Once the Three Clans' Fortune could no longer suppress the black-red Bloodshed Karmic Force, their Fortune would collapse with a thunderous crash.
This black-red Bloodshed Karmic Force would follow the unseen connection to find every member of the Three Clans, coil around them, cloud their spiritual platforms, and ruin their Dao Fruits...
Because the Three Clans' Fortune was too powerful, ordinary great supernatural experts could not see through these changes. However, as clan leaders, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin naturally sensed something.
At once, the three clan leaders found themselves riding a tiger with no way to dismount! They now had only two paths:
First, they could continue suppressing the conflict between the Three Clans. But as the Calamity Cycle's baleful aura accumulated, that would likely be futile.
As the Bloodshed Karmic Force continued to build, no matter how they suppressed it, it would erupt within one or two hundred Epochs at most.
By then, the Three Clans would likely decline completely. Even if they did not perish, the terrifying Bloodshed Karmic Force would prevent them from advancing any further, perhaps even eroding them under its suppression and causing their cultivation realms to regress.
Second, they could unleash an all-out decisive battle, destroy or subdue the other two clans, and unify the Primordial World. They would then obtain boundless Fortune, attain the Hunyuan Great Firmament, and greatly increase their clans' Fortune.
Although the Bloodshed Karmic Force would not dissipate, they could firmly suppress it. And with a Hunyuan Great Firmament alive in the world, there would naturally be a chance to resolve it in the future.
Of these two paths, the first was a slow death, with no chance of survival. Their Dao paths would end there as well. The second path was certainly fraught with mortal danger, but it still offered a sliver of hope. If they could seize that sliver, not only could their clans survive, they could also attain the Hunyuan Great Firmament and become invincible in the Primordial World.
Having seen the situation clearly, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin did not hesitate in the slightest. Without prior agreement, they chose an all-out decisive battle, seeking survival only after placing themselves in mortal peril.
As the three made their decision, the Four Seas, the skies, the earth... the entire Primordial World fell into chaos.
However, the first to suffer were not the Primordial Three Clans, but their subordinate clans.
How could the three, with their wisdom, fail to understand that if the Three Clans emerged mutually ruined, the countless scaled, feathered, and furred subordinate clans would no longer be wings and support if they grew too powerful, but future threats? Naturally, they had to use this great calamity to purge them.
Yet as the Myriad Tribes perished, endless bloodshed resentment surged into the heavens and tightly wrapped itself around the Fortune manifestations of the Primordial Three Clans, worsening their plight and gradually causing their members to lose their minds.
Even Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, who had barely maintained clarity before, were gradually eroded by the bloodshed resentment and lost their reason.
After a round of probing, the three made an agreement to decide victory and defeat ten Epochs later.
At once, the Primordial Three Clans threw open their treasuries. Innate spirit fruits, innate spirit herbs, Innate Spiritual Treasures, rare treasures... nearly everything was distributed, all to raise their clans' strength as much as possible in their final days and gain a little more chance of victory.
Ten Epochs later, the Dragon-Han Calamity fully erupted!
Ancestral Dragon revealed his true body, millions upon millions of zhang long. With a sweep of his dragon tail, the waters of the Four Seas flooded backward into the Primordial World. Trillions of aquatic cultivators covered the heavens and earth, their divine abilities sweeping through the world. Primordial Phoenix spread her wings to blot out the sky; the Southern Brightness Flame burned all things, while the Nirvana Divine Flame blazed without end. She led trillions of birds soaring through the heavens, and wherever fiery feathers fell, all things turned to ash. Primordial Qilin stood upon the earth, drawing upon the power of the Earth Veins. Innately undefeated, Qilin auspicious aura transformed into killing moves as trillions of beasts roared and charged.
The Primordial Three Clans poured out the strength of their entire clans and launched an all-out decisive battle. The Four Seas, the Nine Heavens, and the earth all blazed with war. The collisions of divine abilities shattered stars, while the might of clashing Innate Spiritual Treasures tore apart the heavens and crushed the Earth Veins.
The Primordial Three Clans had originally been the strongest clans of the Primordial World. Each commanded the scaled, feathered, and furred races, and their strength was evenly matched.
