Primordial Era: I, Wutu, govern the Earthly Dao and suppress the Heavenly Dao.

The scene of the Great Dao bestowing merit upon Zhen Yuanzi once again astonished all the beings in the primordial world, leaving them utterly bewildered.

Even though he so blatantly disregarded the Heavenly Dao and ignored the Great Dao's intention to retreat, he still received the Great Dao's merit.

"This works?"

"Are the Way of Heaven and the Great Way so easy to talk to?"

"Could he truly be the chosen one of the Great Dao?"

"Zhen Yuanzi? A powerful Golden Immortal of the Primordial Chaos Realm possessing the merits of the Great Dao... This is clearly Ancestor Zhen Yuan!"

The name of Zhenyuan Laozu spread far and wide, and his fame resounded throughout the primordial world.

Although other beings learned from Zhen Yuanzi that there were underground passages in the primordial world, they were unaware of the power of the Earth Mirror and the World-Suppressing Staff.

Without these two authentic treasures as a foundation, it would be impossible to refuse the merits bestowed by Heaven and receive them from the Great Dao.

Compared to some beings whose intelligence is not yet fully developed, yet who can still utter astonishing words, powerful beings such as Hongjun and Luohou all experienced a sudden flash of inspiration and attained great enlightenment!

"The Great Way and the Way of Heaven are perfectly impartial and selfless! Merit will be bestowed upon those who perform good deeds!"

"If Heaven cannot bestow its will, the Great Dao, which has not yet retreated, will surely grant it!"

"Therefore, as long as I perform great deeds that transcend the laws of Heaven, I will receive the blessings of the Great Dao once again!"

Having suddenly realized this, the demons and gods' gazes suddenly fell on the northern land!

That is their only chance to receive the merit bestowed by the Great Dao and to prove the Great Dao once again!

Beast God Rebellion!

While the Heavenly Dao is weak and the Great Dao has not yet receded, slaying the chief of the great calamity, the Beast God Shenni, will surely bring you the merits of the Great Dao!

The chaotic demons who simultaneously grasped this opportunity were:

Hongjun, Yangmei, Yin Yang, Qiankun, and Rahu!

These five demon gods immediately decided to go to the northern lands, to kill ferocious beasts along the way to recover from their injuries, and then to kill the rebellious god and prove the Great Dao again!

With such intelligent and powerful demons as them, there are naturally also those whose intelligence is not so high.

"If I refuse the blessings of Heaven, will the Great Dao bestow blessings upon me?"

"If he, Zhen Yuanzi, can do it, so can I!"

An elderly man in the southern region realized this.

Instantly, his hunched body straightened up, and a fierce golden law emanated from his body!

The ruthless killings of the wealthy are actually the same as the laws of the White Tiger Clan!

In addition, the old man also exuded the power of the three laws of water, fire, and wood!

Through his relentless and tireless efforts in battle, he killed nearly 300 million ferocious beasts in the southern lands within the span of one Yuanhui (a unit of time).

When he felt it was about time, he suddenly shouted loudly:

"The Great Way is above, and now we are four..."

Click!

Before he could finish speaking, a bolt of purple lightning suddenly exploded from the sky!

This is not the true path.

It was the wrath of Heaven!

Living in the primordial world, continuing to thrive there, a remnant of a chaotic demon god without any authority dares to disregard the Heavenly Dao and directly seek the Great Dao. If the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder doesn't strike him, who will it strike?

The Great Dao wishes to retire and entrust the primordial world to the Heavenly Dao.

His actions of transcending social classes and disregarding rules and order to claim rewards are ignored by the Great Dao and will naturally be punished by Heaven!

The Little Heavenly Dao, which had been looked down upon by Zhen Yuanzi before, can finally get its revenge.

The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, as thick as a giant tree, crashed down from the heavens!

Heavenly punishment is coming!

Although the Heavenly Way has only recently awakened and is known for its weakness, it depends on who it is compared to!

Compared to the Great Dao, it is naturally weak; and to control the primordial world, it is naturally still relatively weak.

But destroying such a severely injured remnant of the Chaos Demon God's divine consciousness would be an easy task!

Under the immense power of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, the old man had no resistance whatsoever. The moment the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning struck his Dao body, his Dao body was shattered!

His soul was consumed, leaving only the four laws he controlled.

The next moment, a celestial merit descended because of his previous killing of three hundred million ferocious beasts.

With the blessing of Heavenly Dao's merits, the power of the laws merged with the chaotic body's blood, and it actually transformed into a spiritual root on the spot!

This spiritual root is of the highest quality and is called the Four Symbols Divine Tree!

