Chapter One: The Vengeful Spirit Buried Under the Mountain

  In the beginning, there was no concept of time. The universe was a vast expanse of gray chaos, within which countless chaotic spiritual treasures were nurtured. Among these treasures, the Chaotic Green Lotus was supreme. After an unknown number of eons, the Chaotic Green Lotus gave birth to the great god Pangu.

  Pangu felt that the primordial chaos was desolate and lifeless, with no light or moon, which made it very dull. Simply put, he was extremely dissatisfied with his living environment, so he decided to create the sky. However, this was just his own opinion; he was unhappy, but there were three thousand other gods and demons in the chaos who had lived for countless years and had long grown accustomed to life in the chaos, and they did not want to change their environment. Thus, a conflict arose.

  What to do? So both sides started negotiating. However, 21st-century negotiations are done with the mouth, while in the Primordial Chaos, it's more popular to use fists and axes. Good guy, Pangu is indeed the first of the Spiritual Treasures born from the Primordial Chaos' Qinglian, with unparalleled divine power, and with a big axe in hand, two words: invincible.

  The negotiation results came out soon, Pangu won completely, and the opponents were left with only two or three small cats, who took advantage of the chaos to sneak away, leaving behind a large number of corpses of gods and demons and fragments of treasures, such as the halved Chaos Cauldron. For example, the remaining extremely powerful Chaos Pearl, of course, there were also several gods and demons who were not qualified enough to participate in the negotiation and managed to escape this disaster, for example, the one that everyone guessed, Hong Jun.

  Pangu returned triumphantly, feeling proud and satisfied. Without even resting, he swung his axe and began to open up the sky. Suddenly, a brilliant white light burst forth from the primordial chaos, illuminating everything. Behind the light, the clear and murky energies intertwined, and the earth, fire, water, and wind surged out. Pangu, who had never seen light before, was momentarily blinded by the radiance and squinted his eyes slightly.

  However, Pangu was still an invincible god in the chaos, and it was just a blink of an eye to see the light that had never been seen before. Pangu's heart was quite excited, and he was even more determined about his decision to open up the sky at the beginning. The big axe swung even more fiercely, and with each flash of the axe, the chaos was slowly split open. The clear air rose, the turbid air fell, and a bright sky gradually appeared.

  However, in the blink of an eye when Pangu was not paying attention, after a flash of white light, a small spatial crack flashed by, leaving behind only a round thing wrapped in a soul, and quickly dispersed, thoroughly merging with the earth elements in the fire, water, wind, and earth, without leaving any trace.

  Everything happened too quickly, all in the blink of Pangu's eye. After Pangu opened his eyes again, he was so excited that he didn't even notice what had just happened, and continued to work hard on opening up the sky. In his excitement, Pangu's strength increased several fold, but unexpectedly, a ray of light flew out and accidentally chopped up the primordial lotus that gave birth to him into pieces.

  Treasures have spirits, quickly divided into several parts and flew away. Twenty-four of the thirty-six lotus petals formed a damaged creation jade plate, five lotus leaves transformed into five-element flags, Pangu's several cheap younger brothers, and the lotus seeds born by Hundun Qinglian also scattered away.

  Other fragments were insufficient and could not be transformed into spiritual treasures in a short time, so they flew away in the form of fragments and slowly evolved. The Primordial Azure Lotus was after all the first among the primordial spiritual treasures, and although Pangu's axe was extraordinary, how could it have chopped at the lotus without suffering any damage? Moreover, before that, Pangu had fought a great battle, chopping down countless gods and demons, and an unknown number of spiritual treasures. As a result, Pangu's axe also shattered with glory, transforming into the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Flag, Primordial Bell, and other spiritual treasures.

  Pangu's axe shattered, Pangu felt a sense of melancholy. Looking at the unfinished work before him, the clarity and turbidity of heaven and earth were already showing signs of gradual convergence. However, the terrestrial fire, water, and wind continued to wreak havoc within. Pangu couldn't help but let out a long sigh - the revolution had yet to succeed, comrades still needed to strive! Pangu unfolded the Taiji diagram, transforming it into a golden bridge that propped up heaven and earth. The chaotic clock shook once, calming the terrestrial fire, water, and wind. Then, waving the Pangu banner, he continued to open up the sky.

