Primordial World's Little Eight Trigrams

After trading a barbed remark each, Bai Ze finally turned serious.

"Brother, do you mean that besides possessing terrifying offensive power, those two Supreme Innate Spirit Treasures are also exceptional tools for cultivation assistance?"

Duobao curled his lip, his face brimming with pride. "Of course! Otherwise, do you think I was born with a love for getting thrashed?"

"Brother Bai Ze, let me tell you—something like the Supreme Innate Spirit Treasure, the Violet-Gold Hammer, is immensely beneficial for stabilizing our True Form Realm!

"And that Supreme Innate Spirit Treasure, the Fishing Drum, can lay down an incomparably solid Primordial Spirit foundation for our path from the True Form Realm to the Tracing Origin Realm!

"And this is merely the effect of the offspring split from the bodies of those two Supreme Innate Spirit Treasures.

"If we could take a strike from the main bodies of those two Supreme Innate Spirit Treasures..."

"We'd die without even a scrap left behind. There wouldn't even be a corpse to collect."

Bai Ze smoothly took over, teasing him.

Duobao's face instantly darkened. His miserable cries came to an abrupt stop as he tilted his head toward Bai Ze.

"You've got nothing better to say, do you?!"

Bai Ze chuckled and raised a brow.

Seeing this, Duobao could not be bothered to argue with Bai Ze. Instead, he said seriously,

"But it's true—the main bodies are simply too powerful.

"Our bodies can't take it.

"Still, we can use the offspring to temper ourselves first. Once we're nearly ready, we can steal the main bodies!"

Bai Ze's smile faded at those words. He was utterly speechless. This Duobao truly had the audacity to swallow the sky!

He had not even gotten his hands on the offspring yet, and he was already thinking of stealing the main bodies of Supreme Innate Spirit Treasures!

Still, Duobao was right. The offspring alone already had such effects, so would the main bodies not be even more potent?

But he should play it safe first!

His consciousness entered his Inner Landscape, where he secretly activated his Companion Spirit Treasure—the Fate Compass—to divine fortune and calamity.

Within the Inner Landscape, grains of sand gathered. Duobao and he each clutched a treasure as they hung from a tree.

Beneath the tree stood a faceless figure, whipping them mercilessly!

Though he and Duobao looked utterly miserable, neither faced any danger of death. Overall, it remained within an acceptable range!

After confirming that there would be no problem,

he looked toward Duobao again and asked for confirmation once more,

"Brother, are you certain the Celestial Venerable truly won't get angry over this?"

Seeing that Bai Ze was tempted, Duobao smugly swayed his body and said with a cheerful grin,

"Of course! Based on my understanding of Master, I'm absolutely certain!

"Even if Master discovers in the end that we did it, he'll still force himself to save face and claim that he deliberately let us swipe them!"

"This..." Bai Ze was tempted, especially after the Fate Compass's divination had confirmed that there was no danger to his life.

Moreover, he could clearly sense that after reaching the Extremity Realm of the Early True Form Stage, the threshold he had once been able to break through at any moment

had not only failed to suppress that ever-present urge to break through after the whipping.

Instead, the Fleshly Body Inscription within him had grown increasingly resplendent after being tempered by the lightning force that entered his body while his flesh was whipped!

Even his crystalline, translucent body seemed to show signs of condensing another Fleshly Body Inscription.

He was truly tempted!

So tempted that he could not suppress it!

Bai Ze's gaze shifted repeatedly before finally turning resolute!

Fuck it, he would do it!

He would not die anyway. He absolutely could not give up such an excellent chance to temper himself!

He turned his head toward Duobao and transmitted his voice. "Brother, tell me. How do we do this?"

Duobao pondered for a moment, then said, "I tried a few times before, but I got discovered every time. I haven't thought of a good method yet. Let me think."

Bai Ze's eyelid twitched. Good heavens, he had no plan at all and still dared to charge in!

This guy really had a skull of iron!

Left with no choice, he began asking Duobao for relevant information, trying to find a solution.

After some discussion, he learned that Venerable Lingbao carried these Dharmic Treasures with him and never kept them in his room. They only appeared when he punished Duobao.

In other words, now was the best opportunity!

Yet their hands and feet were bound, wrapped up like rice dumplings. They had no strength at all to make a move.

Not to mention that Venerable Lingbao's power reached the heavens—there was simply no opening to exploit!

But every person had weaknesses.

Venerable Lingbao's power reached the heavens. He acted domineeringly toward outsiders, yet was easygoing within his circle. However, he cared unusually much about saving face!

Perhaps approaching this from his personality would be a good choice...

"Brother, could you tell me more about the Celestial Venerable's personality?"

Duobao raised his brows and immediately understood Bai Ze's meaning. He then proceeded to describe every aspect of Venerable Lingbao's personality.

Bai Ze listened with his eyes wide, his soul of gossip blazing fiercely!

This gossip was truly delicious!

This Duobao was truly bold!

He dared to spill anything!

He had thought that aside from caring about face, Venerable Lingbao had no other personality flaws. Yet Duobao directly dropped a massive bombshell!

It was said that long ago, Venerable Lingbao had arranged a duel with someone.

But when the appointed time came, there was no sign of Venerable Lingbao.

When that great cultivator returned to his cave abode, he discovered in astonishment that his home was gone!

In a fit of rage, he arranged another battle!

But who would have thought that the second time, Venerable Lingbao simply did not go? He stood that great cultivator up and left him hanging for nearly ten thousand years!

It was only when that great cultivator accidentally learned that Venerable Lingbao had never intended to go that he became utterly furious.

In a burst of rage, he came to Kunlun Mountain and stood at the entrance, cursing without end!

Later, Venerable Lingbao came out. Facing that great cultivator's clamor, he gave a disdainful smile and directly summoned his two senior brothers.

Using a sea-of-people tactic, they ruthlessly beat the other party down with thunderous force!

Meanwhile, Venerable Lingbao stood to one side, quietly sneaked over, and struck him with a sap!

In the end, he stripped the other party clean of every Dharmic Treasure!

It was said that the Fishing Drum had been acquired that way!

Bai Ze could not calm his heart for a long while after hearing this.

He had never imagined that Venerable Lingbao, so carefree and unrestrained, would also possess such a shameless, ruthless, and crafty side!

This had utterly overturned his understanding of the Three Pure Ones.

After all, who could possibly associate phrases like "striking with a sap," "standing someone up," "calling for backup," and "ganging up on someone" with the Three Pure Ones?

But on second thought, this had happened at the beginning of the Creation of Heaven, before the Three Pure Ones had achieved success in cultivation. Those dark histories belonged to when the Three Pure Ones had still been weak.

Suddenly, everything became understandable.

In fact, if the rumors were true, he suspected that during the second duel, the person who had passed information to that great cultivator might even have been part of a scheme laid by Venerable Lingbao himself!

Seeing Bai Ze remain silent for so long, Duobao impatiently asked,

"Brother, what are you spacing out for? What did you come up with?"

Bai Ze calmed the ripples in his heart and transmitted his voice.

"Oh~ So that's how it is!"

Duobao frowned. "Don't just sigh over it. Tell me the method."

Bai Ze looked utterly baffled. "I didn't say anything!"

"Hehe, you made up quite a fine story. I just never expected that in your heart, this is what your master is like!

"My good disciple!"

A voice transmission filled with gritted teeth entered their ears, each word popping out one by one.

The two of them instantly turned deathly pale. They did not even dare breathe loudly.

Lowering their heads, they looked at Venerable Lingbao, who had somehow already come to stand beneath the tree and listen to their conversation.