Late Great Luo, Calamity Rises in the Eastern Sea

Dijiang had given Li Qingxiao all the honor he could.

An army of a million Wu warriors escorted him. Across the Primordial World, only Li Qingxiao received such treatment.

"Sorry for the trouble, Brother Dijiang."

Li Qingxiao did not stand on ceremony or decline.

After entering the silent chamber filled with Pangu's pressure, Li Qingxiao sat cross-legged atop the Black-and-Yellow Jade Couch.

With a flick of his finger, the Twelfth-Grade Purifying White Lotus floated above his head, casting down a pure white barrier that completely sealed off the surroundings.

It was time to take stock of his gains.

Li Qingxiao was not the sort of pedantic, lofty cultivator.

In the Primordial World, opportunities left sitting in one's pocket were nothing more than scrap metal.

Only by turning them into one's own strength could one establish a foothold and survive!

He swept his sleeve, and the Divine Light of Creation flashed.

A clump of Nine Heavens Breathing Earth radiating dense maternal energy.

Half a pool of shimmering Three Lights Divine Water.

An incomparably resilient Innate Gourd Vine.

And the deathly still seventh Incomplete Gourd.

All of them floated within the secret chamber.

Besides those, there were also the three drops of Pangu Primordial Marrow Divine Liquid he had obtained from the Wu treasury.

As well as the Innate Wu-Earth Ancestral Essence Houtu had gifted him.

Looking at the shriveled, withered-yellow seventh gourd, Li Qingxiao's eyes flashed sharply.

"Others see you as defective trash, but today, I will defy Heaven and change your fate!"

Li Qingxiao rapidly formed seals with both hands, his fingers moving like lightning as he activated the Creation Art.

Without the slightest hesitation, he drew out a large clump of fragments from the Nine Heavens Breathing Earth.

He spread them evenly beneath the Gourd Vine's roots.

Immediately afterward, he guided half the pool of Three Lights Divine Water into a misty drizzle.

It precisely watered the withered-yellow Gourd Vine and the Incomplete Gourd.

The Nine Heavens Breathing Earth was divine soil of creation, while the Three Lights Divine Water could revive the dead and restore flesh to bare bones.

The instant they came together, an unimaginable tide of vitality erupted!

"Buzz—!"

Li Qingxiao went a step further and activated the World-Cleansing White Lotus above his head.

It descended with the purest supreme-grade source of creation, serving as the catalyst to draw forth the power of the two divine treasures.

A withered tree met spring!

The Gourd Vine, once shriveled and withered, unexpectedly regained a crystalline emerald radiance.

As for the seventh Incomplete Gourd hanging from the end of the vine—

It frantically devoured the essence of the divine water and divine soil.

The withered-yellow patterns on its surface peeled away inch by inch, while a vast Chaos Current burst violently from within the gourd!

"Crack!"

Accompanied by a clear chime of the Great Dao, the discarded gourd once scorned by all the gods underwent a complete transformation.

Its entire body turned a dark gray, with three thousand Chaos Divine Patterns flowing across its surface.

It emitted a terrifying suction force capable of devouring all heavens.

The Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, the Chaos Gourd, had been successfully reforged!

Within this gourd was a minor world of primordial unity. Not only could it swallow all things between Heaven and Earth—

It could also return them to their origins, transforming them into the purest Chaos Essence.

Its power was absolutely no weaker than the Purple-Gold Red Gourd or the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife!

Li Qingxiao nodded in satisfaction and stored it within his primordial spirit for nourishment.

Then, his gaze shifted to the three drops of Pangu marrow divine liquid emitting terrifying pressure.

"Strike while the iron is hot!"

Li Qingxiao opened his mouth and inhaled, directly swallowing one drop of Pangu Primordial Marrow Divine Liquid.

Along with the Innate Wu-Earth Ancestral Essence gifted by Houtu, he gulped them down in one mouthful!

"Rumble!!!"

The instant the divine liquid entered his stomach, Li Qingxiao felt as though a Primordial Star had exploded inside him.

An incomparably violent force of Pangu Blood Essence surged like raging waves, frantically scouring his limbs, bones, and organs.

