The Realm Above Sages, Hongjun's Killing Intent Shakes the Nine Yin

Hongjun saw this, and his brows twitched involuntarily. Since attaining Sagehood, this was the first time he had felt a sense of losing control.

Because Hongjun knew very well that with Zhu Jiuyin's current strength—at most equivalent to the late stage of a Golden Immortal of the Origin—it was impossible for him to shield his divinations, especially when Hongjun had exhausted all his means, utilizing the power of the Heavenly Dao and fragments of the Jade Plate of Creation.

"In other words, standing behind Zhu Jiuyin is at least an existence at the Ninth Heaven of the Origin or even the Chaos Realm?"

Thinking of this, Hongjun could not help but gasp.

Within the Heavenly Dao, nine is the ultimate number, hence the Origin Realm has nine heavens.

Under the Great Dao, twelve is perfection, hence the Chaos Realm has twelve heavens.

Each heaven is a barrier, and the gap between the Chaos Realm and the Origin Realm is even greater than that between a Sage and a Quasi-Sage.

In this regard, it is much like how a Golden Immortal of the Origin is basically equivalent to a Quasi-Sage, and a Sage is equivalent to the Origin Realm; the Heavenly Dao Realm and the Chaos Realm powerhouses are likewise equivalent.

The difference lies in the fact that Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouses can only be born within the Eternal True Realm—that is, the world opened up by a Great Dao Realm powerhouse—because to achieve the Heavenly Dao Realm, one must comprehend at least nine hundred laws.

If a Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouse can comprehend all three thousand laws, then there is a possibility of breaking through to achieve the Great Dao Realm.

Conversely, the so-called Chaos Realm refers to the process within the Chaos world, under the Great Dao, of transforming the laws one has comprehended from world laws into Chaos laws, then condensing three Chaos laws, and finally forging a Chaos Dao foundation with those three laws to become a Chaos Realm powerhouse.

Chaos laws and world laws are completely different. One can understand it as world laws being applicable only to the world where the comprehender currently resides, while Chaos laws can be applied to the myriad worlds and the vast expanse of Chaos.

More importantly, world laws are comprehended from the Heavenly Dao, while Chaos laws are comprehended from the Great Dao. Chaos laws are closer to the Great Dao, so the power that Chaos laws can erupt with is at least hundreds of times, if not more, than that of world laws.

There is no helping it; the Great Dao is just that tyrannical.

Precisely because world laws cannot compare to Chaos laws, Heavenly Dao Realm powerhouses can only walk the path of gathering all three thousand laws unto themselves.

When quality cannot compete, one can only compete in quantity.

It is like a stone wall facing a Barrett sniper rifle; if a ten-centimeter stone wall is not enough, then make it twenty centimeters; if twenty centimeters won't do, then directly confront it with a fifty-centimeter-thick stone wall.

From this, it can be seen that for Hongjun to break through to the Heavenly Dao Realm is extremely difficult.

This is simply because although the Primordial World is a top-tier immeasurable world, it is still half a step away from the Eternal True Realm. It is this half-step that limits the upper limit of the Primordial World and also limits the upper limit of Hongjun's future cultivation.

Unless one day the Primordial World ascends to become an Eternal True Realm?

"Forget it, only the resurrection of Pangu could possibly achieve such a thing."

Thinking of this, Hongjun immediately dared not dwell on it.

Just kidding, if Pangu were truly to resurrect, he, Hongjun, would definitely be the first to perish.

But just thinking of Pangu, he suddenly looked at Zhu Jiuyin again.

"Could it be, could it be that the one standing behind this guy is Pangu?"

Hongjun was truly frightened this time, to the point that he almost fell off his cloud platform.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. If it were truly Pangu taking action, wouldn't it be cleaner, more convenient, and more direct for him to just slap me to death?"

Hongjun was a ruthless man after all.

Seeing that the more he thought, the more afraid he became, his wariness and killing intent toward Zhu Jiuyin began to rise in his heart: "No matter which transcendent existence stands behind you, you must die!"

"Under the Heavenly Dao, no variables are allowed to exist!"

At this moment, far away in the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race, Zhu Jiuyin, who was preparing to form a formation with the other Ancestral Witches to deploy the Twelve Capital Divine Gods and Demons Formation, suddenly felt his hair stand on end. His soul shook violently, and a faint warning of death leaped out from the River of Time, imprinting itself directly into the depths of his true spirit.

"Not good, someone wants to kill me!"

Zhu Jiuyin's heart skipped a beat, and he almost shouted out loud, but he suppressed it at the very last moment.

The twelve Ancestral Witches were born from the same source, and at this moment, they were in the middle of forming the array, so in a sense, their minds were connected.

Therefore, in an instant, the other Ancestral Witches felt the horror and fury in Zhu Jiuyin's heart.

"What is it?"

The gazes of the other Ancestral Witches converged on Zhu Jiuyin in unison.

Zhu Jiuyin waved his hand and shook his head with a certain firmness: "It's nothing, let's continue!"

In fact, once his rationality returned, Zhu Jiuyin locked onto the source of this crisis and death warning without much hesitation.

How many existences in the entire Primordial World could make him, the Ancestral Witch of Time, feel that death could arrive at any moment?

And among them, who else could be the prime suspect besides that person in the Purple Heaven Palace?

Zhu Jiuyin could even understand why Hongjun wanted to kill him.

"I didn't expect you to discover the clues so quickly. You are truly the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who walked all the way from the Chaos Era, eventually defeated Devil Ancestor Luohou, and became the spokesperson for the Heavenly Dao!"

"But is it that easy to kill me!"

"As long as we of the Witch Race lie flat enough, what can you, the Primordial World, do to us? After opening up the Great Thousand World this time, no matter what happens within the next hundred million years, even if you blow up Mount Buzhou, we will not leave the Ancestral Land. Let's see what you, Hongjun, can do!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Jiuyin suddenly recalled a famous quote: "Struggling with Heaven is endless joy, struggling with Earth is endless joy, struggling with people is endless joy."

"Lying flat is not admitting defeat, but a hidden dragon waiting for the right time. Each generation has its own version and its own gods; each generation's trends create new people. There will always be a day when your era, Hongjun, passes!"

Zhu Jiuyin did not overestimate himself, nor did he underestimate Hongjun.

Zhu Jiuyin was well aware that Hongjun was absolutely the most powerful and insurmountable enemy currently facing the entire Witch Race.

However, the greatest advantage held by the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race was that, as long as the Ancestral Witches' merit remained, even Hongjun could not take the initiative to strike against them.

Furthermore, if the turbid energy were allowed to continue spreading and developing, the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun would inevitably face sanctions from the Great Dao within a hundred million years at most.

This meant that as long as the Witch Race could endure and remain dormant, time was on the side of the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race.

A mere hundred million years—the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race could afford to wait.

"Open!"

"Welcome, Father God!"

Following Dijiang's thunderous shout and the subsequent command to "Welcome, Father God," the winds and clouds outside the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race surged instantly, and boundless turbid energy and Sha Qi began to converge frantically toward the location of the Ancestral Witches.

At the same time, a terrifying pressure that blanketed the entire Primordial World erupted from the center outside the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race, sweeping across all the countless living beings of the Primordial World.

Pangu, reappeared!