Heaven-Opening Mark Suppresses Taotie, Seeking the White Lotus in the East Sea

Li Changsheng was wholly focused on testing his own strength and had no intention of using the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler.

He even deliberately suppressed the innate power of the Creation Green Lotus, intending only to fight with techniques and properly test his true combat strength.

Roar!

Seeing its prey willingly come to its door, Taotie's scarlet eyes beneath its armpits erupted with overwhelming greed as its enormous maw abruptly opened wide.

A terrifying Law of Devouring instantly erupted. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth for tens of thousands of miles around, mountains, rocks, vegetation, and even the Heaven-Opening Sha Qi permeating the air were all frantically swallowed into its belly!

An invisible devouring vortex swept toward Li Changsheng, trying to forcibly drag him into its massive mouth and completely refine and consume him.

Li Changsheng's gaze remained calm as the footwork beneath him shifted leisurely.

This was the Heaven-Opening Body Technique from Pangu's inheritance. It was incomparably profound, containing the trajectories of the Great Dao of heaven and earth. His figure drifted like flowing clouds, and no matter how violent the devouring force became, it could not touch him in the slightest.

Taotie lunged and attacked again and again, its huge maw biting down and its brute force sweeping outward. Every strike carried terrifying power capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, blasting deep pits into the earth as shattered stones flew and dust filled the air.

Yet no matter how frantically it roared or how fiercely it attacked, it could not even touch the corner of Li Changsheng's robes!

The figure before its eyes was clearly within reach, yet seemed as distant as the horizon. Every attack missed.

With its violent fury having nowhere to vent, Taotie completely lost its mind, letting out deafening roars of impotent rage. The black Sha Qi around its body churned ever more violently, corroding the surrounding earth until it cracked apart inch by inch.

Li Changsheng raised a hand and formed a seal. Streams of azure spell-light condensed into shape, like sharp blades continuously bombarding Taotie's body.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

The techniques struck Taotie precisely, instantly tearing through its rough, hardened flesh. Black Sha Qi mixed with blood spurted out.

But in the next instant, the Heaven-Opening Sha Qi within Taotie's body surged wildly, rapidly wrapping around the wounds and healing them at a visible speed.

In no more than a breath, the wounds had completely healed, as though it had never been injured.

Such physical self-healing ability was truly astonishingly powerful.

Li Changsheng nodded inwardly at the sight, then a clear realization surfaced in his mind.

He had cultivated for too short a time. Although Pangu's inheritance encompassed all things and possessed a heaven-defying grade, he had yet to fully comprehend most of it.

The Dao of Creation naturally leaned toward vitality, nourishment, creation, and evolution. The path of slaughter had always been its innate weakness. Ordinary techniques could only injure Taotie's surface and could not deliver a fatal blow. There was no point in continuing this drawn-out fight.

"Looks like I'll have to use some real skill."

A sharp glint flashed in Li Changsheng's eyes as he stopped holding back.

With a slight movement of his fingertip, the first mysterious yellow Heaven-Opening Mark within his sea of consciousness suddenly trembled.

A faint ray of intertwined mysterious yellow light, containing the supreme majesty of opening heaven and earth and breaking through all Daos, spread along his soul and flowed directly to his fingertip.

There were no heaven-shaking phenomena, nor did any violent aura leak out.

Li Changsheng casually pointed forward. That speck of mysterious yellow light instantly shot through the air, so fast that it left no trace at all as it flew directly toward Taotie's chest!

Pshk—!

A soft sound rang out, like a sharp blade piercing thin paper.

Taotie's body, as tough as an innate spiritual treasure and tempered to an incomparably formidable degree by Sha Qi, was actually as fragile as paper before that faint light!

The mysterious yellow speck pierced straight through its mountain-sized body, leaving behind a transparent, bowl-sized bloody hole. Black Heaven-Opening Sha Qi surged wildly from the wound.

But then something strange happened.

No matter how Taotie mobilized the Sha Qi throughout its body in an attempt to repair the wound, that bloody hole refused to heal!

A thread of faint yet incomparably tyrannical Heaven-Opening power clung stubbornly to the wound like a parasite attached to bone, suppressing all Sha Qi and completely cutting off its path to recovery!

ROAR!!!

