Old Ancestor Hongjun's green-robed Corpse of the Three Pure Ones brought out the top-grade innate treasure, the Qiankun Cauldron, to suppress the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Gate. His black-robed Evil Corpse offered the Taiji Diagram to suppress the Immortal Trapping Sword Gate, while his red-robed Zhishi brought out the Jade Plate of Creation to suppress the Immortal Slaying Sword Gate!
As for the Immortal Slaying Sword Gate, it was barely holding on against the countless golden rays shining from the staff in his hand. There was no special treasure guarding it.
Beichen understood that Old Ancestor Hongjun's trump card was the treasure guarding the Immortal Slaying Sword Gate.
"What could it be?"
Beichen already had a guess, but he didn't know whether it was right.
His speculation didn't distract him from watching the battle.
He secretly memorized how Hongjun's Three Corpses guarded the three Immortal Sword Gates, and fully grasped the mysteries behind it.
At that moment, Great Immortal Willow and Demon Ancestor Luohu were locked in fierce battle.
Luohu wielded the God-Slaying Spear, launching one devastating black strike after another. Each carried the power to destroy.
Unfortunately, the Hollow Willow in Great Immortal Willow's hands seemed like a bottomless pit, absorbing all the divine power within the God-Slaying Spear. Its destructive might couldn't harm him in the slightest.
After fighting Great Immortal Willow for hundreds of rounds, Luohu finally lost patience.
He put away the God-Slaying Spear and took out the Nine Demon Pagoda, using its nine terrifying streams of bone-deep Dao energy to capture Great Immortal Willow.
But as the Dao energy from the Nine Demon Pagoda approached the Hollow Willow treasure, it was repelled. The energy trembled and flashed, making the pagoda emit a series of buzzing sounds.
Demon Ancestor Luohu was also sent staggering backward. He hurriedly put away the Nine Demon Pagoda.
"Old Willow, you're quite something. You've actually forced me to use my trump card!"
Luohu slapped his chest hard. A dark, sinister light shimmered, and from within it, he spat out a glossy black lotus.
The lotus had a total of twelve layers, filled with the endless killing intent of Heaven and Earth and countless laws of slaughter.
As black light flashed, it shot into the skies and spread for tens of millions of miles, as if it could directly suppress and destroy the Primordial World!
"The twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus! This is Demon Ancestor Luohu's ultimate battle treasure, the World-Destroying Black Lotus!"
The black lotus Mo Yuan had spat out on the Moon Star the last time Beichen saw him had been no more than a remnant petal. Now, what Beichen saw was the real World-Destroying Black Lotus.
Its world-destroying power was so terrifying that even Beichen, hidden from view, trembled.
This world-destroying treasure was far too terrifying!
As soon as the World-Destroying Black Lotus appeared, it descended upon Great Immortal Willow with boundless killing power.
Boom!
A deafening explosion shook the heavens. Great Immortal Willow clutched the Hollow Willow and retreated again and again, flying back a hundred miles before spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"The twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus really is terrifying!"
Beichen cried out inwardly, silently committing to memory the moment Demon Ancestor Luohu used the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
"Demon Ancestor Luohu, you won't get your way today!"
Great Immortal Willow remained as calm and unyielding as ever. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and chanted an incantation.
The Hollow Willow in his hands turned the color of chaos, its divine power reaching its utmost peak.
The black lotus spun with a buzz, spewing out a frenzy of killing intent as it crashed toward Great Immortal Willow.
The Hollow Willow also spun rapidly in Great Immortal Willow's hands, struggling to resist the killing intent of the twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
In an instant, the two were locked in a stalemate.
The twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus was indeed terrifying, but Great Immortal Willow was no pushover. The Hollow Willow had an exceptionally powerful foundation, and for a time, it matched the twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus blow for blow.
Bringing out the World-Destroying Black Lotus had stirred the foundations of Demon Ancestor Luohu's Dao cultivation. He could only keep channeling power into the treasure, leaving himself restrained by Great Immortal Willow.
With Demon Ancestor Luohu restrained, he couldn't focus on the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
Seeing this, Old Ancestor Hongjun didn't dare hesitate. While Luohu and Great Immortal Willow wore each other down, he gave a low, furious shout: "My final trump card—the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud!"
Boom!
Boundless golden light burst forth, filling the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
Within the auspicious cloud, a vast primordial world appeared and vanished from sight. The sun, moon, and stars shone upon the earth, brilliant and radiant.
