The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 539 Undying Spiritual Light, Queen Mother's Peaches

These three true spirits are all demon gods at the third step of the Golden Immortal realm, without exception.

After the Golden Immortal took the third step, his true spirit began a completely new transformation. The immortal golden nature that Luo Zu had once deduced began to transform at this moment, turning into an indestructible spiritual nature.

When such an indestructible spirituality reaches the final stage of the Golden Immortal Dao Realm, it will undergo ultimate sublimation and transform into indestructible spiritual light.

Therefore, even if Luo Zu wanted to harm them at this moment, he would find it difficult to do so.

It would be difficult to completely obliterate their true spirits with the current Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, since Luo Zu has not mastered its essence and cannot form a true Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

Unless he has now entered the third step of the Golden Immortal realm and the Dao he has transformed into is an extreme Dao such as the End of Dharma, Nirvana, or Destruction.

Compared to his Great Dao of Existence, his third step of Dao Transformation is also not without its options.

After all, with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation in his hands, it's not impossible for him to master these great Daos.

Although the true spirits of these three cannot be extinguished now, Luo Zu has already suppressed them all into the Zhuxian Sword Formation at the bottom of his heart sea.

From this day forward, his Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation will be nurtured by all living beings in the Sea of ​​the Heart. Any destruction of heaven and earth or cave heaven will be sent here, and all negative energies such as calamity energy and evil energy will also be driven into this place. Of course, in order to maintain the operation of the Sea of ​​the Heart, the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation will only absorb 90% of the calamity energy to increase itself, and the remaining 10% is enough to promote the progress of the Sea of ​​the Heart.

After all this was done, only one-thousandth of a second had passed.

However, he only had three Dao Fruits left in his hand.

These three Dao Fruits are the three surviving demon gods.

As for the Dao Foundation Taiyi route he deduced, it has not yet been realized.

It's really too difficult.

In addition, he had many things to take care of. Some of the demon gods' magical treasures had escaped, while others were still causing trouble in his mind.

At this moment, two spiritual treasures were causing upheaval. One transformed into a dark, gigantic maw, intending to devour all the heavens, while the other merged into the Great Dao, inflicting plagues on all beings in the sea of ​​their hearts.

As for the cursed Luo Zu's Three Hearts and Two Minds Locking Banner, and the previous burst of five-colored sword light, they have already fled and dared not linger.

Luo Zu was not worried about the spirit treasures causing trouble in the Heavens of the Heart Sea, since they could only rot in the pot anyway.

With a thought, the giant maw was torn off the space as if peeling off a sheet of paper, and then thrown into the artifact realm, where the spirit of the artifact realm would properly discipline it.

The spiritual treasure that merged with the Great Dao of the Heart Sea transformed into a clear divine water after the Great Dao of the Luo Ancestor resonated with it. It contained the profound truths of the Great Dao of Plague and the Great Dao of Healing. It was a precious treasure, nurtured within more than six spiritual seals.

The artifact realm probably couldn't suppress it, so Luo Zu had no choice but to send it into the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

Temper your mind and make it submit.

The most important thing now is to retrieve the two escaped magical treasures.

All will was withdrawn from the sea of ​​the mind, all matter was restored to its original state, and the true form of the Heavenly Demon King was restored. However, the World Tree did not hide. Luo Zu transformed it into an "umbrella" to conceal the heavens of the sea of ​​the mind, preventing the Lich King from noticing it. In addition, with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation in place, information was completely blocked, preventing the outside world from knowing the spacetime coordinates of this place.

Of course, with such measures, even the Golden Immortals and Taiyi beings in the Heavens of the Mind Sea would at most not be able to detect it. If a Great Luo Immortal were to sense it, they would surely be able to discover this realm after using their supernatural powers.

Therefore, those two escaped spiritual treasures must be retrieved; otherwise, if they were to inform the Heavenly Court of the Heart Sea of ​​Heaven of the situation, the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court would surely dispatch Great Luo Immortals to search the Primordial Heaven.

Luo Zu did not use his true form, but only unleashed the Xishui Sword.

The sword light flashed and leaped in the void, but it also collided with a boundary.

There is a magic array set up by Da Luo in Kunlun Mountain, which prevents people from leaving or entering. This is why Luo Zu can still leisurely search for those two spiritual treasures.

They could not have escaped; they must be hiding somewhere in the Kunlun Mountains right now.

With this in mind, Luo Zu immediately turned his Xishui Sword around and sent out his divine sense to find the whereabouts of the two spiritual treasures.

Meanwhile, the battle above Kunlun Mountain showed no signs of stopping. The Hunyuan Golden Bucket and the Flying Lian Demon God were locked in a fierce struggle, which had left the space-time outside Kunlun Mountain in a daze, gloomy and gray. Space-time had become confused, and even if Luo Zu wanted to go out now, he could not succeed.

Driven by Luo Zu, the Xishui Sword manifested countless invisible sword energies within the Kunlun Mountains, scattering them across various locations and thoroughly searching the narrow Kunlun Mountains, which spanned thousands of light-years.

