Primordial Era: The Giant Turtle Returning from Immortality

A terrifying roar, filled with savagery, exploded like thunder from behind a dark mountain range in front!

The roar was deafening, and the ferocity it contained far exceeded that of any of the corpses he had collected before!

Immediately afterwards, the earth trembled violently, and an enormous black shadow, carrying a terrifying aura, suddenly pounced out from behind the mountain!

Sure enough, the moment the enormous black shadow rushed in with a foul stench, Guiyuan's figure flickered, and he had already moved ten thousand feet away like a ghost.

It was the Great Shift Technique.

He stared intently, and the ferocious beast had a hideous appearance.

It had the body of a tiger and the face of a human, with fangs protruding like a wild boar. A long tail, like a steel whip, swept across the void, causing the air to crackle.

"It's actually a Taotie?" A hint of surprise flashed in Guiyuan's eyes.

He learned from Kunpeng that during the Great Calamity of Ferocious Beasts, the Beast King Shenni was killed by the three ancestors of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin, along with his four ferocious beasts.

Qiongqi, Taotie, Taowu, and Hundun all possess the power of the Great Luo, each leading their own tribe, and are the main forces among the ferocious beasts.

The four ferocious beasts have a higher origin than the other ferocious beasts.

The chaotic and ferocious energy it controls is even more refined and domineering, and can be compared to the prodigy of the ferocious beast race.

They were the main force when ferocious beasts ravaged the prehistoric world. Even innate beings of the same realm could not defeat the four ferocious beast groups one against one.

They may not be able to win.

I thought that after the great calamity, these four clans had been wiped out, but I didn’t expect that there were still some that escaped.

"Good, very good!" Guiyuan was not surprised but delighted, his eyes burning with passion.

The Thirty-Three Heavens Fiendish Treasure he had previously crafted, though made from extraordinary materials and possessing astonishing power, was ultimately crafted from corpses and inanimate objects, lacking the most crucial element: "spirituality."

Or rather, it lacks a living, vengeful spirit as its core.

If we can capture this living Taotie and refine it into the treasure, using its ferocious essence to nourish the magic weapon, we can surely enhance the power of this supreme treasure to another level!

The Taotie missed its target, its scarlet eyes fixed on Guiyuan, and it let out a low roar, its malevolent aura surging around it as if it were a tangible substance.

Although it was not very intelligent, it instinctively sensed that the Taoist in front of it had a strange aura and was not afraid of its ferocity.

"roar!"

With a sudden flick of its long tail, a whip of condensed, ink-black malevolent energy tore through the sky and lashed down at Guiyuan!

Wherever it passed, ripples spread through the space, carrying a chilling aura that corrodes the soul.

Guiyuan neither dodged nor avoided, but simply raised his hand and pointed.

"Great Sealing Technique".

hum!

In the void, countless pale golden runes emerged out of thin air, instantly weaving into a huge net that enveloped the whip of malevolent energy.

The runes flowed, carrying the power of laws that imprisoned all things and sealed everything.

laugh--!

The whip of malevolent energy struck the golden net and melted away as quickly as ice and snow meeting the sun, even causing the malevolent energy surging around the Taotie to pause!

The Taotie's massive body suddenly stiffened, as if it had sunk into an invisible swamp, and its movements became sluggish.

It struggled fiercely, roaring repeatedly, its ferocious aura soaring to the sky, trying to break free of these constraints.

"Even a cornered beast will fight." Gui Yuan said calmly.

With another thought, he pointed his fingers like a sword and drew a mysterious trajectory in the air.

"The Great Immortal Technique of Ten Thousand Dragons Refining the Realm!"

The next moment, countless celestial dragons transformed into a giant furnace, forming around the Taotie.

"The Great Refining Technique!"

Guiyuan did not kill the Taotie, but planned to refine it alive into a supreme treasure.

Inside the furnace, countless flames scorched Taotie's flesh and soul.

"Awooo—!"

The Taotie let out a mournful howl, feeling its power being forcibly extracted and refined by this strange furnace.

