Dao Brother, It's a Misunderstanding!

The Black and White Divine Demon lovingly stroked the black-and-white armor on his body.

Two cracks had already appeared on the once flawless armor.

This was the outward manifestation of the damage suffered by the Yin and Yang Qi.

The Yin and Yang Qi was transformed from his origin, innate by nature and incomparably precious.

It was precisely by relying on this Innate Yin and Yang Qi that he had cultivated all the way to become a Celestial Divine Demon, only one step away from entering the True One Realm.

Thus, he normally treasured this Innate Yin and Yang Qi beyond measure.

Yet now, because of Zhou Yuan, the two currents of Qi had been damaged.

How could the Black and White Divine Demon not be furious?

"Damn that Pure Clarity. Even after turning to ash in extinction, he still had to cause trouble."

After speaking, he seemed to suddenly recall something.

His eyes flew wide open, his face filled with disbelief.

"Myriad Bamboo Mountain is Pure Clarity's Daoist grounds and was long since refined by him. If Pure Clarity had fallen, Myriad Bamboo Mountain would naturally have shown signs of upheaval."

Yet Myriad Bamboo Mountain was utterly calm at this moment, without the slightest change.

What did that mean?

Pure Clarity had not fallen at all!

The Black and White Divine Demon stood there blankly, with only one thought remaining in his mind.

If the one who had just died was not Pure Clarity, then where was the real Pure Clarity?

The Black and White Divine Demon felt that he had fallen into a colossal conspiracy. Thinking back on past events, he could not help but shudder inwardly.

Black-and-white escape light flickered beneath his feet as he immediately tried to flee.

But within the bamboo sea that reached the heavens beneath his feet, the Four Symbols and Five Elements were evolving.

Azure light filled the sky, blue mist spread everywhere, and golden flowers bloomed in clusters. In an instant, the Black and White Divine Demon and Golden Light Venerate were swept up by the azure light and drawn into the great formation.

When they opened their eyes again and saw the scene before them, even these two Celestial Divine Demons could not help but feel terrified.

Azure light streamed throughout the formation, but there was not the slightest trace of peace. Bamboo leaves glinted with biting cold light, and bloody hues appeared from time to time.

The formation was arranged according to the Three Powers. Eighteen bamboo swords stood on each side, their sword Qi shattering the void. With their auras locked onto them, the hairs on both men's bodies stood on end, and a chill ran down their backs.

"Dao brother, it's a misunderstanding!"

"Dao brother Pure Clarity, please spare our lives for the sake of our friendship of hundreds of thousands of years."

Upon learning that Pure Clarity had feigned his death, the Black and White Divine Demon was already terrified.

Now that he had witnessed this mysterious sword formation, Great Terror descended upon him, and he could no longer summon even the thought of resistance.

A dignified Celestial Divine Demon had been frightened out of his wits and began begging for mercy.

Yet there was no response from the void.

The next moment.

Countless streams of sword Qi tore through the void and charged toward the two Divine Demons.

Amid destruction and slaughter, as sword Qi crisscrossed the air, the battered Divine Demon bodies became even more drenched in blood.

Outside the formation, Zhou Yuan stood high in the sky. He held a nine-section green bamboo staff in his hand, adorned with small azure flowers that radiated an air of purity and freedom from worry.

"It truly is a Divine Demon Dao Body. This sword formation will have a hard time taking the lives of these two."

But his original intention had merely been to use the sword formation to pressure these two Celestial Divine Demons further and wear them down some more.

Thus, he was not disappointed.

Zhou Yuan stood in the void and waited for fifteen years.

Rumble!

The earth veins trembled.

The great formation opened wide.

Two blood-soaked figures appeared in the void.

Before the Black and White Divine Demon and Golden Light Venerate could feel any joy at escaping the formation, a voice plunged them into an icy world. It felt as though the blood throughout their bodies had frozen solid, the cold piercing them to the bone.

"This humble Daoist, Taiyuan, greets you both, fellow Daoists."

They stiffly turned around and saw the supposedly dead Pure Clarity smiling at them, dressed in green robes and wearing a bamboo crown, as graceful and unrestrained as the moon after rain.

"Y-you-you..."

"Pure Clarity."

