Hongjun's Backhand? Entering the East Sea! Hongjun: Who! Who exactly is scheming against This Daoist!

"Three fellow Daoists, the Primordial Era has flaws and requires order. If not now, when will you fill the Primordial Era?"

Hongjun looked toward the Five Elements, Yin-Yang, and Qiankun Ancestors, his voice faint and cold as he spoke.

The three Patriarchs' gazes sharpened. They were about to speak when suddenly they sensed something, disbelief spreading across their faces.

"Hongjun, what have you done to us!?"

"You actually schemed against us!?"

The three were shocked and enraged.

"Three of you, if you are willing to suppress the Primordial Era's Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and Qiankun, then after endless years when your merit is complete, your true spirits may return. At that time, you will reach the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin realm. This Daoist has never deceived you."

"If you do not go to fill the Primordial Era's flaws..."

Hongjun transmitted his voice, trailing off at the end without finishing, but the implied threat and meaning were clear without words.

These flaws—you fill them or not, you still must fill them!

If you fill them willingly, you will have merit for the Primordial Era and may revive in the future. If you do not act willingly, you won't even have a chance at revival.

"..."

The three's expressions turned extremely ugly.

"Above the Heavenly Dao, today, I, Hongjun, sense the Primordial Era is flawed and its order incomplete. I have persuaded the three Patriarchs, and together with them, I wish to make the Primordial Era more complete."

"The Primordial Era is newly born, with a hundred things awaiting revival. I am willing to shoulder its operation, uphold the Great Trend of the Heavenly Dao, and maintain its function. May the Heavenly Dao witness this!"

Having threatened the three Patriarchs, Hongjun wasted no more words. Instead, he looked up, the Jade Plate of Creation behind him, his voice solemn, majestic, and grand.

You seek enlightenment?

This Daoist shall also seek enlightenment!

Stop it?

No need to stop it anymore.

Since scheming cannot resolve this, then let it be done openly and uprightly. I, Hongjun, will never lose!

Let's ride the donkey and read the libretto—we'll see who comes out on top!

The three Patriarchs filling the Primordial Era could earn merit to attain the Origin realm, while the Heavenly Dao's acknowledgment could let him become a Heavenly Dao Sage. With both, even if not as perfect as the original path, it would be a dual Origin realm, enough to suppress Ancestral Dragon and Luohu. He wanted to see just who was pulling the strings behind the scenes!

"Boom!!!"

The Heavenly Dao responded, its divine might vast and boundless. Innumerable energies converged swiftly, Primordial Violet Qi was conceived and formed, and boundless merit gathered and manifested, poised to descend at any moment.

Seeing this, Ancestral Dragon and Luohu, who were receiving fortune and merit to attain enlightenment, smiled. Even Yuan Feng and Shi Qilin, who had been waiting nervously, broke into grins.

The four couldn't help but recall the words the River God had spoken to them that day.

"Even if you succeed in attaining enlightenment, to make Hongjun lose completely, enlightenment alone is not enough. You still need a key medium."

At the time, Ancestral Dragon, Yuan Feng, Shi Qilin, and Luohu had been puzzled.

If both of them could attain enlightenment, wouldn't that be enough to make Hongjun lose completely?

Two against one—the advantage was theirs!

To that, Tang Xuan had said: What if Hongjun could first attain the Origin realm, then become a Heavenly Dao Sage?

As the one hailed as the greatest hidden boss in any Primordial Era genre novel, Tang Xuan never underestimated Hongjun.

The Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin was cultivation; the Heavenly Dao Sage was status, and it also represented the power of the Origin realm. If the two could combine and stack, the terror of that was beyond words.

Fun is fun, games are games, but Hongjun was no joke.

Even in the original timeline, Tang Xuan suspected that Luohu's successful detonation of the Western spiritual veins was deliberately allowed by Hongjun.

Realizing this, the four's hearts tightened, and they immediately respectfully asked Tang Xuan what the medium was.

Tang Xuan's answer was the three Patriarchs.

Tang Xuan: Since Hongjun has allied with the Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and Qiankun Ancestors, given his cautious nature, he would not fail to tamper with the three Patriarchs. If you attain enlightenment, Hongjun will activate it directly, forcing them to fill the Primordial Era. Even if it's not perfect, Hongjun can first attain the Origin realm, then become a Heavenly Dao Sage.

