Houtu is infatuated with me, so I made her lean against the wall.

Qin Ming and Hou Tian hurried toward the place of light ahead.

Before long, the two escaped the pitch-black environment and entered an underground space that shimmered with bright divine light.

Within this space, there is a huge pool, in which a viscous, crystal-clear liquid flows.

"This is... Pangu Jadeite?"

Upon closer inspection, Qin Ming let out a gasp.

"Yes, this is indeed the Father God's chalcedony!"

"Could it be that this thing summoned me here?"

Houtu stood beside Qin Ming, confirming his answer.

She was originally formed from the essence of Pangu's blood, so she was naturally very clear about Pangu's aura.

"No, not that. That feeling of being called is still there!"

Soon, Houtu rejected this answer and began searching again in the underground space.

After bypassing the pool, Houtu arrived at a platform. Looking at the empty platform, her delicate brows furrowed.

After a moment's thought, he bit his finger, forced out a drop of blood, and dripped it into the platform.

The next moment, the platform rumbled and split apart, revealing two objects that rose up.

One is a pure primordial spirit, and the other is a ruler radiating immense pressure.

"Pangu's Primordial Spirit, the Primordial Ruler of Heaven and Earth."

Upon seeing these two items, Qin Ming clicked his tongue in amazement once again.

These two things are not simple.

The Three Pure Ones of Taoism in later generations were all transformed from the primordial spirit of Pangu, and their foundation and innate talents were comparable to those of top-level innate gods and demons.

It was for this reason that he was chosen by Hongjun to be his disciple and inherit the mantle of Taoism.

Now, a wisp of Pangu's primordial spirit has appeared here again, and it is still an incomparably pure Pangu primordial spirit. If one obtains it, being on par with the Three Pure Ones is nothing more than a piece of cake.

There is also the Primordial Measuring Ruler.

Although it is only an acquired treasure, its power is in no way inferior to that of an innate treasure.

Most importantly, this Primordial Measuring Ruler is a treasure of acquired merit, capable of killing without incurring karmic consequences, which is incomparable to innate treasures.

In the primordial world, cause and effect cycled.

If you form a karmic connection with a powerful being, you won't even know how you died.

However, if you possess this treasure, even if you harm a disciple of a powerful being, that powerful being will not be able to use this as an excuse to cause you trouble.

Even worse, if no one witnessed the killing of his disciples and relatives, this powerful being would be unable to deduce it.

This treasure is on the same level as the Taiqing's companion spiritual treasure, the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda, which is the first of the Three Pure Ones.

One is for defense, the other for offense.

I never imagined that this place would have so many wonderful things.

"Brother Qin Ming, I will accept the Father God's primordial spirit. As for the Father God's jade marrow and the Primordial Measuring Ruler, you may keep them."

Houtu looked at the shocked Qin Ming and said softly.

Upon hearing this, Qin Ming snapped out of his daze and shook his head: "This was given to you by the Great God Pangu; I cannot accept it!"

Don't rush to refuse!

"Let's talk about Pangu Jade Marrow first. Although this substance is excellent, I am not of Pangu's bloodline. While integrating it into myself may temporarily strengthen my physical body and greatly enhance my physical cultivation, it will be detrimental to my future cultivation!"

"As for the Primordial Measuring Ruler, I possess several powerful treasures!"

"I have not yet refined any of these treasures. Adding another Primordial Measuring Ruler would only increase my burden."

As he spoke, Qin Ming summoned the Boundless Bell and the thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Pearls.

Both of these are of the rank of innate supreme treasures, possessing forty-nine innate divine restrictions.

Except for the Wushi Bell, which was a system reward and did not require him to refine, he only refined thirty-six restrictions on the thirty-six Dinghai Divine Pearls.

In addition, he also obtained the Divine Rebellion Heavenly Treasure, the God-Slaying Spear.

Although it has not been refined, once it returns to its original state within the Chaos Lotus Platform and merges into the fifteenth-grade Pure World White Lotus, it will be easy for his fifteenth-grade Pure World White Lotus to break through to the level of a Primordial Treasure.

Therefore, although he coveted the Primordial Measuring Ruler, he would not seize the opportunity that belonged to Houtu.

