As Li Lin was traveling by moonlight towards the former site of the Sun God Palace, he sensed something and changed his direction.
As the moonlight shone, Li Lin led the gods to the Sun God Palace.
"Where is this?" The Dragon King snorted. "The Sun God Palace? How come it's so close to the Jade Pool?"
With his more sensitive nose, he is more accustomed to using it.
The scent of the divine power stored in the Sun God Palace made him overlook the Emperor Yan and Kuafu who were right next to him.
Until Setsuna, they arrived at the Northern Underworld Sea, where the Old Ghost and Hou Yi's Kunpeng appeared.
"Old Ghost!" He finally opened his eyes and saw "Emperor Yan!"
This cry of "Emperor Yan" awakened Jingwei and the Wind God, who were stunned by the sight of Emperor Yan.
"Father!"
"Emperor Yan!"
The Wind God, who was merely a colleague, looked enviously at Jingwei, who was able to throw herself at Emperor Yan as his daughter.
"Jingwei." Emperor Yan smiled as he lifted Jingwei, who had transformed into a child-like divine body, his gaze never leaving Li Lin and Xiaoyu behind him.
"The Taiyin God who has not shed its True Form, but has transformed it into the Artifact Spirit."
He naturally recognized Li Lin's face; it was Bright Demon Beast.
But Li Lin's immense and boundless Taiyin Spiritual Power made him change his mind instantly.
Xiaoyu, however, is a demon who is perceived as a god.
This is because, in this Ancient Primordial Era, there was no concept of monsters.
The Dragon King's true form is a blue dragon.
The god of fire is the Vermilion Bird.
The Water God is Xuanwu.
The wind god is the white tiger.
The reason they all transformed into human form, turning their shed True Form into magical treasures and divine weapons, was that this made them more powerful, more in harmony with the spirit of heaven and earth, and closer to Pangu, the creator of the world, while still retaining the power of their True Form.
And spirits and monsters that the gods deem should not exist.
This refers to a life that possesses only a divine nature, that is, a primordial spirit, but does not possess a definite physical form.
"I am a fox demon," Xiaoyu shook her head in rebuttal.
The fox spirits were once wealthy, and they were all proud of their fox spirit identity.
"A demon? One who does not relinquish his True Form, a path contrary to the gods." Emperor Yan smiled.
"Then I am a demon too," said the Azure Bird. "I am Bird Demon."
"Stop your babbling and tell me what's going on!" Hou Yi glared angrily at Emperor Yan.
Unlike Old Ghost and Kuafu, he did not show any reverence for Emperor Yan.
In his view, everything was caused by Emperor Yan being bewitched by the Blue Spirit Pearl.
"Hou Yi, the new God of War of the God Realm." Emperor Yan looked at Hou Yi gently. "Shendu know the truth. I have left Yan Valley, and we are all preparing to rebel against the rule of Yihe."
Seeing that Kuafu Hou Yi, Hou Yi temporarily put aside his grudges and asked, "What should I do?"
"There is currently one Golden Crow in the sky, and ten Golden Crows Yihe with the [Sun God Mirror] to form the Golden Crow. Your Xuan Arrow also needs to be combined into one," Li Lin said.
"A good idea." Emperor Yan's eyes lit up. "You're still me?"
He prefers the latter.
As the Sun God, his powerful and gentle Spirit of the Sun is most skilled at forging magical treasures and divine weapons, and at freeing the gods from their True Form.
His prestige largely stemmed from this.
However, even though the Xuan Arrow, a magical artifact more suitable for Evil Demon and possessing a powerful Spirit of Darkness, was something he wasn't entirely confident about using, despite gaining a powerful Spirit of Darkness and a portion of Spirit of Chaos through the new elemental spirit [Sun Stone].
Unlike the Holy Spirit Stone, which can be dominated by any spiritual power.
