Witch and Demon War

Taiyi lovingly held the small black flag that had appeared in his hand.

Whether he could integrate the path of the Law of Five Elements and attain the Great Dao would depend on whether this little flag was powerful enough.

The moment the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag reached his hands, Taiyi did not hesitate and immediately began refining it.

With a thought, the small black flag in his hand was swept into his Golden Crow primordial spirit by his mana. The power of the Solar Truefire Law scorched the layers of Innate Restrictions densely spread across it, invisible to the naked eye.

As the years passed, layer after layer of Innate Divine Restrictions were unraveled by Taiyi under the continuous refinement of the Solar Truefire Law's power.

The streams of Water Law origin power hidden at the very core of the Northern Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag also appeared before Taiyi. His primordial spirit recorded them and imprinted them with his own mark.

In an instant, vast, surging insights into the origin of the Law of Water emerged one after another in his mind, where Taiyi comprehended them.

Taiyi's progress in comprehending the Great Dao of the Law of Water also slowly yet steadily advanced toward one hundred percent.

Ten percent.

Twenty percent.

Twenty-eight percent.

In the end, two thousand years passed. Once Taiyi had completely refined the Northern Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, his comprehension of the Law of Water had reached twenty-eight percent.

Without the aid of a spiritual treasure like the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, Taiyi's progress in comprehending the Great Dao of the Law of Water slowed.

However, Taiyi did not stop cultivating and gaining insights.

Instead, while the Water Law origin principles he had comprehended had yet to be fully digested, he continued to contemplate the Law of Water.

With the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag's Water Law origin principles assisting him, Taiyi could clearly sense that the power of the Law of Water throughout the Primordial World had become noticeably more intimate with him.

Or rather, it had become easier for him to comprehend it.

Once Taiyi had completely digested and fused the final trace of Water Law origin from the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, the assistance it provided was gone as well.

What followed would be painstaking work, bit by bit.

Unless Taiyi obtained another Innate Spiritual Treasure containing the origin of the Law of Water.

By now, Taiyi had successfully comprehended the Law of Earth, the Law of Water, and the Great Dao of the Law of Fire to which his Solar Truefire belonged.

Of the Innate Five Elements Law Great Dao, Taiyi had already comprehended three.

Have to say, in the current Primordial Wilderness, perhaps no one had mastered more Great Dao laws than Taiyi.

While Taiyi remained peacefully in the Sun Palace, wholeheartedly refining the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag and comprehending the Great Dao of the Law of Water,

the Witch Clan, having formally established the Witch Court and intending to govern the Primordial Wilderness in Pangu the Creator God's stead, spread across the Primordial Continent like a plague.

Across the entire Primordial Continent, apart from the barren Western Continent, the distant Four Seas and North Sea, and the Primordial Starry Sky beyond the Witch Clan's control, nearly all land had been occupied by the Witch Clan.

Only the blessed grotto-heavens of certain Primordial Powerhouses had barely been preserved.

This was because the Twelve Ancestral Witches feared provoking too great a backlash and drawing a joint assault from everyone, so they had not eliminated them.

Other than that, every race and faction on the Primordial Continent had been absorbed into their dominion.

It could be said that this was the Witch Clan's peak.

Yet as the Witch Clan's power blazed at its height, many Primordial Powerhouses also found their anger surging.

The Witch Clan had gone too far, essentially sealing off all their room to survive.

This led most Primordial Powerhouses to prepare to lodge a joint protest and overthrow the Witch Court's rule.

After the Witch Court had completely taken control of the Primordial Continent, the Twelve Ancestral Witches were brimming with pride and felt it necessary to let those Purple Cloud Guest powerhouses come witness their might.

It would also let them show off properly before their former "classmates."

Look at us. Though we Twelve Ancestral Witches were not good at "studying" and dropped out halfway through, we were still awesome!

You Purple Cloud Guests were still painstakingly cultivating in seclusion, while we Ancestral Witches?

We had already carved out a vast realm for ourselves!

The entire Primordial Continent belonged to our Witch Court!

Even the blessed grotto-heavens you lived in now were only left to you because we were showing some consideration for our old classmates.

