Creation Hall.
The disciples sat upright on their meditation cushions, packed together like a vast sea of people.
On the high platform, Chi Yu and Qing Wei waited with their eyes closed!
"Dong!"
With the tolling of a bell!
Chi Yu opened his eyes.
Wood Thunder Child stepped forward.
"Disciples, focus and comprehend! The Dao lecture begins!"
He then turned back to look at Chi Yu, who nodded.
Wood Thunder Child retreated to one side and likewise sat upright on a meditation cushion.
Heaven endures, Earth endures. Heaven and Earth can endure because they do not live for themselves; thus, they can live eternally. Therefore, the Saint places himself last, yet comes first; he removes himself, yet remains. Is it not because he is selfless that he can fulfill himself...
To hold it until overflowing is not as good as stopping. To hone it until sharp cannot preserve it long. A hall filled with gold and jade cannot be guarded. Wealth and honor coupled with arrogance bring one's own misfortune...
As Chi Yu lectured on the Dao, Law Follows Speech, and Golden Lotuses Sprouting from Earth! Countless laws filled the entire Creation Hall.
Even Qing Wei, who had long since become a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, gained profound insight. His realm, which had not shown signs of breaking through for a long time, faintly began to loosen.
A hundred years passed!
The Taiyi Golden Immortal disciples with lower cultivation directly broke through a minor realm.
Those with greater cultivation directly broke through a major realm!
A thousand years passed!
The Elders at the Daluo Golden Immortal Peak instantly broke through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Early Stage.
Those originally at the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm directly broke through a minor realm.
Fu Xi and Nüwa made the greatest progress.
They directly advanced from the Daluo Golden Immortal Middle Stage to the peak of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Early Stage. Nüwa, in particular, only needed to consolidate her cultivation carefully before directly stepping into the middle stage!
Red Sparrow broke through a minor realm and entered the late Hunyuan Golden Immortal stage.
Green Phoenix officially broke into the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
Feng Xuan, Dragon Xuan, and Qilin Xuan completely consolidated their Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation, deepening their comprehension of the laws.
The War-ending Sect's overall strength surged once more.
Another thousand years passed in the blink of an eye!
That day, Chi Yu's Dao lecture neared its end!
A divine beam shot into Qing Wei's body.
Then he shouted!
"Break!"
Moments later, Qing Wei broke through into the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal mid-stage.
Chi Yu nodded in satisfaction.
Suddenly! Waves of Black Qi drifted from the west of the Primordial World, enveloping all of Floating Pagoda Island.
The sky turned from white to black.
"Why did it suddenly become dark?"
The disciples began whispering among themselves!
Chi Yu spread out his divine sense to investigate, then grinned.
"Oh? The final battle between Dao and Demon?"
With a wave of his hand, the Black Mist dispersed!
"Silence!"
The disciples stopped their clamor!
He gave Qing Wei a few instructions, telling him to continue explaining the Path of Merit to the disciples.
Then he vanished from Creation Hall in an instant.
Qing Wei rose and said:
"Disciples, there is no need to panic! This is caused by the battle between the Western Demon Hall and the Demon Extermination Alliance! The Sect Master has already gone west."
"Next, I will explain the Path of Merit. Comprehend it carefully, and do not let external matters affect you!"
The disciples were relieved, then sat down cross-legged once more and resumed listening to the Dao.
With the Sect Master here, nothing was a problem!
That was how confident they were!
~
Elsewhere,
Chi Yu used spatial teleportation to arrive above the western region.
The war had already reached its fiercest point!
Below, corpses lay everywhere, and Demonic Qi ran rampant.
Above, Luo Hou and several Demon Kings jointly resisted Hongjun, Yang Mei, Qiankun, Yin-Yang, and the others.
"Luo Hou! Your sins are monstrous. You cannot escape this calamity!"
"Today, I shall act on behalf of Heaven and destroy demons, annihilating all of you!"
"Hahahaha! Heavenly Dao? Hongjun, others may not know you, but how could I, Luo Hou, not know you?"
"Heavenly Dao? What a joke! You, Hongjun, merely intend to use all living beings to achieve your Saint position. In truth, you are no different from me!"
"Besides, do you really think that you alone can deal with This Seat?"
