Primordial Era: I am Donghua, this Heavenly Emperor is too majestic.

Beneath the stone wall before him, a strange spiritual root grew crookedly, originating from the same root but branching into five, with each branch displaying a different color: red, white, blue, gold, or black.

The branches bear fruits the size of a baby's fist, which are also divided into five colors.

Streaks of golden wind and raging fire, and light from green water and verdant trees continuously descended.

This spiritual root is none other than the famous Five-Needle Pine in the primordial world, also known as the Five Elements Fruit Tree.

Although it is not among the top ten innate spiritual roots, it is undoubtedly a top-grade innate spiritual root.

This spiritual root blossoms every 10,800 years, bears fruit every 10,800 years, and matures every 10,800 years, yielding only thirty fruits each time. It has an incredible effect on cultivating the Five Elements Great Dao.

"The Five Elements spiritual roots have been of great help to me."

As a representative of the yang energy in the primordial world, Dongwanggong mainly cultivates the Lesser Yang Great Dao, which extends from his own origin, supplemented by the Great Dao of Wood, and is closely related to the Five Elements.

Or to be more precise, he minored in the Five Elements Dao.

From the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth), one can understand the changes of yin and yang, and comprehend the balance between movement and stillness.

He understands Yin and Yang, and comprehends the workings of nature.

Therefore, the help that the five-needle pine, a top-tier spiritual root of the Five Elements, provides to him is perhaps second only to the innate Yang-type fire-type Fusang wood, which is also his.

However, the legend of the Fusang tree is that it is located in Tang Valley, and even if he wanted it, he probably wouldn't be able to obtain it for the time being.

He casually picked a red pine nut and ate it.

Instantly, a rich innate spiritual energy dissipated from his mouth, then surged into his limbs and bones like a tide, continuously generating streams of the five elements essence. At the same time, a faint understanding of the five elements also surfaced in his mind with each thought.

Although they are just small drops, they add up to a lot.

It is precisely through this gradual accumulation that the differences in strength among the immortals become increasingly apparent.

After temporarily taking the five-needle pine into his Purple Mansion, Donghua headed straight for the last immortal island in the northwest—Yingzhou Island.

Travellers from the sea speak of Penglai Island, but its misty waves and distant shores make it difficult to find.

Yingzhou Island is much smaller than Fangzhang Island, so the opportunities it nurtures are even worse, and there are no innate spiritual treasures at all. However, the island is home to many rare spiritual herbs.

Glass lilies, jade begonias...

Although most of them are just ordinary innate spiritual roots, the total number is truly astonishing, like a vast medicinal garden created by heaven and earth.

These spiritual roots are nothing to Donghua, but they are still rare treasures for ordinary immortals.

If placed in the later Dharma-ending Age, it would be even more precious.

In the future, if Donghua were to establish a Celestial Court, this vast quantity of precious medicines could directly become one of the Celestial Court's many foundational assets.

After checking the three immortal islands, Donghua spent some more time searching through the other immortal continents, such as Peach Blossom Spring and Langyuan, which are among the ten continents, before finally returning to Zifu Continent.

He plans to refine the entire Three Islands and Ten Continents into his own training ground.

According to the innate memories inherited in his mind, Hongjun has not yet become a saint and is still in the early stage of the primordial world.

The great gods of the primordial world are either in seclusion or traveling around. Donghua naturally cannot stay in Zifu Continent forever. Otherwise, wouldn't countless opportunities in this vast primordial land be given away to others for nothing?

Therefore, he had long ago made up his mind to travel to the prehistoric world.

Before setting off, one should naturally tidy up one's hometown properly, otherwise, if one turns around and finds that one's hometown has been ransacked, one would be devastated.

The first step is to refine the dojo.

At the same time, it is also a way of openly telling everyone that this place is occupied.

Thinking of this.

Donghua immediately released his Great Dao, radiating outwards from himself to the entire Zifu Continent, and then further extending to the entire Three Islands and Ten Continents.

He imbued every inch of the land with the aura of the Great Luo, just like refining a magical treasure, leaving his mark on the entire region.

After that, with just a thought, one could see everything on the island.

Moreover, while Donghua was refining the three islands and ten continents, he also split his mind in two to analyze and study the innate array covering the outer side of the Cangling Ruins.

This formation was created by heaven and earth.

It integrates killing formations, illusion formations, trapping formations, and spirit formations, making it ever-changing and infinitely mysterious.

If one were not a master of formations, it would take millions of years to fully comprehend it. However, Donghua, as the lord of Zifu Continent, did not have this problem. It would be no exaggeration to say that this formation was tailor-made for him.

With the full comprehension of the Great Luo Primordial Spirit, it only took a few eons to completely master it.

This also proves that Donghua is indeed quite talented in the art of formations.

After all, during the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods in later generations, the Myriad Immortals Formation of the Tongtian Sect Leader was an improvement on the 1.0 version of the Myriad Immortals Formation of Donghua.

At this moment.

As Donghua's thoughts stirred, the originally calmly operating array suddenly underwent a strange change, as if its underlying operating logic had been altered. It went from being as still as water to being extremely secluded and difficult to find, causing the entire Cangling Ruins to disappear from the sea surface.

Unless you investigate carefully, you won't find even the slightest trace of the formation.

Even if they were discovered, if someone foolishly tried to force their way in, the primordial spirit imprint left by Donghua in the formation would not be to be trifled with.

"That's about it."

After completing all this and ensuring there were no further worries, Donghua unleashed his escape light and sped towards the prehistoric continent.

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Although the primordial world is vast and boundless, it generally still follows the pattern of a round heaven and a square earth as described in previous myths and legends.

The four seas of East, West, South, and North are arranged in a ring shape like a jade belt, enclosing the main continent in the middle. Among them, the East Sea has the largest area and is the largest of the four seas.

It is also the main base of the dragon race.

Unfortunately, after the Dragon-Han Calamity, all three races suffered severe damage and were burdened with a massive amount of karma, almost completely withdrawing from the stage of history.

Even if they make any further moves after that, it will be difficult to cause any significant trouble.

In the later period of the Investiture of the Gods, in order to prevent the rise of the dragon race, it was even punished by several sages to suppress countless ferocious beasts that had survived since ancient times.

The so-called Dragon Palace of the East Sea is an underwater hell, which not only binds ferocious beasts, but also the dragons themselves.

Of course, that's all in the future.

Looking out, islands dotted the sea. As Donghua traveled, he also released his Great Luo Divine Sense to explore the opportunities that might exist in various places, but he did not gain much along the way.

This was within his expectations.

After all, the dragon race has dominated the four seas for countless years. Even if there were opportunities along the way, they would probably have been almost completely plundered long ago.

"Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Dragon Clan has declined, it still retains its former strength. If we can absorb it into the Purple Mansion Continent and make good use of it, it might be a great help."

To establish a celestial court and fight against the demon race led by Di Jun, the stronger the forces under their command, the better.

Recruiting the dragons seems like a good option.