At that thought, Tianlu yawned and decided to ignore Heaven's impotent fury.
"Forget it. Strike me all you want. I'll just pretend you're lighting the way for me."
Then he steered Cloud Treasure onward, braving the thunderous Divine Lightning that filled the sky as he continued searching Kunlun Mountain for other opportunities.
And so, a remarkably bizarre sight appeared in Kunlun Mountain.
A golden, round Auspicious Beast lounged lazily atop a pure white cloud as it flew along.
All around him swirled a dense mass of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, enough to destroy the heavens and wipe out the earth.
The Divine Lightning roared as it went, collapsing mountain peaks and splitting the ground wherever it passed.
The divine beasts and strange beasts in Kunlun Mountain, who had still been clinging to a glimmer of hope, such as the White Jade Dragon Elephant at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and the Winged Geng Metal Tiger with its pair of wings, saw someone strolling through the mountains beneath the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, with thunder crashing all around him like rain. Their legs nearly gave out from fright.
"Th-this... What peerless ferocious beast is this? It can bathe in Purple Heaven Divine Lightning and survive!"
"How terrifying! Run!"
These mighty divine beasts and strange beasts, usually so fearsome, now acted like mice that had spotted a cat. They hurriedly concealed their auras and fled from Tianlu, putting as much distance between themselves and him as they could.
Watching the surrounding creatures flee in disarray, Tianlu was speechless.
"Ugh! Heaven's so petty. You've scared them all away. How am I supposed to ask for directions and search for treasure now?"
Tianlu sighed inwardly.
If Heaven knew what Tianlu was thinking right now, its fury might well have burst through the Great Dao's restraints, bringing down a heavenly punishment without regard for the consequences.
What was the Creation Green Lotus?
It was a forbidden existence with a chance of becoming the next Chaos Green Lotus and overturning the order of the Primordial World.
Heaven could not tolerate an existence beyond its control. But Tianlu's body was special and his destiny defied the heavens. Heaven truly could do nothing to him, and could only vent its fury by striking him with Divine Lightning like a powerless guard.
Tianlu, meanwhile, didn't care in the slightest about Heaven's feelings. Sitting on Cloud Treasure, he enjoyed the Divine Lightning's massage.
At the same time, he stroked his chin and carefully considered what other opportunities Kunlun Mountain might hold.
"Kunlun Mountain is the ancestral root of all the mountains in the Primordial World. It's rich in spiritual energy and full of opportunities."
"According to my memories from my previous life, Kunlun Mountain is divided into East Kunlun and West Kunlun."
Tianlu's eyes darted as he analyzed the situation.
"I should be in East Kunlun right now."
"After all, the Three Pure Ones' cultivation ground and the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus are here. Since East Kunlun holds such a great opportunity, who knows? West Kunlun may also conceal some earth-shattering treasure."
At that thought, Tianlu immediately turned Cloud Treasure around and sped toward West Kunlun, straight into the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning filling the sky.
In the future of the Primordial World, West Kunlun would be the cultivation ground of the famous Head of Female Immortals, Queen Mother of the West.
Sitting on Cloud Treasure, Tianlu stroked his round chin and secretly weighed things up.
Since the greatest opportunities in the Three Pure Ones' cultivation ground in East Kunlun—the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus and a pool of Three Lights Divine Water—had already fallen into his hands, wouldn't it be unfair to leave West Kunlun's opportunities untouched?
What did you call that?
Taking care of everything!
East and West Kunlun were two sides of the same ancestral root of the Primordial World. Since he was claiming opportunities, he naturally had to share them around and take from both sides for things to be complete.
Still, though Tianlu was greedy for wealth and treasure, throwing his weight around with abandon as the Pet of the Great Dao, he did have a faint line he wouldn't cross.
If Queen Mother of the West, the future Head of Female Immortals, had already emerged into the world, he would let it go.
After all, they were both Innate Divine Beings born of the Primordial World. They were bound to cross paths sooner or later. Charging straight into someone else's cultivation ground to snatch their opportunities would certainly be a poor look.
But if Queen Mother of the West had yet to emerge, then West Kunlun's opportunities were unclaimed treasures. As the saying went, "Heavenly treasures belong to the virtuous." And as the only Auspicious Beast Pixiu between heaven and earth, Tianlu was naturally the most virtuous being in the Primordial World.
The years rolled on, and a century passed.
Steering the cloud, an Innate Mid-Grade Spiritual Treasure, Tianlu finally crossed endless mountains and rivers and reached the lands of West Kunlun. He began to wander leisurely through its vast, mysterious mountain ranges.
As for the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning that still rumbled overhead, relentless and unyielding, Tianlu continued to ignore it.
As the Child of the Great Dao, with the Pet of the Great Dao passively bestowed upon him, Tianlu could only be pushed to the limits of what the rules allowed, no matter how furious Heaven became.
Heaven didn't dare bring down a fatal tribulation to erase him. The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning looked as if it could destroy the heavens and wipe out the earth, but it couldn't harm even a single hair on his body.
Relying on the Pixiu clan's unique Innate Divine Ability—an extraordinarily keen sense for the spiritual treasures of heaven and earth—Tianlu kept sniffing out places thick with the scent of opportunity.
As an Auspicious Beast who governed the Law of Wealth and the Law of Fortune, he could tell where treasures were with a single sniff.
But what vexed him was that Heaven's impotent fury kept sending down Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, and its violent power of destruction had thrown West Kunlun's Xiantian Spiritual Qi into chaos.
Every time he caught the faintest trace of an unusual treasure and prepared to follow the scent to its source, ear-splitting thunder and ruptures in space would forcibly interrupt him.
Tianlu grew so frustrated that he rolled his eyes again and again atop Cloud Treasure.
Since his precise tracking had been disrupted, Tianlu simply gave up on sensing things in detail. He could only follow his instincts and search the places where West Kunlun's spiritual energy ran deepest and its terrain seemed most mysterious.
And so, an unparalleled wonder appeared in West Kunlun.
Pixiu roamed; Divine Lightning celebrated.
Every step Tianlu took brought hundreds, even thousands, of bolts of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning down around him. It was as if they were firing a grand artillery salute to welcome this lord on his tour. The spectacle was so magnificent that West Kunlun's native creatures shut themselves away in closed-door cultivation, not daring to breathe too loudly.
And so Tianlu traveled through West Kunlun beneath the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, searching for opportunities. Before he knew it, several centuries had passed.
One day, as Tianlu rode his cloud through a cluster of perilous peaks shrouded in mist, there came a muffled thud. He felt as if he had crashed into a barrier that was invisible and intangible, yet incredibly tough. It sent his cloud bouncing back several thousand zhang.
Tianlu stopped in midair and rubbed his forehead with a gleaming golden paw. Far from getting angry, his large eyes lit up, gleaming with greed.
He'd found it!
A hidden fluctuation from an Xiantian Array like this had to be guarding an astonishing opportunity.
Perhaps sensing that Tianlu had once again found an opportunity that wasn't meant for him, Heaven's already volatile temper finally spiraled out of control.
The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning overhead erupted in an instant. The thunderclouds churned even more violently, and purple bolts streaked down like world-ending thunder dragons, blazing with boundless fury as they relentlessly struck all around Tianlu.
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