Leave at once, or there will surely be deaths and injuries today!

Primordial Qilin had even had two teeth knocked out.

He was feeling utterly miserable.

Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix had said so much, yet that old fellow Hongjun had only slapped him.

Who the hell was he supposed to complain to?

Then he focused his eyes... and discovered that Hongjun had made another move.

"Time Freeze, Space Confinement!"

Hongjun waved his sleeve, and the space where Ancestral Dragon stood was completely sealed off.

Then Hongjun formed a sword gesture with his fingers. More than a dozen laws, like iron chains, firmly bound Ancestral Dragon.

Ancestral Dragon's enormous body rapidly shrank until he became like a little snake.

The next moment, Hongjun moved.

He grabbed that little snake and slammed it back and forth.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

With every slam, another bottomless fissure split open in the earth.

Ancestral Dragon looked... utterly miserable.

Blood seeped from every single scale.

Only after he slowly lost consciousness did Hongjun toss Ancestral Dragon aside.

Ancestral Dragon streaked through the air and happened to crash straight into Primordial Qilin, who was lying on the ground unable to move.

"Big Brother, you aimed that throw at me, didn't you?"

Primordial Qilin looked as if he wanted to cry but had no tears.

Boom!

Hongjun's seemingly casual throw actually broke more than a dozen of Qilin's ribs...

Everything had happened too quickly, within the span of an instant.

"You're next."

Hongjun remained expressionless as he turned his gaze toward Primordial Phoenix.

Primordial Phoenix's heart jolted, and his entire body began trembling uncontrollably.

Then he discovered that he had already been confined, utterly incapable of moving.

Right after that, he noticed his fiery feathers falling out one by one.

Before long... every last feather had been plucked.

Ahhh! My feathers!

"Forget it. I'll leave you three."

Hongjun said this, then tossed the featherless chicken away as well.

Primordial Phoenix was now completely bare, with only three tail feathers remaining.

"You've got to be kidding me, again?"

Primordial Qilin had only just caught his breath when he saw Primordial Phoenix crashing toward him. "He definitely aimed that throw!!"

Boom!

A tremendous crash rang out, and the three divine beasts fell silent.

"I say we end this matter here! Now, who agrees? Who objects?!"

Hongjun swept his gaze across Heaven and Earth, Yin-Yang, and Daoist Yang Mei.

The three were unwilling to accept this, but none of them dared make any rash moves.

Hongjun's earlier beating of Luo Hou had definitely been a display for them, to let them understand his true strength.

Now, his beating of the three divine beasts was meant to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

This scene had also left the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches dumbfounded.

"Hongjun is actually this terrifying?"

"Hongjun definitely has no good intentions. If he's this powerful, aren't we as good as dead?"

Zhu Rong and the Heaven-Connecting Sect Master exchanged remarks back and forth.

It was as though the two of them were the real blood brothers.

"Hongjun, don't tell me you really want to swallow everything by yourself?"

Daoist Yang Mei could not hold himself back any longer and spoke up to ask.

"The Three Pure Ones and I have the fate of master and disciples. The Twelve Ancestral Witches still have their own mission in the future. If you kill them today, you will surely suffer Heaven's condemnation someday."

Hongjun spoke calmly.

Mm, Chu Yi had deliberately said this for them to hear.

It was also the will of the Heavenly Dao.

He simply did not want the Heavenly Dao to notice that someone had invisibly altered its script.

"What fate of master and disciples? What mission..." Yin-Yang Ancestor said in a strange, mocking tone. "If it weren't for Pangu's essence blood, I would directly eat—"

But before he could finish speaking,

Hongjun spoke again. "I will only say this once: leave at once, or there will surely be deaths and injuries among you today!"

The three innate Gods and Devils looked at one another...

In the end, they reluctantly left the battlefield.

Now,

only Hongjun, the Three Pure Ones, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches remained on the battlefield.

Oh, right. There was also Primordial Qilin with his teeth knocked out, Ancestral Dragon who had been swung around like a toy, and Primordial Phoenix whose feathers had all been plucked.

"Brothers, can you still activate the Twelve Capitals Divine Baleful Formation one more time?"

Seeing that something was wrong, Taiqing turned and asked Di Jiang.

He did not believe Hongjun was kindhearted enough to help them out and spare them.

All it took was putting himself in Hongjun's shoes.

If someone stole your things, would you help him?

"Yes!" Di Jiang gave an affirmative answer. "But we have only just begun learning the formation, so it takes too long to set it up."

"Whether we live or die, the three of us brothers will risk our lives to hold Hongjun back," Taiqing answered firmly.

"Oh? Hold me back? How do you compare to the three divine beasts?" Hongjun's lips curled upward.

This left Taiqing unable to speak.

He had dealt with those three in just a few moves... that level of terror was simply heaven-defying.

"S-So what? Even if we die, we'll die facing the heavens. We're not afraid!"

The Heaven-Connecting Sect Master stepped forward and shouted.

Hongjun merely glanced at the Heaven-Connecting Sect Master.

Buzz.

An invisible pressure instantly crushed the Heaven-Connecting Sect Master to the ground.

"Third Brother!"

Taiqing hurriedly moved, wanting to help his third brother up...

But things were not so simple.

"Brothers, form the formation!"

Di Jiang shouted, and the other Ancestral Witches immediately began to move.

But...

An even stronger power suddenly erupted from Hongjun's body...

All Twelve Ancestral Witches were rendered unable to move.

At this rate, they could only wait for death.

"With only this much strength, you still shout and make a fuss. What a disappointment."

Hongjun smiled. "Enough. I won't tease you any longer."

With a light wave of his sleeve, the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches regained their ability to move.

"What does this mean?"

The fifteen of them looked utterly confused.

"Can you truly not tell who I am?"

Hongjun said calmly.

After a long while.

Primordial Origin Heavenly Venerable pieced together everything that had happened, and his eyes suddenly lit up. "Greetings, Uncle!"

Mm, ever since they had recovered from their injuries, they had known that their uncle had acted.

Now, Hongjun had helped them deal with the three divine beasts and driven away the three innate Gods and Devils... it was far too abnormal, unless Hongjun was their uncle...

Or rather, unless their uncle was controlling Hongjun.

"Second Brother, what are you talking about? How could Hongjun possibly be Uncle?"

The Heaven-Connecting Sect Master looked unwilling to believe it.

"If Hongjun isn't Uncle, then why would he save us?"

Primordial Origin Heavenly Venerable asked in return.

"But why wouldn't Uncle show himself personally? Why would he pretend to be Hongjun instead?" Zhu Rong scratched his head, feeling as though he was about to grow a brain.

"Primordial Origin, you're quite good. Heaven-Connecting, you brat ought to use your brain more in the future. Don't always act so impulsively."

Chu Yi had already controlled the Primordial Origin Pivot Pearl and deployed the Primordial Origin Domain.

No one, not even the Heavenly Dao, would know what they said next.

Then Chu Yi's Second Primordial Spirit emerged from Primordial Origin Heavenly Venerable's body.

"This is my Second Primordial Spirit," Chu Yi introduced. "It was precisely my Second Primordial Spirit that controlled Hongjun and saved you."

"Greetings, Uncle."

Seeing this, the others immediately knelt and paid their respects.

At the same time, they were greatly astonished.

Uncle's Second Primordial Spirit could actually control an innate God and Devil!

Just how powerful was Uncle's true strength?

"Mm, rise, all of you." Chu Yi smiled.

Taiqing and the others were still confused. "But Uncle, why did you save us through Hongjun?"

"Because..." Chu Yi left them in suspense.