Pain!

Soul-rending pain!

Yet Li Qingxiao clenched his teeth tightly, his mind as clear as a mirror.

He pushed the purest source power of the World-Cleansing White Lotus to its limit, merging it seamlessly with the Pangu marrow.

The White Lotus divine light protected his heart, the Pangu marrow tempered his body, and the Wu-Earth Essence solidified his foundation.

Under this tyrannical threefold baptism, the strength of Li Qingxiao's physical body soared at an appalling rate.

Every inch of his bones was stained with a faint dark-golden hue, while his meridians expanded more than tenfold.

In merely a few years, the toughness of his physical body—

Had been forcibly raised to the terrifying level of the Wu's Great Shaman Pinnacle!

With physical strength alone, he could tear apart ordinary low-grade Innate Spirit Treasures with his bare hands!

While his body transformed, his primordial spirit cultivation also underwent a qualitative leap.

The Three Flowers on the Crown manifested once more. Under the infusion of boundless mana, three flawless white lotus flowers—

Fully solidified and reached perfection, blooming with twelve-grade supreme radiance.

"Break!"

Li Qingxiao shouted inwardly.

The barrier of Mid Great Encompassment Golden Immortal shattered like thin paper beneath the impact of Pangu's divine liquid and boundless creation mana!

A vast pressure belonging to the Late Daluo Golden Immortal realm suddenly swept through the secret chamber.

The depth of his mana even surpassed that of great experts at the same level by several times.

Every gesture of his hands and feet contained the Great Dao's mighty power to suppress Heaven and Earth.

A complete transformation, his foundation fully established!

While Li Qingxiao cultivated in seclusion beneath Mount Buzhou—

The situation in the outside Primordial World had already undergone earth-shaking changes.

Eastern Sea, Zifu Continent.

Dong Wang Gong held the Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, the Dragon-Headed Cane, granted by the Dao Ancestor, and his ambition had completely spiraled out of control.

Using his Heavenly Dao designation as Chief of the Male Immortals, he established a sect on a massive scale over the Eastern Sea.

He founded the Immortal Court and proclaimed himself the Immortal Court Supreme.

For a time, independent cultivators and great experts from all corners of the Primordial World, along with unaffiliated grassroots immortals—

All flocked to the Eastern Sea to submit themselves in exchange for protection and resources.

The Immortal Court's momentum soared like the noonday sun. Ten thousand immortals came to pay homage, and its prestige was truly imposing!

Yet Dong Wang Gong had been thoroughly blinded by this false prosperity and his lust for power.

Arrogant and conceited, he actually ordered the Immortal Officials beneath him to strike out in every direction.

They delivered decrees to the major powers across the Primordial World, forcing them to offer tribute and submit to the Immortal Court.

Those who refused were lightly branded as defying Heaven, while the severely punished were directly besieged by troops.

The Immortal Court's reckless tyranny and arrogant courting of death caused endless karmic sin to gather wildly above the Eastern Sea, and the aura of calamity began to emerge.

Meanwhile, beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, upon the Solar Star.

Towering Solar True Fire roared madly.

Di Jun and Taiyi stood at the center of the sea of flames, their gazes ice-cold.

They paid no heed to Dong Wang Gong's clownish antics.

In secret, they absorbed and consolidated the birds, beasts, and hundreds of millions of elites from every corner of the Primordial World.

They tempered their weapons with Solar True Fire, waiting only to unleash a thunderous strike.

The Solar Palace's fangs had already been sharpened to a chilling edge in the shadows!

Beneath Mount Buzhou.

Li Qingxiao slowly opened his eyes within the secret chamber.

Deep in his gaze, a flash of White Lotus divine radiance that pierced through illusion vanished in an instant.

He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the heavy earth veins and landing directly upon the Eastern Sea.

His keen Daluo spiritual sense had already detected the bloody prelude about to erupt above Zifu Continent in the Eastern Sea.

"The whetstone has played its part long enough. It is time for this to end."

A playful curve rose at the corner of Li Qingxiao's mouth.

The great calamity of the Eastern Sea would be his second feast for harvesting spoils.