It charged wildly, tearing with its claws, but it couldn't shake the furnace in the slightest. As soon as the furnace showed any signs of movement, Guiyuan would use the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag to stabilize it.

Innate spiritual treasures are really useful.

Guiyuan stood in mid-air, looking down at the Taotie struggling in the furnace of evil energy, his eyes cold.

He continuously formed hand seals, casting refining techniques into the furnace.

"Use the Great Soul Technique to extract its malevolent soul!"

"Use the technique of great suppression to determine its origin!"

"The soul is fused into the treasure, and the evil spirit returns to its rightful place!"

Inside the furnace, the roar of the Taotie gradually weakened, and its body gradually blurred and melted in the black flames.

Ultimately, it transformed into the purest and most potent source of malevolent energy, within which was contained a twisted beast soul struggling madly.

Guiyuan raised his hand and summoned a long banner shrouded in malevolent energy, which flew out from his body.

It is the "Ten Thousand Fiends Banner" among the most powerful and malevolent treasures of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The malevolent essence and beast soul transformed from the Taotie, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, all disappeared into the banner!

"Buzz—!"

The long banner trembled violently, and a phantom image of a Taotie roaring towards the sky appeared on its surface!

A fierce and terrifying aura, far more violent and terrifying than before, surged into the sky, stirring up the winds and clouds in all directions!

Guiyuan gripped the banner pole, feeling the immense power contained within it and the fierce soul that had been completely refined and now obeyed his commands. He nodded in satisfaction.

"With this malevolent spirit as the soul of the Myriad Evil Banner, it can be considered to have taken initial shape, and now it can suppress Taiyi anywhere."

A moment later, Guiyuan suddenly raised an eyebrow. He sensed a mysterious message emanating from the Taotie's soul, which had now transformed into a malevolent spirit.

"The King of Taotie is not dead, but is entrenched in the ancestral Changbai Mountain in the northern part of the prehistoric world, drawing upon the spiritual energy of the northern wilderness?"

This news surprised Guiyuan. The King of Taotie was the ruler of the entire Taotie clan and one of the four ferocious beast kings he mentioned.

A ferocious beast at the Great Luo level, it's still alive.

He was only seriously injured. Guiyuan's first thought was that if one of his thirty-three fierce treasures could suppress it.

Its power is probably at least at the level of a high-grade innate spiritual treasure.

"Seriously injured, seriously injured..."

Guiyuan swallowed hard. The temptation was too great: a heavily injured and dying Great Luo Immortal, and a ferocious beast at that.

How much merit would one gain if they killed it?

Guiyuan stood on the spiritual vein beneath his feet, where the energy flow was disordered and lacked sustainability. It was being worn down by malevolent energy in front and lacked spiritual energy to replenish it from behind, which is why it was difficult to recover.

As for why there was no spiritual energy replenishment, it was probably because the ancestral vein was occupied by that Taotie.

If we consider the blood in the blood vessels as spiritual energy, then the spiritual veins are like blood vessels, and the ancestral veins are like the heart. The ancestral veins need to continuously supply spiritual energy into the spiritual veins.

The spiritual veins need to be kept active, but now the evil energy is not only eroding the spiritual energy, but also blocking the ancestral veins.

Before returning to the origin, he thought it was because the ancestral vein was damaged, but he did not expect the situation to be even worse.

"Da Luo..."

Guiyuan took a deep breath. Fortune and honor are found in danger, but it's not the right time yet. He just needs to refine the thirty-three fierce treasures as much as possible and combine them with the supernatural powers he has mastered.

And with the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, it might be worthwhile to cause trouble for this severely injured Great Luo beast.

"However, we should first investigate the situation to see what's going on. If it really doesn't work, we can try to break through to the Great Luo realm and then come back to cause trouble for this guy."

Having said that, Guiyuan began his journey using the Great Teleportation Technique. The ancestral vein of Changbai Mountain was located at the junction of the north and east, and also on the northern continent.