Taiyi Peak, Humanity in Peril

"Buzzz!!!"

As Xuan Liu stepped onto Penglai Immortal Island, he swiftly entered the immortal palace and began his secluded cultivation.

"Phew! Time to enter seclusion and break through!"

Xuan Liu exhaled a long breath of pure air, his hands coming together before his chest as they changed seals frantically.

The Upper Clear Immortal Method within his body surged like raging tides bursting through a dam.

Without holding anything back, it began circulating wildly through every joint and organ in his body.

The Primordial World knew not the passage of years; time flew like a white colt glimpsed through a crack.

Within this isolated Penglai Immortal Island, the speed at which time passed had long since lost its original meaning.

Ten thousand years!

Thirty thousand years!

Fifty thousand years!

Amid the alternation of those long and dreary years, Xuan Liu's entire Dao body—

Upper Clear immortal light surged wildly around him as he underwent a transformation that remade him from the marrow out.

Who knew how much time had passed.

On this day, deep within Penglai Immortal Island.

"Rumble!!!"

A sound so muffled it reached the utmost extreme, like the supreme thunderous roar of heaven and earth in the Primordial World,

exploded from the very center of Xuan Liu's Niwan Palace within his Primordial Spirit.

The azure robes upon him suddenly billowed despite the absence of wind.

The ocean of mana within his body shattered through the bottleneck of the late Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage in an instant.

Behind his head, the phantoms of three thousand divine kingdoms condensed to an unprecedented degree of solidity.

In an instant, above the vast and boundless Penglai Immortal Island, myriad laws intertwined, as though an unrivaled supreme epic scroll of the Primordial World had descended from the heavens.

Across the eastern skies for hundreds of millions of miles, endless purple qi rolled in from the east.

Golden lotuses, each flowing with golden divine radiance and breathtakingly beautiful, emerged from the earth one after another.

Immediately afterward, ancient true dragons streaked across the horizon, their cries alternating with those of undying phoenixes bathed in fire.

The roars of dragons and cries of phoenixes were as vast and majestic as great bells and thunderous chimes.

Breakthrough!

Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal!

He had finally broken through smoothly into the peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

At this moment, his strength underwent an earth-shattering qualitative transformation.

Within the same realm, with his current Thunder Emperor Secret Art and the supreme-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Green Duckweed Sword, he could be called invincible.

"Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal... Breaking through the bottleneck and reaching Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal will be no easy matter."

Xuan Liu slowly opened his eyes, flicked his long sleeve, and muttered to himself.

Although the purity of the mana in his body had already reached saturation,

the Dao Fruit of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal was by no means so easily attained.

Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal—

these two realms appeared to differ by only one minor stage.

Yet that was far from the truth. The gap between them was like that between clouds and mud.

For ordinary living beings of the Primordial World, it was common to remain stuck at the peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm for an entire lifetime.

If he wished to break through now, it was absolutely not something he could achieve simply by entering a deathly seclusion.

He had to encounter the right opportunity before he could break through his own bottleneck.

"Forget it! Rather than sit here wasting away, I might as well go and take in this vast Primordial World. Perhaps I'll gain a different insight."

Xuan Liu made up his mind without the slightest hesitation.

He rose to his feet. His entire azure-robed figure stepped forward, flickered, and instantly transformed into an emerald divine streak.

He shot away from Penglai Immortal Island at top speed, racing toward the magnificent and tumultuous world of the Primordial World.

The Primordial World was boundless, with countless races standing side by side.

Xuan Liu concealed his identity and wandered through the Primordial World for innumerable years.

Yet the Dao Fruit of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal was incomparably elusive.

Though those long years of travel had strengthened his foundation at the peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm,

he still had gained no decisive insight into the Dao Fruit of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

Until this day.

Riding a plain-colored auspicious cloud, Xuan Liu slowly arrived at a certain place.

"Whoosh!!!"

All of a sudden, a crimson gale rose up and raged of its own accord.

Carrying an extraordinarily dense, unbearably pungent stench of blood and savage demonic qi,

it swept in like a tide, forcefully shattering the tranquil white clouds around him and flooding into Xuan Liu's nose and mouth.

"Hmm? What terrifying demonic qi!"

Xuan Liu's swordlike brows furrowed sharply, and his dark-golden Dharma eyes swept coldly downward.

Through layers of mist, he saw that upon the land not far ahead,

there stood a human tribe of considerable size.

At this moment, resentment soared into the sky above the human tribe. The once-peaceful primitive dwellings had long since been reduced inch by inch to ruins and scorched earth amid demonic flames.

"No! Holy Mother Empress! Taiqing Sage! Who can come save our humanity!"

"Heavenly Dao above, whom has humanity offended? Why must our human race suffer such a great calamity?"

"Human youths and strong men, kill with me! Fight for a sliver of survival for humanity!"

"Kill!"

Dense masses of human mortals bled until bodies floated like driftwood beneath the crushing force of absolute demonic arts, their cries echoing through the heavens.

And in the air above the very center of that human tribe,

an incomparably massive and vicious demonic general, covered from head to toe in black fur like steel needles and wielding a bone blade as pale as death,

was opening his blood-filled maw and continuously spewing boundless pressure, swallowing countless humans alive into his belly to refine his evil art.

Judging by the might of the demonic light flowing around him, he was clearly a Demon Race member at the early Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

A Primordial Unity Golden Immortal demonic general serving as a deputy general in the Demon Court.

"Hahahaha! Human essences truly are the finest tonic in heaven and earth! As long as I devour this tribe alive, I will surely break through my bottleneck and attain the middle Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage!"

That Primordial Unity Golden Immortal demonic general laughed wildly and hysterically.

As his bone blade danced, countless more human mortals were hacked alive into scraps of flesh and mangled remains.

At the sight of such a bloody tragedy—one that utterly disregarded the laws of heaven and earth and treated newborn, weak lives as mere ants and fodder—

the killing intent in Xuan Liu's heart was forcibly and completely ignited in an instant.

He had been human in his previous life. Though he was not human in this life,

that did not mean he no longer held even the slightest feelings for humanity.

Especially since humanity was destined to become the future protagonist of heaven and earth.

If he acted now, it would undoubtedly mean that the Interception Sect had befriended humanity in advance.

For the Interception Sect, this would add a few more chances of victory in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.

Perhaps during the future era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, he could even secure some additional benefits for the Interception Sect.

"You vile beast, how dare you!!!"

With a heaven-shaking roar, Xuan Liu made his move.

His peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal cultivation was revealed in full!

For a moment, that Primordial Unity Golden Immortal demonic general was utterly dumbfounded.

He had merely devoured a human tribe—how had he drawn the attention of a peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal expert?

Over these recent years, their Demon Race had devoured no small number of humans.

Who knew how many human tribes had already been destroyed by the Demon Race.

This time...

there was bound to be some trouble.

"You vile beast, you dare slaughter innocent living beings so wantonly!"

Xuan Liu's face darkened as he gritted his teeth. "Today, I, Xuan Liu, will make sure your body and soul are utterly annihilated!"

"Willow God Art!"