"Another drop of Origin Essence Liquid is complete."
Lu Chen poured the newly refined Origin Essence Liquid into his mouth and refined it in an instant. His comprehension of the Devouring Law deepened by another degree.
"The reserves I've accumulated over the years have been used up. It's time to go searching again."
Lu Chen absorbed all the new insights in his mind and let out a quiet sigh. He turned into a streak of dark immortal light and flew out of the cave dwelling.
"Where should I go first... Wuyi Mountain, I suppose. The tea there is good. I suddenly feel like having some."
Lu Chen flew toward Wuyi Mountain.
Over the years, he had traveled through the great and small mountains and rivers of the Primordial World, memorizing all the major immortal mountains.
Wuyi Mountain stretched endlessly, its highest peaks meeting the sea of clouds.
The entire mountain was lush and green, carrying a faint fragrance of tea leaves.
A streak of dim light flew into Wuyi Mountain.
"I couldn't drink this Big Red Robe in my previous life. In this life, I should savor it properly."
Lu Chen stood before a tea tree, set out a small table and tea set, then sat cross-legged beneath the tree. He casually plucked a few tea leaves and brewed them over a gentle flame.
These were all little trinkets he had made on a whim when he had nothing better to do.
Before long, a wisp of delicate fragrance drifted from the teapot, filling the air.
"If there were no Investiture Catastrophe, how wonderful would that be? At a time like this, I could take the Big Red Robe tea tree to Wuzhuang Temple, sit with Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun, eat Ginseng Fruit, drink Big Red Robe, and chat and laugh about the changing winds of the world."
After taking two small sips, Lu Chen set down his teacup and murmured.
"Shielded by an innate grand formation, has it not yet reached the time of its birth?"
"But since it has already taken shape, it might as well emerge early."
He rose to his feet and took a single step. Space trembled, sending ripples spreading outward.
Lu Chen was now a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal. Though he had not comprehended the Law of Space, he could still perform simple teleportation techniques through sheer magical power.
Lu Chen arrived at an utterly empty clearing. After sensing it carefully, he struck out with his palm.
Crack!
A crisp shattering sound rang out between heaven and earth. In the next moment,
a broken grand formation appeared. Once the formation had completely shattered, a valley abruptly emerged in the previously barren clearing.
Lu Chen walked inside. In the valley lay a round copper coin with a square hole and tiny wings.
Perhaps it had been startled by Lu Chen, or perhaps Lu Chen was not its destined master. It flapped its little wings, trying to fly out of the valley.
Watching the Treasure-Seizing Coin attempt to flee, Lu Chen reached out and directly seized it firmly in his hand with immense magical power. Looking at the Treasure-Seizing Coin in his palm, Lu Chen murmured.
"I originally intended to keep you as a trump card. But since you wanted to escape, there's no need for you to continue existing."
The Treasure-Seizing Coin trembled slightly, as if shivering in fear.
After turning it over in his hand twice, Lu Chen summoned the Heaven-Devouring Treasure Vase and directly stuffed the Treasure-Seizing Coin inside.
Although the Treasure-Seizing Coin possessed an incomparably powerful function and could knock down magical treasures, it was merely a top-grade innate spirit treasure. The Heaven-Devouring Treasure Vase, however, was a Primordial Supreme Treasure, and Lu Chen was assisting it from the side.
The Treasure-Seizing Coin had no power to resist and was suppressed by the Heaven-Devouring Treasure Vase.
Though the Treasure-Seizing Coin was a rare top-grade innate spirit treasure in the Primordial World, Lu Chen felt no regret in feeding it to the Heaven-Devouring Treasure Vase. His Heaven-Devouring Treasure Vase could likewise forcibly draw in and suppress any treasure of a lower grade.
Its function was not all that different from the Treasure-Seizing Coin's. After all, there were only a few Primordial Supreme Treasures in the Primordial World, and each of them was held by a Sage.
Trying to seize a treasure from a Sage was impossible with the Treasure-Seizing Coin alone.
