"Saint... What a fine Human Teachings Sage!"
Jiang Chen let out a cold laugh, his heart filled with immense sorrow. He felt that the Human Race had been treated unjustly.
Grand Pure Sage was a Sage who had taken the Human Race as his foundation, established the Human Teachings, and become a Sage.
He had watched the Demon Clan slaughter the Human Race without lifting a finger!
The Human Race had prayed to Grand Pure, yet he had remained unmoved!
If Grand Pure Sage cultivated the merciless Dao and needed to cut away all desire, free of greed, anger, and delusion...
If, after becoming a Sage, Grand Pure had bestowed the Golden Elixir Path upon the Human Race to cultivate, thereby repaying the karmic debt of establishing the Human Teachings, Jiang Chen would have had nothing to say.
But the Human Teachings had been constantly drawing upon the Human Race's Fortune!
As a result, the first Innate Human Race created by Nuwa, who should have possessed the Body of Cultivation, had not produced even a single immortal!
Yes—not a single one had become an immortal!!!
Aside from taking Xuandu as the first disciple of the Human Teachings to gain the Human Race's Fortune, not one person had become an immortal!!
And if that still wasn't enough...
When the Demon Clan slaughtered the Human Race, Grand Pure was nowhere to be found, no matter how they prayed.
Now, when Jiang Chen wanted to kill Di Jun, Grand Pure had actually intervened!!!!
How pitiful was the Human Race?
How bleak its fate!
How deep its sorrow!
"Grand Pure!" Jiang Chen pointed his sword straight at Grand Pure's manifestation!
The swordlight held the power to destroy the world, so dazzling that it was hard to look at.
Even the two great powers of the Ancestral Witches and the Demon Clan could barely make out a trace of it.
"He... cannot be killed..."
As a Daoist chant rang out, Grand Pure's Dharma body slowly rose. Purple Qi wrapped around him, while misty Chaos condensed into beads that circled his body. He looked incomparably solemn and divine.
"Grand Pure really has sent down his Dharma body!" Outside Chaos, several Ancestral Witches were stunned.
At the same time, within the Primordial World, Zhen Yuanzi sensed a Sage's descent from the Earth Immortal Realm and came striding over, each step spanning a great world.
Ming He, in the Blood Sea, also gazed toward Shouyang Mountain, where the Human Race dwelled...
Jiang Chen stared coldly at Grand Pure, his expression unmoved.
"Heavenly Dao has its own ordained course... Now... he cannot be killed..." Grand Pure spoke again.
Those words were precisely what made Jiang Chen understand why Grand Pure had come down into the world.
Heavenly Dao had its own ordained course—but who could foresee it?
No one could foresee the ordained course of the Heavenly Dao, except that Dao Ancestor.
Grand Pure was Dao Ancestor Hongjun's disciple. Perhaps Hongjun had guided him to come down this time.
He must have believed that Jiang Chen's sword strike would overturn the ordained course of the Witch-Demon Calamity, and had intervened to save Di Jun from being killed there.
But...
"The ordained course of the Heavenly Dao..." Jiang Chen repeated the words under his breath.
Then he burst into wild laughter, as if mocking the fate ordained beneath the calamity.
"What an ordained course!"
"The Demon Clan devours countless members of my Human Race, using them as food—is that the ordained course of the Heavenly Dao?"
"I kill him here and now, and it is merely an eye for an eye! What ordained course of the Heavenly Dao are you talking about?!"
"The Human Race is weak and has yet to become ruler of Heaven and Earth..." Grand Pure sat cross-legged in Chaos, his voice rolling like thunder into everyone's ears, full of authority.
He showed no joy, anger, sorrow, or delight... no emotion at all.
It was as though he were simply stating a result ordained by Heaven, one that no one could change.
That was what it meant to cultivate the merciless Dao!
"The Human Race is weak? What a fine excuse—that the Human Race is weak!"
"Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things like straw dogs! Beneath the Heavenly Dao, all races are equal!"