Otherwise, we would have taken them back long ago!

We would even make you pay rent!

Thus,

on this day, the Twelve Ancestral Witches had their subordinate Witch Clan members widely distribute invitations to the various Primordial Powerhouses, inviting them to attend the grand celebration of the Witch Court's formal rule over the Primordial Wilderness.

The Purple Cloud Guests had no choice. Faced with the Witch Court's oppressive might, they could only emerge from seclusion and head to Buzhou Mountain to attend the Witch Court's grand ceremony.

Kunlun Mountain.

The Three Pure Ones looked at the invitation lying quietly before them, their expressions incomparably grim.

Since when had the Twelve Ancestral Witches been able to lord it over the Three Pure Ones?

They, the Three Pure Ones, were the true orthodox descendants of Pangu!

"Big Brother, are we going or not?"

Yuanshi cautiously glanced at his eldest brother Laozi's dark face before asking.

"Go! Of course we Three Pure Ones are going!"

"Let us have a good look at the Twelve Ancestral Witches' majesty!"

Laozi gritted his teeth and spoke resentfully.

The other side had actually stolen the Three Pure Ones' title as Pangu's orthodox descendants and rampaged across the Primordial Wilderness. Laozi, who regarded himself as Pangu's direct successor, could not accept this.

Phoenix Perch Mountain.

Fuxi and Nüwa had likewise received invitations from the Ancestral Witches.

The two sides had originally been neighbors.

Moreover, Nüwa was on good terms with Xuanming and Houtu, two of the Ancestral Witches. Naturally, they had to show their support.

Cultivation was not merely about secluded training and fighting. It was also about social connections.

Beyond them, virtually every Purple Cloud Guest who received an invitation came.

Have to say, the Witch Court's prestige at this time was truly unmatched.

On the day the Witch Court's grand ceremony arrived, the entire Buzhou Mountain was decorated by the Witch Clan in an atmosphere of immense festivity.

It was also extravagantly luxurious.

The display was truly grand.

Mountain delicacies, sea delicacies, rare treasures, Dragon Liver and Phoenix Marrow—they had arranged everything.

Even the well-traveled Purple Cloud Guests clicked their tongues in amazement, secretly shocked.

Yet halfway through the grand ceremony, a Great Peng that blotted out the sky suddenly streaked across the heavens.

The hurricane it stirred up directly blew the flowing banquet spread across all of Buzhou Mountain into complete disarray, leaving a mess everywhere.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches instantly flew into a rage and charged after it.

However, that Great Peng seemed to have expected this. It ignored them and flew straight toward the North Sea.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches could not catch up and could only trail behind, choking on dust.

But they refused to give up.

At last, the Twelve Ancestral Witches chased it to the shores of the North Sea.

The Great Peng stopped as well.

With a shake of its body, it transformed into a middle-aged Daoist with a hooked nose.

It was none other than Kunpeng Ancestor.

"Haha, Twelve Ancestral Witches, you brutes who have strength but no brains dare call yourselves Pangu's orthodox descendants and claim to govern the Primordial Wilderness?"

"Who gave you the nerve?"

The Twelve Ancestral Witches were enraged. Without wasting words, they prepared to charge into the North Sea and kill him.

Yet at that moment, a massive blood giant that stretched from heaven to earth suddenly rose from the North Sea.

It was Nether River Ancestor, who had long been lying in ambush there.

As fellow neighbors of the North Sea, Kunpeng Ancestor and Nether River Ancestor naturally had a decent relationship.

Moreover, both were dissatisfied with the Witch Court's occupation of the entire Primordial Continent. Thus, they had secretly plotted to gather the Primordial Wilderness beings excluded by the Witch Court, establish the Demon Court, and oppose the Witch Court on equal footing.

Kunpeng Ancestor had deliberately caused trouble on the day of the Witch Court's grand ceremony precisely to draw out the Twelve Ancestral Witches and then encircle and kill them at a chosen location.

They had prepared for this day for over a thousand years.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches merely watched coldly as Demon Clan powerhouses emerged one after another from all around.