Chapter 1 A Tribe, Two Tribes, Three Tribes…

"A tribe, two tribes, three tribes..."

"Hiss... what's going on? Why is the Great Wilderness so dangerous now?" Taotie looked ahead, his face full of pain. Everywhere were large tribes from the Great Wilderness, and all of them were headed by divine generals, not the mortal kingdoms that had been the core before.

Compared to before, it was roughly equivalent to directly going from a Warring States period of alert level.

Raised to a level of divine era contention.

Who the hell is causing trouble, raising the difficulty level so much?

Don't let Grandpa see you.

Taotie gritted his teeth and cursed secretly, sighing helplessly. He picked up one of the nine tripods he had obtained after making a scene overseas. The general process was that Taotie first got the Jiuzhou iron, and then felt that the Jiuzhou iron probably wouldn't be able to deal with the Water God.

As one of the Four Fiends who survived the most barbaric era of the human race, what level was Gonggong?

Can you, a potter, fight? You can't.

In the end, Taotie discovered traces of one of the Nine Tripods. The Yu the Great's Nine Tripods were being used as national treasures for enjoyment by overseas countries. After thinking about it, Taotie considered that a certain potter seemed to have a skill specializing in smashing people with pottery tripods.

Back then, he could smash the Lord of the Huai River with a pottery jar. Now, wouldn't changing to the Nine Tripods allow him to smash Gonggong?

Taotie understood.

He pondered strategies, secretly planned, and thought about his father, the first Xia official, Jinyun.

I am a descendant of the Jinyun Clan!

The嫡子 of the most ancient civil official!

So in the end, Taotie chose to break into the overseas power alone, then kidnapped the emperor and exchanged for the Nine Tripods. He traversed 17,000 miles across the four seas, fighting against the pursuit of overseas experts for fifty-three days, and finally forced his way out of the overseas realms.

Facts have proved that even a slacker can get into the Four Fiends. When they are not slacking off, they are still very fierce.

However, it was also fortunate that Zhurong, who guarded the overseas, was currently sleeping.

Otherwise, Taotie would most likely be suppressed by Zhurong to be a gatekeeper.

In order to suppress one of the top ten, he ended up breaking into the territory of another top ten and making a big fuss, and even encountered the Guixu, the Great Abyss of the Overseas. The Nine Tripods in his hands were simply the number one monster-attracting treasure of the current divine era.

Taotie ultimately forcibly clashed with one of the five Guixu guardians, breaking through his own limitations and forcibly swallowing half of the opponent's body, leaving one of the five Guixu guardians stunned. How could he eat everything? He had thought about being injured and killed, but he never expected to have half of his body bitten off.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Taotie broke through space and arrived at the Great Wilderness.

The fierceness of this journey of slaughter.

The very unpalatable beast on Taotie's shoulder was still trembling with fear.

Fighting and emboldening himself.

It had never occurred to him that his master had such a domineering side.

Worthy of being the child of the first Xia official, Jinyun...

Great, Lord!

Its face was full of emotion, and it was about to flatter him like a dog-leg.

But as soon as it turned its head, its thoughts froze.

Ahead, the gods were arrayed, their murderous aura crisscrossing.

Behind, Guixu lurked, its killing intent endless.

He had fought for tens of thousands of miles, unparalleled in his dominance.

Then, in this atmosphere, Taotie actually sat down cross-legged, too lazy to think, and reached into his package, actually pulling out several large meat buns, stuffing them directly into his mouth, his face bulging as he chewed and seriously considered:

"Ah, or should I just surrender?"

"It feels like I can't fight my way through."

"If I surrender to the Great Wilderness with the Nine Tripods, can I get good treatment?"

"No, Lord God, you are..." The beast flew to the side, watching Taotie, who clearly had snacks hidden on him even in this dangerous moment, and his mouth twitched. He noticed that this thing was what Taotie refused to let go of when he fought against the experts of those overseas countries.

He thought it was some peerless treasure.

Unexpectedly, it was actually freshly steamed meat buns?

"What!"

"You dare to look down on buns?!"

Taotie grabbed the beast in his hand and roared angrily, "This is a bun!"

"It satisfies both the staple food, the dough, and the meat filling and vegetables, a three-in-one, the most perfect food!" As he preached loudly, he shook it violently. The beast's eyes were spinning, and white foam was about to spurt from its mouth. Finally, it began to think.

Was it a mistake to choose Taotie as its master?

It might get eaten.

The beast finally recovered, stuttering, "No, I'm just saying, Lord, where did you get so many dishes?" Taotie said, "Oh, this? I saw a lamp and a table of dishes by the roadside when I passed a crack just now. After thinking about it, I took half of it."

"???"

The beast's expression solidified.

