Golden Crow Hard to Find, Unexpected Opportunity

Although the Sun Star is not the leader of all stars, it is the largest celestial body in the starry sky.

On the Sun Star, Innate Spiritual Qi permeates the air. While it is slightly inferior to the top-tier Grotto-Heavens of the Primordial World, such as Kunlun Mountain or the Three Immortal Islands of the East Sea, it excels in its abundant Power of the Myriad Stars. This energy can temper the physical body and possesses quite miraculous properties.

At this time, there are very few living beings in the starry sky, as not all cultivators have the ability to withstand the Gale Wind to fly up into the heavens. Consequently, the Sun Star appears somewhat desolate, lacking the grand formation of the Demon Race's headquarters that would exist in later ages.

Because the Star Lords are two Three-legged Golden Crows, the Sun Star is dominated by fire, and the Fire Spiritual Qi is somewhat violent. Without the Star Lords to suppress it, it is difficult for ordinary living beings to survive there.

East King Duke flew onto the Sun Star and opened his divine sense completely, searching slowly.

If those two Golden Crows had not yet taken human form, they must be situated within an Innate Great Array, gestating slowly. For Innate Divine Demons of this caliber, the array they reside in must be extraordinary, so East King Duke was extremely meticulous.

A thousand years passed in the blink of an eye. With his Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal mid-stage divine sense, he had not stopped searching for a single moment. During this time, he discovered several Grotto-Heavens and arrays, and although he obtained some Starry Sky Treasure Materials, the most important Three-legged Golden Crows remained nowhere to be found.

At first, he did not pay much mind to it, but after searching for several hundred more years without result, he had no choice but to give up helplessly.

As expected, the minor trends of the Primordial World can be changed, but the major trends cannot be altered.

As the protagonists of the next Great Calamity, Di Jun and Tai Yi should be protected by the Heavenly Dao. Since the time for their emergence had not yet arrived, it was only natural that he would not find them easily.

It was clearly impossible to obtain this Innate Yang Origin in the short term; he would have to wait until the two Golden Crows took human form and emerged before finding a way to scheme for it.

However, Di Jun and Tai Yi are also top-tier Innate Divine Beings, and with supreme treasures protecting them, they would both be Great Divine Power Users of the Primordial World after taking human form. Moreover, as the supreme leaders of the vast Demon Race, the difficulty of trying to seize their origin would be truly immense.

Fortunately, the two are destined to fall in the next Great Calamity, at which point there should be an opportunity. It is just that even if he could eventually get his wish, the time it would take for him to transition from Pure Yang to Supreme Yang, and then to derive the Chaos Yin-Yang Great Dao, would likely be greatly delayed.

In the latter stages of the Witch-Demon Calamity, the Sages will all emerge, and the Great Sects will contend. If he has not attained the Hunyuan realm by then, it would be difficult for his Supreme Yang Lineage to achieve much in the struggle for the Primordial World's destiny.

The Chaos Yin-Yang Great Dao is undoubtedly a supreme path. East King Duke is unwilling to abandon the path he previously planned to walk in order to switch back to the Path of Pure Yang from his past life.

This is because his past life already proved that relying on the Path of Pure Yang to reach the Hunyuan realm is almost impossible. Furthermore, among the Three Thousand Great Daos, the Path of Pure Yang is a Lesser Law; even if he were lucky enough to attain the Hunyuan realm, his combat power would likely not be very high.

But there is no other way for now; he can only continue to look for opportunities. After all, in the vast Primordial World, although the Supreme Yang Origin is rare, it is not as if only those two Three-legged Golden Crows possess it.

Although he failed to obtain the Golden Crow origin, East King Duke did not leave the Sun Star immediately.

Instead, he found a place with abundant spiritual energy and set up a temporary cave abode.

The innate inheritance of his Pure Yang True Scripture is considered top-tier, but it is only a cultivation method for the Primordial Spirit; it lacks a Body Refining Technique. He decided to take this opportunity to use the Power of the Myriad Stars to deduce a set of body-refining techniques and, incidentally, temper his physical body.

The galaxy revolved, Yin and Yang alternated, and time slowly slipped away.

In the starry sky, streams of Myriad Star Light continuously converged onto a spot on the Sun Star. Relying on the power of the stars, East King Duke deduced a set of body-refining techniques.

He named it the Supreme Yang Battle Body.

Over several hundred years, he pushed this body-refining technique to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, which could be considered a full entry into the path. Further progress would require time to continuously refine and perfect it.

Emerging from his meditative state, East King Duke was very satisfied with the results of these few hundred years of body refining. What followed would be a slow, grinding process.

