The End of the Three Clans' War

Once the Three Clans' providence could no longer suppress the black-red karmic blood fiend energy, their providence would collapse with a thunderous crash.

That black-red karmic blood fiend energy would follow the connections hidden in fate to find every member of the Three Clans, wrapping around them, clouding their spiritual platforms, and ruining their Dao Fruits...

The Three Clans' providence was simply too powerful for ordinary great cultivators to perceive such changes. But as clan leaders, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin naturally sensed it.

At once, the three clan leaders found themselves riding a tiger they could not dismount! They now had only two paths:

First, they could continue suppressing the conflict among the Three Clans. But as the calamity's baleful aura accumulated, that would likely be futile.

As the karmic blood fiend energy continued to build, no matter how fiercely they suppressed it, it would erupt within one or two hundred yuanhui at most.

When that happened, the Three Clans would likely decline from then on. Even if they did not perish, the terrifying karmic blood fiend energy would prevent them from advancing any further. They might even see their cultivation realms regress under its suppression and erosion.

Second, they could launch an all-out decisive battle, destroy or subdue the other two clans, and unify the Primordial World. They would then gain supreme providence, attain the Hunyuan Daluo Dao, and see their clan providence surge.

Though the karmic blood fiend energy would not vanish, it could be firmly suppressed. And with a Hunyuan Daluo cultivator alive, there would naturally be chances to resolve it in the future.

The first path was a slow death, with no chance of survival, and their Dao paths would be cut off forever. The second path, though it meant nine deaths and one chance at life, still offered a sliver of hope. If they could seize that sliver, not only could their clans be preserved, but they could also attain the Hunyuan Daluo Dao and stand invincible in the Primordial World.

Having seen the situation clearly, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin did not hesitate in the slightest. Without discussing it, they all chose all-out war, placing themselves in mortal danger in pursuit of rebirth.

As the three made their decision, the four seas, the heavens, the earth... the entire Primordial World descended into turmoil.

Yet the first to suffer were not the Primordial Three Clans, but their subordinate races.

How could the three, with their wisdom, fail to understand that if the Three Clans emerged mutually devastated, the countless subordinate races of scales and armor, birds, and beasts would no longer be wings and support if they grew too strong, but future threats? Naturally, they intended to use this great calamity to purge them.

However, as the myriad races perished, endless blood fiend resentment rose into the sky, tightly entangling the providence manifestations of the Primordial Three Clans. This only worsened their plight, and the members of the Primordial Three Clans gradually lost their reason as well.

Even Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, who had barely managed to retain their clarity, were gradually eroded by the blood fiend resentment and lost their minds.

After some probing, the three made an agreement to decide victory and defeat ten yuanhui later.

At once, the Primordial Three Clans threw open their treasuries. Innate spirit fruits, innate spirit herbs, innate spirit treasures, rare treasures... nearly everything was distributed. They sought to strengthen their clans as much as possible in their final days and gain even the slightest additional chance of victory.

Ten yuanhui later, the Dragon-Han Calamity fully erupted!

Ancestral Dragon revealed his true form, millions of zhang long. With a sweep of his dragon tail, the waters of the four seas surged backward into the Primordial World. Trillions upon trillions of aquatic cultivators filled the skies, their divine abilities sweeping heaven and earth. Primordial Phoenix spread her wings and blotted out the sky. The Southern Brightness Flame burned all things, while the Nirvana Divine Flame endlessly regenerated. The Phoenix Clan led trillions upon trillions of birds soaring through the heavens; wherever fiery feathers fell, all things became ash. Primordial Qilin stood upon the earth, drawing upon the power of the earth veins. Innately undefeated, his auspicious qilin aura transformed into killing moves as trillions upon trillions of beasts charged forth with roaring cries.

The Primordial Three Clans poured out the strength of their entire clans and began an all-out decisive battle. The four seas, the nine heavens, and the earth were all engulfed in war. The collisions of divine abilities shattered stars, while the might of innate spirit treasures clashing tore apart the firmament and crushed the earth veins.

