Witch Ancestor Tribe, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti

The Ancestral Shamans had not established a clan, but a host of Great Witches and Lesser Witches, led by the two top-tier Great Witches Kuafu and Da Yi, were thriving across the Primordial World Earth, calling themselves the Witch Ancestor Tribe.

When an Innate Spiritual Treasure emerged into the world, these Great Witches and Lesser Witches could not be bothered to join the commotion. But if they encountered a Spiritual Root or Spiritual Fruit that could boost their strength, they never let it slip away—outnumbering everyone with sheer witchly might.

Both Great Witches and Lesser Witches tempered their bodies with Earthly Fiend Tainted Qi. Compared to cultivating the Primordial Spirit and condensing spiritual power, body refinement demanded far more resources.

Though the Primordial World was bountiful, the Central Land and the Eastern Land were simply too crowded with Great Divine Powers. Even if Kuafu and Da Yi were no weaker than ordinary Great Divine Powers, the rest of the Great Witches and Lesser Witches could not keep up.

Thus, after scouting around, Kuafu and Da Yi decided to head to the Western Land to try their luck.

The Western Land was barren, true, but on the flip side, there were few Great Divine Powers—no competition.

Moreover, Luohu had detonated the Western Spiritual Veins, thinning the spiritual energy, but that also churned up Earthly Fiend Tainted Qi from deep within the earth's veins.

To ordinary Great Divine Powers, this was something to avoid at all costs—it could dissolve Primordial Spirit power and corrode treasures. But to Kuafu and his kind, it was the finest nourishment!

Beyond that, they could also regulate the earth veins and accumulate merit!

The West was destined to be the land of the Witch Ancestor Tribe's rise!

In truth, if no unexpected trouble had arisen, Kuafu and Da Yi's plan was sound—they could indeed use the Western Land's unique environment to strengthen the Witch Ancestor Tribe.

Only, though the Western Land had few Great Divine Powers, they did exist.

Despite the Western Land's desolation, the last remnants of spiritual energy and fortune had still nurtured two Great Divine Powers—the master and junior brothers, Zhun Ti and Jie Yin.

Daoist Zhun Ti's true form was the Bodhi Tree, one of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots, while Daoist Jie Yin had formed and been born from the Qi of Light.

Perhaps because the West was so impoverished, these two Great Divine Powers had no Companion Treasures. However, Daoist Zhun Ti used a branch from his own Bodhi Tree body, combined with seven treasures—gold, silver, crystal, giant clam shell, red pearls, agate, and more—to refine his own Treasure for Proving the Dao: the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.

As for Daoist Jie Yin, he was gathering Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, preparing to refine a Treasure for Proving the Dao of his own, named the Jie Yin Treasure Banner.

The master and junior brothers, Daoist Jie Yin and Daoist Zhun Ti, had it far too hard compared to the Great Divine Powers of the Eastern Land.

Even Shanhe Daoist, that obscure short-lived nobody, had the High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Earth Spirit Pearl as his Companion Treasure. But these two brothers had nothing—they had to build everything from scratch.

The Blessing Divine Pestle, the Six Roots Pure Bamboo, the Azure Lotus Treasure Color Banner—none of these treasures had fallen into their hands yet.

It was precisely because of this poverty that Daoist Jie Yin dragged Daoist Zhun Ti across the Western Land, searching everywhere for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Divine Iron and Immortal Gold. And that was how they ran straight into Kuafu and the others.

Following the principle of "pluck every feather that passes by, all beings have affinity," Daoist Zhun Ti secretly captured a Lesser Witch. After studying it, he was overjoyed.

He discovered that these so-called people of the Witch Ancestor Tribe had no Primordial Spirit at all—only a powerful physical body. They were the most suitable material for refining Dharma Protectors!

"The West is barren, with no treasures, but Heaven at last shows pity on my Western lands. This Witch Ancestor Tribe is destined to have affinity with the West!"

Daoist Zhun Ti, gaunt and sallow, laughed heartily.

In the days to come, the Western Teachings and the Buddhist Sect during the Journey to the West Calamity would be most skilled at converting the strong and refining Dharma Protector Vajras.

As for conversion, no need to elaborate—once the Jie Sect collapsed, the Western Teachings feasted directly.

And as for refining Dharma Protector Vajras...

Within the Buddhist Sect, there were precisely the Eight Great Dharma Protector Vajra Dragon Kings, all refined from the corpses of Dragon Race strongmen. Among them, the Vajra Hexiu Ji Dragon King, also called the Nine-Headed Dragon King, alone consumed the corpses of nine Five-Clawed Golden Dragons!

"What the junior brother says is reasonable. Kuafu and Da Yi are no weaklings—they are also Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals. If we can refine them into Dharma Protector Vajras, we will have an extra means of self-defense when walking the Primordial World."

"Let us capture these two first, then suppress the entire Witch Ancestor Tribe."

Daoist Jie Yin pressed his palms together, his face full of bitter sorrow.

As the two brothers exchanged words, their Primordial Spirit power locked onto the Great Witches Kuafu and Da Yi, who were sprinting wildly across the Primordial World Earth from hundreds of millions of miles away.

"Brother, there's no escape. Jiu Feng and Xing Tian have already led the other sons toward the East. Let's fight these damned bastards to the death!"

