Chapter 1

### Chapter 1: The Beginning of the World with the Pixiu

"Where am I...?" Luo Fan gradually regained consciousness from a dazed and confused state, slowly opening his eyelids, which felt as heavy as mountains, and this thought appeared in his mind.

Blinding light pierced his eyes, forcing him to close them again. After a long while, when the pain subsided, he slowly opened his eyes once more.

The moment he did, he knew he was no longer on Earth.

Because, on Earth, there could never be such a tall and massive mountain!

In the distance, there was a mountain that seemed to pierce the clouds, rising from the ground like a pillar of heaven. Even though it was so far away that it appeared blurry, Luo Fan could not see its peak, even when he tilted his head back to the point where it was parallel to the ground, all he could see was the mountain's body stretching endlessly upward.

"Am I dreaming? ...Or have I been transported to another world? ..." Another thought surfaced in his mind.

As this thought appeared, he suddenly felt as if his head was being hammered by countless iron hammers, the sound of which was accompanied by excruciating pain. Countless bizarre images and sounds, along with various pieces of information, surged from the depths of his mind, inflating his head as if it were a balloon, almost to the point of bursting.

"Roar!" An incredibly loud roar erupted from his mouth, like a bolt of lightning on a clear day, as if the heavens and earth were being turned upside down...

Then, quite naturally, Luo Fan fainted in a state of bliss...

After an unknown amount of time, Luo Fan once again regained consciousness from his dazed and confused state.

Even before opening his eyes, he fully understood his current situation.

"So, I've been transported to another world..."

In his mind, there was now a vast amount of memory, both enormous and monotonous.

"I appeared in this world in a dazed and confused state, wandering aimlessly, eating and sleeping, a cycle that lasted for thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of years. One day, I found a place that made me feel incredibly comfortable, and I fell asleep there, losing all consciousness... Then, my consciousness appeared..."

"Eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating... Such a life is truly enviable..." Luo Fan chuckled bitterly and shook his body.

He had now transformed into a strange beast with a dragon's head, a horse's body, and a lion's paws, with a grayish-white coat. This beast was known worldwide as the "Pixiu" (pronounced "Píxiū").

Since this place had such a legendary Pixiu, it could not possibly still be Earth. This was the Primordial Chaos!

Yes, the Primordial Chaos that Pangu had created, and the current time was less than a hundred thousand years after Pangu's death.

The mountain he had first seen, which was indescribably tall, was the Northwest Pillar of the Primordial Chaos, the spine of Pangu, known as the Buzhou Mountain. According to the "Huainanzi: Astronomical Training," "In the past, Gonggong and Zhuanxu (pronounced "Zhuanxu") fought for the throne, and in anger, Gonggong struck the Buzhou Mountain. The pillar of heaven broke, and the cords of the earth snapped. The sky tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon, and stars moved, and the earth sank in the southwest, so the waters and dust gathered there." The Buzhou Mountain was broken, causing the sky to tilt to the northwest, indicating that the Buzhou Mountain must be in the northwest, supporting the sky.

A helpless smile appeared on Luo Fan's unfamiliar dragon head.

Although he was surprised by how and why he had been transported, he did not experience the joy, pain, or panic that most people would feel in such a situation.

Because, compared to the thousands or tens of thousands of years of memory this body carried, his twenty years of memory on Earth were insignificant, like a grain of sand in the vast ocean. Although he had not forgotten his experiences on Earth and even remembered them more clearly than ever, the deep emotions he once felt were gradually eroded and diluted by the monotonous memory of the Pixiu. This made his mood extremely calm...

Looking at the Buzhou Mountain again, Luo Fan suddenly felt an indescribable sense of awe.

A vast and indomitable will emanated from the Buzhou Mountain, and although it was hundreds or thousands of miles away, this will had not diminished in the slightest. Even at such a distance, it still influenced everything around Luo Fan!

Gazing at the immeasurably tall mountain, which constantly emitted a terrifying aura, Luo Fan felt an indescribable sensation.

It was as if he had become the mountain itself, standing on the vast and stable earth, with the boundless and mysterious sky above him!

A sense of standing between heaven and earth, never yielding, and never giving up, instantly filled his entire being!

Puff...