Immediately afterward, Luo Hou summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword Array.
"Let me show you the power of This Seat's Immortal Four Swords!"
"Boom!"
"Piu!"
"Piu!"
"Piu!"
"Piu!"
The corners of Hongjun's mouth curled slightly, and he immediately put on a grand performance.
"Not good!"
"Fellow Daoists, quickly break the formation!"
Qiankun and Yin-Yang cooperatively took positions at two formation nodes, confronting the Immortal Slaughtering Sword and the Sinking Immortal Sword.
Yang Mei, however, remained wary. Secretly, he separated a strand of his origin from his main body and used the Space Law to leave the western region without anyone noticing.
He then appeared to cooperate as well, confronting one of the immortal swords.
Hongjun nodded, then flashed into the formation node of the Immortal Slaying Sword Array and began breaking the formation!
Watching in secret, Chi Yu grinned at Yang Mei.
He then flashed before Yang Mei's separated origin.
With a wave of his hand, Yang Mei's origin was absorbed into his inner world.
Yang Mei, who was fighting an immortal sword, froze.
"Hm? Why can This Seat no longer sense that strand of origin?"
Then panic overtook him!
He gradually began falling into a disadvantage.
Qiankun was the first to fail to hold out and was forced to self-destruct.
Yin-Yang self-destructed immediately afterward.
"Not good!"
Yang Mei came back to his senses, but it was already too late.
Streams of Demonic Qi and Sword Dao Laws struck him, sending Yang Mei flying backward.
"No! This Seat cannot fall here!"
Severely wounded, Yang Mei used the Space Law to escape.
Hongjun looked at Qiankun and Yin-Yang, sighing in false grief before waving his hand to collect their supreme treasures.
He then glanced at the place where Yang Mei had vanished and shook his head.
"What a pity!"
Luo Hou, blood in his mouth, laughed wildly as he pointed the God Slaying Spear at Hongjun.
"Hongjun! You old bastard, let's see how you break This Seat's Immortal Slaying Sword Array now!"
"Oh? Is that so?"
Hongjun grinned.
"I forgot to tell you, Fellow Daoist. This Seat created a Saint method, the Three Corpses Severing Method. Now I can let you see it."
Luo Hou froze.
Three avatars resembling Hongjun stepped out of his body. Though they were avatars, each possessed the strength of a Quasi-Saint.
"Fellow Daoists, I leave it to you!"
Hongjun bowed to the three corpses.
"Rest assured, main body! Leave it to us."
The three corpses then filled the three formation nodes where no one remained to resist!
Because Qiankun and Yin-Yang had self-destructed, two of the formation nodes were quickly broken.
Luo Hou fell to the ground, vomiting blood.
Then the third node broke!
The fourth node broke!
The Immortal Slaying Sword Array was completely shattered!
Hongjun waved his hand and collected the Immortal Four Swords and the Immortal Slaughtering Formation Diagram, then looked mockingly at Luo Hou.
"Luo Hou, what do you think of my Three Corpses Severing Method?"
"You—"
"Pfft—"
Another mouthful of blood sprayed out.
"I never expected it! This Seat still failed to escape the shackles of fate!"
"Hongjun, do not celebrate too soon!"
"This Seat will not let you have an easy time either!"
Hongjun frowned tightly.
Suddenly! A tremendous bang rang out!
"Hahaha! I, Luo Hou, am willing to perish and have my Dao scattered, forming a realm of my own—the Demon Realm—severed from the Primordial World!"
"From this day forth, as the Dao declines, demons shall flourish. Dao and Demon shall be irreconcilable! Whenever a Primordial World cultivator advances, they shall suffer interference from a Heart Demon! Those who cannot overcome the Heart Demon shall perish!"
"Boom!"
After making his great vow, Luo Hou self-destructed in this western land and detonated the Western Ancestral Veins!
The western region was now utterly devastated, Demonic Qi spilling everywhere like a living hell.
Hongjun shook his head helplessly.
"In the end, he still got the better of me!"
"Ah! So be it, so be it! I shall make amends later. For now, breaking through to become a Saint is the most important matter."
He looked up at the sky and grinned.
"It has arrived!"
