Tai Yi Attacks; What is Pangu?

The Ancestral Witch Houtu's intervention was unexpected by many.

As soon as she spoke, she moved directly towards the Chaos Bell, clearly intending to rob Tai Yi.

Tai Yi was taken aback at first, then nonchalantly stated, "Since the Ancestral Witch Houtu has this idea... you'll have to defeat me first before you can investigate its feasibility."

"Very well... let me experience firsthand just how vast the divine abilities of two Ancestral Witches truly are."

Tai Yi smiled. As his thoughts raced, the ripples emanating from the Chaos Bell surged, its power increasing by thousands or even tens of thousands of times in an instant!

At its peak intensity, it seemed to stir the entire river of time, manipulating all possible variables as it suppressed the two Ancestral Witches!

He intended to fight two on one!

"Clang!"

Amidst the incomparably clear bell chime, the world seemed to freeze.

Dijiang and Houtu, in that moment, appeared like insects trapped in amber.

Tai Yi, combined with the Chaos Bell, was truly that terrifying!

He was suppressing two Ancestral Witches, showcasing the Demon Clan's most formidable combat power!

Of course, the two Ancestral Witches were immensely powerful, each possessing unfathomable divine abilities.

Coupled with the terrifying physique granted by their Pangu bloodline, they tore through the solidified spacetime after a brief moment of rigidity.

Tai Yi watched with a smile. Meanwhile, the Chaos Bell behind him, as its power continued to climb, began to undergo strange transformations, seemingly revealing a corner of its profound secrets, a sight that was utterly breathtaking.

On the chaotic bell surface, a mysterious scene appeared... it was an endless, grand, and indescribably magnificent palace complex, all collectively guarding a supreme hall. Within that hall, a blurry, supreme Heavenly Emperor sat enthroned, with thousands upon thousands of Demon Gods below him, paying their respects!

A terrifying scene that was difficult to describe or articulate... When this image appeared, the Chaos Bell occupied a special dimension, as if the Great Daos, laws, and orders of countless powerful beings were reviving and resonating under a transcendent decree, like a Heavenly Emperor commanding his subjects and driving them to action!

Even though only imprints of the Great Dao existed here, the combined power was still ferociously boundless!

Stunning Dijiang and powerful Houtu were suppressed for a time, unable to advance an inch.

However, the two Ancestral Witches showed little panic or distress, appearing to have a clear understanding of this bell.

Naturally... as beings born from Pangu's direct bloodline, how could they not know of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and its three shattered supreme treasures?

"Commanding the Three Thousand Demon Gods, I alone am supreme?" Ancestral Witch Houtu's gaze flickered. "Indeed, among the three supreme treasures, this one is very special... it masters the domain of time and space, and the essence of Grand Unity is eternal freedom in endless time and space."

"This bell subtly represents the orthodox law, representing the protagonists of each era... a pity!"

"And what of it?" Her aura surged, expanding and shaking off the restraints of the surrounding spacetime. Fiery energy erupted from her, condensing into a terrifying image—it seemed to be a person, yet also a battlefield. "Have you forgotten Pangu's most famous achievement?"

"The slaughter of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods!"

"The so-called 'ten thousand gods bow in submission, worshipping the supreme'... it's nothing more than this!"

When the image fully solidified and manifested before the world, it was a soul-stirring scene—it was the most ancient and desolate era of chaos, where a supreme divine being, wielding an axe, struck down at the various strange and grotesque Demon Gods who had swarmed to surround and attack him!

This was already quite clear.

The Battle of Pangu!

The Demise of Chaos!

The Ancestral Witches' bloodlines boiled, and the inheritance from Pangu allowed such a scene to reappear... it seemed to subtly counter the principles embodied by the Chaos Bell, resisting the suppression of the three thousand Great Daos resonating upon the two Ancestral Witches.

"In the past, Pangu was the strongest in Chaos, commanding the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods... hence this scene on the Chaos Bell." Ancestral Witch Dijiang's restraints were then broken. "But in the end?"

"Pangu personally killed all the Demon Gods, cleansing Chaos... even though many were his subordinates, his companions on the long journey through time."

"Teammates sacrificed to the heavens, their power boundless." Dijiang chuckled. "Only then was the brilliant and eternal Primordial Era world created."

"You wish to use the orthodox path hidden within the Chaos Bell to suppress us? It won't work!"

He and Ancestral Witch Houtu moved together, a clear path unfolding beneath their feet, leading straight towards Tai Yi's location!

