Chapter 3

Shen Ni, the central figure who sensed all this, received unprecedented attention—attention not even a Top-grade Innate Divine Being had ever received.

The next moment, as though they had sensed Shen Ni's response, the figures of the Ancient Three Sovereigns seemed to project forth from both past and future.

They were peerless in nobility, unmatched in dominance, embracing all things. Countless laws revolved around them, as though they were the source of everything in this world.

The entire Primordial World fell silent. Then, all the supreme Innate Divine Beings who had embarked upon the Path of Grand Unity turned their gazes toward them and bowed. "We pay tribute to the Ancient Three Sovereigns!"

It was precisely their existence that had laid the foundation for the flourishing Primordial World of today.

Since Pangu God's Creation of Heaven and Earth, all things had come into being.

When Heaven and Earth were still without order, the Ancient Three Sovereigns arose in response to fate and established the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos.

In the Archaic Era, Cang Li Shi was born into the world. He drove away divine beasts, slew fierce beasts, comprehended the Path of the Divine atop Buzhou Mountain, founded the Path of the Divine, opened the Realm of the Nine Heavens, and laid the foundation for the Divine Race to endure through countless ages. He became the Divine Race's progenitor, unifier, and founding pillar.

Sensing the imperfections of the Primordial World, Cang Li Shi resolved to sort out its laws. Thus, he established the Heavenly Dao and clearly defined good and evil, beauty and ugliness.

The Heavenly Dao had been created by Cang Li Shi to regulate the Primordial World; it was the culmination of the Primordial World's laws.

After Cang Li Shi established the Heavenly Dao, the laws of the Primordial World were set in order, and order itself was initially established.

Cang Li Shi believed the opportunity had arrived and decided to merge himself with the Heavenly Dao in order to attain the Hunyuan Realm.

Yet the Heavenly Dao, as the condensed embodiment of laws, was so vast and profound that it defied imagination. Though Cang Li Shi's achievements rivaled Creation itself, he ultimately failed to merge with the Dao. Cang Li Shi vanished, leaving behind only the mysterious Great Luo Heaven.

With Cang Li Shi's disappearance, that era came to an end, and flaws appeared within the Heavenly Dao.

The Primordial World also descended into chaos because of his disappearance, as the Gods warred among themselves.

At that time, Earthly Emperor Yue Jianshi arose upon the land in response to fate.

Yue Jianshi bore the mission of reshaping the lands of the Primordial World. He organized the Dragon Veins and stabilized the earth veins.

He derived the principles of the earth, established the Changes of the Four Seasons, divided mountains, rivers, and great marshes, opened the Netherworld Realm, and founded the Lineage of Ghosts and Gods.

To prevent the earth veins from falling into chaos again, Yue Jianshi opened the Realm of Nine Nether, transformed himself into the Earthly Dao, and eternally suppressed the Primordial World.

After Yue Jianshi merged with the Earthly Dao, the lands of the Primordial World regained stability, and the Gods rejoiced.

But after the Divine Race lost its leader, it began to wage war against itself.

In the struggle for the position of emperor, the conflict between Cang Li Shi's lineage and the Earth Emperor's Lineage was the fiercest.

At that time, Jiu Tou Shi emerged. Atop Buzhou Mountain, he defeated formidable opponents such as Black Emperor Ancestral Dragon, Yellow Emperor Ancestral Qilin, and White Emperor Rahu, conquering the entire Divine Race.

During Jiu Tou Shi's reign, he crushed the resisting factions and reorganized the Divine Race's order.

He established the Five Directions Divine Race, using the Five Elements to divide their spheres of influence, and unified the Divine Race and the Ten Thousand Races.

At the same time, to consolidate his rule, he selected powerful Innate Divine Beings across the lands of the Primordial World and established leaders such as the Five Directions Five Emperors and the Five Old Lords. Among them, Black Emperor Ao Cang was the strongest, commanding the Dragon Clan of all heavens and standing head and shoulders above the other five **. Red Emperor Ancestral Phoenix of another direction commanded the boundless Phoenix Clan and dwelled atop a mysterious, noble volcano.

White Emperor Rahu was solitary and proud, **, with a singular temperament and extraordinary strength. He dwelled in the Land of the Far West, and his swordsmanship had entered the realm of transcendence, shaking Heaven and Earth!

Green Emperor Yang Mei was an ancient deity, unfathomable and mysterious in his movements, often hiding away from the world.

Yellow Emperor Ancestral Qilin was proficient in the arts of the Five Elements and wielded the divine abilities of the Five Virtues. Even Human Emperor Jiu Tou Shi had praised him repeatedly in those days.

Beyond the Five Directions Divine Emperors, the Five Old Lords also shook the Primordial World with their might.

Among them, Yellow Old Lord resided atop Buzhou Mountain and was also known as the God of Buzhou Mountain. He was a pure-blooded Innate Divine Being of the Primordial World.

