After Pangu fell, tremendous changes took place in his body!
The breath he exhaled turned into wind and clouds, and the sound he made transformed into thunder!
His four limbs became the four extreme directions of the earth: east, west, south, and north!
His skin became the vast earth, and his sweat turned into the rain and dew that nourish all things!
His left eye transformed into the sun, and his right eye became the moon!
His hair became the stars, his blood turned into rivers, lakes, and seas, and his muscles became thousands of miles of fertile plains!
His head and limbs transformed into the Five Sacred Mountains, his spine became Mount Buzhou, and his navel became a sea of blood!
His Primordial Spirit split into three and flew to Mount Kunlun, becoming Laozi of Taiqing, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian!
His heart transformed into the Pangu Palace, which nurtured twelve drops of heart blood that became the Twelve Ancestral Witches!
The Pangu Axe was shattered and split into three!
It transformed into three supreme Xiantian treasures: the Chaos Bell, the Taiji Diagram, and the Pangu Banner!
The Chaos Green Lotus, which had enveloped the Chaos Bead, was struck by the Divine Lightning of the Great Dao and scattered to every corner of the Honghuang world!
Its stem and roots transformed into the supreme Xiantian treasure, the God-Killing Spear;
It was a weapon of immense lethality that specialized in injuring people's primordial spirits, feared even by sages, and came to be owned by the Ancestor of Demons, Luohu!
The seed pod of the Chaos Green Lotus transformed into the Qiankun Ding, a supreme vessel for forging treasures that could reverse acquired attributes back to innate ones!
It was later obtained by Ancestor Qiankun!
The Book of Heaven, the Book of Earth, and the Book of Man respectively evolved from three large leaves of the Chaos Green Lotus.
The Book of Heaven was the Investiture of the Gods, holding the power to confer deities;
The Book of Earth was a magical soil mastered by Zhenyuanzi that could organize the earth's meridians, known as the Earth's Membrane;
The Book of Man was the Register of Life and Death, which recorded the life and death fates of all living beings.
The Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, the River Diagram and Luo Book, and the Qingping Sword evolved respectively from three small leaves!
The Dragon-Binding Flat Cane and the Jade Ruyi evolved respectively from the red flower and white lotus root of the Thirty-Six-Grade Creation Green Lotus!
The Five Xiantian Flags were also formed from five lotus leaves;
They were the Eastern Azure Lotus Color Flag,
the Western Plain Cloud Boundary Flag,
the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag,
the Northern Xuanyuan Water-Control Flag,
and the Southern Ground-Flame Light Flag!
Each of these flags possessed different miraculous abilities, and when combined, they could unleash power comparable to a supreme Xiantian treasure!
The Chaos Green Lotus also differentiated into:
the Twelfth-Grade Creation Green Lotus,
the Twelfth-Grade World-Purifying White Lotus,
the Twelfth-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus,
the Twelfth-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus,
the Twelfth-Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus,
and the Twelfth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus!
The Great Dao merits bestowed when Pangu created the heavens split into three parts that flew toward the Three Pure Ones, who were transformed from his primordial spirit!
Three parts flew toward the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who were transformed from his essence blood!
Three parts flew to various parts of Honghuang, combining with the fragments of the Chaos Green Lotus to stabilize earth, water, fire, and wind!
The remaining one part split into three again:
One portion combined with the Xuanhuang Qi of heaven and earth to form the supreme treasure of merit, the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda. Whoever possessed this pagoda would be innately invincible!
Another portion flew to the supreme acquired treasure of merit, the Heaven-Measuring Ruler. It incurred no karmic retribution for killing, and a single wave spanned the ends of the earth, leaving nowhere to escape...
The last portion flew to the Qiankun Ding, making the Qiankun Ding a supreme treasure of merit as well, capable of turning acquired treasures back into innate ones!
From then on, the Honghuang world had its heavens within and a barrier without!
The Chaos Bead carried Qiwu all the way through flight, finally landing at the shores of the East Sea!
Looking at the sights along the way, Qiwu was filled with a myriad of emotions!
"Is this the new world created by Big Brother? Is this the new world that Big Brother created at the cost of his life?"
"No, Big Brother lost his life because of me, so that I could survive!"
At this thought, Pangu's words resurfaced in Qiwu's mind:
"Live well, and guard this world for me!"
And so, Qiwu channeled his magic power and burst out of the bead!
"What on earth is going on?!"
