Changes in Heavenly Secrets, Righteous Resolve

As the heavenly pillar, Buzhou Mountain stood at the very center of the Primordial Heaven and Earth. To its east lay the territory occupied by the Twelve Ancestral Witches, while to its west was the ancestral land of the Kirin Clan.

Unfortunately, the War of the Three Tribes and the Dao-Demon Struggle had both taken place across the western lands, and the Kirin Clan's ancestral land had been devastated in those wars.

The remaining Kirin bloodlines either became mounts for certain Great Powers or remained trapped within the Kirin Ancient Realm and Fenglin Continent above the West Sea.

They had long since lost the means to contend for supremacy over Heaven and Earth.

The water kirin Xuan Shuang carried Wangshu's Grudge toward Buzhou Mountain. Xuan Yin was not idle either, directly using his divine ability to collect the Taiyin Cold Pond before him.

This Taiyin Cold Pond had formed from the source of Wangshu's Great Dao. It contained Lunar Star power and would greatly benefit Xuan Yin's efforts to perfect the Lesser Thousand World he had created, allowing him to further regulate yin and yang.

Xuan Yin placed the Taiyin Cold Pond in the far west. The Great Dao of Earth Immortals began operating on its own, and an illusory Bright Moon rose from the cold pond.

[The Supreme Saint of Vast Cold, the True Person of Purple Radiance, governs the Yin Pass of the North Pole and commands the corporeal souls of mankind. She clearly distinguishes length and brevity, brings fortune and misfortune with waxing and waning, reveals calamity and auspiciousness, bestows disaster and blessings without error or deviation, and roams without rest. The jade moon shines eternally, its radiance illuminating the boundless world. Her pure soul bestows great transformation upon all; all who receive her light are truly granted life.]

At the same time, Xuan Yin's True Immortal Dao Fruit revealed a power of Refining False into True, causing the originally illusory Bright Moon to gradually become tangible.

Lunar Star power spilled forth, nourishing all things between Heaven and Earth and even stirring a trace of tidal power.

Had Xuan Yin evolved it himself, it would have been impossible without tens of thousands of years. Now, with the cold pond formed from Wangshu's origin, evolving a Bright Moon was merely a matter of moments.

"Unfortunately, there is a moon but no sun. Solitary Yin Does Not Grow. With my understanding of the Great Dao of Earth Immortals, I am still unable to create a great sun from nothing!"

Xuan Yin secretly regretted it, but then he could not help thinking of Hou Yi. Since he had this chance to obtain Moon Goddess Wangshu's origin, when Hou Yi shot down the suns, could he perhaps profit from it as well?

However, the Witch and Demon Races were both doing their utmost to restrain themselves. Without some unexpected variable, they likely would not wage war anytime soon.

Ten suns appearing together, Kuafu chasing the sun, and Hou Yi shooting down the suns were undoubtedly the fuse that would ignite an all-out war between the witches and demons, as well as the time when the Tribulation Qi would be at its densest.

This time, Xuan Yin had taken the initiative to give things a push by sending Wangshu's Grudge to the Wu Clan. He did not know whether this would alter the future course of events.

At the same time, a trace of doubt flashed through his mind. Since one who attained Grand Unity Golden Immortal once would remain one forever, possessing the ability to know the past, present, and future, why would the Witch and Demon Races still fight each other to the death?

The Wu Clan had Zhu Jiuyin, the Time Ancestral Witch, while the Demon Clan now had Dijun and Fu Xi, two Great Powers skilled in deduction.

Xuan Yin did not believe they had failed to see, within the River of Time and Space, the outcome of both witches and demons suffering grievous losses.

He immediately asked Yan Lin for guidance.

"Man proposes!"

Yan Lin sighed upon hearing this. "Under the Heavenly Dao, there are fixed destinies, but there is also a sliver of change! The future changes at every moment. The future they glimpse may not necessarily come to pass! Or rather, perhaps they also wish to change that so-called future through their own efforts!"

He looked at Xuan Yin and asked, "Do you know which time this is that Pangu has opened the heavens?"

"Huh?"

Xuan Yin froze. "Could it be that Great God Pangu opened the heavens many times?"

"That is correct!"

Yan Lin nodded. "I heard it from Sage Tongtian. He presides over the final tribulation and symbolizes endings. As one formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, he experiences every cycle of each Chaos era!"

"Grand Unity Golden Immortals are not bound by time and can transcend the cycle of the Three Realms, yet their own Great Dao still cycles through the repeated births and destructions of universes!"