Another, Dao Lord Hongjun, guarded Yujing Mountain. He called himself the ancestor of the Immortal Dao and had long harbored a deep enmity with White Emperor Rahu.

The Ascetic Monk atop Western Mount Sumeru was mysterious and unfathomable. His methods were exceedingly mysterious, making the Gods wary of him.

Lastly, Yin Yang Old Ancestor and Qian Kun Daoist were reincarnations of Chaos Demon Gods. Wielding the Innate Supreme Treasures, the Taiji Diagram and the Qiankun Cauldron, their strength was extraordinary.

As time flowed into the end of the Archaic Era, just as Human Emperor Jiu Tou Shi entered seclusion to seek a breakthrough, conflict erupted among the Divine Race once more.

At the time, the Gods fought fiercely, with countless dead and wounded.

In the end, though the Human Emperor awoke, he could not reverse the declining tide. He could only join forces with the Five Emperors and Five Old Lords to save the Primordial World, which stood on the brink of collapse.

Recognizing that the calamity of the Gods' conflict stemmed from its source, Jiu Tou Shi created the Five-Colored Human Race—the Golden Human Race—and developed the method of Divine Path Incense Wish Power.

During Jiu Tou Shi's time, he stabilized the Primordial World, determined the Five Elements, divided the four poles, created the Human Race, and established the Human Dao.

From then on, All Beings had order.

The Divine Race's might in the Primordial World reached an unprecedented peak.

Apart from the Dao Openers and the Three Sovereigns, nearly the entire Primordial World lay under the Divine Race's rule.

Among them was none other than Beast Emperor Shen Ni! Beast Emperor Shen Ni had come into existence before all Innate Divine Beings, and even before the Ancient Three Sovereigns.

When Pangu God opened the Primordial World, Beast Emperor Shen Ni already existed, witnessing the savage wilderness of the Primordial World.

Thereafter, Shen Ni became the overlord of the Fierce Beast Clan and was revered as the Beast Emperor. Countless first-generation Innate Divine Beings trembled beneath his might.

Yet at the height of his power, he encountered an extraordinarily gifted being—Cang Li Shi.

Cang Li Shi's appearance was like effortlessly crossing the realm Shen Ni had only reached after untold hardships.

Though Shen Ni challenged him with all his might, he could never hope to match him.

In every clash, aside from their first draw, Shen Ni could no longer even see Cang Li Shi's back.

Cang Li Shi treated All Beings equally. Even toward the Fierce Beast Clan, he harbored no prejudice, and this filled Shen Ni with profound admiration.

Though Shen Ni looked down upon all heroes, Cang Li Shi alone could make him lower his head.

This reached its peak at the moment Cang Li Shi established his Dao.

Shen Ni swore that he would surely catch up to Cang Li Shi.

Afterward, Shen Ni chose a path different from that of the Fierce Beast Clan in the past.

When Yue Jianshi rose to prominence, Shen Ni was already capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the former Cang Li Shi.

Although the Fierce Beast Clan under his command took advantage of the situation to suppress the Innate Divine Beings, Shen Ni himself did not seize the opening to strike.

After Yue Jianshi reached the summit, he battled Shen Ni in the chaos, and the outcome remained unknown.

Only the two of them knew the truth of their struggle.

Shen Ni entered seclusion and did not emerge, while Yue Jianshi began refining his own path of the Earthly Dao.

When Yue Jianshi followed Cang Li Shi's path and opened up the Earthly Dao, Shen Ni once again entered seclusion, leaving behind only his assessment of Yue Jianshi.

It was not until Human Emperor Jiu Tou Shi reached the summit that he took the initiative to challenge this powerful and mysterious Beast Emperor.

It could be said that Shen Ni himself was an ancient history of the era of the Ancient Three Sovereigns.

Given the strength of his power, if he had wished, he could have once more ruled all the Myriad Races of the Primordial Era after Cang Li Shi disappeared.

Yet Shen Ni disdained to do something that Cang Li Shi had already accomplished.

He firmly believed that he could forge a path even more powerful than Cang Li Shi's.

For this reason, Shen Ni specifically established a second emperor within the Fierce Beast Clan to govern the entire clan.

As the sovereign of fierce beasts, the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation had actually seized the position of Beast Emperor from Shen Ni's hands, demonstrating his extraordinary strength.

As time flowed on, the era of the Ancient Three Sovereigns had long since passed, yet Shen Ni had reached a realm beyond that of the former Ancient Three Sovereigns.

At this moment, Shen Ni opened an entirely new path, linking it to the former domain of the Chaos Demon Gods and allowing Primordial Beings to regain the opportunities of the Chaos Demon Gods.

Even the Ancient Three Sovereigns had never accomplished such a feat.

As time passed and the stars shifted, several dozen Yuan Hui went by, and Shen Ni's figure gradually vanished into the River of the Great Dao.

The projections of the Ancient Three Sovereigns also scattered like flowers reflected in a mirror and the moon in water.