The Sun Stone is composed of the Spirit of the Sun, which governs the Spirit of Darkness and the Spirit of Chaos. The latter two are only a part of the Great Sun Poison Fire.
Li Lin, formerly known as the Bright Demon Beast, is a rare creative talent among Evil Demon, capable of creating Stone Boat that no one can catch up with. Now, he is the Taiyin God, possessing the Spirit of Taiyin.
"Of course it's me," Li Lin said. "The Yihe cannot die."
"You can only make the Xuan Arrows merge into one; such Xuan Arrows will only kill Yihe."
"Only by imbuing the Xuan Arrow with the Spirit of Taiyin can his soul be destroyed, allowing his primordial spirit—the Golden Crow Divine Mirror —to nourish the sun with the Spirit of the Sun."
"I was confused," Emperor Yan sighed. "The Three Realms are now being unified."
"The sun needed for the unification of the three realms must also be more powerful."
A hint of gratitude appeared on his face.
If Li Lin hadn't reminded him, in order to provide enough light and heat for the Three Realms, he would have had to abandon the Sun Stone and throw himself into the sun, becoming a mortal.
New life may be born within the spirit of the Sun Stone, but it will no longer be him.
Just like how the God of War was born from the Holy Spirit Stone, rather than the former Dadi Goddess Nuwa.
"I shouldn't have reminded you." Li Lin's face showed a hint of annoyance.
When he watched the TV series, he complained about why it wasn't Emperor Yan who sacrificed himself, but Hou Yi who had to give up the Holy Spirit Stone and become a mortal, and even take Jingwei with him.
"As gods, we have indeed been too cruel to Demon Race and spirits, and too biased towards humans," Emperor Yan apologized.
He mistakenly believed that Li Lin harbored resentment because he had been hunted down as Bright Demon Beast despite not having done anything wrong.
"Spirits and monsters were born in the human world. The Demon Race directly merged part of the demon realm with the Dadi, wanting to rule over humans and enjoy human blood sacrifices."
"At that time, I decided to completely close the [Gate of Heaven] one day in the future, so that the human world would belong entirely to humanity."
In this situation, the spirits that are directly aggregates of spiritual energy, or even more powerful Demon Race, even if they are harmless, cannot guarantee that they will not harm humanity after the gods have left the mortal realm.
Therefore, the divine realm decreed that spirits and monsters were not allowed to exist, and that Demon Race who came to the human world must be eliminated.
"My daughter Jingwei, who has human blood, will serve as the only bridge between humans and gods."
Although a human-god Half-blood could cross the closed [Gate of Heaven] to reach the human world, Jingwei was born too late.
Before this, no god had ever imagined that a god could have offspring with a human.
Hou Yi was the product of the God of War's idea of falling in love with a human woman and procreating after Jingwei appeared.
"The Demon Race believes in the survival of the fittest. I don't think you're wrong to exterminate us or the monsters," Li Lin said. "The only thing to blame is that the Demon Race's organization is too loose and each leader is too powerful. The Earth Demon Beast needs you, the God of War, and the Demon-Subduing God to suppress it together."
"Thus, formations, a product of overcoming the strong with the weak, did not come into being."
The Demon Race were defeated by their strength and arrogance.
Although the leader of the divine realm Sun God, is as strong as the Earth Demon Beast, the Earth Demon Beast, possessing Stone Boat, is more mobile, and the immortality of the Demon Race is also stronger than that of the gods.
But the Protoss can gang up on each other and use formations.
Even a celestial being can unleash a divine array.
Yihe's Magic Circle was only slightly weaker than the Heavenly Net Array of the Four Great Heavens.
The leaders of the Demon Race at the level of gods only fight alone, and the soldiers they lead can only serve as a supplement to the Spirit of Darkness in high-level battles.
"Old Ghost does have some complaints," Old Ghost said, shrugging. "But what can I do? My master and young master are gods too."
"Hou Yi, give the Xuan Arrow to the Taiyin God," said Kuafu.
