Ancestor Luo Hou directly ordered Ri Biao and Wang Hu and the other six. He believed the Eight Great Protectors were strong enough to kill the seriously wounded Ancestor Dragon and First Qilin.
"Your decree shall be obeyed, Ancestor!"
After Ri Biao and the other seven bowed, they split into two groups and pursued Ancestor Dragon and First Qilin.
After the Eight Great Protectors left, Ancestor Luo Hou shouted sharply:
"Since you've come here to die, why aren't you showing yourselves? Could it be you intend to wait until I kill Ancestor Hongjun before appearing?"
Someone had just broken a gap in the restriction of the Zhu Xian Array Diagram, allowing Ancestor Dragon and First Qilin to escape.
Ancestor Luo Hou could guarantee that other great powers were still watching from the shadows.
"Fellow Daoists, Luo Hou's cultivation is profound. I ask that you show yourselves and lend me your aid."
Ancestor Luo Hou had barely finished speaking when Ancestor Hongjun also began asking for help.
Since Ancestor Luo Hou had sensed that other great powers were watching from the shadows, how could Ancestor Hongjun fail to notice?
Three Daoists appeared one after another. Each possessed an otherworldly bearing, and it was obvious at a glance that they were great powers.
Ancestor Luo Hou swept his gaze over the three and stopped it on the old Daoist in the cyan robe.
"I never expected Fellow Daoist Yang Mei, who once commanded the Space Laws, to come as well. You certainly think highly of me, Luo Hou!"
Ancestor Luo Hou recognized the other's identity. He was none other than Yang Mei, the Chaos Demon God who had once commanded the Space Laws!
As for the other two, Ancestor Luo Hou knew them as well. He simply did not take them seriously and could not be bothered to address them.
The other two experts were Yin-Yang Ancestor and Qiankun Ancestor.
Like Ancestor Hongjun and the others, Yin-Yang Ancestor and Qiankun Ancestor were both former Chaos Demon Gods.
"???"
Yin-Yang Ancestor and Qiankun Ancestor's expressions darkened when they saw that Ancestor Luo Hou had ignored them.
Their statuses were all the same. Ancestor Luo Hou was clearly treating them differently and not taking either of them seriously.
Yin-Yang Ancestor, whose temper was poor, sharply rebuked Ancestor Luo Hou:
"Luo Hou, you old demon! If you sever your chance to prove the Dao, we can leave and spare your life!"
Yin-Yang Ancestor dared to speak so forcefully mainly because of his trump card.
It was precisely because he had that trump card, along with three helpers, that he dared not take Luo Hou seriously.
"Yin-Yang, what are you? What gives you the right to act insolently before me?"
Ancestor Luo Hou flew into a rage. After all, among the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods, Yin-Yang Ancestor ranked below him.
"You old demon, you're the one who's nothing!"
After being humiliated like this, Yin-Yang Ancestor immediately retorted.
"Oh? So Yin-Yang, you're saying you're nothing?"
"Hahaha!"
Ancestor Luo Hou burst into laughter at Yin-Yang Ancestor. Even before the Tribulation of Creation, he had never taken Yin-Yang Ancestor seriously.
Now that the Tribulation of Creation had ended, he took him even less seriously.
"You're on the verge of death, yet you're still showing off your sharp tongue!"
Yin-Yang Ancestor knew he could not win a battle of words against Ancestor Luo Hou, so he stopped arguing with him.
"Who's on the verge of death? That remains to be seen."
Ancestor Luo Hou snorted. In his eyes, Yin-Yang Ancestor's threats were nothing but a joke.
"I originally had no intention of dealing with you. Since you've come here to seek death, I'll grant your wish."
"I'll use your Laws to pave the way for my chance to prove the Dao."
Ancestor Luo Hou swept his gaze over the four great ancestors—Yang Mei, Hongjun, Yin-Yang, and Qiankun. He could not even imagine how much strength he would recover after killing all four and refining their Laws.
Perhaps using the four of them as the foundation for proving the Dao would allow him to recover his full strength and return to the level he had possessed before the Tribulation of Creation.
"Luo Hou, you old demon, don't get so arrogant!"
Qiankun Ancestor, who had remained silent all this time, could no longer hold back. Ancestor Luo Hou was simply too arrogant, treating them like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
"Arrogance requires the qualifications to be arrogant!"
Ancestor Luo Hou felt that this was rather convenient, because he happened to have those qualifications.
"Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation—swords out! Formation rise!"
Ancestor Luo Hou formed hand seals. The Four Swords of Zhu Xian returned to their positions and hung from the four corners of the Zhu Xian Array Diagram.
The Four Swords of Zhu Xian absorbed baleful qi, murderous qi, death qi, and resentful qi, transforming them into four formation gates.
The moment the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation appeared, it enveloped the entire battlefield. Even the thirty-three heavens of the Primordial World trembled.
