At that moment, Nuwa brought her cloud to a halt and looked at Tianlu beside her. A faint sigh crossed her beautiful face.
"Fellow Daoist Tianlu, Mount Buzhou is vast, but it seems its opportunities are deeply concealed. It looks like we won't find any great opportunities here. How about we leave Mount Buzhou?"
Hearing this, Fuxi nodded slightly beside her.
"Indeed. The Primordial World is vast and full of wonders. There's no need for us to waste our time here."
Nuwa's eyes shifted as she gazed toward the distant east and continued.
"When I was divining the Heavenly Secrets, I happened to hear that when Great God Pangu created the world, three enormous fragments of Chaos fell along the East Sea Coast."
"Those three fragments became three peerless blessed lands, known as Penglai, Fangzhang Island, and Yingzhou Island. The Chaos spiritual energy within them has yet to dissipate, so they must be nurturing countless Xiantian treasures."
"Why don't the three of us travel together and explore the East Sea?"
As soon as Tianlu heard her, he shook his head without a second thought, politely declining Nuwa's kind offer.
Go to the East Sea? Those three immortal islands were certainly fine, but how could they compare to Pangu's Spine right before his eyes?
Mount Buzhou bore the immeasurable legacy of Great God Pangu and was the ancestor of the Primordial World's ley lines. How could there be no opportunities here?
Clearly, the Heavenly Dao was up to something behind the scenes, trying to drive him away.
As the Pet of the Great Dao, how could Tianlu put up with such humiliation? If the Heavenly Dao wouldn't hand over the opportunity, he'd take it himself!
"Fellow Daoist Nuwa, you're mistaken. Mount Buzhou is the backbone of heaven and earth. How could it possibly have no opportunities?"
Tianlu let out a cold laugh, a trace of arrogance and dominance flashing in his golden eyes.
"Since this opportunity is hiding from me, I'll force it out! Step back, both of you, and watch my divine ability!"
With that, Tianlu let out a roar that shook the heavens.
In an instant, his golden body, which had been only a few feet long, swelled dramatically. Endless Laws of Creation and Laws of Devouring burst forth from within him.
In the blink of an eye, Tianlu's body had grown to a million zhang tall.
A golden beast that blotted out the sky stretched across the air above Mount Buzhou. Its colossal body seemed ready to crush the firmament itself.
Its golden scales resembled a chain of rolling mountain ranges. Its four feet shattered the void, radiating the suffocating pressure of a Daluo Golden Immortal.
The million-zhang Pixiu opened its abyssal maw, which seemed capable of devouring the stars, and sucked in a mighty breath toward the Buzhou Mountain Range before it.
Terrifying devouring power became a visible spatial storm, sweeping across heaven and earth.
In an instant, Tianlu swallowed mountains and devoured the earth.
The mountain ranges stretching for hundreds of millions of li below, their endless spiritual energy, towering ancient trees, and even a thick layer of the ground itself were ripped up by force.
It all became a mighty torrent, surging madly into the abyssal maw of his million-zhang body.
Wherever he passed, once-vibrant Spirit Mountains and blessed lands instantly became barren wastelands, stripped bare.
Not a single blade of grass remained, nor even a stone containing the slightest trace of spiritual energy. He had truly left not a blade of grass behind.
Watching this, Nuwa and Fuxi, standing in the distance, were utterly dumbfounded.
Fuxi's gentle, refined expression froze on his face. The corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably, and his eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
Nuwa's eyes were wide too, her red lips parted. Shock and disbelief showed on her face, and for a long while, she couldn't utter a word.
He was a mighty Innate Divine Being at the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, after all.
He was also an Auspicious Beast of heaven and earth, blessed by the Great Dao, a divine beast said to attract wealth and treasures!
And this was how he acted?!
This wasn't looking for opportunities. He was sweeping everything into the pot, like a plague of locusts!
Nuwa couldn't help mentally railing at him. Fellow Daoist Tianlu, wouldn't your reputation get even worse if you behaved with such utter disregard for appearances?
If Tianlu knew what the two future Saints were thinking at that moment, he would only have scoffed in disdain.
