Primordial Era: The Great Serpent of Yunmeng

Chapter 4 First Encounter with the Primordial World

Qi emerged from Yunmeng and traveled for four thousand three hundred years. The distance he traveled was countless, but most of the creatures he encountered were ignorant, and he could only converse with a handful of them. Although most of them possessed wisdom, they were far from the Way.

Having limited knowledge of the surrounding environment, they all stayed on their own mountaintops. When Buzhou Mountain was mentioned, they all wanted to go. When they called for companions, they agreed, but once they left the mountaintop, they regretted it, saying that they had been too impulsive and missed their tribe, so they returned.

The one who tormented Qi the most dragged on for a year before finally making up her mind to tell Qi that she wouldn't go, unable to part with her home.

Qi Cai now realizes how difficult it is to find someone who shares the same path, let alone a Daoist partner, and has given up on the idea of ​​a third target.

With a heart full of admiring the mountains and waters, if I discover a beautiful scene, I will descend from the clouds to relax, play a tune, and cultivate my mind. It doesn't have to be a melody; I just play wherever I feel like it, doing whatever I want, and the speed of my playing is much faster.

Indeed, as long as people don't meddle in other people's business and have no desires or wants, they can act without restraint.

Qi also learned about the current prehistoric world. Most of the tribes relied on their true forms to fight, engaging in hand-to-hand combat, similar to giant beasts. Only a small number of tribes possessed innate supernatural abilities, and not every member of the tribe possessed them.

There are virtually no spiritual treasures or spiritual root formations. So far, only one low-grade innate spiritual treasure has been seen, and that one spiritual treasure has made an entire clan invincible in the surrounding environment.

Qi Cai marveled at his extraordinary good fortune and blessings. He stopped using the World-Cleansing Jade Token and the Water-Awakening Drum, and stored the World-Purifying White Lotus in his mind, never revealing it when there was no danger. He only used the Tranquilizing Bell to communicate with others.

Although it made fighting those giant beasts a bit more troublesome, it was just one more ray of pure divine light.

If they get too bored, they can take some lotus root threads from the lotus pond and braid them into thin ropes to pass the time.

They stopped their journey only when they saw a sacred mountain covered by an array.

The mountain is shaped like a lotus leaf, sloping from southeast to northwest, with steep slopes on the east, south, and west sides.

The north side is slightly gentler, with the three peaks of Yujing, Yuxu, and Yuhua, whose names are listed on the stone wall.

There is a stone tablet located halfway up the mountain, inscribed with the words "Shaohua Mountain".

This mountain is beautiful and abundant, full of spiritual energy. The formation is located between three peaks and is bright in color.

A flock of birds flew and sang in the formation, all of them with bright and beautiful plumage.

Seeing this formation, I was curious and wondered what it was all about.

Two eyes stand upright on the forehead, with pupils pointing vertically, and divine light is contained within them, capable of seeing through illusory appearances.

Within the array, spiritual light flowed, forming three-colored ribbons. As the ribbons spun, they created vortexes of spiritual energy, continuously absorbing external spiritual energy but leaving none within the array; instead, all of it was channeled underground.

Although this formation does not retain spiritual energy, it gathers the surrounding spiritual energy in one place, making it much denser than the outside world. No wonder it attracts clans to live here. With abundant spiritual energy and concentrated spiritual energy, it is indeed a good place for reproduction.

Upon closer inspection, Qi discovered that this formation was less about gathering spiritual energy and injecting it into the earth's veins, and more about the earth's veins absorbing spiritual energy here. The long-term circulation of spiritual energy led to the formation of this formation.

If the earth's veins were to sink one day, this formation might collapse on its own, turning into a spiritual energy bomb. The longer the formation operates after the earth's veins sink, the greater its destructive power will be upon collapse.

However, as long as the formation collapses, this place will eventually become a land of spiritual prosperity. The greater the power of the collapse, the longer the land of spiritual prosperity will last and the wider its area will be.