The great realm of the Primordial World sensed a certain change. Blood Rain poured down in torrents, swallowing countless fierce beasts.

The surviving fierce beasts revealed Divine-Demonic Phenomena amid the Baptism.

A small number of supreme Innate Divine Beings discovered countless tributaries of worlds surging forth within the River of Destiny and Karma across endless spacetime, while the Primordial World gave rise to endless Myriad Worlds.

As endless fierce beasts vanished, the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation let out a mournful roar, grieving the loss of his companions and his right to rule in the future.

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Within the Primordial World, the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation had once led the Fierce Beast Clan to rampage unchecked through the Primordial World, his might unmatched by any.

Yet no one had anticipated that Shen Ni's actions would turn the Beast Emperor into a leader in name only, his true status becoming nothing more than a laughingstock among the Myriad Races of the Primordial Era.

Blood Rain poured from the sky, casting a heavy shadow over the hearts of the Primordial World's living beings.

What followed was news that spread throughout the Primordial World—Shen Ni had failed to prove his Dao, becoming yet another being who had failed upon the Path to Hunyuan.

After the Ancient Three Sovereigns, Shen Ni too had failed to escape this fate.

For Primordial Beings unaware of the truth, this was undoubtedly an immense shock that was difficult to accept, shaking the entire Primordial World.

Of the glorious age of old, only memories remained.

Many cultivators were filled with confusion and uncertainty. One after another, they became perplexed by this unknown path of cultivation, unable to discern where it truly led. Only powerful figures such as the Ancient Three Sovereigns and Shen Ni themselves knew the truth of the matter.

According to later records, when Primordial Chaos first began, the Three Sovereigns established their Dao and divided the ancient ages, bringing the Divine Court to the height of its splendor.

Thereafter, Shen Ni rose to power and led the fierce beasts in their rampage across the Primordial World.

Although the Age of Fierce Beasts that began from then on ultimately drew to a close, the upheaval it caused in the Primordial World did not subside.

The Ghost Clan, born from the union of heaven and earth, yin and yang, entered the description of the seventh chapter: Refining Yin into Yang, Birth from the Extreme of Death.

Though Hun Wusheng did not know Shen Ni's ultimate fate at this moment, he could sense that the extraordinary nature of this Primordial World far exceeded his imagination.

Through fragments of You Hun's memories, he glimpsed one corner of the Primordial World and felt even more deeply the might and majesty of the God Clan.

Although Shen Ni's opening of a path had left Hun Wusheng deeply stirred, he knew that before reaching a true realm, he still needed to cultivate with his feet firmly on the ground. Thus, he did not dwell on the matter for too long.

As for the impression Shen Ni had left upon Hun Wusheng, it was profoundly deep and shocking.

He had witnessed Shen Ni's journey from being the original emperor of fierce beasts to being suppressed by the God Clan, and he could not help but feel deeply moved.

Shen Ni had still survived tenaciously in this era, even leading the Fierce Beast Clan to suppress the God Clan and making it the strongest race in the Primordial World.

Yet at the height of his power, in pursuit of a higher realm, Shen Ni chose the Path to Hunyuan. At the same time, he created the World of Endless Demon Gods, leaving the Fierce Beast Clan a way out.

But what was difficult to understand was that Beast Emperor Shen Ni had chosen to leave behind the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation.

Hun Wusheng was puzzled by this. He did not know whether the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation had been abandoned.

However, such high-level matters had nothing to do with him for the time being. So long as the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation did not enter the Nether Land, all was well.

At this moment, Hun Wusheng had more important matters to explore.

Over the dozens of Yuan Hui during which Shen Ni opened the path, the Primordial Wilderness underwent tremendous changes.

The Nether Land where Hun Wusheng dwelled also changed markedly.

He discovered countless strange golden and black You Hun surrounding him, dyeing the once pitch-black Nether Land in hues of gold and black.

Their numbers perfectly matched the One Yuan of Heaven and Earth, and the aura emanating from them resembled the aura Hun Wusheng gave off when refining yin into yang.

Once the two contingents of You Hun had fully taken shape, a mysterious force gathered above the Nether Land—vast and boundless, supreme above all, sacred and sovereign.

Beneath it, Hun Wusheng felt as insignificant as an ant.

That force suddenly descended from the heavens, instantly engulfing Hun Wusheng.

Afterward, Hun Wusheng received a stream of information and learned that this was the Earthly Dao Merit of the Great Netherworld.

Previously, You Hun had merely drifted and sunk through the Nether Land, steeped in deathly stillness. Hun Wusheng's appearance, however, had brought a glimmer of life.

His Yang God Transformation had affected the Netherworld, causing the Great Netherworld to give birth to the Law of Yin-Yang Transformation and the Law of Life-Death Transformation.

Hun Wusheng's arrival infused the Great Netherworld with new vitality, letting the You Hun of the Nether Land see hope of survival and causing the will of the Netherworld to begin awakening.