Da Yi stepped on the Earthly Fiend Tainted Qi, his eyes bloodshot, murderous intent boiling.

They did not cultivate the Primordial Spirit, drawing instead on the power within their bloodline. But their strength was greater on the ground, and even if they could ride wind, rain, lightning, and clouds to soar through the sky, they could not match the speed of Zhun Ti and Jie Yin, who cultivated the Primordial Spirit.

"There truly is no way out. Then let's fight!"

Kuafu's heart was already burning with a bellyful of rage.

As a Great Witch, which one of them was not born to battle heaven and earth? If not for covering the retreat of their Witch Ancestor Tribe siblings, would he have fled so miserably?

At worst, death!

But death would cost these damned bastards dearly!

"Fight! Fight! Fight!"

The two top-tier Great Witches, with the strength of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, stopped fleeing. They turned and charged straight at Zhun Ti and Jie Yin. Their immense physical power shook the void, scattering every cloud in the sky.

"Excellent!"

Seeing that the two had stopped running, Zhun Ti and Jie Yin were also delighted.

Just as the four Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals clashed in paired combat, on Longevity Mountain, Xuanyuan unleashed his full strength for the first time.

"Boom!"

The mist atop Longevity Mountain exploded with a thunderous roar. Xuanyuan's Earthly Fiend Tainted Qi condensed into an ink-black vortex around him, and his Ancestral Shaman True Form, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred zhang tall, burst through the clouds.

His eyes were like stars, his mouth like a sea of blood, and every single pore inhaled and exhaled vast torrents of Earthly Fiend Tainted Qi.

When an Ancestral Shaman inhaled and exhaled Earthly Fiend Tainted Qi to refine the body, bigger was better, bigger was stronger. On this Primordial World Earth, the Ancestral Shaman True Form had no so-called upper limit.

Earlier, neither Tongtian, nor Qiang Liang, nor Xi Zi had ever pushed the Ancestral Shaman True Form to its extreme.

Now, at 129,600 zhang, this was the complete true form of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Ancestral Witch. Once they stepped into the Golden Immortal of the Origin, they could grow even larger!

"Rise!"

Under Xuanyuan's control, the Qiankun Bow hummed and swelled to the size of a mountain, while the Zhentian Arrow roared with the pulse of the earth's veins. Ancient Wu Earth Runes and Ji Earth Runes flickered with eerie glows along the arrow shaft.

There were twelve Zhentian Arrows in total, and they had been nurtured together with the Twelve Ancestral Witches in Pangu Hall. Naturally, there was some connection between them.

Each of the twelve Zhentian Arrows possessed a different Law.

At this moment, what Xuanyuan was driving was precisely the Zhentian Arrow corresponding to Houtu, the Ancestral Witch of Earth.

"Boom—"

On his thick arm, veins bulged like coiling dragons as pure physical brute force slowly drew the bowstring taut.

As Xuanyuan exerted his strength, the entire Longevity Mountain suddenly sank a hundred zhang. Within a radius of millions of li, the earth's veins writhed like an Earth Dragon Turning Over. Countless earthen-yellow rays shot up from the ground, climbed along Xuanyuan's soles, and finally condensed at the tip of the Zhentian Arrow into a Law edge of earthen yellow.

"This..."

Zhen Yuanzi's expression shifted. He quickly urged the Earth Book to stabilize Longevity Mountain, but in his heart, he was utterly shocked.

Daoist Xuanyuan's strength is actually this formidable. Let This Poor Daoist see which unfortunate soul has offended him.

With that thought passing through his mind, Zhen Yuanzi began to calculate on his fingers.

"Since Fourth Brother is making a move, I won't bother."

Tongtian thought it over, then put away the Purple Lightning Hammer and the Fishing Drum.

During their exchanges with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, they had already reached a consensus: when traveling across the Primordial World Earth, unless necessary, it was best not to get entangled with the Great Witches and Lesser Witches who had been pushed to the forefront.

One in the open, one in the shadows—that was the sound strategy.

"Scram!"

The moment the bowstring was drawn to its limit, the void tore like tattered cloth. Xuanyuan's roar shattered the nine heavens.

"Kacha, kacha..."

The Zhentian Arrow left the string. Driven by the dual force of the Law of Space Great Dao and the Law of the Great Dao of Earth, it transformed into a meteor dragging a tail of earthen flames for millions of li. Wherever it passed, space crumbled inch by inch, and clouds, birds, and even spiritual energy along the way were ground to dust.

"You two are destined to be connected with the West. The sea of suffering is boundless; turn your heads to find the shore."

Daoist Zhun Ti struck Da Yi, who was 48,000 zhang tall, sending him tumbling backward, and spoke with a faint smile.

Even at the same mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal level, there were still differences in strength.

On the other side, Kuafu was swinging his staff and roaring in fury, but he was being suppressed by Daoist Jie Yin, and signs of defeat were already showing.

"Hm!? Not good!"

Suddenly, Daoist Zhun Ti looked up. The arrow's howl was like thunder, and the eastern horizon was instantly dyed earthen yellow by the Law of the Great Dao of Earth.

"Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, go!"

"Sixteen-Foot Golden Body!"

Daoist Zhun Ti's pupils contracted. The Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree flew from his hand, transforming into a barrier woven from seven layers of flowing light, while he simultaneously activated the divine ability, the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body.