The Dust Settles

Luohu's laughter was also choked short by these three streaks of escaping light.

And those three streaks of escaping light came at great speed.

After landing before Luohu, they manifested into three Daoists.

One of these three Daoists wore a white robe, his expression calm.

One wore a blood-red robe, his face full of ferocity.

One wore a green robe, a faint smile on his face.

The moment Luohu saw these three Daoists, he was stunned on the spot!

Because, although these three Daoists had different expressions, their features were exactly the same as Hongjun's!

These were three Hongjuns!

"Luohu, today you are defeated."

All three Hongjuns spoke in unison.

Having said that, without waiting for Luohu to come to his senses, The three Hongjuns simultaneously soared into the air, transforming into escaping light.

Each flew into the three hollow formation eyes of Immortal-Severing, Immortal-Butchering, and Immortal-Trapping!

"Mere avatar techniques! What use are they!? Hongjun! You will die!"

Luohu here suddenly snapped awake, hastily bellowing a furious shout, and was about to form a hand seal.

But it was already too late!

For within the formation eye of the Immortal-Slaying Sword, which had been still all along, there suddenly burst forth an infinite red auspicious light!

All kinds of golden lotuses, rosy clouds, auspicious vapors, and jade pendants rose up, completely suppressing the entire formation eye of the Immortal-Slaying Sword!

In an instant, the formation eye of the Immortal-Slaying Sword was fully opened.

Hongjun within it had a calm expression.

Above his head was a three-zhang-three-foot-sized red auspicious cloud.

It blocked the Immortal-Slaying Sword's sword energy, preventing it from harming Hongjun in the slightest!

Li Xuan watched with extreme envy.

That red auspicious cloud was none other than

the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud!

The Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud was transformed from the righteous qi within Pangu's chest!

It suppressed all killing and evil forces between heaven and earth!

It was the ultimate among defensive treasures!

Only slightly inferior to his own Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform!

Hongjun's true body, with the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud above his head, looked at Luohu and said calmly, "Luohu, today you are defeated."

Boom!

Another roar came, this time from the formation eye of the Immortal-Severing Sword.

The Immortal-Severing Sword, which had already been shaken by the Yin Yang Daoist's self-destruction, finally could no longer withstand the pressure.

The green-robed Hongjun raised his hand and took it down.

The formation eye of the Immortal-Severing Sword was broken!

Another roar!

The formation eye where the Immortal-Trapping Sword was located

was also broken by the white-robed Hongjun.

The Immortal-Trapping Sword also fell into the white-robed Hongjun's hand.

With two swords lost, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation no longer had the momentum of an unceasing cycle of sword intent and killing mechanism.

Immediately, the remaining formation eye of the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the formation eye of the Immortal-Butchering Sword both came to a halt.

The blood-robed Hongjun laughed wildly, and the formation eye of the Immortal-Butchering Sword exploded with it.

The blood-robed Hongjun was already seen charging out, holding the Immortal-Butchering Sword.

Finally, Hongjun's true body, within the formation eye of the Immortal-Slaying Sword, calmly reached out his hand. The Jade Plate of Creation slowly rotated, suppressing the sword intent of the Immortal-Slaying Sword.

In the end, he grasped it in his hand.

Thus, the Four Swords of Zhu Xian all returned to Hongjun!

Luohu sat drenched in blood on the Twelve Grade World Destroying Black Lotus Platform, his body limp.

Truly, the world was like a game of chess.

How swiftly the tables had turned!

In the blink of an eye, certain victory had become utter defeat.

"Pfft..."

Severely wounded by the backlash of his own self-detonation, and now with the four swords forcibly seized, severing his spiritual connection and heavily damaging his soul—

At this moment, Luohu finally spat out a mouthful of heart's essence blood, shimmering with light.

Above the sky, the four voids had vanished.

The four Hongjuns, each holding a sword, stood together.

Now.

Across the entire heaven and earth, he was the sole protagonist!

Hongjun looked at Luohu and said calmly, "Luohu, do you submit?"

Luohu coughed a few times, spitting out more essence blood.

Visibly, his hair rapidly turned white, and his face aged.

But his eyes blazed with fierce light!