Reputation?
His reputation as a Pixiu was already rock-bottom on Mount Buzhou. What difference would it make if it got a little worse?
As long as the treasures kept coming in and his cultivation improved, why care about face? Could he use his pride as an Xiantian Spiritual Treasure?
And so, Nuwa and Fuxi could only follow dumbly behind, watching Tianlu turn into a Primordial World bulldozer and wreak havoc with his appallingly destructive devouring.
Meanwhile, within the unfathomably deep Heavenly Dao Space of the Primordial World,
a vast, indescribable consciousness woven from countless intricately interlaced Heavenly Dao Laws silently watched everything unfolding on Mount Buzhou.
The Heavenly Dao consciousness stared at the million-zhang golden Pixiu, who was madly chewing up the earth of Mount Buzhou, and fell into a long silence.
That damned Pixiu!
Within the Heavenly Dao's rule-bound core, which had been devoid of feelings and desires and operated only according to its established program, a violent ripple suddenly stirred.
Why had the Great Dao left this scourge behind?
The Primordial World's Heavenly Dao had been impartial and just, without the slightest emotional fluctuation. Yet Tianlu's shameless antics had nearly forced it to evolve the same seven emotions and six desires as the living beings of the Primordial World.
The Heavenly Dao was so aggrieved.
It had intended to conceal the opportunity, make the Pixiu give up, and send him obediently packing from Mount Buzhou.
Who could have guessed this rascal wouldn't leave? Instead, he'd flipped the table—and even started eating the dirt.
Mount Buzhou was the Heavenly Pillar of the Primordial World, supporting the workings of heaven and earth. If the Pixiu was allowed to devour it so recklessly, he wouldn't damage its foundations in the short term, but the landscape of devastation would severely disrupt the natural evolution of the Primordial World.
The Heavenly Dao began calculating frantically, weighing its options.
What would happen if it let Tianlu continue?
Perhaps the consequences would be serious: it could affect where certain mighty figures established their Daoist sanctuaries in the future, and disrupt the ley lines.
Or perhaps it wouldn't matter. Time stretched on, after all, and the land could be slowly restored.
But the Heavenly Dao understood one thing with absolute clarity.
It could not let this shameless Pixiu keep wreaking havoc on Mount Buzhou.
It couldn't attack him. He bore the status of the Pet of the Great Dao, and even Purple Heaven Divine Lightning couldn't touch him. Trying to erase him by force would only draw the Great Dao's backlash.
And it couldn't keep him out. His Law of Devouring was far too unreasonable. He could eat even formations and restrictions like candy.
Left with no other choice, the Heavenly Dao consciousness could only sigh.
Then the Heavenly Dao Laws trembled slightly, and from the vast Library of Heavenly Secrets, it casually pulled out a piece of information about an opportunity.
The information became a faint, formless streak of light that pierced through the void and entered Tianlu's mind.
The Heavenly Dao's meaning was clear: Take it! Once you've claimed this opportunity, hurry up and get out!
Stop staying on Mount Buzhou. Go to the East Sea or the starry sky; it didn't matter where. Just don't stay under its nose and make it sick.
On Mount Buzhou, the million-zhang golden Pixiu opened his mouth, preparing to uproot a ten-thousand-zhang peak before him.
Suddenly, he paused. A crystal-clear guiding message had appeared in his mind out of nowhere.
Tianlu was taken aback at first. Then a sly, smug glint flashed in his enormous eyes.
He couldn't help passing judgment on the lofty Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World.
The wise know when to yield—even when you're the Heavenly Dao!
You could've handed over the opportunity sooner. You just had to make me resort to force and waste my magic power.
Now that he'd gotten what he wanted, Tianlu naturally couldn't be bothered to keep eating such tasteless dirt.
Golden light flashed around him, and his colossal, sky-covering body rapidly shrank away.
In the blink of an eye, he was back to the size of an ordinary Pixiu. He stepped back onto the Cloud Treasure, which radiated the aura of a middle-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, and leisurely smoothed the golden fur on his body.
Before you continue