"The River of Time and Space surges ever onward until the Immeasurable Kalpa descends and all things return to ultimate silence. Then a new Chaos Universe evolves, Pangu Opens the Heavens once more, and a new cycle begins!"

"Grand Unity Golden Immortals do not perish, but they are continuously reset. In a new era, the same Grand Unity Golden Immortals will unfold different stories!"

"Only Sages, or Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortals, can retain the memories of the previous cycle!"

"This is the twenty-first cycle!"

Seeing Xuan Yin's incredulous expression, Yan Lin continued, "Over the previous twenty cycles, the development of the Primordial World was different every time! In some eras, Luohu did not fall. Instead, he devoured ten thousand Daos and attained Hunyuan! In several Chaos eras, the three tribes did not decline either, but each ruled its own domain!"

"In one era, it was not Hongjun Dao Ancestor who achieved Unification with Dao, but the Grand Pure Sage. The Wu Clan also successfully awakened the so-called Earthly Dao!"

"One era, one cycle. Every era has different events!"

"And the evolution of the Primordial World is merely repeated arrangements and combinations of the origin of the Great Dao!"

Ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortals did not know these secrets, but Sect Master Tongtian, as one of the Heavenly Dao Sages and someone who upheld the ideal of seizing a sliver of life for all living beings, had spoken of this matter to Yan Lin.

He also wished to see whether, amid cycle after cycle, a variable might arise that could lead the entire Primordial True Realm beyond reincarnation...

Xuan Yin stood there in a daze.

If each era restarted again and again, did Sect Master Tongtian already know the events of the future? Had he experienced the Investiture of the Gods tribulation many times as well?

Although every cycle differed somewhat, the world's formation, duration, destruction, and emptiness, as well as the Great Dao ideals of the two Sages of the Chan and Jie Sects, remained unchanged.

With karma accumulating, a Great Dao Struggle would inevitably erupt between the Two Sages.

"How difficult!"

Xuan Yin could not help sighing. He had thought that, with his foreknowledge, he could continuously advance the greater course of events through changes to minor matters.

But now it seemed nothing more than a joke. The Sages knew everything and sought a method to escape the cycle through repetition after repetition.

Xuan Yin wanted to learn more details, but Yan Lin knew only this much.

He sighed. "If you wish to know more, then ask Sage Tongtian."

Xuan Yin nodded. He then activated Shrinking the Abyss and Contracting the Earth, following the guidance of the silver hair around his wrist as he fled toward the location of the Wangshu Immortal Sword.

Though his heart was filled with doubts, he was in no rush. Once he obtained the Wangshu Immortal Sword, he could return to the Jie Sect and ask his Teacher!

At the same time, relying on his peak Grand Unity cultivation, the water kirin Xuan Shuang tore through the void and soon arrived at Buzhou Mountain, where the Wu Clan resided.

The heavenly pillar towered majestically, suppressing all manifestations of time and space as it emanated an ancient, desolate aura of Indestructible Through Ten Thousand Calamities.

"Go!"

With a thought from the water kirin Xuan Shuang, the Treasure Bottle carrying Wangshu's Grudge transformed into a streak of light and landed precisely beside Xuan Ming.

"Who is it?"

Xuan Ming immediately looked toward Xuan Shuang.

Although Ancestral Witches did not cultivate primordial spirits, their spiritual senses were extraordinarily sharp. In but a moment, she had locked onto Xuan Shuang's aura and location.

Xuan Shuang showed no fear and merely said slowly, "Entrusted by another, I have delivered a gift to the Wu Clan. I hope Ancestor Witch Xuanming will put it to good use!"

With that, she opened a gate through time and space once more and vanished from the vicinity of Buzhou Mountain.

Xuan Ming did not pursue her.

That was because she had sensed Wangshu's Grudge within the Treasure Bottle. For the Wu Clan, it truly was a perfectly timed gift.

She immediately flew toward Pangu Hall.

If they could claim the moral high ground, the Wu Clan could strike first and catch the Demon Clan off guard.

What?

The Wu Clan was not familiar with Wangshu?

After spending a few days together, would they not become familiar?

Since the Demon Clan's Empress dared to harm our Wu Clan's close friend, what was wrong with us attacking the Heavenly Court to demand justice for the fallen Wangshu?

Rumble!

The heavenly secrets changed. In the blink of an eye, the aura of the great tribulation became several times denser!