Primordial Era: Refusing Hongjun's path to sainthood, I attained the Dao of Hunyuan.

Chapter 33 Zixiao Palace

Vast and boundless chaos, seemingly both existent and nonexistent, like emptiness yet also matter; in short, wherever Xuanhuang passed, there were endless stretches of such chaos.

The chaotic order and turbulent air currents are extremely difficult to refine. The power of the rules of the primordial world has been severed here, and one can only rely on personal cultivation to fight against it.

Anyone below the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal who enters will die, and even Great Luo Golden Immortals face numerous dangers when they venture deep inside; without the protection of a supreme treasure, they cannot survive for long.

Xuanhuang's eyes were bright as he moved forward in the chaos, observing and comprehending. In this chaos, he could occasionally see elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, which were formed at the time of creation and have not yet subsided.

These elements—earth, water, fire, and wind—possess immense power and are fraught with danger, but for Xuanhuang, they represent an opportunity.

He has completed the first step of his own path, condensing the foundation of the Five Elements. The next step is to reverse the Five Elements and evolve the Four Symbols.

Earth, water, fire, and wind are the four elements.

Above Xuanhuang's head, auspicious clouds appeared, with five-colored light shining brightly on them, drawing in all directions and continuously absorbing streams of earth, water, fire, and wind into the auspicious clouds.

But Qingyun seemed like a bottomless pit; no matter how much earth, water, fire, and wind was absorbed into it, it remained unchanged, and its five-colored light became even more dazzling.

Moreover, not only were the auspicious clouds above Xuanhuang's head like this, but the bamboo staff in Xuanhuang's hand was also constantly devouring earth, water, fire, and wind.

As Xuanhuang moved forward, he continuously absorbed the elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, but this journey seemed to have no end.

He could clearly sense that Zixiao Palace was not far away, but he still couldn't finish walking that last stretch of road.

"Could it be that I am not destined for Zixiao Palace? No, after all, I am the transformed form of the Huangzhong Plum Tree. If I am not destined, then others have even less hope. Perhaps I have advanced to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm? In this primordial world, I have never seen any other Hunyuan Golden Immortals. My cultivation is even higher than that of Taiqing."

Xuanhuang couldn't help but think to himself.

At the same time, he couldn't help but worry about his other self. It seemed things weren't going well for Ziwei either!

And indeed, this was the case. On the other hand, when Ziwei entered the chaos, it also encountered a situation similar to that of Xuanhuang.

No, it's worse.

At the beginning, Ziwei could sense the location of Zixiao Palace, but after he had traveled a distance, he lost this sense.

Ziwei has no affinity with Zixiao Palace.

Xuanhuang's idea of ​​having two versions of himself enter the Zixiao Palace was shattered.

Being in the midst of chaos, the connection between Ziwei and Xuanhuang was severed, so at this moment, he did not dwell on it. After figuring out the reason, he began to walk back.

But at that very moment, deep within the vast chaos, stood a seemingly eternal palace, as if rooted in the very fabric of chaos.

Despite the relentless onslaught of chaos, the palace remained completely still.

Above the palace plaque are three large characters: Zixiao Palace.

The Daoist temple of the Sage Hongjun was so powerful that even the raging chaotic energy in the vicinity was calmed down.

At this time, many powerful beings gathered in groups of three or five, sitting cross-legged in front of the palace, and the ones closest to the palace gate were the Three Pure Ones.

The gates of Zixiao Palace were tightly closed and had not yet been opened.

All the great beings who have arrived are still waiting.

Within the Zixiao Palace, however, it is not merely a simple palace; within the palace, a vast universe has been completely transformed.

However, this universe is extremely desolate, devoid of any living beings.

Deep within the universe, there is a small palace. In front of the palace grows a spiritual root, which is the very peach tree that Xuanhuang once desperately wanted but could not obtain.

The innate spiritual root of Ren water.

Beside the peaches, by the palace gate, stood two more attendants, a boy and a girl, looking drowsy as they waited.

Above the palace gate are three characters: Zixiao Palace.

Two Zixiao Palaces.

One is extremely large, and the other is extremely small.

Or perhaps, the Zixiao Palace before us is the true form, while the Zixiao Palace outside is a manifestation of some incredible and magical Taoist technique.

It can encompass the universe and evolve into infinite mysteries.

In the Purple Cloud Palace, there was also an old Taoist priest with an ancient and strange appearance. He exuded a mysterious aura, which seemed to be empty or nothingness, and was unfathomable.

This old Taoist was none other than Hongjun, the first sage of the primordial world, the Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

At this moment, Hongjun looked towards the outside of Zixiao Palace. His gaze was not on the powerful figures who had already arrived in front of Zixiao Palace.

They don't even visit the Three Pure Ones.

His gaze pierced through the layers of chaos, looking at Xuanhuang, who was currently trekking through the chaos while absorbing the elements of earth, water, fire, and wind.

"The Huangzhong Plum Tree transformed into a spiritual treasure from the Jade Tablet of Creation, along with the Chaos Pearl, and even attained the Primordial Golden Immortal realm before I began my sermon. Is this the variable under the Heavenly Dao?"

Hongjun suddenly muttered to himself, his voice quite calm, and shook his head, saying, "It's just a pity that your variable appeared too late."

"The last fragment of the Jade Tablet of Creation is beyond my reach. So I had no choice but to merge with the Heavenly Dao. Its reappearance at this point is meaningless to me."

Hongjun stopped there and simply continued to look at Xuanhuang, lost in thought. His gaze was sometimes distant and sometimes fixed, cold and unfocused.

……

In the chaos, Xuanhuang repeated the same actions in a very monotonous way, constantly absorbing the earth, water, fire and wind, but this path seemed to have no end.

Xuanhuang was speechless. He simply stopped moving and sat down cross-legged in the chaos. Above his head, a bead floated up from the auspicious clouds.

It turns out that what was constantly absorbing earth, water, fire, and wind was this Chaos Pearl.

As a Chaos Pearl that was re-evolved from the remnants of the Chaos Pearl, this Chaos Pearl, although it has fallen to the status of a primordial treasure, is still extremely powerful.

It's not difficult to use it to absorb and store some earth, water, fire, and wind.

Furthermore, as a continuous stream of earth, water, fire, and wind was drawn into the Chaos Pearl, even some of these elements were absorbed by the Chaos Pearl itself.

It seems to be able to help the Chaos Pearl recover and improve.

Although the effect wasn't significant, it still brought Xuanhuang some unexpected joy, making him even more open to using the Chaos Pearl to absorb earth, water, fire, and wind.

However, being trapped in this chaos was quite frustrating for Xuanhuang.

He couldn't guess what Hongjun was thinking or what he was planning to do.

Now that he's tired of walking, Xuanhuang has simply started to act like a liar, saying, "I'm not going anywhere, let's see what you can do about it!"

Xuanhuang's immediate sitting down seemed to have caught Hongjun in the shadows somewhat off guard, as Xuanhuang vaguely sensed something unusual about the surrounding chaos.

It seemed to calm down for a moment, but then it became violent again.

A surge of violent chaotic energy swept over, but Xuanhuang refused to rise. The Chaos Pearl gently turned, swallowing the chaotic energy as well.

The chaotic uproar happened in an instant, and then it quickly returned to its previous state, unhurried and peaceful.

Xuanhuang remained expressionless, indicating that he and Hongjun were locked in a stalemate.

(End of this chapter)