However, just as Duke of the East was about to set foot on the island—
"Heh heh, thanks for showing me the way, old geezer!"
A teasing laugh suddenly rang in Duke of the East's ear.
Before he could react, Tianlu, who had been hiding in the shadows, suddenly struck.
Tianlu lightly swiped his furry forepaw through the air.
The Law of Space erupted in an instant.
A pitch-black spatial rift abruptly appeared before Duke of the East, and an irresistible suction force surged from within.
"Who's there?!"
Duke of the East was aghast. He tried to resist, but against Tianlu's Middle Daluo Golden Immortal Stage cultivation and uncanny Law of Space, he had no time to react.
With a whoosh,
Duke of the East was sucked straight into the spatial tunnel.
Where did the tunnel lead?
Tianlu shrugged, indicating that he didn't know either.
At any rate, it definitely wasn't anywhere in the East Sea.
"Damn it! I refuse to accept this!"
As the spatial rift closed, only Duke of the East's furious, resentful roar remained, echoing over the sea.
He hadn't even seen who had ambushed him. How could he swallow that humiliation?
But Tianlu didn't care what Duke of the East thought. He patted his paws and gazed at Penglai Immortal Island before him, eyes burning with excitement.
"Heh heh, this place is mine now."
Tianlu carefully examined the Xiantian Great Array enveloping the outskirts of Penglai Immortal Island.
The array had already revealed itself, yet it remained sturdier than ever.
However, that was no problem for Tianlu, who was proficient in the Law of Spatial Great Dao.
He quickly found a flaw in the array. With a flash, he turned into a streak of light and used the Law of Space to slip straight into Penglai Immortal Island.
Once Tianlu had entered, the array surrounding the island flashed. The entire island vanished into the void once more, as if it had never appeared.
At that moment,
inside Penglai Immortal Island,
the moment Tianlu stepped in, he felt an incredibly rich wave of Xiantian Spiritual Qi wash over him.
The Spiritual Qi was so dense that it had even liquefied, forming wisps of spiritual mist that drifted across the island.
What delighted Tianlu even more was that wisps of gray Chaos Spiritual Qi were mixed in with the abundant Xiantian Spiritual Qi.
"What a wonderful place! It truly lives up to its reputation as one of the Three Immortal Islands Overseas!"
Tianlu took a deep breath, his face filled with bliss.
Then he wandered around Penglai Immortal Island, getting right to his favorite activity: searching for opportunities.
He strolled along, stopping now and then, and before long, he reached the center of the island.
There he saw an ancient stone stele, its surface inscribed with the two characters "Penglai" in bold, flowing script.
Tianlu stepped forward and examined the stele closely.
He keenly sensed that it was no ordinary object. It emanated a strange fluctuation connected to the entire island.
"Something good. I'll refine it first."
Without the slightest hesitation, Tianlu spat out a mouthful of his natal true flame, wrapped the stele in it, and began refining it.
With his Middle Daluo Golden Immortal Stage cultivation, refining this unclaimed object was an easy task.
Before long, he had completely refined the stele.
The next moment, a vast amount of information flooded Tianlu's mind.
It was the complete blueprint of the Xiantian Great Array surrounding Penglai Immortal Island.
On top of that, Tianlu realized something else.
Controlling the stele meant that all of Penglai Immortal Island had fallen under his command.
The array's control was now firmly in his hands.
To Tianlu's surprise and delight, he also sensed the approximate locations of the other two islands, Fangzhang and Yingzhou, within the stele.
"Heh heh, buy one, get two free. What a steal!"
Tianlu grinned from ear to ear.
But he wasn't in a hurry to look for Fangzhang and Yingzhou.
After all, he hadn't finished scouring Penglai Immortal Island for its opportunities.
And so Tianlu began a long campaign of sweeping through the vast Penglai Immortal Island.
A thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the past millennium, Tianlu had turned over every inch of Penglai Immortal Island.
At last, he had explored the whole island from top to bottom.
Tianlu found a flat patch of grass and plopped down.
Before him lay all the opportunities he had painstakingly gathered over the past thousand years.
One Upper-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, one Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, and one High-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Root.
There was also a great pile of mineral veins and divine materials, each gleaming with a different light.
Looking at the treasures before him, Tianlu's brows gradually furrowed.
He picked up the Supreme-Grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure and examined it closely.
"The Array of Ten Thousand Immortals?!"
Tianlu curled his lip, his face full of disdain.
This might be an unrivaled treasure to others, but what use was it to a Pixiu like him?
He was used to fighting alone. Was he supposed to gather a bunch of underlings just to set up an array?
"How can this enormous Penglai Immortal Island have so few shabby treasures?"
The more Tianlu thought about it, the angrier he got.
No wonder Duke of the East had been so poor in the original course of the Primordial World, despite making Penglai Immortal Island his cultivation abode.
Every Numinous Treasure worth mentioning had been bestowed by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
It turned out this place was all show and no substance.
Unable to contain his frustration, Tianlu kicked at a rock in front of him with his forepaw, hoping to send it flying and vent his anger.
But as he kicked, his paw suddenly slipped.
It felt as if he had stepped on something hard and smooth.
"Ow!"
Tianlu lost his balance, all four paws flailing in the air, and crashed heavily to the ground.
"What the heck was that?!"
Tianlu angrily got to his feet, shook the grass from his fur, and glared at the culprit that had made him fall.
There, lying quietly in the grass, was a tattered fragment.
It was grayish white, its surface covered in cracks. It looked just like an ordinary broken roof tile.
Tianlu reached out with his forepaw and picked it up.
He looked it over from every angle, but couldn't see anything unusual about it.
"Could it be some kind of treasure that's been sealed?"
Curious, Tianlu instinctively brought the fragment to his mouth and gave it a gentle nibble.
The moment his teeth touched the fragment,
a sudden change occurred!
The seemingly worthless fragment erupted with a boundless, profoundly mysterious radiance of the Great Dao.
The radiance instantly enveloped Tianlu.
In an instant, a vast tide of information exploded in Tianlu's mind, letting him understand exactly what the fragment was.
A Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation.
The supreme treasure Great God Pangu had used to open heaven and earth.
Tianlu's round eyes flew wide open, his face full of disbelief. Then it turned to wild elation.
"Hahahaha! So that's it! The greatest opportunity on Penglai Immortal Island was hidden here!"
"This lousy island may be a little poor, but with this Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation, it was all worth it!"
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