Chapter 42: Exterminating the God Stick, The Fire of Civilization

  Ten million miles of southern wilderness, with the blowing of the poisonous storm, a green vitality like a wave, slowly moved towards the Tangting Mountain, revealing the infinite creation of nature, revealing the traces of the great Tao that are everywhere in the vast wilderness.

  The vast expanse of time always slips away so easily, a hundred years pass in the blink of an eye, just like the time it takes for a great deity to close their eyes. Finally, with a deafening roar, the evil energy that had shrouded the southern wilderness disappeared without a trace. The earth's spiritual veins twisted and turned, rising and falling like a dragon burrowing into the ground. Wherever they passed, infinite primordial spiritual energy was produced. Under the nourishment of this primordial spiritual energy, towering trees grew at an alarming rate, and in no time at all, the desolate wilderness transformed into forests, mountains, and rivers.

  "Chaotic Heaven's Slaughter Formation, Refine and Transform the Toxic Slaughter!"

  Huang Xiaoyao let out a loud roar, and the Soul Path manifested the Soul Hand, continuously compressing the poisonous evil energy, gradually turning it into a ball of poisonous evil energy that was sealed by Huang Xiaoyao.

  This poisonous sphere contains the poisonous essence of Nanhuang for thousands of years, and it can be said that it contains infinite power. If it explodes, it can simply destroy the entire Nanhuang, so Huang Xiaoyao has to be extremely careful.

  This poisonous sphere is the size of a fist, but its weight is 500,000 tons. However, for Huang Xiaoyou, this weight is as light as a feather.

  At this moment, auspicious clouds formed in the sky, and a mysterious yellow aura descended from heaven. It turned out that Huang Xiaoyou had restored the vitality of the Nanhuang Great Land, making great contributions to the Hongyuan Heaven and Earth, and was rewarded with merits by heaven.

  Huang Xiaoyao's Soul Hand Seal, a move that sealed the mysterious yellow energy in a certain part of the Soul Sea, combining it with his previous lectures on merit and virtue, forming a mysterious yellow sphere. This sphere contained a sacred flavor, emitting a rolling fragrance that shocked people's spirits, even able to dispel the demonic thoughts in the hearts of cultivators, allowing them to comprehend the mysteries of the universe.

  But for Huang Xiaoyou, these primordial merits are dispensable, because his carefree dao creation is infinite, containing boundless great dao, the hundred rivers within the sea, the immortal dao, Buddhist dao, demon dao, ghost dao, and witch dao, all of which are within Huang Xiaoyou's consideration.

  "Xiao Bai, bring out your divine wooden staff and the heavenly gold core of your heart. I'll help you refine a powerful weapon." Huang Xiaoyao said to the anxious white ape jumping up and down beside him.

  Mischievous and playful, the White Ape was no exception. After devouring the Golden Cicada, he regained his true monkey nature and wanted to quickly explore the vast wilderness of Honghuang. Seeing Huang Xiaoyou's array absorbing toxic evil for hundreds of years with just one sitting made him impatient beyond endurance.

  "Ah! Too good, all my weapons were gnawed away by those insects. Master, you must help me refine a powerful staff, the heavier the better!" Bai Qi cultivated the Great Dragon Xiang Huang Nine Turns, and his physical strength was already boundless, so he wanted a staff that was a bit heavier.

  "Good, the heavier the better!" Huang Xiaoyao's mouth corners slightly curled up, revealing a mischievous and evil grin.

  Only to see Huang Xiaoyao pinch the seal with one hand, a three-legged stove appeared out of thin air in his hand, and a formless flame rose up. With the other hand, he put in the Xiantian Gengjin heart and the Shen Cui ancestor wood.

  The divine mulberry ancestor tree is the ancestor of all the divine mulberry trees in the Tangting Mountain, and all the divine mulberry trees on the mountain are transformed from this divine mulberry ancestor tree. It has evolved into a forest of divine mulberry trees, which is a kind of innate spiritual root used for alchemy. Last time, Panwang's soul destroyed the Tangting Mountain, causing all the divine mulberry trees to turn to ashes, leaving only the heart of the divine mulberry ancestor tree.

