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

"What exactly is this stone pillar?"

Hongyun stood up, walked around the stone pillar, and continued forward. But after walking for a short while, he saw another stone pillar, exactly the same as the previous one.

Next, Hongyun saw a third, a fourth, a fifth... more and more stone pillars appeared in the thick fog, densely packed and stretching as far as the eye could see.

At this moment, Hongyun finally realized that these stone pillars must have formed a huge formation, and he had unknowingly walked into the center of the formation.

"Who set up this formation?"

Hongyun stopped and recalled the stone pillars she had encountered. She found that the arrangement of the stone pillars was very regular, so she used the Wenyun Diagram to deduce it.

Through the deduction of the Wenyun Diagram, a peculiar pattern was deduced, which is a spacetime coordinate.

"Spacetime coordinates... Ancestor Cangwu?"

Upon seeing the time-space coordinates, Hongyun thought of Ancestor Cangwu, the old monster who attempted to be resurrected.

According to the deductions in the Wenyun Tulu, these stone pillars are not from this era, but from ancient times, or even more ancient times.

Hongyun muttered to himself, "Is this yet another resurrection method left behind by an old monster?"

Ancestor Cangwu was a figure from the era of ferocious beasts, and his power was still familiar to Hongyun, but the power within the stone pillar just now felt unfamiliar to Hongyun.

This indicates that the Stone Pillar's era predates the Great Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts. In Hongyun's Heavenly Dao inheritance, the Great Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts is known as the Eighth Great Calamity, and he is a person from the Ninth Great Calamity.

The seventh great calamity before the Great Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts, or even earlier calamities, are not recorded in the Heavenly Dao, because the Heavenly Dao only revived during the Great Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts.

In an era when even the Heavenly Dao did not exist, the person who left behind a resurrection array that is still in operation today must have been no less powerful than Ancestor Cangwu, at least a powerful being at the level of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

"The waters in the primordial world are too deep."

Hongyun murmured to himself, wondering if no one had attained enlightenment during all those countless eons. If no one had attained enlightenment, surely no one had survived?

Where have all the great figures of those eras gone?

Hongyun shook his head; this was not something he should be thinking about right now. He then began to deduce the formation.

However, the dense fog blocked his divine senses, so he could only record and analyze each stone pillar one by one. Finally, Hongyun arrived at a stone pillar that was different from the others.

This stone pillar is thicker than the others, and its surface is covered with ancient runes that emit a faint golden light, clearly indicating that it is the core of the formation.

"Is this the key point of the formation?"

A glint flashed in Hongyun's eyes, and he drew his Ice Soul Sword, casually unleashing a sword aura towards the stone pillar.

The sword energy struck the stone pillar, and the runes on the pillar's surface suddenly lit up. A powerful recoil force deflected the sword energy, even causing Hongyun to stagger back several steps.

"There's a protective formation on the stone pillar!"

Hongyun frowned. Brute force alone could not break through the array's core; the weakness of the core had to be found.

Thinking of this, Hongyun stepped forward and carefully observed the runes on the stone pillar. He found that the arrangement of the runes was exactly the same as that of the formation.

"Want to be resurrected? I won't allow it!"

With the help of the Wen Yun Diagram, Hong Yun deduced the flaws in the stone pillar's runes. Perhaps due to the passage of time, the operation of the array runes had become somewhat obscure.

That's why Hongyun, with his Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation, was able to see through the flaw in the rune and exclaim, "Found it!"

Hongyun opened her eyes, drew her Ice Soul Sword, and thrust it at a rune on a stone pillar.

That was precisely the weakest point in the formation.

The moment the sword tip pierced the rune, the stone pillar trembled violently, and the runes extinguished one after another.

The golden light on the surface of the stone pillar also dimmed.

With a deafening roar, the stone pillar collapsed. The moment the array's core broke open, the array also crumbled, the thick fog began to dissipate, and a clear sky was revealed.

Hongyun breathed a sigh of relief, and then noticed something exposed where the stone pillar had collapsed.

It was a bead the size of a fist, entirely black, emitting a cold, eerie light.

The black bead hovered above the ruins of the stone pillar, emitting a cold, eerie light, like a miniature black hole that sucked in all the surrounding light.

Hongyun watched the black bead warily, not daring to approach. He had already experienced the strangeness of the stone pillar earlier.

This black bead is the key to the array's core; it's definitely not an ordinary object. Who knows what kind of tricks it might hold?

But Hongyun was reluctant to leave. The aura emanating from the black bead was too special. It was neither spiritual energy nor magic power, but a purer and more ancient power, containing the secrets of an ancient era.

"What is this?" Hongyun muttered to herself.

Just then, the phoenix tree trembled again, and a golden flame surged out from the Hundred Herbs Diagram, transforming into a small golden crow that circled the black bead once.

The little golden crow seemed very excited, constantly emitting clear cries, urging Hongyun to take away the black pearl.

Seeing this, Hongyun hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to trust the phoenix tree's judgment. The phoenix tree was a top-grade innate spiritual root with extremely high spirituality. Since it thought the black pearl was a good thing, it must be right.

Hongyun carefully reached out and grabbed the black bead. The moment her fingers touched it, a chilling aura rushed into her body, and Hongyun shivered, feeling as if her soul was about to freeze.

But at that moment, the crimson-gold flames of the paulownia tree surged forth again, dispelling the icy aura.

The black bead trembled slightly in Hongyun's hand, and the eerie light on its surface gradually faded, eventually turning into an ordinary black bead that lay quietly in his palm.

Hongyun carefully examined the black bead and discovered that there were some extremely tiny ancient runes engraved on the surface of the bead.

Those runes were thinner than a hair; if Hongyun hadn't used his divine sense to examine them, he wouldn't have been able to see them at all.

The runes were obscure and difficult to understand. Hongyun studied them for a long time but still couldn't figure them out.

"Put it away for now, and study it later."

As she spoke, Hongyun put the black bead into the Hundred Herbs Diagram and placed it next to the paulownia tree. The moment the black bead entered the Hundred Herbs Diagram, the branches and leaves of the paulownia tree suddenly swayed.

A burst of crimson-gold flames erupted forth.

The paulownia tree enveloped the black bead, and flames baked it, as if it were being refined or nurtured.

Hongyun didn't care. What he cared about most now was how to get rid of the golden dragon's pursuit. The formation was broken, the thick fog began to dissipate, and the golden dragon was still waiting for him outside.

We must find a way to break through.

After a moment of contemplation, a bold idea suddenly popped into Hongyun's mind. He transformed into a streak of light and continued flying deeper into Buzhou Mountain.

As Jinlong saw the thick fog dissipate, he prepared to go in and search for Hongyun's whereabouts. Just then, he saw a streak of light fly out from the fog and head towards the depths of Buzhou Mountain.

"That kid's out! Go after him!"

Jinlong took the lead and chased after them, followed closely by the other Taiyi Golden Immortals of the Scaled Armor Clan. But this time, Hongyun's speed was much faster than before.

While stuck to the stone pillar, Hongyun inadvertently absorbed a trace of the ancient power within it.

Although that power was weak, it made his magic more refined and his escape techniques even faster.