Gu Xi: Ignore Good Advice, and You'll Pay for It!

"Eh, this Human Race Gu Xi can still smile at a time like this. He sure has a big heart!"

When the Three Pure Ones and the other Great Supernatural Beings saw the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the others arrive, they had assumed Gu Xi would fall into panic and fear.

Who would have thought that they would see Gu Xi smiling?

He even looked remarkably relaxed.

As though he did not take the situation before him to heart at all.

This left them all deeply astonished.

Could it be that Gu Xi truly did not know fear?

"That smile looks familiar!"

"Could he be about to pull that move again?"

On Buzhou Mountain, Fuxi saw Gu Xi's smile and inexplicably found it familiar.

Ten thousand years ago, when Gu Xi had still been on Buzhou Mountain, he had worn this very smile whenever he tricked the Buzhou Mountain Gods and Demons to their deaths.

"My little sister told me that this man is Heavenly Dao's Illegitimate Child. If possible, do not provoke him."

"I want to see whether he can still receive Heavenly Dao's protection this time."

A trace of anticipation inexplicably appeared in Fuxi's eyes.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches, Di Jun, and the others, who had been locked in a tense standoff, all turned cold when they saw the smile on Gu Xi's face.

Human Race Gu Xi could still smile at a time like this. Did he truly not take them seriously?

"Someone once called me the God of Misfortune!"

"Pah, what terrible judgment."

"It is a complete insult to my identity!"

"I was born in response to the Primordial Tribulation Fortune Great Dao, a natural Child of Calamity and Fortune."

"Anyone who bears ill will toward me will be entangled by calamity qi and curses, suffering Heaven's punishment."

"Everyone, I have always yearned for the light and treated others kindly. I do not wish to implicate anyone."

"You should all leave quickly, lest calamity befall you."

"Otherwise, I'll be terribly heartbroken!"

Gu Xi walked step by step toward the Twelve Ancestral Witches, earnestly and patiently persuading them, Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the others to leave as soon as possible.

It was as if they would suffer calamity if they delayed by even one step.

The Three Pure Ones: "..."

East King Duke, West Queen Mother: "..."

Ying Long: "..."

Zhen Yuanzi: "..."

The many Great Supernatural Beings were all utterly dumbfounded.

What sort of act was Gu Xi putting on?

Had water gotten into his brain?

For a moment, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, as well as Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the others, were all stunned.

Gu Xi's bizarre behavior had utterly shocked them.

"Here it comes, here it comes... It's exactly this feeling!"

On Kunlun Mountain, Fuxi cried out inwardly. The sense of familiarity had completely returned.

"Hahaha, Child of Calamity and Fortune?"

"Anyone who bears ill will toward you will be entangled by calamity qi and curses?"

"Do you take us for three-year-old children? How dare you toy with us!"

"You're courting death!"

Ancestral Witch Ju Mang roared. Behind him, the phantom of a divine tree that reached the heavens and earth emerged as he pointed at Gu Xi.

Boom!!!

A stream of azure divine power pierced through the void and shot toward Gu Xi's glabella like lightning.

That stream of divine power contained incomparably terrifying law fluctuations.

Many God and Demon Dao Lords secretly shuddered at the sight.

Di Jun and the others did not stop Ancestral Witch Ju Mang from attacking.

What they cared about were Gu Xi's many divine positions. They did not care whether he lived or died.

Even if Gu Xi died, he would still leave behind his divine positions.

"Alas, ignore good advice, and you'll pay for it right before your eyes!"

Gu Xi spoke with a melancholy expression and actually closed his eyes.

Yet at that very moment, the winds and clouds above suddenly changed.

A Purple Heaven Divine Thunder abruptly descended from the depths of endless spacetime.

It spread downward like branching limbs.

Then split into two bolts.

One struck the azure divine power rushing toward Gu Xi, instantly dispersing it.

The other...

Struck Ancestral Witch Ju Mang.

Boom!!!

Ancestral Witch Ju Mang was instantly blasted black all over, smoke rising from his body.

Ju Mang: "..."

The many Great Supernatural Beings: "..."

Everyone was dumbfounded.

They had never expected Ju Mang to be struck by lightning the very instant he attacked Gu Xi.

Moreover, another bolt of lightning had dispersed the divine power aimed at Gu Xi.

Could Gu Xi truly be this so-called Child of Calamity and Fortune?

Would anyone who attacked him really become entangled by calamity qi and curses and suffer Heaven's punishment?

"That felt good. Just as expected!"

"It's still that familiar feeling!"

"Only, this time is slightly different. Heavenly Dao did not strike Ju Mang dead outright!"

"Could there be some deeper mystery behind this?"

On Buzhou Mountain, Fuxi fell into deep thought.

"Eh, Heavenly Dao actually did not strike him dead outright."

"Could it be that Heavenly Dao also protects key figures in the Witch-Demon Calamity before the calamity begins, such as the Twelve Ancestral Witches?"

Seeing that Ju Mang had not been directly killed by the lightning, Gu Xi vaguely formed a guess.

He was basically certain that his guess was correct.

They were different from ordinary living beings.

Figures like the Twelve Ancestral Witches played important roles in Heavenly Dao's process of evolution.

For the sake of its own evolution, even if Heavenly Dao protected Gu Xi, this "debtor," it would not immediately kill off figures like the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

After considering it carefully, Gu Xi understood everything.

Still, it did not matter even so.

As long as Heavenly Dao continued protecting him, that was enough.

Although Ju Mang's entire body had been blasted black, his injuries were not actually severe.

Yet he felt incomparably humiliated.

He was a dignified Ancestral Witch, yet before everyone's eyes, he had been struck by lightning for attacking a mere Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Where was he supposed to put his face?

"I don't believe it!"

Ancestral Witch Ju Mang let out an enraged howl. Boundless divine power erupted from his body, while the towering divine tree behind him released streams of Wood Law radiance.

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

In an instant, the endless earth surged and churned.

Three azure vines, each thick enough to require dozens of people to encircle them, burst from the ground like fierce beasts breaking free from their cages.

Then, in an instant, they grew hundreds of thousands of zhang tall and twisted toward Gu Xi together to kill him.

Without surprise, Purple Heaven Divine Thunder descended once more.

This time, the branching Purple Heaven Divine Thunder split into four bolts.

Three of them blasted the three dragon-like azure vines into ashes.

The remaining bolt struck Ancestral Witch Ju Mang.

This time, Ancestral Witch Ju Mang's skin was even blacker, like charcoal.

"Damn it, I'll kill you!"

Ancestral Witch Ju Mang roared and attacked again.

But he was soon struck for the third time.

This time, the descending Purple Heaven Divine Thunder was exceedingly violent, blasting Ancestral Witch Ju Mang down toward the earth like a meteor.

With a thunderous crash, Ancestral Witch Ju Mang was blasted straight into the depths of the earth.

A gigantic mushroom cloud slowly rose.

A few traces of blood still lingered in the void.

"How could this happen?"

Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches were all completely stunned.

Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the other Demon Race powerhouses were also left numb with shock.