Divine light burst across the sky, clouds parted to either side, and an immense amount of merit descended upon Hongjun.
Yet one strand shot elsewhere, toward the direction Yang Mei had fled.
Looking in that direction, Hongjun shook his head.
"Once this old Daoist becomes a Saint, I will deal with you, Yang Mei!"
After collecting the merit, he prepared to take Luo Hou's treasures. But when he turned around—
The God Slaying Spear and the others had vanished without a trace!
Hongjun frowned slightly, but soon relaxed. He turned and disappeared from the Western Battlefield, returning to Jade Capital Mountain.
Not long after Hongjun departed, Chi Yu appeared!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Luo Hou truly was ruthless!"
Suddenly, he noticed something.
"Oh?"
"The Demon Realm?"
"Interesting! More and more interesting! Hahahahaha!"
He would leave this western land to Hongjun. The cause of another day had borne its fruit today!
Just as he was about to use spatial teleportation to return to Floating Pagoda Island, two souls caught his attention.
"Hehe! As expected of Jie Yin and Zhun Ti. They actually managed to survive this calamity!"
"Should I add a little something to the two of you?"
Having read too many Primordial World novels in his past life, he had never held much goodwill toward the western pair, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti. They were utterly detestable and shameless to the extreme!
Chi Yu's playful nature rose again.
With a wave of his hand, two streams of Creation power silently entered the bodies of Zhun Ti and Jie Yin, who were in seclusion healing their wounds.
"Heh! Don't you like being monks? This Seat will grant your wish and let you completely sever all worldly desires!"
With that done, Chi Yu vanished from the Western Battlefield.
"Senior Brother! Did you feel like something was wrong?"
"Junior Brother! So you felt it too?"
"Senior Brother! I feel like I suddenly lost something very important!"
"Junior Brother! Same here! But I just can't remember what it was."
"Then what do we do?"
"Sigh! Let's heal first. Once we're better, we can think about it slowly. We'll remember eventually!"
"Oh! All right, Senior Brother!"
"Luo Hou really is something else. Look at the mess he's made of the western lands. If my cultivation were high enough, I'd have gone up and slapped the hell out of those two long ago!"
"Junior Brother! Cultivate well. Once our cultivation rises, we won't have to fear anyone!"
"Yeah! We need to cultivate quickly! But Senior Brother, it hurts so much!"
"Where does it hurt?"
"Down there!"
"Uh..."
Jade Capital Mountain.
Hongjun returned to his Daoist grounds with an excited expression.
With a wave of his hand, he enlightened two stubborn Chaos stones. After giving them a few instructions, he immediately entered seclusion to refine his merit and break through to the Saint realm.
"Thank you, Master, for enlightening us!"
"Mm! From this moment onward, you are Haotian, and she is Yaochi!"
"Watch over This Seat's Jade Capital Mountain properly. No one is allowed to enter and disturb me!"
"Yes, Master!"
Good grief! He was getting cocky now. He had originally called himself Old Daoist in such a low-key manner, but now he was directly calling himself This Seat.
Did this count as a complete transformation after gaining assets?
Hongjun disappeared.
The two Attendants looked at each other.
"Eh! Why is your chest so flat?"
Yaochi, who had only just gained intelligence, looked at Haotian and blurted out something utterly shocking.
"Uh..."
Good grief! If you weren't wearing pants, would you be asking:
"Eh! What is this? Why do you have a...?"
Clearly, Haotian did not know either. He had just been enlightened and gained intelligence, and Hongjun had not yet taught him anything before rushing off to absorb merit.
"I-I don't know either!"
Haotian looked at Yaochi as well, and damn it, he even reached out and touched her directly.
Yaochi cried out in pain and instinctively slapped him.
"Hmph! Pervert!"
"Eh! What is a pervert? Why did I say that?"
~
(Innocent youth, youthful innocence. Damn Hongjun, damn Hongjun!)
(You old bastard, hurry up and teach your kids before something goes wrong~)
Chi Yu happened to be passing by Jade Capital Mountain.
Good grief! He nearly fell out of the sky!
What? Why didn't he just teleport through space?
He had changed his mind. This Seat planned to go take a look at the Three Pure Ones first.
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