Before Heaven and Earth had opened within Hundun, time and space were in chaos, while Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire raged unchecked.
The Three Thousand Chaos Gods and Demons each wielded Great Dao Laws as they sought an opportunity to prove the Dao.
Among them, Pangu, the God of Strength, was the first to gain enlightenment. He wished to use the Heaven-Opening Axe to cleave open Hundun and thereby prove the Great Dao.
Thus, the Heaven-Opening Tribulation erupted!
The Chaos Gods were ultimately no match for Pangu and suffered devastating casualties. Yet their attrition also caused Pangu's attempt to prove the Dao to fail.
However, Heaven and Earth had already opened, Yin Yang had been divided, and clarity and turbidity had first been separated.
After Pangu fell, his body transformed into the Primordial World.
Unlike the dead silence of Hundun, the Primordial World was full of vitality. Countless innate races began to multiply and cultivate.
Northern Honghuang had served as the main battlefield where the innate races of the Primordial Wilderness fought the Fierce Beasts during the Calamity of the Fierce Beasts.
The destruction wrought by war, coupled with the Fierce Sha Qi left behind by countless dead Fierce Beasts—
had turned the depths of the Northern Border into a barren Polar Region. Cold wind howled, and living beings withered away.
Only the areas near the North Sea, where ocean resources were easier to obtain, still had quite a few clans living and multiplying.
Deep within the North Sea, a consciousness gradually awakened.
Lin Bei recalled what he had done that day.
He had clearly just started his vacation and planned to go out for a stroll, doing his part to stimulate the economy.
Yet while boating in the park, his boat had suddenly capsized. When he woke up, he was here.
After sensing his current condition, Lin Bei felt that he had become some unknown and peculiar creature, presently in the embryonic stage of development.
Since he could not do anything anyway, he could only remain still and wait.
But after an unknown amount of time passed, things resembling inheritances merged into Lin Bei's consciousness.
With the help of those inheritances, Lin Bei gradually came to understand his current situation.
After spending a great deal of time absorbing the inheritance, Lin Bei silently pondered:
"Looks like I've transmigrated into the Primordial World and become that unlucky bastard Kun Peng."
After understanding the situation, Lin Bei still felt somewhat fortunate.
Fortunately, the original Kun Peng had not yet developed intelligence, giving him the chance to occupy the nest like a magpie.
Otherwise, with Lin Bei's weak soul, Kun Peng would probably have devoured him the moment he arrived.
The reason he had not obtained the inheritance immediately was likely because his consciousness and body had been adjusting to one another.
This body was still in the gestation stage, which was why it had fused so easily.
Lin Bei estimated that the outside timeline should currently be before the Demonic Dao War between Hongjun and Luo Hou, right when the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin were contending for supremacy.
Kun Peng had not even transformed yet. At present, he was still in the "moisture" or "egg" stage of being born from moisture and eggs.
Before an Innate God's time of emergence arrived, there would not be any danger.
With his immediate survival secured, Lin Bei also had to consider what came next.
If things followed the original course, Kun Peng's life would not turn out well at all.
Among cultivators of the same generation, Kun Peng's combat strength could firmly rank among the top twenty in the Primordial Wilderness.
Yet he did not possess even a single Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure worth showing off.
As an Innate God, Lin Bei believed Kun Peng should have had some Innate Spiritual Treasures of average quality, but battles at his level were all high-level affairs.
Anything below a Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure was of little use.
The only time he had any luck was probably when Kun Peng seized a prayer mat representing a Saint Position at Zixiao Palace, only to lose his seat after being implicated by that do-gooder Hong Yun.
Lin Bei did not know whether losing the prayer mat had affected Kun Peng, but his later life only became more miserable.
He had been cultivating peacefully in the North Sea when the two brothers, Di Jun and Tai Yi, came straight to his door, beat Kun Peng senseless, forced him to hand over a wisp of his True Spirit, and compelled him to join the Demon Race as a beast of burden.