It recalled, looked up, and stammered, "No, Lord God, you..."

"Those dishes, weren't they offerings to the deceased?"

"Isn't that dead people's food..."

The beast's voice stopped abruptly. The young man in front of him held the package filled with delicious food, his face fierce, his eyes wide with bloodshot eyes, as if saying that if you say another word, I will throw you out as bait.

"It's food!"

"If it's not said that you can't eat it, then you can eat it!"

"Besides, I'm Taotie!"

"That's food!"

"Food is born to be eaten by Taotie!"

"Any problem?!"

Taotie roared, "No problem!"

The beast was stunned, feeling like crying for a moment.

No, Lord, have we become so poor that we even have to grab dead people's food?

It looked at the wound on Taotie's chest that was still bleeding, and obediently shut up. Taotie finished eating all the delicious food, licked the grease on his fingers, and then took out a candy. He subconsciously tore open the wrapper and threw it into his mouth, then his face froze.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"

"Ugh!"

Taotie was shocked and directly grabbed his neck with both hands, spitting out the candy.

"Huff... that was close, almost finished eating this thing."

Taotie was full of rejoicing, patted his chest, then wrapped it up with the candy wrapper and carefully placed it on his chest. This was his agreement with the child in the human world, that he would take it back. As a disciple of the Jinyun Clan, his old man had taught him with his fists since he was a child, telling him that he must keep his promises.

However, what else did the old man say...

Taotie always felt that he couldn't remember clearly.

That familiar face was right in front of him, but what he said had already become blurred.

Just like when he took the Lady of the Lake to Longhu Mountain before, he still had that Kui bull drum belonging to his old man. It was also for this reason that Taotie thought about it and didn't take out the drum and swallow it. Now, he almost only had the Nine Tripods, the Kui bull drum, and that candy left.

As the holder of the concept of devouring, Taotie could gain strength from eating.

And when he had nothing to eat on him, it meant that he had fought to the end. The beastly minister on the side trembled, always feeling that Taotie would swallow him in the next moment to replenish his energy. Life and death were at stake, and whether it was delicious or not was no longer important.

Gu Peng Taotie sat cross-legged, looking at the team of gods in front of him.

He slowly exhaled a breath and said, "When it gets dark, find a way to get around them."

He lay back, crossed his arms behind his head, bit a piece of dry grass in his mouth, and quietly looked at the sky, lazy and calm, but the wounds and scars on his body, and the Guixu wound on his chest that was constantly bleeding, represented his experience of fighting across the three realms in the past few dozen days.

The little beast hid at least seventeen or eighteen steps away from Taotie.

'Mother in heaven, your child is probably going to die in Lord God's belly today.'

'I'll probably go to hell after this.'

The beast was speechless with tears in its eyes.

Then it thought that even if it went to hell, it would most likely encounter Taotie going down to eat at the buffet.

For a moment, it was even more speechless with tears streaming down its face.

……………………

Taotie slept for a while, not long, about five hours. When it got dark, the sky was filled with stars. He turned over and sat up, looked at the divine army in front of him, raised his hand and grabbed the beast, stuffing it directly into his clothes, and then held a sword in his backhand.

Taking advantage of the night, he lurked down.

The formations of the divine era were layered upon layered, no longer at the level of ordinary mortal kingdoms. After Taotie had lurked through three layers of the army's formation, he was finally exposed. Rays of light fell, and a voice roared, "Who?!"

"An enemy is breaking through!"

A majestic aura rose. As the Great Wilderness, they had suffered a defeat.

Even if it was just the armies of the Great Wilderness countries, it made the elites from the major tribes of the divine era feel a sense of shame, and they were all holding their breath to take revenge. Taotie's eyes were cold, and he raised his hand to hold two swords. His black hair was tied into a ponytail, and his eyes were clear and cold.

His swordsmanship was unparalleled, as if even ghosts and gods would retreat.

The Jinyun Clan was a great master of ancient swordsmanship, and Taotie...

Taotie's former swordsmanship and strength were evident in the Taotie patterns on the bronze tripods and weapons of ancient China. Even the weapons and swords of later generations would have Taotie patterns on the sword guards. That was once a battle pattern exclusive to expeditions and sacrifices.

Boom!!!

The violent air wave from the night represented a frontal breakthrough.

Taotie raised the sword in his right hand, and more than a hundred divine era warriors in front of him were directly lifted up by the violent force.

One of the Four Fiends, even if heavily injured, even if not in the area of his own mythological concept.

Unable to borrow the power of the Heavenly Pillar.

But when he was determined to fight to the death, he still showed strength far exceeding what he had displayed in the human world. After all, there was Gonggong as a safety device in the human world, and Taotie could not release his own mythological characteristics.

