Chapter 4: Pangu Opens Up the Sky, His Plan Succeeds

  After Li Yi fell asleep, another ten million years passed, and the trauma caused by Li Yi's split soul was completely recovered, leaving no sequelae. However, Li Yi still did not wake up, preparing to use the blank time from now until the opening of the sky to reflect on himself and sort out his gains.

  Time quietly passed, the rhythm of the Great Way grew weaker and weaker. The golden age of the Chaos Spirits' cultivation of immortality and inquiry into the Dao was about to pass. The Opening of Heaven was approaching, and calamities would soon arrive in succession. At that time, it would depend on each individual's abilities whether they could seize an opportunity to be reborn through Nirvana or stubbornly refuse to understand and turn to dust.

  At some point, the great Dao rhythm completely disappeared into chaos, replaced by a series of roars like those of ancient beasts, and the 3,000 gods and demons were fully awakened.

  Li Yi had been awake for over 10,000 years. After a long period of introspection, Li Yi summarized his situation: Firstly, he had attained the Great Luo Golden Immortal rank; Secondly, he had created a powerful soul technique called "Nine-Colored Pagoda"; Thirdly, he had gained insight into his innate divine ability "Annihilation Cycle", which consumed nearly two-thirds of his magical power when used, and was not to be used unless in a life-or-death situation, making it only usable as a trump card.

  It's said that Li Yi was shocked by the awakening of this innate divine ability, "Annihilation of Reincarnation", because this ability is simply too terrifying. It actually stirred up a thread of the cosmic reincarnation power, which is enough to be terrifying. The cosmic reincarnation and the highest law of the universe, the Balance Law, are equally existent, although it's not a law itself, but it surpasses laws.

  However, Li Yi discovered that almost every Chaos Demon had awakened their innate divine abilities at this time, and many were not inferior to Li Yi's, such as "Devouring All Things", "Chaos Without End", "Judgment of the Gods" and other unparalleled divine abilities. Therefore, Li Yi felt it was better to keep a low profile.

  When Li Yi woke up again, he found that the entire chaos was filled with a depressing atmosphere. Many Chaos Gods had already been dominated by their instincts, lost their clarity, and went to kill and devour other gods everywhere. The desolate cries echoed throughout the Chaos world.

  Li Yi glanced at Pangu's towering giant shadow, and then left far away. After traveling for tens of thousands of years, until he was very far from the center of chaos, he could no longer feel even a hint of Pangu's aura. Probably the radiation from Pangu's axe had already become extremely weak by this point, so he stopped.

  Li Yi wouldn't foolishly run over to chat with Pangu, reminiscing about old times. If he accidentally bumped into Pangu just as he was about to open the sky, he would really have no tears left to cry. Moreover, Li Yi deeply suspected that Pangu might not possess intelligence, but rather was a product of the Great Way's creation for the purpose of opening the sky. If his guess was correct, it was possible that even before getting close, he would be reduced to ashes, and that would be a disaster.

  Still the same, low-key development, secretly picking up cheap is the king's way. Moreover, during the long journey, Li Yi also picked up many materials for refining treasures, including Chaos Star Gold, Kui Water Divine Iron, Black Magic Copper..., and most importantly, Li Yi picked up three Pre-Heavenly Spiritual Treasures.

  To know, that is, in the midst of chaos, the pre-heavenly spirits are absolutely limited in number and scattered throughout the boundless expanse of chaos. Even if you search for billions of miles, there won't be a single one. The situation where spiritual treasures are everywhere in chaos can only be seen in dreams.

  Of course, compared to the situation after the opening of heaven, there are indeed many more in the chaos, because most of the pre-heavenly spiritual treasures will be destroyed in the catastrophe of the opening of heaven.

  Li Yi was able to find the three innate spiritual treasures because many chaotic gods and demons were dominated by their instinctual evolution, busy devouring and evolving, and neglected these spiritual treasures.

  These three congenital spiritual treasures are: Qinglian Ancient Sword, Void War Armor, and Black Magic Cauldron. The Qinglian Ancient Sword condensed a thread of the law of destruction, extremely sharp; The Void War Armor is made mainly of two-world stone, with a thread of immortal divinity, can be virtual or real; In the Black Magic Cauldron, there is a black magic flame that burns eternally, as long as the evil in the world does not stop, the flame will not go out.

  Li Yi believes that among the three spiritual treasures, the most precious should be the Void War Armor. It possesses a hint of immortality and has great benefits for casting an immortal demon body. Moreover, if the opportunity is right, it can transform into an immortal war treasure, possessing the characteristics of both innate spiritual treasures and extreme dao treasures. At that time, it will be comparable to the Innate Supreme Treasure.

  Just as Li Yi was hiding in his own array, quietly waiting for the arrival of Chaos, when the Chaotic Demon God was evolving and hunting everywhere, a majestic voice filled with vast and mighty aura spread throughout the entire Chaos world. Li Yi knew that Chaos had finally arrived, and the plan was also ready to be executed.

