See? You still say you don't have bad intentions?

Lu Changsheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling quite pathetic.

Good stuff.

It was truly good stuff.

Taking out any single piece would be worth more than that dilapidated Nameless Low Mountain he had scavenged earlier.

If he could use these materials to reinforce his formation, the defensive power of his "tortoise shell" would definitely increase several times over.

His greedy instincts screamed wildly in his mind, urging him to open the formation immediately and snatch these treasures inside.

But!

The very moment Lu Changsheng reached out to press the switch for the stone door, he bit down hard on the tip of his tongue.

The sharp pain brought him to his senses instantly.

Lu Changsheng, oh Lu Changsheng! Have you lost your mind?

He slapped himself hard across the face.

She offers a few meat buns, and you dare to open the door? Don't you know this is inviting a wolf into the house?

This woman is definitely fishing!

She just wants to use these materials to trick me into opening the defensive formation. As soon as the door opens, she will surely rush in, slap me to death, and then steal the Earth Dragon Pearl and the Beast Horn!

I cannot be fooled! Absolutely not!

The persecution complex of a man who walked the path of extreme caution was pushed to its limit at this moment.

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, tore his gaze away from the alluring spiritual materials, and his eyes became firm and cold once again.

"Stop trying to disgust me with this scrap metal!"

Lu Changsheng roared into the transmission formation eye, his tone filled with extreme contempt and disdain.

"Do you think I'm some beggar who has never seen the world? You want to bribe me with a few broken rocks? Keep your little tricks to yourself!"

Outside the formation.

Nuwa's hand froze in mid-air.

She looked down at the innate spiritual materials in her hand—items that, if tossed onto the Primordial Continent, would cause a group of True Immortals and Profound Immortals to fight until their heads were broken.

Scrap metal?

These items might only be considered average in the eyes of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

But for a cultivator hiding in a formation made of trash, how could they possibly be described as scrap metal?

Nuwa's Dao heart, which had always been as still as an ancient well, finally stirred with a faint trace of irritation.

"Fellow Daoist."

Although Nuwa's voice remained crisp, its temperature had dropped by several degrees.

"I have treated you with courtesy, offered kind words, and expressed a willingness to provide compensation. Yet, you repeatedly spout wild words and even distort the truth."

"Could it be that you truly believe these crude formations can keep me out?"

The Creation Azure Light on Nuwa's body flared brightly.

A vast pressure, belonging to the peak of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and faintly touching the edge of the Zenith Heaven realm, slowly pressed down upon the three thousand layers of formations ahead.

Crack, crack, crack.

The dozens of layers of formation light screens closest to Nuwa actually emitted sounds of unbearable strain in the face of this pure pressure, and the formation patterns began to twist and flicker violently.

Inside the cave dwelling.

Feeling this terrifying pressure that seemed capable of grinding the entire Nameless Low Mountain into flat land, Lu Changsheng's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

She's flipped! This stinking woman finally stopped pretending and is going to use force!

Lu Changsheng was sweating profusely, his hands operating the control console frantically as he pushed the spiritual energy output of all formations to the maximum, desperately resisting the intrusion of that pressure.

But he knew clearly in his heart.

Three thousand layers of formations sounded like a lot, but in the face of such absolute power, being completely broken through was only a matter of time.

A thousand years?

Or a hundred years?

For an expert of this level, breaking through this three-thousand-layer tortoise shell wouldn't even require her full strength; she could simply wear it down slowly.

I can't let her keep probing! I must use a heavy dose of medicine!

A flash of ruthlessness crossed Lu Changsheng's eyes.

Since reasoning didn't work (though in reality, he was the one being unreasonable), he had no choice but to bring out his final trump card.

"Woman outside! Listen well!"

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, his voice projecting through the formation. It was no longer hysterical, but carried a sense of desperate, cold-blooded madness.

"Do you really think I'm hiding in here because I'm afraid of you?"

"You're wrong!"

"I'm not hiding here to protect myself, but to protect you! To protect all the living beings on this Primordial Land!"

Hearing this, Nuwa, who stood outside the formation, raised an eyebrow slightly, and the pressure radiating from her body unconsciously receded by half.

Protect her? Protect the living beings of the Primordial Land?

Coming from the mouth of a foul-mouthed, wretched miser, these words sounded utterly absurd.

"What do you mean by that, fellow Daoist?"

Nuwa asked indifferently.

"What do I mean?"

Lu Changsheng sneered repeatedly.

"Aren't you curious about how that Purple Heaven Divine Lightning descended earlier?"

"Aren't you curious about how that Old Earth Dragon died?"

"I'll show some mercy and tell you today!"

Lu Changsheng's voice echoed across the empty wilderness.

"That dead loach died because it touched me! It just barely brushed against me, and it was struck by the divine lightning sent down by the Heavenly Dao until not even its ashes remained!"

"Do you think you're amazing just because your cultivation realm is high? Do you think you can walk sideways just because you're a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal?"

"I'm telling you! If you dare to take one more step forward, if you dare to destroy one more layer of my formation and force me to open the stone door and walk out..."

Lu Changsheng paused deliberately, letting his tone fill with a hair-raising threat.

"The first thing I'll do when I step out is charge straight at you and collide with you!"

"As long as you dare to scrape even a bit of skin off me, I guarantee that the Eye of Heavenly Punishment in the sky will immediately reopen and blast your beautiful body, along with your pathetic Primordial Spirit, into a pile of rotten meat!"

"If you don't believe me, feel free to keep tearing it down! Let's see if I dare to stake my life on this gamble!"

Silence.

A deathly silence.

Within a hundred miles, there was only the rustling sound of a light breeze brushing against the withered grass.

Outside the formation.

Nuwa's exquisite face was filled with disbelief.

She looked at the glowing Iron Tortoise Shell before her, recalling the words Lu Changsheng had just shouted, and her Dao heart suffered an unprecedented, violent shock.

Touching him would invite the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning?

Colliding with someone could cause the Heavenly Dao to descend the highest level of Heavenly Punishment?

What kind of absurd technique was this? What kind of lawless divine ability was this?

As a top-tier Innate Divine Being destined to become a saint in the future, Nuwa's understanding of the laws of the Heavenly Dao far exceeded that of ordinary powerful beings.

She knew very well that the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning represented the absolute justice and ruthless judgment of the Heavenly Dao. It could not possibly become a tool for some cultivator to vent personal grievances or to "extort" others!

Unless...

A thought suddenly flashed through Nuwa's mind, one that she herself found incredible.

"Unless this person's very existence represents some kind of lofty, inviolable supreme rule of the Primordial Land."

"Any attempt to harm him would be regarded by the Heavenly Dao as a provocation and destruction of the origin of heaven and earth..."

"Could it be..."