With a thought, Hu Le retrieved Qingyun, and the Great Dao Gate that had been floating on Qingyun was also taken into his body.

With the long river formed from the Primordial Great Dao above his head, he walked towards the depths of the Primordial Origin.

A purple lotus flower carrying a ball of celestial light floated within the primordial chaos, cleaving through the chaos along its path, revealing the Great Dao, and the surrounding primordial energy transformed into tranquility.

After walking for a while, he arrived outside a primordial chaos. He raised his hand and pointed at the chaos, and the primordial energy scattered, revealing a gray-robed Taoist inside.

At this moment, the Taoist was flying in the primordial chaos when he suddenly sensed something amiss and hurriedly turned his head to look in the direction where Hu Le was.

When he saw the Great Dao River above Hu Le's head, and the Primordial Dao Fruit undulating within it, his expression instantly became extremely complex.

There was envy, jealousy, and longing mixed in...

However, Hu Le didn't care about his feelings, because he sensed that the missing spark of inspiration was in this person.

"Fellow Daoist, hurry up and return the treasure to me!" Hu Le's voice immediately rang out in the Hongmeng.

"What?" The gray-robed Taoist was taken aback at first, but then he realized what was going on.

He was, after all, a transcendent being at the same level as Hu Le, and could almost know the past and the future. Although Hu Le's words were nonsensical, he understood the cause and effect with just a thought.

He suddenly opened his right hand, and a radiant light flowed in his palm, from which a spark of inspiration immediately appeared.

"Is this what you're talking about, fellow Daoist?" he asked tentatively.

Hu Le nodded slightly and said, "That's right! This is it."

As the spiritual light reappeared, the Primordial Dao Fruit in the Great Dao River sensed its presence and suddenly unleashed countless divine lights.

Upon seeing this, the gray-robed Taoist immediately understood the extraordinary nature of the spiritual light.

He had taken this item before, but because the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos was not visible here and the mystery was in complete chaos, he did not think much of it.

But at this moment, this spiritual light seems to have some connection with the Primordial Dao Fruit.

Hu Le looked at the spiritual light in the gray-robed Taoist's hand and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew his judgment was correct; the inspiration was indeed in this person.

Now, as long as we obtain this spiritual light, the Primordial Dao Fruit can mature further.

The gray-robed Taoist looked at Hu Le, a hint of hesitation flashing in his eyes.

The gray-robed Taoist had already achieved the Transcendent Realm more than a hundred Yuanhui ago. In recent years, he had been comprehending the Creation Realm, but his progress was very slow, and he had never been able to touch the edge of the Primordial Dao Fruit.

Now that we have finally obtained this glimmer of insight about the Dao Fruit, perhaps we can glean from it the path to achieving the Dao Fruit in the future.

However, he was now being forced to hand over the item because of Hu Le's words, which he was naturally unwilling to do.

Seeing the gray-robed Taoist hesitate, Hu Le felt a surge of irritation.

After all, time is of paramount importance to him.

The attainment of the Dao Fruit requires the help of the right timing. If he cannot attain the Primordial Dao Fruit within a specific time, he will never be able to achieve the Dao again once he misses a certain opportunity.

Therefore, he didn't have much time to waste on this person.

Then, his brows furrowed tightly, and he urged again, "Fellow Daoist, if you can give this item to me, I will remember this favor. When I achieve the Dao Fruit, I will surely repay you handsomely in the future!"

"This..." The gray-robed Taoist pondered again, still hesitant for a moment.

Seeing that the other party was hesitant to make a decision, Hu Le knew that this person was probably difficult to persuade, and he was too lazy to waste any more words on him.

So he said loudly, "Since you are unwilling to hand it over, then I will take it myself!"

Having said that, he stepped forward from the Great Dao of Primordial Beginning above his head and instantly appeared in front of the gray-robed Taoist, reaching out to grab the point of spiritual light in the gray-robed Taoist's palm.

Hu Le approached along the main road, an immense pressure washing over him.

Even though the gray-robed Taoist had cultivated to the transcendent realm, his breath caught in his throat under the pressure of the Great Dao.

Seeing Hu Le reach out to grab him again, he couldn't help but gracefully retreat.

"Where do you think you're going!" Hu Le sneered, and the Hongmeng Bell at his waist suddenly swayed.

With a crisp clang, a melodious bell rang out, transforming into a shockwave that rushed straight toward the gray-robed Taoist.

The gray-robed Taoist felt a jolt in his mind, the surrounding space and time stopped flowing, and his consciousness paused for a moment.

When he came to his senses, he realized that the spiritual light that had been bound in his palm had disappeared.

He looked up and saw that the spiritual light had already appeared in Hu Le's hand.

Having suffered a great loss in a single encounter, the gray-robed Taoist's face twitched involuntarily, filled with secret resentment.

Hu Le glanced at the spiritual light in his hand, nodded in satisfaction, and then put it into his body.

Having achieved his goal, he ignored the Taoist priest and immediately turned to leave.

Upon seeing this, the gray-robed Taoist priest burst into laughter in fury and coldly shouted, "Don't run!"

After saying that, he reached out and grabbed at the air, producing a whisk in his hand. He took a step forward and caught up with Hu Le from behind, then swung it fiercely at Hu Le's back.

Hu Le was startled; he clearly felt an incomparably sharp gust of wind coming from behind him.

He dared not be negligent in the slightest, and quickly turned around. In his hand, he held a bamboo staff full of purple energy, which he held horizontally in front of his chest to block the gray-robed Taoist's whisk.

With a deafening roar, it seemed as if the entire world was about to collapse. A powerful surge of energy erupted from the junction of the two magical artifacts, sweeping outwards like an invisible storm.

The surrounding primordial energy was instantly shattered into countless fragments and then completely swept away, turning the space within a radius of ten thousand miles into a desolate void in the blink of an eye.

The primordial energy in the distance was impacted by the aftershocks, creating towering waves that surged like a raging torrent.

The two magical artifacts remained locked in a stalemate for a moment, both exerting their full strength.

With a loud "boom," the energy burst forth again, and the two of them were forced backward simultaneously.

Hu Le, being of superior cultivation, only took one step back to regain his footing.

However, the gray-robed Taoist's body flew backward like a kite with a broken string.

A thought flashed through Hu Le's mind, and a divine light appeared behind his head. A gate to the Great Dao, radiating endless golden light, slowly rose from the light.

In the next instant, the Gate of the Great Dao, carrying boundless power, flew towards the top of the gray-robed Taoist's head with the force of a thunderbolt, like a towering mountain.

When it flew over the gray-robed Taoist's head, an invisible pressure suddenly descended, as if the entire sky was pressing down on him.

The pressure was like a mountain pressing down on him, making him feel suffocated and overwhelmed.

In that instant, the gray-robed Taoist felt himself enveloped by an indescribable power. The surrounding space and time seemed to become unusually compact, the air became heavy, and even breathing became difficult.

He tried to move his body, but found that his limbs were as if they were locked in shackles weighing thousands of pounds, unable to move even an inch...