A faint sound suddenly erupted in Luo Fan's head.

Although the sound was light, it was like the beginning of the world, instantly snapping Luo Fan out of his indescribable state.

"What's happening?" Luo Fan was filled with doubt.

He felt that there was something in his body that had not existed before, or that he had not perceived before!

Carefully sensing this thing, he suddenly felt a dizzying sensation, and his consciousness entered an unknown place.

The surroundings were gray and hazy, like chaos. And he himself had become a very strange existence. Looking down, he saw a fist-sized, lively little Pixiu, which was his current form. This little Pixiu was in a hazy, semi-transparent state, both real and illusory, very flexible, and very cute.

"Divine soul... Primordial spirit?" Luo Fan was amazed.

Both his twenty years of memory on Earth and the Pixiu's years of memory told him that he had no cultivation techniques! Luo Fan, of course, had none on Earth, and the Pixiu's tens of thousands of years of experience had been in a dazed and confused state. Although it had some innate knowledge about the world, it had no knowledge of cultivation. The only thing that set it apart was its innate ability to absorb primordial energy.

With his dazed and confused mind, focused only on eating and sleeping, it was impossible for him to introspect.

Therefore, this gray and hazy space, like chaos, was a place that Luo Fan, and the Pixiu, had never been to before, and he could not find any information about it in the Pixiu's memory.

The feeling of his consciousness in this unknown place, whether it was a divine soul or a primordial spirit, was very peculiar, as if he had shed all his constraints, becoming incredibly relaxed and free.

Shaking his body, the gray and hazy space trembled and gradually dissipated.

Soon, a spherical void region about one meter in diameter appeared.

Moving his body to the edge of this spherical region and trying to step out, he felt as if he had hit an impenetrable wall.

Pushing against it, a mysterious piece of information suddenly flooded his consciousness.

With this information, Luo Fan instantly understood his current location and state.

"So, this is my sea of consciousness, and I am in a divine soul state." He thought to himself, realizing that this small spherical region was the extent of his current sea of consciousness, and beyond it was a place he could not reach.

Sighing inwardly, Luo Fan's mind moved slightly, and the fist-sized, hazy little Pixiu rushed in an unknown direction, breaking through an incredibly powerful, invisible barrier, and entering a space that was dazzling, full of vitality, and filled with a vast and indomitable aura.

Looking down, he saw his body lying below, peaceful and asleep.

Fog surrounded his body, and the contours of the rocks below were barely visible. In the distance, there was a mountain that rose from the ground, towering into the clouds, emitting an incredibly powerful aura...

He had clearly left his body...

A gentle breeze blew, and his body felt as if it were floating, free from the constraints of the physical world. The distance between him and the heavens and earth had never been closer. The world became more vibrant and clearer than ever before. The vast and indomitable aura around him seemed even more pronounced and intense.

Enveloped in this aura, Luo Fan suddenly felt that even if the sky fell, it could not make him yield or give up.

At this time, it was less than a hundred thousand years after Pangu's creation, and the evolution of the Primordial Chaos had not yet stabilized. Besides the boundless primordial energy, there were countless special locations where chaotic energy existed.

For example, the cave that the Pixiu had found countless years ago was a place that constantly emitted dense chaotic energy.

It was precisely because of the chaotic energy that the Pixiu, born at the beginning of the world, felt comfortable and stayed there.

Although the vast and indomitable aura from the Buzhou Mountain made Luo Fan feel good, it was too strong for his newly formed divine soul to endure for long.

After staying outside for less than ten minutes, Luo Fan felt a piercing pain from various parts of his divine soul. His originally semi-transparent, hazy body became even more transparent.

Knowing that his divine soul was still fragile and could not stay outside his body for too long, Luo Fan's mind moved, and he controlled the divine soul to enter his body through the crown of his head.

Once inside his body, the spherical void region reappeared without any transition.

The intense pain and discomfort from being outside quickly disappeared, and his divine soul felt warm and comfortable.

"Indeed, the body cannot be abandoned until the divine soul is strong enough." Luo Fan sighed, and with a thought, he detached from his divine soul and returned to his body.

Blearily opening his eyes, the gray and hazy primordial energy around him came into view. Everything that had just happened seemed like a dream, feeling very strange.

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