The Extreme Number of Nine

"Yuan Feng, I respect you as a senior."

"But don't get too arrogant."

"This is no longer your era. Dragons must coil before me, phoenixes must lie prone before me, and even qilins must crouch before me!!"

Ever since Tai Yi had been born, he had never known the meaning of restraint.

There was no helping it.

Tai Yi's accompanying spiritual treasure was the Chaos Bell.

This bell gave him the greatest confidence.

Even when facing the Dragon-Han Three Clans, he remained utterly fearless.

"You dare to clamor before us? You truly don't know the immensity of heaven and earth!!"

Seeing this, Ancestral Dragon narrowed his eyes.

"We are beings from the previous Immeasurable Tribulation. It seems they have already forgotten our terror."

Primordial Qilin wore a smile that did not reach his eyes.

"I would very much like to see what method you will use to make me lie prone!!"

Yuan Feng's voice was icy, placing especially heavy emphasis on the words "lie prone."

"Esteemed seniors, we are now besieged from both sides. Why insist on holding on?"

"You can stand here safely enough now, but once the treasures carrying your tribulation aura are destroyed, will you still be able to laugh?"

Di Jun stood before the three ancestors with a faint smile, his plans already in hand.

His face was brimming with confidence!!!

"You are very confident, but you underestimate us too much!"

Yuan Feng snorted disdainfully.

"Yuan Feng, how dare you disrespect my big bro—"

Before the word "respect" could leave his mouth—

Above Northern Darkness, a Five-Colored Divine Light shot into the sky.

Taotie's Devouring Law was temporarily held back.

"Five-Colored Divine Light—it's Kong Xuan!!!"

That person—

Di Jun and Tai Yi naturally knew of him.

Although Kong Xuan had kept an exceptionally low profile, his strength was renowned throughout the Demon Court.

Unfortunately, he had remained in seclusion all this time. Even when the Demon Court had once sent many people to invite him, nothing had come of it.

"And this shocks you!!"

Yuan Feng was disdainful.

"Can one Kong Xuan really hold back Taotie?"

Though Tai Yi was shocked, he knew that as a primeval ferocious beast, Taotie was certainly not something Kong Xuan alone could withstand.

"What if you add them??"

Following Yuan Feng's voice—

Countless more figures soared into the sky from Northern Darkness.

"Phoenixes."

"And Golden-Winged Rocs."

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Looking closely, there were no fewer than nine of them.

They were: Peacock, Phoenix, Roc, Red Crane, Azure Teal, Snow Owl, Purple Swallow, Swift Pheasant, Great Wind, and Hundred Calls.

These nine avian beasts normally each occupied their own territory.

They appeared extremely low-key, but in truth, their ambitions were immense.

Their appearance this time truly shocked the entire Demon Court.

"Well?"

"Are these juniors of mine presentable enough??"

Yuan Feng looked toward Di Jun and Tai Yi.

As a senior, she had the capital to be proud.

Even though less than one-tenth of her strength remained now—

Before she had been completely sealed away, the descendants she had left behind were still an immeasurable force.

"The three clans are now bound together by a shared breath. Once one person's tribulation aura erupts, do you think the other two can escape?"

Tai Yi naturally refused to concede verbally.

After all, the tribulation aura of the First Dragon-Han Calamity had yet to completely dissipate.

Move a single hair, and all three clans were affected.

Northern Darkness was fine now, but what about the Earth Sect in the Eastern Primordial Wilderness and the Underworld in the south?

"That is none of your concern, little brat. If you know what's good for you, withdraw at once!!"

Ancestral Dragon looked at Tai Yi with utter disdain.

"I say, Senior Ancestral Dragon, your Dragon Clan has already reached the end of the road. What are you still making such a fuss abou—"

Before the word "what" could leave his mouth—

In the Eastern Primordial Wilderness, nine strange-looking creatures charged out.

Under their tearing bites, Hundun retreated again and again.

"It's them?"

"They were not acknowledged by the Dragon Clan and were exiled to some unknown place. Yet now they have emerged to aid Ancestral Dragon."

"I never expected the Nine Dragons United formed by these nine strange dragons to be powerful enough to contend with the ferocious beast Hundun!!"

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The surrounding crowd erupted into discussion, while Tai Yi's eye twitched wildly.

The slap to his face had come far too quickly.

He had only just mocked Ancestral Dragon, yet nine strange dragons had appeared within the Earth Sect of his Eastern Primordial Wilderness.

These nine strange dragons were: Qiuniu, Yazi, Chaofeng, Pulao, Suanni, Bixi, Bian, Fuxi, and Chiwen.

Legend had it that dragons bore nine sons.

This was said to refer to Ancestral Dragon's debauchery and lawlessness.

Yet who would have known that this was the escape route Ancestral Dragon had left for himself?

Facing the tribulation aura, he had used the Heavenly Secret Mirror and already glimpsed the secrets of heaven.

That was why he had fathered nine dragons with nine different alien races.

Unfortunately, he had still been too slow.

Before the nine dragons were born, he had already been sealed away.

He had thought that the Nine Dragons United Formation, which he would never again have the chance to use, could unexpectedly be deployed one day.

"What did you just say our Dragon Clan had already become? I didn't hear you clearly!!"

Nine Dragons United was a heaven-defying formation. Once the nine dragons merged as one, they bore the title of Lesser Ancestral Dragon.

In the current Primordial World, the strength of such a being was absolutely horrifying beyond measure.

Thus, when Hundun was completely suppressed, Ancestral Dragon looked at Tai Yi with a smile that was not quite a smile.

"Northern Darkness and the Earth Sect have methods of dealing with this. But what about the Underworld??"

Tai Yi still refused to accept it.

After all, there was only one Demon Court.

But the three of them were divided across three regions.

They needed to rely on the power of all three sides to bear the tribulation aura together.

"You need not trouble yourself over that!!"

Primordial Qilin spoke, and at once, nine strange beasts appeared above the southern Underworld.

"Qilins give birth to myriad beasts; all creatures with fur are born from the myriad beasts. So the legend was actually true!!"

The moment an ancient being saw the nine strange beasts charging out of the Underworld, it immediately thought of something.

"What did you say? Can you explain it more clearly!!"

"Dragons bear nine sons, phoenixes raise nine fledglings, and qilins undergo nine transformations. This was a legend from the Dragon-Han Calamity. I never expected it to truly come to pass today."

"Legend says that the chiefs of the three clans wanted to use the extreme number of nine to alter the grand momentum of heaven and earth."

"Unfortunately, they ultimately failed, and the nine meant to change the clans' fate vanished from the world thereafter."

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With the ancient being's explanation, the other beings finally understood.

Looking at the nine strange beasts in the Underworld, they were: Four-Unlike Beast, White Tiger, Moon-Eating Hound, Four-Aspect Antelope, Nine-Headed Lion, Heaven-Rending Leopard, Five-Colored Elk, Scarlet-Flame Steed, and Kui Ox.

Many of these strange beasts had never appeared before the world.

Take the Kui Ox, for instance—it seemed to be a creature that had already gone extinct.

Yet at Primordial Qilin's summons, all of them awoke from their seals or secluded cultivation.

The Dragon Clan had the Nine Dragons United Formation.

The Phoenix Clan had the Reverse Life-and-Death Formation.

Primordial Qilin's clan naturally possessed a formation of the same level: Heavenly Great Auspice.

Once this formation emerged, any calamity could be turned into good fortune.

Under Heavenly Great Auspice, even Taowu's aura of destruction could do nothing.

"We have already given our response. Now I wonder whether your Demon Court has any means of resisting Qiongqi!!"