The Great Battle Erupts, Three Ancestors Clash!

In the southern Immortal Volcano, the perennial spurting magma pooled at the mountain's base into a crimson river.

The heat waves rising from the river's surface twisted the void, the very air baked until it was slightly brittle.

Fire Phoenix Clan members stood atop the magma, their wings spreading to reveal golden patterns of Southern Bright Leaving Fire. Every feather that fell could ignite a patch of magma.

At their head, Primordial Phoenix wore a long robe of fire feathers, her vertical brow tightly shut. The Flame Law swirling around her moved like a living thing, causing faint scorching cracks in the surrounding space.

Behind her, subordinate clans like Bi Fang and the Chongming Bird formed ranks. Bi Fang's beak tip spat sparks.

The Chongming Bird's eyes blazed with annihilating golden light, its cries piercing the clouds.

This was the Phoenix Clan's full-strength deployment, even awakening ancient phoenixes who had slept for hundreds of millions of years, their auras carrying a resolve to shatter jade together.

Meanwhile, on the Central Continent's Qilin Cliff, the earth-yellow Qilin Clan gathered like a mountain, their scales gleaming with Xuanhuang luster under the sun.

First Qilin was clad in Xuanhuang scale armor, his hooves treading upon the heavy Earth Law. Each step made Qilin Cliff tremble slightly.

Beside him, subordinate beings like Jiao and Zheng exuded fierce auras. Jiao's tail tip coiled with wind and sand, while Zheng's single horn shimmered with Sha Qi.

He looked up toward the east, a flicker of gravity in his eyes: "The Dragon Clan moves fast. It seems we should prepare for war as well."

As his words fell, he stamped a hoof and gave the order: "All forces advance, rendezvous with the Phoenix Clan, and resist the Dragon Clan together!"

Before the words faded, Qilin Cliff beneath his hooves split open with a roar. Countless streams of earth-yellow spiritual energy surged forth like a stampeding beast tide, following the clan as they charged toward Cangwu Plain.

In just a few short years, the three great armies had gathered here, locked in a standoff.

To the east, the Dragon Clan led by Zu Long presented the most imposing formation.

The waters of the Four Seas coalesced into a water wall before the formation. Within the wall, the faint shadows of countless dragons could be seen swimming, golden dragons flickering in and out of view behind it.

Zu Long's Water Law was so dense around him that even the distant stars shimmered with a faint blue light—he had drawn upon the star power of the Heavenly River Water Star.

Zhu Rong and Ying Long stood at the formation's head. Zhu Rong had a human body and a serpent's tail, a faint Time Law swirling around him, making the space around him seem unusually sluggish.

When Ying Long spread his wings, ten thousand water arrows rained down from the clouds. The auras of the Dragon Clan and their subordinate cultivators surged within the formation.

Among them, there were thousands of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals alone, two million Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and hundreds of millions of Golden Immortals.

With such a massive formation, the mere stacking of their auras caused the ground of Cangwu Plain to sink by several zhang.

To the west, the allied forces of the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan stood shoulder to shoulder.

Primordial Phoenix's Southern Bright Leaving Fire and First Qilin's Earth Law intertwined, forming a barrier of fire and earth.

Flames burned upon the earthen wall, and the wall provided support for the flames—a perfect complement.

Within the allied formation, the number of cultivators above Golden Immortal was comparable to the Dragon Clan. Though they had slightly fewer Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, the Phoenix Clan's Fire Domain Law provided a boost, and the number of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals also reached the thousands.

Strong cultivators from subordinate clans like Bi Fang and the Chongming Bird were interspersed throughout, their momentum no weaker.

"Primordial Phoenix! First Qilin!"

Zu Long's voice exploded like thunder. The Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon soared into the air, its claws grasping and tearing five pitch-black scars into the void.

"You dare allow your underlings to hunt my Dragon Clan's young, destroy the spiritual veins of my Four Seas. Do you think that by joining forces, you can bully the water tribes of the Four Seas?"

"Zu Long, you have no shame!" First Qilin stepped forward first, the ground beneath his hooves cracking into a web of fine lines, his Xuanhuang scale armor glowing.

