At the thought that the Huangzhong Plum fruits she had guarded for countless ages had been eaten clean.
Yang Hui could no longer hold herself together. Her eyes reddened, and tears spilled forth.
"Wuwuwu..."
Her clear sobs echoed through the empty blessed land, brimming with immense grievance.
The future Head of Female Immortals had actually been driven to such a state by Tianlu the Pixiu that she could only sit on the ground and wail like a helpless little girl.
Tianlu, who had been about to leave, suddenly halted upon hearing the crying behind him.
He turned his massive head and looked at Yang Hui, who sat on the ground crying pitifully, feeling utterly speechless.
This was the future Head of Female Immortals?
This was the Queen Mother of the West, whose majesty would command all female immortals beneath heaven?
If this appearance got out, people would laugh their heads off!
What kind of joke was this?!
Tianlu turned around and slowly returned to Yang Hui.
His enormous Pixiu body loomed over Yang Hui like a small mountain, blocking out all light.
Not only that, Tianlu stared fixedly at Yang Hui with both eyes, saying nothing.
An invisible Daluo pressure quietly spread out, and the surrounding air instantly became incomparably heavy.
Feeling that terrifying pressure, Yang Hui shuddered and forcibly swallowed back her sobs. Her shoulders still trembled, and she looked at Tianlu with eyes full of terror.
Seeing that she had stopped crying, Tianlu snorted in satisfaction.
He then turned around, lifted his four hooves, and prepared to leave again.
However, he had barely taken two steps.
"Waaah!"
When Yang Hui saw Tianlu leaving again, the grievance in her heart erupted once more, and her crying became even louder than before.
Tianlu was completely helpless now. His massive body abruptly turned around, his four hooves striking the ground with dull thuds.
He looked irritably at the girl on the ground, crying her heart out.
"You little thing, what exactly do you want?!"
"I merely ate nine of your Huangzhong Plums. I didn't even uproot and take away the spiritual root itself. Do you need to cry like this? Anyone who didn't know better would think I'd turned your entire West Kunlun upside down!"
As he spoke, Tianlu suddenly froze. His huge head tilted, and his eyes rolled around.
Wait, something was wrong.
He was a dignified Auspicious Beast, a Pixiu born carrying the Law of Fortune of the Great Dao. He had always plucked every feather from passing geese and stripped the hide from every passing beast.
Yet when facing a Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Root like the Huangzhong Plum, he had only eaten its fruits and failed to uproot the entire spiritual root and stuff it into his belly?
This was simply a grave betrayal of his fine tradition of coveting wealth and devouring treasures.
At that thought, the helplessness in Tianlu's eyes instantly vanished, replaced by undisguised greed.
He lifted his four hooves and headed directly toward the Huangzhong Plum, which emanated dense Xiantian Dao essence. Opening his great maw, he prepared to swallow this Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Root, roots and all.
Yang Hui had still been sniffling, but upon sensing Tianlu's intentions, her expression changed drastically.
She no longer cared about being afraid. Scrambling over, she rushed before the Huangzhong Plum Tree, spread her arms wide, and used her body to block Tianlu's path. Her tear-streaked eyes glared furiously at him.
"You insatiably greedy Pixiu!"
Yang Hui cursed through gritted teeth.
Tianlu stopped and looked down at the puffed-up girl, secretly sighing.
To be honest, he did not want to kill the Queen Mother of the West while she was still in her infancy.
In the vast and boundless Primordial World, there was an unwritten rule.
Among the Innate Divine Beings, divine beasts, and great powers born bearing the Law of Fortune of heaven and earth, unless it was a life-and-death conflict involving an irreconcilable obstruction of one's path, they would never easily engage in fatal combat.
Everyone had undergone immense hardship before being nurtured into existence, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and comprehending the Great Dao Laws, all in pursuit of the supreme Great Dao and the hope of attaining Primordial Unity in the future.
