Great Sage Qiongqi: The Heavenly Dao Is Unjust!

"An insignificant Golden Immortal actually possesses two Primordial Spiritual Treasures and more than ten Acquired Spiritual Treasures?"

Great Sage Qiongqi and the many gods and demons were all red-eyed with envy.

Their breathing quickened as they looked at Gu Xi as though he were a humanoid treasury.

Under the gaze of so many greedy eyes,

Gu Xi remained calm, leisurely controlling the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, the Ice Soul Divine Needle, and more than ten Acquired Spiritual Treasures to counterattack.

An incomparably spectacular sight appeared in the heavens.

The Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror and the Ice Soul Divine Needle respectively erupted with boundless Divine Fire and icy chill, like an enormous sun and a frigid moon.

The dozen-odd Acquired Spiritual Treasures, shining brilliantly, resembled a cluster of stars.

The sun and the cold moon each commanded six or seven dazzling stars as they crashed separately into two scarlet beast claws filled with endless killing intent.

Boom! Boom!

The two enormous beast claws shattered at once.

The void collapsed across a vast area.

The aftermath of energy swept across the Guishan Mountain Range. In an instant, half the mountain range crumbled with a thunderous roar, while dust surged into the sky like muddy waves.

More than a hundred thousand weaker Demon Race members who had yet to become immortals and had failed to escape the Guishan Mountain Range in time were directly killed by the shockwave.

Countless demon beast corpses rose and fell amid the waves of dust.

However, Great Sage Qiongqi did not care about the deaths of those Demon Race members.

The Demon Race had a broad origin. Apart from relatively independent races such as the Witch Race, any sentient being in Hong Huang that awakened intelligence could join the Demon Race.

Thus, aside from the Fierce Beast race, the Demon Race was the most numerous race in Hong Huang, with numbers beyond reckoning.

Even if every Demon Race member in the Guishan Mountain Range died, with his strength, gathering another several hundred thousand Demon Race members would not be difficult.

Therefore, he paid no attention at all to the lives or deaths of the other Demon Race members. He only wanted to seize Gu Xi's two Primordial Spiritual Treasures and dozen-odd Acquired Spiritual Treasures.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The void trembled. After shattering the two enormous beast claws, the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, Ice Soul Divine Needle, and dozen-odd Acquired Spiritual Treasures immediately blasted toward Great Sage Qiongqi together.

The skies across hundreds of thousands of miles shook violently, countless black spatial fissures appearing within them.

The vast divine power seemed capable of overturning the entire firmament.

Faced with the combined attack of two Primordial Spiritual Treasures and more than ten Acquired Spiritual Treasures, even a peak Primordial Great Sage like Great Sage Qiongqi changed expression.

His body shifted, and he revealed his true form.

A strange beast of Hong Huang appeared in the void. It resembled a tiger, was as massive as a great mountain, covered in hedgehog-like fur, and possessed a pair of enormous wings on its back.

This strange beast of Hong Huang radiated an incomparably ferocious killing aura, its body wreathed in scarlet killing Dao patterns.

This was the exceedingly rare variant species of the Primordial World—Qiongqi!

"ROAR—"

At that moment, the enormous Qiongqi Fierce Beast let out an earthshaking roar that scattered the sea of clouds across a million miles. Even the stars in the Primordial Starry Sky trembled.

A blood-red beam of destructive light spewed from its mouth. Countless killing Dao patterns emerged within the beam, emanating world-destroying fluctuations.

That beam of destructive light seemed determined to turn the mortal realm into hell.

Wherever it passed, the void was annihilated inch by inch and transformed into chaos.

At this moment, the land for a million miles around Guishan rose and fell like the tide.

Countless living beings felt immense unease and apprehension.

"BOOM—"

A colossal bang like World Creation spread across half the East Sea Coast.

The two Primordial Spiritual Treasures and dozen-odd Acquired Spiritual Treasures collided with the scarlet beam of destructive light. Amid the deafening explosion, a sphere of explosive radiance blossomed, illuminating heaven and earth.

Then violent energy swept outward. Who knew how many mountains collapsed, how many forests turned to ash, how many great rivers flowed backward...

The entire region around the Guishan Mountain Range was reduced to ruins.

Amid that terrifying collision and explosion, Great Sage Qiongqi's enormous body suddenly shook. He spat out three mouthfuls of essence blood, and countless spiderweb-like bloody cracks appeared across his surface.

His aura instantly weakened by a third.

Even as a Primordial Great Sage, forcefully withstanding two Primordial Spiritual Treasures and dozen-odd Acquired Spiritual Treasures had inflicted severe injuries upon him.

Not only was his body wounded, but even his Primordial Spirit had suffered a heavy blow.

Yet he seemed completely unconcerned with his injuries. The instant boundless explosive radiance engulfed heaven and earth, he ignored his grave wounds and forcibly rushed above Gu Xi's head.

The Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror, Ice Soul Divine Needle, and other spiritual treasures returned to protect their master.

But they were blocked by a blood-colored pagoda.

That blood-colored pagoda was wreathed in bloody killing light and emitted astonishing Innate Killing Intent, as though it wished to slaughter all living beings and bring the world into silence. It was clearly a Primordial Spiritual Treasure with killing attributes.

When Gu Xi saw the suddenly appearing pagoda block the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror and the other treasures returning to protect him, his gaze narrowed slightly.

He immediately understood that this blood-colored pagoda was Great Sage Qiongqi's hidden trump card.

"Human Race Gu Xi, you are not the only one with Primordial Spiritual Treasures."

Great Sage Qiongqi stared into Gu Xi's eyes and sneered.

"Originally, as long as your Human Race obediently submitted to this Great Sage, there would not have been so much trouble."

