Primordial Wilderness: I Repeatedly Offered Poisonous Schemes! Houtu Advised Me to Calm Down

"Though I've been occupied with other matters these past years, I haven't forgotten to keep an eye on what's happening in the Primordial Wilderness!"

"Though it was a casual scheme, it has now swept across the entire Primordial Wilderness. The Wu and Demon Races are entangled, the Three Races have returned, and many Great Divine Ability Users and Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals are locked in chaotic battle—all of this proves the plan still has potential to be tapped."

"The struggle for Saint Positions has nothing to do with us, but profiting from them has everything to do with us!"

"But as I see it, the intensity of this plan over the years hasn't been enough. After all this fighting, we've only lost a few Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals. Is that good? No, it's not!"

"Everyone still has their bottom lines, their unspoken understandings—not a single Great Divine Ability User has fallen!"

"So how can a Saint Position change hands?"

"Without chaos, how can there be opportunity? Without chaos, how can we win over more saints? How can we weaken the Demon Race and every force that might resist the Wu Clan?"

"Brothers and sisters, I have a plan!"

"It's not perfect, but it's enough to supplement the current scheme!"

"We'll personally step in, hide in the shadows, tempt the Gods, create slaughter, and turn this plan into a true Calamity of Killing!"

"For example, we ambush and kill the disciples of the Three Pure Ones, forcing them to emerge from seclusion. Or we disguise ourselves as some Great Divine Ability User and stir up conflict—the Three Races' old grudges haven't faded. Or we force a future saint into the Demon Race, inciting its many Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals to internal rebellion!"

"If necessary, we can even lure the Gods into attacking the Demon Race's Heavenly Court!"

"Now that all of you brothers and sisters can manifest the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Sha Formation, our strength and our ability to obscure the Heavenly Secrets have reached their peak. Even Hongjun can't see through us at this moment."

"In this final thousand years, at the very least, we must drag down one Saint Position!"

"And on the surface, we must actively participate in protecting those saints willing to draw close to us!"

"One saint's Karma is too little! The fallen Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals and Great Divine Ability Users are too few!"

Listening to Chu Xuan's words, the Ancestral Shamans felt their scalps go numb.

This plan wasn't grand or majestic—it could even be called a patch for the previous scheme.

But it was vicious to the extreme!

And Chu Xuan wasn't satisfied yet. He used his wisdom to deduce various strategies, laying them out for the Ancestral Shamans.

They saw images of Great Divine Ability Users falling, the world thrown into chaos, even future saints perishing.

The Ancestral Shamans' scalps tingled.

After a long silence, even the usually sharp-tongued, coldly beautiful female Ancestral Shaman Xuanming stammered out, "Is this what you've been scheming all these years you were away?"

She was just making small talk to vent her inner shock.

But to her surprise, Chu Xuan directly shook his head and said something that made the Ancestral Shamans even more alarmed.

"How could it be!"

"Such a trivial matter couldn't have taken me a thousand years. That was for a far more perfect plan! If it succeeds, it will truly boost the Wu Clan's fortune."

"But let's not talk about that for now. Let's finish this first!"

"You'll know once it's done!"

A trivial matter? A real plan?

The Ancestral Shamans were stunned!

If even this trivial matter was so vicious and cunning, what must the real plan be like?

Suddenly, Dijiang felt he had agreed to Chu Xuan's proposal far too readily.

If these venomous schemes were executed well, fine.

But if something went wrong, the Wu Clan would become the enemy of the entire Primordial Wilderness.

It would have been better to just sit back and watch the tigers fight from the start—at least there was no risk, and they could reap benefits for free.

Dijiang didn't understand why Chu Xuan was so obsessed with bringing down a saint and trying to oppose Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Sure, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had been a bit hostile toward the Wu Clan, but not that hostile yet.

But he had already agreed, so it was hard to argue now.

After all, a single phrase—"prevention is better than cure"—could explain everything.

In the end, he could only muster one reason.

