The Great Guaranteed Chaos Bead, the Gourd Vine is Born

At this very moment.

Tianlu, having consumed thirty Huangzhong Plums in a row, suddenly sensed that something was amiss.

Had it really been that long since he obtained this Huangzhong Plum tree?

Even if a top-grade innate spiritual root were miraculous, it took one epoch to blossom, one to bear fruit, and one to ripen; it was impossible for it to gestate this quickly.

He had already devoured thirty of them, so why did it feel like there were still plenty left in his abdominal space?

Realizing this, Tianlu immediately split off a wisp of his divine soul and dove directly into his abdominal space.

The moment he entered, Tianlu's divine soul froze.

In the center of the space, a massive Huangzhong Plum tree stood with lush foliage, radiating a cyan divine light that blotted out the sky.

What shocked Tianlu was that surrounding the tree, and indeed scattered across the entire floor of the space, were nearly a thousand ripe Huangzhong Plums piled up in dense clusters.

The rich fragrance of the fruit and the innate aura of creation were so thick they had almost condensed into liquid form.

Tianlu's divine soul hovered in mid-air, lost in deep contemplation.

What was going on?

Had the Huangzhong Plum mutated into a hyper-prolific sow?

That couldn't be right. Although his abdominal space possessed the heaven-defying ability to swallow treasures and spiritual roots, converting acquired items into innate ones and upgrading their grade, it didn't seem to have the power to accelerate time.

Without time acceleration, how could nearly a thousand Huangzhong Plums have grown in such a short period?

As he pondered, Tianlu felt more and more that something was definitely wrong; there had to be a secret hidden here.

Subsequently, his divine soul began to wander through the abdominal space, searching every suspicious corner.

He rummaged through countless places but found not a single trace of anything suspicious.

But just as he was about to give up and treat it as a hidden benefit bestowed by the Great Dao, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of something. Tucked into a crevice of the Huangzhong Plum's thick, dragon-like trunk was a bead.

It was a bead the color of chaos, devoid of any luster on its surface, appearing almost gray and dull.

If one didn't look closely, one would mistake it for an ordinary stone.

But what level of cultivation did Tianlu possess?

He was a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal at the peak, a supreme holy being who mastered the eight great laws.

He hurriedly stepped forward and retrieved the bead from the crevice in the trunk.

With his divine soul power enveloping the bead, Tianlu began to examine it carefully.

He mobilized the Laws of Time and Space within his body, manifesting them as two chains of law that slowly probed into the bead.

BOOM!

The moment the laws made contact, Tianlu's divine soul felt as if it had been pulled into a boundless, chaotic void.

There was no heaven or earth, no yin or yang, only endless chaotic currents churning, along with fifty complete and intact chaotic restrictions.

Tianlu's gaze went blank. With his experience, he naturally recognized what this object was.

It was the Chaos Bead!

One of the four great chaotic treasures, alongside the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, the Jade Plate of Creation, and the Chaos Green Lotus—the Chaos Bead, which could conceal heavenly secrets and contained an entire chaotic world within itself?!

Tianlu was completely stunned.

When had such a supreme treasure quietly ended up inside his stomach?!

Tianlu was genuinely happy; after all, this was a chaotic treasure, the kind of existence that would make even the Old Ancestor Hongjun drool.

But he was also genuinely confused.

He racked his brains trying to figure out when he had obtained the Chaos Bead.

He recalled every detail since he transmigrated to the Primordial World, from sleeping on Kunlun Mountain to swallowing spiritual roots, and then listening to the sermons at Purple Heaven Palace...

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he remembered the days just after he had first arrived in the Primordial World.

Back then, despite being a Child of the Great Dao with various heaven-defying divine abilities, he had wandered Kunlun Mountain for a long time without even finding a single ordinary innate spiritual herb.

At the time, he had wondered if his divine abilities, which were supposed to grant him far greater fortune than others, were broken.

Now it seemed...

"I must have triggered the pity timer!"

Tianlu had a sudden epiphany.

"That must be it. The Great Dao saw how pitiful I was in the beginning and stuffed the Chaos Bead directly into my abdominal space. It's just that this divine object conceals its own nature, so it stayed hidden in a corner and I never noticed it!"

After finding a reasonable explanation for himself, Tianlu couldn't be bothered to worry about it anymore.

Regardless of how it got there, once it was in a Pixiu's stomach, it belonged to him, Tianlu.

Subsequently, Tianlu decisively left a wisp of extremely powerful divine soul energy behind and began to refine the Chaos Bead within his abdominal space.

The laws contained within the Chaos Bead were too vast; even with his peak Zenith Heaven cultivation, it would take a long time to refine the first chaotic restriction.

Outside, however.

Tianlu, whose true form lay upon a Cloud Treasure, was in high spirits after learning the truth and immediately began a frantic, gluttonous feast.

He clutched a Huangzhong Plum in his two golden claws, gnawing through them one after another.

Even after the nearly one thousand Huangzhong Plums in his stomach space were devoured, he still had the Ren Water Flat Peaches he had extorted from Hongjun.

It was hard to say if he would have consumed a thousand peaches by the time he finished the plums.

After all, the Chaos Bead possessed supreme laws of space and time, which naturally included the ability to accelerate time.

Tianlu sensed his surroundings for a moment and reached a conclusion.

That was, for every day that passed in the outside world, the time elapsed within his stomach space, bolstered by the Chaos Bead, was likely at least ten thousand years.

No wonder those Huangzhong Plums could bear fruit as wildly as weeds.

As time flowed on, the Primordial World kept no count of the years.

In the blink of an eye, a millennium had passed in the outside world.

For great beings like the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and Di Jun, a thousand years was nothing more than the duration of a nap.

They were still searching painstakingly within Mount Buzhou and found nothing strange about it.

After all, when treasure hunting in the Primordial World, it was common to spend at least ten thousand years, and sometimes great beings would stake out a location for several yuanhui just for a low-grade innate spiritual root.

Yet, as the millennium passed, the sense of opportunity in their hearts grew increasingly intense, as if the opportunity were calling to them right beside their ears.

But they simply could not find it, which caused even the usually composed Laozi to accidentally pluck out a few strands of his beard.

Meanwhile, within the ethereal space of the Heavenly Dao.

The consciousness of the Heavenly Dao, hanging high above, finally reacted sluggishly after finishing the processing of the various laws governing the Primordial World.

The trap set to obscure opportunities, specifically designed to deal with that insatiable Pixiu, had not been lifted even now that the Pixiu had returned from listening to the sermon at Purple Heaven Palace.

It had reached the point where it had become a trap for those destined for the opportunity.

The consciousness of the Heavenly Dao fluctuated slightly, seemingly feeling a bit awkward.

Subsequently, an invisible ripple of law swept across Mount Buzhou, instantly lifting the power of the Heavenly Dao that had been obscuring the opportunity.

Rumble!

The very instant the power of the Heavenly Dao was withdrawn.

Halfway up Mount Buzhou, a heaven-shaking wave of creation erupted in an instant.

The Xiantian Gourd Vine had emerged!

In a flash, celestial phenomena rose from the ground.

Endless seven-colored rays of light tore through the clouds and soared into the sky, accompanied by thousands of auspicious vapors and ten thousand paths of lucky clouds.

The vast celestial phenomenon rippled across the boundless world, and for fully half of Mount Buzhou, one could clearly witness the innate divine light that illuminated the universe.