Eager to Return, Back to Wuzhuang Temple [Seeking Follow-ups and Monthly Votes]

His divine sense carefully perceived the unique aura emanating from the dragon's body, cross-referencing it with his inherited memories and the vast, majestic Pangu aura he had felt atop Buzhou Mountain not long ago.

After mutual verification and deduction, after a long while, he finally understood with sudden clarity, grasping the true origin and foundation of this thing!

This was not a true living being of the Dragon Clan!

This was the last wisp of Innate Vast Righteous Primordial Qi—that final breath—left behind in Pangu's chest cavity after the Great God Pangu opened the world, exhausted his strength, fell, and transformed his body into all things.

It had mixed with a considerable amount of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi, which was invulnerable to all magic and had been born in the early days of world-opening.

Then, it absorbed the omnipresent Pangu Will on Buzhou Mountain and the Innate Spiritual Qi concentrated to the extreme. After countless epochs of sedimentation, nourishment, and creation, through a stroke of fate, it naturally condensed and took form!

Because it contained a trace of Pangu's righteous spirit from the world-opening, the supreme imperial imagery, the rich power of World-Opening Merit, and the favor of the Primordial World, it instinctively took the form of the Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon—the embodiment of extreme hardness and yang, supreme honor and nobility, symbolizing auspiciousness and imperial authority.

In a sense, it was more like a natural Innate Exotic Treasure possessing unmatched power and great merit, or perhaps an existence akin to the Destiny Golden Dragon that would later guard the order of Heaven and Earth. But at this time, the Heavenly Dao had not yet emerged, and Hongjun had not yet appeared.

It had no master, nor had it managed to birth a complete intelligence on its own, existing in a strange state of ignorance and dormant power.

The considerable amount of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi not only granted it the trait of being invulnerable to all evils but also endowed it with the potential Supreme Wonderful Use of Suppression of Destiny.

Once he understood the situation, the shock in Lord Wanshouyuan's heart instantly transformed into immense joy and heartfelt emotion.

Great God Pangu truly was a treasure trove in himself, with boundless divine power. Even after his fall, the things he left behind were extraordinary and wondrous to this degree!

Though this golden dragon had no intelligence, its foundation was extraordinary, containing a considerable amount of World-Opening Merit, Profound Yellow Qi, and Pangu Primordial Qi—the three most supreme powers of the Primordial World. Its potential value was almost no less than a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, and in some aspects, it even surpassed one!

Suppressing his excitement, he carefully examined the dragon's body, confirming that its energy structure was stable yet restrained, with no danger of autonomous attack.

Only then did he step forward, extend a finger, and with a trace of reverence, gently touch the cold, massive golden dragon scale that was right before him.

Where his finger touched, it was not the hard, metallic texture he had expected, but rather warm and smooth like jade. He could faintly sense beneath the scale the vast, ocean-like energy—Righteous and Vast, overwhelmingly powerful—flowing slowly like breathing, filled with a sense of life force, yet lacking true conscious direction.

"This thing... truly is a wondrous creation, beyond imagination." Lord Wanshouyuan murmured to himself, a Scorching Hot light flashing in his eyes. Several thoughts raced through his mind in an instant.

This golden dragon's foundation was the thickest in all the Primordial World. Since it contained a considerable amount of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi, if he could find a Secret Method to enlighten it, or wait for some special opportunity to make it birth true intelligence, then with its heaven-defying foundation, its future achievements would be absolutely limitless!

Whether he took it as a mount, accepted it as a personal disciple, or kept it as a powerful guardian for the Longevity Mountain Dojo, any choice would be perfect to the extreme!

Its potential was so immense that it might even surpass many Gods and Devils born from the innate. The Power of Merit could also help it turn misfortune into good fortune.

Even if, in the worst case, he ultimately failed to make it birth intelligence, its physical body alone was a supreme divine material for refining peerless treasures!

Using it as the main material, supplemented by other rare Innate Spiritual Objects, and refined by a master artifact refiner, the resulting treasure—because it contained Mysterious Yellow Merit—would be destined from birth to be at least a top-grade Houtian Spirit Treasure (or even a Merit Spirit Treasure), with even a glimmer of hope to touch the legendary edge of a Houtian Supreme Treasure.

Its power would absolutely be World-Shaking, enough to become a sect-suppressing level treasure. Killing with it would incur no karmic backlash, and its wonders would be endless!

No matter what, such a heaven-sent divine object must not be left here to gather dust, wasting this heaven-defying opportunity!

Lord Wanshouyuan made his decision on the spot. He once again took out the green Jade Bottle refined from the most essential branch of the Ginseng Fruit Tree.

This bottle contained an inner space, mysterious and extraordinary, with its own structure, and should be able to accommodate this thing. He activated his Great Luo Magical Power, formed an esoteric treasure-collecting hand seal, gently beckoned toward the massive, mountain-like golden dragon body, and silently chanted a true incantation.

The several-hundred-zhang dragon body suddenly emitted a soft, resplendent golden light. Within the light, traces of Profound Yellow Qi swirled, illuminating the entire stone chamber in a blaze of glory.

Its size rapidly shrank, eventually transforming into a foot-long, lifelike dragon shape, as if cast from pure gold. With a "whoosh," it was steadily drawn into the Jade Bottle.

It was placed in a different space within the bottle from the three drops of Pangu Jade Marrow, neither interfering with the other, and both auras perfectly sealed.

Having collected this unexpected golden dragon, Lord Wanshouyuan carefully searched the entire huge stone chamber inside and out, confirming there were no other hidden treasures or anomalies, before turning around and leaving the cave with satisfaction.

After this unexpected gain, Lord Wanshouyuan's pace down the mountain Could Not Help But slow considerably.

He was no longer in a hurry to travel. Instead, he spread his Great Luo-level divine sense as far as possible, like using the finest comb to meticulously sift through every inch of rock, every crack, and every suspicious corner along his path, hoping to discover some more hidden opportunities.

Buzhou Mountain was too mysterious and vast, being Pangu's Spine. It was hard to guarantee that other treasures weren't hidden in even more secret places, waiting for the Destined one.

However, perhaps his vast destiny had been mostly consumed at the mountain's peak, or perhaps the opportunities of Buzhou Mountain were not inexhaustible, and he had already obtained the most core items.

Until he descended all the way down, the heavy Pangu Pressure around him weakening from strong to weak and finally disappearing completely, and he once again felt the relatively "light" and lively Innate Spiritual Qi of the Primordial World, he had no other exciting discoveries.

He turned back to look at the still heaven-reaching, majestic, sacred, and cloud-wreathed Mount Buzhou. Lord Wanshouyuan felt no regret in his heart.

Only full of harvest, boundless reverence, and deep gratitude toward Father God Pangu. This trip up the mountain had yielded gains Far Exceeded his initial imagination, enough to affect his entire future path, and even that of his main body, Zhenyuanzi!

He did not linger. After identifying the direction of Longevity Mountain, the green light around his body suddenly surged, rising like a green sun, then transformed into a swift, sky-tearing green rainbow.

He pushed the escape technique recorded in the Wood Scripture to the limit of his current ability, flying at a speed more than ten times faster than when he came, like wind and lightning, racing with all his might toward the direction of Wuzhuang Temple of Longevity Mountain!

His heart was flying home!

He couldn't wait to send this astonishing harvest—especially the crucial Pangu Jade Marrow and the Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon containing Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi—back to his main body as quickly and safely as possible!

The green light Flashed Past the vast Firmament of the Primordial World, moving at extreme speed, leaving behind only a lingering, dense trail of spiritual Qi, telling the tale of the urgent journey home.