Qing Xuan Was Already Like This-Wouldn't Gu Xuan Have It Even Worse?

The Nine-Headed Beast threw back its heads and roared.

Rolling vicious aura turned into a black torrent, surging out from all nine heads at once. Wherever it passed, mountains and rocks crumbled, vegetation withered, and even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was corroded into murk.

Several hundred Fierce Beasts followed close behind.

They had originally been fleeing the northern battlefield. Now that Qing Xuan stood in their path, they had no intention of changing direction.

Primordial World Fierce Beasts possessed little intelligence to begin with.

Anyone blocking their path would simply be torn apart.

Qing Xuan stood where he was, his dark Daoist robe whipping in the oncoming vicious wind.

Only when the baleful aura, enough to drown entire mountain ranges, reached him did he take a step forward.

A world rose behind him.

The sun and moon hung high, and the stars revolved.

Boundless mountains and rivers unfurled from the void. Before the rushing black tide of vicious aura could even touch Qing Xuan, it was completely drawn into that world.

The world suddenly fell silent.

The several hundred Fierce Beasts that had been fleeing across the Primordial World a moment ago had fallen into another heaven and earth in the next.

No matter where they charged, endless mountains and rivers always lay ahead.

Dozens of Golden Immortal Fierce Beasts smashed through mountain peaks one after another, stirring up towering vicious aura. Yet after a single rotation, the shattered mountains and rivers returned to their original state.

The Nine-Headed Beast roared and tore open the sky.

The full power of a late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal erupted, causing countless cracks to appear in that newly formed world.

Qing Xuan's expression did not change.

Over the past three thousand years, he had discussed the Dao with Hongjun all along the way. His World Great Dao had long ceased to be the crude form it had been when he first emerged from Buzhou Mountain.

He raised his right hand and slowly curled his fingers.

That world began to turn.

Mountains and rivers returned to their places, while the sun and moon shone together.

The power of heaven and earth spanning hundreds of millions of miles descended at the same instant.

The sky the Nine-Headed Beast had just torn open healed in an instant, and its massive body was suppressed onto the ground. Its nine heads rose one after another, only to bow simultaneously beneath the boundless power of that world.

The other Fierce Beasts did not even have room to struggle.

When Qing Xuan opened his palm again, the world phenomenon hanging between heaven and earth had quietly dispersed.

The baleful aura vanished.

Heaven and earth returned to clarity.

Several hundred Fierce Beasts had all been slain.

From beginning to end, Qing Xuan had not taken out a single spiritual treasure, nor had he moved half a step.

He merely glanced at the Fierce Beast corpses strewn across the land before turning his gaze farther away.

Since the beast horde had fled from the north, it meant that Hongjun and the others' decisive battle against the Beast Dynasty had already begun.

However, those matters had nothing to do with him for the moment.

With a sweep of his sleeve, Qing Xuan collected part of the well-preserved Fierce Beast origins and continued eastward.

His dark figure soon disappeared among the mountains.

Only after the world phenomenon in the Primordial World Firmament had completely dissipated did discussions begin to arise across Blue Star.

"That's it?"

"Several hundred Fierce Beasts, and that nine-headed monster in the center, were all killed by Qing Xuan alone?"

"Was that world behind him a Martial Soul, or some kind of domain-type soul skill?"

"It probably wasn't a Martial Soul. Qing Xuan said it was his World Great Dao."

"What exactly is World Great Dao? Can you understand it?"

After the final question appeared, the discussion in the public channel paused for a moment.

No one could answer.

The Firmament could only project scenes from the Primordial World; it could not let the people of Blue Star experience its pressure firsthand.

They could see mountains collapsing, and they could see the Nine-Headed Beast tear open the sky.

But no one knew how large a mountain in the Primordial World truly was, or how stable its space might be.

Even less could anyone accurately convert those scenes into Soul Master ranks.

"Qing Xuan could deal with so many Fierce Beasts at once. He couldn't possibly be considered weak, right?"

Someone in Linjiang Class Seven's training channel was the first to voice a different opinion.

A response soon followed.

"No one said he was weak. I just think that, in the Primordial World, he might not be as exceptional as we originally imagined."

"He was an Innate Divine Being nurtured from the Origin of the Chaos Pearl. He was nurtured for a full thirty-six Epoch Cycles, yet not long after leaving Buzhou Mountain, he encountered over a hundred Fierce Beasts along the way."

"Today, there was even a full-fledged beast tide."

"Don't forget Hongjun. Qing Xuan manifested an entire world to kill this group of Fierce Beasts, but Hongjun only needed one finger to kill those three roughly comparable Fierce Beasts."

This analysis swiftly gained the agreement of many people.

Qing Xuan was indeed powerful.

However, they had previously witnessed Hongjun act with their own eyes, and had heard him mention a string of names such as Shen Ni, Luohou, Yang Mei, and Ancestor Dragon.

According to Hongjun, all of those beings had gathered in the north.

Even Qing Xuan himself had declined the invitation to participate in that battle.

Looking at it this way, a Taiyi Golden Immortal might count as an expert in the Primordial World, but was far from standing at its peak.

"This world is far too chaotic."

"An Innate Divine Being was nurtured for more than 4.6 million years, and the moment he emerged, Fierce Beasts with strength close to his were everywhere. If it were an ordinary person, they probably couldn't survive even one day."

"The Primordial World's heaven and earth energy is indeed high, but so far, there hasn't even been a single city. Other than fighting and killing, there isn't even a complete civilization."

"It simply can't compare to Douzhe Continent."

