Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

Otherwise, Yuan Yan wouldn't have thought he was the original Crimson Flame Lion.

In fact, if Yuan Yan hadn't looked through the river of time and sensed that the innate true spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion, which had been annihilated in the past, was different from the present one, he really wouldn't have been able to discover the problem by simply scanning it with his divine sense and sensing its aura.

However, although this has answered Yuan Yan's question, the innate true spirit of this Crimson Flame Lion had clearly been extinguished, so why did it come back to life?

But this also brought new doubts to Yuan Yan:

What is the origin of that outsider who possessed the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion? Why is he so strange?

Immediately, Yuan Yan couldn't suppress his curiosity and wanted to get to the bottom of it.

However, at this moment, Yuan Yan still did not focus his attention on the Crimson Flame Lion, but rather on the segment of the River of Time that was obscured by the mists of the Great Dao and that he could not see clearly.

He had a premonition that there was a high probability that the fragment of time shrouded in the mists of the Great Dao concealed some secret.

After a moment of contemplation, Yuan Yan's mind stirred, and the Yin-Yang Dao began to operate. The formless and intangible power of the Yin-Yang Dao flowed along the river of time, probing towards that fragment he could not see clearly, and he observed it with full concentration, trying to glimpse the flaws in the mist of the Dao.

However, the power of Yin and Yang has not yet reached the point of deciphering that segment of the river of time that he could not see clearly.

Yuan Yan suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, and a strong sense of crisis welled up in his heart.

He had a premonition that if he dared to try to decipher that fragment of the river of time, he would suffer an extremely terrible backlash.

Even if they don't perish as a result, they could very well suffer unimaginable damage.

In an instant, the Dao moved with his thoughts and stopped with his mind. Yuan Yan withdrew the power of the Yin-Yang Dao and looked at that fragment of the River of Time with some surprise and uncertainty.

He was a Primordial Golden Immortal, and his physical body and primordial spirit had reached the level of a superior innate spiritual treasure. In addition, he possessed the innate supreme treasure, the Twenty-Four Grade Creation Green Lotus. Even a late-stage Primordial Golden Immortal would find it difficult to break through his defenses.

But is it possible that attempting to decipher that time fragment could cause him unimaginable damage? Who was behind it?

With a mixture of surprise and uncertainty in his heart, Yuan Yan naturally dared not ignore the sudden impulse and his Dao Heart's perception. As a powerful expert at the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, and a top-tier innate saint, bearing the Western fortune, his perception was generally not wrong.

However, he was unwilling to stop there. A fragment of the river of time shrouded in the mists of the Great Dao had scared him away, and he didn't even dare to explore it. His Dao heart might be left with a shadow. Even if it wouldn't affect his cultivation now, it might become a shackle on his breakthrough to the Great Luo Golden Immortal in the future.

After pondering for a moment and making a few more subtle attempts, Yuan Yan still felt it was extremely dangerous and couldn't find a breakthrough. He had no choice but to give up for the time being and shift his attention to the Crimson Flame Lion, hoping to find a breakthrough from it.

As for whether there is any danger in finding a breakthrough from that Crimson Flame Lion?

Yuan Yan inexplicably felt that this was impossible!

If there had been any danger, he wouldn't have been completely unharmed when he looked through the river of time to examine the past of that Crimson Flame Lion.

Furthermore, he, along with Yuanjie, Yuanlun, and Yuanling, has been repairing the ley lines of the Western Continent, and has already received the blessings of the Western Continent. He even sat on a prayer mat in Zixiao Palace, which means he should already be registered with the Heavenly Dao. He should have a place among the future Heavenly Dao Saints.

Even if he were not on the Western Continent, with its protection, the Primordial Heavenly Dao would never allow him to perish.

Besides, if there's a real danger if we try to find a breakthrough from that Crimson Flame Lion, he should be able to sense it.

If he really senses something, he can simply give up for now. He's not a stubborn ancestral witch; he won't fight to the death.

Thinking to himself, Yuan Yan looked towards Chi Yan Li Ni, his gaze deep, as if trying to see through everything about him, including his physical body, primordial spirit, true spirit, and memories...

As Yuan Yan looked in that direction, the area around the Crimson Flame Lion seemed to freeze in time and space, and the Crimson Flame Lion's thoughts also came to a standstill.

At this moment, Yuan Yan was also somewhat surprised. He neither sensed any danger nor encountered any obstacles, and easily saw through everything about the Crimson Flame Lion.

"Huh? How is this possible?" Having seen through Chi Yan Li Ni and knowing everything about him, including his memories, Yuan Yan frowned slightly, somewhat incredulous.

What did he see?

That Crimson Flame Lion—no, that's not right—the one that possessed the Crimson Flame Lion's physical body and primordial spirit was not a creature from the primordial world, but came from a world called the Eastern Emperor Realm, also known as the Demon Realm.

A legend circulates in that world: countless distant ages ago, Donghuang Taiyi was born from chaos, wielding the divine artifact Donghuang Zhong to create the world and open up the Donghuang Realm.

After the world took shape and all living beings were born, Donghuang Taiyi unified all races into the demon race, established the Heavenly Court, and became the Heavenly Emperor. The demon race became the protagonist of the eternal world, hence the Donghuang Realm is also known as the Demon Realm.

The demon who possessed the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion was named Chifeng. His arrival in the prehistoric world was actually an accident.

At that time, he was fighting against a demon of the same rank, a Celestial Immortal. Given their cultivation level and strength, they naturally could not break through space and time.

But for some reason, the area where they were fighting suddenly rippled with spacetime, which disappeared in a flash, and then he lost consciousness.

When he awoke again, his consciousness was within the body of the Crimson Flame Lion, whose innate true spirit had already been extinguished, and there remained an extremely mysterious power of time.

Under the influence of that extremely mysterious power of time, he was able to perfectly merge with the physical body and primordial spirit of the Crimson Flame Lion, and in the end, it only took a few decades to successfully inherit everything of the Crimson Flame Lion.

Even his aptitude and comprehension were greatly enhanced under the nourishment of that extremely mysterious power of time.

In fact, Yuan Yan felt nothing about Chi Feng's experience or Donghuang Taiyi's creation of the world from chaos, nor was he surprised or astonished.

The chance of encountering a spacetime ripple and arriving in the primordial world from the so-called demon realm is extremely slim, but the world is vast and full of wonders, so this is not an impossible event.

As for Donghuang Taiyi creating a world from chaos? That's nothing special, and not surprising at all.

Because any Great Luo Golden Immortal in the primordial world has the ability to create a world from the inner chaos.

However, due to differences in cultivation levels, the worlds created also differ in many aspects, such as the level of the worlds they open up, the degree of perfection of the laws and the Great Dao, the cultivation environment, the origins of living beings, and the upper limit of cultivation. They are all far inferior to the primordial world.

Although it can assist a Great Luo Golden Immortal in perfecting their own Great Dao to a certain extent, its efficiency is too low.

The Great Immortals born in this era did not spend much time idly creating worlds in the inner chaos.

On the contrary, during the Great Calamity of Ferocious Beasts and the Great Calamity of Dragon Han, in order to avoid the calamity and to settle their races, many powerful individuals created worlds in the inner chaos.