Struck by agonizing pain and bone-deep terror, Taotie let out an incomparably miserable howl. Its massive body staggered backward, and the greed in its eyes was completely replaced by panic.

The way it looked at Li Changsheng was as though it were looking upon the most terrifying supreme being in the primordial world. It could clearly sense that this power was enough to utterly destroy it!

Yet Li Changsheng stood where he was, his eyes filled with irrepressible delight.

"So this is the power of the Heaven-Opening Mark?!"

He had merely grasped the barest trace of the first Heaven-Opening Mark and casually drawn upon a tiny bit of its power, yet it possessed such terrifying might. It had directly broken through Taotie's formidable body and self-healing ability!

As expected of the core foundation by which Pangu opened heaven and attained the Dao. It stood above all Daos of the primordial world, and its power was heaven-defying to such an extent!

Li Changsheng was overjoyed. Subconsciously, he sank his divine sense into his sea of consciousness.

That mysterious yellow Heaven-Opening Mark still floated quietly at the center of his sea of consciousness. Divine patterns flowed across it, its majesty profound and weighty as it radiated an aura capable of suppressing all Daos.

Beside the Heaven-Opening Mark, a thunder seed suffused with chaotic hues and covered in mysterious patterns lay quietly dormant. It faintly resonated with the Heaven-Opening Mark, sharing the same origin while carrying an extreme Dao rhythm of destruction and lightning.

"Chaos Thunder Seed..."

Li Changsheng's heart stirred.

This thunder seed had remained in his sea of consciousness after the Great Dao heavenly tribulation. It had always rested beside the Heaven-Opening Mark. Before this, he had been focused on cultivating his transformation and comprehending his inheritance, never examining it closely. Now, it seemed this was no ordinary object!

This was a thunder seed preserved by Pangu himself. It had to be a top-tier source of Chaos lightning!

Lightning arts were already among the most destructive supreme Daos between heaven and earth. If he could thoroughly comprehend this Chaos Thunder Seed and cultivate a top-tier Chaos lightning art, the weakness in his current offensive techniques would be directly remedied!

When facing powerful enemies in the future, he would also possess an unmatched trump card of slaughter!

"In the future, I must calm myself and properly comprehend this Chaos Thunder Seed!"

Li Changsheng silently made up his mind. He then withdrew his divine sense and looked indifferently at the trembling Taotie before him, which was trying to flee.

Taotie was one of the Four Ferocious Beasts. The Sha Qi and origin within its body held immense research value, and it still had its uses. He could not simply kill it.

"Suppress!"

Li Changsheng shouted softly, forming the Creation Secret Art with both hands.

Countless verdant lotus leaves instantly surged from around his body. Creation divine patterns flowed across the leaves, containing the Dao rhythm of Heaven-Opening suppression. Carrying boundless, weighty force, they flooded toward Taotie like a tidal wave.

Layer upon layer of lotus leaves piled up and entwined. In the span of an instant, they transformed into an enormous lotus platform cage, tightly wrapping Taotie's massive body without leaving even the slightest gap.

Creation power and Heaven-Opening power intertwined upon the lotus leaves. Under this dual suppression, Taotie instantly lost even the strength to struggle. Its roar came to an abrupt halt as it was completely confined within the lotus platform, unable to move.

Having successfully suppressed Taotie, Li Changsheng did not pause in the slightest.

With a thought, his divine sense transformed into a vast tidal wave that poured into Taotie's suppressed body. He wanted to thoroughly investigate the secrets of this top-tier ferocious beast's origin and verify a method to completely resolve the ferocious beast calamity.

Yet the moment it entered Taotie's body, Heaven-Opening Sha Qi, a hundred times denser and a thousand times more violent than that of ordinary ferocious beasts, charged madly toward his divine sense like a world-ending tsunami!

This Sha Qi was not only formed from the lingering resentment of the Demon Gods from the opening of heaven, but had also fused with Taotie's endless will to kill and devour. It was enough to easily tear apart the divine sense of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

Had it been any other living being, their divine sense would have instantly been scattered and corrupted upon rashly entering, reducing them to a mindless fool!

But a faint clear light of Creation lingered over the surface of Li Changsheng's divine sense, and it was further protected by a thread of the Heaven-Opening Mark's majesty.

