Qing Xuanzi looked up at his words. Well, it was an old acquaintance he had met several times while traveling through the chaos with Pangu.
"What, Fellow Daoist Yang Mei? Are you planning to interfere in the Witch-Demon Tribulation?"
"Qing Xuanzi, even your master Hongjun was defeated by me. What makes you so arrogant?"
Qing Xuanzi was so angered by his words that he laughed. Yang Mei had actually turned around and accused him of being arrogant.
"Fellow Daoist Yang Mei, setting aside whether what you said is true, Your Excellency should be one of the Chaos Demon Gods, shouldn't you? And the Heavenly Dao actually allowed you to enter?"
Qing Xuanzi's indifferent tone made Yang Mei's expression change.
Damn it. This brat is far too sharp. He went straight for my identity.
One had to know that the beings of the Primordial Era now feared Chaos Demon Gods as if they were tigers.
With Qing Xuanzi saying this, even if the Primordial Era's myriad beings did not know whether it was true, they would still harbor a measure of distrust.
This was Qing Xuanzi's open scheme!
"Qing Xuanzi, the Heavenly Dao exists beneath the Great Dao and naturally accommodates all things. There is no distinction between chaos and the Primordial Era."
Qing Xuanzi laughed upon hearing Yang Mei's words. Yang Mei was getting anxious, speaking without thought. He could actually say something like that.
"Heh. If it were truly as you said, then why was there the Heaven-Opening Tribulation?"
"Why was there the Ferocious Beast Tribulation?"
"Why was there the Dao-Demon Tribulation?"
"It was all because the Chaos Demon Gods were excessively brutal, their baleful aura boundless, that these tribulations occurred time and again. Since you already survived the tribulations by chance, you should have hidden in chaos and eked out a miserable existence. How dare you appear so openly beneath the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao?"
"If so, where is heavenly justice? How could the heavens and earth of the Primordial Era tolerate you?"
Qing Xuanzi's voice grew louder and louder. For the final sentence, he used the Great Dao Roar divine ability, and his voice spread throughout the entire Primordial Era.
"You... you... Ah, infuriating! Die!"
Yang Mei was nearly angered to death by Qing Xuanzi. He stammered for a long while, yet could not find any suitable retort.
In his rage and humiliation, he brazenly launched a Space Severance attack at Qing Xuanzi.
Qing Xuanzi was unfazed. He merely brought out the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler and shattered Yang Mei's attack with a single strike.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi, who stood not far from Qing Xuanzi, was the unlucky one caught in the crossfire.
As he watched the pitch-black spatial rift open like the gaping maw of a giant beast and prepare to swallow him whole—
—he could not even move beneath the pressure of a Mixed Origin Great Luo Golden Immortal.
He could only watch helplessly as the black rift gradually drew closer to him.
Qing Xuanzi noticed this from the corner of his eye, and the Chaos Clock in his hand suddenly flew out.
It crashed into the rift. With a boom, the shockwave blasted Taiyi far away.
Fortunately, Qing Xuanzi had already dissipated most of the power of space.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi suffered only minor injuries, though his aura churned violently.
After barely calming his turbulent aura, Taiyi cupped his hands toward Qing Xuanzi from afar in thanks, then left without looking back.
Before leaving, he shouted, "All members of the Demon Court, return immediately! Anyone who fails to do so will be expelled from this day onward!"
Eastern Emperor Taiyi acted this way because he had seen quite a few Demon Clan members standing behind Yang Mei.
He immediately realized that something was wrong. Yang Mei had clearly intended to deal with him as well.
Fortunately, Qing Xuanzi had shown mercy and saved him.
Otherwise, there would have been no Eastern Emperor Taiyi after today.
Dijun, who had just arrived, witnessed all of this, and his face darkened at once.
When had the Demon Clan gained such a capable figure? As the Demon Emperor, he had known nothing of it. It was truly laughable.
Then Eastern Emperor Taiyi's words rang out, and Dijun immediately declared, "I am Demon Emperor Dijun. Today, I swear here that from this day onward, all members of the Demon Clan are forbidden from attacking the human race. Any violator shall be executed by the entire Demon Clan."
