Karmic Debts Settled, Houtu's Thoughts [Please, I Beg You, Reward with Flowers]

But in that instant, he realized that the dazzling sword light seemed to have ushered in a new era, severing the eternal heavens.

It stirred the Sea of Time and shattered the Laws.

An impenetrable barrier blocked his way.

The next second...

Rumble~~~

Jiang Chen stood atop Shouyang Mountain. With a single slash of his sword, he cleaved through eternity and severed the river of time.

Thus, a Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss divided the Human Dao's living beings from the Primordial Beings.

Chaos spread, swallowing that Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss!

There, supreme Laws and order prevailed, all of them belonging to the Human Dao.

It was Jiang Chen's strongest strike at the Sage level, linked to the supreme Laws and order of the Human Dao's river.

He had carved out a territory for the Human Race.

Though it lay within the Primordial World, it was a forbidden land!

Within the Primordial World under the Heavenly Dao, Jiang Chen had carved out a forbidden land for the Human Race!

"Today!"

"Beyond this Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss lie the mountains and rivers of the Primordial World!"

"Within the Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss lies the Human World!"

Jiang Chen's sage words resounded throughout the Primordial World.

This was a power belonging to a Sage.

Only the Power of a Sage could cross the Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss!

In the end, Jiang Chen severed the connection between the Human Race and the Primordial Beings.

None but Sages could cross.

It could hold for a thousand years!

Across the Human Race's lands, corpses formed mountains, blood flowed like oceans, and flesh and mud became the earth.

They bore witness to too much suffering and too many tears.

The brutal war between the Wu and Demon Clans would surely have wiped out the Human Race if it had reached them then!

And the approaching Witch-Demon Calamity would bring forth the Power of a Sage, capable of destroying the Primordial World with a single movement and burying all life beneath the starry sky!

Keeping the Human Race's lands far from bloodshed and chaos was the last bit of fortune Jiang Chen could secure for them as a Sage.

"That strike touched upon the Dao. It carved out a forbidden land in the Primordial World, one that none but Sages can set foot in or enter."

As Sages, the Two Sages of the West quickly grasped what the Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss were like.

Anyone beneath the Sage level who tried to cross it would surely die!

There was absolutely no other possible outcome!

"He sealed that place. From now on, no one can enter!"

"Hmph!"

Of the Three Pure Ones, Shangqing and Grand Pure had entirely different views of Jiang Chen's actions.

Shangqing Tongtian acknowledged Jiang Chen's strength.

Grand Pure, however, held a grudge against Jiang Chen and had no desire to express any opinion at all.

"Return..." Dao Ancestor Hongjun's voice came from the Zixiao Palace.

He wanted to bring the matter to a complete close.

"Yes!" The Two Sages of the West bowed to Hongjun before departing.

The Three Pure Ones, as Dao Ancestor Hongjun's three disciples, did not dare disobey either. They left at once.

Through a rift in the Chaos beyond the Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss, Nuwa exchanged a glance with Jiang Chen atop Shouyang Mountain.

She realized that something was very wrong with Jiang Chen's condition. Though he had not yet fallen from the Sage level, he could no longer wield any power.

He was an empty shell without the Mana of a Sage, and there was something deeply mysterious about it.

"What Dao Law is that?" she wondered, puzzled.

If she attacked now, it was hard to say whether Jiang Chen would be in danger.

But she did not do so.

The Human Race was still the people she had created. Even though she had close ties to the Demon Clan, she could not show too much favor to either side.

Yet the hostility between the Human Race and the Demon Clan today meant that, sooner or later, they would have a karmic reckoning.

She was a Sage and sensed this, but did not know how to resolve it.

So she said nothing.

She left on her own.

The Demon Clan's two most powerful figures, Demon Emperor Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, did not linger either. They turned and departed.

Seeing this, the other mighty figures who had come here did not dare stay. They all left.

In the end, the only ones still outside the Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss at Shouyang Mountain, in the Human Race's lands, were the Wu Clan's Ancestral Witches.

Ancestral Witches...

The Wu Clan's greatest fighters.

They had stayed because Houtu had entered the Human Race's forbidden land, crossing the Heavenly Chasm and Great Abyss.

"What should we do?"

Zhurong and Gong Gong asked Di Jiang.

They were worried about Houtu.

An Ancestral Witch had entered the Human Race's forbidden land alone.

They did not know Jiang Chen's current condition, but Houtu must be terrified facing a Sage at the Sage level. They could not help but worry.

"Let's go back for now. We can't enter the Human Race's forbidden land. Those are the Laws of a Sage; none but Sages can enter!"

Di Jiang chose to put the greater good first. If they forced their way in, the Ancestral Witches would all perish. What would become of the entire Wu Clan then?

"I hope our little sister is safe. Otherwise, even if we die and our souls are destroyed, we'll revive Father God Pangu's phantom and force our way into the Human Race's forbidden land!"

Di Jiang's voice was cold. How could he not be worried about Houtu? She was their youngest sister.

She had the purest and kindest heart of them all.

They all wanted to protect her.

Chapter 36: Karmic Debts Settled, Houtu's Thoughts [Please, I Beg You, Reward with Flowers]

Rumble~~~

After Jiang Chen severed the ages of time and space with a single sword strike and carved out a forbidden zone for the Human Race,

he could no longer maintain the Mana of a Sage.

The Primordial Dao Law of Self-Transformation and Freedom ultimately had its limits.

Had his final strike not drawn upon the most transcendent power of his Sage cultivation, he might have held on for another day.

Now, with all the Mana in his body spent,

Jiang Chen fell from the sky. Without any strength left, his body was like an empty shell.

His body was filled with boundless karmic sin.

It burned his internal organs, Immortal Sense... and immortal body.

"Human Emperor!"

Xuanyuan Shi, Shennong Shi, and the others were all horrified.

If anything happened to Jiang Chen because of what had happened today, not one of the Human Race's countless people would ever forgive themselves.

"Karmic sin... the flames of karmic sin... So this is the drawback of the Primordial Dao Law?"

Jiang Chen had finally witnessed the price of crossing the Heavenly Chasm and forcibly rising to the Sage level.

It was truly terrifying.

"Let fire be my source, and my body its furnace! Take the world as fuel, devour the flames of heaven and earth, and burn!"

"When the Exotic Flames emerge, all flames bow! Burn the heavens and boil the seas, set the stars ablaze—in the palm of my hand!"

"The flames of karmic sin can serve me, too!"

Jiang Chen roared, using the Burning Art to absorb the flames of karmic sin.

That immense blaze of karmic sin directly raised his cultivation to the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level!!!