Meanwhile.
In the void where Hong Yuan, Pangu, and the others had first appeared upon entering the Crystal Lattice Universe, three figures suddenly emerged.
They were none other than He Yin, Li Jing, and Fa Xu, whom Pangu had previously slain.
Whether in appearance or aura, they were exactly the same as before.
He Yin still possessed that gentle, tranquil humanoid form. Li Jing remained a sharply angular structure of ice crystal. Fa Xu was still a shifting, unpredictable halo of laws.
But if Pangu and Hong Yuan had been present, they would certainly have noticed.
These three did not seem to be the original three in essence.
It was more as though someone had completely backed up all their knowledge, memories, and cultivation data from before their deaths, then injected it into three newly condensed shells, forcibly "reviving" these three supreme councilors of the Crystal Lattice Universe.
That was only natural.
After all, the one who had slain them was Pangu.
A half-step Primordial Limitless existence.
The first person in the Primordial Wilderness to create the world.
With Pangu's cultivation, so long as he wished it.
Even Chaos Demon Gods who had split their origins into hundreds of millions of fragments and hidden them in every corner of the myriad worlds would, once caught in Pangu's sights, be erased along with their true bodies by that world-creating axe, which would follow the links of Causality and origin to annihilate every single fragment, leaving not even a wisp of remnant soul behind.
Even saints such as Luohu, the Three Pure Ones, and the Ancestral Witches, who had entrusted their Dao Fruits to the Heavenly Dao and coexisted with the Primordial Wilderness, would have no chance of survival against Pangu's power to sever Causality and split heaven and earth.
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