Chapter 98: Another Victim Appears: The Tragic Five Element Demon God

After negotiating with the [Gourd Merchant] in private chat about purchasing the gourd vine, Nüwa continued scouting targets within the [Great Family].

“This Being of the Shore is truly kind—gathered so many spiritual roots together; I don’t even need to go out and snatch them myself… no, go make connections with them myself.”

Nüwa decided this time she must exchange sincerity for sincerity, conducting clean, honest transactions with these little cuties.

Especially those primordial spiritual roots holding pivotal positions in the path of Creation.

For example.

“Qinglian, let’s chat privately!”

Nüwa quickly identified her target.

[Qinglian] entered private chat, utterly confused.

Watching another victim fall under Nüwa’s gaze, Xiang Xuanqing shook his head.

“Aren’t you going to save them?” [Liu the Elder] asked in private chat.

[Being of the Shore]: Isn’t Liu the Elder himself just enjoying the show?

“Is that the same thing?”

Yang Mei replied: “I, Liu the Elder, am now a Great Luo Supreme. I have the privilege to enjoy the show.”

“But you’re the chairman of the Mutual Aid Committee—you have the duty to protect them!”

Xiang Xuanqing replied: “The first lesson of the Mutual Aid Committee is to make everyone understand the dangers of the Honghuang.”

“…I have no retort.” Yang Mei pondered, realizing this made sense.

“But honestly, you’re lucky you invited me—if Hongjun were here, not a single one of your spiritual roots would escape.”

“Qinglian of Creation, primordial gourd vine, Star Tree, Six Roots Pure Bamboo, Fusang Tree, Moon Osmanthus Tree, Ginseng Fruit, Huang Zhongli, Pan Tao Tree…”

“Tsk tsk tsk—though a few of these are my own Baiyu Jing immortals, friend, gathering so many spiritual roots together is truly rare.”

Yang Mei wasn’t surprised that Xiang Xuanqing had founded this [All-Heaven-Myriad-Worlds Spiritual Roots Mutual Aid Committee].

He was merely curious about how Xiang Xuanqing had contacted these supreme spiritual roots!

Even Yang Mei, with his body’s unique nature and Great Luo Supreme power, couldn’t guarantee contact with all spiritual roots.

Especially those among the Ten Primordial Spiritual Roots!

“Well, that’s a long story.”

Facing Yang Mei’s question, Xiang Xuanqing smiled calmly: “I found them all through luck.”

He couldn’t admit that he already knew the whereabouts of half the Ten Primordial Spiritual Roots.

Huang Zhongli was encountered in Baiyu Jing—this rare object was extraordinary; its fruit supposedly granted transcendence over fate, nearly equivalent to a Great Luo’s partial traits!

How could Xiang Xuanqing let such a spiritual root slip away when he encountered it?

Thus, during his time in Baiyu Jing, he casually made contact.

Only Qinglian of Creation and the primordial gourd vine remained elusive.

This time, contacting them cost Xiang Xuanqing considerable fortune.

Of the Ten Primordial Spiritual Roots, only the Five-Needle Pine remained unlocated.

Yet by sheer accident, Xiang Xuanqing had calculated the Star Tree’s location.

The Star Tree wasn’t among the Ten Primordial Roots, yet its foundation rivaled theirs—it was a divine tree born from the primordial source of the Zhou Tian Stars, capable of commanding all stars.

Originally, when Xiang Xuanqing traveled through the Zhou Tian Starry Sky, this tree was one of his top targets.

Unfortunately, even after uniting the gods to establish a hall in the stars, he never found its whereabouts.

Unexpectedly, while calculating for the Five-Needle Pine, he accidentally pulled out the Star Tree.

“Logically, when I calculated for the Five-Needle Pine, I shouldn’t have landed on the Star Tree.”

Xiang Xuanqing pondered carefully: “Could it be the Five-Needle Pine has already taken form, become a primordial great deity, sensed I was calculating it, and diverted the trouble toward the Star Tree?”

Even further—perhaps the Five-Needle Pine itself is a primordial spiritual root formed from the remains of the Five Element Demon God.

After all, the Five-Needle Pine’s fruit naturally contains the power of the Five Element Dao.

The more Xiang Xuanqing thought, the more plausible it seemed.

So he directly questioned [Liu the Elder] Yang Mei.

“Liu the Elder, is the Five-Needle Pine the Five Element Demon God?”

“???”

On the other side of the chat, Yang Mei suddenly looked up.

“What’s going on? Why the alarm?” In the boundless chaos, Hongjun walked through the void; atop his head, his three blossoms shone brilliantly, his auspicious clouds churned, and boundless Dao light coalesced into an object—pure as jade, shaped like a saucer.

“Fengdu asked me: Is the Five-Needle Pine the Five Element Demon God?”

“That’s a good question!”

Hongjun raised an eyebrow, clearly intrigued.

“One of the Ten Primordial Spiritual Roots—the Five-Needle Pine; one of the Three Thousand Chaotic Demon Gods—the Five Element Demon God? Hmm, both embody the Five Element Dao. This suspicion is reasonable!”

“Fengdu’s reasoning is excellent. Let me calculate.”

Hongjun immediately sat cross-legged in the void, pushed aside his Dao crown, and vast laws surged; the Jade Disk of Creation radiated boundless immortal light, illuminating all heavens and timelines.

Layer upon layer of Dao ripples, dreamlike, expanded through chaos, crossed the dust of time, ignored the constraints of ages, and began exerting influence outward.

