Primordial Era: I am a treasure trove, full of magical treasures.

More than 50 years have passed since Xuanbao left the Undying Volcano. During these 50 years, Xuanbao has been advancing at full speed towards the western part of the prehistoric world. Now, the souls in the eastern and southern parts of the prehistoric world have been mostly collected by Xuanbao. Therefore, Xuanbao has decided to start collecting the vast majority of souls in the prehistoric world from south to north, and then from west to east, which happens to align with his goal.

The Four Spirits of Heaven and Earth are the Azure Dragon of the East, the White Tiger of the West, the Vermilion Bird of the South, and the Black Tortoise of the North. Xuanbao plans to visit these races while collecting souls. Whether they will agree is not within Xuanbao's consideration. After seeing how the Phoenix Clan longed for merit, not to mention the White Tiger Clan, the Dragon Clan and the Qilin Clan must also be eager for merit. As for the fact that the Qilin Clan is not among the Four Spirits of Heaven and Earth, Xuanbao said that since there are no Four Spirits of Heaven and Earth now, whether there are Four Spirits or Five Spirits of Heaven and Earth is not up to him. At worst, he can add the Qilin to the Four Spirits of Heaven and Earth to make it the Five Spirits of Heaven and Earth.

"What kind of garbage is this?" It has been nearly 100 years since Xuanbao came to the Western Continent. Xuanbao has witnessed what a bitterly cold land is like. With Xuanbao's treasure hunting method of clearing maps, he has only found two low-grade innate spiritual treasures and some innate materials in nearly 100 years. Other than that, he has not found anything. If it weren't for the Human Emperor Banner being upgraded to a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, coming to the Western Continent would have been a huge loss.

For nearly 100 years, Xuanbao's underlings have been capturing souls in the Western Continent. Although the Western Continent has very little spiritual energy and its ley lines are almost completely broken, this also means that there are very few powerful beings there. In contrast, in the prehistoric Eastern Continent, powerful beings are plentiful. Could you tolerate so many souls wandering around your doorstep, indiscriminately killing innocents and devouring each other? You would definitely kill them all long ago. Moreover, killing souls with deep karmic debts can even earn you some merit. The reason why there are so few souls in the Eastern Continent is that they are all used as experience points. Xuanbao only obtained a little over 200 million souls in the entire Eastern Continent, which is just a drop in the ocean compared to the entire prehistoric world.

Moreover, the cultivation of the soul does not rely much on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It only requires sufficient yin energy, turbid energy and other negative spiritual energy. Therefore, the number of souls in the Western Continent is extremely large.

At the beginning, Xuanbao had a total of 17 Grand Luo Golden Immortals, 1452 Taiyi Golden Immortals, and 26,000 Golden Immortals under his command. However, in just over 100 years, Xuanbao's number increased to 21 Grand Luo Golden Immortals, 1200 Taiyi Golden Immortals, and 30,000 Golden Immortals. It was precisely because Xuanbao's subordinates increased that the speed at which he captured souls accelerated even further, directly starting a snowballing mode. Xuanbao captured more than 700 million souls below the Golden Immortal level alone, capturing most of the souls in the entire West. As these wandering souls decreased sharply, they also attracted the attention of those with ulterior motives.

Western Spirit Mountain~

"Brother Dao, it has been tens of thousands of years since Hongjun gave his three lectures, yet we have still not found the opportunity to become saints. When will our Western Paradise finally prosper?"

Zhunti looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with confusion.

"Junior brother, do not be anxious. Have you not heard that the Way of Heaven is impartial? Since the Dao Ancestor has bestowed upon us the Primordial Purple Qi, how could we not become saints?"

"Moreover, the East will have four sages in the future. If the West has no sages, wouldn't that violate the balance of Heaven?"

Compared to Zhunti, Jieyin was clearly more composed, though he didn't show it, he was anxious inside. If the people from the North and South heard what he said, they would probably spit salt water at him. What, you Westerners are human but they aren't? They don't even have a wisp of Primordial Purple Qi.

