Primordial Era: Reborn as a Qi Immortal, Steadily Cultivating

Chapter 66 The Ferocious Beast Taotie
After leaving the Three Immortal Islands, Ma Yuan rode the black dragon Ao Xuan, traveling from the coast of the East Sea deep into the vast southern hinterland of the prehistoric world.

Ma Yuan was never idle along the way.

He immersed most of his mind in the small world of 'Purple Necklace Heaven' that was already taking shape.

He discovered that since the Purple Jade Immortal Mountain became the foundation and core, this world had begun to evolve spontaneously.

The mountains extend on their own, the earth's veins expand continuously, the pure air rises, and the turbid air sinks, subtly giving rise to a sense of the true essence of heaven and earth.

However, Ma Yuan knew that transforming it from a small blessed land into a complete Middle Thousand World was still a long and arduous task.

The most crucial aspects are the perfection of laws and the reproduction of living beings.

So along the way, whenever he encountered unclaimed spiritual roots or high-quality spiritual veins, he would unceremoniously use his great magic to move them into the "Purple Necklace Heaven".

Whether planted in the mountains or driven into the earth's veins, they are used to continuously enrich and perfect the foundation of this new world.

Within the Purple Necklace Heaven, the Purple Necklace Immortal Mountain, which served as the cornerstone of the world, has long ceased to be a solitary peak after thousands of years of continuous filling.

At the foot of the mountain, the spiritual soil has gathered and transformed into a plain. The rich spiritual energy has condensed into winding streams. Various spiritual roots transplanted from the southern lands have also taken root here, growing vigorously and adding a touch of splendid vitality to this newly created world.

However, Ma Yuan always adhered to the principle of cause and effect balance and was unwilling to make too many demands on this world.

Every time he takes a spiritual vein, he uses his already perfected Three Talents Dao Foundation as a guide to mobilize the original power of the three elements of water, fire, and earth to nourish the earth vein whose essence has been extracted.

If one encounters some ignorant beings who are just beginning to develop intelligence but are suffering from a lack of inheritance.

He would also occasionally, when he felt something, open a platform on the mountaintop for a day to preach, pass on some rudimentary methods of breathing exercises, give some pointers, and then drift away, keeping his merits and fame hidden.

"This Purple Jade Heaven now has spiritual veins and the five elements are beginning to take shape. Although there is no sun, moon and stars rotating yet, it can be considered one of the most solid foundations among the minor worlds."

Ma Yuan sat cross-legged on the dragon's head, observing the changes within the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, his mind clear and focused.

"I just want to truly transform from this state, which is between the small and medium thousand worlds, into a complete medium thousand world."

This requires that this world be able to evolve its own basic laws and cycles, and even give birth to a rudimentary form of the Heavenly Dao's will belonging to this realm.

The difficulty of this path far exceeds the imagination of ordinary cultivators.

As for the ultimate goal, to transform all twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls into twenty-four Great Worlds, it is an even more heaven-defying ambition.

It should be understood that even the highest-ranking Heavenly Saints would struggle to create a complete Great Thousand World within the chaos, capable of accommodating beings at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortals.

It also requires immeasurable magical power and a long period of time, and is by no means an easy task.

What Ma Yuan sought was to create twenty-four great worlds with his own power!
If this wish is fulfilled, he will be able to use the power of these twenty-four great worlds to enhance himself, forming his own world without needing anything from outside.

Even if the great calamity of the primordial world were to overturn and the world were to fall apart, he would still be invincible and truly roam freely between heaven and earth.

"The road is a long way to go, and I will go up and down to find out."

Ma Yuan felt no anxiety whatsoever; his Daoist heart remained as firm as a mountain.

He knew that this path couldn't be rushed.

Ao Xuan carried him and continued south.

As they ventured deeper into the southern wilderness, the surrounding landscape began to change dramatically.

The originally abundant water elemental energy in the air gradually thinned out, and was replaced by an increasingly scorching and violent fire elemental energy.

The earth was no longer the vibrant green of life, but instead presented a dark red and charred black as if it had been repeatedly scorched by fire.

One after another, towering volcanoes rose from the ground, like ancient behemoths lurking on the earth. Thousands more years passed.

On this day, when Ao Xuan carried Ma Yuan, they flew over a vast and boundless volcanic cluster composed of tens of thousands of volcanoes.

Ma Yuan, who had been sitting cross-legged on the dragon's head with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them!
At the same time, Ao Xuan beneath him also let out a low, wary dragon roar, and his massive dragon body suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Suddenly, a massive figure, exuding an aura of savagery and violence, appeared silently in the void ahead, blocking their path.

It was a ferocious beast with an extremely bizarre appearance.

Its body resembles a tiger, but its entire body is covered with a layer of messy, gray-black fur, like that of a wild dog.

On a face that closely resembles a human face, there are no facial features, only a single eye that flashes with a scarlet, ferocious light, and a pair of sharp tusks protruding from the corner of the mouth like those of a wild boar.

A terrifying aura, far purer and more primal than that of ordinary demonic beasts, suddenly emanated from its body.

"Taowu..."

Looking at the ancient ferocious beast that existed only in later myths and legends, Ma Yuan softly uttered its name.

"So it was such a ferocious creature..." Ma Yuan sighed inwardly, a hint of solemnity flashing in his eyes.

In later myths and legends, this beast, along with Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taotie, is known as one of the four ancient ferocious beasts.

It is often used as a metaphor for those stubborn people who are arrogant, unruly, and incorrigible.

But Ma Yuan knew perfectly well that the origin of this object was not so simple.

The so-called Taotie is not a creature naturally born in the primordial world.

Rather, it refers to the time after the great god Pangu created the world and slew three thousand chaotic demons.

Those demon gods who refused to perish, with their lingering resentment and a trace of the violent and malevolent energy of chaos, fell into the primordial land and, after countless eons of evolution, formed a special race.

They do not belong to the myriad beings of the primordial world, are not part of the Five Elements, and are not involved in Yin and Yang.

Its very existence is a desecration and provocation of this heavenly order, intolerable to the heavenly way and disliked by all living beings.

The term "Taowu" does not refer to a single ferocious beast, but rather to a tribe.

They were born with the instinct of the Chaos God to destroy everything and return to chaos.

For this reason, they cannot absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like ordinary creatures, and can only survive by devouring the flesh and blood of living beings and the evil energy of the earth's veins.

Its nature is cruel and tyrannical, knowing only killing and destruction.

Ma Yuan knew clearly that the Taotie in front of him, whose cultivation had reached the mid-stage of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, was far beyond what an ordinary Taiyi Grandmaster could compare to.

Its body was formed from chaotic malevolent energy and the lingering resentment of demons, making it indestructible and impervious to all magic.

"Roar--!"

The Taotie seemed to sense the pure aura of merit on Ma Yuan that it found extremely repulsive, and didn't utter a single unnecessary word.

It let out a roar filled with chaos and savagery.

Its enormous body transformed into a black shadow, carrying the power to shatter mountains and rivers, and pounced head-on towards Ma Yuan and Ao Xuan!

(End of this chapter)