Chapter 72: with translation of chapter title

Western Sumeru Mountain

Rahu had some sparkling, crystal-clear fire crystals scattered in his hand; he harbored some doubts, and in the past two hundred yuan-hui, the circulation of fire crystals had become increasingly apparent, and their quality was surprisingly good.

"Such heavenly-earthly essence, could there really be a vein capable of producing this much high-quality fire crystal?"

The Xifang Dalu also has fire crystal veins, but the quality is mostly poor; basically they produce only low-grade, with impure crystals.

Previously, these high-quality fire crystals could only come from a small portion of the Phoenix clan's output; they are an important resource for building smelting furnaces, flame pools, and cultivating the Fire Dao.

Basically they circulated only in the Southern Continent, and very rarely; now they even appear in the Xifang Dalu, and in considerable numbers.

He didn't think it came from the Phoenix clan; he felt that the primordial wilderness had simply produced a fire crystal vein of extraordinarily high quality.

After all, the danger of the Undying Volcano is widely known among the primordial deities; the Phoenix clan is innately tasked with guarding the Undying Volcano, so they would hardly dare do this.

After all, that immense karmic debt would fill up all the merit and fortune the Phoenix clan has accumulated to this day, and likely could not be repaid.

The scene of the Undying Volcano's massive eruption is still vivid in the minds of old primordial deities like Rahu; the Yuan Phoenix and Yuan Fenghuang would not be so short-sighted.

Long Mother once caused a disaster while compiling the Water Control Classic, for which she was still punished; if the Undying Volcano were to erupt massively again, the Phoenix clan would likely suffer the same fate.

Rahu had already learned of what happened in Yunmeng Ze by visiting an acquaintance water deity.

Even though the divine-path crisis was resolved in advance, should it erupt, those deities would likely never be able to reappear in the world, just as Long Mother did originally.

Moreover, the lessons of the past are right before our eyes; the disaster just occurred not long ago, so even the present Rahu has no desire to stir up trouble.

But if the matter comes to light on its own, that would be interesting for him.

"Looks like I should go investigate; right now my accumulation of calamity and killing qi is still too low, and the nurturing speed of my treasures is too slow."

"The Xifang Dalu has many veins; when those peoples mine them, they inevitably release a lot of killing qi and demon god resentment."

"Perhaps I should look to the entire primordial wilderness; as long as I guide it into the Xifang Dalu's earth veins, I will have nothing to worry about."

Rahu thought of the backup he had prepared to contend with Hongjun; a hint of pride flashed in his eyes—with this formation, no one in the world could rival him.

He prepared to make a foray into the primordial wilderness to gather demon god resentment and heavenly gang and earthly killing qi, while also checking where these fire crystals were coming from.

After all, with these fire crystals, the speed at which he completes his trump card could be greatly increased.

Qilin clan.

The Primal Qilin kept communicating with various mountain gods, hoping to gain their support, but was refused.

Now the matter of Yunmeng Ze has spread among the primordial deities; they also lack no cultivation resources, and the world's fortune is sufficient for their practice.

In the muddy waters between the three tribes, they have no need to get involved; they only need to guard their own great mountain.

Faced with the Primal Qilin's profit-seeking, most mountain gods remained unmoved; they don't need that many spiritual treasures, and the Qilin clan cannot satisfy so many primordial deities.

As for the fortune of all beings, to them it is something to avoid like a snake or scorpion, lest a deity wielding special authority emerge from among the mountain gods.

As long as it does not appear, they can forever watch the amusements of the water deities with a smile, without having to labor over governing the world.

Yunmeng Ze.

Qi was calculating the flow of water vapor to various places, and continually forecasting the weather to ensure that the movement of Yunmeng Ze's water vapor would not affect anything.

Normally, within a yuan-hui, only a thousand years of such calculation would be needed to be worry-free; but because of what happened before, he also has to extend his calculations a bit.

Fortunately, these come to him as second nature; he doesn't need to intervene in anything, as long as he understands the results in his heart.

Fuxi is now in closed-door cultivation; Nüwa gave him two top-grade spiritual treasures, so he should not emerge from seclusion anytime soon.

Nüwa is currently cultivating the Way of Creation; she constantly produces oddly shaped living beings, mostly like ferocious beasts, lacking much wisdom but possessing some divine abilities.

These beings Nüwa directly tosses into Yunmeng Ze; whether they survive depends entirely on their fate, for they are deficient in the Way.

Most of them end up as food for the fish in the marsh, though some live quite well.

For example, one kind has a body like coal, lying motionless on a solitary island each day.

They do not hunt; it seems as long as there is sunlight, they will absolutely not move a step.

Their sole feeding action is to open their mouths and wait for waterbirds to fall in, then close them.

Out of curiosity, Nüwa once observed their lives, finding that they eat only about twice a year, with no desire whatsoever, as if their purpose in being born was merely to await death.

This left Nüwa greatly disappointed, yet she then enthusiastically set about creating other species.

Qi expressed helplessness about this, but said nothing more; he simply demarcated a body of water for Nüwa, telling her not to come and mess up his Dao-chang.

That body of water also suddenly became a hunting ground for the marsh's living beings, because Nüwa's creations resemble ferocious beasts too closely.

They merely lack the beasts' ability to eat and evolve without limit; otherwise they are hardly different.

The main reason is that those creations are entirely treasures; under Qi's laissez-faire, Nüwa's creations basically cannot survive long.

Only because Qi feels those creations have no necessary reason to exist, and their strength is adequate, so he does not need to protect them.

Nüwa also does not mind this; beings without wisdom are ultimately just a pile of spiritual objects.

She wants to create a being capable of infinite possibilities, possessing emotional intelligence; only such a creation can truly survive in the primordial wilderness.

Di Jun, Taiyi returned to the Sun Star, and will need tens of thousands of years before they can come back; the Sun Star was active frequently up to ten thousand years ago, so they need to suppress it and, in the process, cleanse the fire poison that was born.

Yujing Mountain.

Hongjun had just finished lecturing on the Way; that scene in Yunmeng Ze dealt him a considerable mental shock, making him unwilling to linger.

One primordial deity of comparable strength to him, together with seven top-tier primordial deities, were all severely wounded, while the opponent remained unscathed—this exceeded his expectations.

Therefore, after achieving his goal, he hastily left Yunmeng Ze; until the cause is clarified, he absolutely will not step foot there again.

Fortunately, later it became known that this was because the primordial deities, knowing they had abused their authority, set no defenses, allowing that authority-endowed spiritual treasure to carry out the punishment.

This led him to believe that Yunmeng Ze possessed a means to easily inflict grave harm on primordial deities; in a moment of carelessness, he nearly made a fool of himself.

Fortunately, he covered it up; at most others thought he had some urgent affair, after all, involving so many primordial deities, it's normal that he couldn't calculate it.

Nevertheless, Hongjun has made up his mind to go to Yunmeng Ze less often in the future; that place is somewhat sinister.

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