Vague, ethereal figures transcended time and space—leaving footprints in the past, casting glances into the present, revealing forms in the future.

Boundless timelines, countless possible nodes constantly shifting—all lay within observation.

A Great Luo Supreme, fully exerting eternal, transcendent power to calculate a single existence—this process was silent and invisible to beings below Great Luo, yet terrifying beyond measure.

Xiang Xuanqing hadn’t expected his small guess to spark Hongjun’s interest.

He hadn’t imagined that Hongjun’s attention would bring immense pressure upon the Five-Needle Pine.

In an unknown secret realm of the Honghuang True Realm.

A gray squirrel clutched a pine nut and scampered up a treetop, cautiously scanning its surroundings; once certain of safety, it hid the nut in a tree hollow.

The squirrel was utterly ordinary, save for five colorful hairs hidden at the tip of its fluffy tail.

“Hmm, stored! The thirteen thousand and seventy-second pine nut—I’ve accomplished a great feat. This winter will be peaceful.”

The gray squirrel crossed its arms, happily flicked its tail, exuding triumph.

“I wonder how Brother Star Tree is doing? Hehe, I hope the one scheming against me is a benevolent god—otherwise, Brother will suffer terribly!” The squirrel recalled recent events.

An unknown entity had attempted to contact it—and had precisely calculated its location.

“Luckily, I had a plan ready—I successfully diverted the trouble, shifting the karmic burden onto the Star Tree!”

We exchange equally.

I helped you find the Star Tree—so don’t come looking for me, the Five-Needle Pine!

The gray squirrel believed the other would understand.

It was just too bad for the Star Tree.

“Ah, forget Him. I’ve finally taken form, smuggled myself into the Honghuang—I must quickly adapt to its Dao laws and then conceal myself.”

The gray squirrel looked at its tail: “Five colorful hairs still possess divine effects. I must quickly reverse-refine my origin and return completely to ordinariness—only then can I evade their calculations.”

The gray squirrel plotted its future.

It possessed the foundation of the Five Element Demon God, yes—but this was not its era; it must remain utterly unassuming.

Be quiet. Quieter still.

Hide. Hide deeper still!

It must endure the solitude of Dao, withstand the erosion of ages.

“Only by blending into the ordinary, becoming ordinary, can trouble stay away!” The gray squirrel resolved to avoid all factional struggles, content to be a humble, insignificant little squirrel.

“The glory of the Five Element Demon God? That’s all past!”

“I now embrace a beautiful future!”

“Honghuang pine nuts—I’m coming!”

The gray squirrel declared loudly beneath the brilliant sun, then leapt from the treetop, ready to continue its [Tuntun Squirrel] mission!

Then, Hongjun’s power extended here.

A pair of eyes pierced through boundless time and space, gazing into this secret realm.

“Squeak!”

The cold, terrifying gaze reflected upon the heavens, causing the gray squirrel to plummet from midair.

It widened its eyes in utter horror: “Pangu’s axe! Who’s calculating me now?”

Under that cold gaze, the gray squirrel felt its scalp go numb.

This karmic trace, this aura, this method—definitely a Great Luo!

Without hesitation, it abandoned its newly hoarded treasure and fled instantly.

“The pine nuts are yours—no thanks needed!”

The gray squirrel used mysterious, arcane Five Element abilities to disrupt time-space, then scooped up two handfuls of soil and flung them upward—obscuring the eyes in the heavens.

“Five Element Great Escape!”

Seizing the opportunity, the gray squirrel vanished from the secret realm using a teleportation technique.

“Scared the squirrel!”

When the gray squirrel reappeared, it was on a continent in the Northern Sea.

It glanced around, still shaken.

“Didn’t follow?”

Just as it prepared to celebrate, a pair of eyes reversed the future, ascending the river of time toward this moment.

“Squeak!”

The gray squirrel leapt straight up: “Again?!”

Five Elements Great Escape!

This time, it chose to flee far into the stars, slipping into the endless star river.

Yet, a faint, almost imperceptible thought soon took form within the star river, manifesting a faint phantom shadow.

The squirrel immediately panicked.

It cursed under its breath: “Has survival in the Honghuang become this hard? Is there a local everywhere watching me?!”

“I’ve been in the Honghuang for so long—just picked a few pine nuts. Is it really worth all this effort to chase me?”

“Is picking pine nuts in the Honghuang a crime against heaven?”

The gray squirrel was baffled—she hadn’t done anything wicked at all!

But that Muhoudedahundan kept calculating her whereabouts, his gaze piercing straight to her origin.

“These locals are so unfair—they don’t even leave a shred of room for us smugglers!”

The squirrel grew deeply anxious, feeling she could no longer stay in the Honghuang Zhen Jie.

“All those pine nuts I hoarded this autumn—so many, and not a single one I dared taste!”

The gray squirrel was filled with unjust fury, silently cursing the Honghuang locals.

“Fine, I’ll leave the Honghuang— but I’ll return one day!”

After making up her mind, the gray squirrel immediately unleashed her ultimate technique.

“He Hua Wu Xing Da Fa!”

This technique is the supreme divine art of the Five Elements Dao—throughout the Zhou Tian Wan Jie, the entire cosmos, past and future, anything of the Five Elements can become its foothold, or even its avatar!

“Being a Luo Jinxian is impressive? I’m no pushover either!”

“Let’s go!”

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