This battle raged for twenty or thirty Epochs without a victor, yet all three sides had already suffered devastating losses:
More than half of the Dragon Clan's Four Seas Dragon Palace had collapsed. Ancestral Dragon's scales were shattered, his horns broken, and his entire body was covered in terrifying wounds of the Great Dao. The Phoenix Clan's Nine Heavens Wutong Forest had become wasteland, Primordial Phoenix's wings were disheveled, and her Dao foundation was damaged. Primordial Qilin's body was covered in cracks, and he was gravely wounded.
The elites of the Three Clans were nearly all dead or injured. Those who had not fallen were each severely wounded, while countless scaled, feathered, and furred clans had been exterminated.
After this battle, fewer than one in ten thousand Primordial World beings remained. Blood covered heaven and earth, corpses littered the land, and the world was filled with incomparably terrifying, dense bloodshed resentment. The Primordial Three Clans' Fortune drained away at a rapid pace.
Moreover, no one knew that at this moment, the endless bloodshed resentment of the Primordial World was flowing along an unseen pull toward the Mount Sumeru Ancestral Vein. Nourished by the boundless bloodshed resentment, the Four Swords of Slaying Immortals and the Slaying Immortals Formation Diagram rapidly transformed and merged into one. An Innate Supreme Treasure representing calamity and balefulness was being born.
As the Primordial Three Clans' Fortune rapidly drained away, and as their decisive battle slaughtered countless living beings and ravaged the world, the Bloodshed Karmic Force began to grow. The Primordial Three Clans' Fortune could no longer suppress it and collapsed with a thunderous crash.
The incomparably terrifying Bloodshed Karmic Force descended upon the surviving members of the Primordial Three Clans along unseen connections.
At once, the surviving members of the Primordial Three Clans felt their spiritual platforms grow obscure, their mana become sluggish, and their Dao Fruits wither... They were gradually heading toward destruction. All three sides could only cling to life, with none of the former majesty of the Primordial World's overlords remaining.
At this moment, the already heavily wounded Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin were further injured as the Bloodshed Karmic Force descended. Their cultivation fell directly from Perfected Primordial Realm to Late Primordial Realm, and it continued to drop without pause.
At once, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, whose minds had gradually been consumed by the Calamity Cycle's baleful aura, regained their clarity. Looking upon the devastated land, they seemed to foresee their clans' futures, and nothing remained in their hearts but boundless regret and sorrow.
But suddenly, as though inspiration had struck, Ancestral Dragon raised his head and swore to the heavens, "Heavenly Dao above, I, Ancestral Dragon, command the aquatic races of the Four Seas. Today, I brought calamity upon all living beings and committed grave sins. I am willing to use my ruined body to become Earth Veins and mend the land, to use my true spirit and Dao Fruit to suppress the Four Seas Sea Eyes. The Dragon Clan shall retreat into the abysses of the Four Seas, guard the Four Seas, and regulate the water veins to atone for our former sins. Let the Heavenly Dao bear witness!"
Primordial Phoenix and Primordial Qilin also came to an understanding and each swore:
"Heavenly Dao above, I, Primordial Phoenix, command the birds of the Nine Heavens. Today, I brought calamity upon all living beings and committed grave sins. I am willing to use my body to suppress the Undying Volcano. The Phoenix Clan shall retreat into the Undying Volcano and suppress the eruptions of fire balefulness to atone for our former sins. Let the Heavenly Dao bear witness."
"Heavenly Dao above! I am Primordial Qilin, commander of the beasts of the earth. Today, I brought calamity upon all living beings and committed grave sins. I am willing to become Qilin Cliff and eternally suppress the Earth Veins of the Primordial World, using my Dao Fruit to stitch together the scars of the land and dissolve the ancient vicious aura. From this day onward, the Qilin Clan shall relinquish the right to wage war and shed its killing nature, becoming auspicious beasts of heaven and earth. Whenever a qilin appears in the world, auspicious signs shall surely descend to protect all living beings. We shall atone for karmic force with Merit. Let the Heavenly Dao bear witness!"
As Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin made their Heavenly Dao Oaths, a rumble sounded in the unseen depths, as though heaven and earth were acknowledging their vows.
Immediately afterward, an invisible force of heaven and earth descended upon Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, compelling them to fulfill their Heavenly Dao Oaths.
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