Chapter 25

Luohu saw it the same way.

I had never expected that even my judgment could be wrong.

Your strength has already surpassed Jidu's. However, if these are the only means you possess, then the outcome of today's battle is already decided.

I admire your performance, so I will give you a chance.

If you are willing to join my Demonic Dao, I can make you the second Demon Ancestor, second only to me.

My words carried a trace of praise for Tai Ming.

However, no matter how highly we thought of him, our attitudes showed that we did not truly value Tai Ming's current strength.

This disregard stirred an intense unwillingness to accept defeat from the countless Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals within Tai Ming.

For the first time, Tai Ming developed the thought that he could not afford to lose.

In the past, he might have felt honored by our regard, but now, neither we nor he himself were willing to lose to the other.

Then let me see whether your obsession can surpass my limits!

Having made up his mind, Tai Ming mobilized the other eight powers of the Nine Transformations of Ghost Dao Origin.

A terrifying scene appeared. Cracks spread across his Divine Body like cracks in porcelain.

In an instant, his strength surged to the Thirty Layers of Grand Unity Dao Realm, even touching the threshold of the Primordial Era Supreme Experts.

Not enough! He drew strength from the wandering You Hun, allowing those people who had been treated like weeds to feel their own power.

At that moment, the entire Primordial Wilderness was influenced by his will. A river of Negative Energy formed from countless dead souls and You Hun emerged, connecting the ancient past, present, and future, and piercing through the Myriad Worlds.

His body grew increasingly shattered, yet his strength continued to rise. It broke through the bottleneck and charged toward an unknown realm.

He only needed to complete his revenge within three breaths.

His goal was not to defeat us completely, but to let us experience the revenge of the dead.

Everything around them seemed to freeze. Then, only a shattered Divine Body belonging to Luohu remained.

At that moment, Luohu let out a strange laugh. "Truly astonishing!"

Tai Ming broke through the limits of the Primordial Wilderness, shaking the Land of the Far West, while the aftershocks swept across the world.

Luohu and the other Supreme Beings witnessed this scene personally.

With a wave of Tai Ming's hand, the Annihilate Demon Path and White Tiger were destroyed. With two breaths, he shattered space, leaving only a few top experts behind.

Beneath his palm, the Nameless Ascetic Monk and White Tiger Divine Venerable shattered, while Divine Lord Jian Bing was also struck heavily.

Relying on the World-Ending Black Lotus, Luohu barely resisted, but he too was injured.

Tai Ming's body finally exploded, leaving behind only the Primordial Chaos Ghost Dao Ancestral Qi.

Luohu tried to seize it, but it was carried away and vanished by the Heart of the Earthly Path.

Afterward, a sacred aura appeared, but it was already too late.

The great battle in the Primordial Wilderness came to an end.

The Ghost Dao rose alongside the momentum of the dead souls, while the schemes of the Demonic Dao, Buddhist Dao, and White Tiger factions all fell through.

Tai Ming's name shook the Primordial Wilderness!

After the battle, the aftershocks in the Land of the Far West had yet to settle.

Luohu's Demonic Body rapidly recovered. His laughter shook the heavens, but in truth, he was unharmed.

The loss to the Demonic Dao's destiny was negligible.

Luohu's Demonic Dao possessed countless methods, and he felt no backlash from his destiny.

Unlike the Nameless Ascetic Monk, who relied on the Pure Land Buddhist Dao, Luohu controlled the Demonic Dao as easily as lifting a finger.

Divine Lord Jian Bing returned to the surface from deep within the earth veins. Sighing over the changes of the era, he believed that Luohu, as the Child of Destiny, was extraordinary, and that perhaps he would have to regard him as a fellow Daoist in the future.

Compared with Luohu, he felt that he had already fallen behind, like a remnant of the Old Era.

After their figures recovered, White Tiger Divine Venerable became furious with Luohu. He felt deeply humiliated because Luohu had once controlled him and forced him to call Luohu his master.

The flames of his anger nearly became tangible. Although he wanted to seek revenge against Luohu, considering the previous lesson and his fear of Luohu, he chose to endure it.

As for the Nameless Ascetic Monk, the destruction of the Pure Land Buddhist Dao had damaged his Buddha Heart, leaving him listless.

The Four Great Powers of the Western Land gathered once again, but this time they did not fight. They had all lost this great battle and become stepping stones for others.

Divine Lord Jian Bing led White Tiger Divine Venerable out of the struggle for the Western Land. Although they still possessed deep foundations, their injuries were severe, and they needed a long time to recover.

The Nameless Ascetic Monk was in an even worse state. Even his lair had been destroyed, so he decided to seal off Mount Sumeru and reorganize the Buddhist Principles. He would not appear in the Primordial Wilderness for a long time.

