Killing Fierce Beasts and Contending for Merit!

Penglai Immortal Island.

Li Yi sat cross-legged in the void, a booming sound echoing from the black Dao Cauldron before him. The Innate Spiritual Qi of the entire island surged toward the Dao Cauldron in a torrential vortex, the dense spiritual Qi almost turning material.

When all motion and noise subsided, Li Yi opened his eyes. The five-colored treasure flags floated up from the black Dao Cauldron and fell into his palm.

Feeling the Innate Qi radiating from the treasure flags in his hand, Li Yi could not conceal the smile on his face.

Every single flag can rival a Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, and if combined into one set, they can barely rival a Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure! Although they cannot compare to the Innate Five Direction Flags, with my mastery of formations, even if I meet the original owners, I will have to fight a battle to know the outcome...

Innate and acquired were an absolute chasm of difference! After his round of refinement, these five-colored treasure flags were more than a hundred times more terrifying than before.

Putting away the five-colored Dao flags, Li Yi looked at the Cosmos Cauldron, made a brief sensory check, and felt a slight internal marvel.

However, this refinement has also consumed almost the origin power of the Cosmos Cauldron. It is expected that within a million years, it will be difficult to refine spiritual treasures again...

Reverting things to their origin and returning them to the primordial state was not without cost; this required consuming the origin of the Cosmos Cauldron, and after refining the grade of a spiritual treasure, it also took time to slowly recover its origin.

Stowing the Cosmos Cauldron away, Li Yi looked before him.

More than thirty thousand years had now passed, and the Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus was also approaching the day of its birth.

Before Li Yi, the white lotus that had originally been a tight bud slowly opened. Milk-white immortal light drifted across the lotus petals, a faint lotus fragrance drifted out, and rich spiritual Qi suffused the surroundings.

The spiritual herbs around it all began to grow wildly. The aura exuding from this kind of supreme-grade spirit treasure was an absolute tonic for these innate immortal herbs.

Accompanied by the natural blooming of the final lotus petal, a drop of essence blood flew from Li Yi's fingertips, landing on the lotus platform to refine the supreme-grade spirit treasure that had now officially been born.

In just an instant, a sense of bloodline connection to the lotus platform before him arose in Li Yi's heart.

Refining it continuously for dozens of days, Li Yi's pupils flashed with a brilliant light. The lotus platform slowly drifted closer, and Li Yi stood upon the lotus platform, a hint of a smile rising on his face.

The Genesis Azure Lotus had dropped four lotus seeds, engendering four twelfth-rank lotus platforms, each possessing its own unique efficacy.

Ancestor Minghe's Twelfth-Grade Red Lotus of Karmic Fire could release Red Lotus Karmic Fire to incinerate everything with karmic retribution and karma!

The Demon Ancestor's Twelfth-Grade Black Lotus of World Destruction could absorb the Qi of tyranny and destruction, and paired with the Slaughter Law cultivated by the Demon Ancestor, it could be described as peerless in both offense and defense.

As for his Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus, it possessed the power of creation and derivation, and the purification of all things!

When the Primordial World was first cleaved open, the lingering resentment and foul blood left behind by the fall of the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods caused the entire Primordial World to be filled with fiendish Qi, and fierce beasts were bred in the wake of it.

The primary offensive and defensive methods of the fierce beasts were also related to fiendish Qi!

To put it bluntly, his Pure World Lotus Platform was naturally the nemesis of those fierce beasts. Those fierce beasts would rather face an Innate Supreme Treasure than face his Pure World Lotus Platform!

Now that Heavenly Dao had not yet manifested, whoever could establish merit in the Beast Calamity Tribulation would be able to obtain tribulation merit in the future.

Merit, whether used for cultivation or for refining treasures, was definitely a rare cultivation resource! Taking advantage of the fact that the calamity cycle had not yet passed, he could also enter the world to contend for opportunities...

Having made up his mind, Li Yi did not hesitate, stepping out of the innate grand array here. By now, the innate grand array on Penglai Island had already been refined by him, and its protective power far exceeded when he had first entered. There was absolutely no possibility of anyone sneaking into his home.

