"After waiting for thousands of years, I have finally found a suitable target!" Wang Xuan roared to the sky, urging the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth to tear open the world membrane of that world. Before the Heavenly Dao of the other world could launch a backlash, he injected a ball of pale golden liquid into the other world.
That liquid was the innate essence that Wang Xuan obtained after refining the Golden Lotus of Merit and the Azure Lotus of Creation. It contained Wang Xuan's will!
The innate origin is a rare treasure, even for the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World.
However, after this primordial essence fell into the Primordial Chaos World, the Heavenly Dao did not destroy it. Instead, a divine will acted upon it, wanting to mold it into a primordial spiritual treasure like a precious cauldron.
"I came into this world not to become a primordial spiritual treasure. Although becoming a primordial spiritual treasure allows one to sever one's original body and take on a different form, like Burning Lamp, how can that compare to condensing a primordial divine and demonic body from the very beginning?"
The original form of the lamp was a coffin-like innate spiritual treasure. After its original form was severed, it transformed into human form and has always kept its original form a secret.
Just as the primordial essence was about to transform into a treasure cauldron, Wang Xuan's hidden will quickly activated, transforming it into the form of a primordial Dao body.
The natural order of this world did not hesitate and allowed this change to occur.
From the perspective of the Heavenly Dao of a primordial world, it makes no difference whether it gives birth to an innate spiritual treasure or an ordinary innate god or demon.
Sensing that the Heavenly Dao was not targeting him, Wang Xuan finally felt at ease and immersed himself in this primordial source, which slowly took shape.
Time flowed by, and nearly ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye. A young man with the exact same appearance as Wang Xuan opened his eyes.
This young man was none other than the innate divine and demonic avatar that Wang Xuan had created using his innate origin!
"Based on the innate essence of two low-grade innate spiritual treasures, it has been nurtured for ten thousand years, finally creating such an innate divine and demonic body!" Wang Xuan sensed the power of this body and couldn't help but show a satisfied smile on his face.
His innate divine and demonic body had just been conceived and he hadn't even started cultivating yet, but he already possessed power comparable to the early stage of the seventh rank.
According to the Daoist arts, he's at the Golden Immortal realm. According to the martial arts arts, he's at the God-Demon realm!
"Boom!"
Almost at the same moment, bolts of lightning struck down from the sky, landing directly on Wang Xuan's head.
These thunderbolts were filled with destructive power, seemingly a punishment descended from the heavens!
"It is said that when innate gods and demons are born, the Heavenly Dao will send down lightning as punishment. This is both a test for the newly born innate gods and demons and an opportunity."
Wang Xuan did his best to block the heavenly lightning bolts. After the lightning dissipated, the innate spiritual energy that the lightning had transformed into poured back into Wang Xuan's body, further enhancing his strength and bringing him to the mid-stage of the seventh rank.
"What a stroke of luck! This tribulation has saved me at least a hundred years of arduous cultivation!"
Although Wang Xuan possessed an innate divine and demonic body, and his physical talent far surpassed that of Sun Wukong in the Journey to the West world, he ultimately couldn't consume Nine-Turn Golden Elixir and Peaches of Immortality like Sun Wukong.
If he were to rely on his own strength to slowly cultivate from the early stage of the seventh rank to the middle stage of the seventh rank, it would take him at least a hundred years.
Don't be fooled by Wang Xuan's complaint about the slow pace of cultivation; if others knew, they would be insanely jealous.
Cultivation has never been measured in years; the higher one's cultivation level, the longer it takes to break through a minor realm.
If an ordinary Golden Immortal at the early stage of the seventh rank wants to slowly cultivate to the middle stage of the seventh rank, it would generally take nearly ten thousand years!
Of course, with his half-step Primordial Dao comprehension and innate divine and demonic body, Wang Xuan's cultivation was like having a cheat code.
Chapter 176 The Treasure-Dropping Coin
Wang Xuan sat cross-legged, circulated his cultivation technique to stabilize his current cultivation level, and then released his divine sense to carefully search his surroundings.
"Legendary innate gods and demons are usually born with innate spiritual treasures. I wonder if I have such a privilege? Even if it's just the lowest quality innate spiritual treasure, that would be great!"
With this in mind, Wang Xuan searched the surrounding area dozens of times, even turning over the soil thousands of kilometers deep, but still found nothing.
"It seems that I, a primordial god-demon, am not valued by the Heavenly Dao and do not receive the treatment of half a body of primordial spiritual treasures." Wang Xuan was somewhat disappointed, but he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although he failed to obtain the innate spiritual treasure, it shows that the Heavenly Dao of this world did not pay much attention to him, and he has completely penetrated into the inner workings of the world.
Just as Wang Xuan was about to set off to find someone to inquire about the situation in this world and figure out which world he had come to, two streaks of light suddenly flew over from the horizon.
The two streaks of light were not flying fast. Wang Xuan scanned them with his divine sense and found that they were two cultivators at the sixth level, posing no threat to him whatsoever.
