Chaos in the Primordial World, Calamity Aura Rising

"Eldest Brother speaks reasonably. Dijun is brimming with ambition; we cannot let him so easily complete the authority of the Heavenly Emperor!"

Yuqing Yuanshi Daoist nodded slightly as well. If the 'Yao Race Heavenly Court' were truly allowed to take charge of the Primordial World's order, where would that leave their Pangu Sanqing?

Having made up their minds, Grand Pure Daoist and Yuqing Yuanshi Daoist needed no further words from Shangqing Tongtian Daoist. After all, he too had no wish to see Dijun and Taiyi rise to power!

The conversation among the Three Pure Ones did not avoid Daoist Duobao, Lu Yuan, and the others beside them. Yet upon hearing the attitudes of these Great Divine Ability Users toward the 'Yao Race Heavenly Court' and the 'Purple Mansion Immortal Court,' Lu Yuan was not surprised in the least.

After all, if not for the subtle efforts of the Primordial World's Great Divine Ability Users behind the scenes, how could the 'Purple Mansion Immortal Court' founded by East King Duke in his previous life have unified the overseas lands under the covetous gazes of the Witch and Demon Clans?

At the height of its prosperity, the 'Purple Mansion Immortal Court' had even faintly displayed the momentum to stand in a three-way balance with the Witch and Demon Clans!

How could East King Duke's lineage of Purple Mansion Prefecture alone have stirred up such enormous influence?

"Still, it is a pity that the Purple Mansion Immortal Court rose too swiftly, arousing the vigilance of the Witch and Demon Clans!

"To wipe out the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, the Witch and Demon Clans even joined hands in tacit agreement once. The Witch Race held back the Great Divine Ability Users coming to aid the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, while Dijun, Taiyi, and the 'Yao Race Heavenly Court' campaigned against it and slaughtered East King Duke!"

Recalling the fate of the Purple Mansion Immortal Court and East King Duke, Lu Yuan sighed inwardly. This was the consequence of being swept into a calamity—Even If one was a top Great Divine Ability User, one could hardly withstand the doom of tribulation.

At that thought, Lu Yuan's resolve to transcend the sea of suffering and prove the Dao of the Hunyuan Dao Realm grew ever firmer!

As Lu Yuan's thoughts turned, on the other side of Kunlun Mountain, at the West Kunlun dojo, Queen Mother of the West heard that East King Duke had founded the Purple Mansion Immortal Court. A glint of unusual light flashed through her phoenix eyes as she fell into thought.

After the Purple Cloud Palace's second sermon ended, East King Duke had once gone to West Kunlun and invited her to found the Purple Mansion Immortal Court with him. Yet she had politely declined!

Still, she had placed a wager on East King Duke by lending him the immortal Dao supreme treasure, the Ten Thousand Immortals Record.

"Fight, then. Fight. Since Fellow Daoist Chunyang wishes to contend with the 'Yao Race Heavenly Court' for the orthodox rule of the Primordial World, let him take the lead and struggle against Dijun and Taiyi. Other than the Purple Cloud Palace's third sermon, I will not leave the West Kunlun dojo by even half a step.

"If Fellow Daoist Chunyang fails in his bid for supremacy and falls at the hands of the Witch and Demon Clans, then I will have passed through this tribulation. After all, no one would dare risk enraging the Purple Cloud Palace Sage by killing both leaders of the immortal Dao whom he personally appointed!

"If the Purple Mansion Immortal Court shows the power to subdue the Witch and Demon Clans, and Fellow Daoist Chunyang truly possesses the fortune to replace the Heavenly Emperor as the Immortal Emperor, then it will not be too late for me to leave the mountain. After all, I too am a leader of the immortal Dao, and there is also the matter of having lent him a treasure..."

Thinking of the subtle looks in the eyes of the Great Divine Ability Users when Hongjun appointed the leaders of the immortal Dao in the Purple Cloud Palace, the fierce killing intent emitting from the mighty figures of the 'Yao Race Heavenly Court,' and the mocking gazes of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Queen Mother of the West's phoenix brows knitted slightly as she murmured to herself.

Elsewhere, in the Thirty-Three Heavens, within the Yao Race Heavenly Court's Lingxiao Treasure Hall.

Gazing toward the overseas Purple Mansion Prefecture, and Gazing At East King Duke—who had founded the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, received Heaven-bestowed Profound Yellow Merit, and was full of high spirits—Taiyi was utterly enraged. Flames of fury rose in his eyes. "Big Brother, this Pure Yang Daoist does not know what is good for him! Relying on his appointment as leader of the immortal Dao by Teacher Hongjun, he actually dared found the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, harboring the wild ambition of proving the Dao of the Heavenly Emperor as an Immortal Emperor.