If they fought over every trivial matter and even battled to the death, they would not only easily become tainted by needless Karmic Force and risk being reduced to ashes when the great tribulation arrived, but it simply would not be worth it.
However, as a Pet of the Great Dao, he seemed not to have that concern.
That said, he had to take this Huangzhong Plum today.
His Abdominal Space needed a Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Root like this to enrich its foundation.
Looking at Yang Hui, who stood in his way and refused to retreat no matter what, Tianlu opened his bloodstained maw, capable of swallowing heaven and devouring earth. He bared sword-sharp fangs and threatened viciously.
"Move aside, little thing."
"Otherwise, I'll eat you too!"
A violent, fishy gale mixed with the terrifying pressure of a Daluo Golden Immortal rushed toward her, whipping Yang Hui's robes into a wild flutter.
Yet she bit her lip hard and refused to yield even half a step. There was not the slightest hint of retreat in her eyes.
Seeing this, Tianlu felt helpless.
He put away his fierce expression and examined Yang Hui's Dharma body, which had yet to reach completion.
She was still trapped at the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm and could not even truly take human form, clearly lacking sufficient foundation.
Tianlu's eyes rolled, and a plan came to mind.
"Fine, fine. I see that you're rather pitiful too."
"How about this? I'll help you complete your origin, assist you in attaining the Zenith Heaven Dao Fruit, and allow you to truly transform and be born into the world."
"In exchange, the Huangzhong Plum spiritual root will belong to me."
"Deal?"
Yang Hui was slightly stunned upon hearing this, her mind racing.
She knew very well that this was already the greatest concession this greedy Pixiu could make.
If she kept stubbornly resisting, then once he lost patience and resorted to force, she might truly be finished today.
Besides, attaining the Zenith Heaven Dao Fruit was simply too tempting for her in her current state.
After weighing the pros and cons, Yang Hui gritted her teeth and nodded.
"Fine, I agree."
Seeing her agree, a sly smile flashed through Tianlu's eyes.
Without another word, he immediately opened his huge maw and inhaled sharply.
This sight gave Yang Hui a terrible fright. She thought this greedy Pixiu had gone back on his word and intended to eat her as a snack. With a startled cry, she turned and tried to run.
But Tianlu's Innate Divine Ability was incomparably tyrannical. An irresistible force of the Law of Devouring instantly enveloped her.
Yang Hui's vision went black, and she was swallowed into Tianlu's belly in a single gulp.
Tianlu's Abdominal Space was a boundless expanse of dark Void.
Yang Hui fell through the emptiness, trembling all over in terror, believing that she was truly about to die in a beast's maw.
But in the very next moment, a sudden change occurred.
Brilliant golden light abruptly surged throughout the void.
It was an immensely vast and incomparably pure power of the Law of Merit.
That power transformed into a sky full of golden rain, drifting down in a shower and continuously nourishing Yang Hui.
Yang Hui felt warmth spread throughout her body. The bottleneck of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm began to loosen, while her Primordial Spirit cultivation steadily and rapidly grew under the infusion of that power at an inconceivable rate.
She was utterly shocked.
She could clearly sense that this was absolutely not the common power of Heavenly Dao merit found in the Primordial World.
If one absorbed Heavenly Dao merit, one could indeed quickly raise one's cultivation, but one would inevitably owe karma to the Heavenly Dao, leaving one's foundation unstable.
Yet this merit was the purest and most fundamental power of Creation.
This was the purest reward of the Primordial World, transformed by Tianlu's heaven-defying Innate Divine Ability after he had devoured the fruits of the Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Root, the Huangzhong Plum.
It carried not the slightest trace of Karmic Retribution. As pure as the Origin of the Great Dao, it would not only avoid destabilizing a cultivator's foundation, but could instead solidify it to a flawless state of perfection.
Feeling the power within her continuously rise, the fear in Yang Hui's heart gradually faded, replaced by boundless excitement.
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