Kunlun Sacred Land, Self-Formed Divine Hall

Tianlu looked up at the thunderclouds raging to the utmost limit, curled his lips, and muttered disdainfully.

"Cheapskate!"

Afterward, he ignored the Heavenly Dao. The mana of a Great Luo Golden Immortal within him surged into motion, and with a thought, the power of the Law of Space—one of the Six Great Laws—instantly gathered in his palm.

Silvery-white Dao patterns of the Law of Space flowed over his claw tips, giving off an enigmatic aura capable of twisting the void and piercing through all laws.

Tianlu lightly pressed his claw against that invisible Xiantian Array barrier. The power of the Law of Space seeped into it like spilled mercury, beginning to unravel and analyze the array's operating principles thread by thread.

Though this Xiantian Array was exquisitely profound, before a Great Luo Golden Immortal who commanded the Law of Space, it ultimately still left traces to follow.

In less than a few days, Tianlu had thoroughly seen through the array's substance. His body swayed slightly, turning into a streak of light that forcibly pierced through the array's barrier and vanished completely from the heavens and earth of the Primordial World.

Because the Xiantian Array had been nurtured by the creation of heaven and earth, it inherently possessed the formidable ability to conceal heavenly secrets and obscure karma.

Once Tianlu entered it, it was as though he had completely evaporated from the Primordial World. The Heavenly Dao temporarily lost its lock on him and could not find any trace of Tianlu at all.

After circling above West Kunlun and roaring for a long while, the Heavenly Dao had no choice but to slowly withdraw the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning filling the sky. The thunderclouds dispersed, and heaven and earth returned to clarity.

At the same time.

Elsewhere.

Yujing Mountain, within White Jade Capital.

As the final victor of the Dao-Devil War, Hongjun was currently seated cross-legged beneath the Jade Plate of Creation, surrounded by the profoundly mysterious Dao rhythm of the Great Dao.

He was attempting to merge his good corpse, evil corpse, and self-obsession corpse into Three Corpses Unity, using the momentum to attain the Dao and become the supreme Heavenly Dao Saint.

In truth, with Hongjun's unfathomable origins and foundation, he had originally possessed the chance to pursue the path of the free and unfettered Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin, beyond the restraints of the Heavenly Dao.

Yet fate toyed with men. During that incomparably brutal Dao-Devil War of old, which had shattered the Primordial World, Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, seeing that the tide had turned against him, had actually gone mad and detonated the earth veins of the entire Western Lands.

That self-destruction not only instantly turned the once-fertile Western Lands into a barren wasteland, draining away its spiritual qi, but also forced Hongjun, as the victor, to bear overwhelming Karmic Retribution.

Such karma, enough to crush all ages, directly severed his hope of attaining the Dao as a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin.

In the present Primordial World, only by entrusting one's Primordial Spirit to the void of the Heavenly Dao and attaining the fruit status of a Heavenly Dao Saint could one draw upon the Heavenly Dao's vast and boundless power to slowly repay this immeasurable karma.

And only the position of Heavenly Dao Saint could contain someone like Hongjun.

But just as Hongjun was immersed in the mysterious realm of Three Corpses Unity, cultivating with bitter effort, a vast, boundless, supreme will descended into his sea of consciousness without warning.

It was the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao consciousness carried not the slightest emotional fluctuation. It merely coldly conveyed an edict to Hongjun.

Go to West Kunlun. Find an Auspicious Beast Pixiu and make it hand over the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus.

Upon receiving this edict, Hongjun abruptly opened his eyes. A flicker of astonishment crossed them as he was forced to halt his cultivation.

He was momentarily stunned, his brows tightly furrowed as stormy waves surged in his heart.

What was going on?

The Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus?

Wasn't that the Three Pure Ones' fated Numinous Treasure?!

This was the fixed destiny of the Primordial World!

Even before the Dao-Devil War, through deductions made with the Jade Plate of Creation, he had long calculated the ownership of this extraordinary treasure.