Originally, Houtu was an ancestral witch, without a primordial spirit, and therefore could not refine innate spiritual treasures.

But now, because of him, Houtu has given birth to a primordial spirit and created the Reincarnation and Immortality Sutra, which combines internal and external cultivation.

If the Primordial Measuring Ruler is refined, it will greatly enhance Houtu's offensive capabilities.

"this......"

Houtu hesitated for a moment upon hearing this.

Qin Ming had helped her a great deal, and now he was accompanying her to the summit of Buzhou Mountain. If she didn't give him anything in return, she would feel a little guilty.

Between us, no further words are needed!

Looking at Houtu's conflicted expression, Qin Ming knew exactly what she was thinking.

So he pinched Houtu's pretty face and comforted her.

"Um!"

After being pinched by Qin Ming, Hou Tu's pretty face quickly flushed red, and she agreed in a voice barely audible.

"Alright, hurry up and refine these things!"

Seeing this, Qin Ming stopped teasing Houtu and urged her on.

"good!"

Upon hearing this, Houtu nodded, grabbed Pangu's primordial spirit and the Primordial Measuring Ruler, and leaped into the Pangu Jade Marrow Pool. She then activated the Reincarnation Undying Scripture to quickly refine these three items.

As for Qin Ming, after observing Hou Tu's condition and finding nothing amiss, he found a clean place, took out a futon, sat cross-legged, and began to deduce the subsequent changes of the Nine Revolutions Undying Heavenly Scripture.

At the same time, we tried to integrate some of the essence of the Formless Heart Sutra, the Nine Revolutions Fire Cloud Sutra, and the Hundred Transformations Battle Body into the Nine Revolutions Undying Heavenly Sutra.

These three techniques are all top-tier techniques, containing boundless Daoist principles.

Although Qin Ming had never practiced them, he still had a strong understanding of these three techniques because they were rewards given to him by the system.

Cultivation takes countless years, and in the blink of an eye, Qin Ming and Hou Tian had cultivated in this space for a full five thousand years.

In the past five thousand years, however, things have been in an uproar outside.

More than 10,000 years ago, Qin Ming killed a cultivator from the Qilin clan, which enraged the Qilin clan.

He led the clan's elite troops to Buzhou Mountain, searching for Qin Ming's whereabouts inch by inch.

Unfortunately, by then, Qin Ming had already reached the halfway point of Mount Buzhou.

This place is inaccessible to ordinary cultivators.

After searching for over three thousand years, the Qilin clan still found nothing.

Just then, the Dragon Clan landed with overwhelming force, slaughtering the beast clans of the vassal Qilin Clan in their path, leaving no survivors.

Upon learning of the situation, the ancestor of the Qilin hurriedly mobilized the clan's experts to confront the Dragon Clan.

However, they still underestimated the strength of the dragon race. Even though the Qilin race joined forces with the White Tiger race and led the experts of the beast race to resist with all their might, they were still defeated by the dragon race.

Especially the Ancestral Dragon, whose combat power almost completely overwhelmed the Ancestral Qilin.

This situation left the Ancestor of Qilin unwilling to accept defeat, and he could only think of a way to break the deadlock.

After discussion, the ancestor of the Qilin decided to unite with the Phoenix clan to fight against the Dragon clan.

Seeing the strength of the Dragon Clan, the Phoenix Ancestor and Phoenix Ccestor understood the principle of mutual dependence and thus readily agreed when the Qilin Ancestor sent an envoy to discuss an alliance.

With the addition of the Phoenix Clan, the Qilin Clan quickly stabilized its decline, joined forces with the Phoenix Clan, and worked together to drive the Dragon Clan out of the prehistoric continent.

This great war lasted for more than eight thousand years.

During this period, countless cultivators from the three races died or were injured, and even some rogue cultivators were affected by the aftershocks of the three races.

It was this battle that made Zulong realize his own shortcomings.

After returning to the East Sea, he once again visited Qin Ming with generous gifts.

Unfortunately, apart from some newly transformed creatures, there wasn't a single immortal child on the Three Immortal Islands, and the Ancestral Dragon could only return disappointed once again.