Shortly after Wang Xuan spotted the two men, they also noticed him and rushed towards him, hovering in front of him. Looking down at him, they asked, "Just now, there was a flash of innate spiritual light and a lightning tribulation here. Most likely, an innate spiritual treasure has been born. Kid, you were close enough to spot the location of that innate spiritual treasure?"
Wang Xuan remained expressionless, but a strange feeling lingered in his heart. It turned out that these two had mistaken the tribulation lightning that Wang Xuan had triggered at birth for the birth of a primordial spiritual treasure.
If Wang Xuan's will hadn't intervened, that innate essence would indeed have given birth to an innate spiritual treasure.
"I didn't see any innate spiritual treasures. If there were, I would have taken them long ago. There wouldn't be any for you!" Wang Xuan rolled his eyes and said irritably.
Unexpectedly, the two men stared sharply at Wang Xuan, their eyes revealing a chilling murderous aura.
"Kid, don't play dumb. The place where the lightning tribulation landed was clearly only a hundred miles away from here."
"You were so close, how could you not have noticed the trace of the innate spiritual treasure? You must have obtained that newly born innate spiritual treasure and wanted to keep it for yourself!"
Wang Xuan gave the two men a deep look, but offered no further explanation.
Even for a powerful eighth-level Great Luo Golden Immortal, a Primordial Treasure is a coveted treasure that is impossible to obtain.
Previously, there were four Heavenly Dao Saints in the middle stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm in the Xuan Tian World, plus Wang Xuan in the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, and they didn't even have a single innate spiritual treasure. This was even under the condition that they were in charge of the Heavenly Dao of such a multi-world Xuan Tian World!
The world of Journey to the West has a deeper foundation, and the time it took to advance to the multiverse was countless times longer. Not only did it give birth to three Heavenly Saints at the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, but it also gave birth to a large group of Great Luo Golden Immortals such as Bodhi Patriarch, Zhen Yuanzi, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Even in such a powerful world, after billions of years of accumulation, there are only two low-grade innate spiritual treasures.
Such a precious innate spiritual treasure naturally held immense appeal for two mere sixth-level cultivators. Their eyes were already bloodshot, filled with greed, ready to kill and seize it.
Unfortunately, Wang Xuan was the target they chose to kill and rob.
"You want to attack me?" Wang Xuan sneered. "You'd better think carefully!"
The other party was blinded by greed and would not listen to Wang Xuan's advice.
One of the cultivators summoned a flying sword and thrust it straight at Wang Xuan's brow and sea of consciousness.
The space between the eyebrows is fundamental for a cultivator, because the primordial spirit of a cultivator is hidden in the sea of consciousness between the eyebrows.
If the Dead Sea is destroyed, it will most likely end in complete annihilation!
Since the other party had already gone all out to kill, Wang Xuan naturally wouldn't hold back anymore. A sword appeared in his hand seemingly out of nowhere, and he deftly deflected the flying sword thrown by the cultivator.
A powerful aura erupted from Wang Xuan's body. Although he had just broken through to the mid-stage of the Golden Immortal realm, which is the mid-stage of the seventh rank, he could kill a mere sixth-rank cultivator with a single slap.
"Not good!" A powerful pressure swept over them, and the two cultivators finally realized they had kicked a hornet's nest. In this critical moment, their thoughts were not on escaping, but on fighting to the death to kill Wang Xuan.
One of them rode a flying sword and stabbed in front of Wang Xuan. Just as Wang Xuan was about to casually stab him to death, the other person suddenly threw out an item, which turned into a stream of light and swept towards Wang Xuan.
The next moment, Wang Xuan discovered that his sword had vanished. This sword was merely a manifestation of his divine power; how could it have disappeared?!
With a sweep of his divine sense, he saw that the cultivator who had been holding the line had a palm-sized copper coin in his hand, and that the copper coin even had wings!
"This is... a Primordial Spiritual Treasure, the Treasure-Falling Coin!!" Wang Xuan was overjoyed. He had just said that he didn't have a Primordial Spiritual Treasure by his side, but he didn't expect that a Primordial Spiritual Treasure would be delivered to his door so soon after he was born.
The other party is just two sixth-level cultivators. Wouldn't it be easy for him to snatch the Treasure-Losing Coin?
"Thump!" At this moment, the flying sword had already struck Wang Xuan. Wang Xuan neither dodged nor evaded, and the flying sword failed to break through his defense.
The physical bodies of innate gods and demons are already incredibly powerful. In addition, Wang Xuan's physical body also cultivates the Eternal Myriad Paths Technique, practicing both physical and magical cultivation, which has brought his physical strength to a terrifying level.
The opponent was only a sixth-level cultivator, and he was only using an ordinary flying sword. How could he possibly break through Wang Xuan's defense?