The instant the violent Heaven-Opening Sha Qi came into contact with it, it was blocked outside and could not erode his divine sense in the slightest.

Li Changsheng stabilized his divine sense and carefully examined the situation inside Taotie's body.

He saw that Taotie's limbs, bones, meridians, and flesh were all saturated with black Heaven-Opening Sha Qi. The Sha Qi had long since completely fused with its body and soul, inseparable from them.

Meanwhile, Taotie's innate true spirit was tightly wrapped deep within its soul by layers upon layers of Sha Qi so dense it had liquefied. It was completely hidden from sight. No matter how he searched, he could not find the slightest trace of the true spirit.

He tried mobilizing the Creation power around his body and sending it into Taotie to purify the surrounding Sha Qi.

As the pale azure Creation power spread outward, the nearby Sha Qi was indeed slowly dissolved and transformed into the purest spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

However, the purifying power within the Creation power was ultimately only a tiny incidental part of it, not its core Dao.

Faced with the vast quantity of Sha Qi inside Taotie, which had deeply fused with its body, it was no more than a drop in the ocean. Completely removing it and saving its innate true spirit was simply impossible.

Li Changsheng raised an eyebrow, but he was not surprised.

The Dao of Creation governed vitality and creation. Purification had never been its core power. The fact that it could restrain Heaven-Opening Sha Qi to this degree had already exceeded expectations.

He understood that there were only two paths to completely resolve this problem.

Either he would break through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, greatly improving his comprehension of the Great Dao, and forcibly strip away the Sha Qi with absolute power while preserving the true spirit.

Or he would find the Pure World White Lotus and rely on its exclusive, ultimate Law of Purification to completely dissolve the Sha Qi and redeem the ferocious beasts.

At this thought, Li Changsheng's desire for the Pure World White Lotus grew ever stronger.

He also suddenly remembered that when Pangu had previously told him where the body of the Creation Demon God could be found, he had specifically said, "If you have the ability, then take it."

At the time, Li Changsheng had only thought Pangu had said it casually. His heart had been filled with the delight of obtaining a fortuitous opportunity, but upon thinking back now, he finally realized something.

Pangu never spoke empty words. There was a deeper meaning hidden behind that statement!

The body of the Creation Demon God was far from harmless. The Demon God's lingering resentment and Heaven-Opening Sha Qi had never completely dissipated!

Even if he successfully found the body, safely absorbing the Demon God's origin and perfecting his own Dao of Creation would be no easy task.

With the slightest carelessness, he would be eroded by the Sha Qi and resentment within the corpse. Not only would he fail to obtain the opportunity, he might even damage his own origin. The loss would outweigh the gain!

"Looks like the body of the Creation Demon God won't be easy to obtain."

Li Changsheng's thoughts became completely clear, and his immediate course of action grew increasingly certain.

His most urgent task was not to search for the body of the Creation Demon God, but to first find the Pure World White Lotus and master the ultimate Law of Purification!

Only by possessing the power of purification could he deal with the Sha Qi within the Demon God's body. He could also thoroughly resolve the issue of Taotie, this test subject, and find the core method of defusing the ferocious beast calamity!

As for the suppressed Taotie before him, he could keep it for now. Once he found the Pure World White Lotus, he could immediately test the true power of its Law of Purification and verify the plan to resolve the ferocious beast calamity.

Having reached this point, Li Changsheng no longer hesitated.

With a flick of his finger, the suppressive cage formed from lotus leaves instantly shrank down, transforming into a streak of azure light that he casually stored away.

After finishing everything, Li Changsheng spread his body out. Azure light around him surged wildly, transforming into an azure rainbow stretching across the sky. Without lingering any longer, he flew directly toward the depths of the East Sea!

Ahead lay the vast and boundless East Sea, its blue waves stretching endlessly. The Law of Water was concentrated to the extreme, while countless hidden grotto-heavens and innate spiritual roots were concealed within deep-sea valleys and isolated islands.

Li Changsheng's target was the Pure World White Lotus, which governed the Dao of Purification and restrained all ferocious, baleful, and foul things!

Until he obtained the Pure World White Lotus, he would never rashly touch the body of the Creation Demon God!