Hongjun: Fight! You have to fight!

But soon, Hongjun suddenly quieted down again. With a flash, he returned to his seat on the Cloud Platform, because the other Ancestral Witches were slowly waking up.

"Fight! You have to fight, damn it!"

At that moment, Hongjun's Dao heart was truly unsteady. His Heart Demon was growing, and he had none of the bearing an honored Dao Ancestor ought to have.

There was no helping it. That was a Chaos Spiritual Treasure personally bestowed by the Great Dao, one that contained the two supreme Chaos laws of time and space.

Forget that Hongjun was, at root, merely a Chaos Being. Even a Chaos Demon God would fight tooth and nail to get their hands on such a treasure.

If Hongjun had even the slightest means of doing so, he would stop at nothing to seize this Chaos Spiritual Treasure.

Unfortunately, he didn't stand a chance.

Did he even understand the weight of a treasure personally bestowed by the Great Dao?

To put it another way, did he understand the weight of a Chaos Spiritual Treasure engraved with an inscription personally written by the Great Dao?

In ancient times, it would be like someone daring to steal the emperor's own imperial sword.

More importantly, what was an emperor compared to the Great Dao?

So that was the situation: those with low cultivation couldn't beat Zhu Jiuyin, while those with high cultivation stared at the inscription personally written by the Great Dao on the Time-Space Mirror and wouldn't dare make a move. Hongjun was the perfect example of the latter.

So Hongjun couldn't take the treasure, but he couldn't stop coveting it either. Naturally, he hoped Zhu Jiuyin would meet with disaster.

In fact, Hongjun wasn't the only one. Yuanshi was acting like a madman too, shouting the very same words.

"Fight! You have to fight, damn it!"

Seeing this, Tongtian shook his head slightly, a trace of pity and disdain in his eyes. "Second Senior Brother really doesn't have Eldest Senior Brother's composure."

But Tongtian failed to notice that Laozi, who appeared calm as still water, had a face that kept twitching, veins faintly bulging along his neck.

In truth, Laozi was roaring inwardly too: "Fight!"

The instant Dijiang, Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches opened their eyes, they all burst out laughing.

There was no helping it. Although the Great Dao Merit they had gained this time was nowhere near as much as Zhu Jiuyin's, Great Dao Merit was still Great Dao Merit. Even the most powerful Chaos Demon Gods coveted this supreme spiritual treasure. The seven tenths Dijiang and the others had received were enough to elevate twenty-one beings with no cultivation at all to the Hunyuan Realm.

In other words, in theory, with so much Great Dao Merit upon them, even a pig could become a Hunyuan Divine Pig!

Of course, just like Zhu Jiuyin, they had mainly used the Great Dao Merit to improve their innate potential. The boost to their cultivation and strength was merely incidental.

As a result, the eleven Ancestral Witches, Dijiang and Houtu included, hadn't gained much strength. Each had advanced by only one minor realm. But their innate potential had leapt from that of top-tier Innate Demon Gods to that of Chaos Beings.

Just as any being born in the Primordial World could be called a being of the Primordial World, any being born in the Chaos World could be called a Chaos Being.

The Primordial World divided beings' innate potential into three levels: that of acquired beings, Innate Beings, and Innate Demon Gods.

The Chaos World, however, had only two levels: that of Chaos Beings and Chaos Demon Gods.

There was only one distinction between the two: the cultivation they possessed at birth.

If they were born below the Hunyuan Realm, they had the innate potential of a Chaos Being.

If they were born already in the Hunyuan Realm, they had the innate potential of a Chaos Demon God.

Of course, under the Great Dao, there could be only three thousand Chaos Beings who attained the innate potential of a "Chaos Demon God."

That was where the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods came from.

Hongjun had been a Chaos Earthworm. Since he was born at the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm, his innate potential was that of a top-tier Chaos Being.

Among the eleven Ancestral Witches, Dijiang and Houtu had now reached the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm. After being tempered by Great Dao Merit, their innate potential had advanced to the level of top-tier Chaos Beings.

Aside from Dijiang and Houtu, Ancestral Witches like Zhurong and Gonggong were a minor realm weaker, at the late Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm. Their innate potential could only reach the level of high-grade Chaos Beings.

Even so, they could all feel that their overall strength in every respect was at least five times greater than that of an ordinary cultivator at the same realm.

That was the crushing advantage that came from different innate potential.

It was like comparing ten kilograms of iron with ten kilograms of cotton. The weight was the same, but the effect of hitting someone with them was worlds apart.

More importantly, as the Ancestral Witches' innate potential transformed, so too did the heights they could reach through cultivation.

In that regard, even the weakest Chaos Being was absolutely superior to the strongest Innate Demon God.

Without a great opportunity or tremendous fortune, even a top-tier Innate Demon God would find it harder than scaling the heavens to attain the Hunyuan Realm or prove the Dao and become a saint.

Right, Minghe?

Right, Zhenyuanzi?

Conversely, a Chaos Being only had to avoid dying. Even if they slept all day, they would eventually break through to the Hunyuan Realm.

But just as the Ancestral Witches could barely contain their grins, they looked up and saw the unease on Zhu Jiuyin's face.

At that moment, every Ancestral Witch present, Dijiang and Houtu included, froze.

For a while, silence settled outside the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race.

In truth, neither Zhu Jiuyin nor the Ancestral Witches present had been unaware of what was happening outside while refining the Great Dao Merit.

So even Zhurong and Gonggong knew that the Great Dao had bestowed Zhu Jiuyin with the merit of a single Ancestral Witch—almost equal to the combined Great Dao Merit of five of them.

On top of that, the Great Dao had manifested in person and bestowed a Chaos Spiritual Treasure upon Zhu Jiuyin.

That was a Chaos Spiritual Treasure—the second one in the entire Witch Race, after Pangu Hall.

They also knew that outside the Ancestral Land, countless powerful figures, including Dao Ancestor Hongjun, were surely watching them intently, hoping they would hurry up and start fighting.

They wanted a battle that blotted out heaven and earth, a battle that dimmed the sun and moon.

As it turned out, they weren't wrong. Even the usually impartial and unfeeling Heavenly Dao was watching.

Of course, it hadn't come to enjoy the spectacle or watch the drama. It was simply afraid that if the Ancestral Witches fought themselves into a frenzy, they might cause irreparable harm to the Primordial World.

Pfft... Hahahaha!

Just as everyone thought the Ancestral Witches were about to start fighting, a laugh like rolling thunder rang out among them.

Everyone instinctively looked over and saw that the one laughing was the Ancestral Witch of Thunder, Qiangliang.