It's a place where fortune and misfortune are intertwined; it all depends on the fortune of the person who owns the place and whether they can control their greed.

Qi also lost the desire to go down to search for treasure. Since this place was already occupied, there was no obstacle to going or not going, so he didn't want to cause any trouble.

They continued riding the clouds away.

Another fourteen hundred years passed, and Qi clashed with a ferocious beast.

The ferocious beast was attracted by Qi's flute music. It was a chaotic creature, shaped like a yellow sac, red as cinnabar fire, with six legs and four wings, and no face.

Upon seeing Qi, it rushed over, attempting to stomp on Qi, but was swatted a few times by Qi's Pure Divine Light.

The body was partially washed away but immediately recovered; the Tranquilizing Bell had no effect on it.

Even the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder of the Water Flower Awakening Drum couldn't do anything to him; it had just injured him but healed before it could pursue him.

The White Jade Strike is quite effective; one lash can prolong the injury for a few more seconds.

The ferocious beast was the first giant beast that Qi had ever seen that could speak human language, but it kept repeating, "I'll eat you!"

The tone has changed, but the content remains the same.

After finally dealing a heavy blow to him, he caught up again a few days later, infuriating Qi, who cursed, "That fat, stupid beast!"

After being tormented like this for several decades, Qi's combat abilities improved considerably, but he was also constantly tormented.

"You damned beast, since you want to die, I will grant your wish."

Qi was furious and determined to put an end to it completely.

Revealing its true form, it summons the Pure White Lotus, stands on the platform, holds the Water Flower Awakening Drum in its left hand and the World-Cleansing Jade Scepter in its right, with a snake tail over two thousand feet long coiled in the center of the platform.

A black wind suddenly arose, and a torrential rain rushed past, striking the Water Splendor Awakening Drum heavily with thunderous force. With the blessing of the heavens, it displayed even greater divine might.

With a wave of his white jade staff, the clear light shattered the giant beast's four wings, sending a section of it falling through the air, but before it hit the ground, it returned to its original state.

A beam of red light shot out from the giant beast's mouth, heading towards Qi, but was blocked by the lotus platform.

Thunder rumbled down from the heavens, and the giant beast, writhing in pain, roared. But what greeted it was not an explosion of light, but the clear radiance of the World-Slaying Jade Scepter.

Each strike carried the power to destroy mountains and overturn seas, causing the giant beast immense suffering.

This is the first time since the beast came into the world that it has been so angry. It is because this beast is untamed, thick-skinned, and has an astonishing recovery rate.

To unleash the power of the spiritual treasure, great magical power is needed; for the first time, I felt exhausted.

The giant beast tried to escape several times, but Qi refused to give up. Even if it occasionally failed and escaped, Qi would find it again within a year.

Two thousand four hundred years have passed since I left Shaohua Mountain. I have spent over a thousand years chasing after this beast. During this time, I have consumed over a hundred lotus seeds to replenish my magical power.

The behemoth's size also decreased with each battle, and now its height is similar to that of Qi.

She's no longer as plump as when she first appeared; she's become much slimmer, which just goes to show that the Baiyujie slimming product is very effective.

The giant beast no longer tries to devour you; now, it flees for its life at the mere sight of Qi's presence, lacking even the courage to resist.

Suddenly a crack appeared in the sky, and a figure holding a long spear appeared. Qi's intuition told him that this person was not someone he could defeat by force.

He simply stretched out his palm and gently squeezed, shrinking the giant beast and storing it in his hand.

"I never imagined that Chaos could be so badly injured by you. You do have some tricks up your sleeve. I tore through space to get here as soon as I received its distress call eight hundred years ago..."

Before he could finish speaking, another crack appeared in the sky—no, several cracks appeared.

Before the others could emerge, the man thrust his spear at Qi from a distance, then turned and tore through space to escape. He didn't even utter a single extra word.

Busy with overtime work and reading other authors' photo albums, I can only manage 2000 words a day right now.

(End of this chapter)