Blood Maple Plain.
This had once been one of the most beautiful plains in the primordial world.
Mountain ranges overlapped, and spiritual energy drifted like mist.
Now, it had become a living hell.
The earth had been soaked dark red with blood, while severed limbs lay scattered everywhere.
Shattered magical treasures and weapons reflected a blinding blood-red gleam beneath the blazing sun.
The stench of blood in the air was so thick it made people retch.
Tens of thousands of Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan warriors stood there blankly.
Their eyes were vacant, as if their souls had been lost.
Only moments ago, they had been slaughtering one another in a frenzy. Now, they had all come to their senses.
The instant reason returned, terror surged over them like a tidal wave.
"I... I killed Little Sparrow..."
A Green Dragon at the Golden Immortal realm trembled violently.
Beneath his dragon claws lay the corpse of a five-colored peacock.
That was Elder Feng Jiu's most beloved grandson.
And Elder Feng Jiu had once been his closest friend.
The two had discussed the Dao together on Buzhou Mountain and resisted ferocious beast invasions side by side.
But now...
The Green Dragon's claws trembled, and bloody tears poured from his eyes.
"My wings... my beautiful wings..."
A Fire Phoenix collapsed in a pool of blood.
She stared at the wing that had been torn in half and let out a despairing cry.
She had once been the Phoenix Clan's proudest dancer.
Now, she was crippled.
Similar tragedies played out in every corner of the battlefield.
Crying and wailing rose one after another.
Everyone was asking the same question—
Why had it come to this?
They had only been fighting over a spiritual vein. How had it turned into a war of racial extermination?
Just then.
Rumble—
Three utterly terrifying waves of pressure descended from the heavens!
Space across the entire Blood Maple Plain shook violently.
"Roar—!"
A dragon's roar that shook heaven and earth rang out.
The void tore apart, and an incomparably massive Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon emerged from within.
His body stretched for countless tens of thousands of zhang, and every dragon scale shimmered with sacred golden light.
As his dragon eyes opened and closed, suns, moons, and stars perished and were reborn within them.
Ancestral Dragon!
The Dragon Clan's ruler had arrived in person!
"Cry—!"
Next came a clear phoenix cry that resounded through the nine heavens.
The Seven-Colored Primordial Phoenix appeared out of thin air, her wings spanning the sky and blotting out the sun.
Southern Bright Leaving Fire, which would never be extinguished, burned around her.
Noble, elegant, and breathtakingly beautiful.
Yuanfeng!
The Phoenix Clan's ruler had descended!
"Roar—!"
Finally, a deep roar made even the earth tremble.
The Primordial Kirin came riding upon the clouds, golden lotuses blooming beneath his feet.
He wore five-colored scale armor and bore a single horn upon his head. Wherever he passed, all things revived.
Primordial Kirin!
The Kirin Clan's ruler had appeared!
The three overlords of the primordial world had descended at the same time!
Such a grand scene had never occurred since World Creation!
The moment the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan warriors saw their own ancestors, they instantly found their backbone.
"Greetings, Ancestor!"
"Ancestor, save us!"
"Please seek justice for us!"
Their cries shook heaven and earth.
However.
The expressions of the three ancestors were uglier than those of corpses.
Their gazes swept across this living hell, and towering rage surged within their hearts.
Yet even more than rage, they felt profound shock and... fear.
Just moments ago, they had simultaneously sensed two events so horrifying that their souls nearly fled their bodies.
First: the baleful tribulation aura shrouding the primordial world had been swept clean in the span of a few breaths!
What did that mean?
It meant that the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, which should have swept through the entire primordial world, had been forcibly halted!
Second: three terrifying waves of pressure had come from the direction of Kunlun Mountain!
That pressure surpassed the Great Luo realm, yet it differed from the heavenly might of the legendary Sages.
It was a purer, more supreme kind of power!
Those three at Kunlun Mountain... had broken through!
And they had broken through to a realm that even they could not comprehend!
With the two matters linked together, the answer was obvious.
"They did this..."
Ancestral Dragon's voice trembled.
"Those three at Kunlun Mountain calmed the calamity?"
Yuanfeng's beautiful eyes were filled with disbelief.
"How did they do it? That was a Heavenly Dao calamity!"
Deep fear tinged Primordial Kirin's heavy voice.
Beings capable of forcibly halting a Heavenly Dao calamity...
Were they still living beings they could comprehend?
The three ancestors exchanged a glance.
The same word was written in all their eyes—
Convinced.
Thoroughly convinced.
"Big Brother... Second Sister..."
Primordial Kirin's voice was somewhat hoarse.
"What... should we do?"
Ancestral Dragon fell silent for a long time.
He looked at the Dragon Clan descendants below, dead and wounded in devastating numbers, and his heart twisted like a knife.
But he knew even more clearly that now was not the time to assign blame.
A power far more terrifying than the struggle for dominance among the three clans had appeared.
Before that power, how laughable their conflict seemed.
"What else can we do?"
Yuanfeng gave a cold laugh, her voice filled with resolve.
"Since those three at Kunlun Mountain have the ability to quell the calamity, they have shown grace to all living beings of the primordial world."
"We should naturally go and offer our thanks."
Offer thanks?
That sounded nice.
With the strength those three possessed now, this trip was really...
An apology and a gesture of goodwill.
To tell those three newly ascended supreme beings—
We submit.
From this day onward, the heavens of the primordial world would change.
"Second Sister is right."
Ancestral Dragon let out a long sigh, lowering his enormous dragon head a little.
"Pass down my dragon decree!"
"All Dragon Clan warriors, cease fighting immediately!"
"Gather the bodies of our kin and return to the East Sea!"
"For ten thousand years, no one may leave the East Sea by even half a step!"
"Pass down my phoenix decree!"
Yuanfeng's voice spread across the entire battlefield.
"All members of the Phoenix Clan, return to the Southern Bright Volcano immediately!"
"Quietly recite the Yellow Court Scripture and deliver the fallen!"
"Pass down my kirin decree!"
Primordial Kirin gave his order in a deep voice.
"The Kirin Clan shall guard the central lands!"
"Regulate Earth Veins and use merit to atone for sins!"
The three orders were issued.
The entire primordial world fell silent.
The Dragon-Phoenix Calamity came to an end.
After doing all this, the three ancestors looked at one another again.
"Prepare lavish gifts."
Ancestral Dragon's voice carried a trace of reverence that even he himself had not noticed.
"We shall go to Kunlun Mountain together."
"To pay respects to the three... Dao brothers."
As his words fell.
The faces of the three overlords who had once dominated the primordial world were filled with unease.
They were about to face three terrifying beings who could casually quell even a Heavenly Dao calamity.
Whether this journey would bring fortune or disaster, they had no other choice.
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