Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Yuan Yan, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Fu Xi, and Nuwa enjoyed tea and conversation, talking happily until they parted ways thousands of years later.

After parting ways with Nuwa, Fuxi, and the others, Yuan Yan naturally did not forget his promise: he would go to the newly repaired earth veins to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array.

However, he was somewhat reluctant to work!

Before he had the three Dao bodies of Yuanjie, Yuanlun, and Yuanling, he had to do everything himself.

Now that he has three Dao bodies—Yuanjie, Yuanlun, and Yuanling—he still has to do things himself. Wouldn't it be a waste if he condensed these three Dao bodies for nothing?

Immediately, Yuan Yan wanted to communicate with the Yuan Realm, Yuan Wheel, and Yuan Spirit through some unseen connection, and ask them to do the work for him.

However, Yuan Yan suddenly paused, as he suddenly remembered that the true forms of Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, Nuwa, and Fuxi were in seclusion at the Three Lights Divine Water Pool.

Although they each activated the protective array of Yingzhou Immortal Island and set up array barriers, it was only to prevent someone from suddenly attaining enlightenment and causing a great disturbance that would affect the cultivation of others; they had no real defense against each other.

If the Primordial Realm, Primordial Wheel, and Primordial Spirit were to truly depart, Nuwa and Fuxi might be able to sense it.

If Nuwa and Fuxi knew that he had just agreed to go to the newly repaired ley lines to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, and then immediately pushed the task to Yuanjie, Yuanlun, and Yuanling, where would he put his face?

Moreover, given his cultivation level and the array flags of the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array, it wouldn't take him much time to set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array on the newly repaired mountains and ley lines.

With this thought in mind, Yuan Yan abandoned his plan to contact the Yuan Realm, Yuan Wheel, and Yuan Spirit to have them do his work.

In an instant, Yuan Yan's figure flashed and disappeared from Yingzhou Immortal Island.

Time slipped by quietly, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten thousand years had passed.

Yuan Yan set up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array on the recently repaired ley lines in the Crimson Flame Mountains, activated it, and let it operate on its own. Without lingering, he flashed back to the sky above the Crimson Flame Mountains.

At this moment, Yuan Yan instinctively extended his divine sense, both to guard against unexpected dangers and to explore the Crimson Flame Mountains in search of rare and precious materials useful to Golden Immortals and above.

Of course, it would be even better if one had innate spiritual treasures or innate spiritual roots!

However, not all mountains nurture innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots.

Even if he were to be born with innate spiritual treasures or innate spiritual roots, it might not be a good match for him. They might have been taken away in previous kalpas, and he might not be able to discover those that were not taken.

"Huh?" Yuan Yan suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

What did he sense?

A crimson lion-like creature was perched on the crater, inhaling and exhaling innate fire elemental energy and Daoist spiritual energy to recover from its injuries.

This is perfectly normal!

Although the Western Continent has become extremely barren due to the detonation of the earth's veins by the Demon Ancestor Rahu, it is not devoid of life and vitality.

Where there are living beings, there will naturally be conflict. In fact, due to the barrenness and scarcity of resources in the western continent, the intensity of the conflict among living beings far exceeds that in the eastern continent, and where there is conflict, there will naturally be casualties.

Once injured, it is perfectly normal to absorb innate spiritual energy and Daoist spiritual energy to recover from the injury.

But when he arrived at the Crimson Flame Mountains thousands of years ago and casually scanned the area with his divine sense, he also sensed the Crimson Flame Lion.

He was clearly already mortally wounded, his innate true spirit had been extinguished, and his innate primordial spirit had begun to dissipate, returning to the world.

How could it suddenly come back to life?

This unscientific!

Ah no, this isn't the prehistoric era!

It should be understood that the innate true spirit is the foundation of a living being. If even a trace of the innate true spirit remains, it is not impossible to reshape and revive even if the physical body and primordial spirit are destroyed.

However, if the innate true spirit is destroyed and annihilated, even if the physical body and primordial spirit still exist, it is useless, as the person has already completely perished.

The primordial world has its own rules, and even though a Great Luo Golden Immortal has transcended the river of time, he is still unable to revive fallen beings under multiple suppressions.

Even a Grand Luo Golden Immortal like himself, let alone a Hunyuan Golden Immortal, could not revive a being whose innate true spirit had been extinguished.

So here's the question: how did this Crimson Flame Lion survive?

Was he misperceiving something?

Absolutely impossible!

Although with his cultivation level, he wouldn't pay much attention to a Crimson Flame Lion that hadn't even reached the Golden Immortal realm.

He knew about this Crimson Flame Lion simply because when he scanned it with his divine sense, it happened to be within the range of his divine sense.

But given his cultivation level, even without focusing on him, a casual sweep of his divine sense would not be wrong.

Unless this Crimson Flame Lion possesses a top-grade innate spiritual treasure or higher, it could not be detected by him without careful sensing, thus concealing a trace of its true spirit.

But can this Crimson Flame Lion really be so lucky as to obtain a top-grade innate spiritual treasure or higher?

Yuan Yan harbored doubts and did not immediately attempt to capture Chi Yan Li Ni, search his physical body, primordial spirit, and true soul, or examine his memories.

Instead, it looked through the river of time to examine the past experiences of this Crimson Flame Lion.

In an instant, Yuan Yan frowned slightly, already understanding the situation.

Yuan Yan could see through most of the past experiences of this Crimson Flame Lion at a glance, but about a hundred years ago, its past was obscured by the mists of the Great Dao, and Yuan Yan could not see it clearly.

From this perspective, Yuan Yan was certain that this Crimson Flame Lion did not possess any top-grade innate spiritual treasures or higher, and it didn't even possess any treasures at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Otherwise, the experiences of the Crimson Flame Lion after obtaining the treasure would also be concealed, and even if Yuan Yan could decipher it, he would not be able to see through it at a glance.

But he frowned, not because of that.

But he only now realized that this Crimson Flame Lion was no longer the same Crimson Flame Lion as before.

The Crimson Flame Lion he sensed thousands of years ago had indeed perished.

However, after he swept his divine sense over the area and left to enter the depths of the Crimson Flame Mountains, while setting up the Heaven and Earth Returning to Origin Array on the earth veins, an outsider occupied the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion, taking over its identity.

This is not strange at all. If a living being still has its innate true spirit, it is not difficult for it to occupy the physical body and primordial spirit of another.

Strangely, Yuan Yan could not see the experiences of the outsider before he occupied the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion from the river of time, as if he did not exist and had no past before that.

The process by which the outsider occupied the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion was obscured by the mists of the Great Dao, and Yuan Yan could not see it clearly in the river of time. However, after he occupied the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion, Yuan Yan was able to see his experiences in the river of time.

After the outsider occupied the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion, he was able to fit in perfectly. Not only did his aura remain unchanged, but he also inherited his fortune and destiny.

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