This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 244: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Oriole Behind…

Chapter 244: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Oriole Behind...

Tianyi watched with apprehensive eyes at the distorted world. The dimensional boundaries resembled a spherical realm but with no stability. Continents floated inside with no clear pattern. One moment they were at the left, but they suddenly teleported to another part the next moment. Hell, there was no clear up or down, and each chunk seemed to have its own gravitational force. Day and night intermixed so that it could appear day and night simultaneously. For some continents, it seemed to be clad in eternal darkness, but at other points, the day never ended.

It went against everything Tianyi had learned on Earth and the spacetime concepts he comprehended.

“Once you enter the boundary of the Broken Primordial World, you will be teleported to a random spot. If you want to leave, you must travel to the boundary and exit. Don’t worry. Once you do, the pendant will shield you from the Vast Void until I can pick you up.”

“Is Grand Elder Zhang not going to enter?” Xia Yushan asked.

Grand Elder Zhang shook her head. “The danger in the Broken Primordial World increases with one’s strength. If I entered, it’s possible for me to lose a limb or be fatally injured. And there are certain locations that only those below certain cultivation can enter, so you should grasp that chance. Enough delaying. All of you, go.”

Tianyi rubbed the pouch attached to his waist. After taking a deep breath, he jumped off Ink Poem Palace towards the Broken Primordial World. With his actions, Xia Yushan entered next, followed by several disciples. The Immortal Realm elders waited by, waiting for the right moment or instance.

As Tianyi entered the Broken Primordial World, he discovered he was free-falling towards the center of the Broken Primordial World. He looked behind him to see that his fellow disciples had already disappeared, teleported by the rules of the Broken Primordial World.

“Why wasn’t I teleported?”

Tianyi had no time to ponder as he realized the speed of his descent started to increase to a terrifying speed, far faster than anything he had experienced before. Luckily, there wasn’t any atmosphere or air, so he didn’t turn into a flaming meteor.

Upon realizing that he was rocketing towards one of the smaller landmasses, a speck compared to the continents, Tianyi covered his head with his arms and braced for the impact. Only the impact never came. Certainly, he felt something crash into him, but his body didn’t halt to a stop.

Confused, Tianyi lowered his arms and looked around him, only to see the remains of a landmass. He had crashed and shattered the tiny landmass with his body.

Ground – 0

Tianyi – 1

After ruining seven more landmasses, either by shattering them into debris or creating a giant hole through them, Tianyi finally crash-landed onto one of the continents closer to the center of the Broken Primordial World.

Tianyi wiped the dust off his clothes and looked around the crater he had created from impact. Before moving to escape, Tianyi excavated the metal that stopped his fall, which now had a Tianyi-shaped imprint on it. He would have crashed deeper had it not been for the unknown stopping his momentum.

Since it could stop and withstand the impact of his fall, the metal shouldn’t be an ordinary material. Holding the giant hunk of metal a thousand times larger than himself, Tianyi tried to rip it apart with his hands but only succeeded in slightly warping it. “I’ll take it.”

He couldn’t use his qi to operate spatial rings, so Mengfei had given him a shrinking pouch that didn’t need qi to be used. The pouch’s opening stretched unnaturally wide, allowing Tianyi to place the whole metal ore into it.

With a powerful leap, Tianyi jumped out of the crater he had created. In the air, his third eye opened and scanned the continent.

Tianyi held his chin and pondered which direction he should travel. He had memorized as much information concerning extinct herbs and materials that could only be found in the primordial era, and he needed the Devil Submerging Flower for Xi Ri. Even if he couldn’t get it, he could also trade other materials to exchange for pills that suppressed Xi Ri’s inner devil infection.

In the end, Tianyi chose the direction with the most prosperous land. It was much safer to gather extinct materials to exchange for inner devil suppressing treasures with the Buzhou Immortal Sect instead of blindly searching for the Devil Submerging Flower.

As Tianyi traveled farther and farther, he discovered a pillar connecting the sky to the land. With its size, he should have noticed it earlier, but he didn’t, which Tianyi attributed to the weird rules of the Broken Primordial World.

His eyes shimmered with interest when he saw that the pillar was actually a purple bamboo over kilometers tall and tens of meters wide at the base.

