Salted Fish Slacking Makes Heavenly Dao Anxious

The years within the Purple Heaven Palace were still filled with a lazy and decadent "peaceful" aura. Xiao Kuang perfectly practiced his "Dao of Slacking," either soaking his feet and getting a massage, or researching how to develop new flavors of grilled skewers with chaotic energy, or forcing the Dragon Girl and Phoenix Girl to learn the latest "idol dances." His life was truly comfortable.

However, on the Primordial Era's land, the Witch and Demon tribes, whose mindsets had been subtly altered by the Purple Firmament Palace's sermons (team-building events) but whose strength had improved due to the reduction of karma, finally had their accumulated conflicts of countless eons erupt.

The cause might have been a common resource dispute, a quarrel stemming from "mahjong table grudges," or perhaps Di Jun simply found the muscular witches increasingly displeasing, while Gong Gong felt the demon race's feathered creatures were becoming more arrogant.

Although the calamity's malevolent energy was somewhat diluted by the Purple Heaven Palace's "deviant influence," the innate opposition between the Witch tribe, born from Pangu's essence blood, and the Demon tribe, nurtured by the Sun Star, along with the immense karma of vying for dominance over the world, could not be completely resolved by a ridiculous sermon.

Thus, the first Witch-Demon War, without any warning, yet as if destined, erupted with a roar!

This time, Dao Ancestor Hongjun did not appear to mediate (someone else was in charge), nor did the Heavenly Dao exert obvious suppression (the Heavenly Dao was staring at the slacker, questioning its own existence). The power accumulated by both sides far surpassed that of the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity!

Instantly, the Primordial Era shook, and the heavens lost their color!

Beneath Buzhou Mountain, within Pangu Hall, the Twelve Ancestral Witches (excluding Houtu) roared to the heavens, manifesting their ten-thousand-zhang Ancestral Witch true forms! Dijiang traversed space, Zhu Jiuyin manipulated time, Gong Gong commanded all waters, Zhu Rong burned the eight desolate lands, Qiangliang controlled lightning, Tian Wu rode the wind... Their terrifying flesh-and-blood power shook the heavens and earth, malevolent energy condensing into a tangible substance, rolling towards the Demon Court in the thirty-third heaven!

In the thirty-third heaven, the Sun God Palace, Di Jun unfurled the River Diagram and Luo Script, and the Grand Formation of the Stars was instantly activated! The power of the ancient stars was drawn down, and billions of stars flowed like chess pieces on the star map, transforming into world-destroying pillars of starlight that bombarded the earth! Eastern Emperor Taiyi hung the Chaos Bell high, its chimes vast, stabilizing the elements and suppressing the space-time of the Primordial Era! Countless demon gods roared, and demon soldiers surged out like a tide!

This was the ultimate collision of power and law! The frantic bombardment of flesh and blood against stars!

The land was shattered into pieces, countless mountains and rivers turned to dust, earth veins snapped, and spiritual energy dissipated. The sky was torn open with countless huge rifts, chaotic energy pouring in and annihilating everything. Countless beings wailed and turned to ash, blood rained down, and karma and malevolent energy surged through the entire Primordial Era like a boiling ocean!

The Primordial continent was truly on the verge of being destroyed! The brutality of the calamity far surpassed anything before!

[Warning! Warning! Main structure of the Primordial Era damaged by over 15%! Large-scale extinction of life! Concentration of karma and malevolent energy rapidly increasing! Calamity process accelerating out of control!] [Emergency! Emergency! Requesting Proxy intervention immediately! Intervene immediately!] [Heavenly Dao: Xiao Kuang! Xiao Kuang! Stop lying there! Get up and work! Something big is about to happen!!!]

The Heavenly Dao's cold will, like a top-level fire alarm, exploded madly in Xiao Kuang's sea of consciousness, carrying unprecedented urgency and... a hint of panic?

Xiao Kuang, who was watching a Dragon Girl awkwardly dance to "Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss," was startled by this sudden barrage of calls and almost slid off his massage chair.

"What are you guys yelling about!" he complained irritably, "What's wrong now? Did the sky fall or the earth collapse? You're disturbing my dance viewing!"

[Witch-Demon War has fully erupted! The Primordial Era is about to shatter! The calamity is out of control!] The Heavenly Dao's will was practically roaring (if it could roar), [Use your authority immediately! Stop them! Cease the conflict! Otherwise, the world line is at risk of collapse! We'll both be finished!]