  The innate Geng Jin heart is the heart of the Geng Jin mine, and can be said to be the first choice for refining and killing instruments, containing the Geng Jin killing path.

  The oven in Huang Xiaoyou's hand was a kind of carefree Taoist magic, which was the creation of Huang Xiaoyou's comprehensive fire attribute magic - the Heavenly Earth Oven. Although it wasn't a real spiritual treasure, it was more useful than a spiritual treasure, only consuming magical power.

  Hiss, hiss, hiss! Not long after, the divine wood and the pre-heavenly Gengjin's heart turned into a liquid, under the effect of Huang Xiaoyao's soul power, it transformed into a gigantic rod that shook the heavens. The rod was coiled with dragons and had countless giant beasts roaring towards the sky.

  "Soul shaping, law like heaven and earth!" Huang Xiaoyao let out a loud roar, a great Dao divine transmission symbol floated out from the Wan Xue Secret Classics, and was refined into the giant club by Huang Xiaoyao.

  This magical power allows the giant club to expand and contract at will, just like the Golden Cudgel of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven in later generations.

  "Refine!" After the giant club took shape, Huang Xiaoyou surprisingly put the Poison Refining Ball into the Heavenly Earth Furnace. A hissing sound was heard, and the poison refining instantly transformed into a dragon of refining energy, spreading along the giant club and merging into the dragon and beast patterns on it. The eyes of those dragons and beasts suddenly lit up, as if they had awakened their spiritual wisdom, transforming into giant beasts with overwhelming killing intent, taking shape and emerging.

  Roar! Whistle! Hum!

  The deafening roars of beasts shook his ears, and Bai Qi felt a surge of murderous energy attacking his heart, making him unable to restrain himself from going mad, with an intense desire for bloodlust in his mind.

  "Chaotic Heaven Suppressing Formation, suppress!" Huang Xiaoyao's hands flew swiftly, infusing the Chaotic Heaven Suppressing Formation into the giant club. The evil energy of the discarded beast outside was instantly absorbed into the club, transforming back into dragon and beast patterns.

  Boom!

  A fierce aura burst forth, shooting straight up to the Cow Constellation, forming a beautiful black light pillar that many powerful beings in the vast wilderness could see, and knew that the South Wilderness had produced an extraordinary killing tool.

  Only to see Huang Xiaoyao put away the Heaven and Earth Furnace, that giant club suddenly transformed into 100,000 feet, flying at extreme speed, obviously having very high spiritual intelligence, already entering the ranks of top-grade acquired spiritual treasures.

  "Carefree Heavenly Palm!"

  Just as the giant club was about to fly away, a gigantic palm descended from the sky, and the heavens and earth were about to darken. The palm grasped it, and instantly grasped the giant club, which suddenly transformed into an embroidery needle.

  "Haha, this is actually the first magic treasure I've refined, and it's unexpectedly entered the ranks of the top-grade Heaven Spirit Treasure. I'll give it a cool name, let's call it 'God-Slaying Cane'. Xiao Bai, catch!" Huang Xiaoyao tossed the God-Slaying Cane to Bai Qi.

  "Ah! So heavy, it's crushing me to death! Help!" Bai Qi was instantly pinned down by the divine stick and soon buried in the mud.

  Divine Punishment Stick, weighing 1 million tons.

  "Haha, Xiao Bai, didn't you say the heavier the better?"

  Huang Xiaoyao no longer teased him, and with a wave of her hand, the Divine Punishment Staff appeared in his hands.

  "Master, this isn't the right way to hold it, I can barely lift it up. How am I supposed to use it for fighting?" Bai Qi scratched his temples and said.

  "Alright, squeeze out a drop of essence blood, and after the initial blood refinement, you can initially control it. Then, put it into your soul and use your soul to refine it. After tens of thousands of years, you'll be able to fully refine it. However, you must be careful not to let the evil energy devour your soul!" Huang Xiaoyao said seriously.

  "Thank you, Master! I finally have a weapon now, the God-slaying Staff. From now on, you'll be my partner! Gods will slay gods, demons will slay demons! Roar!" Bai Qi became serious, and that aura of killing gods emerged.

