In the blink of an eye.
More than a thousand Eons passed.
In the Primordial Wilderness.
The baleful energy and Fierce Beasts had finally dwindled to a certain degree.
Though some still remained.
They no longer had much effect on cultivators.
And so.
The Fierce Beast Tribulation, which had stretched across countless Eons...
Was declared over!
At the same time.
The Innate Gods began transforming into their true forms!
A new era had arrived!
Though the Fierce Beast Tribulation was the first Tribulation Period in the Primordial Wilderness.
It had lasted far too long.
And the only beings in it had been Fierce Beasts.
So.
Cultivators in the Primordial Wilderness generally did not consider it the first Tribulation Period.
Instead, they counted...
The Dragon-Han Calamity!
That was the new era!
But for now, it was far too early to call it a Tribulation Period.
After all, the baleful energy had only just receded.
For the first time since Kaitian, the heavens and earth had grown clear.
Countless streams of spiritual energy.
Burst forth.
Countless Spirit Roots.
Broke free of the baleful energy.
Countless Spirit Beasts.
Gradually took shape in the process.
At that moment.
In the eastern part of the Primordial Wilderness, slightly to the north.
A voice came from within a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
The voice was clear and sweet, yet for some reason, hearing it easily set one's imagination wandering.
It seemed to contain some kind of special law.
But the words themselves.
Had nothing to do with that.
"Da Luo Golden Immortal!"
"After countless Eons of unceasing contemplation!"
"I've finally transformed!"
"I wonder if I can measure up to the other Innate Gods? I should at least be on par with them!"
"After all, I've reached the realm of a Da Luo Golden Immortal!"
Inside the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
A young woman wore a purple immortal robe. Her features were breathtaking, and her figure slender and graceful.
Her eyes were filled with delight.
That was what she said.
Though few cultivators in the Primordial Wilderness looked ugly after transforming.
This woman was so beautiful that anyone who saw her couldn't help but praise her.
She was peerlessly beautiful!
Looks were not important.
But to some extent, they also tested one's ability to comprehend the Dao.
After all.
Only those with strong comprehension.
Could "mold" a Dao Body with such extraordinary features.
However.
There seemed to be something incomplete about this woman's Dao Body.
Behind her.
Nine pale purple tails had grown!
Clearly.
She was a Nine-Tailed Fox who had just transformed!
A Nine-Tailed Purple Fox!
At that moment.
Pride showed on the Nine-Tailed Fox's pretty face, along with a hint of slyness.
And then,
Relief.
"Good thing I didn't listen to the Ancestor and stay in the Qingqiu Ancestral Land. I left early instead!"
"Otherwise..."
"Who knows how long I'd have had to wait before I could transform!"
"And I certainly wouldn't have ended up like this!"
"Transforming straight into a Da Luo Golden Immortal!"
"In other words, I'm an 'Ancestor' now too?"
"What a Great Fortune!"
"But the opportunity here is too profound for me to comprehend right now."
"Maybe once my cultivation improves a little more."
"I'll be able to continue comprehending it!"
With that in mind.
The Little Fox decided to leave for now.
As for the opportunity.
She could come back later.
But just then, something unexpected happened.
She discovered...
She couldn't get out!
No matter how long she circled around inside the formation.
She always ended up back where she started.
It was as if she were wandering through countless worlds.
Those worlds were connected to one another.
Yet were difficult to tell apart.
Even with her considerable cultivation, she lost her way among them.
At once.
The Purple Fox was stunned.
Her peerlessly beautiful face was full of disbelief.
Could there really be such a strange place in the Primordial Wilderness?
There was an opportunity here.
But one could enter.
And not leave!
"Wait!"
"I'm a Da Luo Golden Immortal!"
"How could I possibly be trapped in a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land?"
"Something must have gone wrong!"
But that was exactly what had happened.
No matter how much power she used, the result was always the same.
She tried every method she could think of.
She spent tens of thousands of years at it.
And in the end, she was still in the same place.
As if nothing had ever changed.
For a time.
The Purple Fox even began to doubt her very existence.
She couldn't help wondering.
"Could it be..."
"My Da Luo cultivation..."
"Is fake?"
As soon as the thought arose.
Radiance blazed throughout the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land!
Boundless Purple Qi suddenly emerged.
One profound insight after another, like traces of something that had once existed, surged in from every direction within the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
They engulfed the Little Fox.
Before long.
The Purple Qi faded, and the Strange Phenomenon ended.
But the Little Fox was completely bewildered.
After a while.
She finally spoke in a daze.
"So it really is fake?"
Actually.
When the Purple Qi rose.
The Little Fox had already been stunned.
Because.
She had never expected that her offhand complaint.
Would bring about such a change.
And after the change ended.
Some insights had inexplicably appeared in her heart.
Then.
Those insights left the Little Fox even more bewildered.
At the same time.
She learned how this Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land had come to be!
At that moment.
The Little Fox was shocked.
"It really did exist from the beginning!"
"But not in the way I imagined!"
"It was left behind by some Supreme Existence!"
The Little Fox's bright eyes couldn't help looking upward.
In the Primordial Wilderness.
Who else could be called a Supreme Existence?
Who but the Heavenly Dao?
But this Heavenly Dao seemed different from the Heavenly Dao she understood.
Fortunately.
She could discern the difference from the insights she had received.