"If the weak Human Race can be devoured by the Demon Clan, then the reverse is just as true!!"
"HE DARES TO FACE A SAGE AND SAY SUCH A THING!"
In Chaos, Ancestral Witch Zhurong could hardly believe it. Was Jiang Chen really planning to break with Grand Pure Sage?
That would be an incredibly foolish move!
Even if Jiang Chen now possessed the cultivation of a Sage, he was not like Grand Pure, who remained forever in the Saint Realm.
He had already formed an irreconcilable enmity with the Demon Clan. Did he mean to incur karma with the Three Pure Ones as well?
Among the Sages of this era, the Three Pure Ones were the most powerful faction!
"Elder Brother Di Jiang, are we just going to watch? It's a little disrespectful for this Human to speak so boldly to a Sage, but what he said seems right. The Demon Clan can slaughter the Human Race, so why can't he kill the Demon Emperor?"
Houtu voiced her confusion.
Di Jiang watched Shouyang Mountain and explained, "Little Sister, you are pure of heart. That is one reason your brothers never let you enter the Primordial World."
"You still don't understand why Grand Pure Sage came out..."
"Heaven and Earth have checks and balances, and an ordained course... Our Wu Clan and the Demon Clan are the two most powerful races in the Primordial World. Each controls one side of Heaven and Earth."
"If the Human Race rises at this moment, it will undoubtedly break that ordained course."
"If Di Jun dies now, our Wu Clan will be able to control the Primordial World."
"After the Dao Ancestor became one with the Heavenly Dao, everything has followed the Heavenly Dao's ordained course."
"If this Human did not truly possess the power to slay the Demon Emperor, Grand Pure probably would not have intervened."
Houtu listened to Di Jiang, still at a loss.
"I still don't understand..."
"If everything has to follow the Heavenly Dao's ordained course, then why are the Witch and Demon Clans still fighting for supremacy?"
Di Jiang explained, "The ordained course can be changed. That is what we are doing—changing it."
"Unfortunately, only Sages have the power to change the ordained course."
Houtu seemed to understand. She opened her eyes, which held boundless misty Chaos, and fixed them on Jiang Chen.
She murmured, "So this Human, having briefly attained the Saint Realm, now has that power too?"
Houtu was curious. She wanted to see how Jiang Chen would deal with Grand Pure Sage.
After all, one wrong move could draw him into a hostile relationship with someone bound to him by immense karma.
"Descendant of the Human Race! Stop... I can protect your people for a thousand years. The Demon Clan will not dare to invade them..."
At last, Grand Pure Laozi, seated amid the Chaos Purple Qi, spoke slowly.
His tone gave nothing away, but the meaning of his words sounded less like protection and more like charity.
Protect the Human Race for a thousand years?
Time was meaningless in the Primordial World. A thousand years could pass in the blink of an eye; a single seclusion might last a thousand, or even ten thousand years!
Was this charity?
Was he using this so-called charity to make Jiang Chen stop?
Jiang Chen's hair streamed loose, whipping in the wind.
The Holy Sword of Slaughter in his hand gleamed with a bone-piercing radiance, its cold light threatening to overwhelm the world.
He raised his head toward the boundless heavens. At that moment, it was as if he had heard the greatest joke of all, and he roared with laughter:
"HAHAHAHA!!!"
"Ten thousand years..."
"Ten thousand years!"
"Grand Pure Sage! What a fine Grand Pure Sage!"
Jiang Chen's eyes flashed sharply. He saw through the Chaos Purple Qi and looked upon Grand Pure's unruffled face.
Even as he offered ten thousand years of charity, Grand Pure looked down upon Heaven and Earth with the same merciless detachment.
At that moment, Jiang Chen felt like an utterly ordinary member of the Human Race. What he had believed in was nothing but bullshit!
"You established the Human Teachings on the foundation of my Human Race, then bestowed the Golden Elixir Path upon us like charity."
"You took Xuandu as your disciple and continued to enjoy the Human Race's Great Destiny, yet our people's Fortune kept falling lower and lower!"
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