The power of the four elements—metal, wood, water, and fire—manifests in the four thick trunks of this spiritual root, taking root in the earth's spiritual veins!

All living beings were horrified upon seeing this.

This action by Heaven was enough to make them clearly realize:

The way of Heaven cannot be disregarded!

If you want to show contempt, you must be like the Ancestor Zhenyuan, who possesses the Great Dao and the power to rule the primordial world!

Now, the five Chaos Gods who were heading to the Northern Beast God Palace were even more eager to act.

Yin Yang: "Those who were just annihilated were... the Four Symbols Demon Gods!"

Qiankun: "I never expected that even he could leave behind a wisp of divine consciousness during the Great Calamity of Creation!"

Yang Mei: "I survived the Great Calamity of Creation, yet I perished just like that..."

As fellow chaotic demons, they naturally recognized the being who had perished and vanished.

It is the Four Symbols Demon God among the Three Thousand Demon Gods!

From the primordial chaos, the Five Primordial Elements arose, from which the Two Forms (Yin and Yang) emerged, from which the Four Symbols (Si Xiang) arose, and from which the Eight Trigrams (Ba Gua) arose...

Taiji is chaos, and the two polarities are Yin and Yang. The true four symbols are Lesser Yang, Greater Yang, Lesser Yin, and Greater Yin!

The Four Symbols Demon Gods are in charge of the Four Symbols Laws.

In the beginning of time, the four elements of the universe were earth, fire, wind, and water, which were the four fundamental elements.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Four Symbols Demon God split the Four Symbols into the Eight Trigrams the instant he was struck by an axe. He then used the four laws of metal, wood, water, and fire from the Eight Trigrams to enter the primordial world and barely survived because they shared the same origin.

This method is similar in principle to cutting an earthworm in half.

The reason why the Four Symbols Demon God was confident that he could also obtain the merits of the Great Dao was because of the four symbols of the primordial world: earth, water, wind, and fire. He just didn't bring them into the primordial world, but they were precisely the foundation of all things!

Without land, there is no foundation; without authority, the only outcome is ruin!

This Four Symbols Divine Tree, which now possesses the four laws of metal, wood, water, and fire, is the manifestation of the laws of the remnant body of the Four Symbols Demon God!

"The Four Symbols Divine Tree?"

Zhen Yuanzi gazed southward, a faint smile playing on his lips:

"The power of the Four Symbols is unfortunately far from being fully matured, so it can only help me comprehend the laws, not refine it into a treasure."

"However, while comprehending the laws allows the Great Dao of Earth to bear more laws, I have a place more suitable for it."

Without further thought, Zhen Yuanzi connected his spiritual veins to the body and infused it with a wisp of the Earth Law before immediately returning to Wanshou Mountain.

Because of his mastery of the laws of the earth, Zhen Yuanzi can shrink the earth to an inch with a single step.

A billion miles in an instant!

Zhen Yuanzi sat cross-legged under the ginseng fruit tree, sensing that the merit bestowed by the Great Dao this time was much less than the previous two, only as thick as a ring finger.

Therefore, Zhen Yuanzi did not absorb the merit into his body when he received it.

Instead, he kept them, intending to use the merit of this Great Dao to refine the two supreme treasures, the World-Suppressing Staff and the Earthly Mirror, to remove even more layers of restrictions.

The Earthly Mirror is Zhen Yuanzi's companion spiritual treasure and also a treasure of merit. It can be used even without refining.

However, to truly unleash its full power, it still needs to be refined to the 49th layer of restrictions.

Although the Zhen Shi Staff was crafted by Zhen Yuanzi from the trunk of the ginseng fruit tree, which is a companion spiritual root, it can still be considered a companion spiritual root. Furthermore, it is a treasure of merit, just like the Di Yuan Jian. Naturally, it also needs to be refined in order to unleash its true power as a treasure!

There are two ways to refine magical treasures: one is to infuse them with one's primordial spirit and refine them layer by layer.

Another method is to use merit to help the primordial spirit break the restriction!

The Great Dao Merit Treasure requires Great Dao Merit to break through, which is no problem for Zhen Yuanzi and is extremely efficient!

Zhen Yuanzi sat atop the mountain, drawing upon the merits of the Great Dao, and then first merged them into the Earthly Mirror...

Time flies, and several centuries have passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhen Yuanzi gazed at the Earthly Mirror, which had been refined to the 49th layer of its restrictions, and the World-Suppressing Staff, which had been refined to the 45th layer, and let out a soft breath:

"As expected, the level of the ferocious beasts I killed was too low, and the number of them was too small. If I had killed another ferocious beast king before, I would have been able to refine the World-Suppressing Staff to the top level with the merit of the Great Dao."

"What a pity, what a pity."

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