At the beginning of the Primordial Era, all things in the world were desolate and silent.


    The chaotic qi had not yet completely dissipated. After the Great God Pangu separated the sky from the earth, although there was boundless spiritual energy to nourish everything, this newly born continent was also full of crises everywhere.


    It was true that the spiritual energy was dense, but it was also extremely violent.


    Ordinary plants and trees, without great fortune, simply could not withstand this power. Often, just as they began to develop a bit of spirituality, their consciousness would be dispersed by the violent spiritual energy and turn into ashes.


    The Underworld was even more so.


    The spiritual energy here was filled with an aura of destruction, and it was even more difficult for any trace of spiritual intelligence to be born.


    The living beings that could give birth to spiritual intelligence in such an environment were all those with great fortune and extraordinary perseverance.


    Jiuyuan Mountain, as the center of the Underworld, naturally presented a different scene.


    The spiritual energy in the mountain was abundant, with exotic flowers and rare herbs everywhere, and precious birds and strange beasts could be seen at every turn.


    The waterfalls cascaded down like the Milky Way hanging upside down; the ancient trees towered into the sky, blocking out the sun and exuding a strong aura of life.


    However, beneath this vibrant scene, there was a hint of disharmony.


    Among the living beings in Jiuyuan Mountain, although there were many of them, few had awakened their spiritual intelligence.


    Those birds and beasts were still ignorant and simply survived by their instincts.


    This was not because they were dull-witted, but because someone was secretly suppressing the birth of their spiritual intelligence.


    And that person was Ye Wudao, who had occupied Jiuyuan Mountain.


    Since coming to Jiuyuan Mountain, Ye Wudao had been in secluded cultivation here. On the one hand, he used the marrow of the Demon Gods to nurture his body, and on the other hand, he used his own Law of Destruction to prevent the living beings in the mountain from awakening their spiritual intelligence.


    He was not a merciful person, nor did he have the consciousness of "living in harmony with nature."


    In his view, once they awakened their spiritual intelligence, they would deplete the spiritual energy of Jiuyuan Mountain and affect his speed of emerging from seclusion.


    Rather than taking unknown risks, it was better to strangle it in the cradle.


    This kind of behavior could be said to be extremely selfish and cold-blooded.


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    But Ye Wudao didn''t think there was anything wrong with it at all.


    To him, he himself was the most important.


    As for other living beings, they were nothing but ants. If they died, they died, and they had no value at all.


    Perhaps this was the aftereffect of his fusion with the essence blood and primordial spirit of the Destruction Demon God.


    He was emotionally indifferent and everything revolved around himself.


    The spiritual energy of Jiuyuan Mountain had been gathering for years and formed a huge whirlpool at the top of the mountain.


    The whirlpool slowly rotated, devouring the surrounding chaotic qi and transforming it into pure innate spiritual energy, which was then spread to every corner of Jiuyuan Mountain.


    This was originally a great wonder of Jiuyuan Mountain and one of the reasons for the abundance of spiritual energy here.


    However, in recent times, there had been some strange changes in the spiritual energy whirlpool of Jiuyuan Mountain.


    The originally peacefully rotating whirlpool began to turn violent. Streaks of visible spiritual energy, like enraged dragons, tumbled and roared in the whirlpool, emitting deafening roars.


    In the center of the whirlpool, there were even traces of black cracks, as if they were going to tear the entire sky apart.


    This strange change was not naturally formed by heaven and earth. Instead, it was because a powerful will in Jiuyuan Mountain was awakening.


    The birds and beasts in the mountain felt this terrifying aura and fled in panic in all directions, and the entire Jiuyuan Mountain was thrown into chaos.


    Finally, when the whirlpool reached its peak, a dazzling black light suddenly burst out from the center of the whirlpool.


    "What time is it now?" A calm voice broke the silence in the darkness.


    There was no joy, no excitement, not even a trace of surprise.


    There was only the calmness like the eternal ice.


    There was no joy, no doubt, and even less fear. There was only endless indifference and calmness, as if he didn''t care about anything at all.


    The owner of this voice was Ye Wudao, who had been asleep for ten million years.


    He slowly opened his eyes, but it was still pitch black in front of him.


    "Hmm... this feeling..." He gently moved his fingers, feeling the surging power in his body, "Sure enough, it has been completely fused."


    The fusion he mentioned referred to the essence blood and primordial spirit of the Destruction Demon God.


    When Pangu separated the sky from the earth, three thousand Chaos Demon Gods tried to obstruct him, and Ye Wudao was caught up in the great battle and accidentally fused with the essence blood and primordial spirit of the Destruction Demon God.


    The Destruction Demon God had a violent temperament and was bloodthirsty, being one of the most terrifying existences in the chaos.


    Now, the Destruction Demon God and Ye Wudao had become one. He was the Destruction Demon God, and the Destruction Demon God was him.


    "Hehe..." The corner of Ye Wudao''s mouth curled into an icy arc, "This power is really fascinating..."


    He was not uneasy about fusing with the power of the Destruction Demon God. Instead, he felt an inexplicable excitement.


    Perhaps this was the influence of the power of the Destruction Demon God on him.


    He didn''t care about good or evil, right or wrong. He only cared about power, powerful power.


    "Perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal..." Ye Wudao felt the surging mana in his body and thought to himself, "After ten million years, I''ve finally reached this realm."


    From the memories of the Destruction Demon God, Ye Wudao knew that the Chaos Demon Gods in the chaos naturally had their own cultivation system.


    Since the Chaos Demon Gods were born accompanied by the laws, they were born as Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals, which was what was called Saints in the Primordial Era.


    But Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals did not have the ability of Saints to place their primordial spirits in the Heavenly Dao and be immortal. That is to say, Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals could be killed, which was why Pangu was able to kill Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals.


    The cultivation system in the Primordial Era, from low to high, was respectively Earthly Immortal, Celestial Immortal, True Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Great Luo Golden Immortal, Primordial Golden Immortal (Quasi-Saint), Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal (Saint), Heavenly Dao Realm, Chaos Realm, and Great Dao Realm.


    However, since the Primordial Era was still in ancient times and Hongjun had not yet passed on the method of cutting off the three corpses to become a Saint, the current cultivation system in the Primordial Era still followed the Path of Primordial Unity, rather than the Path of Cutting off the Three Corpses.


    Ten million years was an unimaginably long period for ordinary people.


    But for Ye Wudao, it was just a long slumber.


    He vaguely remembered that he was originally an ordinary college student. He drowned and died while saving someone, and then his soul crossed over into this chaos.


    He had witnessed Pangu separating the sky from the earth and also the great battle among the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods.


    He had witnessed the great power of Pangu with his own eyes and also experienced the cruelty of chaos firsthand.


    He was caught up in the great battle and almost had his soul scattered, but he accidentally obtained the power of the Destruction Demon God.


    All of this was like a dream, yet it had truly happened to him.


    "Huff..." Ye Wudao let out a long breath, "I''ve finally made it through..."


    He wasn''t overly delighted about reaching the Perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. Instead, he just felt a sense of relief.


    After all, as the successor of the Destruction Demon God, the minimum condition for his transformation was to reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.


    "Next..." A glint of light flashed in Ye Wudao''s eyes, "It''s time to refine the treasures I collected before..."


    His voice was still cold, but there was a trace of barely noticeable anticipation in it.


    The treasures he mentioned were not rare natural treasures, but the supreme treasures he intercepted at the beginning of the creation of the world.