As Dijun's oath fell, heaven and earth changed color.
Yang Mei's expression changed as well. He had never expected that it would be the Demon Clan itself that ruined his plan.
Dijun was the Demon Emperor. The oath he made was the oath of the entire Demon Clan.
The Demon Clan members behind Yang Mei looked as though they had just swallowed something disgusting, their expressions incomparably miserable.
Retreat? Setting aside whether the Demon Court would still accept them, Yang Mei alone could kill them without their even knowing how.
Continue forward? Damn it, Qing Xuanzi was obviously a master on Yang Mei's level. In the end, they would still be the ones to die.
"Qing Xuanzi, do you dare come with me into chaos for a battle to the death?"
"You think I'll go just because you say so? If you have the ability, attack right now. Are you afraid of exposing the aura of your Chaos Demon God identity?"
"Ah, Qing Xuanzi, I will destroy you!"
After only a few exchanges, Yang Mei was provoked once more. This time was different; he had not used the power of the Mixed Origin realm earlier.
Before this attack was even launched, the surrounding space could no longer endure it.
Cracking sounds rang out without end.
This time, Qing Xuanzi did not dare be careless either and directly brought out the Twelve-Petal Golden Lotus.
The Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler in his hand was also filled with the power of the Mixed Origin realm.
Once their attacks were unleashed, the collision would surely annihilate the space spanning more than a hundred thousand li.
If things went badly, even the Primordial Era might shatter.
That was precisely Qing Xuanzi's intention. He wanted to see how the Heavenly Dao would respond.
With the Blessing Seed, he had nothing to fear. What he wanted to see was how the Heavenly Dao would deal with Yang Mei.
The living beings within several hundred thousand li of the Primordial Era had all fled. The might this time was simply too terrifying.
If they did not flee, there was only one outcome: death.
Even the Demon Clan members standing behind Yang Mei ran away, abandoning everything. If they did not run, they would lose their lives immediately.
As for the human race, Qing Xuanzi had long since sent them back.
With a thunderous boom, Earth, Wind, Water, Fire churned above and below, while small pocket heavens appeared and vanished from time to time.
The region where the two fought had already become void. Space itself had been annihilated.
After one strike, Yang Mei stared blankly at the patch of nothingness before suddenly recalling something.
His body swayed, and he was about to slip away.
"Heh. Only now do you think of running? Too late. Haven't you heard of the Heavenly Dao Space?"
Yang Mei's face became exceptionally ugly. How could he possibly not know of the Heavenly Dao Space?
After that strike, he had discovered that this place had already been connected to the Heavenly Dao Space by either the Heavenly Dao or Hongjun.
It was fundamentally impossible for Yang Mei to escape now.
Though it was called the Heavenly Dao Space, it was not truly a space at all. It was actually the body of a Heavenly Dao.
Here, it was as though he stood within the belly of the Heavenly Dao, utterly unable to escape.
"Heavenly Dao, have you forgotten our agreement? That was a Great Dao oath."
"Yang Mei, I did this. Of course, I did so under the Heavenly Dao's instruction."
It was Hongjun's voice. The moment Yang Mei heard it, he understood. Damn it, the Heavenly Dao was trying to kill the donkey after it had finished grinding the millstone.
As they spoke, Hongjun transmitted his voice to Qing Xuanzi. "He is going to self-destruct. Disciple, you should have a way to deal with it now, right?"
Qing Xuanzi nodded almost imperceptibly.
Yang Mei's facial features scrunched together, his rage reaching its peak. He had never expected that a Chaos Demon God like him, who spent his days hunting geese, would be outwitted by geese.
"Hahaha! Heavenly Dao, Hongjun, you are very good, truly very good! Do you think Chaos Demon Gods die so easily? I hope you never leave chaos. And you too, Qing Xuanzi."
Yang Mei's body abruptly expanded. Then his eyes suddenly bulged as he said, "You... are too..."
His entire body slowly began to dissipate. Strangely, Qing Xuanzi's body instead began to grow larger.
"Qing Xuanzi, what cultivation technique do you practice?" This was the voice of the Heavenly Dao, demanding an answer in a stern shout.
There was a faint tremble in that voice.
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