"Douzhe Continent at least has two great empires, Spirit Hall, Soul Master Academies, and Soul Tools. As long as someone awakens a Martial Soul, they know exactly how to cultivate next."

"Look at Hongjun. He was obviously stronger than Qing Xuan, yet he only had a broken jade disc beside him. He didn't even have a complete Soul Tool."

Someone spoke up in Hongjun's defense.

"That jade disc might be an incredibly powerful treasure."

"But it never activated from beginning to end. When Hongjun killed the Fierce Beasts, he clearly only tapped with one finger."

"No matter how powerful it is, it still looks incomplete. With his strength, if he were on Douzhe Continent, the empires and top sects would have long treated him as an honored guest. How could he not even possess a decent piece of equipment?"

These words were not deliberately belittling Qing Xuan.

On the contrary, in the eyes of most Blue Star residents, Qing Xuan was already among the most powerful beings the Primordial World had revealed so far.

It was simply that this world was far too chaotic.

There were no cities, no order, and no inheritance system that could be directly understood.

All powerful beings cultivated on their own and traveled through endless wilderness.

Even with long lifespans and great power, they could not change the fact that the Primordial World remained primitive and savage.

At that moment, a message suddenly appeared in Class Seven's training channel.

"What about Gu Xuan?"

The channel instantly fell silent.

After a moment, the person who had sent the message continued:

"I wasn't trying to make fun of him."

"It's just that more than 4.6 million years have already passed in the Primordial World. If Gu Xuan really was swept into that world by the teleportation accident..."

He did not finish the rest.

Yet everyone understood what he meant.

Qing Xuan was an Innate Divine Being nurtured by the Origin of the Chaos Pearl, and even he had slumbered through thirty-six Epoch Cycles before truly taking form.

Gu Xuan was only an ordinary student who had just awakened his Martial Soul and possessed merely level-three Innate Soul Power.

Even if he had not encountered Fierce Beasts or faced any danger, how could he possibly survive for more than 4.6 million years?

"Hasn't the academy already listed him as missing?"

"No life signal has been detected even now."

"He's probably long since..."

The final message only appeared halfway before its sender withdrew it.

Douzhe Continent, Spirit Hall Academy.

Inside the cultivation room, pale blue frost aura slowly circulated around Su Qingxue.

Behind her, the phantom of an Ice Phoenix spread its wings. Her newly acquired first Soul Ring revolved beneath it, causing the temperature throughout the cultivation room to steadily fall.

Su Qingxue had just finished her meditation for the day.

Over the past few days, Spirit Hall Academy had already formulated a complete training plan for her.

As long as she continued down this path, she would be qualified to compete for the title of this generation's golden genius.

Yet at this moment, she did not leave immediately.

Su Qingxue stared at the messages regarding Gu Xuan in the class channel and remained silent for a long time.

She had once thought that Gu Xuan might merely have been teleported to some remote, undiscovered region of Douzhe Continent.

Perhaps after some time, the academy would be able to find his coordinates again.

But more than 4.6 million years had already passed in the Primordial World.

That number was enough to erase any unrealistic hope.

Su Qingxue let out a soft sigh.

Back then, disbanding their team had been the most suitable choice after the enormous gap between their starting identities appeared.

If anyone had to be blamed, it could only be the sudden teleportation accident, and Gu Xuan's poor fate.

Su Qingxue gave Gu Xuan's already grayed-out name one last look before closing the class channel.

The Primordial World Firmament still hovered at one side of her training interface.

In the image, Qing Xuan had already gone far away.

Only the scene of that world suppressing the hundreds of beasts continued to replay across the Firmament.

Though he knew that the Primordial World contained beings far stronger than himself, he could still calmly refuse Hongjun's invitation.

He neither acted recklessly nor retreated.

He would not rashly step into dangers that should be avoided just because of a momentary impulse.

Yet anything truly standing in his way could not make him retreat even half a step.

As Su Qingxue watched the dark figure gradually vanish at the end of heaven and earth, a distinct gleam appeared in her cool eyes for the first time.

Whether in the Primordial World or on Douzhe Continent.

In the end, strength was what determined everything.

She wanted to become strong.

She even wanted to obtain a legendary Divine Position and stand at the true peak of this world.

If one day she truly came to like someone...

That person should at least be like Qing Xuan.

Su Qingxue withdrew her gaze and closed her eyes once more.

The Ice Phoenix spread its wings behind her, and the frost aura that had just begun to settle within the cultivation room surged again.

Blue Star, Linjiang Extraordinary Academy.

Less than half an hour after the Primordial World beast tide ended, a notice from the headquarters of the Transcendent Association arrived in the monitoring hall.

The observation authority for the Primordial World was officially transferred from Linjiang Academy to the Blue Star Unknown Planar Research Center.

The academy retained permission to track the anchor image and the student disappearance incident, but from this day onward, all information from the Primordial World would be analyzed by a dedicated team.

Zhou Ruolan was not surprised.

The Primordial World's time scale, planar scope, and life forms all exceeded the boundaries of existing otherworldly data.

Even if the outside world still classified it as a high-energy primitive plane, there was no way such a world would truly be left unstudied.

Beneath the notice was another resource requisition request that had just been submitted.

To establish the most basic comparison of life energy between the Primordial World and Douzhe Continent, the Research Center had decided to borrow the highest-grade life sample preserved by Blue Star's First Extraordinary Academy.

The application had not yet been approved.

Yet the list of personnel responsible only for escort and storage already included three Titled Dou Practitioners.

Zhou Ruolan's gaze fell on the bottom of the application.

There were only four words there.

Living Beings' Gold.