This scene should not have begun at this time.
Perhaps the Heavenly Dao had sensed something and began pushing the greater tide one step forward.
This was the first thing Qing Xuanzi considered after returning to the Human Race Dao Palace.
Then the Heavenly Dao's goal was to thoroughly muddy the waters among the Witch, Demon, and Human Clans.
It wanted all three clans to fall into chaos. The more chaotic they became, the easier they would be for the Heavenly Dao to control.
"Someone, notify the Eight Divisions Disciples. From today onward, whenever the Demon Clan invades the Human Race, kill without mercy. If you cannot defeat them, report it immediately."
Qing Xuanzi had few paths to choose from. In the end, he still refused to compromise.
If he chose compromise, the plan could indeed proceed more smoothly.
But that would go against his original intent: if the Human Race had to live by others' moods, what was the point of having heaven and earth? They might as well call it quits.
As the child of Human Dao fortune, if he did not even have this much backbone, what the hell was he still doing? He might as well wash up and go to bed.
A hundred years passed quickly. Under the strategy Qing Xuanzi had established, the Human Race Dao Palace rescued people everywhere.
Yet Qing Xuanzi felt that things were becoming more and more wrong.
At first, things were fine. Each rescue operation resulted in, at most, the deaths of a few mortals—perhaps a dozen at most.
Not a single immortal in the Human Race Dao Palace suffered any harm.
But later, things became increasingly wrong. Casualties gradually began to appear. The upper ranks of the Demon Clan had intervened!
Fortunately, Qing Xuanzi had deliberately protected the Three Thousand Congenital Humans.
Each of them had been given a jade fragment that could block one attack from a Saint at a critical moment.
After blocking the attack, it would directly teleport them to the Human Race Dao Palace.
But the other Human Race immortals were different. By now, several hundred had been killed or wounded.
The great war had not even begun, yet they had already lost nearly one percent of their combat strength.
With things like this, Qing Xuanzi could no longer sit still.
He vaguely sensed that a conspiracy targeting the Human Race was slowly unfolding.
The Heavenly Dao had begun its counterattack!
Thus, Qing Xuanzi changed his strategy. With ruthless determination, he gave each of the tens of thousands of Human Race immortals a jade fragment.
Crushing it would allow Qing Xuanzi to arrive instantly.
He also instructed them to crush it only when they encountered the Demon Clan's middle or upper ranks.
What he needed was to preserve the Human Race's strength, not let them develop dependence.
One day, Qing Xuanzi suddenly sensed dozens of jade fragments being crushed at once.
Qing Xuanzi immediately sent out two incarnations toward two other locations, while his true body headed for the battlefield where the most jade fragments had been crushed.
When he arrived at the battlefield, Qing Xuanzi spotted Eastern Emperor Taiyi at a glance.
"Die." Seeing Eastern Emperor Taiyi raise the Chaos Clock to shatter a large group of Human Race immortals, Qing Xuanzi roared and reached out with a giant hand to seize it.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi did not know that Qing Xuanzi had already advanced to the Mixed Origin Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. He assumed Qing Xuanzi was still at the Quasi-Saint Peak.
Thus, he was not afraid in the slightest. Instead, he said with a smile, "Qing Xuanzi, do you think the Eastern Emperor Bell is so easy to grab—"
Before he could finish, Taiyi's eyes widened in disbelief. He saw his Eastern Emperor Bell obediently caught in Qing Xuanzi's hand like a kitten.
It did not resist in the slightest.
Qing Xuanzi's move did not enrage Eastern Emperor Taiyi. Instead, it frightened him into a cold sweat.
The Eastern Emperor Bell was his natal supreme treasure and bore the imprint of his primordial spirit. How could it be held in someone's hand without resisting at all?
It even looked as obedient as could be.
How could this be possible? This was absurd.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi desperately stirred the primordial spirit imprint within the Eastern Emperor Bell, but it was like a needle dropped into the sea.
It did not raise the slightest ripple.
