The World Is Shocked! The Witch Race is Finished!

Lu Jun sucked in a sharp breath, followed by an uncontrollable surge of ecstasy.

"Strong! Too strong! System, you're the greatest cheat since the Opening of Heaven and Earth!"

He tried a slight mental nudge, channeling a thread of this "True Sun Fire Plasma" compressed billions of times over.

Just that single thread—its contained destructive energy instantly warped and collapsed the void around his fingertips, emitting a strained, agonized wail!

He even felt that if he released this energy in the form of "true fire,"

each strike would surpass the peak of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal!

Lu Jun's heart pounded wildly, blood boiling.

"If I went all out, detonating the billions-fold compressed true fire stored in my body all at once..."

He dared not even imagine that scene!

It would likely trigger a terrifying gamma-ray burst, bright enough to illuminate the stars, just like the sci-fi descriptions from his past life!

Its power would absolutely threaten a nascent Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!

What kind of heaven-defying cross-realm combat power was this?

At the early Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage, purely through energy burst, he could deal damage approaching Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!

It was simply unimaginable!

Though his physical body had long been able to capture even Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, that was because his flesh rivaled an Ancestral Witch.

He had thought his body would be his absolute strength, and energy his weakness.

Unexpectedly, now even energy had become a forte!

Perhaps the only area where he fell short of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal was in understanding the Great Dao.

Without the Great Dao's cooperation, even if he could temporarily wound a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal with energy, he couldn't harm their Great Dao essence.

Great Dao comprehension was now Lu Jun's true shortcoming.

"System's awesome! No one else can claim the title of cheat but me!"

Only this thought screamed wildly in Lu Jun's mind.

Imperial Father Di Jun and Uncle Tai Yi had found the path of Nirvana through their Companion Spiritual Treasures—the wisdom and heritage of the Great Desolation World's top powers.

But Lu Jun, relying on this "Neutron Star Golden Crow" body granted by the system, had directly reached an inconceivable level in both the "quality" and "quantity" of energy!

This was a pure, unreasonable "external cheat" that shattered all laws with raw force!

Yet, ultimate power inevitably came with an ultimate price.

[Energy Fill Progress: 0.0000001%... 0.0000002%...]

[Warning: Due to the Core Energy Sea's actual capacity being billions of times normal, the energy required to fill it is incalculable.]

[Estimated fill time (at current maximum accretion efficiency): approximately three hundred years (Great Desolation years).]

Staring at the painfully slow progress bar, the ecstasy on Lu Jun's face instantly froze, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Three hundred years... just to fill my current 'Dantian'?"

He felt the ravenous, bottomless abyss of hunger within his body, then glanced at the eight Giant Egg Elder Brothers in the temple, still devouring frantically but far less efficient than himself.

"This appetite... is just too damn ridiculous!" Lu Jun wanted to cry but had no tears.

Billions-fold compression brought billions-fold power, and also billions-fold energy demand!

He was now a walking "energy black hole," and one with an insatiable appetite at that.

Forget comparing to cultivators of the same rank—even those famed Great Desolation anomalies with vast mana reserves were like "Lesser Wu before a Great Witch" in his presence!

"Looks like rapidly advancing my realm is impossible in the short term."

"The Sun Star is already the largest energy source in the Great Desolation World. Cultivating here takes three hundred years—elsewhere, it would probably take billions of times longer."

Suppressing a trace of helplessness, Lu Jun's gaze turned resolute and blazing once more.

"But then again, in the Great Desolation World, a single seclusion can last eons. My three hundred years is actually making a fuss over nothing."

"Still, no help for it—I've only lived twenty or thirty years since crossing over. Three hundred years would make me a 'god' in my original world."

"Seclusion! Seclusion! Perfect timing to cultivate slowly over these three hundred years and dodge the brewing crisis about to explode in the Great Desolation World."

"The Witch-Demon Great Tribulation—theoretically, it enters its high-speed eruption phase after Da Yi Shoots the Suns."

"Better not get involved. Survival first."

Lu Jun silently closed his eyes, beginning a three-hundred-year seclusion.

Kunlun Mountain, Jade Void Palace.

"Golden Crow Nirvana?!"

The Jade Ruyi in Primeval Lord of Heaven's hand paused almost imperceptibly, a trace of gravity flickering in his cold, clear eyes.

His Saintly Thought swept across the Nine Heavens—the Sun Star's abnormally violent yet newborn-orderly fluctuations were impossible to ignore.

"The Golden Crow Clan actually found this path?"

His mind suddenly flashed to Di Jun and Tai Yi: "Even their offspring can undergo Nirvana—this path can hardly stump them."

"According to news from the Witch Race, at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, one can Nirvana into an Ancestral Witch's flesh!"

"If Di Jun and Tai Yi undergo Nirvana..."

Muttering this, Primeval Lord of Heaven drew a deep breath.

"The Witch Race is finished."

Shouyang Mountain Eight Sceneries Palace.

Even Taishang Laojun's usually placid face flickered with a trace of surprise.

The Pill Fire in his furnace seemed to leap with the stir of his emotions.

"Nirvana... this defies heaven. The Demon Race's fortune holds such a variable?"

