Hongjun's Fury Threatens Collapse, Divine Thunder Descends to Smite the Demon Emperor

At this moment, Hongjun truly could no longer sit still.

"Idiots, a bunch of hopeless idiots!"

Hongjun was genuinely unable to keep his composure.

It was not that he was prone to cursing, but the situation with the Demon Race, if allowed to continue, would inevitably ruin his grand plans.

Unlike the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun was not particularly moved by the deaths of countless Innate Beings and Innate Demon Gods.

After all, Hongjun was a Chaos Being, and he held a certain grudge against Pangu.

However, Hongjun discovered that the perverse actions of the Demon Race had brought about two extremely grave consequences.

The first was that as tens of trillions of beings were slaughtered, the Sha Qi and resentment generated at the moment of their deaths permeated the Southern Region, eventually causing the turbid energy in the Southern Region of the Primordial World to increase exponentially.

If this continued, the time it would take for the Southern Region to become a dead, forbidden zone would be less than three million years!

Three million years—for future humanity, this might seem like a long time, but for the Primordial World, it was practically right around the corner.

In terms of the Primordial calendar, that was merely thirty Yuan Hui.

Of course, besides this consequence, there was another that was inextricably linked.

As previously mentioned, since Nuwa had become the Empress Wa of the Demon Race, enjoying the reverence of the Demon Race's immeasurable beings and the abundant destiny they brought, she naturally had to bear a significant portion of the karma generated by the Demon Race's perverse actions.

Nuwa's current cultivation was insufficient to perceive her own Merit and karma, but Hongjun could see it clearly.

Watching the karma on Nuwa grow increasingly dense, Hongjun truly could not sit still.

If the karma on Nuwa becomes too heavy and offsets the Merit she is meant to gain from creating humanity in the future, could it be that she won't be able to become a Sage?!

Once this thought emerged, Hongjun felt a jolt of terror.

In Hongjun's layout, Nuwa creating humanity to become a Sage was the starting point for the return of the Six Sages of the Heavenly Dao.

If Nuwa created humanity but failed to become a Sage, the situation would be dire.

If a layout failed from the very beginning, how could the subsequent steps proceed?

If Nuwa could not become a Sage, the destiny of the Human Race would be incomplete; if the Human Race's destiny was incomplete, then Humanity Dao could not recover or awaken.

When the causal links inevitably tangled, Hongjun, as the spokesperson for the Heavenly Dao, would have to bear the weight of that massive karma.

After all, he was Nuwa's master, and he was the one who had forced the Witch Race to lie dormant, allowing the Demon Race to dominate and wreak havoc upon the Primordial World.

Before the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao, what did Hongjun's petty schemes amount to?

Thinking of this, Hongjun broke out in a cold sweat.

"No, this cannot continue. Otherwise, before the Witch Race is even dealt with, I, the spokesperson for the Heavenly Dao, will face punishment from the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao!

Damn it, the destructive power of these top-tier Innate Demon Gods is simply too great. Their very existence is a disruption to the balance of the Primordial World!"

This had always been Hongjun's mindset.

If the Heavenly Dao governed the world primarily through balance—meaning its instinct forbade the emergence of any force or individual capable of threatening it—then Hongjun's goal was to weaken or even prune the Innate Demon Gods of the Primordial World.

From this, it was clear that Hongjun was indeed the most suitable candidate to be the spokesperson for the Heavenly Dao.

Furthermore, because every Innate Demon God had intricate ties to Pangu and possessed the Merit of Opening the Heavens, Hongjun could not strike at them without cause, especially those of the Orthodox Pangu Lineage like the Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones.

Thus, the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun had always intentionally provoked and deepened the internal conflicts among the Innate Demon Gods.

It could be said that without Hongjun's interference, the Witch Race and the Demon Race would never have reached the point of fighting to the death.

How arrogant were Di Jun and Tai Yi? They usually didn't even look at most top-tier Innate Demon Gods, so how could they care about mere beast-like monsters that lacked even basic intelligence?

But Hongjun had planted seeds of doubt during his sermons, suggesting that these monsters were the foundation of the Demon Race; if the Witch Race slaughtered them all, the Demon Race would become like a tree without roots or water without a source.

It sounded logical.

But in reality, given the ratio of the Witch Race to these monsters, unless the Ancestral Witches took action themselves, the lower-level Witches could not kill them all even if they slaughtered them recklessly.

After all, in the Primordial World, the number of the Demon Race was limited, but the number of monsters was infinite.

Just think of how many offspring a rabbit could produce in a single litter; how could they ever be wiped out?

Moreover, the Witch Race was not a demonic species prone to wanton slaughter.

The Ancestral Witches were the Orthodox Pangu Lineage.

If Pangu's own direct descendants were demonic, the Primordial World would have long ago become a living hell!

Facing the possibility of his layout collapsing and the pressure of being punished by the Heavenly Dao or even the Great Dao, Hongjun gritted his teeth and decided to make an example of Di Jun and Tai Yi.

Fortunately, Di Jun and Tai Yi had indeed committed a taboo this time, and as the Dao Ancestor, he still possessed the qualification and authority to mete out punishment.

BOOM!

After eons of clear skies and the picturesque beauty of the Demon Race's Heavenly Court, two bolts of purple divine lightning suddenly appeared out of thin air.

Feeling the supreme, majestic, and noble aura radiating from the purple lightning, along with the endless sense of destruction and ruin, every member of the Demon Race in the Heavenly Court felt their souls and bodies tremble uncontrollably.

Those with profound cultivation immediately recognized the origin of the lightning—this was none other than the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.

As this realization dawned, the trillions of demons in the Heavenly Court collectively gasped in horror.

Those who could serve in the Heavenly Court were at least at the Golden Immortal realm, so they all possessed a certain degree of insight.

They knew that the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning was one of the supreme means by which the Heavenly Dao punished living beings, and that among the countless beings of the Primordial World, only the Dao Ancestor Hongjun could command it.

Now that the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning had manifested, did this not mean that someone within the Demon Race had committed an act against the heavens and was about to suffer the punishment of the Heavenly Dao?

However, before these demons could even guess who was bold enough to enrage the Heavenly Dao and provoke the Dao Ancestor to mete out punishment...

They watched as those two bolts of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning struck directly down toward the Heavenly Emperor Palace and the Eastern Emperor Palace!

Ah!

At that moment, a shrill and piercing scream rang out from within the Heavenly Emperor Palace and the Eastern Emperor Palace.

This...

The billions of demons within the Heavenly Court exchanged glances and fell into immediate silence.

They were not joking; if they dared to say one wrong word or utter anything unpleasant now, they had better believe that once the Heavenly Emperor and the Eastern Emperor recovered, they would be slaughtered as sacrifices for their weapons!

Anyone capable of serving in the Heavenly Court was a prodigy within their own clan; how could they possibly court death at such a critical moment?

"Di Jun, Tai Yi, as the Heavenly Emperor and Eastern Emperor Supreme of the Demon Race, you hold dominion over the Heavenly Court and rule over all demons. Yet, you have failed to govern your subordinates and lacked proper restraint, allowing the Demon Race to wantonly slaughter living beings and poison the common people. Today, the Heavenly Dao is enraged and has specifically sent down this lightning to manifest divine retribution. Should you act recklessly again, the heavens shall loathe you and the heavens shall forsake you!"