"Yes." Hou Yi nodded.
"And there's the Ice Bow," Li Lin said, taking the Xuan Arrow. "It's too wasteful to use the Xuan Arrow only as a disposable weapon."
Hou Yi readily handed over the ice bow.
Li Lin held an ice bow in one hand and a quiver containing eleven black arrows in the other.
"I am the moon, radiating light throughout the universe; heaven and earth are the furnace, and my heart is the fire."
Amidst the sudden burst of Silver-white Flame, the quiver gradually disappeared, and an ice-blue groove appeared on the ice bow's body. There were twelve grooves in total, but only eleven of them were ice-blue, while the last one remained snow-white.
"Am I Taiyin?" Upon hearing this divine incantation, Emperor Yan almost dropped Jingwei.
The contents of divine incantations cannot be made up arbitrarily.
Even he, the son of the sun, could only obediently chant "Spirit of the Sun, within me" when he chanted incantations to unleash his power.
But Li Lin directly declared, "I am Taiyin."
Previously, he Yihe believed that the moon had always existed.
It's just hidden on the other side of the Dadi.
The Bright Demon Beast was born prematurely as the Yin God during the Great Chaos, and his degenerated Yin Power led to him being regarded as Demon Race.
Now, Emperor Yan began to suspect that the Taiyin God before him was the Taiyin itself in human form.
Li Lin paid no attention to the Emperor Yan. He simply picked up the forged ice bow and said, "This groove is the ice bow's energy bar. I've given you an extra empty one. Each full, ice-blue bar represents an arrow. You can shoot them separately or all at once."
"Once it is depleted, it will automatically absorb the Spirit of Darkness and the Moonlight to restore its energy."
"Excellent!" Hou Yi took the ice bow, delighted with it. "Where should I go? Stay here and secretly fire an arrow at Yihe in the sky, or..."
"Come with us," Li Lin said. "The Ice Bow will protect your eyes, and Yihe no longer considers you an opponent. We just need to distract Yihe; it's up to you, Emperor Yan."
The top of the dome, where the original Sun God Palace once stood.
Yihe sat high in the sky, looking down at the Dadi below.
In his imagination, the gods who walked before him, bearing his intense radiance, were powerless to resist.
The Wind God Sister bit her hair, looking at her with a mixture of resentment and obedience.
The Dragon King took off his coat, wiping his sweat as he begged for mercy.
The Water God was powerless and furious.
The only unharmed Jingwei, unwillingly wearing the feathered robe he had made, glared at him with a furious little face, futilely throwing fire spells at him, as if she were being coquettish.
After he threatened Emperor Yan's life, she could only sit on his lap and force a smile.
Finally, he led the gods to the Valley of Flames, and before the Demon Suppressing Stone, in front of the great Sun God Emperor Yan, he made Jingwei call him father, and held his wedding with the Wind God Sister there.
How wonderful!
Yihe grinned foolishly, revealing a mouthful of large gold teeth.
You agree, right, Emperor Yan!
Yihe suddenly stood up.
"You really came out. I thought it was just my imagination."
"It was Hou Yi, that little Evil Demon, who, after noticing my brilliance, took a desperate gamble with the help of the demon Kua."
He looked at Hou Yi's deep blue divine armor, ignoring the ice bow raised towards him, "Still the Spirit of Darkness, Hou Yi, kneel before me, you are no match for me, the Golden Crow Emperor."
"Hehe, Yihe, everyone says you refined the Golden Crow, but you've turned into a scruffy bird yourself." Old Ghost couldn't stand Yihe and started mocking him. "What? Is it because you didn't have any feathers on your head, so you deliberately grew ten pairs of chicken wings to have more feathers?"
"Go ahead and curse, curse, Old Ghost. You've completely ruined your own life, Kuafu's, and your young master's hope of survival." Yihe wasn't angry; his gaze only softened when he looked at the Wind God and Jingwei.
