At the edge of the Primordial World, a dense army of Demon Gods surged forth, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.
The Fate Demon God and the Karma Demon God stood before the army. Their combined pressure distorted the Chaos Space at the edge of the Primordial World.
The newly formed Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World began to tremble violently.
Within Yujing Mountain, Hongjun was sitting with his eyes closed, comprehending the Dao laws within the Pseudo-Creation Jade Butterfly, when he suddenly felt an intense palpitation.
He abruptly opened his eyes, his brows tightly furrowed. "What is going on? Why is the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao so afraid for no reason?"
He raised his hand and summoned the Pseudo-Creation Jade Butterfly, beginning to deduce the secrets of heaven.
When he saw the dense army of Demon Gods beyond the Primordial World, Hongjun's face instantly turned livid.
"Damn it! What are they trying to do?"
Hongjun suddenly rose to his feet, the Pseudo-Creation Jade Butterfly spinning rapidly above his head. "Where is Dao Venerable Shichen? Why did he not stop them? What exactly happened in the Chaos?"
He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. This was not the time to panic. He had to prepare for the worst.
At the edge of the Primordial World.
The Karma Demon God stared at the newborn world before him, licked his lips, and grinned at the Fate Demon God. "Let's begin!"
The Fate Demon God fell silent for several breaths before nodding. He turned and shouted at the tens of millions of Demon Gods behind him:
"All Demon Gods, fully activate your Origin Dao and suppress the Dao of Strength and Dao of Time of the Primordial World! Once Karma and I complete the imprinting..."
Before he could finish,
A silver-white spatial barrier suddenly rose before the Primordial World, enveloping the entire world within it.
Immediately afterward, countless figures stepped out of the void and stood before the Fate Demon God's army.
Yang Mei stood at the forefront. Behind him stood the Creation Demon God, the Chaos Demon Ape, Luo Hou, the Star Demon God, and several hundred Chaos Demon Gods who were close to Shichen and the others.
Further behind them stood tens of millions of Lower Demon Gods under their command, likewise arrayed for battle.
The two armies faced one another, and the atmosphere instantly grew taut to the extreme.
The moment the Karma Demon God saw Yang Mei, surprise flashed through his eyes, but he quickly returned to his usual frivolous grin.
"Yang Mei? How did you get here so quickly? From all the things I saw through karma, shouldn't you normally show up at the very last moment, right on cue?"
Standing beside him, the Fate Demon God's eye twitched involuntarily upon hearing that. He cursed under his breath, "Yin the Fifth, don't start acting stupid at a time like this."
He fixed his gaze on Yang Mei.
"Yang Mei, withdraw now, and afterward I'll give you thirty percent of the Primordial World's fortune, along with half of the system's profits."
Yang Mei shook his head, his voice calm yet resolute. "The Primordial World is the shared effort of us all. Letting you leave contingencies behind was already the greatest concession. If we allow you to act as you please, the Primordial World will only descend into chaos."
The Fate Demon God's gaze turned cold. "Then there is nothing more to say."
He suddenly spread his hands, and an invisible ripple expanded from within him.
"I declare... all things lie within fate!"
As his words fell, the space around Yang Mei abruptly shifted. Countless scenes appeared out of thin air, each recording an important moment from Yang Mei's life since his birth.
The Fate Demon God's voice came from every scene at once, overlapping as it echoed beside Yang Mei's ears. "Yang Mei, can you escape fate?"
The Fate Demon God extended a finger and pointed at one of the scenes.
"I declare: the fate here shall be altered!"
In that scene, Yang Mei, who should have smoothly broken through to the Chaos Realm, suddenly suffered unstable origin power and chaotic aura, on the verge of failing his breakthrough.
In reality, Yang Mei suddenly let out a muffled groan, and a thread of golden blood seeped from the corner of his lips.
The spatial origin within his body began to churn violently, and his cultivation realm showed faint signs of instability.
Yet he did not panic. His hands rapidly formed seals as the Law of Space surged around him.
"Space bears all things. Fate, too, lies within space."
"Space Deprivation!"
As his words fell, the scenes surrounding him began to tremble violently.
The space within those scenes was stripped away layer by layer, peeling the scenes that recorded his fate back into their most primordial chaotic state.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
One scene after another shattered, turning into countless fragments that scattered into the void.