Finally, in a snowy wasteland on the western foothills of the Kunlun Mountains, they found the "Three Hearts and Two Minds Locking Banner," a symbol of a race's civilization.

This banner was concealed using every means at its disposal, directly hiding within the loose yet collective minds of three million individuals in this race's civilization.

He hoped to use this to evade Luo Zu's pursuit.

Kunlun Mountain is not only a place where rogue cultivators practice in seclusion, nor is it entirely a sacred place for saints. After all, saints are magnanimous and can embrace all rivers, so they can naturally tolerate ordinary beings practicing the Dao under their "eyes," and even engaging in tribal conflicts and developing civilizations in Kunlun Mountain.

The creatures in the Kunlun Mountains are certainly not outsiders; some can even be traced back tens of millions of years.

There are also rogue Golden Immortals in Kunlun Mountain who come from one of these races. As for the race that was used by the Heart-Locking Banner of Two Minds this time, it is a kind of plant spirit. Their body shapes are different, but the substances that make up their bodies are the same, so they are classified as the same race and can recognize each other.

As for things like reproductive isolation, they did not exist for most of the prehistoric era.

Therefore, their different body shapes do not affect their reproduction, and their reproduction method is not the combination of yin and yang, or mating between males and females. More accurately, there is no definite difference between males and females among them.

They live in groups of three hundred to one thousand individuals. The strongest individuals transform into Elf Trees (named by Lozu based on his observations). These Elf Trees become the mother and spiritual anchor of the group. The remaining active individuals concentrate their spiritual thoughts on these Elf Trees. Among the Elf civilization, there is a most ancient Elf Tree that can connect all individuals and the Elf Trees together, transforming them into a vast ocean of thought that covers the territory of the civilization.

The "Three Hearts, Two Minds" banner is a metaphor for something hidden within this.

This treasure is extremely cunning, even to the point of having an excessive amount of self-awareness. This is because its own characteristics make its spirituality far superior to that of ordinary spiritual treasures.

Otherwise, one could not escape from Luo Zu's heart.

It would not be easy for Luo Zu to capture this fiend. After all, while it would be easy to destroy millions of lives, such an act would inevitably be hated by the rogue cultivators in Kunlun Mountain. This is not to say that the rogue cultivators are all saints, but this place is, after all, a sacred place. If such a thing were done, it would be considered to have defiled the sacred place, and thus it would naturally be hated by everyone.

This is also why the Three Hearts and Two Minds Lock Heart Banner Society uses the spirit of this clan as its hiding place.

However, Luo Zu urged the Xishui Sword to gather all the sword light scattered throughout Kunlun Mountain into this place, and then slashed it down.

The sword energy, like a radiant beam, swept down for thousands of miles, gathering all living beings in the area into its light and severing their spirits from this vast ocean of consciousness.

Luo Zu's plan was just like this: let the individual's spirit and will belong to the individual. In this way, this ocean of thoughts is like a rootless duckweed, and the fickle heart-locking banner entrusted to it is like a fat pig swimming underwater. When the water is shallow, it can only show its bloated body.

It would indeed seem cumbersome to have a spiritual treasure comparable to a Golden Immortal lurking here; otherwise, it would have been difficult for Luo Zu to discover its existence so quickly.

"Sir, I'll go back with you. There's no need for all this trouble." The Half-Hearted Heart-Locking Banner didn't hold out for long and took the initiative to speak.

He transformed into a blue banner adorned with five stars thousands of miles above this species, and then flew into the direction of the cave where the true form of the Luo Ancestor resided.

This means that He is showing that He truly submits and has no intention of deceiving.

Seeing this, Luo Zu naturally withdrew his supernatural powers, and the Xishui Sword continued to search for another spiritual treasure that had transformed into a five-colored sword light.

This magical treasure was indeed well hidden; it actually headed straight for Xikunlun.

Now that he has already gone to the Queen Mother of the West, she has sent a letter to Luo Zu, explaining: "This treasure is destined for me, and I hope you will forgive her."

What could Luo Zu do? He naturally agreed. And the Queen Mother of the West did not force Luo Zu arrogantly. She gave Luo Zu a peach, thus "redeeming" the five-colored immortal sword.

Seeing that the Queen Mother of the West was so generous, Luo Zu naturally didn't want to pursue the matter any further.

This single peach contains a great deal of spiritual energy and wisdom, especially the power of the Great Dao of Immortality, which even makes Luo Zu envious.

This single peach perfectly illustrates that the Queen Mother of the West not only holds the power of killing but also the power of immortality.

If you offend this person, they will use the Great Dao of Immortality to control you in the future. Who will have a good outcome? If immortals don't live forever, can they still be called immortals?

Luo Zu sat in the cave and gently exhaled.

The peaches of immortality were not used; Luo Zu simply planted them in his cave and then watered them with divine water refined from the Great Dao of Water to accelerate their growth.

Even with all that watering, not a single seedling sprouted, so Luo Zu knew that the peaches of immortality probably couldn't be grown without the permission of the Queen Mother of the West.