The slightly bulky body of Emperor Yan also blocked Li Lin and Xiao Yu from view.
"Wind God Sister, I am now the Golden Crow Goddess, who is far greater than the Sun God."
"Jingwei, don't you think that compared to the Yan Emperor Yan who neglected you from the moment you were born, I, the Heavenly Emperor who has given you countless gifts over the past thousand years, am more like your father?"
"No," the Queen Mother shook her head, "I will never submit to a man-eating Evil Demon."
"The thought that you used to like me makes me feel disgusted."
"Emperor Yan is the leader of the divine realm. If there has to be an exception, it is the even greater Taiyin God."
"Man-eating? The Taiyin God?" Yihe clenched his fist, golden-red tears of blood streaming from his golden eyes. "You know about the Fire God because of that meddlesome Taiyin God!"
As the Queen Mother's devoted follower, he understood her better than Queen Mother understood herself.
He knew that the Queen Mother was only clever on the surface; she had no ability to find out all of this quietly.
He also knew that after the matter of the Fire God was exposed, he had no hope of winning the Queen Mother's heart.
He could only possess the Queen Mother's body.
I will never win his heart.
"Taiyin God! Get out here! I'm going to kill you!"
"You scraggly bird, I've been here all along. Are you blind and you're blaming me?" Li Lin raised his hand.
"You dare to insult your older brother? Xiaoyu, let's go pluck all his feathers!" Dingxiang suggested.
"Huh? Can we really do this?" Xiaoyu had no idea how capable she was.
"So it was you, Bright Demon Beast." Yihe narrowed his eyes, ignoring Dingxiang and only lingering on Xiaoyu's face for a moment. "So you're not Evil Demon after all."
His idea aligned with that of the previous Emperor Yan.
"No wonder, only your little spell could fool my eyes."
"You, so insignificant, are actually the Taiyin God."
"Emperor Yan, is he your trump card after losing the [Sun God Mirror]?"
"So, you are the so-called judgment of destiny."
"No, Yihe." Emperor Yan summoned the Sun Stone. "You see, I am not as weak as you think. The poisonous fire of Yan Valley made me who I am."
The scorching heat of the burning sun distorted the surroundings.
"[Demon Subduing Umbrella]!" Yihe broke through his defenses. His true form was a divine array generated by heaven and earth, which was also the predecessor of the [Demon Subduing Umbrella]. "What have you done to my True Form! Take your filthy hands off me!"
"Take it away?" Emperor Yan rubbed his cheek with the oval-shaped, soap-like [Sun Stone], and even winked at him. "You suppressed me with your True Form for a thousand years, and now you think it's dirty?"
"Aaaaaah—!" Yihe let out a sharp scream, the golden feathers on its ten wings standing on end in disgust. "I'm going to kill you! Take it away! Don't lick it—!"
"Now, Hou Yi!" Emperor Yan disgustedly stuck out his tongue to lick the [Sun Stone], but secretly reminded Hou Yi with his mind.
"Die, Yihe!" Hou Yi shouted fiercely as the huge black arrow shot out, turning into a moon-white divine light that struck Yihe's chest.
His eyes were now fixed on Emperor Yan's Yihe. "What? Cough?"
His body was pierced, and golden blood gushed out.
These were his last words.
Before he could even realize that the Old Ghost, the Queen Mother's insults, Li Lin's appearance, and the Emperor Yan's disgusting actions and words were all meant to attract his attention.
The tangible anger in his eyes froze, his pupils dilated, and he became expressionless.
His body transformed into light, leaving only the Golden Crow Divine Mirror in place.
Emperor Yan unleashed a divine light that enveloped the Golden Crow Divine Mirror, transforming it into a giant golden crow that flew towards the sun.
"It's over! Yihe is dead!" As the gods cheered, they all took a step back towards Emperor Yan.
Emperor Yan's behavior just now was disgusting.