Take the ancient Demon Race, once supreme over heaven and earth—
After the Witch-Demon War, the Demon Race's experts had not all perished;
aside from a few sheltered and taken away by Empress Nuwa, the remaining Great Powers were either recruited by the Buddhist sect or entered the Heavenly Court as ministers.
Most became mounts beneath the seats of immortals and Buddhas throughout the heavens, while the rest were slaughtered to the last.
It was a naked conspiracy, one that needed no concealment.
The methods used against the Witch Race were even crueler.
They directly rode the momentum of heaven and earth's great tides.
Using Chiyou as the spark, they swept every remaining member of the Witch Race into the vortex of the tribulation.
After the Human-Witch War came to an end, the Witch Race could no longer be found, vanishing completely from the Great Desolation Continent.
From that day onward, only a mournful cry echoed between heaven and earth.
This entire Chess Game had come from the hand of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
He had truly carved that mortal saying—"Those who obey prosper; those who defy perish"—into his very bones!
Any faction with strength, ambition, and the courage to challenge the order of the Heavenly Dao
was, without exception, crushed by Hongjun's thunderous suppression, whether openly or in secret.
He would never allow them to gain a foothold, much less grant them even half a chance to catch their breath.
His purpose was to deliberately throw the balance of the three paths of the Primordial World into chaos—
all so he could wait for heaven and earth to weaken to their breaking point.
Once the Primordial World's origin had withered to the utmost extreme, Hongjun could use the reserves he had amassed over countless years to shatter the shackles of