"Right now, despite the conflicts in the Primordial Wilderness, the unspoken understanding forced by the Dao Ancestor's lectures keeps the scope of action limited!"

"That's why Saint Positions haven't changed hands yet, and the Gods haven't fallen!"

"If we follow your plan and escalate the conflict into a Calamity of Killing, it will inevitably break that understanding. Isn't that a bit... unwise?"

Dijiang didn't expect to convince Chu Xuan; he was just instinctively trying to dissuade him.

But to his surprise, Chu Xuan actually nodded.

"You're right. This will definitely break the understanding, and it might even force that person to step in eventually."

"So..."

"So we drop it?" Dijiang asked, a hint of surprise in his voice.

Chu Xuan shot him a surprised glance, then said.

"What's there to calculate?"

"Then this Calamity of Killing would have come for nothing!"

"So we need to move faster—fast enough to complete our schemes before that person steps in. Let the Calamity of Killing erupt in an instant!"

"Moreover, matters have their priorities. Target the Demon Race first!"

"Right now, the Demon Race is our most visible and greatest foe!"

"If that's the case, then we need to find a way to lure Jieyin and Zhunti into the Demon Race!"

"Just so happens that Di Jun has been sending people to make contact several times lately, and Jieyin and Zhunti have been showing vague signs of leaning that way!"

"As for the Three Pure Ones, let them be part of the chaos. Do as little as possible with them!"

Listening to Chu Xuan's calm exposition, Dijiang gave a bitter smile but still accepted it.

At the very least, if they did less, the risks would be smaller too.

Let the Calamity of Killing erupt in an instant!

Houtu, who had been worried on the sidelines, also breathed a sigh of relief.

If it only erupted in an instant, the impact wouldn't be too severe.

For some reason, Houtu felt this wasn't bad.

It could strike at the Wu Clan's enemies without being too brutal.

The originally kind and gentle Houtu, under Chu Xuan's influence, had gradually been overlooking many issues, undergoing a certain change.

Under Chu Xuan's persuasion, the Wu Clan finally began to take action.

Thanks to the fact that over the past thousand years, figures like Zhurong had secretly broken through, the Wu Clan now had seven Quasi-Saints.

In the Primordial Wilderness, which had yet to fully enter the era of Quasi-Saints, this was practically a dimensionality reduction strike.

Almost immediately, a disciple of the Three Pure Ones of Kunlun, a fellow named Guangchengzi, suffered a terrifying assassination.

Several beings of extreme power directly tore through the cave dwelling and stormed Three Pure Ones Mountain, alarming Yuqing Primordial.

Primordial, who had been entertaining guests, was the first to be provoked into action.

Multiple Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals and other beings hidden in the shadows were stunned, unsure which existence was making a move.

But they still lent covert aid, directly striking at Primordial.

Primordial was ganged up on by over a dozen hidden experts and was instantly wounded. If not for Grand Pure One Laozi and Shangqing Tongtian Daoist, along with a crowned figure rushing over, some mishap might have been unavoidable.

Primordial was enraged.

"How dare you!"

"To act so brazenly!"

The crowned figure beside him was none other than East Prince Gong, who had once aided Jieyin and Zhunti.

But back then, Jieyin and Zhunti had been swayed not to trust him, and after being sold out by them, East Prince Gong—after all, a Great Divine Ability User with some pride—didn't bother clinging to them.

Having received word that Kunlun was also under attack, he naturally came to help.

He was, after all, a cultivator of Kunlun Mountain.

And the Three Pure Ones were fairly proper.

So there was no repeat of the 'misunderstanding' with Jieyin and Zhunti.

After helping out multiple times, he had recently finally received an invitation to enter the cave dwelling for Dao discussion.

He hadn't expected that shortly after arriving, he would witness another assassination.

This assassination was terrifying to the extreme—even the formation protecting the lair, capable of repelling Great Divine Ability Users, was torn apart in an instant.