How could he be completely uninjured?

The Black and White Divine Demon and Golden Light Venerate were going mad inside.

They had personally inflicted the wounds Pure Clarity suffered from the Innate Bing Fire Divine Fiend.

They had also personally experienced the force of the explosion fifteen years ago.

Even if Pure Clarity had another method of dying in another's stead.

How could he possibly be entirely uninjured?

Zhou Yuan shook his head.

"This humble Daoist is not Pure Clarity, but Daoist Taiyuan."

"Pure Clarity has already perished."

"This humble Daoist will now send you two to accompany him."

Having said that, Zhou Yuan did not wait for the two Divine Demons to react.

The bamboo staff in his hand emitted streams of spiritual light that could seal the eight consciousnesses and five senses.

The Black and White Divine Demon and Golden Light Venerate were already severely injured and now dazed. How could they withstand this pure divine light? In an instant, their bodies were restrained.

The Pure Bamboo staff cut through the void and struck the heads of the two Divine Demons directly.

In an instant, their enormous Divine Demon Dao Bodies were shattered, and the last traces of vitality swiftly dispersed.

"You..."

The Black and White Divine Demon still wanted to say something.

But in the next moment, his remaining vitality completely vanished. The body of this Innate Being gradually transformed, becoming a black-and-white bear before long, with Innate Yin and Yang Qi coiling around its surface.

The other being transformed into an enormous Golden Peng, each golden feather gleaming with Geng Metal Qi, cold and murderous.

Zhou Yuan's gaze flickered. With a gentle wave of his bamboo staff, he collected the two corpses into the inner heaven within his body.

Even though he had sacrificed a puppet made from top-grade materials, it was worth it to eliminate these two hidden threats.

Besides, these two Celestial Divine Demons had operated in Withered Flourishing Mountain for a long time. Even he coveted the treasures stored in their cave abode.

With that thought, Zhou Yuan pointed a finger and killed the mount that had betrayed its master.

Then his entire body transformed into a streak of escape light and swiftly flew toward Withered Flourishing Mountain.

Ten years later.

Withered Flourishing Mountain was destroyed overnight.

Some beings saw a streak of azure escape light return to Myriad Bamboo Mountain.

From then on, Old Ancestor Pure of Myriad Bamboo Mountain reigned supreme over eighty million miles of territory.

Myriad Bamboo Mountain cave abode.

Zhou Yuan looked at the various treasures before him with delight written all over his face.

No wonder they said murder and arson brought golden belts, while bridge-building and road-paving left no corpses behind.

The two Celestial Divine Demons had scoured the mountains and rivers across eighty million miles for every kind of treasure, only for them to benefit him now.

Millennium spirit ganoderma and ten-thousand-year purple ginseng—rare treasures that would make cultivators of later generations fight like mad the moment they appeared—were the most ordinary items among them.

After sorting and categorizing all the treasures.

Only several Innate Spiritual Objects remained floating in the void of the cave abode.

One of them was naturally the Innate Yin and Yang Qi he had plotted to obtain from the Black and White Divine Demon this time.

These two currents of Qi belonged to the innate realm and held the mysteries of life and death within the Two Modes.

If he could refine this Yin and Yang Qi, he would certainly cultivate a Greater Divine Ability.

The Black and White Divine Demon had come from the wilds, allowing a pearl to gather dust.

Aside from the Innate Yin and Yang Qi, the Fang Tian Hua Ji Halberd wielded by Golden Light Venerate was also formed from Innate Geng Metal Qi.

Geng Metal Qi was incomparably sharp and governed slaughter and destruction. He planned to refine it into the Nine-Section Bamboo Staff to strengthen its killing power.

"This bamboo is an unexpected delight."

The spiritual bamboo before him glimmered with golden light, lightning flashing around it.

An eternal intent of averting evil and slaying demons emanated from it.

It was precisely a low-grade Innate Spiritual Bamboo: Evil-Averting Golden Bamboo.

"Innate Spiritual Bamboo shares the same root and origin. If my true body absorbs the origin of the Evil-Averting Golden Bamboo, it may be able to advance further."

Zhou Yuan thought to himself.

He immediately grasped the Evil-Averting Golden Bamboo.

He refined it in an instant.