The slaughter on the wasteland continued for who knew how many years. Sun and moon lost their light, mountains and rivers shattered, once-fertile lands turned to scorched earth, and rivers were dyed red with blood before running dry. Fewer than one in ten of the Three Clans' elites survived this incomparably brutal war. Corpses piled into mountains, resentment pierced the heavens, and even the Heavenly Dao responded, with blood rain often pouring down as though weeping for this immense calamity at the dawn of the Primordial World.
Under the erosion of tribulation Malevolent Energy, even Grand Unity Golden Immortals found it difficult to remain clear-headed. Ya Zi, Yan Ling, and Elder Panshi had long since gone bloodshot with slaughter. Their bodies were covered in wounds, their mana greatly depleted, yet they still fought relentlessly like mad demons. They all knew that at this point, there was no way back. Only by utterly crushing the other side could their clans have a sliver of hope for survival.
"This is the moment!" Xuan Wazi, hidden in the shadows, flashed a sharp gleam in his eyes. The opportunity he had waited so long for—the chance to reap the greatest harvest—had finally arrived!
He was no longer content with picking up scraps. His divine sense, like the keenest hunting hawk, locked onto the very heart of the battlefield: the three Grand Unity Golden Immortals nearing their limits, along with the precious treasures they carried or had damaged and dropped during battle!
Above Ya Zi's head floated a damaged Dragon Clan war banner. It was a low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure capable of enhancing the power of Dragon Clan battle formations. Its light was dim now, and its banner was torn.
The three True Feathers that had fallen from Elder Yan Ling's tail contained part of her fire essence and Golden Immortal Dao insight. They were supreme materials for refining fire-aspected treasures.
The broken horn of Elder Panshi contained the essence of his cultivation. It was comparable to high-grade Innate Spirit Materials and even contained a fragment of the Earth Law.
Under normal circumstances, these were treasures one could only encounter by chance! Yet now, they drifted through the chaotic battlefield like ownerless objects!
"Spatial Retrieval!" Xuan Wazi pushed his mana to the limit. Using a trace of the mask's aura to conceal himself, he repeatedly grasped through the void. Imperceptible spatial ripples secretly spread across the battlefield.
The damaged Dragon Clan war banner had just been struck by Elder Yan Ling's Southern Bright Leaving Fire. It let out a mournful cry and flew backward, only to vanish strangely in midair.
Elder Yan Ling's three True Feathers slipped free on their own as her mana rapidly depleted and her control weakened. Before they could touch the ground, they were swept away by an invisible force.
When Elder Panshi took a heavy claw strike from Ya Zi head-on, a small piece of his horn shattered. Before that broken piece could hit the ground, it disappeared into the void without a trace.
[Ding! Obtained one damaged low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Sea-Overturning Dragon Banner!] [Ding! Obtained three Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level Phoenix Clan True Feathers!] [Ding! Obtained one segment of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level Kirin essence horn!]
The system notifications became rapid and high-pitched, every chime representing an enormous gain. Xuan Wazi was overjoyed. These were the truly good things! Even damaged, their materials and contained Dao insight far surpassed everything from before!
However, his actions ultimately caused an exceedingly faint disturbance. Though the three Grand Unity Golden Immortals engaged in their death match had their minds clouded by Malevolent Energy, their realms were profound after all. They could still sense abnormalities involving their treasures and the surrounding space.
"Who?! Who dares steal my war banner?!" Ya Zi was the first to erupt in rage. His dragon eyes swept the void, bloodshot red, but he saw only chaotic energy and spatial cracks.
"My True Feathers!" Elder Yan Ling also felt her connection to her True Feathers sever in an instant, leaving her shocked and furious.
"You petty thief! How dare you rob us amid the flames!" Elder Panshi sensed the loss of his horn and was likewise consumed by fury.
Three powerful streams of divine sense instinctively swept toward the source of the disturbance. Though they could not precisely locate Xuan Wazi, the thoughts mixed with rage, contempt, and killing intent crashed toward him as though tangible.
"Rat hiding its head and showing its tail!"