"Witch-Demon War?" Xiao Kuang scratched his head, a flicker of interest appearing. His divine sense subconsciously swept over the Primordial Era's land.

Good heavens! The scene was truly... drums beating, firecrackers sounding, red flags waving, a sea of people... No, it was divine abilities flying everywhere, stars falling, flesh and blood splattering, a lively battle!

Gong Gong smashed a starfield with his head, Zhu Rong set half the sky ablaze, Di Jun and Tai Yi drove the Grand Formation of the Stars, smashing indiscriminately as if they were free...

"Tsk tsk tsk, fighting so fiercely..." Xiao Kuang clicked his tongue, commenting, "These special effects, this scale, it's much more exciting than a Hollywood blockbuster! It's just a bit hard on the Primordial Era."

Heavenly Dao: [...(((;￢＿￢)))...] [This is not the time to watch a show! Intervene! Intervene immediately! You are the Dao Ancestor! The Dao Integrator! It is your duty to maintain the balance of the Primordial Era!]

"Duty?" Xiao Kuang rolled his eyes and lay back down, "What's it to me? If they want to fight, let them fight. They'll stop when they get tired. Besides, how am I supposed to intervene? I only know how to call down lightning to strike people. Should I go down and strike everyone? That would be too tiring."

The Heavenly Dao was about to go crazy: [Authority! Use Heavenly Dao authority! Forcefully separate the battlefield! Modify the laws of the combat zone! Deprive them of their ability to mobilize the power of heaven and earth! Or... or directly capture their leaders and lock them up in the Purple Heaven Palace! There are plenty of ways! Hurry!]

"Oh? You can do that?" Xiao Kuang's eyes lit up slightly, but then dimmed again, "Sounds like too much trouble... Mobilizing authority takes brainpower, you know? It's tiring! And where would I lock them up? The backyard zoo is almost full! Besides, interrupting other people's fights is immoral!"

Heavenly Dao: [!!!] Morality?! The Primordial Era is about to shatter, and you're talking to me about morality?! The temperature of the Heavenly Dao's core code rapidly increased, almost burning!

[Xiao Kuang! This is not child's play! If the Primordial Era shatters, all things will wither, and your Purple Heaven Palace cannot survive alone! Your massage chair! Your hot springs! Your grill! All will turn to nothing! Your beautiful attendants will also perish! Think of your losses!]

Hearing this, Xiao Kuang indeed hesitated and stroked his chin: "Hmm... You put it that way, it does seem to make some sense..."

Seeing this, the Heavenly Dao struck while the iron was hot: [Quick! Act now! There's no time!]

However, Xiao Kuang's next words plunged the Heavenly Dao into complete despair.

"But..." Xiao Kuang looked troubled, "I'm just at the most exciting part! That Gong Gong, yes, that water monkey, he seems to be about to smash something with his head again! Let's wait until he finishes this one hit! Maybe he'll win!"

Heavenly Dao: [...] It felt its core code, with a snap, extinguish. Not sleep, not standby, but true, complete, despairing... extinction.

It gave up. It was impossible to communicate normally with this slacker!

Let the Primordial Era shatter if it shatters. Let all things perish if they perish. Let everyone go down together.

It was tired. Truly tired.

The Heavenly Dao's will receded like a tide, carrying endless fatigue and deathly silence, completely disappearing from Xiao Kuang's sea of consciousness, leaving not even a ripple. It seemed to have resigned itself, preparing to quietly await the end.

Xiao Kuang waited for a while, found no sound in his mind, and muttered strangely, "Huh? Why is it silent? Did the signal cut out? Forget it, forget it, let's keep watching the show... Hey, hey, hey! Go Gong Gong! Yes! Smash him!"

He actually concentrated on "watching" this battle that was destroying the Primordial Era, even cheering occasionally, as if watching a sports match that had nothing to do with him.

Within the Purple Heaven Palace, song and dance continued (the Dragon Girl was still dancing). On the Primordial Era's land, the heavens and earth were cracking. This formed an extremely bizarre, absurd, and despairing scene.

And where this Witch-Demon War would lead, with no Dao Ancestor intervention and the Heavenly Dao seemingly "frozen," no one knew.