  With the arrival of the opening day, the entire chaotic world began to boil up. In this instant, all the chaotic demons seemed to have a kind of intuition that if they swallowed Pangu, they could further advance and leapfrog life, attain the title of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, and thus live forever without destruction.

  This feeling came so strongly that even Li Yi, an absolutely rational soul controlling the demon body, was itching to move, let alone the divine demons who were almost swallowed up by their instinctual nature, flying one after another at the fastest speed towards Pangu's direction.

  Soon, what entered Li Yi's eyes was a scene more terrifying than the end of the world. Chaos and fragmentation filled the air, space storms raged on, and massive axe lights flashed incessantly with an aura that destroyed everything, accompanied by the intermittent sound of shattering mirrors.

  The mournful cries of the Chaotic Demon God continued to echo, and at this moment, the world was filled with blood. The entire chaotic world seemed to be coated with a layer of crimson paint, and the breath of death seeped into Li Yi's heart, even the absolutely rational true self couldn't help but feel a slight movement.

  Mountains and rivers overturned, fires burning across the sky, blood flowing like rivers, the earth shattering, wails echoing one after another... Such apocalyptic scenes lasted for over 300 years before gradually subsiding.

  Of course, Li Yi didn't stay in the restricted area to tide over the crisis. A long time ago, he had made a shocking plan and now it was time to take action.

  A long time ago, Li Yi formulated the plan to cast the Indestructible Demon Body and achieve the Way of Immortality. However, casting the Indestructible Demon Body is not that easy, neither Pangu from the Primordial Chaos nor Hongjun and Yangmei who achieved the Way after Opening Heaven were able to cast it.

  Among them, Pangu's body has reached the highest level and already possesses a hint of immortality. It can be said that he is already half-immortal, but even so, there is still a long way to go before achieving true immortality.

  Immortal, immortal, means indestructible and imperishable, never rotting or decaying, even the Great Way finds it hard to erase. The Immortal Demon Body's most crucial step is also its heaviest, transforming from solid to void.

  It's not about using any law to escape into the void, but rather being extremely hard and soft, possessing an immortal attribute after which the demon body gradually separates from the law and reality, existing in a state of both virtual and real, like the overlap between a mirage and a city in reality, it is both real and non-existent.

  Li Yi devised a crazy plan, taking advantage of this catastrophe to devour those injured gods and demons, even devouring part of Pangu's body.

  It can be said that for the sake of achieving an indestructible body, Li Yi has become reckless. To know that this situation is not much safer than attacking Pangu, but relatively speaking, Li Yi's greatest advantage is that he is sober, which is also a thread of life.

  Because Li Yi won't be foolish enough to directly kill those congenital divine demons, Li Yi usually chooses those who have been killed by Pangu and then swallowed, or those who are about to die or seriously injured, and then ambushes and kills them before swallowing.

  At that time, during the chaos of Pangu opening up the sky, gods and demons were dancing wildly, the void was shattered, and spatial storms were raging. Occasionally, a god with eight wings would carefully grab onto a giant demon corpse and then flash away, or suddenly pop out of a hole in the ground to launch a sneak attack on a heavily injured demon before rushing into the sky...

  Such events, some of the primordial demons who were reborn from the residual souls of the Chaos God after the opening of the sky, would tremble with fear at the mere thought of these memories. Later, when Li Yi's true body appeared and was recognized by these primordial demons, they secretly referred to him as the "Devouring Demon King", causing Li Yi's notorious reputation to spread far and wide.

  After a long time, Pangu finally fell down, and the chaotic heaven and earth also stabilized. Immediately afterwards, twelve drops of blood and three groups of yuan god flew out from Pangu's body. Li Yi rushed to Pangu's side at this moment with the fastest speed, cut off an arm with one sword, and then quickly flew away.

  Soon, Pangu's body began to break apart and transform into the heaven and earth. His two eyes transformed into the sun and moon; his flesh and blood turned into the thick earth and high mountains; his veins became endless rivers; and his blood flowed as vast waters...

  After Pangu fell, the Heavenly Way descended with endless mysterious and yellow virtues. One-quarter of the virtues transformed into a post-heavenly treasure called "Tian Di Ling Long Pagoda", also known as "Xuan Huang Ling Long Treasure Pagoda". All laws were unbroken. One-quarter of the virtues were cast towards the Desolate Land; half of what remained was given to the Three Pure Ones' primordial spirits, and the other half was cast towards the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

  Then, "whoosh", the Xuán Huáng Líng Lóng treasure pagoda flew into Lǎozi's primordial spirit. Afterwards, the Sān Qīng primordial spirits and the Twelve Ancestral Witches flew off in different directions.

  The era of chaos has come to an end, and the Honghuang era has officially begun.