But since the peaches of immortality are in the hands of the Queen Mother of the West, doesn't that mean the Queen Mother of the West is the future Queen Mother of the West?

Luo Zu had this thought, but quickly put it out of his mind.

This matter is still a long way off, and it's unknown how many years it will take to arrive.

The most urgent matter at hand is dealing with this magical treasure—the Three Hearts and Two Minds Locking Banner.

He took Him in his hands and first greeted Him, saying, "Fellow Daoist is no ordinary person; how can you not understand the principles?"

The Heart-Locking Banner replied, "The Heavenly Court is powerful, and I should rely on it. Could you please ask for my help, young master?"

The Heart-Locking Banner's words are indeed reasonable. The Heavenly Court is powerful and can help the Heart-Locking Banner shed its shell and rebuild itself. When it joins the Heavenly Court, it will have a bright future.

Of course, the Heavenly Court is not the only option in this world. The Witch Clan is also a good choice, and now there is the Western Religion, as well as the saints of Kunlun Mountain.

"Fellow Daoist, you must have been a member of the Heavenly Court for thousands of years..."

"It's been 361 million years," Lock Heart Banner said, offering a number.

"Has a place been arranged for you to be reborn?" Luo Zu asked again.

The Heart-Locking Banner replied, "The time is not yet ripe; how can I be reborn?"

He knows his own affairs well. He has only now completed the five paths of spiritual restraint and needs to complete the four more before he can break free from this body.

There are difficulties involved; otherwise, He would have already shed His shell and started anew.

"That's true." Luo Zu didn't dwell on the matter. Although Suo Xin Fan verbally agreed to surrender to Luo Zu, he was not truly convinced and was in Cao Cao's camp but his heart was with Liu Bei. Therefore, Luo Zu did not force him.

"Did the Heavenly Court ask you to deliver a message?" Luo Zu then asked another question.

"The cavemen and the demon race will not perish." The Heart-Locking Banner truly lived up to this prophecy.

Luo Zu was taken aback. Upper Cavemen... So, unlike the human race, the human race is not just a branch of Upper Cavemen. However, Upper Cavemen are the largest force among the human race, with the largest population and the fastest and most complete civilization development.

There must be a reason why the Heavenly Court was willing to let the Upper Cave Man go; perhaps Nuwa was one of them.

After much deliberation, Luo Zu guessed the Heavenly Court's purpose.

"Is it necessary to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword?" Luo Zu asked seriously.

The Heart-Locking Banner replied that it did not know, as it was ultimately just a spiritual treasure, and its spiritual restraints were only at the fifth level. Its future prospects could not be described as limitless, nor could they be said to be anything special.

As for whether He could have a major breakthrough in His cultivation if He were to be reincarnated, that remains to be seen.

"Good sir, please suppress me quickly, lest I cause trouble outside." The Heart-Locking Banner voluntarily begged for suppression.

Seeing His initiative, Luo Zu naturally couldn't refuse, so with a flick of his sleeve, he sent the Heart-Locking Banner into the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

His spirit seals were numerous, and even Luo Zu couldn't easily defeat him, so he could only rely on the power of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

After resolving this crisis, Luo Zu held a Dao Fruit and continued conducting experiments.

The methods of the Dao Foundation still need to be verified.

This Dao Fruit carries the Great Dao of Direction, and it is quite difficult to refine it, since it does not belong to the Great Dao of matter and energy.

The Great Path of Direction can also be considered the Great Path of All Sources, containing other new and wondrous principles.

If one continues to cultivate, one might be able to upgrade to the Great Dao of Space.

However, the Great Dao of Space has already been occupied by the Ancestral Witch Dijiang, making it impossible for later generations to transform into this Dao.

Unless the Ancestral Witch Dijiang voluntarily abandons this path and dissolves the Great Dao he has comprehended.

However, the Great Dao of Direction also has its uses, and it can also be used to cultivate the Taiyi Dao Realm.

However, the future of this demon god is now uncertain, or rather, it has no future.

It is said that He already has a second path to enlightenment, which is the path of delusion.

The way this demon god cultivated himself was quite perplexing to Luo Zu, or rather, his understanding of the Great Dao was rather unique.

However, the Path of Delusion is also a conceptual path, lacking material energy to rely on, unlike other paths that can be directly observed and cultivated.

At this moment, the Dao Fruit of the Lost Path is also in Luo Zu's hands. If he is willing, he can also experience the wonders of the third step of the Golden Immortal in advance, such as the indestructible spirituality.

"The foundation of the Dao is difficult to cultivate, especially in this primordial land." Luo Zu's thoughts lingered.

However, after deducing the "terrifying" future of the Dao Foundation, the desire to cultivate this method became difficult to suppress.

"If I can't forge it in the primordial world, then I'll do it in my own world...."

Luo Zu came up with a clever trick.

His primordial spirit world is a world of its own, completely isolated from the primordial world. If he cultivates his Dao foundation in this world, could he attain the Taiyi of the universe?

However, there is a problem: his primordial spirit world is only a world in itself, not the universe.

(End of this chapter)