At this moment, how many powerful beings and deities in heaven and earth witnessed this scene, seeing the reappearance of the scenes of the Three Thousand Demon Gods worshipping and being slaughtered, a daze appeared in their eyes.

"Emerging from the same Pangu, yet ultimately facing each other... fate truly plays tricks on people!"

"This was indeed my oversight." Tai Yi frowned slightly, then relaxed. "But, it doesn't matter."

"The imprints of the Great Dao of the Three Thousand Demon Gods are merely decorative..." he sighed. "After all, the Chaos Demon Gods swarmed, yet were all slaughtered. Pangu still had the energy to do other things... I knew I shouldn't have placed too much hope in them."

"What's truly powerful is this bell itself!"

"Its authority is astonishingly powerful, nearly capable of sweeping aside all Grand Unity beings below Tai Yi."

Tai Yi looked at the two Ancestral Witches who had charged close and smiled gently, the Chaos Bell chimed...

In an instant, the stars shifted, and heaven and earth changed.

The Primordial Era was still the Primordial Era.

However, the temporal order... had changed!

The history of the entire world reversed at this moment, all the way back to the very beginning, to when Pangu split the heavens and earth!

--In the past, Pangu wielded his axe and split the heavens.

The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe shattered the laws of the Chaos Era, destroyed chaos and disorder, and buried an entire ancient epoch.

In the remnants of that chaos, It inscribed new laws, defining the process of the Innate Five Primes, from Wu Ji to Tai Ji.

From absolute nothingness, it successively derived spirit, qi, form, quality, and body, finally fulfilling all conditions for the world's formation and the birth of living beings.

The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe shattered during this process, giving rise to three supreme Innate treasures, each bearing its corresponding responsibility.

The Pangu Banner bears the responsibility of creation, the driving force for the cycle and flow of the Five Primes.

The Tai Ji Diagram bears the responsibility of existence, the symbol of "being" that the Primordial Era represents.

And the Chaos Bell... it is the tangible manifestation of the temporal and spatial shifts throughout the entire process!

At this moment, Tai Yi wielded this bell, selecting a specific temporal node and dragging this battlefield to descend there.

There lies the origin of all heavens and all epochs, the root of all parallel universes and all worlds.

This place is peculiar.

To call it an origin isn't entirely accurate... because through this origin, one can glimpse a future that is real and unfalsified.

However, after looking away and then looking back, what is seen and understood undergoes subtle changes... these changes can even interfere with the state of the origin itself.

It is in constant flux, and endlessly so.

Like a circle.

A circle without a beginning or end, endlessly repeating its cycles.

As the tip of the pen moves forward without end, only colors shift and overlap, creating immeasurable parallel universes.

Pangu's creation of heaven and earth established the framework of the circle, the foundation of the Primordial Era... but it is not only these.

It encompasses countless temporal and spatial dimensions, all heavens and epochs, everything fantastical and beyond the limits of imagination, all created by his hand!

At this moment, the Chaos Bell dragged two Ancestral Witches, plunging them into this. A sliver of authority and sentience drove the outpouring of primordial temporal and spatial power, instantly creating a labyrinth of billions of temporal and spatial universes, suppressing and sealing the two Ancestral Witches.

Even with their essence of eternal freedom across endless time and space, when faced with the spontaneous restraint and resistance of their own Innate Spiritual Light manifested in endless time and space, they were trapped in difficulty for a time.

The Chaos Bell, perhaps, can be called the ultimate treasure most effective against Grand Unity beings!

If not for the astonishing power of the two Ancestral Witches, both having reached the level of "one thought, one breath, one self," reaching the limit of "being" in the division of time, perfect and flawless, impregnable, they would have been suppressed, their immortal dao bodies shattered, their slivers of Innate Spiritual Light imprisoned!

Even so, they were trapped, struggling to move... while breaking through millions of temporal and spatial labyrinths, billions more evolved and generated, endlessly!

The two Ancestral Witches found themselves in a predicament.

Watching this situation, Tai Yi sighed lightly, "Pangu's might is truly profound and unfathomable."

"Even if it is merely a leftover supreme treasure, when it displays its power, it fills me with admiration and awe every time I witness it..."

"Reversing from the future, opening the past, using it as a foundation, endlessly inverting cause and effect, time forming a circle of repeated cycles, Pangu... Pangu!"

"Manipulating epochs, all heavens and epochs, all time and space, dancing in the palm of his hand... Pangu, truly a supreme divine genius!"

What is Pangu?

"Gu" refers to epoch, refers to time; "Pan" means to manipulate, to play with.

--You see, this Primordial Era, this time and space, the past, present, and future, are pitted and uneven, not smooth and round, not to my liking.

