Pangu Actually Has an Earth Splitting Chisel

You understand?

You understand jack shit!

Yang Mei laughed in anger!

So this was the image he had in the eyes of the Sages?

Not only did the Eastern Sages not believe him, even the Two Sages of the West shared the same thoughts?

Yang Mei sighed.

He said with utmost seriousness, "That Earth Splitting Chisel truly is a Chaos Spirit Treasure..."

All the Sages turned to look at him.

The Three Saints of the Mystic Gate were scornful, while the Two Sages of the West were astonished.

Even Yang Mei himself found it absurd.

"There are only four Chaos Spirit Treasures, yet this Earth Splitting Chisel is indeed a Chaos Spirit Treasure!"

The scorn on the Three Saints of the Mystic Gate's faces deepened.

His words were muddled, and his logic made no sense.

Utterly contemptible!

The Two Sages of the West revealed admiring expressions.

As expected of the Western Dao Ancestor.

This style was truly very Western.

Yuanshi sneered. "No matter what, Dao Ancestor, you previously swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao that you would not interfere in the disciples' great battle within the Immortal Slaying Sword Array."

He stressed heavily, "You have already sent an incarnation inside. Could it be that you now wish to enter the fray yourself?"

"How can the Dao Ancestor of one side be so shameless?"

Taishang said leisurely, "Among the universally known Chaos Spirit Treasures, the Western Dao Ancestor can even insert an Earth Splitting Chisel..."

"It is true that many matters concerning Great God Pangu have become legends,"

"but we know that some matters are not legends. Only this Earth Splitting Chisel was absolutely not among Great God Pangu's weapons."

The Sages all nodded in agreement.

Great God Pangu split heaven and earth, creating the world of the Primordial Era. When he perished after opening the heavens, he and the Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods were buried together within the Primordial Era, becoming part of the world.

Pangu was not a legend.

The Three Pure Ones and the Ancestral Witches had been formed from his Primordial Spirit, essence, and blood.

Hongjun and Yang Mei were also among the surviving Great Dao Demon Gods.

If the Three Pure Ones did not know what weapons Pangu possessed, could Yang Mei not know?

Yang Mei was a surviving Demon God just like Hongjun!

This was no longer merely speaking lies with his eyes open.

It was a matter of rotten character!

Yang Mei stood dumbfounded.

Did Pangu possess a weapon called the Earth Splitting Chisel?

No!

At any rate, Yang Mei had never seen Pangu use one!

Duobao had made it perfectly clear.

This was a Dharma treasure specially refined by a great Primordial Era expert based on the legend of Pangu battling the Three Thousand Demon Gods.

Chaos Spirit Treasures were all nurtured by the Great Dao.

Could the great expert who had refined the Earth Splitting Chisel be the Great Dao itself?

Otherwise, how could he have refined some Chaos Spirit Treasure?

At most, it could only be an Innate Spiritual Treasure—assuming that this great expert had cultivated long enough and refined the Dharma treasure early enough.

Otherwise... in terms of rank, this Earth Splitting Chisel would merely count as an Acquired Spiritual Treasure.

With a slight calculation, Yang Mei obtained the following information!

His whole being felt terrible!

Could it be that he had truly misjudged it?

This Earth Splitting Chisel was merely a powerful Acquired Spiritual Treasure?

Not a Chaos Spirit Treasure at all?

Otherwise, it completely contradicted everything he knew!

Yang Mei had a splitting headache!

Treasures were ranked as innate and acquired, but that did not mean acquired ones were necessarily inferior to innate ones.

Take Taishang's Heaven and Earth Mystic Yellow Pagoda, for instance—it was the foremost acquired Supreme Merit Treasure.

Its defensive power had always ranked among the top three in the Primordial Era, alongside Yuanshi's Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud and the missing Chaos Bell.

All the Sages drooled with envy over Taishang's Exquisite Pagoda.

Who dared claim that innate treasures were necessarily superior to acquired ones?

But this Earth Splitting Chisel was different.

Great Immortal Yang Mei's heart burned with excitement.

His Dharma Eye saw it clearly—this truly was a Chaos Spirit Treasure!

Yet his reason told him that the Earth Splitting Chisel could not possibly be a Chaos Spirit Treasure.

The contrast left his expression extraordinarily complicated.