"Thieving bastard who isn't fit to be a person!"
"Brat, how dare you humiliate me like this?!"
The curses of the three Grand Unity Golden Immortals carried their Dao laws and fury, and their power was no trivial matter. An ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortal would likely have their Spirit Soul injured. Yet Xuan Wazi had the Primordial Dao Body and the Chaos Bead's aura protecting him. His mind merely trembled slightly, and he became even more excited instead.
"Curse! Curse as hard as you can! I just love the look on your faces when you can't stand me but can't do anything about me!" Xuan Wazi chuckled. Rather than getting angry, he treated their curses as the finest entertainment.
[Ding! Triggered Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level curses. Unfilial Points have surged! Current points are sufficient to exchange for some high-level rewards!] [Ding! Host's behavior perfectly conforms to the principles of Not Being a Person. Hidden condition activated! At the final moment, please perform an ultimate prank before the ancestors of the Three Clans!]
"An ultimate prank?" Xuan Wazi froze for a moment, then his grin widened. "System Bro, you really do understand me!"
Just as Xuan Wazi was harvesting madly and provoking curses from three Grand Unity Golden Immortals, the situation on the battlefield suddenly took a sharp turn.
It was as if three terrifying auras spanning heaven and earth had sensed the misery of their clansmen and the rapid decline of their clans' fortune. They erupted from the East Sea, Immortal Volcano, and Kirin Ancestral Abyss!
"Roaaar—!!!"
A Dragon's Roar resounded throughout the Primordial World, carrying endless grief and fury. The Ancestral Dragon's unimaginably massive body crossed space to arrive. His dragon might surged through the skies—he was terrifyingly at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm!
"Cry—!!!"
A phoenix cry tore through the heavens. Yuanfeng spread her wings, rainbow clouds illuminating all creation. Southern Bright Leaving Fire burned across the eight wildernesses. She too was at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm!
"Roar—!!!"
A kirin's roar shook the earth. First Kirin stepped upon auspicious clouds, surrounded by tangible Earth essence. Bearing all things and nurturing all things, he too stood at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm!
The three ancestors of the Three Clans had finally been forced out by this tragic ending!
They looked upon the corpses carpeting the ground below and the miserable sight of their dwindling clans. Feeling the clan fortune that was nearly collapsing completely, along with the dense Karmic Debt too thick to disperse, despair and madness filled their eyes.
"Why did it come to this?!" Ancestral Dragon roared, his voice shattering countless mountains.
"Is Heaven determined to destroy my Phoenix Clan?!" Yuanfeng cried mournfully. Fiery tears scattered through the void and turned to ash.
"Karmic Debt... my Kirin Tribe... is finished!" First Kirin's voice was low, filled with endless exhaustion and regret.
They knew that after this battle, regardless of victory or defeat, the Three Clans were finished. This boundless Karmic Debt would completely cut off their descendants' path to becoming Grand Unity Golden Immortals and might even leave their bloodlines unable to rise again for all eternity.
Grief, fury, despair, madness! The three ancestors turned bloodshot eyes toward one another. The source of it all was the other two clans!
"Ancestral Dragon! Yuanfeng! First Kirin! Since our clans are doomed, let us settle this Karmic Debt completely!" Ancestral Dragon roared, already determined to perish together.
"Just what I wanted!" Yuanfeng and First Kirin also cast aside everything completely. Their terrifying peak Quasi-Saint auras erupted without restraint as they charged toward one another!
The decisive battle between three peak Quasi-Saints far surpassed the previous melee among Grand Unity Golden Immortals! Their mere clash of auras caused the entire western wasteland to sink. Space collapsed in vast sheets, while Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind raged wildly, as though all was about to return to chaos!
Xuan Wazi watched with his heart pounding and hurriedly shrank deeper into the Chaos Bead's aura. "Good heavens, this is what a fight between big shots looks like!"
He knew that the final moment had arrived! It was also time for him to complete the "ultimate prank" mission!
