Of the six nodes, one was located in the center of the secret realm, where Jiang Chen had previously been.
The other five nodes were dispersed among the five directions of the Five Elements Secret Realm, which corresponds to the tips of the five fingers of the Five Elements Demon God.
Jiang Chen was now heading in the direction of fire, located at the middle finger location of the Five Elements Demon God, symbolizing the heart.
As the Flame Emperor was known as the Heavenly Emperor of Fire Virtue, Jiang Chen was most familiar with fire among the Five Elements. Hence, he naturally chose Fire first if he was to start somewhere.
In mid-air, a towering 33-level treasure tower charged forward. Divine light threaded from it and cloaked the ground below.
Visible to the naked eye, wherever it passed, the sky was elevated by an unimaginable height.
Indeed, Jiang Chen was back to doing what he did best - scavenging. This time he was even more ruthless than when he was in the Golden Crow ruins. In those ruins, he only dug a few dozen feet down. But here, he dug several thousand feet, even tens of thousands, down in one go.
Jiang Chen wasn’t merely scraping the surface, he was rolling up the entire surface of the Five Elements Land.
He didn’t care what was on the surface. Innate divine minerals, innate spiritual herbs, even Fierce Beasts - it didn’t matter. If he saw it, he’d take it.
Everything here was a treasure, and taking them all was unquestionably the right decision. Even if he couldn’t use them himself, he could sell them to others.
This time in the Five Elements Secret Realm, Jiang Chen was determined not to be at a loss. He would seize as many benefits as possible. It was a matter of future achievement, and this was not the time for restraint.
By the time Jiang Chen reached the location of Fire, he had collected an unknown amount of treasure, leaving chaos and devastation in his wake.
He genuinely wondered what the Jade Emperor would think of this scene when he saw it.
As Jiang Chen approached the interior of the Fire-element Land, he saw a fiery red figure, surrounded by divine flames, rushing towards him.
This was a Vermilion Bird-like Fierce Beast, a ruler of the Fire-element Land. It was second in power only to the peacock Fierce Beast at the center, and it was also at the Half-step Taoist Master Level.
The Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast unfurled its wings, and a sky full of flames rushed in, threatening to burn everything in sight to ashes.
The stronger Peacock Fierce Beast was no match for the Tower of Heaven and Earth, let alone the Vermilion Bird.
Jiang Chen witnessed the Tower of Heaven and Earth lightly shaking. As the Dutian impression within the tower released bright divine light, a force that suppressed the Five Elements spread out, directly restraining the surrounding Fire-element power.
Instantly, the flames on the Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast extinguished, revealing its massive form. It resembled a Vermilion Bird very much. If not for its blood-red eyes filled with a deep murderous aura, Jiang Chen might have mistakenly thought it was a real Vermilion Bird godly bird.
Though it had lost control of its flames, a beast’s greatest strength was always its physical body.
The Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast let out a long cry. Its whole body suddenly transformed into a crimson rainbow and, at a speed beyond imagination, it teleported to the front of the Tower of Heaven and Earth.
Had this attack struck Jiang Chen, even with the protection of the Wuxiang map, he would have suffered severe injuries. Unfortunately for it, the target of its attack was the Tower of Heaven and Earth. It had chosen the wrong enemy.
The Tower of Heaven and Earth started to rotate, and the 33 Innate Spiritual Treasures within it started emanating light simultaneously. A powerful force erupted, warping space, making the distance seem infinitely extendable, which made the tower appear far away.
The speed of the Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast was incredibly fast, surpassing Jiang Chen’s comprehension. But regrettably, even though the Tower of Heaven and Earth was right before it, it could never reach it. The faster it flew, the farther it was from the tower.
The next moment, the tower shook, and the aura of primordial earth and heaven descended, immensely heavy, with each strand equivalent to an ancient mountain.
Countless strands of the eon-old aura descended, amounting to countless ancient mountains crushing down on the Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast, pulverizing it.
The aura then swirled, collecting the debris of the Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast into the tower.
After eliminating the Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast, Jiang Chen didn’t retract the Tower of Heaven and Earth. Instead, he exerted more force to manipulate it, enlarging it to millions of feet in size. The tower loomed over the Fire-element Land, releasing an enormous suction force.
A massive vortex formed at the bottom of the Tower of Heaven and Earth, sucking up everything from the Fire-element Land and pulling them into the tower.
Jiang Chen knew that this place was nurturing a mid-level Innate Spiritual Treasure of fire attribute, but he had no idea about the exact location of the treasure.
Uninterested in searching for the treasure, Jiang Chen stimulated the Tower of Heaven and Earth to swallow the area. When everything was consumed, the mid-level Innate Spiritual Treasure would naturally appear.
As he watched the continually disappearing Fire-element Land, Jiang Chen nodded satisfactorily. Then, with a flicker, he stepped into the Tower of Heaven and Earth.
While the tower swallowed the treasures of the Fire-element Land, Jiang Chen needed to seize the opportunity to refine the Vermilion Bird Fierce Beast inside the tower. He would also give it a try at refining the Peacock Fierce Beast he had faced earlier.
These beasts, although they hadn’t broken through to the Dao Venerable Realm, had been at the Half-step Taoist Master Level for many years. Their strength was terrifying, and their foundation was exceptionally profound, almost matching the Innate Dao Sovereign.