Watching Yang Mei's ever-changing expression, the Sages all sneered.

Yuanshi said blandly, "Dao Ancestor, you also find that previous claim laughable, don't you?"

"You swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao..."

"If you truly make a move, we Sages will not stand for it."

Taishang, Tongtian, and Nuwa all said in unison, "Indeed!"

Yang Mei came back to himself, dumbfounded. So they were trying to nail this down completely, were they?

They had just decided what kind of person he was?

Did they truly take him for shameless?

Yang Mei sneered!

Boundless pressure erupted from him, shrouding the Sages.

The Sages instantly felt immense pressure!

The Peak Dao Integration Realm was, after all, the Peak Dao Integration Realm.

Within the Primordial Era, only the one seated quietly in Zixiao Palace could compare!

These Sages, however, could not!

Yang Mei shot them a glare. "Hongjun would not dare speak of me this way."

"I am in the wrong in this matter!"

"If there is a next time, even Hongjun will not be able to save you!"

The Mystic Gate of the East knew when to quit while they were ahead. They quietly retreated to one side and said nothing.

Even Yang Mei himself was confused.

"Earth Splitting Chisel? Great God Pangu never had such a weapon."

"But... why does it resemble a Chaos Spirit Treasure so closely?"

He muttered to himself, utterly ignoring the Sages standing beside him!

Within Zixiao Palace beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, seated upon his high platform, was equally baffled.

"Earth Splitting Chisel?"

"Why do I not remember Great God Pangu ever having such a divine weapon?"

"Sky-Opening Axe, Earth Splitting Chisel... they are rather symmetrical, now that I think of it."

Hongjun's brows drew together slightly.

"No!"

"Why would I say something like that?"

A Sage's words and actions accorded with the Heavenly Dao; every word and movement was law.

To those beneath Sagehood, their words were decrees that could not be defied, or else they would suffer Heavenly Punishment.

Still less could a Sage speak carelessly.

Not a single sentence was uttered at random!

Hongjun frowned deeply!

He suddenly realized that some things had already changed!

A change that began at the very root!

Hongjun pressed his index finger tightly against his forehead.

He wanted to retrieve a memory to verify a certain suspicion!

Crossing countless stretches of time and space, he saw a giant who had split open heaven and earth, surrounded by three thousand Demon Gods of varying forms and vicious expressions.

Among those three thousand Demon Gods, Hongjun even found himself.

The giant grew tired from wielding his massive axe. Suddenly, he put the axe away and took out a chisel, then drove it down with all his strength!

An absolutely invincible power flashed forth, and more than half the Demon Gods around the giant died!

Hongjun abruptly opened his eyes, his face filled with shock. "Earth Splitting Chisel!!"

The Earth Splitting Chisel was actually real?!

How was that possible?!

There had been no such memory in his original recollections at all!

Hongjun steadied himself before immersing himself in the memory once more.

The giant's figure became increasingly clear.

His muscles were knotted, his spirit overflowing with heroic grandeur. Though surrounded by the Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods, his expression remained unchanged, calm and composed.

A single glance at him was enough to feel boundless confidence and boundless strength!

Pangu, Demon God of the Great Dao of Strength!

He seemed to be the Great Dao of Strength incarnate in this world.

Simply watching him caused all manner of insights into the Law of Strength to rise in one's heart!

Even with Hongjun's current cultivation, he nearly became lost in it.

With immense willpower, he tore his gaze away from Pangu.

Hongjun examined the many Demon Gods.

Though these Demon Gods came in all shapes and sizes, without exception, every one of them wore a fanatical expression, each radiating the unique light of their own laws—

time, space, fate, karma, reincarnation, destruction...

All kinds of Demon Gods reappeared one by one.

The Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods cried out in unison and lunged at Pangu, all manner of Supernatural Powers and techniques raining down upon him.

With a swing of the Sky-Opening Axe, Pangu blocked the first wave of attacks.

He seemed somewhat exhausted.

Simply putting away the axe, he pulled out a chisel instead. It was chaos-colored, dull gray and misty, seemingly utterly unremarkable.

Pangu suddenly drove it downward!

BOOM!

The entire Chaos Void trembled.

With one chisel strike, more than half of the Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods were directly shaken to death!

Hongjun's consciousness was violently flung out!