As for the treasures held by others, he could suppress them all with the Heaven-Devouring Treasure Vase. To him, the Treasure-Seizing Coin was little more than a tasteless trinket.
Having found the Treasure-Seizing Coin, Lu Chen casually stored the Big Red Robe spirit root in his sleeve and turned to leave Wuyi Mountain.
As for Cao Bao and Xiao Sheng, who were also on Wuyi Mountain, he paid them no mind. They had originally been nothing more than cannon fodder. They only became famous during the Investiture Catastrophe because they possessed the Treasure-Seizing Coin and used it to knock down Zhao Gongming's Dragon-Binding Rope and twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.
Now that Lu Chen had taken the Treasure-Seizing Coin, Cao Bao and Xiao Sheng were merely two ordinary minor immortals.
After obtaining the Treasure-Seizing Coin, Lu Chen did not hurry onward. Instead, he strolled leisurely through the sea of clouds.
The opportunities he knew of were more or less limited to these. As for places like the Three Immortal Islands, he had no clear coordinates and did not know where they actually were.
"Immortal Elder, please wait!"
"Immortal Elder, please wait!"
Hearing the shouts from below, Lu Chen stopped.
He turned around and looked down through the sea of clouds at the figure below.
It was not a human, but a strange monkey. It ran out of the forest, shouting as it chased after him.
"It's him. What a coincidence."
Lu Chen descended.
"What do you seek from me?"
"I want to stay by Immortal Elder's side. I beg Immortal Elder to teach me immortal arts. I'm very strong. As long as you teach me immortal arts, I'll do anything you ask."
The little monkey, clothed only in withered leaves, immediately knelt when he saw Lu Chen. He held up an immortal peach in both hands.
His entire bearing was filled with humility.
"His foundations are not bad, yet he is so humble."
Lu Chen looked at the kneeling little monkey before him and sighed softly.
The little monkey was so humble only because he had six ears.
Only because the Dao Ancestor Hongjun had once said, "The Dharma shall not be passed to Six Ears!"
That one sentence had caused the Six-Eared Macaque, one of the Four Monkeys of Chaos and a being who possessed the origin of the Chaos Demon Ape, to waste most of his life. By the time of the Journey to the West, he had only reached the same cultivation as his younger brother Sun Wukong, who had existed for merely a few hundred years.
"Get up."
At those words, the Six-Eared Macaque's body trembled. He set the immortal peach on the ground.
He slowly climbed to his feet, turned away without a word, lowered his head, and walked step by step toward the forest. His figure was filled with desolation and loneliness.
"Do you not want to cultivate immortal arts?"
"Hm?"
The Six-Eared Macaque froze. His ears twitched, and he abruptly turned around. Although his divine ability allowed him to hear all things—even while sitting in the forests of the Primordial World, he could listen to lectures from Zixiao Palace within Chaos—at this moment, he no longer trusted the ability he had always relied upon. He was afraid that he had heard wrong.
Over the years, Lu Chen was not the first great expert he had encountered. Relying on his divine ability, he had taken the initiative to seek instruction from powerful figures everywhere. Those experts had all been satisfied with his talent at first glance, but upon seeing his six ears, their expressions changed drastically. They coldly rejected him, and some had even swept their sleeves and sent him flying...
At last, he had encountered a great expert who had not immediately told him to get lost!
Lu Chen stood before the Six-Eared Macaque with his hands behind his back, carrying himself like a proud immortal with transcendent bearing.
"I am Lu Chen, disciple of Tongtian and eldest disciple of the Jie Sect."
"Tongtian, the Jie Sect!"
He was not very familiar with Lu Chen, but he knew Tongtian!
The first great expert of the Primordial World to attain the Dao through Primordial Unity, the one who had proclaimed that all beings could receive teachings—once, Tongtian had been the only salvation in his eyes.
He had also tried to enter Tongtian's sect when Tongtian had opened his doors wide to accept disciples, but by the time he arrived, the disciple-acceptance ceremony had already ended.
He had never expected that fate would turn around like this, allowing him to encounter Tongtian's eldest disciple.
"I intend to accept you as my disciple. What do you say?"
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