And from the current result, without a doubt, the River God... was right!

"Truly a River God who can peer into the mysterious future!"

The four marveled inwardly.

"Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Qiankun, if you don't want to die, enter the East Sea!"

Shi Qilin spoke.

The East Sea!

This was the solution the River God had given them.

As long as Hongjun was forced to scheme against the three Patriarchs, even if the situation was already set, if the three Patriarchs entered the East Sea, Hongjun would surely lose!

The three Patriarchs, already grim-faced, had decided on Liberation by Violence to merge with the Primordial Era.

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It wasn't that they wanted to cooperate with Hongjun—this was a blatant scheme, an unsolvable one, and they had no other choice.

Hongjun had tampered with them. If they refused to fall in line gracefully, he would make them do so anyway. What could they do but comply?

Upon hearing Shi Qilin's words, the three Ancestral Masters' eyes lit up, their bodies jolting.

"The East Sea?"

The three exchanged glances, a flash of resolve in their eyes.

Bet on it!

Without hesitation or delay, the three immediately fled toward the East Sea.

"Presumptuous!"

Hongjun's expression shifted, a strong sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

Something was wrong, very wrong. He absolutely could not let the three Ancestral Masters enter the East Sea.

"Buzz!!!"

With a single thought, Hongjun immediately tried to use his tampering to forcibly compel the three Ancestral Masters to merge with the Dao.

Though forcing others to merge with the Dao violated the Heavenly Dao's rules and would yield far less merit, at this moment, Hongjun could no longer afford to care.

And then, Ancestral Dragon and Luohu... moved!

"Daoist friend, why the haste?"

Ancestral Dragon and Luohu struck simultaneously, layers of Great Dao principles manifesting, swiftly sealing off Heavenly Secrets and forming a barrier.

If it came to breaking Hongjun's methods, they might not succeed—but stalling and delaying him?

That, they could manage.

"Boom!!!"

"Boom!!!"

Shi Qilin and Yuan Phoenix simultaneously ignited their Dao Fruits and unleashed their treasures to block Hongjun's path. The Three Tribes' elites, after a brief moment of stunned hesitation, immediately joined in, surrounding Hongjun from all sides.

"Who! Who is it! Who is scheming against This Daoist behind the scenes!!!"

Hongjun's eyes bulged with fury, his rage boiling over.

If a tiger shows no might, you take it for a sick cat?

With a furious roar, the radiance of the Creation Jade Disc erupted to its peak, and the pressure of a half-step Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal surged to its limit.

"You... forced This Daoist's hand!!!"

At the bottom of the East Sea.

Tang Xuan sat cross-legged, strands of water essence converging into his body like an endless stream. Looking inward at his Sea of Consciousness, he saw that a vast, boundless phantom of river water had already appeared within it, and this phantom was still expanding, spreading like lighting up a map.

If Tang Xuan hadn't first absorbed the rivers near the East Sea to encircle the city from the countryside before annexing the East Sea itself, it would have been far more difficult. But by devouring the rivers first and then the East Sea, the difficulty was greatly reduced.

And the Three Tribes' war, along with Luohu and Ancestral Dragon's path-proving, would further throw the Primordial World's Great Dao into chaos.

Heaven's timing was the Dragon-Han Era; Earth's advantage was annexing the rivers; Man's harmony was Tang Xuan himself.

After scheming and planning for so long, did they really think Tang Xuan was just idling?

Annex! Annex wildly! Refine madly!

Without the outside world knowing, the entire East Sea was being infiltrated by Tang Xuan, bit by bit, relentlessly.

Ten percent, twenty percent, thirty percent, forty percent...

A bit slow?

No matter!

Use the Wish Origin to speed things up!

Finally, when the progress reached one hundred percent, when the entire East Sea was completely under Tang Xuan's control, a soundless roar seemed to explode from within him.

Chaos Golden Immortal?

Breakthrough—Chaos Golden Immortal realm!

The entire East Sea became Tang Xuan's true body!

A small river is a river; the East Sea... is also a river!

The river of an even greater river!

"Boom!!!"

Tang Xuan's eyes blazed bright as he rose abruptly.

The actors were all in place. Only the lead was missing. It was time for him... to make his entrance!!!