In the Primordial World, years went uncounted, and the long ages passed in the blink of an eye.
Tianlu lay quietly coiled at the edge of the array, devouring the formation patterns of the Xiantian Array day after day, year after year.
As more and more Xiantian formation patterns were swallowed into his belly, Tianlu discovered in amazement that the moment those patterns entered his Abdominal Space, they were crushed by the Law of Devouring and transformed into the purest mana, feeding back into himself.
His Early Daluo Golden Immortal Stage cultivation, which had only just stabilized, actually began to show signs of loosening.
Tianlu paused, and a flash of understanding passed through his large eyes.
"So this is how the Law of Devouring works?"
Devour all things and turn them to one's own use.
That was the true essence of the Great Dao of Devouring.
It was not merely about devouring tangible things. It was also about devouring intangible laws and intangible Dao, transforming all the power between heaven and earth into nourishment for one's own growth.
After realizing this, wild delight surged through Tianlu's heart.
He had an extremely strong premonition that if he completely devoured this Xiantian Array, there was a great chance he could break through the bottleneck in one stroke and enter the Middle Daluo Golden Immortal Stage.
With that thought, Tianlu worked even harder.
He seemed to transform into a Taotie that never knew fatigue, and an even more terrifying suction force erupted from his open maw.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"
Dense Xiantian formation patterns became countless streams of dazzling light, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, continuously pouring into the mouth of Tianlu, the Pixiu.
The array's light screen rapidly became riddled with holes visible to the naked eye.
Meanwhile, in the shadows.
That untransformed Primordial Yin Qi had already arrived.
She hid within a fold of the void, watching helplessly as Tianlu devoured, mouthful by mouthful, the Xiantian formation patterns that protected her accompanying opportunity.
Seeing the array she regarded as her private possession being ruined like this, Primordial Yin Qi's consciousness was filled with rage.
"You damned Pixiu! How dare you destroy my array like this! I'll fight you to the death!"
Several times, she gathered her own frigid primordial power, intending to rush out of the void and interrupt Tianlu's devouring.
Yet for some reason, whenever she entertained the thought of attacking Tianlu, an intense palpitation would arise from the depths of her Primordial Spirit.
An invisible force was frantically warning her.
If she dared attack this Pixiu, terrifying misfortune would surely descend upon her.
This was Tianlu's passive divine ability as a Pet of the Great Dao.
Any living being harboring malicious intent toward Tianlu would suffer qi deviation, unstable Law of Fortune, or even punishment from the Great Dao.
Although Primordial Yin Qi had yet to take form, as the first strand of Primordial Yin Qi, her spiritual senses were incomparably keen.
That feeling made her hesitate, and she did not dare to truly attack.
"What should I do? I can't fight him. Am I supposed to just watch him steal my opportunity?"
Primordial Yin Qi anxiously circled through the void.
Amid endless conflict and thought, the passage of time seemed incomparably slow.
This Primordial Yin Qi was still in the process of gestation, and her mental strength was not particularly powerful.
Prolonged emotional turmoil and thinking left her deeply exhausted.
After a long while, she actually began to feel drowsy, and her consciousness gradually blurred.
In the end, this Primordial Yin Qi could no longer hold on and fell directly into slumber, sleeping quietly in the void.
While she slept, the situation outside underwent earth-shaking changes.
"Rumble!"
As the last thick Xiantian formation pattern was sucked into Tianlu's mouth, the Xiantian Great Array that had stood within the Kunlun Sacred Realm for an unknown number of Yuanhui finally let out a mournful cry under its unbearable burden and completely collapsed.
At the moment the great array shattered, a heaven-shaking aura also erupted from within Tianlu.
He refined and absorbed the essence of the entire Xiantian Array, and a vast source of mana surged through his body like raging waves in a furious sea.
The Three Flowers above his head manifested on their own. The twelve-grade Heavenly Flower, Earth Flower, and Human Flower shone brilliantly, exuding a flawless and perfect Great Dao aura.
"Break!"
Tianlu shouted inwardly.
In an instant, the shackles within his body shattered with a boom. The powerful pressure of the Middle Daluo Golden Immortal Stage swept outward like a storm, completely dispersing the immortal mist around him.
Feeling his strength soar, Tianlu rejoiced, and an extremely humanlike satisfied smile appeared on his face.
He then withdrew the pressure of the Middle Daluo Golden Immortal Stage, turned toward the blessed land that had lost the protection of the Xiantian Array, and eagerly headed deeper inside.
The moment he stepped into this land, an incomparably dense wave of Xiantian Spiritual Qi rushed toward him, turning into wisps of spiritual liquid that drifted through the air.
Countless strange phenomena filled this place. Faint Great Dao chants echoed through the void, Golden Lotus from the Earth bloomed, and Heavenly Flowers rained down.
Even more astonishingly, clusters of heavy Mysterious Yellow Clear Qi floated in midair. This Mysterious Yellow Clear Qi was a supreme treasure of Creation left behind at the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth. Every wisp weighed a thousand jun and contained unimaginable power of heaven and earth's origin.
Tianlu's round, darting eyes gleamed as his gaze pierced through layers of Mysterious Yellow Clear Qi and fixed directly on the center of the blessed land.
There, in the place where spiritual qi gathered most densely, stood a towering ancient tree.
Its trunk twisted like a dragon, its entire body displaying an ancient and profound Chaos hue.
Its crown blotted out the sky and covered the sun, while profound Innate Dao Patterns flowed among its luxuriant branches and leaves.
Most remarkable of all were its flowers and fruits.
Every flower blooming upon the tree possessed three overlapping phantoms, one flower revealing three shadows in a wondrous display.
The fruits it bore were even more extraordinary, each fruit displaying nine shadows as though they contained the endless transformations of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.
Whether it was the crystalline petals or the plump, round fruits, both were naturally inscribed with two ancient Innate Dao characters—Huangzhong.
Tianlu counted carefully. There were exactly nine fruits hanging from the branches, each giving off an alluring fragrance.
"Gulp..."
A clear sound of swallowing echoed through the quiet blessed land.
Tianlu could not help drooling, and a glistening thread of saliva even hung from the corner of his mouth.
"Huangzhong Plum! It's actually Huangzhong Plum!"
This was one of the ten famous Xiantian Spiritual Roots of the Primordial World.
Legend had it that this tree bloomed once every Yuanhui, bore fruit once every Yuanhui, and ripened once every Yuanhui. It took three full Yuanhui of long years to produce these mere nine fruits.
If a mortal could eat one fruit, they would immediately attain the exalted realm of a Daluo Golden Immortal, saving themselves hundreds of millions of years of bitter cultivation.
Even for mighty experts who had already entered the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, the immense origin power and power of Creation contained within Huangzhong Plum were of no small help, greatly nourishing the Primordial Spirit and increasing mana.
Faced with such a shocking opportunity, how could Tianlu possibly stand on ceremony?
His treasure-hoarding, devour-everything nature was instantly laid bare. With a leap, he rushed beneath the Huangzhong Plum Tree.
He then climbed onto the branches, opened his mouth wide, and without caring about savoring the flavor, swallowed the fruits one after another into his belly.
The moment the fruits entered his Abdominal Space, they transformed into vast Xiantian origin power like a surging sea.
Tianlu's Abdominal Space possessed the heaven-defying ability to reverse the acquired into the innate. At this moment, it frantically refined the power of the Huangzhong Plum and fed it back into him.
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