TPWTD 08

Chapter – 08

First Battle Against the Ferocious Beast, Endless Destruction!

“When the sea is without wind, the waves rest in tranquil peace.”

Above the sea, a hundred-zhang-sized ancient leaf boat drifted across the void, with a white-robed Taoist seated cross-legged upon it.

This was a transportation tool refined by Yuan Lian using the leaves of the Yellow Middle Plum Tree. Though only a后天 (acquired) treasure, its function was simple—focused solely on rapid travel.

Simplicity could achieve ultimate perfection, so its speed was not much slower than flying on his own.

“Why haven’t we reached the edge yet!!!”

Yes, he had been flying for over another thousand years and still hadn’t reached the shores of the Primordial Continent.

“Could it take several more epochs?” Yuan Lian sank into deep speechlessness.

This world was simply too vast—far too vast.

Perhaps only the supreme power of a Sage could traverse the entirety of the Primordial Heaven and Earth in a single thought?

He recalled the legends of Pangu splitting the heavens and earth—with his meager imagination, he simply couldn’t picture what that scene must have looked like.

Now, having experienced it firsthand, he realized—

Just how utterly insane was that legendary Pangu? Could such power truly be controlled by anyone?

“This is merely one stretch of sea in the Primordial World. Just how boundless is the entire Primordial Heaven and Earth?”

“But that makes sense. Only such an immeasurable stage could accommodate the legendary Primordial Era, where Daluo were as common as weeds, and Golden Immortals were beneath notice.”

Ceasing his lament, Yuan Lian immersed himself once more in cultivation, letting the flying boat drift unceasingly westward.

Days and moons rotated in endless cycles.

Yuan Lian’s boat continued its flight, like a streak of comet light, blazing brilliantly as it skimmed across the sea at terrifying speed.

But suddenly—an overwhelming, dreadful aura shattered his tranquility.

**ROOOAR!!!**
A bestial roar of unbridled fury tore through the heavens.

Following that roar, wild and extreme magical power surged from the depths of the sea toward the void above.

*Crack!!!*
Void shattered, spacetime collapsed, all things crumbled into ruin.

This was an ultimate killing art—it broke through layers of space, its final target being Yuan Lian in the void.

The formation’s warning flared, jolting Yuan Lian awake from his meditative trance. His eyes snapped open.

“Seeking death! **Purifying World Spirit Light!**”

Yuan Lian rose abruptly, his gaze cold as he chanted lowly, unleashing a peerless divine ability.

A dazzling spirit light blazed forth, powered by mid-stage Golden Immortal mana—ten thousand times stronger than the early stage.

**BOOM!!**

The spirit light collided with the sonic shockwave from the roar. At the point of impact, ten thousand li of void shattered into fragments.

The spirit light exploded into shards; the sonic wave was scattered.

The terrifying shock stirred up raging tides across ten thousand li. Yuan Lian took a single step, stowing the groaning ancient leaf boat away.

Then his entire form vanished between heaven and earth.

*Void Evasion Technique.*

This was a divine ability Yuan Lian had comprehended while meditating on the Three Talents Grand Formation—insight into its spatial-compression power.

It allowed him to instantly pierce through layers of void and hide within the infinitesimal spaces between.

An essential art for travel, defense, and combat.

After steadying himself in the void, the furious Yuan Lian did not strike immediately. Instead, he first probed his enemy with divine sense.

Hmm—an ordinary early-stage Golden Immortal beast.

*I can take it.*

“Wretched beast! Die!”

Yuan Lian emerged from the void and sacrificed the Twelve Calming Sea Pearls, smashing them down fiercely upon the giant beast.

The Twelve Calming Sea Pearls—with all twelve innate prohibitions refined and their auras linked as one—possessed power no less than that of a mid-grade innate treasure.

In that instant, it was as if meteors fell from the sky, as if the very firmament collapsed. The void crumbled, and spiritual energy was crushed under the immense pressure.

