Primordial Era: I, Hongyun, take charge of the literary path

"Let's talk after we've explored these three places."

Hongyun thought to himself, if he couldn't find it in these three places, then he would have no choice but to take the risk.

Of course, Hongyun would not act rashly. He would only take the risk after his cultivation broke through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Sunlight Divine Water is the main ingredient of the Great Sun Divine Elixir.

The Great Sun Divine Pill is a sacred medicine for body refining, which can greatly accelerate the speed of body refining. Hongyun is currently stuck at the Golden Immortal level because his physical strength is not enough.

The cultivation method practiced by Hongyun, known as the "Hongyun Dao Jing," is a cultivation method that simultaneously cultivates the physical body, primordial spirit, and magical power. One must perfect all three in order to break through to a higher realm.

Hongyun now possesses the magical power of a fully-fledged Golden Immortal, the primordial spirit of a fully-fledged Golden Immortal, and the physical body of a late-stage Golden Immortal.

This greatly slowed down Hongyun's growth, so Hongyun urgently needed the Great Sun Divine Pill to assist him.

Relying on external things to improve oneself ultimately stems from the fact that the physical potential of Hongyun's clone is insufficient.

This clone's origin is formed from the overflowing essence when Pangu's blood essence merged with the essence of water, fire, and wind, and it possesses a very thin amount of Pangu's blood essence.

Therefore, the clone is not outstanding in body refining talent, at least not as good as in magic power talent or primordial spirit talent, and can only rely on the Great Sun Divine Pill to catch up.

In the days that followed, Hongyun did not rush to leave the city to search, but instead stayed in Tianbao City.

Besides cultivating, he spends his days wandering around the city, collecting various ores, spiritual herbs, cultivation techniques, and supernatural abilities.

Although Tianbao City is not large, it is a gathering place for independent cultivators, and there are many strange and unusual things there.

Hongyun found a rare piece of Fiery Sun Copper Mother, a piece of Nine Suns Divine Iron, and a Golden Crow Grass.

Both the Blazing Sun Copper Mother and the Nine Sun Divine Iron are second-tier refining materials, and are rare even in the prehistoric world.

These things might be useless to ordinary Golden Immortals, but Hongyun has the Book of Literary Fortune, and he can refine pills and weapons, so he can deduce the best way to use them.

Golden Crow Grass is another main ingredient for refining the Great Sun Divine Pill. As long as Hongyun obtains Sunlight Divine Water, he can refine the Great Sun Divine Pill. Other auxiliary ingredients are easy to obtain; any shop in Tianbao City can provide them.

Furthermore, Hongyun has collected countless medicinal herbs over the years, so she can easily gather the necessary auxiliary medicines.

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed. Hongyun felt that she was ready and decided to go out of the city to explore.

Hongyun left Tianbao City, used the Shrinking Earth Technique, and headed step by step into the depths of Yanyang Lake.

The surface of Yanyang Lake shimmered, with a thin layer of mist floating on it, which was mixed with rich spiritual energy, or rather, it was formed from spiritual energy.

Hongyun hadn't flown far when he encountered the first wave of water beasts. They were a group of shark-like water beasts, all golden in color, tens of feet long, with a row of sharp bone spikes on their backs and mouths full of sharp teeth.

"These are...golden-tipped deer sharks?!"

Hongyun's primordial spirit sensed the Heavenly Dao and learned about this aquatic beast. The Golden-finned Terror Shark had an extremely sensitive sense of smell and an intense craving for the scent of flesh and blood. Once it smelled blood, it would attack frantically.

That's a bit of a narrow view. In reality, not only the golden-finned shark, but all aquatic creatures have an extreme craving for the smell of flesh and blood. Once they smell blood, they will attack frantically. This is ingrained in their life instincts.

Because water beasts may drop Flame Sun Stones, which can strengthen the physical bodies of flesh and blood beings, they are hunted by many flesh and blood cultivators. This angers the water beasts, who will attack any flesh and blood being they encounter.

This is a niche-based rivalry.

In addition, when water beasts travel in groups, they will trigger a group buff, and the more beasts there are, the greater the buff.

These golden-finned terror sharks are all at the Xuanxian level, and there are so many of them that even the Jinxian level would not dare to underestimate them.

