The Chaos is infinite in size. Although there are three thousand Chaos Demon Gods, as long as one does not intentionally walk in the same direction, they will never cross paths within the Chaos.
Luohou had traveled through the Chaos for who knows how many years, yet he had not managed to bump into a single Chaos Demon God. This was just as well, however, as it avoided unnecessary conflicts; for now, Luohou did not wish to put his strength on public display.
Now was not the time to be swaggering about. Whoever leaped about the most cheerfully would die the fastest when the Great God Pangu was born. If one truly wished to make a stir, it was better to wait until after the Great God Pangu cleaved open the heavens and established the earth.
Depending on his knowledge of the historical developments of Honghuang, Luohou was confident that he could make a massive splash in Honghuang. As for becoming a stepping stone for Dao Ancestor Hongjun, such a thing simply did not exist.
Countless years of traveling had thoroughly shattered Luohou's illusions regarding the rumors from his past life that treasures were scattered everywhere in the Chaos. Forget a Xiantian Spirit Treasure, Luohou had not even encountered a single Xiantian item.
Clearly, searching for treasures in the Chaos was impossible. Luohou began to cultivate once more. He possessed the Wushi Devil Scripture, a legacy of the Great Dao and undoubtedly a top-tier cultivation method that could lead directly to the realm of the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.
Long ago, Luohou had already cultivated to the peak of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, but for reasons unknown to him, he simply could not break through to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
The progression of cultivation realms was as follows: Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Taiyi Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Daluo Golden Immortal, Hunyuan Golden Immortal (Quasi-Sage), and Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal (Sage)...
"Could it be that I have encountered the legendary bottleneck?"
Luohou muttered to himself with some doubt, yet that should not be possible! He could clearly sense his cultivation increasing; although slow, it was by no means stagnant.
In the Chaos, as a Chaos Demon God, one ought not to encounter bottlenecks. Yet Luohou felt that his cultivation progress was far too slow, which undoubtedly indicated that something was amiss.
Although he was not one of the four principal Chaos Demon Gods designated by the Great Dao, he should not have been unable to break through. While the Hunyuan Golden Immortal and the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal differed by only two words, the disparity in their power was heaven-shaking and earth-overturning.
Within the boundless expanse of the Chaos, violent chaotic Qi currents filled every corner. Were it not for the fact that only Chaos Demon Gods currently resided in the Chaos, even Daluo Golden Immortals would have found it difficult to survive here.
Luohou did not continue his travels. Instead, he set up some restrictions right where he was, then sorted through his own laws. The law he practiced was the Magic Dao, and his cultivation technique was none other than the Wushi Devil Scripture bestowed by the Great Dao. With such superior conditions, breaking through to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm should not have been a problem.
Yet countless years had passed, and Luohou's cultivation still had not broken through to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm. As for the reason, Luohou remained unclear; whether it was his cultivation method or his foundational base, everything appeared completely normal.
"Right, there is still the World-Destruction Millstone!"
Luohou thought of an important supreme treasure in his possession—the World-Destruction Millstone, an item that ranked among the five great Chaos Supreme Treasures.
Despite having obtained the World-Destruction Millstone for so long, Luohou had never truly understood it. He had only performed a preliminary refinement, as battles rarely occurred within the Chaos.
An area spanning ten thousand zhang was shrouded in black clouds, and right within these clouds stood a massive grindstone before Luohou. Roughly a hundred zhang in size, it was covered in countless profound and abstruse runes, radiating an aura of world destruction.
Luohou's divine sense entered the World-Destruction Millstone. As a Chaos Supreme Treasure, the World-Destruction Millstone possessed forty-eight Xiantian restrictions. Since Luohou had only performed a preliminary refinement, he had merely refined twelve Xiantian restrictions so far.
The Great Dao's heritage contained detailed descriptions of magical treasures, with their grades judged by the number of Xiantian restrictions they held.
Treasures below the Low-Grade Xiantian Spirit Treasure level possessed no more than six Xiantian restrictions at most; Low-Grade Xiantian Spirit Treasures generally had six to twelve Xiantian restrictions; Mid-Grade Xiantian Spirit Treasures generally had thirteen to eighteen; Top-Grade Xiantian Spirit Treasures possessed twenty-five to thirty-six...
The World-Destruction Millstone had forty-eight Xiantian restrictions, yet Luohou had only refined twelve. This meant he had merely achieved a preliminary grasp of the World-Destruction Millstone, allowing him to use it only for ordinary combat, while remaining completely oblivious to—let alone capable of unleashing—its true might.
Next, what Luohou needed to do was to refine the World-Destruction Millstone completely, making it truly his own supreme treasure and mastering all of its mighty capabilities.
However, refining a Chaos Supreme Treasure was no easy feat; the further one progressed, the more countless years each successive Xiantian restriction required.
Still, time was the one thing the Chaos did not lack. Once Luohou made up his mind, even he lost track of how many years he spent sitting in meditation.
He no longer concerned himself with matters of the Chaos, devoting his heart and soul entirely to the refinement of the World-Destruction Millstone. The treasure-refining arts contained within the Wushi Devil Scripture allowed Luohou to smoothly refine the first thirty-six Xiantian restrictions of the World-Destruction Millstone.
However, once past the thirty-six Xiantian restrictions, no matter how Luohou tried to refine it using blood-refinement techniques, he could not refine even a single additional Xiantian restriction. This left Luohou in an awkward predicament.
Amidst the black clouds, Luohou opened his eyes, shooting two beams of light from them that seemed to pierce straight through the Chaos.
"It seems that fully refining the World-Destruction Millstone is beyond the capabilities of my current cultivation. I likely need to reach at least the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm." Luohou murmured to himself.
Although he had only refined thirty-six Xiantian restrictions, Luohou had gained a far deeper understanding of the World-Destruction Millstone's terrifying might.
If the mission of the thirty-sixth-grade Chaos Green Lotus was to nurture Pangu, contain creation, and engender worlds, then the mission of the World-Destruction Millstone was to entice living beings, shatter the heavens and earth, and annihilate worlds.
Now that the World-Destruction Millstone was in Luohou's hands, rather than saying Luohou was refining it, it was more accurate to say that the World-Destruction Millstone was alluring Luohou down a path of destruction.
While refining the twenty-fourth Xiantian restriction, Luohou had already sensed the hidden dangers of the World-Destruction Millstone. If things went poorly in the future, he might become a mere tool-spirit for the millstone, utilized entirely by it.
Yet with a Chaos Supreme Treasure placed right before him, Luohou believed that no matter the hidden perils, not a single Chaos Demon God could resist the temptation of such an item.
Luohou himself could not resist it either, which was why he had pushed his refinement all the way to the thirty-sixth Xiantian restriction, thereby forging an irrevocable karma with the World-Destruction Millstone.
From this point on, whenever Luohou's mind and heart became unstable, there was a chance he would be controlled by the World-Destruction Millstone to destroy the world.
Suddenly, Luohou looked toward a certain direction in the Chaos, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes, tinged with a trace of anticipation.
Rumble...
The entire Chaos violently trembled, and endless chaotic Qi currents surged wildly, as if some mighty entity capable of shaking the Chaos was about to be born.
This phenomenon persisted within the Chaos for an unknown number of years.
All three thousand Chaos Demon Gods vaguely sensed a lingering sense of dread, as though some immense danger was about to descend. Their hearts grew incomparably restless, and furious roars echoed successively throughout the Chaos.