Seal

Time flowed, and another ten thousand years passed.

In these ten thousand years, Kong Xuan had been roaming the Primordial Wilderness with four others, and Li Xuan had no idea how they were faring. They never came back to visit, leaving Li Xuan muttering about ingrates from time to time.

Meanwhile, Luohu's Demon Cult grew ever stronger. The Path of Slaughter began to spread across the western Primordial Wilderness, bringing disaster to countless living beings in the west. The fortune of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth seemed to be gradually slipping into Luohu's grasp!

In response, Hongjun established a sect in the east as well, naming it Mystic Gate. The Mystic Gate was gentle, its doctrine aimed at peace in the Primordial Wilderness, urging all beings to refrain from conflict. This attracted a great number of living beings to join, united against the Demon Cult. The fortune of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth in the Primordial Wilderness was thus split largely between the Mystic Gate and the Demon Cult. For now, the two sides developed separately, one in the east and one in the west, appearing to coexist peacefully. But a great tribulation of conflict was inevitable—sooner or later, war would break out!

This day, Li Xuan suddenly opened his eyes. That golden egg, after gestating for another forty thousand years, had finally stirred!

Li Xuan raised an eyebrow slightly. Was the Golden-Winged Great Peng about to be born as well? But the egg trembled for a moment, then stabilized again, returning to stillness. It continued absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, nurturing life within. Its innate deficiency was severe; it still needed to develop.

"Good heavens... a fetal movement?" After watching for a while, Li Xuan confirmed the egg wasn't about to hatch, and he clicked his tongue with a mutter. What a waste of anticipation.

Time flowed on like water. Another thirty thousand years passed.

Li Xuan slowly opened his eyes, golden light swirling within them. His cultivation had finally stepped into the Golden Immortal realm, level ten!

"Sigh, too slow..." Sensing the changes in his cultivation, Li Xuan sighed and muttered to himself. He was now deeply nostalgic for that twentyfold cultivation speed from ten thousand years ago!

"Ding."

"Choice System activated."

"Choice One: Travel to the eastern Primordial Wilderness, join the Mystic Gate, gather its fortune, overthrow Hongjun, and become the new leader of the Mystic Gate. Completion reward: one random Primordial Supreme Treasure, one million years of hundredfold cultivation speed, a five-million-year cultivation experience scroll, and the divine ability: Open Heaven."

"Choice Two: Travel to the western Primordial Wilderness, join the Demon Cult, gather its fortune, overthrow Luohu, and become the new leader of the Demon Cult. Completion reward: one random Primordial Supreme Treasure, one million years of hundredfold cultivation speed, a five-million-year cultivation experience scroll, and the divine ability: World Annihilation."

"Choice Three: Randomly join one of the two sects, help it become the number one sect in the Primordial Wilderness, seize the Heavenly Dao's fortune, and enable its leader to attain the Heavenly Dao Saint realm. Completion reward: one random Innate Supreme Treasure, one hundred thousand years of fiftyfold cultivation speed, a five-hundred-thousand-year cultivation experience scroll, the divine ability: Dark Annihilation, and the immortal pill: Nine Revolutions Golden Pill."

"Choice Four: Completely destroy both sects, preventing both the Mystic Gate and Demon Cult leaders from becoming Heavenly Dao Saints. Completion reward: one random Primordial Supreme Treasure, one million years of hundredfold cultivation speed, a ten-million-year cultivation experience scroll, and the divine abilities: Open Heaven, World Annihilation, Dark Annihilation, and Yin Yang."

"Choice Five: Observe the Mystic-Demon Great Tribulation until its complete end. Completion reward: fifty thousand years of tenfold cultivation speed, a thirty-thousand-year cultivation experience scroll, one random Innate Spiritual Treasure, and the immortal pill: Nine Revolutions Golden Pill."

"Choice Six: Continue cultivating. Completion reward: one thousand years of cultivation experience scroll."

Li Xuan had just been reminiscing about his previous choice rewards when the system seemed to hear his call, presenting him with six options.