Five-colored light suffused the heavens within the cloud, while immortal music in eight tones echoed throughout the universe.
Outside the cloud, countless golden lamps, golden lotuses, jeweled tassels, and hanging pearls descended from the sky, like an endless stream of water and pearls.
With the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud's appearance, all evil fled and no spell could touch it. It could ignore attacks from any treasure and render all divine arts and spells ineffective.
This Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud was the trump card Hongjun had spoken of!
The auspicious cloud's arrival brought countless rays of immortal light, cloaking the entire Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. At last, Demon Ancestor Luohu's expression filled with boundless unwillingness. "Damn you, Hongjun! You're about to break my formation!"
Luohu panicked. The twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus spun at an incomprehensible speed, its killing intent surging as Great Immortal Willow was sent flying again.
This time, the world-destroying killing intent gravely wounded Great Immortal Willow. Clutching the slightly fractured Hollow Willow, he lay on the ground, barely alive.
"My task is done. It's time to retreat into seclusion and seek a chance to survive!"
Great Immortal Willow gave a bitter smile. His body slowly turned transparent, and he vanished along with the Hollow Willow, his destination unknown.
"He's gravely wounded, but he isn't dead. Where did he go?"
Beichen was secretly startled and couldn't help thinking about searching for Great Immortal Willow.
"Great Immortal Willow's cultivation is even stronger than Hongjun's. If I could discuss the Dao with him, I'd surely gain a great deal!"
For now, Beichen couldn't find Great Immortal Willow. And even if he did, the other man's injuries would make a discussion of the Dao impossible.
Beichen set the matter aside for now. Once the Dao-Devil War was over, he would search for Great Immortal Willow.
The next moment, the boundless cloud-light of the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud enveloped the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
The three corpses and Hongjun's true body all relied on the cloud's protection as they slowly rose. Like the mightiest beings in Heaven and Earth, they reached out from the peaks of the four mountains, took down the four immortal swords, and put them away.
With the four swords removed, the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation broke. Relying on the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud, Hongjun unleashed countless killing blows.
Demon Ancestor Luohu stepped forward to face them. "The Three Thousand Divine Demons are scattered throughout the world. They will be my disciples, carrying on for ten thousand generations until the day I rise again!"
With the killing blows blocked, the Three Thousand Divine Demons saw that the formation could no longer hold. They seized the chance to flee, scattering into the Primordial Chaos and wilderness in an instant, hiding where none could find them.
Luohu was struck hard. The aura of death spread throughout Mount Sumeru, manifesting the law of cause and effect surrounding his fall with perfect clarity.
"I, Demon Ancestor Luohu, have lost!"
Luohu cried out in pain and bitter defeat.
"Today, I, Demon Ancestor Luohu, swear this oath!"
Suddenly, his eyes turned fierce. He looked up at the sky and roared, "Great Dao above, I, Luohu, swear this oath to the Great Dao: from this day onward, as the Devil grows, the Dao wanes. For every foot the Dao advances, the Devil advances ten. The Devil Dao shall be established!"
At the end of his life, Luohu bypassed the Heavenly Dao and swore an oath to the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.
Immediately, a thirty-six-story Heavenly Devil Dao Pagoda descended, suppressing the fortune of the Devil Dao and symbolizing its establishment!
Luohu's body and Dao crumbled. Countless laws of the Devil scattered like dust and fell into the Primordial World.
The Devil Dao was established, completing the Heavenly Dao. From then on, it was everywhere!
"Those three treasures!"
As Hongjun watched Luohu disperse the Devil Dao with his own body, his heart filled with unease. Beichen hesitated over whether to seize the Demon Ancestor's three treasures right under his nose.
Just then, the system's voice rang out.
"Ding! Detected three supreme treasures left behind by a fallen great power: the twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, the God-Slaying Spear, and the Nine Demon Pagoda."
"Host, please choose."
"One: Escape quietly. Reward: Yin and Yang Two Energies."
"Two: Seize all three treasures. Reward: Great Dao Divine Art, Close at Hand, Yet Worlds Apart!"
Beichen didn't hesitate. Using the Great Dao Concealment Technique, he darted into Mount Sumeru and snatched all three treasures.
Hongjun had just reached out to take them, but Beichen got there first.
"Close at Hand, Yet Worlds Apart!"
By the time Hongjun realized what had happened, Beichen had already used the divine art awarded by the system to escape back to the Three Immortal Islands.
"Who? Who took the Demon Ancestor's treasures? Show yourself!"
Hongjun's expression changed dramatically...
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