Hongjun Was Enraged and Feared His Plans Would Collapse; Divine Thunder Struck Down from the Heavens to Smite the Demon Emperor

This time, Hongjun truly couldn't sit still.

"Fools! A pack of hopeless fools!"

Hongjun could barely contain himself.

It wasn't that he was quick to curse. It was simply that if the Demon Race kept this up, they would ruin his grand plans.

Unlike the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun wasn't especially troubled by the deaths of the Innate Beings and Innate Demon Gods.

After all, Hongjun was a Chaos Being, and he held some enmity toward Pangu.

But Hongjun had realized that the Demon Race's reckless actions had brought about two extremely serious consequences.

The first was that, as trillions upon trillions of beings were slaughtered, the baleful aura and resentment produced at their deaths spread across the Southern Region. These, in turn, caused the Turbid Qi in the Southern Region of the Primordial World to increase rapidly, multiplying at an alarming rate.

At this rate, the Southern Region would become a desolate deathland in no more than three million years!

Three million years might seem like a long time to future humans, but for the Primordial World, it was practically just around the corner.

Converted into Yuanhui, it amounted to only thirty.

Of course, besides that consequence, there was another, closely related one.

As mentioned before, since Nuwa had become the Empress Wa of the Demon Race, enjoying the reverence of its countless living beings and the abundant fortune it brought, she would naturally have to shoulder a considerable portion of the Karmic Force generated by the Demon Race's reckless actions.

Nuwa's cultivation was still insufficient for her to see the state of her own merit and Karmic Force, but Hongjun could.

Seeing the Karmic Force around Nuwa grow ever denser, Hongjun truly couldn't sit still.

What if Nuwa's Karmic Force grows so great that it cancels out the merit she'll gain from creating humans? Could she end up unable to become a Sage?!

The thought made Hongjun's heart pound with alarm.

In Hongjun's plans, Nuwa's creation of humans and ascension to Sainthood was the starting point for the Six Sages of the Heavenly Dao to take their places.

But if Nuwa created humans and still failed to become a Sage, then the consequences would be dire.

If the plan failed from the very beginning, how could anything that followed possibly go ahead?

If Nuwa couldn't become a Sage, then the Human Race's fortune would be incomplete. And if the Human Race's fortune was incomplete, Humanity Dao would be unable to revive and awaken.

When the causal repercussions came, Hongjun, as the Spokesperson of the Heavenly Dao, would have to bear the immense consequences.

After all, he was Nuwa's master, and he was the one who'd forced the Witch Race to lie low, allowing the Demon Race to grow unchecked and wreak havoc across the Primordial World.

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

At the thought, cold sweat broke out all over Hongjun.

"No. This can't go on, or I'll face punishment from the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao before the Witch Race is even dealt with!

"Damn it, these top-tier Innate Demon Gods are far too destructive. Their very existence throws the balance of the Primordial World into disarray!"

This had always been Hongjun's way of thinking.

If the Heavenly Dao's rule depended above all on balance, and its instinct was to prevent any force or individual from emerging that could threaten it, then Hongjun's goal was to weaken, or even reduce the number of, the Primordial World's Innate Demon Gods.

This made it clear that Hongjun truly was the most suitable candidate to be the Heavenly Dao's spokesperson.

And because the Innate Demon Gods were all connected to Pangu in one way or another, and each carried the Merit of Opening the Heavens, Hongjun couldn't attack them without cause—especially the Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones, who belonged to the Orthodox Pangu Lineage.

That was why the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun had always deliberately provoked and intensified the 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.

Di Jun and Tai Yi were so proud that they usually looked down on even most top-tier Innate Demon Gods. Why would they care about demon beasts that didn't even possess intelligence?

But Hongjun had slipped certain ideas into his lectures. For instance, demon beasts were supposedly the foundation of the Demon Race. If the Witch Race killed them all, wouldn't the Demon Race be like a tree without roots, or water without a source?

It sounded reasonable.

But in truth, compared to the demon beasts, the Witch Race was so few in number that even if the ordinary witches slaughtered without restraint, they could never wipe them all out—as long as the Ancestral Witches didn't get involved.

After all, in the Primordial World, the Demon Race's numbers were finite, but the demon beasts were infinite.

Just think how many rabbits could be born in a single litter. How could they ever be wiped out?

Besides, the Witch Race wasn't inherently a vicious, bloodthirsty race that delighted in slaughter.

The Ancestral Witches belonged to the Orthodox Pangu Lineage.

If even Pangu's closest descendants were evil fiends, the Primordial World would have become a living hell long ago!

With his plans at risk of collapsing and the threat of punishment by the Heavenly Dao, or even the Great Dao, weighing on him, Hongjun gritted his teeth and decided to make Di Jun and Tai Yi his targets.

Fortunately, this time Di Jun and Tai Yi really had crossed the line. As Dao Ancestor, Hongjun had the standing and authority to punish them.

Boom!

After countless millions of years of gentle sunshine, the Demon Race's Heavenly Court—a paradise on earth—was suddenly struck by two purple bolts of Divine Thunder.

The instant they felt the purple lightning's supreme, majestic, and exalted power, along with its boundless aura of destruction, every demon in the Heavenly Court began trembling uncontrollably, from soul to flesh.

The more powerful demons recognized what the lightning was at once. Th-this was Purple Heaven Divine Lightning!

At those words, the countless demons in the Heavenly Court all sucked in a sharp breath.

Anyone serving in the Heavenly Court had to be at least a Golden Immortal, so they knew a thing or two.

They knew that Purple Heaven Divine Lightning was one of the Heavenly Dao's supreme means of punishing living beings, and that among the countless beings of the Primordial World, only Dao Ancestor Hongjun could summon it.

Now that Purple Heaven Divine Lightning had appeared, didn't that mean someone in the Demon Race had defied the heavens and was about to suffer the Heavenly Dao's punishment?

But before the demons could guess who had dared to be so brazen as to provoke the Heavenly Dao and earn the Dao Ancestor's wrath...

They saw the two bolts of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning plunge straight toward the Heavenly Emperor Palace and the Eastern Emperor Palace!

Ah!

In that instant, a sharp, agonized scream rang out from within the Heavenly Emperor Palace and the Eastern Emperor Palace.

This...

The countless demons in the Heavenly Court looked at one another, then fell silent.

As if they'd dare to say anything unkind, or even put a word wrong, when the Heavenly Emperor and Eastern Emperor recovered, they might kill them to make an example!

Every demon serving in the Heavenly Court was a prodigy among their own people. How could they be foolish enough to court death at a moment like this?

"Di Jun, Tai Yi! You are the Demon Race's Heavenly Emperor and the Supreme Eastern Emperor. You command the Heavenly Court and rule over all demons, yet you have failed to govern your subordinates and keep them in check, allowing the Demon Race to slaughter living beings at will and torment the people. Today, the Heavenly Dao is enraged and has sent down thunder punishment as a warning. If you persist in your reckless ways, Heaven will loathe you and cast you aside!"