Looking at the choices before him, Li Xuan blinked. He knew full well the outcome of the conflict between Hongjun and Luohu. Luohu couldn't defeat Hongjun. Not because Hongjun was stronger, but because Hongjun was cleverer—or rather, more cunning.

"If I join the Mystic Gate, wouldn't I just be freeloading those rewards?"

Luohu cannot defeat Hongjun, so Hongjun is destined to win in the future.

With that in mind, Li Xuan's gaze settled directly on option three.

Simply join Hongjun's Mystic Gate and freeload the reward from option three!

But then he shook his head: "No, no, that bastard Hongjun knows me. If he sees me, he'll probably use his great power to grab me on the spot, then soul-search me for the whereabouts of the five strands of Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi..."

As for joining the Demon Cult... forget it!

Not only does Luohu know him too... but that fool Luohu.

He has absolutely no idea how to win people over!

Relying on the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, he swings at anyone he sees.

In the end, he provoked Willow, Yin Yang, and Qiankun, all three of whom were tricked by Hongjun into standing together.

Wait...

"The Four Swords of Zhu Xian haven't appeared yet, have they?"

Li Xuan stroked his chin, a sly glint flashing in his eyes.

The Four Swords of Zhu Xian!

That was the supreme killing treasure of the Primordial Wilderness, forged from the shattered Pangu Axe. If he could get his hands on them...

But it was just wishful thinking.

For one, Li Xuan had no idea where the Four Swords of Zhu Xian were sealed.

For another, he'd heard the hard requirement to break the seal.

At least the blood essence of a billion living beings was needed to drench it!

Just that blood essence of a billion living beings alone.

There was no way Li Xuan could obtain it.

Only Luohu, first by gathering it during the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, and then through the endless slaughter the Demon Realm stirred up in the West, finally amassed a sea of living beings' blood essence.

In the end, he drenched the seal, unlocked it, and obtained the Four Swords of Zhu Xian.

After thinking for a while, Li Xuan sighed and settled his mind.

He chose to watch the Mystic-Demon Great Tribulation.

He chuckled to himself and muttered, "Forget it, forget it, I'll just watch the show. Watching five bastards fight to the death—tsk, tsk, just thinking about it is thrilling, satisfying..."

With that, he selected option five.

"Ding, selection to watch the Mystic-Demon Great Tribulation until its conclusion successful."

Hearing the prompt in his ear, Li Xuan smiled, then said to himself, "Time to work, time to work..."

Behind him, a faint purple light slowly lit up.

The Incarnation Outside the Body, at the peak of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal tenth level, walked out with a smile on his face.

"Taking my beloved little gourd... I'm going to watch a big movie..."

The Incarnation Outside the Body muttered.

He reached out, grabbed the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd spat out by the main body, and with a flicker, turned into a beam of light, heading west.

The Mystic-Demon final battle was ultimately going to erupt at Luohu's lair, Mount Sumeru in the West.

So he had no need to go to the East.

He only had to wait in the West for the final great war.

The Incarnation Outside the Body headed west.

And at this moment, a major event was also unfolding in the West!

Somewhere in the West, a land spanning a million li was barren, with not a blade of grass growing!

Streams of killing intent, gathered from unknown sources, had turned this place into a death zone where no living being dared approach!

But on this very day, in this place where no living being should come, and where coming meant certain death from the killing intent's erosion, hundreds of living beings flew in!

Demon Ancestor Luohu sat cross-legged on the Twelve Grade World Destroying Black Lotus Platform, the endless killing intent around him unable to advance an inch.

As for his other subordinates, the weakest were at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level.

So they too could withstand this killing intent.

Luohu gazed at the barren land below, the fiery eagerness in his eyes utterly impossible to conceal!

After scheming for hundreds of thousands of years!

Today, he had finally fully gathered the blood essence of a billion living beings!

"Earth-Splitting Chisel... Earth-Splitting Chisel!"

Luohu's voice was somewhat hoarse, and he suddenly roared: "Drench it with blood essence for me! I will break the seal of this place!"