Chapter 5: Slaying the Kui Ox!

While the Kui Ox was focused on dealing with the Five Thunderbolts Smite the Crown.

The silver-white bristles all over Duobao's body, like steel spears, instantly stood up, each one.

Immediately, they all turned into arrows, densely packed, shooting towards the Kui Ox.

The speed was so fast it could be called lightning.

The distance between them was so close, yet the Kui Ox was still busy dealing with the Five Thunderbolts Smite the Crown.

There was simply no time to defend against this dense, terrifying barrage of arrows.

Just in an instant.

The Kui Ox's towering figure was instantly enveloped by the dense arrows.

In the flash of blood light, the Kui Ox's miserable cry echoed across Golden Ao Island, startling countless birds and beasts.

In the blink of an eye, the Kui Ox, who had been incredibly arrogant just moments before, became riddled with holes, blood spraying like rain, turning into a bloody ox.

Seeing the situation was bad, the Kui Ox wanted to flee.

Its pair of bull eyes, as big as basketballs, already showed fear and disbelief.

This rat is too terrifying.

How could its cultivation be one minor realm higher than mine!

Could it be that there is some extraordinary treasure in that great formation? A flash of intense unwillingness and hatred crossed its eyes.

But his speed beneath his feet did not diminish at all! He swore that as long as he escaped this place, he would definitely repay today's humiliation double.

What a pity, Duobao had already prepared.

With a mere thought of his mind.

Strands of restraining power were unleashed by him, instantly enveloping the Kui Ox that wanted to flee.

The Kui Ox was restrained; although it was just some simple formations and restrictions, it could still hold the Kui Ox for a few seconds.

In a duel of experts, every split second counts! In the blink of an eye, things change rapidly.

Boom! A small tower as huge as a mountain, shining brilliantly, fell from the heavens, five-colored clouds flashing, directly enveloping the Kui Ox that had just broken the restriction and was about to flee.

Accompanied by a shrill, terrified scream, the Kui Ox was instantly sucked into the Glazed Pagoda.

On Golden Ao Island, Duobao held up the Five Elements Glazed Pagoda, feeling that the Kui Ox inside was being refined, and nodded satisfiedly.

On his handsome face was full of the joy of victory.

Both because he had eliminated the Kui Ox, this hidden danger, and because the grudge of his previous life had been fully resolved.

Duobao stood in place, closed his eyes recalling the recent battle, and couldn't help but nod satisfiedly.

The reason he first used the Five Thunderbolts Smite the Crown, this ultimate strike, was to combine illusion and reality.

If the Kui Ox focused on blocking the Five Thunderbolts Smite the Crown, he would unleash his innate divine ability, Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart.

If the Kui Ox ignored the Five Thunderbolts Smite the Crown and guarded against him, he would definitely make the Kui Ox taste the might of the Acquired Five Elements Divine Thunder.

But in the end, the Glazed Pagoda was the true killing move.

Killing the Kui Ox is very simple.

But Duobao did not intend to kill him; instead, he wanted to refine him.

A clump of the Kui Ox's origin is far stronger than a corpse.

In short, his first battle after arriving in the Wilderness, with his all-out effort, finally ended in a complete victory.

From then on, Golden Ao Island had only him as a living being; as long as he progressed further, he could refine the island's foundation and then turn Golden Ao Island into his own dojo.

As for the future Tongtian Jiaozhu, he is temporarily not within his consideration.

From now until Tongtian attains sainthood, there are still many years; there is still time.

Everything begins with; first raise cultivation, then talk.

Within the Wilderness, dangers abound; the strong are honored; only by becoming stronger does one have a say.

Having gathered his thoughts, Duobao did not return to his cave, but transformed into a silver-colored ray of light and flew off to the side.

Three years later.

The Kui Ox's cave dwelling came into view.

As far as the eye could see, there were countless piles of spiritual beasts' bones stacked like mountains.