After the battle for the Western Land ended, Luohu remained there alone. Sometimes he was overbearing, and sometimes he was deeply calculating, making it difficult to tell which was the real him.

This battle had a profound impact on the entire Primordial Wilderness. The forces in other regions sensed the Destiny from the Void and dispersed the destiny they had previously held tightly throughout the Primordial Wilderness.

The Primordial Wilderness had once been as silent as stagnant water because it had been divided among the various factions. Now, however, waves began to rise once more.

The strongest region was the East, where the Heavenly Dao Lineage and the Dragon Clan stood supreme.

This was also the place with the most Primordial Grand Unity experts, hiding countless great figures.

The Heavenly Dao Lineage and the Dragon Clan acted cautiously, daring not to launch wars as recklessly as Luohu had in the West.

As destiny shifted, the Heavenly Dao Lineage announced that it would emerge once again, establish the Heavenly Court, select Divine Generals, and protect those loyal to it.

The Dragon Clan, meanwhile, promoted the ideal that Everyone as Dragons, delegated power to cultivate affiliated forces, and opened the Path of Dragon Transformation, giving all living beings a chance to defy heaven and change their fate.

In the South, the ancient Phoenix Race announced that it would expand its branches and open the Nirvana Pool. Any living being could become a member of the Phoenix Race through nirvana, and the Nirvana Pool could even allow living beings to return to their innate state.

The Southern Land concealed many ancient existences. Although mysterious powers lurked there, they seemed to have no intention of emerging.

In addition, the Five Directions Human Race announced its official entry into the Primordial Wilderness, displaying astonishing foundations. Five Supreme Beings at or above the Thirty Layers of Great Luo led them, determined to spread the radiance of the Human Dao throughout the Primordial Wilderness.

Although the West fell silent for a time under the suppression of the will of destiny, new forces emerged like bamboo shoots after the rain, presenting a scene brimming with vitality.

As for great forces such as Farr, they made no significant moves.

The Northern Land, originally the target of the Black Tortoise Divine Race, remained desolate.

The Black Tortoise Divine Race decided to abandon the Northern Land and instead consolidate its sphere of influence in the North Sea.

They announced their withdrawal from the Primordial Continent, making their stance clear.

Compared with the Dragon and Phoenix Clans, the Black Tortoise Divine Race had no intention of absorbing external forces.

As long as Divine Lord Xuanwu Zhiming remained in power, they would always be one of the Five Directions Divine Races.

However, a force quietly rose in the North Sea. It was known as the North Nether Hun Kun Old Ancestor, and it occupied the most terrifying Abyss in the North Nether.

Although the two sides had yet to erupt into direct conflict, their latent competition foretold that a clash in the future was unavoidable.

With the withdrawal of the Black Tortoise Divine Race, many races appeared in the Northern Land, together forming a scene of Myriad Races Flourishing.

The races were divided according to their levels of strength. Those with Grand Unity Venerable Gods as their foundation were First-Class Great Races, those with Grand Unity Venerable Gods were Second-Rate Race Groups, and those with Immortal Venerable Gods were Third-Rate Race Groups.

Without the suppression of the Five Directions Divine Races, these groups began to emerge one after another.

Many changes also took place in the center of the Primordial Continent—the Buzhou Mountain Range.

The Qilin Divine Race announced that it would establish an entirely new system of forces. They welcomed the participation of all factions and pioneered the Destiny Imperial Dynasty System.

This system allowed all factions to develop independently, but they had to revere the status of the Qilin Race's Destiny Divine Beast and obey its central principles.

In this way, the destiny of the Qilin Divine Race could be entrusted to the various imperial dynasties.

At the same time, because the lords of the imperial dynasties possessed tremendous freedom, this system also attracted the attention of many Innate Divine Beings who did not wish to be bound.

For this reason, the Qilin Divine Race's reform became the focus of attention.

By comparison, the Divine Court, which had originally been located in the Buzhou Mountain Range, gradually weakened following the withdrawal of the Five Directions Divine Races.

Although the Divine Court announced that it would open its foundations and select Divine Generals, the news did not cause much of a stir within the Primordial Continent.

During the Primordial Era, the Divine Court had once been glorious. But times had changed, and no one was willing to be suppressed by it any longer.

"The Divine Court still clings to the old order. It lost its glory long ago!"

Even Cang Li Shi of the Heavenly Dao Lineage, who had once established the Divine Path Divine Court, had given up on it.

There was even less need to mention the other forces.

Rather than join the Divine Court, it was better to join the Heavenly Dao Lineage.