  "Go, go and temper yourself. Your Dragon God Nine Turns can only progress through constant battle, and the God-slaying Stick can only resonate with you through continuous use. The matter of Nan Huang has finally come to an end, the Hong Huang wind is rising, and the Heavenly Way is obscure. It's time to enter the catastrophe. My Carefree Way can only be perfected in the midst of the great calamity, grasping the situation, and advancing my bloodline. First stop, head to the Southern Fire Domain! Carefree Way, Carefree Tendon Battle Cloud!"

  Only to see the yellow little demon's feet float up a colorless auspicious cloud, supporting his body slowly rising into the air, with elegant movements, without any hint of smoke or fire, this auspicious cloud actually took one step at a time, ten million miles in one breath, unexpectedly comparable to the great power of specialized speed cultivation.

  Huang Xiaoyao's carefree dao encompasses all things, with the chaotic heaven dragon dao and the yin-yang heaven phoenix dao. These great daos originally contained speed divine abilities. Huang Xiaoyao combined them with the Tendon Striking Cloud divine ability to create the Carefree Tendon Striking Cloud, which can be said to have undergone a qualitative change. Its speed is extremely fast, unmatched in the world. Very quickly, it traversed tens of millions of li across the southern desolate lands, arriving at the farthest south of the Hongyuan continent.

  Fire, fire, fire! This is a world of fire, where only continuous mountains can be seen, but unlike other desolate landscapes, this is a world of volcanoes. Every mountain, thousands of meters high, is a large volcano, hot and explosive, constantly spewing out hot magma at every moment, forming rolling beautiful black toxic clouds.

  Such a world should be desolate, should be devoid of vitality, and should have no profound meaning. However, the fact is just the opposite. Here there are countless giant red trees that stretch towards the sky, full of vitality and prosperity, showing the infinite creativity hidden here.

  It is indeed true that fire is the origin of all civilizations!

  Only among the giant red trees, countless birds play, there are flocks of red sparrows, elegant and perfect red cranes, small red fish swim in groups in the magma, and countless giant snakes lurk between the rocks.

  Even countless flying birds danced with the volcanic eruption, performing various fire-type divine techniques.

  Huang Xiaoyao floated quietly in the air, her eyes closed, quietly sensing the Great Way of Fire here, and gradually gained a very deep understanding of the Great Way of Fire.

  Fire represents the power of refinement, representing the origin of civilization. It can be cold or hot, changing and transforming infinitely, and it can also transform into a scorching sun, brewing infinite vitality and creation.

  Rumble! A gigantic furnace appeared in Huang Xiaoyao's hand, and a series of talismans emerged from the furnace, gradually merging into Huang Xiaoyao's spiritual sea, entering the Wanxue Secret Classic.

  This furnace of heaven and earth occasionally freezes extremely fast, occasionally burns with extreme heat, occasionally bursts, occasionally calms down, occasionally transforms into a fire dragon, occasionally transforms into a fire phoenix, and finally turns into a faintly burning spark. This spark is light yellow, the flames are weak, as if it would be extinguished with just one blow.

  "Civilization's fire! This is the great way of enlightenment that flashed in Huang Xiaoyao's heart, this flame contains profound and subtle implications, implying great creation, this is Huang Xiaoyao's understanding of the great way of fire, it is the sublimation of the great way!"

  Huang Xiaoyao had a feeling that if the weakest creature were to receive even the smallest spark of civilized fire, it would definitely ignite into a prairie fire and give birth to a powerful civilization.

  "Alright, reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles, and being closed up for a hundred million years is not as good as entering the apocalypse to find opportunities. Indeed, as soon as I arrived in the southern fire domain, it stirred my soul and made me realize the origin of the great way of fire - the fire of civilization! Hmm? That volcano over there that's ten thousand meters tall should be the hometown of Yan Luo sister and You Feng sister, right? It nurtures a rare pre-heavenly spiritual treasure of the Phoenix tribe - the Phoenix Realm. Hmm, let's just have Yan Luo sister and them come out instead, they've been cultivating in the Barbarian Dragon Realm for who knows how many years!" Huang Xiaoyao muttered to himself, then waved his hand, and four beautiful women with different styles appeared.

  "Ah! Brother Xiao Yao, you've finally let us out, I was almost suffocated to death! Ah, how beautiful, where is this place?"