The two men were immediately terrified. They were just rogue cultivators from Wuyi Mountain, and they usually only associated with cultivators of the fifth or sixth rank. They had never fought against a seventh-rank Golden Immortal.
Only now do they realize that they have kicked a hornet's nest. No matter how much they attack, they cannot break through the defense. How can they possibly win?
So they lost all courage to resist and turned to flee.
Wang Xuan sneered repeatedly; how could he let the other party escape?
With Wang Xuan's speed, he caught up with the two men in an instant, grabbed them by the head with both hands.
Over the years, Wang Xuan has cultivated to the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, and has already stepped halfway into the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm. Naturally, he has become highly proficient in using techniques such as the Soul Searching Secret Technique.
As he used his secret technique to search their souls, he quickly obtained the information he wanted from their minds.
Chapter 277
Based on the information obtained from the soul search, Wang Xuan knew that the two sixth-level cultivators before him were rogue cultivators from Wuyi Mountain, named Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao respectively. The coin-shaped treasure they had previously displayed was indeed the renowned Falling Treasure Coin!
"I never expected that I would actually come to the world of the Investiture of the Gods!" Wang Xuan was both surprised and delighted. He was surprised by the high level of martial arts in this world. The six Heavenly Dao Saints had definitely reached the cultivation level of the ninth-order Hunyuan Golden Immortal. Above the six saints was the Hongjun Ancestor, who was the controller of the Heavenly Dao. The strength of the Hongjun Ancestor was even greater than that of the six saints combined!
When Wang Xuan descended into this world, he was not discovered and destroyed by Dao Ancestor Hongjun. This was simply a stroke of incredible luck. How could it not give him a cold sweat?
As for what makes him happy, it's because this world is of a high enough level to accommodate Wang Xuan's attainment of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
Moreover, nearly ten thousand years have passed, and Hongjun Ancestor has not made a move against Wang Xuan, which shows that the other party has not discovered Wang Xuan's existence at all.
After all, Wang Xuan did not descend in his true form. He only stole a wisp of innate essence and transformed it into an innate divine and demonic body in this world. This clone was marked with the imprint of this world on its soul, and could be considered native to this world.
"In Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao's memories, it is currently the Shang Dynasty. King Zhou has only just ascended the throne last year, and the story of the Investiture of the Gods has not yet begun, which gives me some time to improve my cultivation."
Wang Xuan is only at the mid-stage of the seventh rank. Apart from the Treasure-Dropping Coin he just snatched, he doesn't have any other useful treasures. When the curtain rises on the Investiture of the Gods, someone of his strength can only be used as cannon fodder.
Perhaps he could have retreated overseas, quietly studying the "Huang Ting" without venturing out, thus cleverly escaping this calamity of the Investiture of the Gods, but that was not what Wang Xuan wanted.
The Investiture of the Gods is not only a calamity targeting gods, demons, and even mortals, but also a rare opportunity!
With Wang Xuan's understanding of the Investiture of the Gods plot, he can completely navigate the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and seize the greatest fortune!
While fleeing overseas might allow him to preserve his life, without the fortune of the Investiture of the Gods, he doesn't know how long it would take for him to cultivate and raise his cultivation to the same level as his original body, reaching the half-step Primordial Realm!
Most importantly, Wang Xuan was only an avatar in this world. Even if he died, it wouldn't affect the life of his main body. He would only lose the innate essence refined from two low-grade innate spiritual treasures, a loss that Wang Xuan could afford.
"With my understanding of the plot of this world, plus the Treasure-Dropping Coin in my hand, it won't be difficult for me to survive the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation."
Wang Xuan secretly calculated in his heart: "There are countless innate spiritual treasures in the world of Investiture of the Gods. I will try my best to seize a batch of innate spiritual treasures and use the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth to melt them into innate origin. Whether it is used to strengthen my innate divine and demonic body or to forge a natal innate spiritual treasure, it will be of great benefit."
Thinking this, he channeled his divine power and instantly killed Cao Bao and Xiao Sheng. Since they wanted to kill him for his treasure, Wang Xuan naturally wouldn't show any mercy; she wasn't some saintly hypocrite.
It's pitiful that Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao were originally supposed to die in the Investiture of the Gods. Even after death, they could at least be listed on the Investiture of the Gods and become officially recognized deities.
Before the great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods even began, they were killed by Wang Xuan. They can forget about becoming immortals in the Heavenly Court; they can only reincarnate in the Underworld.
Although Wang Xuan killed them, he did not obliterate their true spirits, giving them a chance to reincarnate.
After destroying the evidence, Wang Xuan stepped into the void, transformed into a streak of light, and disappeared from the spot, quickly flying towards the horizon.
The commotion he caused during his tribulation was huge; many cultivators must have been attracted by it. Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao only arrived first because they were closer.
Wang Xuan didn't want to cause trouble, and with his current cultivation level, he really couldn't afford to offend those experts from the four sects.
Wang Xuan flew out of Wuyi Mountain and headed towards the East China Sea.