The Violet World Bamboo was a legendary plant that was said to be one of the materials Nuwa used to refine the pillars to keep heaven and earth from collapsing onto each other. Its closest equivalent in other mythology was the world trees such as Yggdrasil.

Tianyi circled the Violet World Bamboo, figuring out how to move it into his spatial bag. He had already tried pulling it out, but that didn’t work even with his enormous strength, which only strengthened Tianyi’s resolve.

Next, Tianyi tried to cut down the Violet World Bamboo, but as soon as he broke the trunk, the wounds immediately healed, leaving Tianyi with purple bamboo scraps. He stored them away since they still came from a precious spiritual plant.

Not one to give up easily, especially with Xi Ri’s life on the line, Tianyi continued to attack the trunk of the bamboo, discovering no other options except to persist in his action. After a day of chopping bamboo—Tianyi couldn’t tell since the east side was always day—Tianyi was just about to give up.

It was not like he was not without gains. The sheer amount of bamboo scraps he picked should be worth something. As Tianyi decided to give up, day turned to night, and a beam of light erupted from the west side.

Tianyi snapped his eyes to the source. He recognized the light. It was extremely similar to the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus’s birth back in the Northern Region of the Heaven Continent. Not wasting any time, Tianyi abandoned the Violet World Bamboo and chased after the light source.

The closer he got to the west side, the more excited Tianyi became. He could feel the amount of energy decrease due to his inner cosmos’s absorption slowing down. Simultaneously, a pleasant lotus scent entered his nose, like with the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus.

After nearly a week of rush travel, Tianyi finally laid eyes on the source of the pillar of light, a golden, nine-leaf lotus.

“Sovereign Nine Yang Lotus,” Tianyi couldn’t help but utter.

It was just as famous as the Sovereign Nine Yin Lotus and perhaps had even more fame due to a single fact. It was one of the critical ingredients for the Nine Yang Revolution Pill concocted by the Taishan Laojun, a clone of the Heavenly Lord of Dao and Virtue. Ingesting the pill would allow an ordinary mortal to reach the Origin Immortal Realm, becoming an immortal sovereign.

Even if Tianyi only brought the Sovereign Nine Yang Lotus back, it would be enough for the sect to cure Xi Ri and then some. Tianyi didn’t wait any longer and ran up to extract it, but the moment his hands were about to touch the lotus, something slammed into him and sent him to the ground, causing the sand to explode into the air.

After Tianyi spat out the sand in his mouth, he glared at his assaulter, a monster over a hundred meters tall with the head of a lion, a deer’s body, front claws of an eagle, deer antlers, hind hooves of a cow, and a serpentine tail. Dandan started to move from Tianyi’s neck, wanting to fight the new monster, but Tianyi didn’t wait.

It would be best to store the Sovereign Nine Yang Lotus before attracting any more monster’s attention. Even if the monster didn’t even have the thought capabilities of a human child, they still recognized what was good for them.

Tianyi leaped towards the monster and delivered a devastating punch that sent it flying. He frowned when he realized that the monster hadn’t been pulverized by his punch, a first. He opened his third eye and saw that the monster’s body was almost as powerful as a true demon.

Still, Tianyi didn’t need to defeat the monster. He just needed to take the Sovereign Nine Yang Lotus and flee. He turned around to grab the lotus, but the monster appeared behind him and tried to swallow him whole.

Tianyi increased his weight, preventing the monster from picking him up, and unleashed a series of punches inside its mouth, causing it to release Tianyi and yelp in pain. Tianyi, once again, tried to make a grab for the Sovereign Nine Yang Lotus, but a tail out of the corner of his eyes knocked him off balance.

He glared at the qilin-shaped monster as Dandan slithered off his neck and hissed threateningly at the monster. Without holding anything back, Tianyi attacked the monster with Dandan aiding him. The pill qilin didn’t have the same brute strength his master possessed nor the size to utilize it, but it could unleash a breath attack made of chaos qi, causing the monster immense pain.

Under the combined assault of Tianyi and Dandan, the monster soon suffered numerous injuries, and it was only a matter of time before it would be defeated. It could run, but it stared unwillingly at the Sovereign Nine Yang Lotus.

As the battle between the two sides reached a climax, the pillar of light disappeared, causing both sides to snap their gaze towards the Sovereign Nine Yang Lotus, only to see a human figure wearing gray robes running off into the distance.