Primordial Era: I, Hongyun, take charge of the literary path

A spiritual light rose from Hongyun's body, transforming into a protective shield that kept out the surrounding turbid and malevolent energy.

It is the "Born Light" among the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Divine Powers, which can emit protective divine light, making one impervious to all magic and evil, with light covering the entire body and endless wonders.

Hongyun looked thoughtful. This place lacks the earth veins to transform turbid and malevolent energy. Without addressing this root cause, talking about purifying this place is just empty talk.

The root cause lies in the earth's veins. If the earth's veins can be repaired, this place will eventually return to its original state even without his help. However, earth's veins are not so easy to repair, and this merit is not something that just anyone can obtain.

After much deliberation, Hongyun found a solution to the problem of the earth veins from the Earth Demon God's inheritance within him.

Hongyun retrieved the Qilin Pill obtained from the Earth Qilin, and then searched for the fragments of the earth veins that had been left in this place.

The Earth Qilin is a primordial being born from the earth's veins, also known as the Earth Vein Spirit. Its Qilin Pill is the most likely material to repair broken earth veins.

Hongyun sank into the ground with the Qilin Pill. The turbid and malevolent energy underground became even more concentrated and had an corrosive effect on the primordial spirit's power, suppressing the primordial spirit's perception.

At first, Hongyun thought the environment here was dangerous and there were no living beings, but after going deeper underground, he discovered that there were living beings in the underground soil.

They were creatures that looked like earthworms, their bodies were blood red, each with a single horn on its head, but no eyes, and their bodies were covered with dragon scales of varying sizes.

Hongyun perceived the Heavenly Dao through his primordial spirit and learned that this creature was called the Unicorn Earthworm, a hybrid dragon species. Dragons are inherently lustful, and each of their nine sons is different.

The unicorn earthworm is extremely resilient. Although the environment here is harsh, the unicorn earthworm has adapted generation after generation, forming a unique subspecies.

Normal unicorn earthworms are yellow, but because they have absorbed a lot of turbid and malevolent energy, the unicorn earthworms here have turned blood red and become increasingly ferocious.

After Hongyun entered their territory, the unicorn earthworms roared and charged over.

Some small worms that aren't even celestial beings can be blown to death by Hongyun with a single breath.

Hongyun directly unleashed the Qilin Pill, and a powerful force suppressed everything, killing the one-horned earthworm within a radius of several hundred miles, its essence being absorbed by the Qilin Pill.

Hongyun continued to sink deeper into the earth, tens of thousands of meters underground, when he suddenly had a feeling.

It was as if something was drawing him in.

Could there be some treasure here?

The thought flashed through Hongyun's mind. Following her senses, she arrived at a place where she felt spatial fluctuations, indicating that it was a dimensional world.

The primordial world has ten major grotto-heavens, thirty-six minor grotto-heavens, and seventy-two blessed lands that are considered to be of high rank. The rest are dimensional worlds.

Dimensional worlds are small worlds attached to the primordial world. They vary in size, with some worlds spanning billions of light-years and others thousands or tens of thousands of light-years.

Hongyun entered this dimensional world, where birds sang, flowers bloomed, streams murmured, and spiritual energy was abundant.

Of course, this dimensional world is dependent on the primordial world and is not a world of its own. If the primordial world continues to degrade, the dimensional world will also continue to shrink.

If we reach the end of the Dharma era, it wouldn't be surprising if these dimensional worlds were to become just ordinary caves.

Hongyun used his divine sense to explore this dimensional world, and found that it was quite large, spanning thousands of light-years.

At the center of the world is a void, and suspended in the void is a yellowish-brown crystal.

Hongyun stepped in front of the crystal. His primordial spirit sensed the Heavenly Dao and learned that this was the fragment of the earth vein he was looking for, which was also the reason that this dimensional world evolved.

Hongyun murmured to herself, "Is this fragment of the earth's veins the thing I'm sensing?"

Next, Hongyun took out the Qilin Pill, and the power of the earth drew in the fragments of the earth veins, which then merged into the Qilin Pill.

Placing the Qilin Pill into the earth's veins can nurture new earth Qilin. Hongyun did the opposite, using the Qilin Pill to nurture a new earth vein. These earth vein fragments are both seeds and nutrients.

After the ley line fragments were removed, the dimensional world became unstable, and the void began to break apart.

As Hongyun was about to leave, he suddenly saw a flash of yellow light in the depths of the dimensional space.

At this moment, Hongyun's heart pounded even more, realizing that the yellow light was what resonated with him.

Layers of void were torn apart by the red cloud, and with a grab of its large hand, a stream of light flew out from the depths of the void.

The stream of light landed in front of the red clouds, and a yellow halo spread out, revealing a piece of essence radiating the breath of the earth.

"This is... the essence of the earth?!"

Hongyun's eyes lit up. The Earth Essence was a divine material of the same level as the Frost God Essence, and it was also one of the materials for nurturing earth veins. Obtaining it was effortless.

Hongyun glanced at the Earth Essence in his hand, feeling somewhat regretful. Such a top-tier divine material was still very rare to see, but in the end, he still absorbed it into the Qilin Pill.

After the dimensional collapse, Hongyun returned underground and continued to collect the remaining ley line fragments.

There are quite a few one-horned earthworms underground in this dangerous place; Hongyun encounters several almost every time.

Several years passed, and Hongyun traversed the entire perilous area, eventually finding all the earth vein fragments he could locate, before arriving at the heart of the danger zone.

At the heart of this dangerous place is a large mountain, which was once a ridge of the earth's veins. After the earth's veins broke, the turbid and malevolent energy rising from here is the strongest.

Weak creatures cannot survive here. For the mutated unicorn earthworms, this is a sacred place for cultivation, so naturally, some unicorn earthworms have occupied it.

Upon entering this mountain range, Hongyun's vision was obscured by the miasma rising from the ground.

Hongyun tried to use his primordial spirit to sense the miasma and discovered that it had a suppressive effect on his primordial spirit.

Everything within sight was hazy and gray. Hongyun sighed inwardly, thinking that this kind of environment was perfect for a surprise attack, which was very disadvantageous for cultivators who mainly focused on cultivating their primordial spirit.

Even with his cultivation level, he found his surroundings blurry and unclear, and was also being corroded by turbid and malevolent energy.

The red cloud emitted light from its body, blocking out the turbid and malevolent energy, before plunging headlong into the miasma-filled mountains.

Hongyun remained calm, his gaze sweeping over the surrounding miasma, where a one-horned earthworm might be lurking.

As Hongyun stepped into this mountain, a one-horned earthworm king, who had cultivated deep underground, sensed it.

A white crow standing out among a flock of black crows is quite conspicuous; the pure and ethereal aura emanating from Hongyun is like a candle flame in the darkness.

Because of the harsh environment, few creatures venture here. Even if someone does come, they are kept here by the unicorn earthworm clan, because they do not want to be disturbed; this is a rare sanctuary for their clan.

With a thought, the One-Horned Earthworm King awakened all the One-Horned Earthworms living near the mountains.

Roar roar roar—

A series of ferocious roars rang out.

The unicorn earthworm shimmered with a red light, and its chilling killing intent affected the surroundings, causing the turbid air to churn.

At the call of the One-Horned Earth Dragon King, one after another, the One-Horned Earth Dragons left their nests and fled directly towards the red clouds, causing the entire mountain to boil with excitement.