"Who would have thought that you would dare resist this Great Sage and even expose so many spiritual treasures?"

"This is also this Great Sage's opportunity. Once I suppress and kill you and seize your treasures, I can still subdue the Human Race."

"At that time, with three Primordial Spiritual Treasures and more than ten Acquired Spiritual Treasures, along with your Human Race's great fortune... who could stop this Great Sage from advancing to Great Luo?"

"And with three Primordial Spiritual Treasures, this Great Sage will not merely advance to Great Luo. I will also Slash the Three Corpses and become one of the strongest Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates in Hong Huang..."

"...Perhaps this Great Sage may even enter the Demon Race Heavenly Court and become its third Demon Emperor, standing alongside the two Demon Emperors, Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi."

As though he could already see his infinitely bright future, he was overwhelmed with delight and could not help saying a few extra words to Gu Xi.

"Heh, you certainly know how to dream... unfortunately, it is all wishful thinking!"

Gu Xi mocked.

"How can a sparrow understand the ambitions of a swan!"

"Human Race Gu Xi, fulfill this Great Sage's ambitions!"

Great Sage Qiongqi snarled viciously and struck down hard at Gu Xi's head with his palm.

He believed that under this palm strike, Gu Xi's soul would undoubtedly be scattered.

Great Sage Qiongqi's palm strike was indeed incomparably fierce. It contained not only vast and majestic divine power, but also traces of the power of the Innate Slaughter Great Dao.

If this palm struck the ground, it could likely reduce a million miles of land to ruins in an instant.

Faced with this incomparably terrifying palm strike, Gu Xi actually had a way to resist it.

He had yet to bring out the Kongtong Seal, the most powerful Human Race supreme treasure he possessed.

If he summoned the Kongtong Seal and mobilized the Human Race's great fortune, he believed blocking this palm would not be a problem.

However, the Kongtong Seal, this Human Race supreme treasure, was rather sensitive.

If other God and Demon Dao Lords or Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerates—especially Laozi, one of the Three Pure Ones—learned that the Kongtong Seal was in his possession, things would become troublesome.

Even Saint Nuwa might take an interest in this Magic Treasure.

After all, the Human Race would become the Protagonists of Heaven and Earth in the future, and the Kongtong Seal, as the Human Race's supreme treasure, was far too significant.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, Gu Xi did not wish to use the Kongtong Seal lightly.

Especially while he was still weak, it was better to remain cautious.

At this moment, facing Great Sage Qiongqi's devastating palm descending to suppress him, Gu Xi remained exceptionally calm. He smiled at the approaching palm, neither dodging nor making any attempt to block it, as though allowing himself to be slaughtered.

"Not dodging or blocking?"

Great Sage Qiongqi was also somewhat stunned by Gu Xi's reaction.

But he did not think too much about it.

Since Gu Xi wished to die, he would grant him that wish.

However, just as Great Sage Qiongqi's palm was about to strike Gu Xi, his scalp suddenly went numb. His body instinctively trembled, and an unimaginable sense of deadly danger instantly flooded his mind.

Before he could understand what was happening,

A black spatial fissure appeared beside him. From the depths of that fissure, an incomparably terrifying bolt of purple lightning, tens of millions of miles long, tore through layer upon layer of space-time and suddenly descended upon him.

This bolt of purple lightning contained the Heavenly Dao Divine Laws, and its power was extremely terrifying and fierce.

In an instant, it destroyed Great Sage Qiongqi's incomparably powerful demon body, then annihilated his Primordial Spirit. Afterward, it struck Great Sage Qiongqi's Grand Unity Dao Embryo, nearly destroying it as well.

"No, that Dao Embryo must be preserved..."

Seeing that Great Sage Qiongqi's Grand Unity Dao Embryo was about to be destroyed, Gu Xi felt intense pain in his heart and hurriedly snatched it away before it could be completely destroyed.

Strangely enough,

When Gu Xi moved to seize the Dao Embryo, that incomparably terrifying purple lightning actually vanished on its own and did not harm him.

"Heavenly Punishment..."

"Why would Heavenly Punishment strike me..."

"The Heavenly Dao is unjust!"

Great Sage Qiongqi's final lingering thought remained in the void.

Clearly, in his final moments before death, Great Sage Qiongqi recognized the origin of the purple lightning, and he felt immense unwillingness at the Heavenly Dao's intervention.

Naturally, Gu Xi paid no attention to Great Sage Qiongqi's final lingering thought.

He happily put away the Dao Embryo left behind by Great Sage Qiongqi.

If this Dao Embryo had been allowed to flee into the depths of the Great Dao, then perhaps Great Sage Qiongqi might have been resurrected billions of years later.

But now that this Dao Embryo had fallen into Gu Xi's hands, Great Sage Qiongqi's hope of resurrection was nothing more than a delusion.

This Dao Embryo was destined to become nourishment for Gu Xi's further advancement.

After storing away the Dao Embryo, Gu Xi swiftly urged the Six Yang Divine Fire Mirror and other spiritual treasures to suppress the ownerless blood-colored pagoda, then collected it as well.

At this moment, the explosive radiance blanketing heaven and earth gradually began to fade.

The terrifying energy fluctuations interfering with Divine Sense also calmed down.

The hidden gods and demons once more saw everything above Guishan.

Yet they discovered in astonishment that the battle seemed to have ended.

What astonished them even more was that Great Sage Qiongqi had actually vanished.

The terrifying Heavenly Dao purple lightning had appeared too strangely and too swiftly, and it had vanished with equal strangeness and speed.

Thus, these gods and demons had not noticed that Heavenly Punishment had appeared here, much less that Great Sage Qiongqi had been killed by it in such an incomparably aggrieved and unwilling manner.

They merely stared blankly at Gu Xi's figure, secretly speculating about what had happened just now!

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