"The realm of the Early-Stage Da Luo Golden Immortal?!"
Qiwu, who had just burst out of the bead, was dumbfounded. What the hell was going on? How had he, dignified as a Peak Hunyuan Taiji Golden Immortal, dropped to the early stage of the Da Luo Golden Immortal?!
Looking at the Chaos Bead, it had lost its luster, its grade having plummeted from a supreme Chaos treasure down to a supreme Xiantian treasure!
Recalling the moment the Great Dao Divine Lightning struck, when the Chaos Green Lotus dissolved, the Chaos Bead blocked the aftershocks, and he himself had cast out all his spiritual treasures—even his companion spiritual treasures—to block it together, he still felt lingering fear!
The Chaos Bead had fallen from a supreme Chaos treasure to a supreme Xiantian treasure, and his own cultivation had also dropped to the Da Luo Golden Immortal stage!
He looked over his own body and muttered to himself, "Fortunately, there are no dao injuries. Given time, I can cultivate back to my former level!"
At this time, the Honghuang land had not yet bred any living creatures!
Standing at the shores of the East Sea and looking at the vast land beneath his feet, Qiwu thought that since he was the very first living creature in this Honghuang world, his Dao title should be Taichu!
And so, Qiwu shouted loudly toward the sky: "From this day forth, there is no Qiwu in the Honghuang world, only Taichu! I vow to guard Honghuang, and I ask the Great Dao to bear witness!"
After a long while, a clap of thunder echoed from the sky, followed by tens of millions of acres of Great Dao merits cascading down, which served as the Great Dao's recognition of Taichu!
Having gained the recognition of the Great Dao, Taichu was naturally happy; after all, the Great Dao had intended to execute him back then!
"Since I must guard Honghuang for Big Brother, I naturally need to take a good look at the world Big Brother created. By relying solely on my own strength, I fear I won't be able to look after everything—I still need to establish a sect."
With this in mind, Taichu prepared to tour the Honghuang world first!
With a single step spanning hundreds of millions of miles, Taichu arrived first at Mount Buzhou!
Truly towering and majestic, Mount Buzhou pierced straight into the clouds, well-deserved as the backbone of the earth!
"No rush to go up the mountain; let's first go take a look at the Pangu Palace, since it was transformed from Big Brother's heart!"
Thinking this, Taichu arrived at the Pangu Palace, and not far away stood a solemn grand hall!
Standing before the Pangu Palace, Taichu could sense waves of pressure. Just as Taichu was wondering how to enter the hall, the doors of the Pangu Palace swung open on their own!
"So Big Brother sensed my arrival!"
Upon entering the Pangu Palace, what struck his eyes vividly was a huge heart, beating with a steady thump-thump!
Beneath the heart was a massive blood pool, and the twelve drops of heart blood were still completely devoid of life!
"Perhaps it will take another hundreds of millions of years for these little fellows to be conceived and born!"
Taichu exited the Pangu Palace and arrived at the foot of Mount Buzhou!
The towering Mount Buzhou radiated an even more powerful pressure, but no matter how great the pressure was, it was nothing at all to Taichu!
As Pangu's younger brother, Mount Buzhou held a natural affinity toward him!
Taichu did not use his magic power; instead, he walked step by step toward the summit of Mount Buzhou!
Three ten-thousand-year periods later, he had only reached the halfway point of Mount Buzhou!
It was too vast!
This Mount Buzhou was truly too massive!
Just as he thought about using his magic power to fly upward, an Xiantian array suddenly caught Taichu's eye!
"An Xiantian array?"
Where there was an Xiantian array, there must be a supreme treasure—Taichu still had this bit of common sense.
He walked up to the front of the array, studied it for a moment, and then sat down to refine it!
In the blink of an eye, three thousand years had passed, and Taichu finally refined the array!
"Fortunately, Mount Buzhou doesn't show much repulsion toward me; otherwise, I'm afraid even another ten thousand years might not have been enough to refine this array!"
Just as Taichu was murmuring to himself, a ruler emitting a profound purple glow came into Taichu's view!
"The supreme acquired treasure of merit, the Heaven-Measuring Ruler!" Even Taichu could not help crying out in surprise, especially since all his own spiritual treasures had dissolved.
"A fine treasure, this is truly a fine treasure! The supreme acquired treasure of merit, which incurs no karmic retribution for killing!"
Without hesitation, Taichu gave a wave of his large hand and claimed the ruler!