Eye of the Heavenly Dao

"Insolence!"

The Fire Demon God flew into a rage. The entire Innate Fire Spirit Pearl trembled violently, and countless blazing tongues of flame burst from the surface of the fireball, as though they would burn the entire void to ash.

"You insignificant ant, how dare you toy with me!"

"You got angry? I merely asked a question, and you agreed to it yourself."

Lei Xiao remained calm. After a slight pause, he continued, "Legend says that when Great God Pangu split open the heavens and attained the Dao, Chaos Demon Gods came to stop him. In the end, Great God Pangu killed hundreds of Chaos Demon Gods with a single axe strike. You wouldn't happen to be one of those hundreds of Chaos Demon Gods, would you?"

"You seek death!"

The Fire Demon God's roar shook the void. That enormous fireball rapidly swelled, its surface flames shifting from crimson to blazing white as its temperature surged dozens of times in an instant.

The void throughout the entire Fire Region warped beneath the terrifying heat. The spatial barrier let out a groan of unbearable strain, and web-like spatial cracks frantically spread in every direction.

Bi Xiao's face turned pale.

Not from fear, but from the heat wave rushing at her—despite the protective barrier around her, she could still feel her spiritual power and flesh evaporating at a visible rate.

"Fourth Brother, that was way too vicious!"

Bi Xiao transmitted through divine sense, "Look how angry you made him! We're doomed this time."

"I deliberately provoked it into attacking."

As soon as he spoke, the purple lightning mark between Lei Xiao's brows flickered, and a heavenly might spread outward from him.

"You... You are merely a Golden Immortal, yet you can actually communicate with the Heavenly Dao."

The Fire Demon God's furious voice carried disbelief. It hastily began to frantically restrain its aura, but it was already too late.

At some unknown moment, a purple eye had appeared above the heavens.

This purple eye was the Eye of the Heavenly Dao. It could be said that this was its first appearance in the Primordial World.

When Lei Xiao saw the Eye of the Heavenly Dao appear, he finally let out a breath of relief.

Encountering the Fire Demon God here had been beyond Lei Xiao's expectations. The instant he learned that the other party was the Fire Demon God, despair had flashed through his heart as well.

After all, that was a Chaos Demon God. Even if it possessed less than one ten-thousandth of its peak strength, he and Bi Xiao would still have no chance of survival against it.

Afterward, he chose to take a gamble.

The Chaos Demon Gods had tried to stop Pangu from opening the heavens. To the Primordial World, they were sinners, beings guilty of unforgivable crimes.

He gambled that once the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World sensed the Fire Demon God's aura, it would certainly act.

Then, he deliberately enraged the Fire Demon God, making it release its aura at full strength in its fury. After that, he used the Purple Firmament Origin Divine Thunder within his body to communicate with the Heavenly Dao.

The Purple Firmament Origin Divine Thunder was itself one of the Heavenly Dao's authorities. However, Lei Xiao's cultivation was too low, and his degree of fusion with the Purple Firmament Origin Divine Thunder was also insufficient. Under normal circumstances, he could only passively receive the blessing of heavenly might when using it.

But this time, using the trace of Chaos origin aura leaked by the Fire Demon God in its rage as a catalyst, he forcibly stirred the Eye of the Heavenly Dao.

"Boom—!"

Above the heavens, that enormous purple eye slowly opened. It had no pupil, only an infinitely profound expanse of purple.

At that moment, time seemed to freeze.

Whether Lei Xiao or Bi Xiao, the instant the Eye of the Heavenly Dao appeared, their consciousness sank into a state of chaos.

"Damn ant, I'll remember you. I will come for revenge."

After an unknown amount of time, a roar entered Lei Xiao's ears, pulling him free from his chaotic state.

The enormous fireball had already vanished. Floating where it had been was a fist-sized crimson pearl.

It was the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl.

The next instant, the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl transformed into a streak of light and shot toward Lei Xiao. Before he could react, it directly entered between his brows.

"I actually had the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl voluntarily acknowledge me as its master?" Lei Xiao was somewhat delighted.

"No, wait. Is the Fire Demon God truly dead? Could it be hiding inside the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl, intending to seize my body when it gets the chance?"

The thought flashed through his mind like lightning. Every hair on Lei Xiao's body stood on end, and extreme vigilance surged from the depths of his heart!

After all, the fact that the Fire Demon God had survived Pangu showed just how difficult it was to kill.

Just as Lei Xiao was worrying, the Eye of the Heavenly Dao above the heavens gently blinked. Instantly, a ray of purple light shot forth and entered Lei Xiao's brow as well.

At the spot between Lei Xiao's brows where the lightning mark had originally been, a purple vertical eye appeared, like a version of the Eye of the Heavenly Dao shrunk countless times.

"They keep stuffing things into my body without even asking whether I, the owner, agree."

Lei Xiao could not help grumbling inwardly. His divine sense followed into his sea of consciousness. He wanted to see what his sea of consciousness had become now.

As his divine sense sank into his sea of consciousness, Lei Xiao immediately found the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl.

The Innate Fire Spirit Pearl occupied the center of his sea of consciousness, slowly revolving above his primordial spirit and releasing strands of crimson radiance that tempered it.

Meanwhile, there was also a purple vertical eye between his primordial spirit's brows, though it was currently closed.

"This Eye of Heavenly Punishment is a trace of authority bestowed upon me by the Heavenly Dao. However, my cultivation is still too weak, and my fusion with the Purple Firmament Origin Divine Thunder is not advanced enough, so I cannot activate it yet."

"Never mind that. First, I need to check whether the Fire Demon God truly left behind any trap within this Innate Fire Spirit Pearl."

Lei Xiao's primordial spirit formed hand seals, while his divine sense surged toward the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl like a tide.

To Lei Xiao's surprise, he encountered no resistance whatsoever. In just three days, he refined the first innate restriction of the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl and gained preliminary control over this innate spiritual treasure.

Innate spiritual treasures were ranked according to their innate restrictions. Those with one to twelve innate restrictions were low-grade innate spiritual treasures;

Those with thirteen to twenty-four innate restrictions were middle-grade innate spiritual treasures, while those with twenty-five to thirty-six innate restrictions were high-grade innate spiritual treasures;

Those with thirty-seven to forty-eight innate restrictions were supreme-grade innate spiritual treasures, while those with forty-nine innate restrictions were innate supreme treasures.

The Innate Fire Spirit Pearl was a high-grade innate spiritual treasure with twenty-eight innate restrictions.

Refining an innate spiritual treasure meant refining the innate restrictions within it. Usually, the earlier restrictions were relatively easier to refine, and could be refined more quickly.

Yet even if a Great Luo Golden Immortal had come, it would have been impossible to refine the first innate restriction of the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl in merely three days.

Lei Xiao had heard Bi Xiao mention that it had taken her ten years to successfully refine the first innate restriction of the Dragon-Phoenix Flute. Bi Xiao's cultivation was a major realm higher than his, and the Dragon-Phoenix Flute was even fated to her.

Refining the first innate restriction in three days was no longer something that could be described as merely "fast." It was completely unreasonable.

"Could the Fire Demon God really have set a trap for me inside this Innate Fire Spirit Pearl?"

The thought flashed past, but Lei Xiao shook his head. Since the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl had fallen into his hands, it was his. Even if the Fire Demon God had laid a trap for him, he was not afraid.

After all, he still had the Eye of Heavenly Punishment as his trump card.