Having just emerged from seclusion after dispersing the power of the stars, he, having achieved minor success in body refinement, suddenly revealed a strange expression and vanished from where he stood.

In the blink of an eye, he was ten thousand miles away.

He looked at a Concealed Formation before him, lost in thought.

Because of the hundreds of years he had spent absorbing the power of the stars, his primordial spirit's connection to the Sun Star had become much clearer. A moment ago, he had distinctly caught a trace of Supreme Yang Power, and it was right here within this formation.

Could those two Three-legged Golden Crows be hidden inside this formation?

His divine sense could not penetrate the formation. East King Duke hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to break the formation to take a look.

This formation restriction did not seem as difficult to break as he had imagined, nor did it resemble an Innate Formation guarding a top-tier Innate Divine Demon. As expected, there was no sign of the Three-legged Golden Crows inside. However, when East King Duke saw what was within the formation, he could not help but show joy.

A massive Spiritual Plant stood within the grand formation, covering the sky and blocking the earth. It was incomparably tall, with roots spreading out to anchor it across ten thousand zhang, a trunk as straight as a pillar of gold and jade, and branches reaching straight toward the heavens.

The foliage was lush; every branch and every leaf exuded a vast, righteous Yang energy. The tree possessed ten layers of canopy, each layer like a world unto itself, with spiritual energy swirling around it, manifesting flowers of the Flames of Blazing Sun that flickered in and out of existence.

"Fusang Tree!"

The appearance of this Spiritual Plant was too distinct—it was the Innate Spiritual Root, the Fusang Tree. This was the second of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots that East King Duke had encountered, the first being the Yellow Middle Plum.

What surprised him was not the fact that the Fusang Tree was one of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots, but rather the utility this spiritual root held for him.

He had previously been troubled by his failure to obtain the Golden Crow origin, but after seeing the Fusang Tree, that frustration vanished. In later ages, the reason the Fusang Tree nurtured the ten princes of the Yao Race—the sons of Di Jun and Xi He—was precisely because it was a top-tier spiritual root possessing the Supreme Yang Origin.

In fact, to a certain extent, the Supreme Yang Origin of the Fusang Tree was even more suitable for East King Duke to fuse with than the Golden Crow origin.

Looking at the massive Fusang Tree before him, East King Duke's eyes burned with fervor. He desperately wanted to claim this renowned Innate Spiritual Root as his own, but after a moment of thought, he dismissed the idea.

Unlike the Yellow Middle Plum, which was also one of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots, the karma involved with this Fusang Tree was far too great. It was tied to the unfolding of the next kalpa. If he were to take it, he would not only forge deep karma with the future Yao Race—that is, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and their kin—but if he were to disrupt the progression of the Primordial World's evolution because of his actions, even the Heavenly Dao might take action against him.

He did not yet possess the means to contend with the Heavenly Dao.

Fortunately, taking only a portion of the Fusang Tree's origin would not have such a significant impact.

Having made up his mind, East King Duke summoned the Twelve-grade Yin-Yang Dao Lotus, sat cross-legged before the Fusang Tree, and began to extract the Supreme Yang Origin.

The Fusang Tree could not give birth to spiritual consciousness. Not just it, but under the rules of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, none of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots had developed a primordial spirit, nor did they have the opportunity to take human form.

However, all things in the Primordial World possess spirituality, and the instinct to seek advantages and avoid harm is universal, let alone when one's own origin is being extracted.

East King Duke's actions naturally met with the instinctive resistance of the Fusang Tree. Flowers of the Flames of Blazing Sun surged forth, attempting to incinerate the cultivator who dared to covet its origin.

East King Duke was naturally well-prepared; the Yin-Yang Two Qi rose beneath him, allowing him to resist with ease.

After all, it was merely a spiritual root. Even as one of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots, it was difficult for it to withstand the methods of a great supernatural being like East King Duke.

In less than a thousand years, a cluster of crimson Origin Qi appeared before him.

East King Duke did not go to extremes; he only took forty percent of the Fusang Tree's origin, which was enough for his needs. Even so, the spiritual root was left severely depleted, its vitality withered to the extreme.

However, growing on the Sun Star and existing in symbiosis with the two Three-legged Golden Crows, the Fusang Tree's origin would recover within two Yuan Hui, and it would not affect the mission bestowed upon it by the Heavenly Dao.

With this, East King Duke's trip to the Sun Star could be considered a success. He stored the Supreme Yang Origin within his primordial spirit and left, feeling satisfied.