The phenomenon caused by the appearance of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation made the entire Primordial World pale in comparison!
Neither bronze, nor iron, nor steel, once hidden beneath Mount Sumeru!
Without refining it by reversing yin and yang, how could its edge have been tempered by water and fire?
The Immortal-Slaying Sword is sharp, the Sword of Slaughter brings death, the Immortal-Trapping Sword sends red light in all directions, and the Immortal-Exterminating Sword possesses endless, wondrous transformations...
In Buzhou Mountain, at Nüwa's Daoist sanctuary, Nüwa was refining a spiritual treasure when she was startled by the phenomenon in the Western Primordial Era.
Nüwa stopped what she was doing, reached out, grabbed Bai Chen, who was dozing beside her, and shook him awake.
"Little White, what happened in the Western Primordial Era?"
"Could this disturbance have been caused by the Three Clans Hegemony?"
Nüwa knew that the three clans were fighting a decisive battle in the Western Primordial Era, but she had never expected such a tremendous disturbance to erupt there.
Could a disturbance of this scale really be caused by someone at the Half-step Dao Proving realm?
Nüwa even began to suspect that someone had successfully proved the Dao.
Bai Chen, still bleary-eyed, rubbed his eyes before pointing a little paw at Nüwa.
"Nüwa, don't distract the Great God! Hurry up and refine the Great God's treasure. The Great God is still waiting to use it!"
Bai Chen did not need to think to know that this disturbance had definitely been caused by Ancestor Luo Hou setting up the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
But this was a matter in the Western Primordial Era. What did it have to do with Nüwa?
As the Artifact Refining Maiden of Great God Bai Chen, Nüwa's most important task at that moment was to refine the Great God's Hammer of Reason.
That way, Great God Bai Chen could reason with others in the future and convince deities through reason!
Dragon Stranded in Shallow Waters, Tormented by Shrimp! (Part One)
The Ancestral Witches had long since delivered the divine iron outside Pangu Hall to Bai Chen.
However, because Bai Chen was not skilled at refining treasures, the major task of refining the Hammer of Reason had fallen to Nüwa, the Artifact Refining Maiden.
Nüwa, filled with resentment toward her work, pinched the flesh on Bai Chen's face and questioned him:
"Little White, you won't refine your own treasure and make me do it instead. And now you're rushing me too. Is that appropriate?"
Nüwa felt that Bai Chen had gone too far. The materials were already difficult to refine.
She had kindly agreed to refine a treasure for this lazy cat, yet the lazy cat was still rushing her here.
If he pushed Nüwa too far, he had better not blame her for going on strike.
"Nüwa, if the Great God weren't bad at artifact refining, why would the Great God ask you to do it?"
Bai Chen shook off Nüwa's hand, planted his paws on his hips, and spoke with righteous confidence.
If he did not know Yuqing Yuanshi, an expert in artifact refining, he would not have asked Nüwa to refine a treasure for him.
Once he had time in the future, he would have Yuqing Yuanshi, who had inherited Great God Pangu's artifact-refining Dao, refine the treasure for Great God Bai Chen again.
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Nüwa followed along with Bai Chen's words, poked his chubby belly, and giggled.
"Little White, you're not skilled at artifact refining, but you're skilled at eating, drinking, and having fun!"
"Just look at how fat you've become!"
Nüwa felt that Bai Chen had grown fatter and fatter ever since he came to Buzhou Mountain.
That was mainly because the Fat Cat had found many Innate Spiritual Roots, spirit herbs, and spirit fruits in Buzhou Mountain and kept eating them in turn. Of course he had grown fat.
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The moment he heard the word "fat," Bai Chen revealed a fierce, triangular-eyed glare.
"Nüwa, you're talking nonsense! Don't slander the Great God!"
"The Great God is sturdy, not fat!"
Great God Bai Chen was an Innate Divine Beast. How could he possibly have anything to do with the derogatory word "fat"?
When describing Great God Bai Chen, one had to use complimentary words expressing praise.
"Little White, what did you do to make the Ancestral Witches give you the divine iron outside Pangu Hall?"
Nüwa was very puzzled by this. After all, the Ancestral Witches guarded the divine iron outside Pangu Hall very strictly.
Nüwa also wanted such top-grade artifact-refining material, but there was nothing she could do about it.
"What do you mean, what did I do? They gave it to the Great God of their own free will!"
Bai Chen felt that Nüwa really did not know how to speak. If she continued like this, she would eventually have no friends.
"I wonder if Yuanfeng listened to the Great God's advice."
Bai Chen turned his gaze toward the Western Primordial Era. Although she knew from the Great Dao's Destiny that Yuanfeng would survive, she still could not help worrying about her.
"I'm so envious!"
After Bai Chen's worry faded, it turned into envy.
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