Nether River Ancestor emerged from the North Sea.
The other demon race powers lying in ambush here also revealed themselves one after another.
Among them were figures like the Ten Great Demon Marshals of later generations—Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, Bai Ze, Nine-Infant Ghost Chariot, and others—all possessing late-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivation.
Nether River Ancestor and Kunpeng Ancestor had even reached the quasi-sage realm.
There were also late-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal experts from other races mixed among them.
In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred formidable figures with late-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivation had appeared near the shores of the North Sea.
"Hahaha, Twelve Ancestral Witches, weren't you supposed to be great fighters?"
"Today, we have one hundred and eight Grand Luo Golden Immortals here, plus two quasi-sages. Let's see whether your Pangu True Body can still throw its weight around!"
Kunpeng Ancestor looked at the Twelve Ancestral Witches, surrounded on all sides, and spoke with smug delight.
This scheme had been planned single-handedly by Kunpeng Ancestor.
He had also been the one to contact the Grand Luo Golden Immortals of the various races.
Now that the plan had succeeded smoothly, Kunpeng Ancestor naturally felt greatly accomplished.
If they could finish everything in this battle and completely wipe out the Twelve Ancestral Witches, then the rulers of the Primordial Continent would have to change.
Within the Sun Palace, Taiyi had just refined the Profound Origin Water Control Flag. Before he could even catch his breath, that familiar voice rang out in his mind again.
"Ding dong. It has been detected that the Witch and Demon War is about to formally erupt. At this critical moment, please make the correct choice in accordance with the Homebody Choice System." "Choice one: Leave the palace immediately, bring the supreme treasure Chaos Bell, resist the Witch Court, speak for the demon race, and become the one in charge of the Demon Court. Reward: advanced version of the Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Art." "Choice two: Leave the palace immediately, bring the supreme treasure Chaos Bell, resist the Demon Court, aid the Witch Clan, and become the Witch Court's right-hand man. Reward: Nine Revolutions Mysterious Skill." "Choice three: Aid neither side. Remain concealed on the Sun Star, stay prudent and do not venture out, diligently practice Ten Mile Slope Swordplay, and become the supreme sage of the Path of Stealth. Reward: Solar Divine Body."
Looking at the system's choices, Taiyi was dumbfounded once more.
I've already stayed hidden on the Sun Star and refused to go out. How did the first Witch and Demon War still break out?
"Could this be Hongjun Daozu's doing?"
Taiyi pondered slightly.
But Taiyi could not concern himself with that now.
In any case, leaving the palace was impossible. He would never leave the palace in this lifetime.
Only by staying hidden on the Sun Star could he live like this.
"System, I choose three."
As Taiyi made his choice once again, the corresponding reward was delivered into his hands.
But this time, the reward, the Solar Divine Body, was not a tangible item. It was an Innate Divine Ability.
As its name implied, the Solar Divine Body required one to wield the Dao of Sun Law in order to cultivate it successfully.
Once fully cultivated, the Solar Divine Body could transform one's body into a great sun, devour heaven and earth, and pierce through the Three Thousand Greater Worlds.
The Golden Crow True Body was ultimately only an evolution of the Sun Law Source. It was not a true sun.
Once the Solar Divine Body was fully cultivated, however, it could possess every characteristic, law, authority, and power of the sun.
Moreover, it would not be constrained or bound by the rules of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, existing like an independent entity.
At the same time, the Solar Divine Body could be cultivated by continuously devouring the Primordial Sun Star and incorporating it into one's Dharma body. By replacing the Primordial Sun Star with his own Solar Divine Body, Taiyi could become a unique existence and seize control of the authority of the Primordial Sun Law Dao.
That way, even if Hongjun merged with the Dao, he would be unable to do anything to Taiyi.
Destroying Taiyi would be equivalent to destroying the foundation of the Primordial Wilderness.
The Primordial Sun Star radiated across the Myriad Realms. The suns of countless realms were, in essence, incarnations or projections of the Primordial Sun Star.
If the Primordial Sun Star were destroyed, the Myriad Realms would all face destruction and collapse, entering an era of apocalyptic darkness and turmoil.
That would be the true moment of world destruction.
Under the backlash of such immense karma, even a Heavenly Dao Sage would be cast down from sainthood. Even Hongjun, after merging with the Dao, would be entangled by karma and fall into the dust.
