In the boundless Chaos, where Heaven and Earth had yet to be divided and the primordial mist obscured all, a towering tree thrust up into the sky, stretching a million miles high. Its countless tangled branches bore crystalline jade leaves, and it stood silently in the depths of the universe.
All around it was utter darkness and endless solitude.
"Where is this?" Feng Yue blurted out, then cried in shock, "How did I become a tree?"
I transmigrated. I got bitten by a snake and transmigrated. What a load of nonsense!
Looking at the gray, hazy world around him, he couldn't make out any sense of direction. Then he lowered his gaze to the tangled mass of roots beneath him. His upper body had also become countless branches and tender leaves. He had no choice but to accept the truth: had he really transmigrated?
The next moment, a rumble sounded. A Daoist voice rang out from the depths of Chaos, resounding through the heavens.
"Great Dao above, I am Time Demon God Shi Chen, controller of the Great Dao of Time. With the years as my immortal law, I shall suppress Chaos. May all the spirits of Chaos understand how swiftly time flies and how the years slip away. Great Dao, bear witness!"
The voice contained the Great Dao. Feng Yue was stunned. Time Demon God?
Suddenly, a radiant light shone down from the Chaos above, enveloping Feng Yue's crown.
"Chaos is undying; all things are eternal!"
"Heaven and Earth have perished; the calamity has appeared anew!"
Sixteen golden characters, each radiating the light of the Great Dao, surged into Feng Yue's mind, humming in waves.
Three breaths later, Feng Yue looked up, slightly surprised.
"Inheritance?"
"Inherited memories of the Great Dao."
The inherited memories contained no cultivation manuals, no Daoist scriptures, no secret arts or divine abilities. There was only one enormous golden character: Dao!
What was the Dao? He would have to comprehend it for himself!
There were no shortcuts.
Transmigration was cliché, but it fit the way people on Earth thought.
His true form was a Chaos Tree, a supreme-grade Chaos spiritual root. In terms of talent, he was no weaker than those Chaos Demon Gods.
In the days that followed, Feng Yue immersed himself in comprehending the character "Dao" left behind by the Great Dao in his mind. When he was bored, he would stretch out a branch and smash a Chaos Stubborn Stone, watch a snail-shaped Chaos creature drift by, or let the Chaos Gale ruffle his tangled branches and tender leaves.
From time to time, news came of Chaos Demon Gods swearing oaths to the Great Dao before taking form and emerging into the world. Feng Yue was green with envy. He swore he'd take form one day, travel through Chaos, and see the wider world.
"Great Dao above, I am Yang Mei, Space Demon God and controller of the Law of Space. With the void as my immortal law, I shall suppress Chaos. May all the spirits of Chaos understand the foundations of the six directions—up, down, left, right, front, and back—and know the limits of the vast universe of Chaos!"
"Great Dao above, I am Fate Demon God, controller of the Law of Fate, Fate...!"
"Great Dao above, I am Creation Demon God, controller of the Law of Creation...!"
"Great Dao above, I am Reincarnation Demon God, controller of the Law of Reincarnation...!"
Who knew how much time had passed? In the Chaos region where Feng Yue cultivated, a strange creature approached at great speed. It had a dragon's head, a tiger's tail, and phoenix wings, with five-colored light swirling around its body. Each step carried it ten thousand miles; after just a few strides, it arrived before Feng Yue.
Feng Yue opened his eyes and was startled. Th-this... a Chaos Demon God?
"What a strange sight. Such a huge tree!"
"A Chaos Tree, a Chaos spiritual root?"
"Perfect. I can refine it to improve my cultivation and comprehension of the Great Dao. Maybe I can reach the Peak Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. Then my name as Five Elements Demon God will surely rival Shi Chen and Yang Mei... Hahaha!"
The Demon God didn't waste time. As soon as he found the spiritual root, he sat down and began refining it.
As for Feng Yue, he was panicking.
It was one of the Ten Great Chaos Demon Gods, the Five Elements Demon God.
According to the inherited memories of the Great Dao, these Chaos Demon Gods took form as Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals from the moment they were born. Crushing a little ant like him would be effortless, never mind for a "top student" among the Demon Gods!
In Chaos, the strong were revered. Whoever had greater strength had the harder fist. No living being could escape that rule.
