The Lowly Plight of Chaos Lifeforms

Facing Feng Yue's questioning, Clover stammered, not knowing how to answer.

He only wanted to comprehend a law and take form. Was that wrong?

"Senior, I want to take form!"

"I have no control over anything else!"

Clover spoke pitifully, his voice carrying a trace of sorrow.

Throughout the chaos, besides Demon Gods, there were also Chaos lifeforms. Their intelligence was born late; some were spiritual roots, some were stones, and others were wind, fire, water, or earth. To take form, they had to comprehend a complete law. As for what kind of law it was, that did not matter.

But in truth, the three thousand Demon Gods controlled the three thousand Great Daos. These lesser Chaos lifeforms could basically only comprehend the branch laws of the Demon Gods. Of course, this was also their final chance; they could choose not to comprehend one.

A Clover like this might be captured by some Demon God one day and refined to increase their cultivation.

"How about this? Follow me!"

Feng Yue reached out and patted Clover's leaves. His eyes, mouth, and nose were all growing from his stalk, making him look like a child—adorable beyond compare.

"Senior...!"

"Do you also want to raise me up, then use me for pill refining, or refine me as a supplement to increase your cultivation?"

"So many of my spiritual-root brethren have been refined. Some were even made into pills..."

Clover spoke with a chilled heart. In his inherited memories, Demon Gods were all exceedingly evil. To Chaos lifeforms, they would burn, kill, plunder—there was nothing they would not do.

Feng Yue: "..."

"Am I really that bad?"

Feng Yue grabbed Clover and placed him in his palm, then pressed him down and used a finger like a wooden stick to give his backside a vicious beating—though who knew if that was actually his backside? He might have hit the wrong spot.

"Who do you think you are!"

"This Venerable is not one of those Chaos Demon Gods. This Venerable is the Boundless Dao; letting you cultivate under me is already an honor!"

"If you manage to take form and attain the Dao someday, it would not be impossible for this Venerable to accept you as a disciple!"

"As for this pill-refining nonsense you mentioned, I have never eaten grass with intelligence. Whether you believe me or not is up to you...!"

Having said all he had to say, Feng Yue put away the Dao Origin Pearl, set Clover atop a Chaos boulder, then turned and slowly departed.

A Chaos clover was useless. Boring.

Clover stood blankly atop the Chaos boulder, staring at the wisp of Great Dao rune between the leaves on his head, at a complete loss.

This was the Boundless Dao mark Feng Yue had just left on his head. It could shield him from one fatal crisis, and could also be considered the forging of a karmic bond.

After leaving Clover behind, Feng Yue continued searching for opportunities in the chaos.

After traveling for so long, aside from the Five Elements Dao Swords and the Dao Origin Pearl, two Chaos spirit treasures, he had found almost nothing else.

He had heard that Chaos spirit treasures and rare Chaos spiritual roots were protected by Chaos grand formations, so Feng Yue specifically sought out places where the Chaos power in a given region was particularly dense.

Of course, there were times when he grew tired as well.

Drifting around all day was not exactly a good thing.

He continued venturing through the chaos, but after searching diligently for one aeon, Feng Yue gave up.

"Damn it, just as the saying goes: opportunities aren't found—they're destined!"

A spirit treasure like the Dao Origin Pearl had been an unexpected gain for Feng Yue, but it was also destined to fall into his hands.

"Forget it, forget it. I'll find a rock to rest on for a while, and comprehend the Dao as I cultivate. I'll strive to break through to the ninth level of the Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!"

Before long...

Upon a gigantic Chaos boulder spanning hundreds of millions of miles, Feng Yue sat with one leg crossed over the other, his eyes closed as he leisurely comprehended the Immeasurable Space-Time Sutra.

Beside him were a stone lifeform with four legs and a flower wreathed in flames, massaging Feng Yue's legs.

"Lower, lower. The upper part is about done..."

"Ah, yes, yes, right there. Put some strength into it...!"

"Senior, here?"

Ten aeons later, streams of space-time power burst out in every direction from the Chaos boulder. Countless rays of Great Dao golden light scattered everywhere, the power of innumerable runes reflected across the heavens, and divine fires throughout the cosmos illuminated all directions.

A Great Dao golden wheel emerged above Feng Yue's head. His Great Dao golden wheel consisted of two enormous divine pupils, sacred eyes without color or adornment. They looked utterly ordinary, yet upon deeper comprehension, one could discover the ancient Great Dao aura contained within them. It was a newborn Dao, strange beyond measure.

"Ninth level of the Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!"

"Hah~!"

Feng Yue exhaled a breath of stale air, turned around, and grabbed the two Chaos lifeforms. A surge of Chaos power poured from within him and directly entered their bodies.

"This is your reward for serving this Venerable all these years!"

Feng Yue bestowed a Boundless mark of his own upon them. It could protect them from a single strike by an expert at the ninth or even tenth level of the Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

Of course, if they truly encountered danger in the future, it would still be difficult for them to escape.

After all, no Demon God ever killed with only one strike. They usually attacked one after another; if fists did not work, they kicked with their feet, and if that did not work, they brought out spirit treasures...

After one such round, the miserable state of a Chaos lifeform was easy to imagine.

Feng Yue would not bring these two little ones along. Their cultivation talent was very poor—even a little worse than Clover's. They did not even know how to cultivate the Dao, only how to absorb Chaos power from heaven and earth and grow into essence. Who knew which day they might be captured by some unfamiliar Demon God and turned into pills or artifacts?

"Thank you, Senior!"

"Thank you, Senior!"

Feng Yue glanced back at them, shook his head, and departed.

If these two Chaos lifeforms had been born in the Primordial World, they might have been top-tier innate divine beings. But this was the chaos, where Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals walked everywhere. Even if these Chaos lifeforms comprehended branch laws and took form, they would only become Primordial Golden Immortals (Quasi-Sages). They would still be suppressed by countless Chaos Demon Gods. If they had to be killed, they would still be killed!

Only after Feng Yue's silhouette had vanished hundreds of millions of miles away did the two Chaos lifeforms look at each other.

"Stone, why didn't that Demon God eat us?"

"Who knows? Maybe he was full!"

Feng Yue probably did not know that, after he left, the two Chaos lifeforms were still discussing him. After all, the reputation of Demon Gods had long been utterly ruined in the hearts of these Chaos lifeforms.

And because he was far too powerful, he was easily mistaken for a Chaos Demon God. Yet in truth, he was not a Chaos Demon God at all, merely a cultivator who had crossed through the chaos.

After traveling three billion million miles, Feng Yue's expression changed and his eyes widened.

"A formation?"

"It's actually a Chaos grand formation!"

Feng Yue was overjoyed. He had finally encountered an opportunity of his own.

Hahahaha! A Chaos grand formation stood right before him. Inside, there had to be either a Chaos spiritual root or a Chaos spirit treasure.

Surprise mixed with wild delight, Feng Yue said nothing. He immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and began refining the formation.

"Insolence! Whoever dares touch the formation, die!"

A clear, resounding female voice came from behind Feng Yue.