"It was your Dragon Clan who first sent people to infiltrate our Qilin Clan's territory, steal the Primordial Qilin Fruit, and gravely wound our Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal elder!"

"Now you turn the blame around—you've long wanted war to unify the Primordial Wilderness, haven't you?"

Primordial Phoenix also spoke slowly, her voice carrying the heat of flames. Her vertical brow suddenly snapped open, shooting a line of fire into the void.

"Zu Long, outside my Phoenix Clan's sacred grounds, we found Dragon Clan scales, still stained with the blood of our young phoenixes that were hunted. If you want war, the Phoenix Clan accepts!"

As her words fell, her Southern Bright Leaving Fire surged, forming a massive phantom of a fire phoenix. When the phantom spread its wings, even the distant Sun Star seemed to brighten.

A faint unease flickered through Zu Long's heart. These pieces of evidence seemed a little too convenient.

But now, locked in a standoff before the army, the Dragon Clan's dignity could not yield. He snorted coldly: "Enough talk. Let's see who's stronger!"

With that, he summoned his fist-sized supreme treasure, the Zu Long Pearl.

The pearl instantly swelled to a zhang in size upon leaving his body, glowing with deep blue water light. The shadows of the Four Seas' Dragon Kings surfaced on its surface.

The Water Law surged out like a tsunami, not only drawing upon the waters of the Four Seas but also pulling the star power of the Heavenly River Water Star. A pillar of water as thick as a bucket crashed down from the stars toward First Qilin!

"Well met!" First Qilin did not retreat but advanced, unleashing the Qilin Seal.

This seal was forged from Primordial Xuanhuang Stone, its surface carved with mountain and river veins. Upon landing, it transformed into a boulder ten thousand zhang tall.

The veins on the boulder came to life, turning into countless small mountain peaks that crashed into the water pillar.

"Boom!" The two treasures collided, shaking Cangwu Plain violently. Countless cracks, thousands of zhang deep, spread rapidly.

Scorching earth fire erupted from the cracks, clashing with the water pillar to create a sky full of steam.

More terrifyingly, the shockwave from the collision shot straight into the stars.

A distant star was struck by the shockwave and instantly shattered into countless fragments, falling as meteors toward the battlefield.

They struck the ground, triggering secondary explosions that blasted entire groups of subordinate clans into ash.

Primordial Phoenix seized the moment to unleash the Phoenix Bell. Its silver-bell-like chime carried a piercing sonic wave.

The sonic wave transformed into ten thousand fire blades, leaving faint red traces as they cut through space, aiming for Zu Long's openings.

"Hmph!" Zu Long sidestepped, his dragon tail lashing out with tremendous force, tearing a hundred-zhang-long rift in space that leaked Chaos Airflow.

The black currents carried a devouring force, nearly sucking in a nearby Primordial Unity Golden Immortal of the Phoenix Clan.

His dragon scales swelled, Water Law forming layered water shields as he simultaneously redirected the Zu Long Pearl.

The watery light on the pearl's surface transformed into countless water arrows, clashing with the Phoenix Bell's blades of fire. Water and fire interwove, generating a vast white mist.

The mist contained chaotic Law Power—touch it and die; even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal would have their Primordial Spirit scorched upon contact.

As three peak Golden Immortals of the Origin clashed, heaven and earth were instantly thrown into turmoil.

The Zu Long Pearl's Water Law drew the waters of the Four Seas to flood Cangwu Plain, submerging the Primordial Wilderness.

The water attribute laws within condensed into ice crystals, freezing swaths of living beings.

The Phoenix Bell's Southern Bright Leaving Fire followed the Space Rift toward the stars, igniting countless fire-attribute celestial bodies.

The stellar flames fell as fiery rain, boiling the floodwaters into steam that rose a hundred li high.

First Qilin's Earth Law was even more domineering. The Cangwu Plain beneath his hooves suddenly swelled.

Thousands of peaks thrust up from the ground, then, under his control, crashed down toward Zu Long.

As the peaks shattered, the rubble was rapidly refined by Earth Law into sharp stone spears, raining densely into the Dragon Clan's formation.