Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 29 The Primordial True Saint, Purple Clouds over Jade Capital Mountain

All the remaining turbid and malevolent energy in Taiwei's body, along with some distracting thoughts in his mind, were swept away. Even Taiwei's physical essence was purified and sublimated by several degrees at this moment. Although his overall cultivation level did not improve, Taiwei's combat power increased by more than 30% out of thin air.

"We meet again." Looking at the fragment of the Creation Lotus in front of him, Taiwei showed a sincere smile. At the beginning of creation, he had obtained a large fragment of the Creation Lotus. With this, Taiwei himself was able to refine the first man-made treasure of the Primordial World.

After that, other living beings and cultivators in the primordial world began to collect rare and precious materials to refine the supreme treasures of the Void. Now, Taiwei has once again obtained a fragment of the Creation Green Lotus. Although it is only a fragment the size of half a palm, it is still extremely precious.

For true top-tier beings of heaven and earth, they would be willing to exchange a top-tier acquired treasure for a fragment of the Creation Lotus, since as long as enough fragments of the Creation Lotus are collected, a supreme treasure of the Void can be refined.

Of course, other top-tier spiritual materials and divine metals can also be used to refine supreme treasures of the Void, but how can those natural treasures compare to a sacred object of the Great Dao like the Creation Lotus?

Refining a supreme treasure from rare and precious materials would inevitably take a long time and a lot of effort, but refining a supreme treasure from fragments of the Creation Lotus could almost instantly produce one, provided there were enough fragments.

Taiwei continuously turned the cyan jade stone over and over with his left hand, examining it from top to bottom with a smile on his face. Purple-gold elixir energy dripped from the fingertips of his right hand. Taiwei's smile remained unchanged, but a cold glint appeared in his eyes. His divine will, along with the purple-gold elixir energy, merged into the interior of the Creation Lotus fragment.

Profound and mysterious, empty and boundless, the interior of the fragment of the Creation Lotus is a chaotic void, like the undifferentiated void before the transformation of Yin and Yang. The purple-gold elixir energy carries the will of Taiwei, evolving into an incarnation of Taiwei's will.

With a wave of his sleeves, Taiwei shattered the overwhelming force of creation and life that surged forth. Looking at the young Taoist in purple robes and white hair opposite him, with a calm expression and deep eyes, Taiwei's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

"Will you withdraw voluntarily, or should I shatter this wisp of your primordial spirit imprint?"

Taiwei clenched his right hand, and a powerful force of creation condensed in his palm, forming a dark longsword engraved with seven stars. Looking at the white-haired young Taoist opposite him, Taiwei's tone was extremely impolite.

"This is not the way of a guest. I am the original owner of this fragment of the Azure Lotus. With such an unwelcome guest at my door, I, as the host, cannot remain indifferent and wait to die."

A wisp of creation energy condensed before the purple-robed, white-haired Taoist, and a wooden ruler with the vast universe as its body and time as its scale appeared. A pair of deep eyes looked at Taiwei, and a smile appeared on the white-haired Taoist's face that made Taiwei frown.

"The True Saint of the Origin?"

"Oh? You can tell I'm a Primordial True Saint?"

The white-haired Taoist looked at Taiwei opposite him, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes. Generally speaking, only a very few people know about the existence of the Primordial True Saint. These people are either members of great clans or great powers in the world. With Taiwei's cultivation at the Golden Immortal realm, he is far from being considered a great power in the eyes of the white-haired Taoist.

"Only the Primordial True Saint would speak to others in such a seemingly polite but actually condescending tone."

Taiwei spoke calmly, slowly raising the Seven Star Dragon Abyss in his hand. The blazing sword light drew upon the great power of heaven and man, revealing the Heavenly Sword Dao at this moment, causing the white-haired Taoist's smile to fade slightly.

"To establish one's own swordsmanship?"

The white-haired Taoist looked at Taiwei, and with a flick of the wooden ruler in his hand, the heavy essence of creation rapidly swirled to both sides under the movement of the ruler.

In just a moment, all the essence of creation around Taiwei and the white-haired Daoist vanished, leaving only a dark and deep boundless void.

"In the primordial western regions, there dwells the innate true saint, Taiwei."

"It seems we two are quite destined for each other, even our names are similar: Zixiao, the lord of Jade Capital Mountain in the Eastern Wilderness."

The white-haired Taoist, also known as the Primordial True Saint Zixiao, swept the wooden ruler in front of him, and the invisible and intangible power of spacetime blocked the thousands of starlight piercing in front of him.

Seeing Taiwei appear before him, Zixiao flicked his left finger, and a melodious heavenly sound like a bell rang out. Countless starlight sword lights that fell from Zixiao's head shattered in circles of heavenly light and purple aura.

The wooden ruler slashed, the long sword slashed down, and the robes and gowns of Taiwei and Zixiao fluttered. The purple-gold elixir energy and the purple heavenly light collided continuously, and two equally magnificent auras burst forth, pressing down on each other.

However, after a stalemate, Zi Xiao was surprised to find that with his Taiyi realm cultivation, he was unable to suppress Taiwei on the other side at the same level.

A thoughtful look appeared in Zi Xiao's eyes, and a soft laugh came from her mouth. The power of time and space intertwined on the wooden ruler, turning gray and white and crystal clear, as if a stream of light encompassing thousands of worlds suddenly flashed by.

The celestial power in front of Taiwei transformed into a spiral sword pillar that pierced through the air. With a deafening roar, Taiwei was forced back a hundred feet. The Seven Star Dragon Abyss was unleashed once more, and the power of water and fire condensed. A scroll of water and fire Taiji diagram unfolded in the void, enveloping and covering the gray-white starry river that had pierced through the spiral sword pillar, slowly obliterating it.

"Are you also the Primordial True Saint?"

"Who knows? Maybe we've met before."

Taiwei looked at Zixiao opposite him. At this moment, he remembered who Zixiao was. The other party was indeed a top existence in the primordial world, a Primordial True Saint at the Taiyi realm.

However, the other party's advancement to the Taiyi realm was much later than Taiwei's. In fact, Zixiao's advancement to the Taiyi realm was less than ten thousand years before Taiwei was sealed by the power of the Heavenly Dao. That's why Taiwei didn't recognize Zixiao immediately. To Taiwei, Zixiao was just a junior.

"Really? That's quite surprising. I don't recall ever seeing such a talented junior like you before."

Zi Xiao's wooden ruler deflected the Seven Star Dragon Abyss that had fallen before him. His left hand, entwined with wind, thunder, water, fire, mountains, rivers, sun, and moon, met the myriad interwoven Yin-Yang mystical lights before Tai Wei.

Amidst the endless explosions of light and flame, Zi Xiao looked at his left hand, which was covered in bloodstains, and smiled indifferently. Looking at Tai Wei, who had been knocked back a hundred feet by his palm strike, he let out a light laugh that made Tai Wei's expression turn cold.

"I don't know a senior as insidious as you. Spreading fragments of the Creation Lotus and selecting those with the potential to rise to prominence, on the surface you are using the fragments of the Creation Lotus to help these cultivators continuously improve their cultivation level. In reality, you will directly devour these cultivators' own understanding of the Great Dao and their original essence after their fall."

(End of this chapter)