In the final battle of the Calamity of the Witches and demons, Kun Peng stabbed the Demon Race in the back, successfully took revenge, and seized the Hetu and Luoshu, finally obtaining something worthwhile.
Yet the Hetu and Luoshu were tied to Fuxi's Dao path, and Fuxi was Nüwa's older brother.
Clearly, Kun Peng could never keep the Hetu and Luoshu.
Afterward, like the many Great Powers who failed to become saints, Kun Peng could only gradually fade from view.
Whenever Lin Bei thought of Kun Peng's experiences, he felt troubled.
Even if he kept his head down and stayed hidden after transforming, Kun Peng's innate foundation fit Di Jun's definition of the Demon Race far too well.
With the deductive power of the Hetu and Luoshu, they would certainly not overlook a "talent" like Kun Peng.
When the time came, those two unfortunate brothers would definitely come knocking, using both soft and hard tactics, threats and inducements alike.
No matter what, he first had to cultivate and raise his cultivation.
After emerging, he would see whether he could find more Spirit Treasures to arm himself, then make a few reliable Daoist friends. Perhaps he could escape this calamity.
As Innate Gods, they all possessed their own inherited cultivation methods.
Kun Peng's inherited cultivation method was called the Great Void Two Forms Art. In addition, he had inheritances in alchemy, artifact refinement, and formations, along with several Great Divine Powers.
The cultivation realms of the Primordial Wilderness, from low to high, could be divided into:
Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Great Luo Golden Immortal, Hunyuan Golden Immortal, and Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.
Each major realm could be further divided into four minor stages: Early stage, middle stage, late stage, and peak stage.
At this time, Hongjun had not yet become a saint or preached the Dao, so there was naturally no concept of Quasi-Saints or Saints.
As for Hunyuan Golden Immortals and Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals, those were merely Lin Bei's conjectures based on memories from his previous life.
After all, the inherited cultivation methods of Primordial Wilderness cultivators could only reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, though that was enough for now.
Cultivators of Kun Peng's generation had all relied on the Cutting off the Three Corpses method passed down through Hongjun's preaching to make further breakthroughs.
Cultivation was endless, and the Primordial Wilderness did not count years.
When immersed in cultivation, one could indeed ignore the passage of time.
Countless Yuanhuis passed. When Lin Bei finally emerged from his deep cultivation, his body had completely manifested.
A Giant Kun stretched across the depths of the North Sea.
At that moment, three vows spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
"Let the Heavenly Dao bear witness. I, Zu Long, am willing to sacrifice my True Spirit. The Dragon Clan shall serve the Primordial Wilderness and eternally guard the Four Seas!"
"Let the Heavenly Dao bear witness. I, Yuan Feng, am willing to sacrifice my True Spirit. The Phoenix Race shall serve the Primordial Wilderness and suppress the Undying Volcano!"
"Let the Heavenly Dao bear witness. I, Shi Qilin, am willing to sacrifice my True Spirit. The Qilin Race shall suppress the lands of the Primordial Wilderness!"
"Let the Heavenly Dao judge this!!!"
The vows of Zu Long, Yuan Feng, and Shi Qilin declared the withdrawal of the Three Innate Clans, while the Demonic Dao War between Hongjun and Luo Hou was about to begin.
For Lin Bei, with the Dragon Clan in seclusion, the vast Four Seas would remain safe for a long time.
Though he had yet to transform into a Dao Body, he could now freely switch between Kun and Peng, and his cultivation had reached the peak stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal.
Given Kun Peng's innate foundation, he needed to reach at least the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm before he could formally transform.
Just then, Lin Bei sensed an incomparably heavy aura in the distance.
Yet this aura did not make him feel threatened. Instead, it felt like a summons.
With a thought, Lin Bei swam toward that aura.
When he drew close, Lin Bei discovered that the source of the aura was an enormous Mystic Turtle.
Compared to its size, he was many times larger even than Kun Peng's Kun form.
This should be the Mystic Turtle that would later be used for Mending Heaven.
Lin Bei pondered inwardly: What did he want with me?
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