The moment Tianlu heard this, he sneered inwardly.
Hand over the Creation Green Lotus?
Once a treasure entered a Pixiu's belly, did they expect it to be spat back out?
Dream on!
Relying on his status as a Pet of the Great Dao, the recklessness ingrained in Tianlu's bones instantly erupted.
Not only did he not retreat in the slightest, he retorted with perfect confidence.
"Immortal Ancestor, that is where you are mistaken! If the Creation Green Lotus truly has a destined owner, then that owner must be me, Tianlu!"
"I have already seized this opportunity, and I have even refined all Thirty-Six Innate Restrictions. If this opportunity is not mine, whose is it?"
The more Tianlu spoke, the more energized he became. He held his chin high, his face brimming with pride.
"Besides, in the Primordial World, opportunities have always belonged to the fortunate, and treasures to the capable!"
"I, Tianlu, am the first Pixiu born between Heaven and Earth, an Auspicious Beast acknowledged by Heaven and Earth, born with the Law of Fortune and the ability to attract wealth and treasure!"
"Wherever I go becomes a blessed land. Whatever catches my eye becomes my blessing!"
"Those so-called destined people cannot hold onto their own opportunities because their fortune is too thin!"
"Having their opportunities snatched away by an Auspicious Beast like me is essentially having disaster warded off for them. It is their honor!"
"Having such tremendous blessings bestowed upon them, they should be thanking me!"
Tianlu rattled on endlessly about his crooked logic. His shameless, utterly self-righteous appearance brought bandit logic to its absolute peak.
Hongjun stood where he was, listening to Tianlu's utterly bottomless remarks and looking at that most shameless of faces. The corner of his eye could not help twitching slightly.
He had lived through so many Yuanhuis. He had seen arrogant people and domineering people, but someone this shameless who could make it sound so fresh and refined was truly a first.
Hongjun knew there was no reasoning with such an incorrigible scoundrel. This little Pixiu had clearly made up his mind not to surrender the Creation Green Lotus.
Since words were useless, he could only use force to suppress him.
A flash of cold severity crossed Hongjun's eyes, but just as he prepared to strike, an overwhelming sense of life-and-death danger suddenly rose from the depths of his heart.
In the unseen realm, a terrifying force of backlash hung over his head.
It was as though the moment he harbored even the slightest killing intent toward this Pixiu, an unspeakable calamity would descend—one that not even the Heavenly Dao could protect him from.
Hongjun was greatly alarmed and quickly dispersed the power he had gathered.
He was filled with confusion. What was going on?
With his cultivation at the peak of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, why would he feel such fear toward a strange beast at the Middle Daluo Golden Immortal Stage?
Without showing it, he formed hand seals within his sleeve and secretly activated the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation.
Profound Heavenly Dao Laws flowed around his fingertips, while countless threads of the Law of Cause and Effect intertwined in his deductions.
Could this Pixiu be The One That Escaped?
Could he be an anomaly beyond the Heavenly Dao?
"No..."
Hongjun frowned tightly as he calculated in secret.
"If he were The One That Escaped, the Heavenly Secrets should be a mass of Chaos, impossible to deduce."
"But I can clearly calculate this little Pixiu's origins. He is the first Pixiu between Heaven and Earth, not some indescribable existence."
Just as Hongjun was utterly baffled, the radiance of the Jade Plate of Creation's deduction suddenly touched a trace of origin deep within Tianlu's soul.
In an instant, an ancient, boundless, supreme aura followed the karmic thread of deduction and struck directly at Hongjun's mind.
Wait, what is this aura?!
Hongjun's pupils suddenly contracted, and a monstrous wave surged within his heart.
From this smug little Pixiu, he sensed a trace of the Great Dao.
As the reincarnation of a Chaos Demon God once nurtured within Chaos and in command of the Law of Immortal Dao, Hongjun was far too familiar with this aura.
Thinking back carefully, when Pangu had wielded the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe to split Chaos and slaughter the three thousand Demon Gods, had he not emitted precisely this pure aura of the Great Dao?!
Hongjun sucked in a cold breath, reaching a conclusion that made his scalp tingle.
"This Pixiu is actually a second-generation Child of the Great Dao, a true Pet of the Great Dao?!"
A stormy sea churned within Hongjun's heart, and he could not calm down for a long while.
The Great Dao withdrew, and the Heavenly Dao rose. This was an iron law of the Primordial World.
Yet who could have imagined that before the Great Dao retreated into the depths of Chaos, it had left behind such a heaven-defying anomaly?
No wonder the Heavenly Dao had sent down Purple Heaven Divine Lightning but refused to let it strike. No wonder he, an Immortal Dao Demon God at the peak of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm holding a Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation, had felt a fatal crisis the instant he formed killing intent.
The other party's origins simply did not fall under the Heavenly Dao's jurisdiction. He was directly protected by the Great Dao.
Tianlu quietly watched Hongjun stand there in a daze, and he could not help growing impatient.
He had no time to stare wide-eyed at Hongjun here.
The Primordial World was vast and boundless, filled everywhere with ownerless opportunities and spiritual roots waiting for an Auspicious Beast like him to favor them and bestow blessings upon them. How could he have time to waste here?
"Immortal Ancestor, if there is nothing else, this Auspicious Beast will be leaving."
"I still need to deliver blessings to all living beings of the Primordial World. I do not have time to stand here staring at you."
Tianlu curled his lips, kicked off with all four paws, and rode the Innate Mid-Grade Spiritual Treasure Cloud Treasure beneath his feet, intending to bypass Hongjun and continue flying toward Mount Buzhou.
"Please wait, little friend!"
Seeing Tianlu about to leave, Hongjun instantly snapped out of his shock. His body turned into a streak of light, and he once again blocked Tianlu's path.
Since forceful suppression would not work, and the Rules of the Heavenly Dao could not restrain this Pixiu, he could only reason with him and tempt him with profit.
"Little friend, that Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus is a fixed destiny within the Heavenly Dao's workings, tied to immense future karma in the Primordial World."
"By claiming it for yourself, you have forcibly altered the heavenly course. That is truly improper."
"With such immense Karmic Retribution, even if little friend possesses deep blessings, you will inevitably face troubles in the future."
"How about this? I will exchange a supreme Numinous Treasure for your Creation Green Lotus. What do you say?"
Hongjun tried to persuade him earnestly.
The moment Tianlu heard the word "exchange," he was delighted. He looked Hongjun up and down, his eyes full of suspicion.
"Exchange? What are you offering?"
"That is the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus, a supreme treasure containing the complete Law of Creation!"
"What treasure could Immortal Ancestor possibly have that could compare with my Creation Green Lotus?"
"Even if you really do have a treasure of that level, would you be willing to take it out in exchange?"
Faced with Tianlu's barrage of questions and contemptuous gaze, Hongjun took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the urge to slap this brat to death.
With a sweep of his wide sleeve, Buddhist chants immediately resounded through the void, and an exotic fragrance filled the air.
A lotus radiating endless, dazzling golden light slowly drifted out from his sleeve and hovered in midair.
This lotus had twelve petals. Its entire body looked as though it had been cast from gold, and every petal was engraved with incomparably profound Innate Dao Patterns.
The moment it appeared, vast golden light of Law of Merit shot into the sky, dyeing the heavens within tens of thousands of miles a sacred gold.
Faintly, Heavenly Flowers scattered from above while Golden Lotus from the Earth rose below. A terrifying aura that was impervious to all laws and capable of suppressing the heavens spread through the air.
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