"With this, even if I disrupt the evolution of the Primordial Wilderness's fate in the future and offend the Six Sages of the Heavens and Hongjun Daozu, I won't need to hide in the other world within the Jianmu Divine Tree."
"I can still live freely and happily in the Primordial World."
At that thought, a trace of joy appeared on Taiyi's face.
Who would willingly flee in disgrace from their homeland if they did not have to?
Yet after obtaining the method to cultivate the Solar Divine Body, Taiyi did not immediately begin cultivating this divine ability.
The truth was that fully mastering this divine ability was simply too difficult.
He had to either refine the Sun Star or comprehend every Sun Law Source before he could cultivate it to completion.
Its difficulty was no less than attaining the Dao through laws.
The difference was that this divine ability required slow, painstaking effort. As long as Taiyi remained hidden on the Sun Star and did not rashly venture out, after ten or eight yuanhui, there would come a day when he could completely devour the Sun Star's Law Source.
Furthermore, Taiyi's true form, the Three-legged Golden Crow, had itself been born from the Sun Law Source. They came from the same origin.
Refining the Sun Star and comprehending the Sun Law Source would be comparatively easy for him.
"But there's no rush. First, I'll fuse the Law of Earth from the Wu Ji Apricot Yellow Flag, the Law of Water from the Profound Origin Water Control Flag, and the Law of Fire from the Sun Law Source. I'll see whether I can fuse them into a new mutated law."
Taiyi acted as soon as the thought occurred to him, quickly immersing himself once more in cultivation and enlightenment.
And just as Taiyi made his choice, the first Witch and Demon War at the North Sea shore formally erupted.
That battle shattered the heavens and split the earth, dried up the seas, and stained the ninth heaven with the blood of countless Grand Luo Golden Immortals.
As the only two quasi-sage experts present, Nether River Ancestor and Kunpeng Ancestor were the main attackers.
Yet when the pair of top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure swords in Nether River Ancestor's hands, Yuantu and Abi, struck the Ancestral Witch True Body, it was like scratching an itch.
Nether River Ancestor's face darkened in waves at the sight.
The Innate Divine Ability Northern Darkness Ice wielded by Kunpeng Ancestor blasted onto the Ancestral Witches' bodies. Apart from slowing their movements slightly, it likewise achieved nothing.
This left the two North Sea ancestors, who were fighting the Ancestral Witches for the first time, utterly stunned.
They had never imagined that the Twelve Ancestral Witches' physical bodies would be so powerful!
They were simply absurdly strong!
Fortunately, the Twelve Ancestral Witches were not without weaknesses.
Their bodies were powerful, but their speed was a glaring flaw.
Moreover, because they possessed no primordial spirits, they could not control Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Thus, whenever they fought, they simply charged in swinging their arms.
As long as one was fast enough, one would not be hit.
Nether River Ancestor did not dare claim to be the fastest in the world, but because he was an incarnation of the Blood Sea, the instant he was attacked, he could transform into four hundred and eighty million Blood God Doppelganger clones and spread out the damage.
Nether River Ancestor boasted to the outside world: "As long as the Blood Sea does not run dry, Nether River shall not die."
Though that was somewhat exaggerated, his ability to preserve his life was no joke.
There was no need to say anything more about Kunpeng Ancestor.
Once his speed between heaven and earth unfolded, the Twelve Ancestral Witches could only glare helplessly. They could not even brush a single hair of his.
Unless they used the Pangu True Body and transformed into a giant that reached heaven and earth, only then could they easily seize Kunpeng Ancestor.
However, the Pangu True Body was not something they could form whenever they wished.
Each use consumed the power the Twelve Ancestral Witches had accumulated over hundreds or even thousands of years.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, the Twelve Ancestral Witches were unwilling to use it.
In the end, both sides of the first Witch and Demon War withdrew, and the matter ended inconclusively.
Yet this battle also made all the great powers of the Primordial Wilderness realize for the first time just how powerful the Ancestral Witches' physical bodies were.
If the Twelve Ancestral Witches' first formation of the Pangu True Body, their attack on the Immortal Court, and their extermination of Duke of the East had merely left the world awestruck by Pangu's might—
Then this battle showed everyone that the Ancestral Witches' physical bodies could withstand attacks at the level of Innate Supreme Treasures.
Such powerful bodies were simply terrifying!
The Three Pure Ones, Nüwa, Jieyin and Zhunti, and the others watched the battle from afar and all sucked in a cold breath.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches were truly so strong that they had no equals.
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