The Fate Demon God suffered a backlash and was hurled tens of thousands of light-years away. His feet plowed two long trenches through the Chaos Void.
After forcibly steadying himself, he wiped away the blood at the corner of his mouth, his expression growing even darker.
"Space Demon God... your reputation is well deserved."
The Karma Demon God no longer stood by and watched. With a flash, he appeared behind Yang Mei.
He held his hands in the air, and two Karma Threads emerged from the void, winding toward Yang Mei's arms like venomous snakes.
"Karma Entanglement!"
Yang Mei shifted slightly, and the Law of Space formed a silver-white shield over his body, knocking the two Karma Threads aside.
But the Karma Demon God clearly had no intention of giving him a chance to catch his breath. His hands moved in rapid succession as countless Karma Threads emerged from the surrounding void, weaving into a vast net that descended upon Yang Mei.
"Spear of Fate!"
The Fate Demon God was not idle either. He raised a hand, and a spear condensed from the laws of fate appeared in his grasp. He hurled it forward, and it became a gray streak of light that shot directly toward Yang Mei's back.
Fate and karma, two supreme laws, joined forces. Even Yang Mei, the Space Demon God, felt the pressure multiply.
Yang Mei circulated the Law of Space with all his strength, his body flickering constantly between reality and illusion as he tried to shake off fate and karma's dual entanglement.
"Space Folding!"
Yang Mei suddenly brought his hands together.
The space around him instantly folded into tens of millions of layers. Every time the Karma Threads pierced a layer, a segment broke off, unable to reach his true body at all. At the same time, countless spatial blades slashed backward along the Karma Threads, driving straight at the Karma Demon God.
"Tch, you're slippery."
Karma let out a strange cry and hurriedly severed part of the Karma Threads to evade. His figure flickered repeatedly through the void.
Meanwhile, the Spear of Fate behind him was already within reach.
Yang Mei's gaze narrowed. Behind him, a willow tree emerged from the void and began growing madly as endless spatial power gathered from all directions.
"Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, open!"
Three thousand layers of independent space unfolded behind him. Each was a Great Thousand World, stacking one atop another before the spear.
"Boom!"
The spear descended, and the three thousand Great Thousand Worlds began collapsing layer by layer.
It instantly broke through more than two thousand layers, but was ultimately blocked dead by the final few, unable to advance another inch.
Seeing this, Fate and Karma charged forward directly. As laws surged, all manner of great divine abilities crashed down.
For a time, the battle reached a fever pitch.
At the same time, battle erupted in full across the other parts of the battlefield.
The Five Elements Demon God and the Creation Demon God were engaged in a fierce clash. The Five Elements laws collided with the laws of creation, bursting forth in brilliant multicolored light.
The Yin-Yang Demon God faced the Chaos Demon Ape. Yin and yang energies flowed and transformed into an enormous Taiji Diagram, trapping the Chaos Demon Ape within. The Chaos Demon Ape roared repeatedly, his iron staff smashing wildly against the Taiji Diagram and scattering yin and yang energy in every direction, yet the Taiji Diagram remained as stable as ever.
The Devour Demon God faced Luo Hou. The Law of Devouring and the Law of Slaughter collided. One devoured all things, while the other slaughtered all things. The two fought to a standstill, shattering the Chaos Space across tens of millions of light-years.
The other Demon Gods also found their respective opponents, and the entire Chaos World descended into an unprecedented melee.
The radiance of laws intertwined and flickered through the Chaos. The Chaos World was battered full of holes, with chaotic nothingness everywhere.
Though the battle was fierce, all the Demon Gods tacitly avoided the Primordial World.
The spatial barrier laid down by Yang Mei kept every aftershock of battle outside. The living beings within the Primordial World did not even know that a war capable of destroying everything was raging in the Chaos.
The great battle continued for several Chaos Eras.
The Chaos World was left in ruins. Creation, Five Elements, the Chaos Demon Ape, and countless other Demon Gods had all suffered injuries of varying severity.
Yet neither side showed any intention of stopping.
Yang Mei was covered in blood, and his aura had weakened considerably. Fate and Karma were no better off, their bodies covered in wounds.
"Yang Mei!" The Fate Demon God panted heavily, gripping the Spear of Fate in his hand.
"You cannot stop us! The Primordial World is destined to be ours!"
Yang Mei wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and still stood straight. "Then try it."
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