He raised his head to look at Hongjun and spoke slowly, "Hongjun, what trick is this?"

Hongjun gazed at the defeated foe before him and said flatly, "Telling you costs me nothing. This method of mine is called Slaying Three Corpses, a Great Dao of Heaven and Earth."

"Slaying Three Corpses?"

Luohu naturally knew nothing of this method.

After all, it was a Great Dao Hongjun had comprehended from the Jade Plate of Creation.

If he did not teach it, how could others learn it?

After a moment's thought, Luohu lightly shook his head and dismissed the matter.

He simply looked at Hongjun and said slowly, "You hid it deep! You had all this calculated from the start, didn't you?"

Hongjun said calmly, "The fate of the Heavenly Dao—how could you understand? Your Dao ends today."

"Hahaha! Ahahahaha!"

Luohu suddenly burst into earth-shaking laughter.

With Luohu's laughter.

A terrifying, dreadful aura surged from his entire body!

Hongjun's brow twitched, and all four of his forms retreated at once.

But Luohu laughed long and shouted loudly, "My Dao shall not end! My spirit shall not perish! Though I die today, I shall transform into an Outer-Realm Celestial Demon! Henceforth, every Mystic Gate being who seeks the Dao shall face my interference! Even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal shall suffer my tribulation! Hongjun! Your Dao will not last! Your Dao will not last!! Hahaha, hahahaha!"

Boom!!!

An indescribable power exploded in that instant!

Every living being present, including Li Xuan, Their faces changed drastically as they fled with all their might in every direction!

Boundless, terrifying power began to sweep across.

The entire Western land shook with it.

This had once been a prime spiritual cultivation ground.

Now, under this cataclysmic explosion, It became a barren, desert-ridden place, devoid of spiritual energy!

The Western Ox Continent was shattered...

Li Xuan fled ten thousand miles before using his divine powers to withstand the weakened shockwave.

Yet he was still blown back several hundred more miles before he could stop.

If even he struggled like this, others fared far worse.

A great number of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals were killed outright.

Only a few of the strongest Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, and the four—Unrestrained, Lawless, Formless, and Emotionless—

Managed to escape with their lives, not daring to linger, fleeing straight toward the further West.

The Demon Cult was utterly destroyed!

The dust settled.

Li Xuan praised inwardly, What a fine spectacle indeed.

With that, he moved his form and headed back the way he came.

Hongjun annihilates the Demon Cult, and the Mystic Gate shall flourish.

Then, within the span of one epoch, this Dao Ancestor Hongjun—

should be the first to attain the Heavenly Dao Saint of the Primordial Wilderness, right?

Li Xuan thought to himself, but then he chuckled darkly. "But—there are five strands of the Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi right here with me. Whether you, Hongjun, can succeed in attaining the Dao is really not set in stone, hahaha..."

Mount Taixuan.

Li Xuan's true form calmly opened his eyes.

Shaking his head with a sigh, he said, "Ah, from now on, I truly cannot appear in the Primordial Wilderness. Five strands of Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi—won't Hongjun's eyes turn red hunting me down? Tsk, tsk..."

"Ding."

"Watched the Mystic-Demon Great Tribulation through to its end. Reward: fifty-thousand-year tenfold cultivation speed, thirty-thousand-year cultivation experience scroll, Immortal Pill, Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, Innate Spiritual Treasure: Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin."

Li Xuan muttered to himself as the system's voice rang in his ears.

In an instant, the spiritual energy and laws around him surged tenfold once more.

This long-missed sensation of comfort made Li Xuan unable to resist taking a deep breath, nearly moaning aloud.

Then, thirty thousand years of cultivation came roaring in!

Li Xuan's entire body flushed with heat, and he felt as if his realm was about to break through!

But only as if.

For his true form to break through from Golden Immortal to Primordial Unity Golden Immortal—

the difficulty was truly no small matter.

The Nine Revolutions Golden Pill was naturally put away.

Now, Li Xuan already had four of them.

He'd wait until he'd saved up a whole gourd, then eat them all at once!

Use them directly to break through a major realm!

Finally.

Li Xuan looked toward the slowly materializing—

coin that fluttered ceaselessly before him.

A winged bronze coin!

The Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin!