East King Duke Slays His Evil Corpse! Successfully Comprehends Hongmeng Purple Qi!

Along with the appearance of Heavenly Dao Hongjun...

This also meant that the mutual scheming between Old Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao had ultimately ended with the Heavenly Dao's victory.

What Old Ancestor Hongjun did not know was...

The Great Dao was impartial, but the Heavenly Dao was selfish!

While Old Ancestor Hongjun schemed against the Heavenly Dao, was the Heavenly Dao not also scheming against him?

Old Ancestor Hongjun's goal was to use Unification with the Dao to devour and absorb the Heavenly Dao, becoming its true spokesperson...

Making thorough preparations to one day devour the fortune of the entire Primordial Wilderness and advance to the Great Dao Realm...

And what about the Heavenly Dao?

The Heavenly Dao needed a puppet utterly devoid of selfish desires!

A powerful shell through which it could conveniently act!

Only then could it more conveniently carry out its many subsequent schemes.

It had to destroy the Twelve Ancestral Witches!

Because the Twelve Ancestral Witches bore twelve supreme laws of heaven and earth.

Within the Primordial Wilderness, the deeper a cultivator's comprehension of a law, the stronger their mastery over that law became...

Which in turn weakened the Heavenly Dao's control over that law!

And looking back, what laws did the Twelve Ancestral Witches possess?

Space, time, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, wind, rain, weather...

These were the twelve most important laws governing the operation of the Primordial Wilderness.

Just imagine: if the Twelve Ancestral Witches eventually cultivated these twelve laws to their utmost limits...

It would mean that the Heavenly Dao would lose its authority to control these twelve powers...

As long as the Twelve Ancestral Witches remained in the Primordial Wilderness, the Heavenly Dao would be unable to freely wield the powers of space, time, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, wind, rain, and weather...

Could it still be called the Heavenly Dao then?

That was the most fundamental conflict between the Witch Tribe and the Heavenly Dao.

It was also the main reason the Heavenly Dao demanded that Hongjun promote the Witch-Demon War at any cost.

Of course...

Beyond this, the Heavenly Dao also harbored many selfish desires.

The Primordial Wilderness did not contain only the Heavenly Dao; it also had the Human Path and the Earth Path.

But at this moment, the Human Path and Earth Path had yet to awaken.

The Heavenly Dao had already grown accustomed to standing alone above all.

Naturally, it did not wish for the Human Path and Earth Path to awaken or grow stronger.

Its other great selfish desire was to suppress the Human Path and Earth Path, ensuring that it, the Heavenly Dao, would forever stand above the other two Paths...

This, too, required the assistance of "Heavenly Dao Hongjun."

So rather than saying Hongjun had schemed against the Heavenly Dao, it would be more accurate to say that the Heavenly Dao had schemed against Hongjun.

It had waited for this day for far too long.

At this moment, after being reborn...

There was no joy, anger, or any other expression upon Heavenly Dao Hongjun's face.

He was as numb and expressionless as a puppet.

Then he flicked a finger.

Dense Golden Light appeared, while streams of Dao Rhyme and the power of the Heavenly Dao spread around him.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun seemed to sense something.

He first looked toward the Witch Tribe, his brows furrowing slightly.

Then he gazed from afar toward the Demon Race, examining the conditions of Xuan Yang, Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, and the others.

He also checked on Tongtian at Kunlun Mountain.

Only then did he withdraw his gaze.

Yet his slightly furrowed brows only creased more deeply.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun pondered in silence for a moment, not uttering a single word.

Then he looked from afar toward the Immortal Court.

At this time, East King Duke was still cultivating within the Immortal Court.

Before this, East King Duke had already spent many years attempting to comprehend the "Hongmeng Purple Qi"...

But he had gained nothing.

East King Duke believed this might be because his cultivation realm was too low.

Thus, he had spent these years diligently cultivating within the Immortal Court, intending to first raise his cultivation to the middle stage of Slaying the Three Corpses.

"Heavenly Dao Hongjun" had also discovered his intentions.

With a flick of his finger, streams of merit and fortune descended from the sky into the Immortal Court, merging with the already considerable merit and fortune there before slowly flowing into East King Duke's body.

East King Duke immediately felt enlightened.

Within his meditation, many things he had previously failed to understand suddenly became clear.

"Heavenly Dao Hongjun" remained calm and unreadable, but under his control, East King Duke's cultivation speed far surpassed what it had been before!

In the blink of an eye, another ten thousand years passed.

East King Duke suddenly opened his eyes and shouted, "Evil Corpse, sever!"

As his voice fell, the vast mana within his body transformed directly into a butcher's blade, cleaving another "East King Duke" from his body.

This was East King Duke's Evil Corpse.

East King Duke's second corpse bowed to East King Duke and said, "Greetings, Fellow Daoist."

Then East King Duke's aura began to surge continuously.

He rose from the early stage of Quasi-Saint all the way to the middle stage of Quasi-Saint!

As East King Duke was now, purely in terms of realm, he truly ranked among the very best in the Primordial Wilderness.

After all, Di Jun, Taiyi, Xuan Yang, Nuwa, Tongtian, Zhen Yuanzi, and the others possessed only early-stage Primordial Golden Immortal cultivation.

And the overwhelming majority of Quasi-Saints in the Primordial Wilderness, including Zhunti and Jieyin, were currently only at the early stage of Quasi-Saint.

Only Yuanshi and Laozi had long since possessed middle-stage Quasi-Saint cultivation.

Beyond them, it was East King Duke's turn. Thus, judging purely by apparent realm, beneath the Saints, East King Duke now ranked third!

This made East King Duke laugh even more freely.

"Hahahaha! Middle-stage Quasi-Saint! There are countless living beings in the Primordial Wilderness, yet few have reached such a realm!"

"I, East King Duke, truly possess the bearing of a Saint!"

"The entire Primordial Wilderness is destined to be ruled by me, East King Duke!"

"What Demon Race? What Witch Tribe? Sooner or later, I will crush them all beneath my feet!"

East King Duke was immensely pleased, filled to the brim with ambition and delusion.

He looked forward eagerly to his ideal future.

But he also knew that now was not the time to contend for supremacy.

For now, comprehending the Hongmeng Purple Qi and striving to become a Saint as soon as possible was the most important matter!

Thus, he quickly prepared to begin comprehending the "Hongmeng Purple Qi" again.

Within the Purple Cloud Palace, "Heavenly Dao Hongjun" had waited a long time for this moment.

As East King Duke began comprehending the "Hongmeng Purple Qi"...

"Heavenly Dao Hongjun" waved a hand.

That strand of "Hongmeng Purple Qi" immediately reacted, continuously flashing with light and writhing within the void before East King Duke.

East King Duke was beside himself with excitement.

"It reacted! It reacted!"

"I'm going to become a Saint! I'm going to become a Saint!"

"Hahahahaha!"

His eyes burned as he stared at the Hongmeng Purple Qi before him, continuously comprehending it.

Then, a line of enormous words appeared in East King Duke's mind.

The opportunity to become a Saint lies with the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Three Races!