Red Flower White Lotus Green Lotus Leaf, Three Teachings Are One Family.

This Creation Green Lotus was destined to split into three and become the Dao-Completion Dharma Treasures of the Three Pure Ones, thereby suppressing the Fortune of Three Teachings.

But now, where had this Pixiu come from?

It had actually appeared out of nowhere and snatched away the Three Pure Ones' destined fortune?

And most crucially, the Heavenly Dao had actually issued a special decree to him, its future Heavenly Dao Spokesperson, over a mere Pixiu?!

Could it be... a variable?!

Hongjun's gaze became incomparably profound. His mind frantically deduced the heavenly secrets, only to discover that everything concerning that Pixiu seemed shrouded in mist, utterly impossible to calculate.

The Great Dao had fifty; Heaven derived forty-nine; The One That Escaped remained.

Could this Pixiu be The One That Escaped?

An existence beyond the Heavenly Dao's control?

Though Hongjun harbored countless doubts toward the Heavenly Dao's edict and even felt a trace of wariness toward this mysterious variable, he had yet to become a saint and still needed to rely on the Heavenly Dao's power. There was simply no room for refusal.

Left with no choice, Hongjun could only sigh softly and rise to his full height.

With a sweep of his great sleeve, he transformed into a streak of purple qi and departed White Jade Capital, tearing through the boundless void as he headed straight for West Kunlun to find the Pixiu mentioned by the Heavenly Dao.

At the same time.

West Kunlun, within the Kunlun Sacred Realm concealed by the Xiantian Array.

Having successfully broken the array through the Law of Space, Tianlu stepped into this isolated Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

The moment he entered, Xiantian Spiritual Qi a thousand times denser than that outside rushed toward him, nearly condensing into tangible spiritual liquid as it nourished his body.

Tianlu drew a deep breath and immediately felt utterly refreshed.

He raised his eyes to the dreamlike scene before him and could not help letting out an astonished exclamation.

A Self-Formed Divine Hall!

At the center of this vast blessed cave-heaven, immortal flowers burst into bloom, phantoms of auspicious beasts raced about, and upon Spirit Spring Immortal Mountain, where the spiritual energy was at its densest—

Palace after palace, exquisite and magnificent, rose from the ground.

Within this blessed cave-heaven, palaces had formed on their own. Flying pavilions gleamed crimson, jade towers and jeweled halls radiated an ancient, sacred Primordial Dao Rhythm.

But after his initial surprise, Tianlu soon accepted it.

After all, this was the wondrously created Primordial World.

Was not the Thirty-Three Layer Heavenly Court high above the firmament, which the Demon Race would rule in the future, likewise formed by the mighty power of heaven and earth itself?

Perhaps East Kunlun also possessed such naturally nurtured palaces; he simply had not found them before.

But then Tianlu reconsidered. This was West Kunlun, and by the ordained course of the Primordial World, this sprawling stretch of splendid palaces should be Queen Mother of the West's Dao field.

But he did not care about any of that. Since he had entered, all the opportunities here were his now.

Tianlu's eyes gleamed as he immediately began swaggering through this blessed cave-heaven in search of its hidden opportunities and treasures.

His Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal divine sense spread out. Wherever it passed, whether rare immortal herbs and spiritual roots or spirit stones glowing with treasure light, he opened his mouth and sucked them all into his Abdominal Space.

Meanwhile, in the deepest part of this blessed cave-heaven—

A Primordial Yin Qi that had yet to take form was curled up at the bottom of a spiritual vein, trembling violently.

She was utterly horrified. No matter how she thought about it, she could not understand how someone had forcibly broken through the exceedingly profound innate concealment formation protecting her Accompanying Birth Dao Field and barged into her territory.

What filled her with even greater despair was that the aura sweeping over her without restraint was vast as an abyss. It was clearly at the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.

Such terrifying strength far surpassed her, a Primordial Yin Qi that had not even taken form.

Faced with such a brazen intruder, she could not muster even the slightest thought of resistance, only hoping that this great expert would leave quickly.