In the blink of an eye, hundreds of years had passed.
Gu Chuan wandered through the chaos, searching for all kinds of treasures—rare ores, spiritual soil, elixirs, and other materials that would become nearly impossible to find after Pangu opened the heavens. Yet at this moment, they were scattered everywhere, ignored by the Chaos Demon Gods.
Suddenly, a strange sensation surged through his heart, an inexplicable throbbing deep within his soul, as if destiny itself was guiding him.
A great opportunity seemed to be just around the corner.
Without hesitation, Gu Chuan followed the pull of his intuition, speeding through the chaotic void. He traveled hundreds of light-years before sensing a powerful spatial fluctuation ahead.
What lay before him was a colossal egg of chaos, stretching an astonishing ten light-years in size. To put it in perspective, a light-year is the distance light travels in a year—over nine trillion kilometers. This meant that if one moved at the speed of light, it would take a full ten years to cross from one end of this massive egg to the other. Its sheer size was unimaginable.
Beneath the giant egg was an equally vast and boundless green lotus, its sheer expanse rivaling that of the chaotic egg itself. Around them, the chaotic airflow surged wildly, forming an enormous vortex of primordial energy.
"No way... Is this the legendary Chaos Green Lotus, one of Pangu's natal treasures?!"
Gu Chuan's eyes widened in shock. He had once considered searching for Pangu's traces using the Feng Shui Compass, but the overwhelming karmic burden tied to Pangu made such an endeavor incredibly dangerous. Even the Feng Shui Compass might not be able to pinpoint his location.
Yet, by sheer chance, while searching for treasures in the chaos, he had stumbled upon one of the most legendary chaos magic treasure—the Chaos Green Lotus.
He could sense its immense power, a treasure worthy of its reputation. Its surface was engraved with intricate patterns of universal laws, its strength comparable to the fabled Chaos Orb.
To understand just how powerful the Chaos Green Lotus was, one had to consider what it eventually became.
After Pangu successfully split the heavens and the earth, the immense pressure of creation caused the Chaos Green Lotus to shatter into countless fragments, each transforming into legendary innate magic treasure.
- A fully matured lotus seed from the Chaos Green Lotus became the Thirty-Sixth Rank Good Fortune Green Lotus, which later split into three innate magic treasures:
• The Red Flower became the Coiling Dragon Staff (wielded by Taishang Laojun).
• The White Lotus Root became the Ruyi Scepter (owned by Yuanshi Tianzun).
• The Green Lotus Leaf became the Qingping Sword (held by Tongtian Jiaozhu).
• This is the origin of the saying: "Red flowers, white lotus root, and green lotus leaves—the Three Teachings were originally one family."
- Three immature lotus seeds transformed into:
• The Twelve-Rank Golden Lotus of Merit (Daoist of the West).
• The Twelve-Rank Karma Red Lotus (Ancestor of the Blood Sea, Patriarch of Styx).
•The Twelve-Rank Black Lotus (Demon Ancestor Luohu).
• A half-ripe lotus seed became the White Lotus of Purity, later evolving into Treasure Lotus (owned by Empress Nuwa).
- Five lotus leaves became the Five Innate Banners:
• Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner (Yuanshi Tianzun).
• Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Banner (Jieyin Daoist).
• Southern Lidi Flame Banner (Taishang Laojun).
• Western Cloud Border Color Banner (Queen Mother of the West).
• Northern Xuanyuan Water-Control Banner (Patriarch Styx).
- The lotus petals transformed into various sacred texts and magic treasure:
• Heavenly Book (List of Conferred Gods & God Whip—Yuanshi Tianzun).
•Earth Book (Book of Mountains and Seas & Earth Veil—Zhen Yuanzi).
• Book of Man (Book of Life and Death & Qianqiu Samsara Pen—Yama of the Ten Courts).
• Marriage Register & Red Thread (Nuwa).
• Shanhe Sheji Map (Nuwa).
• Hetu Luoshu (Fuxi).
• Seven-Treasure Mystic Tree (Zhunti Daoist).
• Red Hydrangea (Nuwa).
• God-Slaying Spear (Luohu).
- The Lotus Pod became the Qiankun Cauldron, later owned by Ancestor Hongjun.
From this list of innate magic treasure, one could grasp the unimaginable power of the Chaos Green Lotus. Nearly every mighty figure in the later eras wielded a fragment of this lotus. If a single piece held such terrifying might, then the fully intact Chaos Green Lotus before him was beyond comprehension.
Inside this sacred lotus, Pangu himself was still gestating, not yet fully formed.
Gu Chuan stared at the Chaos Green Lotus, his mind reeling. Even a Quasi-Saint would struggle to break its defenses, let alone a Saint. This meant that Pangu was in an absolutely safe state, beyond the reach of any Chaos Demon Gods.
"But... Pangu is truly enormous."
Gu Chuan glanced at his own Primordial Ancient Serpent Body, which stretched 500 billion kilometers in length—already a behemoth by most standards. Yet compared to Pangu, whose body was at least ten light-years long, he was nothing more than a speck of dust.
Some later generations had described Pangu as being only 100,000 feet tall. Hearing this now, Gu Chuan found it laughable.
This was akin to a beggar imagining an emperor's feast consisting of nothing but steamed buns, unaware that the emperor dined on delicacies beyond their comprehension.
Likewise, ordinary mortals had never seen the real Pangu, so they imagined him in human proportions. They thought 100,000 feet was already vast, but in truth, Pangu's size was immeasurable.
To put it simply: the size of Pangu was equivalent to the size of the entire primordial world.
This was not an existence that mere mortals could comprehend.
The same ridiculous misconceptions applied to other legends, such as Sun Wukong's Golden Cudgel.
Some claimed it weighed 13,500 catties—only seven tons in modern terms. Yet in today's world, even a standard truck weighs several tons. Was it truly believable that such a weapon could suppress the East China Sea?
Would throwing a seven-ton truck into the ocean calm a storm?
Such notions were laughably naive, yet many had taken them as fact.