"Nuwa has already attained sainthood, and now Di Jun and Tai Yi seem to show signs of life again."

"Could it be... the Witch Race is truly doomed?"

Biyou Palace.

Sect Master Tongtian clapped his hands and laughed heartily, Sword Qi soaring to the heavens.

"Hahaha! What a Golden Crow Crown Prince! To carve a path of life from utter despair! Nirvana Rebirth, to battle heaven and earth anew!"

Tongtian finished speaking, then suddenly froze in place.

"Golden Crow Nirvana? Golden Crows can undergo Nirvana too? For the Golden Crow Clan, doesn't this snatch a thread of life?"

"Severing Sect, Severing Sect—this Golden Crow Clan seems to perfectly align with my Severing Sect's doctrine!"

"Should I consider recruiting a Golden Crow into my Severing Sect?"

Tongtian fell into silence.

If the Golden Crow Crown Prince joined his Severing Sect, the karma between the Severing Sect and the Demon Court would become boundless.

At the very least, even in a Witch-Demon War, no Witch Race would dare lay a hand on a Severing Sect Golden Crow.

From that angle, it would at least preserve the Golden Crow Bloodline.

Such karma was immense!

Even Tongtian couldn't make up his mind on the spot.

Western Paradise, shrouded in gloom.

The radiance of the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree dimmed a few shades.

Daoist Jieyin's withered face grew even more sorrowful, as if it could drip water.

He muttered to himself, his voice dry with disbelief.

"Impossible... this is utterly impossible!"

"The Golden Crow Clan, born with the virtue of fire, fierce and violent—how could they comprehend such profound Nirvana principles that reverse life and death?"

"This is the essence of our Western Great Law of Nirvana... how could a fledgling Golden Crow grasp it?"

Daoist Zhunti's face turned ashen, his usual "compassionate" smile gone.

The Prayer Beads in his hand were nearly crushed, his knuckles white.

"Failure! Complete failure!"

His voice seethed with suppressed fury and resentment.

"Not only did we fail to use the Witch Race to eliminate the Golden Crow and cripple Di Jun and Tai Yi, but we instead... instead forced them to comprehend this heaven-defying method of changing fate!"

"This Lu Jun... just who is this brat? Ruining my grand plan!"

It wasn't that Jieyin and Zhunti were angry without reason—Ten Suns Eclipse and Da Yi Shoots the Suns were both schemes of their design!

Ever since the two made their Great Vows and attained sainthood, a shackle had been firmly locked onto them.

Rebuild the West, and prosper the West!

This would become their sole goal in the future.

But!

How difficult was it to revitalize the West?

Before his death, the Devil Ancestor detonated Mount Sumeru, shattering the entire Western Continent.

Now, on the Western Continent, not even one in a hundred million living beings remained!

The continent was broken and fragmented, and they, the Two Sages of the West, could still rely on themselves to re-establish Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind and restore the land.

But!

A continent alone was not enough!

Countless living beings were also needed, along with boundless merit and fortune brought here.

Yet now the East flourished, with Buzhou Mountain standing in the middle and the Witch Race entrenched across it.

Living beings simply would not come to this barren land of the West.

The only solution Jieyin and Zhunti could conceive was to exploit the current Witch-Demon Great Tribulation and intensify the Witch-Demon War.

Once war erupted, life would be devastated, and countless beings would flee in all directions.

As for them—the West, though desolate, still had two sages. Those who came here would have a great chance to survive.

Thus, living beings would pour in, fortune would flow, and the West's great rise might succeed.

But because Nuwa had attained sainthood, the Witch Race's hunting of the Demon Race had diminished greatly compared to before.

One could even call it a rare period of "peace" between the Witch Race and the Demon Race.

Peace!

How could that be allowed?

So Jieyin and Zhunti schemed in secret, using their sage abilities to influence the Ten Golden Crows.

They made the Ten Suns Cross the Sky, plunging the world into devastation.

Then they influenced Kua Fu, driving him to chase the Golden Crows relentlessly.

In the end, this led to Da Yi shooting down the suns!

This was the first time since the Witch-Demon War that a Great Witch of the Witch Race had fallen, while on the Demon Race's side, nine out of ten of their Crown Princes were lost!

According to their plan, once the Golden Crow Crown Prince died, the peace between the Demon Race and the Witch Race would surely shatter.

Then, with them secretly luring Nuwa away, a full-scale war between the two races would inevitably erupt.

But now, all their plans had turned to dust!

Jieyin let out a deep sigh, the illusion of a bitter sea rising and falling behind him.

"Junior Brother, the root of this failed scheme lies with that child."

"If he hadn't comprehended the Nirvana Method, under Hou Yi's Divine Arrow, all ten Golden Crow sons would have perished—that was certain!"

"Di Jun and Tai Yi, maddened by the loss of their sons, would have fought the Witch Race to the death."

"Now, the Golden Crows live, and Di Jun and Tai Yi have even found a path of nirvana and transcendence."

"All our subsequent moves to provoke the Witch-Demon War have turned to nothing!"

Zhunti's eyes flickered with a sinister light. He jerked his head up and looked at Jieyin: "No, we haven't failed yet!"