Hongjun's will swept across the Chaos Void and finally picked a crooked tree at random.
It wasn't a Void Ancient Tree or a Hollow Willow.
It was just an Innate Spiritual Root.
So why had Hongjun picked this tree?
Because... trees were genuinely rare in Chaos.
In Pangu's consciousness, Hongjun found a copy of the Compendium of Primordial Rare Treasures.
It had been compiled by the Honghuang webnovel authors of that world.
It recorded all kinds of spiritual treasures and spiritual roots from the Primordial World.
According to the text, Innate Spiritual Roots weren't the final stage for spiritual roots. Postnatal Returns to Innate, Innate Returns to Chaos, Chaos Returns to Primordial Chaos.
The Primordial Chaos had shattered, so none of those existed anymore.
But Chaos still existed!
The text said that Chaos contained many powerful spiritual roots on par with the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots, or even stronger.
The strongest of them was the Star Dou Tree, formed from the body of Great God Tai Gu Zi Wei Xing, Gu Ning.
According to legend, when the ancient Ziwei Star took human form, he became a man named Gu Ning.
In the end, the Primordial Chaos shattered, and the great god passed away, transforming into the Star Dou Tree.
And the Star Dou Tree was right here in Chaos!
(Does this name sound a little familiar?)
The Star Dou Tree's fruit corresponded to the Zhou Tian Star Dou, and contained immense Star Power. A single fruit could bring someone to the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
It could also forge a Star Body!
The Star Body corresponded to the Zhou Tian Star Dou as well, and came with the divine ability Minor Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation.
Hongjun merely smiled at this.
Forget not having anything like this in his world—even the novels wouldn't dare make it up.
One fruit could bring someone to the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, making it even more powerful than the Huang Zhong Plum. How could such a thing exist?
And that absurd Zhou Tian Star-Dou Formation.
Were Tai Yi and Di Jun not going to jump up and beat you for this in the future?
That was straight-up copyright infringement.
Honghuang novels kept backstabbing one another with their settings, yet the authors had joined forces to compile a compendium of rare treasures. You've got to be kidding me!
Hongjun made a few small changes to the Ancient Star Tree.
In the next moment, an ordinary, gray, crooked tree became the purple-aura-wreathed "Immortal Tree," the Star Dou Tree.
Then he placed the resting Chaos Demon Ape on its branches.
Finally, he sent the entire tree near Pangu, where it awaited discovery.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha! The Star Dou Tree!"
Pangu was traveling through Chaos when he suddenly spotted a giant tree wreathed in purple aura in the distance. He couldn't help bursting into laughter.
He even felt like jumping up and shouting, "Oh yeah!"
To carry out his plan, Pangu needed to find a spiritual root with a powerful origin to possess.
Then he would use Pangu's body to create Heaven and Earth, while he himself escaped far into the Primordial World.
He'd been in dire need, and now help had arrived. A spiritual root with a powerful origin had come right to him.
This had solved one of his greatest problems.
As for why the Star Dou Tree had suddenly appeared?
He was the protagonist of Chaos, after all!
He'd been standing at the summit since the moment he was born. Everything going his way was his privilege, and the whole world existed to welcome his arrival!
He wanted the Chaos Bead, he wanted the Star Dou Tree. They were his—all of them!
Hongjun: "..."
After reading Pangu's thoughts, Hongjun suddenly felt that this transmigrator didn't even need to be plotted against. No—he hadn't been plotting against him in the first place... With intelligence like this, why had he transmigrated?
Hongjun shook his head and decided to ignore Pangu. No matter what he did, all that mattered was that he created Heaven and Earth as usual.
As the Great Dao, he had to treat everyone equally, even a transmigrator.
Of course, that was on the condition that Pangu made good use of the opportunities he was given. If Hongjun barely intervened and even gave him plenty of help, yet Pangu still managed to ruin himself, then no one else could be blamed.
People only knew how powerful the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots were. How ignorant!
The Star Dou Tree existed here, after all.
Compared to the Star Dou Tree, the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots weren't even worthy of tying its shoes!
A compendium of rare treasures he'd once read had recorded that the Star Dou Tree was the creation of the Zhou Tian Star Dou, the essence of the Heavens and Stars!
"Ha! With this spiritual root, even the Great Dao won't be able to do anything to me! The day I, Pangu, attain the Dao, I'll break the heavens and shatter the earth! I'll make sure nothing in this world can block my sight ever again! And you, this hypocritical, unjust Great Dao, will vanish without a trace!"
Pangu gave a scornful snort.
Hongjun: "..."
Hearing the utter disdain in Pangu's voice left Hongjun speechless. I haven't done anything! I haven't plotted against you, and I haven't sent anyone to steal your opportunities.
On the contrary, I've helped you so much.
Is this how it works? You eat from your big brother, drink from your big brother, then curse him once you're full?
Why are you so hostile toward me? Have you just read too many novels?
Hongjun was utterly helpless.
Talk was talk, but the process still had to play out. There were eight thousand years left until the day Pangu created Heaven and Earth.
Pangu walked up to the Star Dou Tree and was about to raise his hand and take it when he felt a droplet land on him.
Pangu, who'd been brimming with excitement, immediately felt a surge of irritation. Whatever had interrupted his moment?
Pangu looked up and saw a black monkey, apparently fast asleep.
"Hey, you monkey! Get down here this instant!"
Irritation surged through Pangu. He punched the Star Dou Tree, making its trunk sway violently.
The droplet on him wasn't anything else—it was the saliva of the fast-asleep Chaos Demon Ape.
"Hey! Who dares call me 'Your Excellency'?"
The Chaos Demon Ape woke with a start, outraged and scratching at his ears and cheeks.
"Hmph! I am Pangu. If you know what's good for you, apologize to me this instant!"
The original Pangu might have said something like that, but could you believe a transmigrator Pangu would? Especially one who thought he was invincible apart from the Great Dao?
The real reason was that Pangu had realized something was wrong.
He was afraid of getting entangled in karma with a Chaos Demon God and being discovered by the Great Dao.
Pangu wasn't completely stupid. There were very few living beings in Chaos, and the only ones who could speak were probably the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods.
It didn't take much for Pangu to guess that the talking monkey in front of him was the Chaos Demon Ape.
"You're Pangu? So what? I don't care! Let's fight!"
The Chaos Demon Ape was slightly startled, but now that this had happened, he couldn't back down.
Pangu had only asked him to apologize, but who was he? The Chaos Demon Ape!
He was the pinnacle of the Law of Battle. If he didn't fight Pangu, he might never make any more progress.
He still wanted to attain the Dao.
"Hmph! You refuse to appreciate a chance. Then die!"
Since the Chaos Demon Ape was being so unreasonable, Pangu decided not to give him any room to back down.
After all, the best way to settle karma was to kill the person who owed you.
If someone died, could there still be karma?
"Ha!"
The Chaos Demon Ape let out a loud cry and leaped straight off the Star Dou Tree.
In midair, he transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang-tall demon ape!
His body was black as charcoal, streaked with cracks like flowing lava. His crimson eyes fixed coldly on Pangu.
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