He stared in horror at his palm. Essence blood was actually flowing from his hand!

It had only been a memory, yet he had been wounded by the Earth Splitting Chisel hidden in the deepest recesses of his memories!

Yet Hongjun had no time to care about any of that.

His face turned green:

"The timeline has changed!"

"That's impossible!"

"What exactly happened?"

"Why was there an Earth Splitting Chisel in Pangu's hand?!"

"Why, exactly, is this happening?!"

How could Hongjun still care about Yang Mei?

He directly contacted the Heavenly Dao Origin, He began the deepest level of deduction.

Hongjun was certain that in his earliest memories, the Earth Splitting Chisel had never existed.

Yet now, it had appeared in his memories.

There was only one thing he wanted to deduce: where had the Earth Splitting Chisel ultimately gone?

Great God Pangu's Sky-Opening Axe had ultimately split into three, becoming the three great sky-opening divine artifacts: the Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, and the Chaos Bell.

But what about the Earth Splitting Chisel?

For the moment, he would set aside the reason behind this shift in the timeline.

What Hongjun desperately wanted to know was the Earth Splitting Chisel's fate.

A divine artifact capable of slaying Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods with a single strike... such a treasure could not fall into the hands of the Saints!

Following Hongjun's will, the Heavenly Dao Origin fully cooperated with his deductions.

Crossing countless stretches of time and space, the whereabouts of the Earth Splitting Chisel became increasingly clear.

The look on Hongjun's face grew ever stranger.

Heavenly Dao revealed that after Great God Pangu used the Earth Splitting Chisel to slay Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods, the Earth Splitting Chisel absorbed most of the Primordial Spirits and essence blood of the Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods, transforming into Heavenly Dao's foremost baleful weapon—the Immortal Slaying Four Swords!

And a portion of the corpses of the Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods directly transformed into the Immortal Slaying Sword Array Diagram!

It became the number one lethal array beneath Heavenly Dao—the Immortal Slaying Sword Array!!

Hiss!

Hongjun stared blankly at the Immortal Slaying Sword Array on the Investiture of the Gods Battlefield.

Within his Dharma Eye, the status of the Immortal Slaying Sword Array suddenly rose by several ranks!

It no longer belonged to the same class as Innate Supreme Treasures like the Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, and the Chaos Bell!

Hongjun was dumbfounded!

What... was going on?

Why had the timeline changed?

Why did Great God Pangu have an additional Chaos Spirit Treasure?

Why had he only sensed it now?

Hongjun could not make heads or tails of it, and subconsciously questioned the Heavenly Dao Origin.

He had not expected the Heavenly Dao Origin to answer at all.

Yet unexpectedly, the Heavenly Dao Origin, which had remained silent since time immemorial, transmitted an extremely simple sentence.

"The stronger it is, the more ancient it is!"

Hongjun's face turned green!

The Heavenly Dao Origin was actually conscious!!

How could It possibly be conscious?!

Terrified, Hongjun turned to flee into the Chaos Void!

But he was the Incarnation of Heavenly Dao. There was nowhere he could escape to!

Hongjun was afraid!

If the Heavenly Dao Origin was conscious, then what had all his long-laid plans amounted to?!

What was he in Its eyes?

Hongjun's heart pounded violently.

He probed the Heavenly Dao Origin again, yet received no response.

Hongjun was filled with uncertainty!

One moment, he wondered whether he had hallucinated the sound.

The next, he wondered whether he had triggered some kind of program.

He could not help becoming suspicious of everything.

After a long while, Hongjun finally made up his mind:

"The arrow is already on the bowstring; it must be loosed. I have plotted for countless ages—how could I change myself because of such a tiny alteration?"

"Heavenly Dao... in the end, we must still fight a battle."

"My actions should still be within Its permitted bounds."

"Enough!"

"I'll proceed according to my plan after all!"

Hongjun remained silent for a long while, but in the end, he still had to follow the predetermined plan!

"Still, that message sent back by the Heavenly Dao Origin is rather interesting!"

"The stronger, the more ancient?!"

In truth, within the Primordial Era, that saying should have been the other way around.

The more ancient, the stronger—that was the usual state of things.

For instance, Hongjun and Yang Mei; these ancient survivors were the most powerful!

But the Heavenly Dao Origin would not lie!

Hongjun was slightly bewildered.

What exactly was going on here?