Hongyun showed no intention of making a move, and simply bypassed the group of golden-finned sharks. It wasn't that he couldn't defeat them, but rather that there was no need to waste time; the investment would be large, and the return small.

Afterwards, Hongyun continued to venture deeper into Yanyang Lake, where the aquatic beasts became increasingly dense and diverse.

There are fiery-maned pegasus like horses, fiery-clawed octopuses like octopuses, armored fiery turtles like sea turtles, and crimson-flame dragon pythons like snakes...

As Hongyun flew, he observed and recorded all the information about these water beasts in the Wenyun Illustrated Catalogue.

"Hmm? Something's up."

Suddenly, Hongyun stopped and looked ahead, where a huge creature was rampaging.

It was a gigantic water beast thousands of feet long, resembling a crocodile, covered in golden scales, with sharp bone spurs growing along its back, and blood-red eyes that exuded a savage aura.

"The tyrant of Flaming Lake, the Golden-Scaled Demon Crocodile!"

Hongyun recognized the water beast as the extremely ferocious Golden Scale Crocodile, a creature from Yanyang Lake.

This golden-scaled demonic crocodile possesses the cultivation level of an early-stage Golden Immortal. It is currently slaughtering its prey, with dozens of giant sun-fire moth corpses floating around it, their blood staining a large area of ​​the lake red.

"Did they attack the Great Sun Moth clan?"

Hongyun frowned as she watched this scene.

Noticing Hongyun's gaze, the Golden Scaled Crocodile flicked its tail, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes staring at her.

"roar--!"

Upon seeing the red cloud, the Golden Scaled Crocodile let out a deafening roar, opened its blood-red maw, and a golden jet of water gushed out, heading straight for the red cloud.

"Hmph, you're asking for death!"

Hongyun snorted coldly, raised his hand and waved, and a beam of azure light flew out, transforming into a huge mountain that pressed down.

It is the Mountain-Carrying Divine Power among the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Divine Powers. Theoretically, the Mountain-Carrying Divine Power (which can bear the weight of a mountain and is also a mountain-moving technique) can summon Mount Buzhou to suppress enemies.

The water column of the Golden Scaled Crocodile was crushed by the mountain, which continued to fall and crashed onto the Golden Scaled Crocodile.

"Boom—!"

With a deafening roar, the Golden Scaled Crocodile was smashed into the lake by the mountain, causing towering waves to surge across the surface.

However, the Golden Scaled Crocodile had thick skin and flesh, and Hongyun's attack did not kill it; instead, it enraged it.

The Golden Scaled Crocodile burst forth from beneath the lake's surface, its body radiating golden light, and countless golden water arrows shot towards the red clouds.

Seeing this, Hongyun remained calm and took out a low-grade innate spiritual treasure (Fire Cloud Banner) and waved it gently.

Suddenly, a fiery cloud flew out from the Fire Cloud Banner, and the terrifying fiery cloud evaporated all the water arrows.

The Fire Cloud Banner is a low-grade innate spiritual treasure, containing the laws of fire and possessing the ability to control all fires in the world.

The five elements generate and restrain each other. Although water restrains fire, when fire is strong enough, it can also restrain water.

Seeing that its attack was ineffective, the Golden Scaled Crocodile roared and charged directly at Hongyun, wanting to engage in close combat and use its special water-based body to trap and kill Hongyun.

"What a simple-minded idiot!"

A cold glint flashed in Hongyun's eyes as she summoned the illusory image of the Literary Fortune Chart, from which pages of golden paper flew out.

"A stroke of genius, but mere theoretical knowledge!"

Hongyun casually drew a stroke on the gold paper with her brush.

On the gold paper, a giant arm emerges from the depths of the clouds, below which lies the golden-scaled demon crocodile.

In the next instant, the wind and clouds changed, and the golden paper emitted a brilliant golden light, transforming into a golden hand in the void, which directly and firmly grasped the Golden Scaled Demon Crocodile.

This is the literary supernatural power derived from the Wen Yun Tu Lu (Literary Fortune Chart), where literary energy takes form, capable of both offense and defense, and is infinitely variable.

The Golden Scaled Crocodile struggled incessantly, but the golden hand tightened its grip, rendering it unable to move.

Then, Hongyun shook the Fire Cloud Banner again, and a pillar of fire shot out from the banner, engulfing the Golden Scaled Crocodile.