Yet he could still sense the primordial spirit imprint, which meant that it had not been erased from the Eastern Emperor Bell.
To achieve such a thing, a terrifying term surfaced in Taiyi's mind: Saint.
Though he was not a Saint, the publicly acknowledged ceiling of invincible power in the Primordial Era was now the Saints.
Therefore, he guessed that only a Saint could possibly accomplish such a feat.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi's expression turned incomparably grim. He did not know what to do.
If Qing Xuanzi had truly advanced to become a Saint, then the Demon Clan's actions this time were simply courting death.
"Q-Qing Xuanzi... Saint?" Eastern Emperor Taiyi swallowed hard and spoke with difficulty.
"No, I am not a Saint."
"Impossible. A Quasi-Saint cannot do this. Even a Quasi-Saint at the Peak cannot do this." Eastern Emperor Taiyi was going mad. Damn it, if Qing Xuanzi was not a Saint yet could do this, that was even more terrifying.
"Ah, Taiyi, a Saint is the supreme fruit of attainment beneath the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao. When I say I am not a Saint, that is what I mean. But that does not mean I am not a Mixed Origin Great Luo Golden Immortal."
Qing Xuanzi's words shocked not only Eastern Emperor Taiyi, but every great power and Saint watching this place.
Mixed Origin Great Luo Golden Immortal—had he truly achieved it?
The other great powers still had doubts, since they had not experienced it personally.
But Eastern Emperor Taiyi was different. He had truly felt it.
At this moment, the primordial spirit imprint within the Eastern Emperor Bell was trembling in fear. It did not dare move, nor was it able to.
To the primordial spirit Taiyi had left within the Eastern Emperor Bell, Qing Xuanzi's hand gripping it felt as though the entire Primordial Era had closed in around it.
And the Saints had no doubts either.
They saw magic power as vast and unfathomable as an abyss within Qing Xuanzi. That was not something a Quasi-Saint at the Peak could possess.
As Qing Xuanzi spoke, tens of thousands of Demon Clan corpses fell from the sky like dumplings.
Qing Xuanzi's incarnations had returned.
Two flashes of light entered Qing Xuanzi's body.
What surprised Qing Xuanzi was that there were actually people from the Western Sect among these corpses!
How could Jie Yin and Zhunti, those two miserly people, possibly allow Western Sect disciples to participate in this matter?
There was definitely something going on here, something he did not know.
"Fellow Daoist Taiyi, do you recognize this dead demon?"
"I dare not call myself a fellow Daoist of a Saint. I do not recognize this demon." Eastern Emperor Taiyi knew with only one glance that it was not a member of their Demon Clan.
Anyone who joined the Demon Clan, whether a great demon or a lesser demon, had to pass through the Demon Refining Pot.
Clearly, Eastern Emperor Taiyi did not recognize the dead demon Qing Xuanzi was referring to.
Qing Xuanzi smiled faintly. Things were becoming more and more interesting.
He believed Eastern Emperor Taiyi would not dare deceive him, which meant there was another force within the Demon Clan.
This force was hidden within the Demon Clan. Even Dijun and Taiyi probably did not know about it.
The Western Sect was likely only one participating party and definitely not the one in charge.
Otherwise, given how fiercely protective Jie Yin and Zhunti of the Western Sect were, Western Sect disciples would never have appeared here.
"Eastern Emperor Taiyi, I will spare you this time. But as punishment, I will keep this bell for one hundred thousand years. Come retrieve it from me after one hundred thousand years."
When Taiyi heard that Qing Xuanzi had no intention of taking the Eastern Emperor Bell for himself, he was instantly overjoyed and quickly said, "Saint Qing Xuanzi is right. Taiyi is willing to accept the punishment."
"Mm. You may leave. Remember, if I discover that you dare set your sights on the Human Race again, it will not end so simply."
Just as Taiyi was about to reply, an unfamiliar voice came from the sky. "Eastern Emperor, do not fear. I have come to help you reclaim the Eastern Emperor Bell."
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