Now he was free and unrestrained, with no more restraints.

The roaring sound of war drums, the iron city gates cast purely from divine era metal, reaching as high as three hundred miles, were all broken through by the majestic force, opening up a passage. No matter how high the city gates were, as long as a crack was broken through, they could continue to move forward.

The sky was illuminated by countless formations, and divine formations gathered the power of more than a hundred people.

Transformed into a pillar of light that could tear the earth apart.

Taotie slashed horizontally with the sword in his left hand, shattering a ray of light that was enough to blast open a mountain range. His right hand directly smashed the sword out, like a battle-axe missile that had been accumulating power, directly plowing a hideous mark on the ground. The front was stained with blood, and Taotie's eyes reflected the firelight.

A divine general noticed the injuries on his body and attacked with all his strength. The divine spear in his palm directly pierced through Taotie's chest wound. Taotie's eyes flashed fiercely, and he slammed his elbow back, directly breaking the spear from the handle. His face was twisted with pain, and his roar shook the heavens and the earth.

Taotie pulled the spearhead out of his body with his backhand, and thrust the two broken spears forward with both hands, directly piercing into the body of the divine general who had attacked, incomparably brave.

He strode forward and exerted force with both arms.

Taotie roared and charged forward with his head down.

"Stop!"

"That's the grandson of the Lord of Siyou!"

Several divine era generals behind him tried to pull him back, but they were forcibly dragged forward by Taotie. In the end, after piercing the divine general with the broken spear, he also pierced several generals, filling them completely, before suddenly swinging it around, causing the earth to crack and the divine general to die on the spot.

When the calmed down Taotie saw that two divine generals from large tribes had been directly smashed and killed by him, his heart turned cold, and he finally realized the key thing.

There was no turning back.

That was the jade pendant of the Siyou tribe, representing the direct descendants of the great god Siyou.

He had killed the grandson of one of the great gods of the Great Wilderness.

This represented absolute hostility from the Great Wilderness. As the surrounding angry voices and attacks became more and more fierce, Taotie's heart turned cold. Then, as if he had broken through some kind of bottom line, since he had killed the grandson of Siyou and there was no turning back, then there was no turning back.

After his hands and feet turned cold, a flame exploded in Taotie's heart, becoming even more arrogant.

The weapons in his hands continued to tear forward.

Looking down from the high altitude, he directly chiseled through a camp that was enough to appear on the battlefield during the divine era contention, fully displaying how fierce he was. In the end, two garrison generals were directly thrown away by him, and his fist slammed out violently, accompanied by a roar, the Taotie aspect behind him was huge and unparalleled.

The huge array gate in front, eight hundred meters high and emitting a transparent streamer, was broken through.

The formation was broken.

Taotie crossed his arms and rushed out directly. Countless formations shattered, turning into strands of streamers, like butterflies flying, also representing that by stepping forward, he could return to China, representing that after five thousand years, the Nine Tripods of the divine era would truly return to Yanhuang.

In that case, that potter would have to feed me, right?

Hmph!

At least let me eat my fill for ten years, if not, five years is fine...

I can build a garden made of chocolate and candy for that little guy.

Open a hotpot restaurant next to it that specializes in importing goods from hell.

Then that Lady of the Lake, tie up that old fart from Longhu Mountain and forcibly send him to get married.

There was also joy in the beast's eyes.

"Wuwuwuwu... that's great."

"I don't have to be eaten..."

But at this moment, an boundless sharp aura directly locked onto Taotie's brow. Taotie's movements stopped, and the beast, who was happy and felt that it had survived, also stiffened.

The divine era army that had just been chiseled through quickly gathered behind them.

Taotie, one of the Four Fiends, actually stiffened slightly. The Nine Tripods, emitting a golden light, were very close to China at his waist, but they could not return to their homeland.

In front of him, under the moonlight, a handsome young man stood quietly, holding a sword in his right hand, his black hair erected by a jade crown, only the long hair at his temples was pale, like a white horse. The feeling of softness and fragility like foam, and the unparalleled sharpness like the passage of time, coexisted on him.

"Yeming..."

Taotie spoke slowly.

"As expected, if the human world wants to fight against Gonggong, it must need the Jiuzhou metal."

"It was right to block the pass in advance."

The Vice-Lord of Heaven slowly drew his sword, and the White Horse Divine Sword in his palm, representing the passage of time, was unsheathed:

"As a god of the Great Wilderness, I cannot allow the Nine Tripods to return to China."

"I'm sorry, Taotie."

"Die here today."

The concept of a sword dao myth that once belonged to one of the Nine Heads of Kaiming emerged on him.

Appearing together with the concept of the passage of time.

Boundless killing, time like a sword.

ps: Today's first update……… The updates may be a little late these two days.