Over these years, having experienced the slaughter of the Myriad Tribes, the number of fierce beasts had already decreased somewhat, but since it could be called a calamity cycle, naturally it was not so easy to survive. The numbers had dropped, but the quality was even more terrifying than in the early days of the creation!

After just a casual stroll, Li Yi effortlessly found a pack of fierce beasts.

Upon seeing Li Yi, those fierce beasts rushed over with ferocious gazes. The fierce beasts were in various forms—some covered in scales and armor like azure dragons, others covered in crimson feathers like divine phoenixes. The only commonality was that their gazes were filled with brutality; apart from their own kind, any alien race appearing before them would draw their attack.

Li Yi made a brief appraisal, his thoughts shifting, and the pure white lotus platform beneath his feet rippled with a trace of Purification Power.

That white Purification Power rippled outward, looking just like a normal breeze sweeping past, yet the moment those fierce beasts made contact with it, they turned into fine powder directly in the air, just like shifting sand!

Gazing at this scene, Li Yi clicked his tongue inwardly in surprise!

The Myriad Tribes had already begun slaughtering fierce beasts, and those who could still walk the Primordial Continent today were basically tough nuts to crack.

For example, this batch before him were at least Golden Immortals, and among them, those with powerful auras even reached the realm of Supreme Unity Golden Immortals!

The crucial point was that he had not used any of his own magic power at all, merely simply urging the Purification Power of the lotus platform beneath his feet. These fierce beasts acted as if they had met their nemesis, and even those at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal realm could not last half a second before being annihilated!

Li Yi did not linger long, transforming into an azure stream of light as he continued heading toward Buzhou Mountain, the present gathering place of fierce beasts. Along the way, whenever he encountered fierce beasts, he would halt his figure and employ the Purification Power of the Pure World White Lotus.

Later on, as he grew accustomed to it, he simply did not even stop his figure; wherever the white purification power passed, the fierce beasts encountered were all annihilated!

The efficiency of a single person slaughtering fierce beasts was not inferior in the least to that of those large tribes.

Fierce beast tribes were mostly devoid of reason, acting purely on instinct, and would not organize spontaneously.

However, once they reached the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm, they would gain sentience and could command the fierce beast armies below them.

In the entire fierce beast tribe, the most terrifying was Beast Emperor Shen Ni, who had already reached the Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal realm. The top figures under his command were the Four Great Fierce Beasts: Hundun, Qiongqi, Taowu, and Taotie, every single one of whom was a Peak Great Firmament Golden Immortal. The crucial point was that under the command of the four of them, each also had nearly ten fierce beasts of the Great Firmament Golden Immortal level.

This was why the Myriad Tribes had wiped them out for so long yet still could not annihilate the fierce beast army. Ten Great Firmament-level fierce beasts combined together with those Supreme Unity-level fierce beast tides—even a Quasi-Saint would have to turn and flee.

When various clans slaughtered fierce beasts nowadays, they basically adopted scattered methods; no one would slaughter them wantonly, lest they draw the attention of the Four Great Fierce Beasts or even the Beast Emperor.

Of course, Li Yi did not know this. His slaughter along the way was quite unrestrained, which, while slowly making him famous throughout the Primordial World, also quickly drew the attention of the powerhouses among the fierce beasts.

Inside a palace, a fierce beast standing ten thousand zhang tall, with dual wings behind it and resembling both a dragon and a tiger, listened to the report from the subordinates below, a ferocious grin rising on its face.

What an arrogant Daoist! Have Wangxiang, Gudiao, and Du Yan all gather here to surround and kill him!

The fierce beasts below also wore ferocious expressions, their gazes floating with a fierce Qi, only calming down somewhat when looking toward the entity upon the throne above.

"Yes!"

Dusk decades later, an azure stream of light streaked past. Li Yi halted his figure, and looking at the fierce beast figures slowly emerging in the surrounding valley, he laughed instead of panicking.

I was still wondering how to find the four kings, and now these fellows have delivered themselves to my door instead?