Three days later.
Chen Xun left this place with Black Bull.
Heavenly Wheel Immortal Elder stood quietly beneath the Wind Spirit Tree, watching them depart.
A faint smile curled at his lips. "This Five Elements truly is an interesting fellow."
Golden radiance flooded the horizon beneath a clear, boundless sky. There were no longer any strange phenomena here; everything had returned to calm.
Heavenly Wheel Immortal Elder casually sat down, looking rather carefree. From somewhere, he pulled out a chicken leg and began eating it, smearing grease across his sleeve.
For the first time, he chewed slowly. "Primordial River... I hope it will not become the burial ground of your Five Aggregates Sect."
When he finished speaking, Heavenly Wheel Immortal Elder let out a soft sigh, and reminiscence gradually filled his eyes.
Before his master passed away, he had not yet developed consciousness. He had merely been kept within the Heavenly Wheel Sect as its foundation and treasure that guarded the sect, worshipped there as he witnessed generation after generation of the sect's rise and fall.
When the Supreme Unity Immortal Emperor attained the Dao, he still had not developed consciousness.
Across the Taiyi Great World, under all heaven, was there any land that was not imperial soil? All disciples of the Heavenly Wheel Sect had been forced to relocate into the Primordial River, while he himself had been left behind in the sect as a contingency.
During the Myriad Races Great Slaughter Era, he still had not developed consciousness, nor had he died. He lay quietly within the Heavenly Wheel Sect.
No one knew how many years passed.
The Heavenly Wheel Diagram devoured the spiritual energy accumulated by heaven and earth through endless ages, finally giving birth to a trace of consciousness. He fully awakened...
Yet the Great Dao