Primordial Era: I, Zhao Gongming, refuse to be an experience pack.

This shield appears to be nothingness, yet it contains the weight and immortality of chaos. This is the divine power inherent in the Chaos Spiritual Root—the Chaos Shield!

When triggered passively, it can withstand all attacks from those below the late stage of Golden Immortal!

This is practically an extra life-saving trump card!

Before he could fully recover from this huge surprise, the 7200 Hongmeng Points, plus the 2800 points he had left from killing the ferocious beast, brought his total to a staggering 10,000 points!

HarmonyOS Points: 10000

Looking at this perfect number, Zhao Gongming's heart began to pound uncontrollably.

10,000 Hongmeng Points!

This is enough for him to conduct an unprecedented, large-scale simulation!

His gaze instantly fell upon the "Sea-Stabilizing Pearl"!

"System, deduce the twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls!"

[The host has been detected to possess a superior-grade innate spiritual treasure—the twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearls. Elevating it to the level of an innate supreme treasure requires 5000 Primordial Points. Confirm?]

Innate Treasure!

Zhao Gongming's breath hitched, but he confirmed without hesitation!

"The simulation is confirmed!"

hum-

Five thousand points of Primordial Chaos Points disappeared, and twenty-four azure blue Sea-Stabilizing Pearls flew out of his sleeves and hovered in mid-air above the cave.

In an instant, a more dazzling and vast innate divine light burst forth, illuminating the entire cave into a sacred blue kingdom!

Within each bead, the originally blurry starry sea has now become incredibly real! There are large stars burning, and galaxies revolving, as if twenty-four real worlds are being conceived and evolved within them!

The Great Dao of Water contained within it, under the infusion of the Primordial Origin, surged wildly, breaking through the boundary between the acquired and the innate, and transforming into the true... Innate Great Dao of Water!

At this moment, the aura of the twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls merged into one, and the pressure they exerted surpassed the scope of a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, radiating a supreme divine power that suppressed all heavens and defined the universe!

Offensive and defensive power increased tenfold!

Zhao Gongming reached out and summoned the twenty-four divine pearls, which had already transformed into innate treasures, into his palm. They were as warm and smooth as jade, yet as heavy as a universe.

He could clearly feel that his connection with the divine pearl had reached a perfect state of perfect harmony, where they could communicate as if they were each other's own arms!

Holding ten thousand Primordial Chaos Points, with five thousand remaining, possessing a Chaos Spiritual Root and an innate treasure by his side, Zhao Gongming felt an unprecedented surge of power and confidence. He left Jin'ao Island once more, this time with a clearer goal—to seek opportunities in the primordial world, hone his skills, and completely transform this surge in strength into his own Dao!

Several months later, Zhao Gongming arrived at a vicious place called "Xuanshui Heize".

The water elemental energy here is extremely dense, yet it is mixed with endless resentment and bloodshed, clearly indicating that it is the lair of a ferocious water beast.

As soon as he approached, the vast black swamp below suddenly exploded, and a Qilin, as large as a mountain, covered in black scales and with a single horn on its head, emerged from the water, its blood-red eyes fixed on him.

"Peak late-stage Golden Immortal... Xuan Shui Qilin!" Zhao Gongming saw through the other party's foundation at a glance, and even sensed the resentment left behind by countless cultivators who had perished on its body.

"Another one who's come to die! I'll take your flesh and blood!" The Xuan Shui Qilin spoke in human language, its voice filled with savagery and greed. With a swift motion, a black Xuan Shui divine lightning bolt, carrying an aura that corroded all things, blasted towards Zhao Gongming.

Faced with an attack that was enough to severely injure an ordinary late-stage Golden Immortal cultivator, Zhao Gongming didn't even lift an eyelid.

"You wicked beast, you have committed countless evils, and today you deserve to perish."

His voice was calm, as he was too lazy to say anything more. With a thought, a Sea-Stabilizing Pearl flew out from his sleeve, transforming into a barely perceptible blue stream of light.

A thick water curtain shield lit up around the Xuan Shui Qilin, its innate divine power, which it was confident was enough to withstand a full-force attack from a cultivator of the same level.

However, the blue light fell.

Click!

With a crisp sound, like glass shattering, the seemingly indestructible water curtain shield was as fragile as a sheet of paper before the innate treasure-level Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, instantly pierced and pulverized!

"No... Impossible! What kind of magic weapon is this?!" For the first time, endless terror appeared in the blood-red eyes of the Xuan Shui Qilin.

But Zhao Gongming was not giving it any chance.

"town!"

He flicked his fingers again, and three more Sea-Stabilizing Pearls shot out, scattering in three directions, instantly creating a small-scale celestial domain that completely enveloped the Xuan Shui Qilin!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The three divine pearls, like three vast worlds, slammed down with unparalleled suppressive power!

The enormous, mountain-like body of the Xuan Shui Qilin was completely crushed into dust by this terrifying power, from its physical body to its primordial spirit, before it could even utter a miserable howl!

Above the Black Swamp, all was calm and still, as if nothing had ever happened.

[Ding! Slaying the ferocious Xuan Shui Qilin, a late-stage Golden Immortal peak beast, grants Heavenly Merit and a reward of 3000 Hongmeng Points!]

[Ding! You have obtained one Mystic Water Qilin Inner Core (Innate Grade)!]

Zhao Gongming casually put away the inner core containing the immense power of water element, his expression calm and composed. He opened his mouth and inhaled, swallowing the inner core. His chaotic spiritual root trembled slightly, and he refined all the energy within it.

A torrent of pure magical power surged into his limbs and bones, bringing him only one step away from the late stage of the Golden Immortal realm.

He looked up into the depths of the primordial continent, his eyes calm and profound.

This is just the beginning.

While Zhao Gongming was honing his skills in the Xuan Shui Black Swamp, slowly settling his soaring cultivation and magical treasure power into his own foundation, a completely different scene unfolded in the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain, hundreds of millions of miles away.

Two disheveled figures staggered and knelt in the main hall. One had a severed arm, and the other's robes were tattered. Their auras were extremely weak.

They were none other than Chixiazi and Mingguang Daoren, who had escaped from Luoxianling.

At this moment, they were facing the Taoist priest sitting upright on the cloud bed above, with a handsome face and a cold expression, crying and pleading with him.

"Senior brother! Senior brother, you must avenge us!" The one-armed Golden Immortal cried out, his voice filled with grievance and resentment. "My junior brother and I were ordered by you to go to Luoxian Ridge to investigate the strange movement of evil energy, but we never expected to encounter Zhao Gongming of the Jie Sect!"

"He...he struck without warning! If we hadn't reacted quickly, we would probably be dead and gone, our souls never to return!"

"That Zhao Gongming went even further, spouting wild words, saying that all the disciples of my Chan Sect were mere clay chickens and earthen dogs, utterly vulnerable! He even said... he even said that in his eyes, you, Senior Brother, were nothing more than that!"

They embellished the story, twisting Zhao Gongming's indifference and power into tyranny and humiliation. In particular, the last sentence was fabricated out of thin air and pointed directly at the Taoist on the cloud bed—the Jade Cauldron Immortal!