Watching this scene that was both laughable and exasperating, everyone was stunned. What kind of nonsense was this?
Candle Dragon was even more furious. He roared at Lei Ze, "They're not your friends! Look at Tai Xuan's miserable state. They did this to him!"
Lei Ze chuckled foolishly. "If we were all friends, we wouldn't need to fight and kill each other."
Candle Dragon was so furious that his Three Corpses leaped. He attacked Lei Ze with the Time Law. Lei Ze didn't dare let his guard down. He hurriedly beat his wings and struck the thunder drums on his body, attacking the Time Law in return. A deafening boom exploded through the chaos, shattering a swath of chaotic space. As soon as a chaotic black hole appeared, it began devouring the Chaos Qi. Its boundless suction briefly checked the Time Law's advance, giving Lei Ze a chance to escape.
Some of the still-dazed gods and demons vomited blood or reeled from the thunderous drumbeat. Others were less fortunate: they failed to dodge Candle Dragon's Law and were obliterated, body and soul.
Lei Ze was completely baffled. Why had Candle Dragon suddenly gotten angry and attacked him for no reason?
The succession of unexpected events left all the gods and demons present astonished. None of them knew what would happen next, and they all began to watch their surroundings warily.
A sudden purple lightning serpent hissed toward Pangu. Candle Dragon was secretly pleased. Lei Ze had finally come around.
"Ah!"
A cry of agony rang out. The purple Thunder Law had attacked fiercely behind Pangu, striking a figure that was slowly getting back to his feet. He fell heavily again, his body charred black and trembling uncontrollably. It was Tai Xuan.
Candle Dragon stared at Lei Ze with bloodshot eyes and gritted his teeth. "Lei Ze, what do you mean by this?!"
Lei Ze replied in fury, "Pangu is our friend. Friends can fight fair and square, but they mustn't ambush each other. Tai Xuan was shameless enough to disregard the dignity gods and demons ought to have. He deserves to die."
Candle Dragon abandoned Xuanhuang and charged at Lei Ze, unleashing the Time Law again and again. Lei Ze swung his drumsticks and beat the giant drum at his waist from time to time, meeting every attack.
As he attacked, Candle Dragon roared, "Fellow Daoists, let's join forces and destroy this traitor! Then we can destroy Pangu together and pursue the Great Dao!"
It seemed that his words had swayed the others. They all attacked Lei Ze, though some took advantage of the chaos and struck at the other gods and demons from time to time. Lei Ze's divine abilities were formidable, but none of these demons were ordinary. He immediately came under mounting pressure, and the Time Law wounded him repeatedly, leaving him covered in injuries.
Pangu said to Xuanhuang, "Daoist Lei Ze is suffering because of us. Let's go help him."
Seeing this, Xuanhuang was also stirred by a surge of courage. "Indeed. But you're injured, Daoist. Be careful."
With that, the two joined the fray. Pangu's Law of Strength was formidable. Though he was injured, ordinary gods and demons were no match for him. With Xuanhuang protecting him, the two were like wolves charging into a flock of sheep—wolves with sharp fangs and claws.
Candle Dragon saw that Pangu was fierce, but his injuries were greatly hindering him, keeping him from fighting at full strength. Candle Dragon's Time Law was no weak thing, either. Perhaps he could catch Pangu off guard and kill him in one strike.
"Eons Fly By!"
He unleashed his most powerful Time Law attack at Pangu. Boundless majesty filled the air as a torrent of time rolled across the chaos like a wheel, turning everything in its path into emptiness. All matter that existed within time would be swallowed up.
Pangu pushed Xuanhuang away and roared, "Sky Opening!"
He swung his axe down. The backlash of the divine ability bent his body violently, and the arm wielding the axe immediately collapsed. Fortunately, the Golden Body Art began circulating, rapidly repairing his injured body.
A strange light flashed. Along the path of the Time Law, a peculiar space appeared—not a black hole, nor the void. The Clear and Turbid Qi separated, one above the other, and a strange kind of spiritual energy arose within.
As soon as the Time Law entered this strange space, its pressure vanished.
Candle Dragon unleashed his Law again and again, but the result was always the same. He roared in frustration, "Why? How can this be?"
Pangu said calmly, "This space doesn't belong to the chaos. It has its own Law. Your Time Law is a Law of Chaos, so it's ineffective here."
Candle Dragon was utterly shocked. "You can create Laws? You... you..."
At that moment, just as Candle Dragon was growing anxious and afraid, his magical power was nearly spent. A bolt of purple divine lightning happened to strike him, right on target. It hit his primordial spirit directly. Candle Dragon felt his spirit weakening, and the Chaos Origin Qi that had been repairing his body abruptly stopped. Without his primordial spirit to refine the Chaos Qi, it could no longer sustain him. He spat up blood and roared, "Lei Ze, you're despicable! You actually ambushed me!"
Lei Ze was baffled. He had clearly been attacking someone else, so how had the lightning turned toward Candle Dragon? He stared blankly at what had happened and sighed. "I, Lei Ze, have always believed in punishing evil and upholding justice. I would never stoop to such a cowardly act. To think I'd end up ambushing someone—even if it was an accident, I can't forgive myself. Enough. Enough."