Judging by the demonic power on them, the time of death varied; the longest was tens of thousands of years ago, the shortest was decades ago. Duobao's face was expressionless.

There was no hatred, no mocking expression,

The Wilderness is inherently a world of the weak preyed upon by the strong; it is also the survival law of the Wilderness.

Moreover, good people don't live long; calamities leave a legacy for a thousand years! Although he won't cultivate without scruples, he also won't be a do-gooder.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do—that is the way to survive! He began to inspect the Kui Ox's cave.

Although this Kui Ox is a foolish old ox, its cave had collected many treasures; besides some spiritual materials, there was actually a low-grade innate spiritual root.

This spiritual root turned out to be an earth-attribute spiritual root among the Five Elements spiritual roots, named the Earth Spirit Tree.

Its entire body showed a dark yellow hue.

It is a native spiritual root of Golden Ao Island.

It blooms every three hundred years, bears fruit every three hundred years, matures every three hundred years.

It can only be harvested after a full thousand years.

Moreover, each time it bears only nine fruits.

Swallowing one fruit not only raises cultivation, but also allows one to comprehend a trace of the power of earth's law.

This is also Duobao's first acquisition of an innate spiritual object.

"If placed inside the Glazed Pagoda, with the Five Elements' mutual generation, it should be able to give birth to a strand of Five Elements power!"

Duobao was overjoyed.

Soon, he found deep within the Kui ox's abode his greatest goal for this time.

It was a primordial grand formation.

Looking at the intact primordial grand formation, undisturbed, Duobao felt delighted and immediately decided to make the Kui ox's abode his temporary residence.

Until his cultivation progressed further, he departed.

Wanting to go to the central region of Golden Ao Island, given his pace and cultivation, it might take thousands of years to reach, so it's currently unrealistic.

Still, the primary focus is advancing his cultivation.

He immediately sat cross-legged in the abode, circulating the Dao Follows Nature Founding Method to refine a strand of the primordial quintessence of the five elements, hoping to advance his cultivation.

At the same time, a Liuli Pagoda hovered above his head.

The refined five‑elemental force, pure and derived from the Kui ox's primordial essence, poured down like a tide and flooded into Duobao's body.

In an instant, Duobao's body burst with immortal light, his flesh and blood shining crystal‑clear, and the quintessence of the five elements within him surged at a visible speed.

As time passed.

Duobao gradually entered the state of profound mystery within profound mystery.

In the mountains, time is forgotten; a hundred years have elapsed in the world.

Five hundred years later.

In the Primordial Wilderness.

Countless primordial divinities set aside their affairs, those in seclusion emerged, and all gathered toward the Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Among these beings, there were cultivators of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, but many more were Great Luo Golden Immortal powerhouses.

Yet the Great Dao is hard to come by.

To enter Chaos and go to the the Zixiao Palace to listen to the Dao, one must overcome numerous tribulations.

First, within the Primordial Wilderness, one must pass through the layer of the Five Elements Divine Thunder to reach the embryonic membrane of the Primordial Wilderness' earth.

Then, one must also endure the layer of Chaos's gale winds and the sneak attacks of Chaos's ferocious beasts; only those beings who survive these tribulations can finally reach the location of the the Zixiao Palace.

But these tribulations are extremely perilous; Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivators who enter them die in proportion to their numbers.

Even Great Luo Golden Immortals suffer considerable losses.

Only those Great Luo Golden Immortals who possess great fortune, great merit, and wield powerful spiritual treasures can ultimately laugh last.

Behold, the Kunlun Three Pure Ones entered proudly, bearing the supreme treasure of merit on their heads and the Heaven‑Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Treasure Pagoda.

Behold, the two three‑legged golden crows of the sun star, wearing the Chaos Bell on their heads, burst in with raucous laughter.

Behold, the Ancestral Witches, Zhenyuanzi, Nüwa, Fuxi, and others, each relying on their own abilities, fearlessly plunged into Chaos.

(End of chapter)