"This Heavenly Dao is not that Heavenly Dao!"
"It should be..."
"Lei Jun Heavenly Dao!
At this moment.
In Little Fox's mind, there was more than just shock.
There were also many questions.
Why were there two Heavenly Daos?
Meanwhile.
On the East Sea Shore.
A quiet chuckle sounded from inside a Daoist temple.
"This Little Fox has quite a gift for understanding. In just five hundred Eons, she's already broken through to Da Luo!"
The owner of that laugh.
Was none other.
But Lei Jun.
Actually.
Lei Jun had already emerged from seclusion several hundred Eons ago.
This time, his seclusion had lasted far less than he had estimated.
He had originally thought.
It would take a thousand Eons.
As it turned out.
It had taken less than half that.
Just several hundred Eons.
And Lei Jun had emerged from his seclusion.
The reason was simple.
The Minor Cycle ran automatically, so seclusion couldn't improve his efficiency much.
So Lei Jun had spent most of his time refining pills.
Once the pills were ready and he had swallowed them all.
Lei Jun came out of seclusion.
The whole process had taken four hundred and ninety Eons.
After that.
There wasn't much more Lei Jun could do to improve his cultivation.
Unless he encountered some new opportunity.
Otherwise.
He could only wait patiently.
Using an endlessly long stretch of time to turn the impossible into possible!
As for opportunities.
Lei Jun wasn't counting on any.
Because right now, there were very few places or things in the Primordial Wilderness that could offer him an opportunity.
There were hardly any at all.
Most were simply out of reach or impossible to obtain.
For example, Pangu Divine Palace.
For example, the core of Gui Xu.
For example, the place where the Heavenly Dao resided.
And the depths of Chaos... and so on.
Those places were either impossible to find, impossible to reach, or simply unnecessary to visit for now.
Lei Jun's cultivation wasn't high enough yet.
Only after he improved further might he be able to try.
As for items.
Lei Jun thought it over.
The Supreme Treasures were no longer of much use to him.
He couldn't gain any insights from them.
If he had to name something that could help with his cultivation.
There was probably only...
That thing whose origins were quite similar to Lei Jun's, and which was essential to attaining the Sage Fruit Position...
Hongmeng Purple Qi!
Speaking of which.
Lei Jun was truly curious.
What exactly was this thing?
He had some guesses.
But until he saw Hongmeng Purple Qi with his own eyes, none of them could be taken as fact.
Unfortunately.
Hongmeng Purple Qi was exceptionally mysterious.
Even with cultivation slightly surpassing that of the Sages, Lei Jun could hardly detect its traces.
So.
Like those places he couldn't reach.
It was an opportunity he could see but not attain.
Fortunately.
Lei Jun had countless Heavenly Pills within him!
These pills had multiplied the speed of his cultivation by countless times!
At every moment.
Countless worlds were being created through the Minor Cycle's workings.
In other words, Lei Jun was growing stronger all the time.
And he didn't even need to divide his attention.
His cultivation increased automatically!
By a conservative estimate, this could continue for an entire Tribulation Period!
Thus.
There was very little Lei Jun needed to handle when it came to cultivation.
He could devote his attention.
To other matters.
For example...
A game of chess!
A game of chess against the Heavenly Dao!
Lei Jun now regarded all beings in the Primordial Wilderness as chess pieces on a board.
Heaven and earth were the board, and all living things were the pieces.
Lei Jun was the player.
His opponent was none other.
The Heavenly Dao!
Besides.
Since it was a game of chess, there had to be a first and second move.
Who played white, and who played black.
It mattered.
Lei Jun closed his eyes and considered it.
Then spoke softly.
"Whether black or white!"
"I should make the first move!"
With that.
Lei Jun "placed a piece."
In an instant.
The Dragon-Han Calamity changed.
The nature of that change was unknown.
But its effects would be far-reaching.
Meanwhile.
Near an Immortal Mountain in the Primordial Wilderness, a Daoist with an otherworldly bearing and a full head of white hair seemed to sense something.
"Hm?"
"There's an opportunity!"
This Daoist was none other.
But Hongjun!
As it happened.
Several hundred Eons had passed since he took form.
During that time.
He had done nothing else, focusing on just one thing.
Searching for opportunities!
Using his companion Supreme Treasure, the Creation Jade Plate.
Hongjun could divine where opportunities might be found and which ones were better.
Then he could choose among them.
There was no denying it.
As a Supreme Treasure of divination.
When it came to anything other than fighting.
The Creation Jade Plate could truly be called the greatest Supreme Treasure in the Primordial Wilderness!
It had helped Hongjun a great deal.
And this time was no different.
All of a sudden.
Hongjun's heart jolted. He sensed something, as if in a trance.
Then he realized what it was.
He took out his Supreme Treasure.
And began to divine.
Then.
The more he divined, the more alarmed he became.
The results told him.
It really was an opportunity.
And one far greater than he could have imagined!
So much so that Hongjun could only divine that his feeling pointed to an opportunity.
He couldn't tell what kind of opportunity it was, specifically.
Fortunately.
He could still divine its direction.
"East of the Primordial Wilderness, somewhere to the north!
"Excellent!"
"It's not too far from where I am!"
"In that case!"
"I'll set the other opportunities aside for now. This one takes priority!"
With that thought.
Hongjun wasted no time.
He sped toward the place he had divined.
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