After saying this, the Thunder God actually self-destructed.
Xuanhuang lamented, "He was upright and unyielding—a true man. Though he fell into someone else's scheme, he made no excuses."
"Haha, he was just an idiot. How could such a fool survive in the chaos? If he hadn't blown himself up, I would have sent him on his way myself. What's there to lament?" a voice said.
Candle Dragon was enraged when he heard this. "You old Heavenly Witch! You were the one who sabotaged me!"
The Heavenly Witch chuckled. "I merely gave that bolt of lightning a little nudge. Who knew it would end up hitting you? How did I sabotage you? It seems this was simply your fate. I used to fear your Time Law, but now I could probably crush you with my little finger. Haha!"
Candle Dragon hated being looked down on more than anything. He forcibly circulated what remained of his magical power and roared, "Then let's see! You old poison!" As he spoke, he unleashed Eons Fly By.
The Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man burst into laughter. "That's all the power you have left? Watch my poison arts!" Clouds of green gas drifted out, filling the area with poisonous smoke. A massive cloud of dark green Poisonous Qi formed overhead, rapidly corroding the Time Law. It was truly incredible.
"My poison isn't afraid of the changes of time. Let time pass as it will; my poison will endure forever. Especially now, when your Law is less than one ten-thousandth of what it was before. You dare show off? Go!" The Green Qi gathered into droplets, pierced through the barrier of the Time Law, and surged toward Candle Dragon.
As soon as the green droplets touched his skin, they quickly seeped into his body. Ugly pustules immediately appeared across Candle Dragon's body. As he cried out in agony, they swelled and burst. In the blink of an eye, the mighty god-demon Candle Dragon had turned into a pool of pus.
The Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man gazed at the pool of Poisonous Water with great interest and nodded repeatedly. "Excellent, excellent! My poison arts have improved tremendously lately!" He looked down at everyone with the air of someone who believed he was now invincible.
The Heavenly Witch suddenly transformed, revealing a huge mouth. It was enormous, and each time it opened and closed, a foul stench poured out. One or two nearby gods and demons were immediately overcome with dizziness.
A long, slimy tongue flicked in and out. The mouth spat out a cloud of multicolored smoke that vanished as soon as it left his lips.
It spread through the air. One of the still-dazed gods and demons failed to notice it and inhaled a mouthful. Foul black blood immediately seeped from all seven orifices, and his body rapidly withered until he was like a dried corpse.
The scattered gods and demons left behind each used their own Laws or magic treasures to protect themselves.
Xuanhuang's Exquisite Pagoda shielded him completely, even as the Poisonous Qi spread. Pangu had no choice but to summon the still-recovering green lotus.
Seeing that his invisible poison had failed to subdue the other gods and demons, the Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man transformed again. He became a green toad's head atop a hundred-legged serpent's body, its back covered with lumps. Each lump seemed alive, writhing and exhaling poisonous smoke. A scarlet, venomous scorpion tail swayed back and forth, its tip bearing a Barbed Poison Hook that shone with a bright purplish-red light.
The Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man moved slightly. The poisonous smoke around his body gathered and condensed into black venom. It drifted down like raindrops. The venom was produced directly by the poison glands in the Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man's body. A single drop could corrode and kill a god-demon whose cultivation was just below that of a Heavenly Dao Saint. After all, gods and demons were naturally mighty in body. Even a god-demon at the level of a Primordial Saint could be in mortal danger if his magic treasure was even slightly inferior. Ordinary attacks involving poison could hardly hope to gain an advantage against him.
The raindrops of venom didn't dissipate when magic treasures or divine abilities knocked them away. Instead, they quickly gathered into a stream of poison. Its deadly aura spread through the chaos. The stream seemed alive, taking the shapes of countless poisonous creatures that rushed toward the gods and demons.
These creatures dripped with venom and existed between reality and illusion. They could become solid and attack with poisonous tails and fangs, or turn into flowing water, seeping through every opening to strike unexpectedly.
Gods and demons kept dissolving into the deadly stream, becoming trophies that the Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man could boast about.
What surprised the Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man was that purple light kept disappearing into Pangu's body. He had been watching for a while now. What was it? What could Pangu absorb? Was he using some unknown technique to rapidly restore his body?
The purple light gave him a familiar feeling. Very familiar.
Only three people were worth watching now. Pangu was protected by the green lotus, Xuanhuang had the Exquisite Pagoda, and another person radiated boundless heat. The poisonous liquid near him was instantly dried up and burned away.
When had this person arrived? He hadn't noticed him at all.
Pangu and Xuanhuang couldn't fight back now. This newcomer was the one worth watching.
The Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man twisted his body and slowly approached. The god-demon, who had been dodging the poisonous creatures, opened his mouth and sent his venomous tongue lashing toward the newcomer. The instant it made contact, a constant sizzling filled the air as white vapor billowed upward. The Heavenly Witch Poison Old Man let out a strange, shrill sound like a scream.
The Daoist raised his hand and sent out one fireball after another, destroying the poisonous creatures surging toward him like a tide.
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