A Great Supernatural Being: Heaven-Earth Daoist
Within the sealing formation, Li Yi had slaughtered every Great Firmament-level Fierce Beast. Pure white Purification Power filled the entire space, and the Fiendish Qi in this corner of the Primordial World had thinned until it was almost gone.
Qiongqi knew he could not escape, so he fought back with everything he had. But his main weapon was Fiendish Qi, and against Li Yi's Demon God body, it might as well have been a scratch.
As the final wave of Purification Power struck, the Fiendish Qi Qiongqi depended on was utterly erased, along with his soul. He managed one last earthshaking roar of defiance before his body slowly collapsed onto the land of the Primordial World.
Boom!
With Qiongqi's death, another Blood-Colored Light Pillar rose into the sky. This one stretched hundreds of millions of kilometers, its might more than ten times greater than the pillars that had appeared when the earlier Great Firmament-level Fierce Beasts died.
The commotion left the cultivators who had gathered nearby to investigate deeply shaken.
"Look at that... Qiongqi is dead!"
"He actually died? Who set up that sealing formation? Which clan?"
"Wait, are those the Innate Five Direction Flags? Could it be the legendary Great Supernatural Being, Yin-Yang Daoist?"
"Yin-Yang Daoist? I've heard he was among the earliest divine beings in the world, with strength rivaling the founders of the Three Clans. His origins are a mystery..."
As they murmured among themselves, the five-colored Array Banners slowly shrank and withdrew, revealing the scene inside.
At the sight of the green-robed Daoist standing in the void, the crowd was startled. Some had heard tales of Li Yi and recognized him at once.
"Is that... Heaven-Earth Daoist?"
"Not Yin-Yang Daoist? Then why are the Innate Five Direction Flags in his hands?"
"Who knows? Perhaps they're close friends, and he borrowed the treasures to slay the beasts..."
Whatever they speculated in private, none dared show the slightest disrespect to a Great Supernatural Being who had slain more than a dozen Great Firmament Golden Immortal-level Fierce Beasts in succession. They clasped their hands and bowed.
"Greetings, Senior Heaven-Earth Daoist!"
Li Yi gave a slight nod but did not linger. He turned into a streak of green light and departed. The crowd watched him go, only breathing easier once he vanished from sight.
"Heaven-Earth Daoist? I'd heard of a Daoist who went around slaying Fierce Beasts, but until now, the strongest he'd killed were only at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal Realm. I thought he was at most in the early Great Firmament Golden Immortal Realm..."
"He slaughtered more than a dozen Great Firmament-level Fierce Beasts alone, including Qiongqi, who was at the Peak Great Firmament Golden Immortal Realm. He... must be a Quasi-Saint!"
"There's another Great Supernatural Being in the world whom no one can afford to provoke!"
Years passed unnoticed in the Primordial World. In the blink of an eye, ten thousand years had gone by.
On Penglai Island, Li Yi sat atop a platform fashioned from Innate Divine Jade. He took out the Cosmos Cauldron and examined the spoils from his campaign against the Fierce Beasts.
After he killed Qiongqi, the Three Clans soon made their moves. Within a thousand years, each had wiped out one of the remaining Four Kings.
The Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan each lost three Great Firmament Golden Immortals. The Dragon Clan suffered the worst losses: five Great Firmament Golden Immortals had fallen.
Their losses were heavy, but the clans had slain all four kings! Apart from Beast Emperor Shen Ni, who had gone into hiding, the rest of the Fierce Beasts had been wiped out. The Beast Calamity Tribulation was nearly over!
Seeing that the other three kings had fallen and that the remaining Great Firmament-level Fierce Beasts had either been killed or gone into hiding with the Beast Emperor, Li Yi had not wasted any more time. He returned straight to his Daoist Abode.
Aside from the Merit he had yet to receive, Li Yi had collected quite a few Innate Spiritual Treasures while slaughtering the Fierce Beasts.
Though Fierce Beasts could not use Spirit Treasures, they collected them all the same. Whether they found Innate Spiritual Treasures or took them from cultivators they killed, they generally kept them as trophies. Now Li Yi had reaped the benefit.
There were seven Innate Spiritual Treasures in all: one High-grade Innate Spirit Treasure, three Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, and the rest low-grade.
Only the Dao Seal, a High-grade Innate Spirit Treasure, was of even marginal use to Li Yi. He put all the others away.
They might prove useful if he took disciples or built a faction of his own someday...
As Li Yi considered this, a sudden intuition stirred. He calculated on his fingers, then vanished from the spot in a flash.
At the same time, outside the innate formation, a gray-robed man stood smiling. He studied the formation before him with interest, quietly waiting for something.
A streak of light flashed, and Li Yi appeared ten thousand li away from him. They sized each other up, and Li Yi was the first to smile and speak.
"Greetings, fellow Daoist!"
The man before him was clearly also in the Primordial Unity Supreme Immortal Realm! More importantly, Li Yi found his aura unmistakably familiar: he was a fellow Chaos Demon God.
This was the first Chaos Demon God Li Yi had met since his arrival in the Primordial World!
More importantly still, the visitor plainly bore no hostility. He had revealed himself outside the formation and made no attempt to conceal the Heavenly Secrets, allowing Li Yi to divine his identity.
The gray-robed man was handsome, with black hair loosely tied behind his head. He looked at Li Yi and smiled in return.
"I am Yang Mei. Fellow Daoist Qiankun may also call me Spatial Daoist!"
Li Yi kept smiling, though surprise stirred within him.
Yang Mei, the Spatial Demon God? Of all the Chaos Demon Gods who survived, he should have the deepest Dao Attainment. After the Dao-Devil War, Yang Mei debated the Dao and exchanged techniques with Hongjun. He took away the Dharma Treasures Hongjun brought out, and Hongjun admitted his own understanding of the Dao was slightly inferior.
Of course, Yang Mei has the most detached temperament. Otherwise, with his abilities, he could have entered the Dao-Devil War and contended for the Dao himself.
Even as these thoughts passed through Li Yi's mind, he acted without delay. He released the formation's restrictions and invited Yang Mei inside.
Yang Mei looked around the island with interest, his smile never fading.
"I heard of your deeds but could divine nothing about your origins, so I decided to pay you a visit. Now that we've met, I see we are indeed kindred spirits..."
There was genuine feeling in Yang Mei's voice, as though he were reuniting with an old friend.
Li Yi understood what he meant.
By "kindred spirits," Yang Mei meant that he had seen through Li Yi's identity. They were both Chaos Demon Gods. They might have borne grudges against each other before the Creation Tribulation, but after it, only a handful of the Three Thousand Fiendgods had survived. Whatever grudges they once held had been swept away by the calamity that engulfed them all.
Meeting now in the Primordial World, they felt like old acquaintances reunited in a foreign land.
Apart from rivals like Hongjun and Luohou, who faced a struggle over the Dao, surviving Chaos Demon Gods who met in the Primordial World were more likely to appreciate one another and rejoice at seeing an old acquaintance.
Li Yi nodded slightly and led Yang Mei to a pavilion he had built from Innate Divine Jade. He personally brought out a tea set, then tea leaves from a supreme-grade innate tea tree on the Immortal Island, treating Yang Mei as an honored guest.
Yang Mei sipped the Spirit Tea, and his smile deepened.
"Now that we've met, shall we discuss the Dao?"
In this era, everyone followed their own path. When their cultivation levels were close, discussing the Dao was both a meeting of minds and a chance to learn from each other.
Li Yi had no reason to refuse a discussion of the Dao with a Chaos Demon God whose cultivation was clearly above his own.
"Gladly!"