Scheming! Hongjun Takes Notice

Ao Changsheng was astonished.

After all, Yangmei had prepared to give him those things before they had even started fighting.

No.

Ao Changsheng shook his head. For a Hunyuan Golden Immortal on the verge of attaining the Dao, losing heart before a battle was impossible.

Even if Yangmei had known his true strength, he could not have made plans for what would happen after his defeat.

In other words, that old fellow had bad intentions from the very beginning. No matter how our encounter turned out, he was prepared to put this thing in my hands to scheme against me-or rather, against Hongjun?

Hmph, crafty old bastard!

Ao Changsheng gave a soft snort.

Though he understood Yangmei's scheme, Ao Changsheng felt no particular urgency. His cultivation grounds weren't really some strange technique that severed the Primordial World, as Yangmei believed, so what did he have to worry about?

Ao Changsheng held the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment in his palm and began playing with it.

Unfortunately, Ao Changsheng shook his head slightly. Contrary to the rumors, the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment did not contain a record of the three thousand Great Daos.

Its other title, a sacred artifact of the Heavenly Dao, was a better fit.

Even though it was only a fragment, holding it in his palm made him feel as though endless mysteries of the Heavenly Dao were welling up in his heart.

Like the Dragon Principle within his Ancestral Dragon Pearl, the mysteries of the Heavenly Dao contained in the Jade Disc of Creation could allow cultivators below the Taiyi Realm to advance rapidly and build a solid foundation.

But to Ao Changsheng, it was utterly useless, like a chicken rib.

He hadn't cultivated the Heavenly Dao in the past, wasn't cultivating it now, and had no intention of cultivating it in the future.

No matter how beneficial the Jade Disc of Creation was for cultivating the mysteries of the Heavenly Dao, it was of no use to Ao Changsheng.

Thus, the Jade Disc of Creation, from which the power of the Heavenly Dao seemed to spill forth, was nothing more than a chicken rib to Ao Changsheng.

Or rather, a chicken rib too hot to handle.

After all, the big shot Hongjun was still keeping an eye out for Jade Disc of Creation Fragments in the Primordial World!

At that thought, Ao Changsheng couldn't help feeling that the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment in his hand seemed a little too hot to handle.

Come to think of it, I just took it straight out of that grotto-heaven. Hongjun won't have noticed, will he? Ao Changsheng wondered.

Previously, the Jade Disc of Creation had been hidden in the small grotto-heaven Yangmei had opened. Even Ao Changsheng had only been able to sense a faint trace of the Great Dao of Space before discovering it.

But now...

Ao Changsheng looked at the Jade Disc of Creation Fragment in his hand.

"I was careless!" Ao Changsheng shook his head slightly.

Mysterious as his cultivation grounds were, they were still within the Primordial World. He had neither cut them off from karma nor isolated them from the Heavenly Dao.

The moment he took the fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation out, its presence had presumably spread beyond the grounds.

Hongjun, who possessed a large number of Jade Disc of Creation Fragments and had the Heavenly Dao backing him, must have already discovered the Jade Disc of Creation.

Even so, Ao Changsheng didn't pay it much mind.

After all, Hongjun had yet to attain the Dao, and within his cultivation grounds, Ao Changsheng had no reason to fear him.

Besides, this might not be a bad thing.

Ao Changsheng thought about his own identity and the state of his cultivation grounds.

His identity as a transmigrator was less of a concern; the chances of it being discovered weren't particularly high.

If Hongjun could discover his identity now, before attaining the Dao, then Hongjun would certainly be able to discover it after merging with the Heavenly Dao in the future.

Rather than wait for the future Hongjun, one with the Heavenly Dao, to come to him, he might as well take the initiative and lure over the present Hongjun, who had yet to attain the Dao.

But the state of his cultivation grounds was not something he could conceal simply because he wanted to.

Although his cultivation grounds did not sever the Primordial World, they appeared to do so in others' eyes. If he lured Hongjun over now, at least Hongjun, who had yet to attain the Dao, couldn't defeat him.

If the future Hongjun, merged with the Heavenly Dao, discovered his cultivation grounds, even if he realized they did not sever the Primordial World...