Hongjun pondered for a while without reaching any conclusion. In the end, he still passed this information on to Yang Mei!

He could not let Yang Mei remain indifferent to this news.

The double act still had to go on!

Whether he could carry out his plan, whether Yang Mei could obtain the position of Western Dao Ancestor—this was the most crucial point!

This intelligence absolutely could not be concealed from him!

Hongjun was not worried about the Investiture of the Gods Calamity at all. Yang Mei was a great power at the Peak Dao Integration Realm.

As long as he did not make a move, the Saints could not turn the heavens upside down!

Hongjun's mind was utterly occupied by that sentence from the Heavenly Dao Origin.

"The stronger, the more ancient."

What meaning did it contain?

Why had the timeline suddenly changed?

Why had Great God Pangu suddenly gained a Chaos Spirit Treasure?

Why had the origin of the Immortal Slaying Sword Array changed outright?

What exactly was going on here?!

Hongjun had an intuition: if he could not unravel this mystery, his path of the Heavenly Dao would not go smoothly!

Lost in thought, he unknowingly entered meditation.

Even though the Primordial Era was in the midst of the Immeasurable Calamity, Hongjun still entered meditation.

Great Immortal Yang Mei would definitely not disappoint him.

After all, he was his... puppet!!

Upon the Investiture of the Gods Battlefield, Yang Mei was completely dumbfounded!

What?

The Earth Splitting Chisel really was Great God Pangu's accompanying spirit treasure?

Why did he not know about this?

Why did he remember it differently?

Had Hongjun gone senile?!

Just as Yang Mei was about to refute him, a scene suddenly surged forth from his memories.

It was precisely the scene of Great God Pangu using the Earth Splitting Chisel to kill a host of Chaos Demon Gods!

Yang Mei's eyes flew wide open, his heart filled with shock!

The timeline had been altered!!

He absolutely had not possessed this memory before!

What in the Primordial Era—no, what in the Chaos Void had happened?

Otherwise, how could something so absurd have occurred?

One had to know that Great God Pangu's creation of heaven and earth was the foundational origin of the Primordial Era.

The origin and foundation of everything that happened in the Primordial Era lay with Great God Pangu and the Three Thousand Great Dao Demon Gods!

Once the origin had set the tone, it fundamentally could not be changed.

That was the source of all rules!

Once altered, it would trigger unforeseeable consequences.

The Primordial Era was the sole supreme world among All Heavens and Myriad Worlds within the Chaos Void.

Such a thing simply could not happen, But what should never have happened, happened!

Yang Mei urgently wanted to know what exactly had gone wrong.

But...

When he tried to contact Hongjun, he discovered that Hongjun had actually gone into seclusion to comprehend the Dao!

Going into seclusion at a time like this?!

Yang Mei felt utterly miserable.

He almost wanted to ascend to the Thirty-Three Heavens and go straight to Hongjun for a proper battle!

Just how big did one's heart have to be to enter seclusion at such a time?

This was the time of the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, one of the rare Immeasurable Calamities of the Primordial Era, one that concerned their final plan!

Yet Hongjun had gone into seclusion?!

Yang Mei was helpless. He could not really rush to the Thirty-Three Heavens Beyond and have a vicious fight with Hongjun, could he?

That was part of the plan for later, not now!

Yang Mei was filled with indignation!

He could only focus all his attention on the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

Then, all of a sudden, Yang Mei realized something was wrong!

The timeline had changed. The Earth Splitting Chisel had truly become Great God Pangu's accompanying spiritual treasure.

If so, then what kind of magic treasure was the Earth Splitting Chisel in Duobao's hands?!

A dreadful premonition immediately rose in Yang Mei's heart.

Could his Peak Quasi-Saint avatar truly withstand Duobao's attack?!

The Earth Splitting Chisel in Duobao's hand was a murky, chaotic shade of dark yellow, dull gray and shrouded in mist.

It was not eye-catching in the slightest.

Yet not a single cultivator within the grand array dared to underestimate it.

Duobao was a Peak Quasi-Saint, a True Immortal of Fortune and Virtue, and the chief disciple of Biyou Palace.

He had almost never used magic treasures in battle.

Even when he set up the Immortal Slaying Sword Array, it was merely to trap the fellow Daoists of the Western Teachings and lay out a test.