Truth and Illusion

Zhou Tong's advantage in his battle against the Otherworld Ancestral God continued to expand, growing ever greater. By the end, he was almost relentlessly crushing the Otherworld Ancestral God with his attacks. Were it not for the enormous gap of three realms between them, this Otherworld Ancestral God would likely have fallen long ago.

Meanwhile, Hongjun and the Ancestral God Shennong Shi faced each other in the void.

"Shennong, you broke the agreement and intervened!" Hongjun's majestic voice resounded. He resembled a ball of light, only a vague silhouette visible, as though he were a patch of nothingness.

Across from Hongjun, Shennong's figure was like an ancient lamp, flickering uncertainly between brightness and dimness. His body had long since been destroyed, and even his soul was merely a fragment.

Shennong Shi said, "That day, on the Demon Plain of the Longevity World, you took away tens of millions of weapon souls. This battle had long been unavoidable."

Hongjun's voice remained cold and emotionless. "All beneath the Ancestral Gods are ants. I collected those tens of millions of weapon souls to repair the Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace of the Ancestral God Suiren Shi and complete a heaven-and-earth killing tribulation. That is a tremendous merit."

"What is this killing tribulation? You cannot even provide a definite explanation. It is all nothing more than your own rhetoric. All I see is you intimidating the Four Directions Realm!" Though Shennong Shi had only his divine soul remaining, his presence was as imposing as a mountain as he rebuked Hongjun without restraint.

"Suiren Shi used his own essence to create the Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace, bringing blessings to countless billions beneath heaven. And you? You took tens of millions of weapon souls only to refine the Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace anew. Will