"So, according to Senior Brother's wishes, we should do nothing and simply wait for the opportunity to become saints to fall into our laps?"

"Not really. I've recently observed a sudden drop in Yin energy in the West, which suggests something we don't know about has happened. I don't know if it's our chance to achieve enlightenment, but I'm at a crucial moment preparing to sever my ego, so I have no time to worry about anything else. I can only trouble you, junior brother, to investigate." I will be going into seclusion today, so I'll have to trouble you this time. After saying this, Jieyin disappeared and went into seclusion.

When Zhunti learned that Jieyin was about to sever the third corpse, he was overjoyed. This would give the West another powerful quasi-saint in the late stage, making the future rise of the West even more promising. As for the sudden drop in Yin energy that Jieyin mentioned, he would naturally investigate it.

At this moment, Xuanbao was unaware that his capture of those wandering souls had successfully attracted the attention of Zhunti, a quasi-saint who had severed his two corpses, and was still happily collecting souls there.

Until one day, a precious aura appeared in Xuanbao's senses. Judging from its quantity, it was indeed the largest precious aura Xuanbao had ever encountered in the Western Regions. Based on experience, it was at least a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

Xuanbao didn't delay and immediately accelerated his flight to the place where he discovered the treasure energy. "Innate formation, it's strange that Luo Hou activated the entire western earth veins back then, how come there is still an innate formation that can be preserved?" Xuanbao also felt very strange, but strange as it was, he opened the formation and went in to take a look, and the answer became clear at a glance.

The top-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Yuan-breaking shovel, lived up to its mission and quickly dug through the innate formation. Xuanbao also arrived directly inside the formation. As soon as he entered the formation, Xuanbao looked around and saw a sea of ​​bamboo. However, what attracted Xuanbao the most was the bamboo stalk in the center of the sea of ​​bamboo that was tens of thousands of feet long.

Xuanbao naturally knew about the "Supreme Innate Spiritual Root Bitter Bamboo." The Bitter Bamboo was nurtured by the Seven Emotions Dao. It resembled ordinary green bamboo in appearance, but its entire body was permeated with a sorrowful aura, capable of inducing feelings of utter despair. It could release endless sorrow, bewitching sentient beings, causing those affected to lose all hope and commit suicide before the bamboo. However, if a cultivator could resist this sorrow, they could eliminate all inner demons, purify their six senses, and greatly reduce obstacles to cultivation.

Later, Zhunti refined bitter bamboo into the Six Roots Purification Bamboo, a primordial spiritual treasure capable of sealing a person's six senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mind), rendering the target completely under one's control. This became a highly powerful and intimidating magical artifact in Western Buddhism.

What a stroke of luck! Seeing the bamboo forest treasure before him filled him with joy. Besides a top-grade innate spiritual root, the bamboo forest also contained nine high-grade pearls and 36 low-grade bitter bamboos. The endless bamboo forest in the outer circle was also filled with excellent spiritual bamboos. If all of these were refined into spiritual treasures, there would be dozens of them. However, Xuanbao would not do something so short-sighted. A single top-grade innate spiritual root could change the fortune of an entire Daoist temple. Using it to refine treasures would be a waste of its potential.

However, the search that followed left Xuanbao, who was already overjoyed, speechless with emotion. He had found the Eight Treasures Merit Pool of the Western Sect in the depths of the bamboo forest. It was precisely because of this Eight Treasures Merit Pool that the array eye of this innate array was able to escape the Western ley lines detonated by Luo Hou.

The Eight Treasures Merit Pool is a rare treasure of heaven and earth, and it has no distinction of rank. Now that he has suddenly obtained two great treasures from the West, Xuanbao knows the shamelessness of those two from the West, so he naturally does not dare to linger. He puts everything in the space into the Hybrid Gourd and prepares to find the White Tiger Clan as soon as possible to finish his business and make a quick getaway, lest things get complicated.

However, as the saying goes, plans can't keep up with changes. As soon as Xuanbao stepped out of that innate formation, he heard the last thing he wanted to hear.

"You are destined to be connected with the West."