Hu Le slapped the Hunyuan Cauldron with his palm. The Hunyuan Primordial Embryo inside the cauldron spun around, and bursts of Hunyuan Qi exploded, transforming into earth, fire, water, and wind.

The old man, who had not yet jumped out of the Hunyuan Cauldron, froze, screamed, and was swept into the cauldron by the earth, fire, water, and wind, thus failing to escape.

"Ancestor!"

Upon seeing this, the remaining Qilin clansmen cried out in alarm. Some retreated and fled, while others rushed forward to try and rescue the person.

"Get out of my way, you ants!"

Hu Le flicked his sleeve, and a burst of seven-colored light surged forth, instantly sending the charging Qilin clansmen flying.

They're just a bunch of ants; they're not worth his time.

After that, Hu Le ignored them, put away the Hunyuan Cauldron, and rode away on auspicious clouds.

Having witnessed Hu Le's prowess, none of the Qilin clan members dared to step forward again, and could only watch him leave...

...

Hu Le rode on auspicious clouds, leisurely making his way back to Tiannan Volcano, and stepped into the temporary cave.

He temporarily sealed the Hunyuan Cauldron and set it aside, then began to absorb and expel innate spiritual energy to restore his primordial spirit and magical power.

Soon after, Hu Le swallowed the last breath of spiritual energy, which transformed into magical power and entered his body. He opened his eyes and turned to look at the Hunyuan Cauldron beside him.

It's time to deal with that old man.

He reached out and summoned the Hunyuan Cauldron to his front, then spat out a mouthful of primordial spirit power into it.

In an instant, the primordial energy within the cauldron transformed into a ball of primordial true fire, which began to burn fiercely within the cauldron.

"ah!"

Screams rang out, but Hu Le remained unmoved.

The next moment.

Two more screams followed.

Besides the elder from the Qilin clan, there seemed to be the voices of Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Roc as well.

That makes sense, since the old man had captured the two brothers and suppressed them directly in his personal space.

Before he could deal with the two men after returning home, Hu Le came to his door.

Therefore, the two brothers remained trapped in the space.

At this moment, after being continuously refined by the Primordial True Fire, the old man himself began to melt, and his personal space could no longer be maintained, collapsing rapidly.

As the space collapsed, the two brothers fell into the cauldron and appeared in the Primordial True Fire.

Both of them had their cultivation sealed, so they couldn't withstand the burning of the Primordial True Fire.

In just a few breaths, their protective robes were burned to ashes.

Despite enduring the scorching heat of the true fire, Kong Xuan shouted towards the outside of the cauldron, "Brother Daoist, please stop for now and let my brother out!"

Hu Le seemed not to hear, and just kept pouring his magic power into the cauldron.

Three days later.

"Spare me! Spare me..."

The old man started cursing, but when he saw the Golden-Winged Roc quickly burned to ashes, leaving only a chaotic mass of primordial energy, he stopped cursing.

He was immediately terrified and couldn't help but beg for mercy loudly.

At this moment, Kong Xuan stopped talking, sighed, and sat cross-legged in the true fire, waiting for the final moment to arrive.

He knew that the lack of reaction outside meant that the other party had no intention of letting him out, and any further shouting, cursing, or begging for mercy would be useless...

Two weeks later,

Under the tempering of the true fire, Kong Xuan also returned to his original state, transforming into a ball of five-colored radiant primordial energy.

At the center of that primordial energy, a primordial Dao seed rose and fell, emanating a profound aura of the Great Dao.

However, Kong Xuan was Kong Xuan. Until the very last moment, he didn't utter a single sound, calmly watching himself melt into the true fire...

As the owner of the Hunyuan Cauldron, Hu Le naturally knew what was happening inside.

Seeing that the Kong brothers had all returned to their original ways, he couldn't help but shake his head and murmur, "Don't blame me for being ruthless. Who told you that you are innocent men who are guilty of possessing treasures?"

"I'm quite interested in these two innate Dao seeds that can help me comprehend the Great Luo realm..."

Given his nature, he probably wouldn't actively seek out trouble for the two people because of these two Dao Seeds.

But now that the two have automatically fallen into his cauldron, he can refine them with a flick of his wrist and obtain the innate Dao seed. Faced with such temptation, Hu Le naturally will no longer show mercy and release them.

This is their fate.

After all, neither of them are exactly good people.

In the past, peacocks were most ferocious when they were born. They could eat people and could suck a person into their stomach from forty or fifty miles away, and countless lives were lost.

He was later taken away by the Taoist Zhunti and lost his freedom. It was perhaps because the sins he had committed in the past were too grave that he finally suffered retribution.

As for the Golden-Winged Roc, its ferocity and cruelty were no less than its brother's, and its death at Hu Le's hands was equally deserved...

Time flies, and another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

"Ah! You brat! The Ancestor has cursed you... cursed you to be trapped in immeasurable calamities, never to be freed..."

The elder of the Qilin clan finally succumbed to the burning flames, leaving behind a final curse before turning to ashes.

Even after the old man died, Hu Le still did not know his name.

After the old man died, like the Kong brothers, all that remained was a wisp of primordial energy and two spiritual treasures.

One of the items was the old man's own Innate Yin-Yang Dust-Calming Whisk, and the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle that he always carried with him.

At this moment, under the tempering of the Primordial True Fire, the outer layer of the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle melted layer by layer, gradually becoming transparent, and the outline of the Innate Yin-Yang Dao Seed inside the bottle began to appear...

More than a month later, after the Innate Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle had completely melted away, leaving only one Innate Yin-Yang Dao Seed, he reached out and patted the cauldron, dispelling the true fire inside.

He stood up, walked to the cauldron, and with a wave of his hand, the old man's essence floated out from inside the cauldron.

Hu Le grabbed the source in his hand, examined it, nodded in satisfaction, took the bamboo staff, and slapped the source into the staff.

Previously, it was because of the old man that the spiritual energy of his Dao-proving artifact was damaged, and the debt owed to him could only be repaid with his own essence.

This old man had finally condensed the Three Flowers and Five Qi, and the origin he had refined through his life's cultivation was even more powerful. It was likely that with the nourishment of this origin, the power of his Dao-proving artifact would surely reach a new level.

Hu Le sat down again, holding the bamboo staff, and once again refined the staff according to the instructions of the Daoist Zhunti.

Time flies, and after about a few months, Hu Le stopped the ritual and swung his bamboo staff once.

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but the bamboo cane seemed to have become easier to handle, even though it was much heavier.

Next, Hu Le did not follow the same method as Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Roc in refining their two primordial essences into the magic artifact.

After all, these two were far inferior to the old man in cultivation and Dao attainment. Even if their essence was integrated into the bamboo staff, it wouldn't increase the power of this Dao-proving artifact by much.

Furthermore, he not only burned them to death but also robbed them of their future path. There was no need to go too far and offend the natural order, which would not be good for him personally.

So he casually tossed the two wisps of essence out of the cave. In the gentle breeze, they drifted away and floated into the distance, where they were reborn.

As for what they will be reborn as in their next life, that is not something Hu Le cares about.

Now, only two Dao Seeds remain to be dealt with...