  After an unknown period of time, Pangu was also exhausted. The heaven and earth finally took shape. Just as Pangu was about to rest, he saw that the golden bridge transformed from the Taiji diagram had bent like a bow, which made him anxious.

  At the beginning of heaven and earth, heaven and earth were not big, and the power of clarity and turbidity was not great. The Taiji diagram was enough to stabilize heaven and earth. However, at this time, heaven and earth had opened up to infinite vastness, and the attractive force between clarity and turbidity had increased infinitely. The Taiji diagram was only a part that split from Pangu's axe, and it hadn't been cultivated well after splitting, so it couldn't withstand the combination of heaven and earth for the time being. Pangu had no choice but to throw out the Pangu flag, making his body as high as heaven, entering the clouds and fog, stepping on the great earth, holding up the sky with both arms, and personally going into battle to hold up the sky.

  The Taiji diagram saw someone topping the sky, and his heart was filled with a sense of dread. He didn't want to follow this crazy master anymore, so he ran away with a "whoosh". Pangu Fan thought about it and figured that since the sky had already been opened, there was nothing left for him to do. He might as well leave too, lest one day he be taken out to fight against other spiritual treasures, ending up like Pangu Axe, which was so powerful yet ended up in a state of disarray. What about his own small body? So he also disappeared with a "whoosh".

  Pangu was busy holding up the sky, and for the time being, he couldn't chase after it. He looked down and saw that Hun Dun was still confused and hadn't figured out what was going on. He quickly reached out to scoop him up and held him in his mouth, while continuing to hold up the sky with his hands. Fortunately, he didn't end up losing anything of value.

  Pangu carelessly took away the Chaos Bell, and fire, water, and wind were no longer restrained. They swarmed out instantly, and for a time, dark winds howled, flames shot up to the sky, and evil waters eroded the earth. The world was in chaos, except for the Pre-Heavenly Spirit, who transformed into a ball and hid under Pangu's feet.

  Water, fire and wind were in chaos. Pangu was enraged at once, covering the Hunyuan bell to capture Huoling. With a shake, Huoling's spiritual power was lost, unable to cause chaos anymore. Pangu did not release Huoling, but instead smashed the Hunyuan bell with his hand, dispersing Shuiling's spiritual power as well. Then, with a wave of his hand, he scattered water in all directions, transforming it into the four seas.

  Feng Ling took a look and suffered, instantly shrinking into a small ball, exerting his speed to the limit, turning into a green light and wanting to escape. Pangu let out a cold hum, lightly shaking the Hunyuan Bell, and Feng Ling was immediately fixed in place. To say that when the Hunyuan Bell fixed the four spirits of fire, water, wind, and earth, it didn't take any effort at all; now there's only one Feng Ling, how could he possibly escape?

  Feng Ling suddenly understood, and with a sweep of his divine sense, he discovered that Tu Ling was secretly hiding under Pangu's feet. Suddenly enlightened, he thought to himself that this was indeed the perfect place, as Pangu was currently holding up the sky and couldn't possibly reach them here.

  Pangu was unable to, now only having a single Hunyuan bell in hand. Although he had stabilized the Wind Spirit, there was no treasure to strike and kill. This one hand supporting the sky could not last much longer. Pangu tentatively withdrew the Hunyuan bell, wanting to take advantage of the Wind Spirit's unguarded moment to strike it once. Unexpectedly, the Wind Spirit had been waiting for this opportunity all along. As soon as Pangu withdrew the Hunyuan bell, the Wind Spirit instantly transformed into a flowing light and arrived at Pangu's feet with nearly instantaneous speed.

  Tuli didn't make a sound, quietly leaving a distance, relying on his innate talent to slowly dive underground. It's said that even if you want to go fast, it can't be faster, this land has experienced several major battles and has also gone through Pangu opening the sky, topping the sky, and has long been solidified beyond words.

  Feng Ling dodged to the side, Pangu was depressed, looked around and laughed. As they say, "the sky is three feet high", I, Pangu, am three zhang high, you, Feng Ling, are only three feet high, I'm one zhang higher than you, that's enough to take you down. At this moment, Pangu took the Hunyuan bell in his mouth, swung it back and scooped up more than half of the Hunyuan tripod, then threw it at Feng Ling with a "whoosh", hitting him off balance again. He swung it back once more, scattering a handful of beads everywhere, Ah, several of them hit their mark.