The Chaos region around them had been imprinted with the Five Elements Demon God's own law runes, formed through the Five Elements Great Dao Law. They looked like dazzling, five-colored lotus marks.
As the Five Elements Demon God recited the refining incantation, the Five Elements law runes around them began to glow on Feng Yue's giant tree, invading his branches and tender leaves, as well as his trunk and roots.
"Hmm?"
"So this is what refining feels like?"
"It's pretty comfortable. Looks like I can absorb it!"
Feng Yue felt the power of the Five Elements laws that the Five Elements Demon God was pouring into him. It didn't hurt at all—in fact, it felt quite pleasant.
As the first Demon God born, Shi Chen had personally established the calamity, the epoch, and the cycle to define time.
One calamity equaled fifty thousand epochs, and one epoch equaled twelve cycles.
One cycle equaled ten thousand eight hundred years, one epoch equaled one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred years, and one calamity equaled 6.48 billion years.
Time was not counted in Chaos, so here's a conversion for the duration of one calamity.
After three calamities, the Five Elements Demon God was still continuously pouring the power of the Five Elements laws into Feng Yue. The problem was, there was no sign of him refining Feng Yue at all. Instead, Feng Yue had grown much faster. His original height of a million miles had now reached ten million miles.
"Such a puny spiritual root, yet I can't refine it?"
The Five Elements Demon God stood up and spat out a curse.
He flew a million miles away from Feng Yue, then suddenly turned around.
Feng Yue had thought the Demon God was leaving and was about to call out and ask him to stay. But then...
"If this god can't have this spiritual root, no other Demon God will get it either!"
The Demon God poured endless law light into a five-colored longsword. Behind him, the power of the Great Dao gathered as the five Chaos elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—began to converge.
"Damn it!"
"That's just dirty!"
"You're picking on a weak, old, crippled tree like me!"
"Five Elements Annihilation!" The Demon God gathered five-colored light between his hands and unleashed his divine ability. Feng Yue immediately felt as if his soul had ascended to heaven.
The surrounding Chaos space twisted, and the Chaos Gale and Chaos Divine Fire vanished without a trace.
At that critical moment, a strange pearl radiating purplish-gold light suddenly appeared above Feng Yue's head,
shining in all directions and blocking the attack for him.
"The Chaos Pearl?"
The Five Elements Demon God cried out.
"This is one of the Five Great Chaos Treasures from the inherited memories of the Great Dao!"
"The Chaos Pearl?" Feng Yue was also surprised. It was an ultimate treasure.
After blocking the attack, the Chaos Pearl entered through the center of Feng Yue's trunk and went straight to the heart of his true form.
Seeing this, the Five Elements Demon God stayed where he was. He neither backed away nor approached.
"Was it swallowed?"
"You rotten tree! How dare you swallow the Chaos Pearl?"
Faced with this unbelievable scene, the Five Elements Demon God was at a loss. Everything had gone far beyond his expectations.
"Whoosh!"
A passage of purplish-gold runes began to flow through Feng Yue's mind. Wrapped in a cloud of hazy purple qi, a few traces of writing could just barely be made out.
"Immeasurable Space-Time Sutra!"
As the cultivation method appeared, the Chaos Pearl immediately began melting into a river of space and time. It flowed through Feng Yue's body, from the tree heart to the trunk, from the trunk to the roots, then spread out and settled among his countless branches and tender leaves.
The Five Elements Demon God stood there, dazed.
The surrounding space and time in Chaos seemed to be changing. The Chaos region that had been shattered was restored from nothingness to its original state.
The many Chaos Gales flowed once more. Feng Yue's entire body felt as if it had been reborn. His roots were covered in purplish-gold runes, his trunk brimmed with the aura of the Great Dao, and his leaves shimmered in a riot of colors. The power of the five Chaos elements gathered as runes, absorbed and transformed by Feng Yue.
"These are my Five Elements laws. This spiritual root can actually devour them and turn them into its own Law Profound Truths?"
"Defying the Dao, absorbing the laws of the Great Dao, devouring the Chaos Pearl—this spiritual root has actually developed intelligence. No wonder I couldn't refine it!"
"Hmph!"
"Five Elements Demon-Exterminating Slash!"
The Five Elements Demon God summoned a powerful strike. His longsword expanded to a hundred thousand miles, its radiance spreading everywhere and illuminating the surrounding Chaos region as bright as day.
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