"In terms of origin and cultivation, he is Was Merely Innate Pure Yang qi taking form. How could he compare with the noble status of our Pangu's Orthodox Lineage!

"The Twelve Ancestral Witches founded the Witch Race and took control of the Primordial World's land—that is one thing. But what qualifications does East King Duke possess? I will muster the troops at once, kill my way to the overseas Purple Mansion Prefecture, slaughter the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, and personally send East King Duke into the Land of Eternal Tribulation!"

Yet Dijun held Taiyi back, pointed to the heavens, and laughed heartily. "Hahaha! I had thought that since Teacher Hongjun personally designated him as leader of the immortal Dao, East King Duke would at least be some sort of hero or overlord!

"Who would have thought this man was actually stupid as a pig—he has nothing but desire and ambition, without the slightest trace of forbearance or strategy.

"Our 'Yao Race Heavenly Court' has nothing to fear. Our 'Yao Race Heavenly Court' has nothing to fear..."

"Your Majesty speaks most truly!" Bai Ze, the Yao Saint beside him, nodded in agreement. "If East King Duke had simply kept the title of leader of the immortal Dao and managed the Group of Immortals on Teacher Hongjun's behalf, there would have been little we could do to him. His position as leader of the immortal Dao was bestowed by the Purple Cloud Palace Sage; killing him rashly would offend the Sage.

"But now that he has founded the Purple Mansion Immortal Court and embarked upon the path of vying for supremacy in the Primordial World and proving the Dao of the Heavenly Emperor, he has given us cause to remove him. After all, within the Heavenly Dao Order, there can only be one Heavenly Emperor. In the struggle for the Heavenly Emperor's throne, there is only advance and no retreat, only death and no end.

"Even if we later slaughter the Purple Mansion Immortal Court and kill East King Duke, the Purple Cloud Palace Sage will have nothing to say."

"Then what are we waiting for? Quickly muster the troops, destroy the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, and eliminate East King Duke, this hidden danger!" Taiyi truly could no longer suppress the fury in his heart as he looked at Dijun and Bai Ze.

"Eastern Emperor, the Heavenly Emperor is waiting for an appropriate moment. After all, beneath a Sage, all are ants; a Sage's heart is unfathomable. Our 'Yao Race Heavenly Court' cannot gamble on what the Sage truly intends," Ji Meng explained. "Once the Purple Cloud Palace's third sermon ends and Teacher Hongjun merges himself with the Heavenly Dao, East King Duke—deprived of the Sage's protection—and the Purple Mansion Immortal Court he founded will be due for their end at our hands!"

Hearing the judgments of Dijun, Bai Ze, and Ji Meng, Taiyi's fury gradually Calmed Down. He gave a cold snort toward the overseas Purple Mansion Prefecture, then sat back down!

With the founding of the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, the Primordial World grew ever more chaotic. Across the land, the Witch and Demon Clans accelerated their purges of the myriad races' forces: they either submitted to the Witch Race or became part of the Yao Race and moved to the Thirty-Three Heavens realm.

Meanwhile, overseas, the Group of Immortals recruited by East King Duke for the Purple Mansion Immortal Court began campaigning against overseas powers as well, seeking to subdue the aquatic races and occupy the Four Seas.

Only by unifying the overseas lands could East King Duke's Purple Mansion Immortal Court stand on equal footing with the Witch Race, which occupied the Primordial World's land, and the Yao Race Heavenly Court, which controlled the Thirty-Three Heavens realm!

Thus, wars erupted without end throughout the Primordial World. Calamity aura began to gather and rise, and more and more living beings were swept into the doom of tribulation.

Some Great Divine Ability Users calculated the Heavenly Dao and sensed a trace of the coming Heaven and Earth Calamity. Among them were certain mighty figures who had luckily survived the 'Dragon Han Calamity.' At the thought of the three races' great calamity and its horrifying brutality, their hearts pounded in fear. One after another, they sealed their mountain gates tight and never again set foot upon the Primordial World's land!

At this moment, under the urging of certain Great Divine Ability Users, the Primordial World's situation had begun to form a three-legged balance.

The Yao Race Heavenly Court controlled the Thirty-Three Heavens realm, the Witch Race controlled the Primordial World's land, and the Purple Mansion Immortal Court occupied the overseas lands.

As for all other forces, only those near the dojos of Great Divine Ability Users could escape the campaigns of the Witch and Demon Clans.

Some Great Divine Ability Users and Great Luo Dao Lords even sealed their dojo gates shut, strictly forbidding their disciples from leaving the mountains, fearing they might provoke the Witch and Demon Clans and become tainted with karmic sin.