  Pangu saw that this method was feasible, and suddenly came up with interest. He grabbed everything, regardless of whether it was a fragment of a magic treasure or the body of a demon, and threw it down. With excitement, he swept away a piece of debris and smashed it over. Feng Ling relied on her agility to dodge, but ultimately couldn't avoid the range attack. In an instant, she was beaten all over, and didn't dare to continue dodging cleverly. She transformed into a stream of light and prepared to escape.

  Pangu didn't have time to take the Chaos Bell out of his mouth, and with one big step, he brought his divine power. Without saying another word, he trampled half of Fengling's body. Fengling's body was suffocated, and Pangu had already turned into a pile of fragments that fell down. The last bit of Fengling's spirit was frantic and scrambled around, instantly rushing into the fragments, hiding in the middle and not daring to make a sound.

  Pangu couldn't determine whether Fengling was alive or not, and he threw another pile of broken corpse bodies under his feet. The fragments of the corpses gradually piled up high, but Pangu discovered that with this pile of things stacked up, there was something supporting it, which could also save some effort in holding up the sky. He was overjoyed and didn't care about Fengling's life or death anymore. With a wave of his hand, he brought all the beheaded demon corpses over and piled them up to his chest with his powerful body that held up the sky.

  Of course, the body of Chaos Demon God is not small either. Many people say that practicing Taoism before the opening of Chaos can achieve the highest achievement, but it's not entirely true. Before the opening of Chaos, the Heavenly Way has not emerged, and the Great Way is vague. Who knows what is the way? The Taoist law is natural, and in the midst of chaos, there is only a gray mist that can be understood as the way. As for the Hongmeng Purple Qi, it was only at the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth that it absorbed the earliest and most primitive fifty Taoist laws of the Heavenly Way, and then gave birth to the Heavenly Way and various laws, which had such magical effects.

  So, in the midst of chaos, there is only the method of absorption, and no way of operation. The more absorbed, the essence of the body will be fully embodied in this flesh. Even if there are meritorious methods, they are only used to temper the flesh. Only after the opening of heaven, when all things naturally grow, the Dao trace appears, the Hongmeng purple energy, the creation jade plate and other pre-heavenly spiritual treasures evolve into Dao methods, will various divine methods appear in the world. Therefore, the chaotic demon's flesh body is not small.

  It's off topic, but anyway, Pangu piled up the corpse fragments to his chest, which was very uncomfortable. Moreover, this kind of piling wasn't solid enough and didn't conform to the idea of maximizing benefits. So he started smashing with the Hunyuan Bell, as if Pangu only knew how to smash like this - using a smashing motion for the axe, and also for the Hunyuan Bell. Does it actually feel pretty good to smash like this?

  Feng Ling's lingering soul saw that Pangu was no longer staring at him, and he didn't dare to speed up, so he stuck close to the ground and slowly drifted away into the distance.

  But then Pangu suddenly went berserk, and the Earth Spirit hiding under his feet couldn't help but speak out. He cursed loudly: "I'm so fed up! Can I even avoid getting hit while lying down? Wind Spirit, you good-for-nothing, it's one thing to stir up trouble, but why drag me into it too? And Pangu, you big fool, did I provoke you or something? You can open your sky, and I've been quietly hiding since the beginning. If you want to hit Wind Spirit, go ahead, but what kind of aim is that? The national football team kicks with more accuracy than you! The first pot you smashed was me, and I endured it. A bunch of pearls were broken, mostly on me again, and I still endured it. This time you went crazy and smashed everything, and I suffered 70-80% of the damage. And I still endured it. You can pile up your dead bodies, but after piling them up, you still smash them? Underneath me is a pile of pearls, knives, and swords, with a pot on my head, surrounded by corpses. How do you think I feel about this mess?! You good-for-nothing, are you doing this on purpose?"

  As the earth spirit's cries echoed, a gust of resentment drifted out and rolled towards Pangu.

  At the time when Dili was scolding, Pangu happened to have smashed the surrounding area into a solid mass, just up to his waist. Whether it was from the force or comfort level, it was just right. He felt comfortable in his heart, but seemed to hear some sound. After checking around, he didn't gain anything. It's strange that Dili was buried too tightly and Pangu became too tall and big, like a giant elephant. Even if he concentrated his spirit, he couldn't hear clearly an ant shouting loudly in its nest at unknown depth, let alone Pangu wasn't paying attention.