So, let me "pan" it, and make it smooth and round!

Sweeping away all Grand Unity beings, suppressing past, present, and future, making the course of all history change according to one's will, this... is the true meaning of Pangu!

Pangu may not necessarily be a specific existence.

In essence, It is the codename for the most powerful Grand Unity being!

Aside from the one who split heaven and earth, others also have the hope of reaching that level and earning the title of Pangu.

Every Grand Unity being has the hope of becoming Pangu--no matter how slim.

Therefore, any Grand Unity being with ambition and aspirations wants to contend for this position.

This is also the true root of all great calamities in the Primordial Era--there are always those who want to eliminate all competitors and ultimately be crowned king!

The Chaos Bell distorted space-time, trapping Dijiang and Houtu.

This alarmed countless Grand Unity divine beings, filling them with great apprehension towards that Chaos Bell.

Tai Yi felt the many wary gazes falling upon him, his gaze focused, and he smiled indifferently, unconcerned.

Instead, he reached out with one hand, deflecting the dark hand of Dijiang that had fallen upon Qingyou Demon God's past trajectory.

Qingyou Demon God sensed the disappearance of the premonition in his heart and the elimination of his calamity, and heaved a sigh of relief, "Eastern Emperor, your life-saving grace, this subordinate will forever remember it in his heart!"

"There is no need for such formalities," Tai Yi said lightly. "You served my Demon Court and thus stepped into a deadly situation. For all reasons, I had to rescue you."

"Now that you are free, accompany me back to our base camp."

"Your Majesty!" Qingyou Demon God's expression twisted for a moment, his eyes fierce. "You just displayed your divine might, trapping two Ancestral Witches in one fell swoop... why not go further, gather your forces, and kill them right here?!"

"If successful... the Witch-Demon Cataclysm, we would gain an additional thirty percent chance of victory!"

Qingyou Demon God hated--

After all, he had been brutally beaten and tortured by Ancestral Witch Dijiang, casually treated like a dying dog, and then faced the great crisis of losing himself, a fate worse than death, even while alive...

How could he not hate?

But Qingyou also knew that the gap between him and Dijiang, the Ancestral Witch, was as vast as the heavens and earth... He might not have the slightest chance to personally take revenge in his entire life.

However, it didn't matter.

With the backing of the Demon Clan, there was still hope.

At this moment, he was instigating Tai Yi, hoping that this Emperor would continue to take action, summon the other Demon Gods, and pursue their victory!

"Now is not the time for a full-scale war," Tai Yi glanced at him. "Neither side is ready."

"What's more... these two Ancestral Witches are not people we can kill just because we want to."

"There are still ten Ancestral Witches watching this battlefield... Once the situation escalates, they will definitely intervene."

"Who dares to say--as Pangu's direct descendants, they don't possess the most terrifying trump card to flip the board?"

Qingyou Demon God was speechless.

"Also, I dislike others making decisions for me," Tai Yi looked at Qingyou, his tone languid. "My kindness to my subordinates is not a capital for you to overstep."

"It is this subordinate's fault." Qingyou Demon God immediately became cautious, not daring to breathe heavily.

"Alright, I hope there won't be a next time," Tai Yi said. "Now, come with me!"

He leisurely strode towards the starry sky, and Qingyou Demon God, with his head bowed, was about to follow.

Suddenly, the Demon God's eyes widened, his mouth opened as if to shout, but not a single word could escape.

Tai Yi sensed the abnormality, turned sharply, grabbed Qingyou Demon God with one hand, and hurled the Chaos Bell with the other, attacking in the most ferocious manner.

Only then did a cold, ruthless voice finally echo through heaven and earth, filled with a murderous aura.

"Don't worry, he won't have the chance for a next time!"

A bloody palm landed on Qingyou Demon God at the same time as Tai Yi.

Dijiang, the Ancestral Witch, covered in blood, had broken free from the origin of time and space and reappeared in the world!

His palm strike not only locked onto the Demon God's body and Primordial Spirit, but also his roots and past life... Having had experience before, leaving traces, doing it again would only be easier.

Qingyou Demon God's face fell into despair. He frantically twisted his karma, attempting to alter destiny and preserve his personality and consciousness, but... it was useless!

"Ah!"

A soul-wrenching scream erupted as Qingyou Demon God realized... he was being torn apart!

A new personality, woven by Dijiang, was being born within his life history... an inner self to his outer persona.

It had existed all along, lurking, maintaining consistency with the main body on the surface.

Until now, under Dijiang's control, it had raised the banner of rebellion, usurping the Grand Unity's Dao fruit!