Now, the Heavenly Dao Lineage intended to establish a Heavenly Court in the Nine Heavens Realm, and its power had already become a colossus of the Primordial Wilderness.

Aside from these forces, another could not be ignored—the Yellow Old Lord, transformed from the True Spirit of Buzhou Mountain.

He was the Guardian of the Dao of the Earthly Dao Lineage.

Tai Ming's disturbance in the Western Land had exposed the origins of the Earthly Dao Lineage.

With a new-generation expert like Tai Ming, the Yellow Old Lord naturally ought to support him.

Yet he remained as still as a virgin, leaving people puzzled.

The silence of the Earthly Dao Lineage attracted the attention of all sides of the Primordial Wilderness.

What exactly was the reason?

Everything had begun with Tai Ming's disappearance.

After Tai Ming displayed his divine might in the Land of the Far West and defeated the Supreme Beings of all sides, his situation became rather subtle.

It was not that someone had harmed him, but that he had expended too much strength.

Although his Ancestral Qi body was indestructible and his Dao Body could be reconstructed with ease, the power of the Ghost Dao Origin had been severely depleted.

The Ghost Gods sleeping within the Netherworld Ghost Seal could not recover immediately, and Tai Ming himself also needed a long time to recuperate.

Therefore, the Heart of the Earthly Path could not foresee when Tai Ming would awaken.

If his recovery took too long, he might miss the flourishing age of the Primordial Wilderness.

Thus, the Heart of the Earthly Path sought help from the only remaining Guardian of the Dao of the Earthly Dao Lineage—the Innate Divine Being transformed from the True Spirit of Buzhou Mountain, the Yellow Old Lord among the Five Old Lords of the former Divine Court.

Only he could help Tai Ming recover without affecting his recuperation.

A mysterious fluctuation rang out.

The Yellow Old Lord was brought into a strange Mysterious Space at astonishing speed, so fast that even a Grand Unity Venerable God could initially disregard the restrictions of space and time in the Primordial Wilderness.

As the True Spirit of Buzhou Mountain, the ancestor of the Primordial Earth Veins, the Yellow Old Lord possessed unmatched mobility across the Primordial Land. He could even tread across every corner in one ten-thousandth of an instant.

More terrifyingly, he also controlled part of Buzhou Mountain's power. His pressure was enough to leave ordinary Grand Unity Venerable Gods unable to resist, making the terror of his strength unimaginable.

Apart from those he had once guided, such as Cang Li Shi, no one else dared provoke him. Even Earthly Emperor Yue Jianshi and Jiu Tou Shi respected the Yellow Old Lord greatly.

The Mysterious Space was filled with dense Chaos Spiritual Qi. A strange Dao Field floated at the core of the space.

Around the Dao Field, the Chaos Spiritual Qi had liquefied, and there were no traces of any other innate or postnatal Great Dao, as though even the Three Thousand Great Daos could not approach this space.

The Heart of the Earthly Path seemed very familiar with this space and brought Tai Ming into the Dao Field.

After entering the Dao Field, they discovered that it resembled an infinite great world, even larger than the Primordial Wilderness.

Countless "Jade Pillars" that reached the heavens and pierced the earth stood condensed around them.

They were actually the materialized Three Thousand Great Dao Laws.

Upon sensing the power of these laws, the Netherworld Ghost Seal on Tai Ming's body involuntarily emerged. Within the Netherworld Great Thousand World it nurtured, the Three Thousand Great Dao's Origin Dao Qi Seeds began to grow slowly, and his recovery speed visibly increased.

The dim Nine Origin Divine Rings once again radiated light, and this sight allowed the Heart of the Earthly Path to relax.

Its gaze turned toward a blurry figure that had appeared at the center of the Jade Pillars of the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws. A sacred figure stood there, hazy and mysterious.

Perhaps the other party had existed there from the beginning.

It was an indescribable sensation. The other party's exact form could not be depicted, and after one glance, that existence seemed to vanish from one's mind.

The Heart of the Earthly Path saluted the figure. "Greetings, Senior Yellow Old Lord!"

The name Yellow Old Lord represented the dignity and weight of the entire Primordial Wilderness, like Buzhou Mountain itself.

At that moment, a gaze slowly descended.

"So it is the little fellow beside Yue Jianshi. It seems the agreement I made with him in the past is finally about to be fulfilled."

The other party spoke, seemingly asking, "Is this the person he chose?"

The response of the Heart of the Earthly Path revealed the special relationship between the Yellow Old Lord and Yue Jianshi.

Although the Yellow Old Lord was the Guardian of the Dao of the Earthly Dao Lineage, his existence was not wholly devoted to it.