As the three ancestors prepared for their final collision, one certain to end in mutual destruction, Xuan Wazi took a deep breath. He abruptly removed most of his concealment, deliberately leaking a trace of his late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal aura—still disguised by the mask. Then, using every bit of his acting skill, he imitated a panicked yet annoyingly cheeky tone and shouted toward the heart of the battlefield:
"Hey, you three! Fight if you want, make a fuss if you want, but don't joke around with spiritual treasures! There's still a treasure over there that hasn't been picked up!"
As he spoke, he deliberately used mana to form a huge, glittering golden hand and made a grasping motion toward an "Innate Spiritual Treasure" that did not actually exist at the edge of the three ancestors' battlefield. Then, pretending to be frightened by the aftershocks of battle, he cried, "Ah!" and instantly concealed himself again, fleeing without a trace.
Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and First Kirin had been gathering the power of their entire lives for the final confrontation. This sudden, inexplicable, and utterly out-of-place shout made all three of their auras falter simultaneously!
Where had this little thief come from?!
A Grand Unity Golden Immortal? Daring to act so brazenly here?!
Picking up treasures?! We're about to die together, and you're still thinking about picking up treasures?!
An extreme sense of absurdity, humiliation, and indescribable fury instantly crushed the solemn, tragic mindsets of the three ancestors!
"Brat!! How dare you humiliate me like this!!!" Ancestral Dragon was so enraged that his whiskers trembled.
"You bastard who isn't fit to be a person!!" Flames erupted uncontrollably around Yuanfeng.
"You infuriate me beyond measure!!" The ground beneath First Kirin's feet cracked apart.
The power they had gathered became subtly disordered and delayed due to that momentary disturbance in their minds. And that insignificant delay was fatal in a life-and-death clash between peak Quasi-Saints!
BOOM!!!!!!!
The attacks of the three ancestors ultimately collided, but because of that instant of disorder, their power failed to combine perfectly, creating an even more violent and uncontrollable energy storm! Destructive light swallowed everything, completely engulfing the three ancestors!
When the light dispersed, only a massive, bottomless abyss remained, along with three residual souls that were weak to the extreme, nearly transparent, and entangled by endless Karmic Debt. Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and First Kirin had ultimately still ended in near mutual destruction, leaving only residual souls bound by Karmic Debt.
Meanwhile, the "culprit" responsible for making them lose their composure at the final moment had long since slipped away.
[Ding! Evaluating completion of main mission: "Not Being a Person"...] [Evaluation complete! Host successfully intensified the conflict among the Three Clans, triggering the final battle of the tribulation; plundered an enormous quantity of spiritual treasures and materials during the war; provoked extreme curses from members of the Three Clans, including the three ancestors; and completed the ultimate prank, successfully disrupting the key moment of the Three Clans' ancestors' decisive battle and shattering their mental states!] [Mission completion: Perfect!] [Highest rewards issued: Chaos Bead ×1, Thirty-Six-Grade Creation Green Lotus ×1, Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and First Kirin Blood Essence ×5 each! Cultivation increased to Great Perfection of Grand Unity Golden Immortal!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host! Your realm has risen to Great Perfection of Grand Unity Golden Immortal!]
A vast, pure surge of energy flooded into Xuan Wazi's body, naturally pushing his mana cultivation to the very pinnacle of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. All that remained was for him to comprehend his own Dao before he could attempt to condense a Dao Fruit and charge toward the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm!
At the same time, a pearl wreathed in Chaos Aura, a budding green lotus platform radiating the aura of creation, and fifteen drops of blood essence containing terrifying energy and bloodline origins appeared within his system space.
Feeling the surging mana within him and the several supreme treasures in his space that could make even Saints jealous, Xuan Wazi stood atop a cloud far from the battlefield, planted his hands on his hips, and threw back his head in laughter.
"Hahaha! Awesome! What a huge profit! Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation? Perfectly wrapped up! I, Xuan Wazi, am the biggest winner!"
As for the curses of the three ancestors' residual souls and the cries of sorrow spreading across the Primordial World, he had long since cast them to the back of his mind.
Not Being a Person? That's right, I'm not fit to be a person! So what?
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