The Primordial Three Clans had originally been the strongest races in the Primordial World. Each commanded the scaled and armored creatures, birds, and beasts, and their strength was evenly matched.

This battle raged for twenty or thirty yuanhui without a victor being decided, yet all three sides had already suffered devastating losses:

More than half of the Four Seas Dragon Palace had collapsed. Ancestral Dragon's scales were shattered, his horns broken, and terrible Dao wounds covered his body. The Nine Heavens Wutong Forest of the Phoenix Clan had become a wasteland, Primordial Phoenix's wings were in disarray, and the foundation of her Dao was damaged. Primordial Qilin's body was covered in cracks, and he had suffered grievous wounds.

The elites of the Three Clans were almost entirely dead or wounded. Those who had not fallen were all severely injured, while no one knew how many races among the scaled and armored creatures, birds, and beasts had been exterminated.

After this battle, fewer than one in ten thousand living beings of the Primordial World remained. Blood flooded heaven and earth, bones littered the land, and the world was filled with incomparably terrifying and dense blood fiend resentment. The providence of the Primordial Three Clans rapidly drained away.

Moreover, none knew at this moment that the endless blood fiend resentment of the Primordial World was flowing, guided by an unseen pull, toward the ancestral vein of Mount Sumeru. Nourished by that boundless blood fiend resentment, the Four Swords of Slaying Immortals and the Slaying Immortals Formation Diagram rapidly transformed and fused into one. An innate supreme treasure embodying calamity and balefulness was being born.

As the providence of the Primordial Three Clans rapidly drained away, and as their great decisive battle slaughtered countless living beings and devastated heaven and earth, their karmic blood fiend energy began to grow. At last, the providence of the Primordial Three Clans could no longer suppress it and shattered with a thunderous crash.

Incomparably terrifying karmic blood fiend energy descended upon the surviving members of the Primordial Three Clans through the connections hidden in fate.

At once, the surviving members of the Primordial Three Clans felt their spiritual platforms grow murky, their mana become sluggish, and their Dao Fruits wither... They were gradually heading toward destruction. All three sides were barely clinging to life, with none of the majesty they had once possessed as overlords of the Primordial World.

At this moment, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, already grievously wounded, suffered further injuries as the karmic blood fiend energy descended. Their cultivation directly fell from the perfected Hunyuan realm to the late Hunyuan realm, and it continued to fall without stopping.

At once, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, whose minds had gradually been eroded by the calamity's baleful aura, regained their clarity. Looking upon the devastation before them, they seemed to foresee the future of their clans, and their hearts were filled only with boundless remorse and sorrow.

But suddenly, as if enlightenment had come to him, Ancestral Dragon raised his head to the heavens and swore, "Heavenly Dao above, I, Ancestral Dragon, command the aquatic races of the four seas. Today, I have brought calamity upon all living beings and committed grave sins. I am willing to use my broken body to transform into earth veins and mend the land, and use my true spirit and Dao Fruit to suppress the sea eyes of the four seas. The Dragon Clan shall retreat into the abyss of the four seas, guarding the four seas and regulating the water veins to atone for our former sins. Let the Heavenly Dao bear witness!"

Primordial Phoenix and Primordial Qilin also gained insight and swore in turn:

"Heavenly Dao above, I, Primordial Phoenix, command the birds of the nine heavens. Today, I have 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 to the Undying Volcano and suppress the upheaval of fire fiend energy 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 have brought calamity upon all living beings and committed grave sins. I am willing to transform my body into Qilin Cliff, forever suppressing the earth veins of the Primordial World. With my Dao Fruit, I shall stitch together the cracks of the earth and dissolve the hostility accumulated through the ages. From this day onward, the Qilin Clan shall relinquish the right to wage war and shed its aspect of slaughter, becoming auspicious beasts of heaven and earth. Whenever qilin appear in the world, auspicious signs shall surely descend, protecting all living beings. We shall use merit to atone for karma. 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 acknowledged their vows.

Immediately afterward, an invisible force of heaven and earth descended upon Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, making them fulfill their Heavenly Dao oaths.