What if the Heavenly Dao took a dislike to his cultivation grounds and slapped them down?

At least the current Hongjun couldn't defeat him in his cultivation grounds, and if he noticed something was wrong, he could still run away in advance.

Besides...

The current Hongjun wasn't the Hongjun of the Heavenly Dao who, after merging with the Dao and distributing his treasures, had nothing left but the Jade Disc of Creation.

The current Hongjun had three Innate Supreme Treasures alone: the Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, and the Qiankun Cauldron.

As for supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures like the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, the Red Embroidered Ball, and the Golden Lotus of Merit, he had at least several dozen.

His other high-, middle-, and low-grade Innate Spirit Treasures and Innate Spirit Roots were even more numerous.

That fortune made him, without a doubt, the richest man in the Primordial World.

Now look at Ao Changsheng himself: he had been in secluded cultivation ever since transmigrating.

Aside from the Ancestral Dragon Pearl the system had rewarded him with, all he had were the few spirit treasures he had obtained from Yangmei.

He was as poor as a church mouse.

"Although this Jade Disc of Creation Fragment isn't large, it's still about one-twelfth or one-thirteenth of the complete disc. Surely I can trade it for at least a few supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures!"

Ao Changsheng suddenly felt delighted.

Thinking along those lines, he suddenly began to feel grateful to Yangmei for his generous gift.

On the Primordial World Continent, in Mount Kunlun.

"Teacher Hongjun?"

Laozi, who had been engrossed in Hongjun's lecture on the Dao, looked in puzzlement at Hongjun, who had suddenly stopped speaking.

On either side of him, Yuanshi and Tongtian, his fellow members of the Three Purities, also looked up in confusion.

They had become Hongjun's disciples at the beginning of this epoch.

They had listened to Hongjun lecture on the Dao dozens of times, amounting to over a hundred thousand years in all, and he had never suddenly stopped at such a profound point.

But this time...

"Teacher, has something serious happened in the Primordial World?" Tongtian was the most direct and asked outright.

"It's nothing serious. A fortuitous opportunity has come my way," Hongjun said, shaking his head slightly. A smile appeared on his face.

Hearing Hongjun's words, the Three Purities hurriedly congratulated him in unison. "Congratulations, Teacher!"

"You three, continue cultivating diligently here. I'm going out for a while. I'll return in a few days and lecture on the Dao again." With that, Hongjun rose and disappeared from sight before the Three Purities, one step at a time.

Tongtian of the Three Purities looked enviously at the place where Hongjun had vanished.

"For a fortuitous opportunity to matter so much to someone with such great Divine Abilities as Teacher, some supreme treasure of the Primordial World must have appeared!"

"Shallow!" Yuanshi shook his head beside him and said with a serious expression, "With Teacher's Divine Abilities, why would he be in such a hurry even if a supreme treasure appeared?"

"Teacher is close to attaining the Dao. For him to be so eager, it must be something important concerning his attainment of the Dao."

Yuanshi spoke with a look of certainty.

"Something important concerning his attainment of the Dao? What could that be?" Tongtian asked curiously.

"How should I know? I haven't attained the Dao," Yuanshi replied matter-of-factly.

Tongtian: "..."

Even Laozi, unruffled as he was, looked somewhat speechlessly at his foolish younger brother and shook his head helplessly.

"Teacher is on the verge of attaining the Dao. After this fortuitous opportunity, he will presumably do so!" Looking in the direction their teacher had gone, Laozi showed a trace of longing in his indifferent eyes.

Attaining the Dao!

Who didn't want to attain the Dao?

That was the ultimate goal of every cultivator!

I'll cultivate diligently. With Teacher's guidance, I will certainly attain the Dao in this lifetime!

A look of determination appeared on Laozi's face. He closed his eyes again, and all manner of mysteries of heaven and earth flowed through his heart.

Beside him, the bickering Yuanshi and Tongtian noticed Laozi cultivating. They involuntarily exchanged a glance and likewise began cultivating diligently.

Even if he was their elder brother, they didn't want to fall too far behind him.

The Three Purities of Pangu were inferior to no one!