings were all fools. Only a modern person like him could come up with such a brilliant idea.
He put his plan into action at once. Pangu intended to search the chaos for a spiritual root with a powerful origin and hide a wisp of his Primordial Spirit inside it. That way, it wouldn't matter if he lost his physical body.
Then, after the calamity of world creation, he would escape into the Primordial World.
It was a flawless plan!
With that in mind, Pangu first activated the power of the Chaos Bead. In an instant, an obscure aura seemed to form around him, making him feel as though he had become "invisible" within the chaos.
He grinned, tilting his mouth to one side. He looked just like Asura, the Dragon King, the God of War, and the Su Family Son-in-Law!
Feeling himself "vanish" into the chaos, Pangu grew even more confident.
Next, he only had to find a spiritual root with a powerful origin.
With the Chaos Bead concealing the Heavenly Secrets, he no longer had to worry about the Great Dao noticing him.
"You're looking for a Chaos Spiritual Root?"
Hongjun's expression grew strange again.
Where in the chaos was there such a thing?
The Chaos Spiritual Roots—and the beings with powerful origins—were the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods themselves, such as Yang Mei of the Hollow Willow.
As for the other life-forms in the chaos, there were only a few crooked trees and countless Chaos Stubborn Stones.
He really had no idea where these transmigrators found the novels they read.
No, it wasn't his fault.
His world was simply too poor to fulfill even their wildest fantasies.
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