**ROOOAR!**

Facing that abyssal, boundless might, the beast—shrouded in eerie black energy—charged headlong without hesitation.

**BOOM!!!**

An earth-shattering explosion rang out upon impact. Incompatible laws clashed, shattered, and spread.

Wild, terrifying mana turned into shockwaves sweeping across billions of li of void. Space collapsed.

Beyond the void, endless gales raged—in an instant, they devoured the fierce beast, engulfing it completely.

“Still not dead? Such tenacious vitality?”

Yuan Lian stood in the void, observing the battlefield. He could clearly sense that the beast’s life force had not faded even after being swallowed by the void.

Sure enough—the next moment, the beast tore through the void and emerged again.

The eerie mist surrounding it had been dispersed, and Yuan Lian finally saw its true form.

It was colossal—several li in size, ox-like in shape but covered in scales, with two fangs curving upward from its jaw, its visage ferocious.

But now, its scales were cracked, strange black blood gushed out like spring water, and its eyes were filled with boundless malice and hatred.

Undoubtedly, this was a powerful and fearsome creature—but now it looked rather battered.

Yuan Lian’s furious, devastating strike was not so easily endured. The world laws contained within the Calming Sea Pearls clung to its wounds, preventing any healing.

“No sentience? How could a Golden Immortal lack intelligence?”

Only then did Yuan Lian realize—there was not the slightest trace of spiritual awareness in the beast.

But all things possess spirit—even the most mundane creatures that begin cultivation eventually gain sentience.

“Could it be…”

Suddenly, a thought struck him, and his expression shifted.

“Suppress!”

Without hesitation, he raised the Calming Sea Pearls again, pouring vast mana into them as they descended with crushing force.

**ROOOAR!!**

Having just tasted that terrible power, the beast roared in frenzy. Though it lacked intelligence, its primal instincts screamed for it to avoid the attack—and instead, it charged directly at Yuan Lian himself.

As the roar echoed, every scale on the beast’s body blazed with eerie black light. Within them, alien laws shimmered faintly, forming a law-system completely at odds with the Primordial Heaven and Earth.

Laws collided. The beast was once again grievously wounded, yet under that strange law, it only grew fiercer.

**ROOOAR!!**

It howled, breaking through the suppression of the Calming Sea Pearls with the aid of its anomalous laws, and condensed a bizarre, terrifying black beam—which it then launched.

The black beam streaked across the void. Everything in its path was annihilated—space corroded, spiritual energy dissolved, all things reduced to primordial chaos.

No—rather than destruction, it was more like a conversion on the fundamental level of existence, turning all tangible things into chaos.

“**Purifying World Spirit Light!**”

Sensing the sinister and fearsome nature of this ability, Yuan Lian did not take it lightly.

He would never fall into a trap. The Purifying White Lotus appeared beneath his feet, and he once again unleashed the Purifying World Spirit Light.

Against such evil and aberrant power, the Spirit Light was the perfect counter.

*Sizzle~ sizzle~*

Like a red-hot iron plunged into a cold spring, the two forces clashed—steam rose, and a harsh, grating sound echoed.

The next instant, a blaze of pure radiance erupted. The vast and majestic laws of the Purifying Light completely purified the eerie black beam into nothingness.

“**Dharma Manifestation—Slash!**” Yuan Lian stepped forward, appearing before the beast.

*A single lotus in the boundless chaos.*

The Dharma Manifestation technique unfurled—a towering figure radiating immeasurable light arose, its vast, primordial aura sweeping across billions upon billions of li.

Yuan Lian used his hand as a blade, condensing the Purifying Light, and struck downward.

The scales that had withstood the Calming Sea Pearls now seemed brittle and fragile. With a flash of light, they were split cleanly in two.

“ROOOAR! ROOOAR—!!”

The beast howled in agony—but it had not yet fallen completely.

It could still fight—it *would* still fight. Its instincts drove it to continue the battle!