Demon Court Makes Its Move, Besieging Hongyun

"Senior Brother Jing Chu, please come this way!"

"Before the master departed, he had already secretly instructed us to treat you well."

After Zhen Yuanzi left, another delicate, jade-carved Daoist child respectfully approached Jing Chu and spoke.

"In that case, I'll trouble you."

Jing Chu did not refuse. Instead, he followed the courteous Daoist child into Five Villages Temple.

The Daoist child was apparently not merely being polite. Spiritual roots were laid out before Jing Chu one after another, along with three fruits as pale and tender as infants, radiating dense spiritual light.

If he was not mistaken, these were the fruits borne by the legendary Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Root, the Ginseng Fruit Tree.

They were called Ginseng Fruits, also known as Grass-Returning Elixirs.

The Ginseng Fruit Tree blossomed once every three thousand years, bore fruit once every three thousand years, and required another three thousand years before its fruits ripened.

Simply smelling one could extend one's lifespan by three hundred and sixty years. Eating one would immediately add forty-seven thousand years to one's life.

Of course, that was merely the most basic effect of a Ginseng Fruit. Consuming one could also increase one's cultivation.

But to Jing Chu now, they were no more than fruits to quench his thirst. Even if they could raise his cultivation, they could not possibly allow him to pierce the mysteries of Great Luo.

Still, one could not pass up a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Root. Jing Chu did not stand on ceremony and immediately picked one up and put it into his mouth. Its flavor was exquisite indeed, worthy of the name of a top-grade innate spiritual root.

Several days passed without Zhen Yuanzi returning. Thinking of the Treasure-Dropping Copper Coin on Wuyi Mountain, Jing Chu was just about to bid farewell.

Then he abruptly raised his head, his eyes filling with gravity and disbelief.

For in his senses, the world nearby was violently trembling. Spiritual qi from countless billions upon billions of miles was surging madly.

Laws collided, the void shook without end, and vast stretches of space were smashed apart. A great bell droned continuously, faintly severing the River of Time and even forcing it to flow backward.

This was—

Jing Chu's expression tightened. Staring at the great bell in the sky countless miles away, his gaze immediately grew incomparably solemn.

The Chaos Bell?!

What other spiritual treasure in the Primordial World possessed such power? After thinking it over, among bell-type treasures, there was only the legendary Innate Supreme Treasure—the Chaos Bell.

In the Primordial World, and so close to Five Villages Temple... had the Demon Court truly acted so quickly?

Just as Jing Chu had expected, the two sides battling in the skies were Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun, along with several powerful figures from the Demon Court.

"Hongyun, hand over the Primordial Purple Qi!"

Dijun's face was cold and stern. Holding the River Chart and Luo Script, every word and movement he made brimmed with the majesty of an emperor, as though he were the sovereign of heaven and earth in the Primordial World.

As the current lord of the Demon Court, Dijun's cultivation ranked among the foremost in the Primordial World. By now, he had at the very least reached the Second Corpse Severing.

"Wishful thinking! The Primordial Purple Qi I possess was granted by the Dao Ancestor himself to those fated for it. Yet you actually wish to seize it by force."

Hongyun's cultivation was also not weak, but compared to Dijun, he was far inferior. He had only just reached the First Corpse Severing.

Yet as an Innate Divine Being, no matter how gentle and generous his temperament was, he would not retreat in the slightest at this moment. He immediately spoke in a cold voice.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to waste words on Hongyun. Let us act!"

Kunpeng, his face gloomy, also emanated the aura of a Quasi-Sage. His tone was icy beyond measure, and he looked at Hongyun as though he were looking at a dead man.

If Hongyun had not yielded his seat back then, Kunpeng might not have failed to obtain a strand of Primordial Purple Qi.

He hated it!

He hated Hongyun for yielding his seat, and hated him even more because Hongyun had still won the favor of the Primordial Purple Qi after yielding it.

Why could Hongyun obtain Primordial Purple Qi after giving up his seat? Why did he himself receive nothing at all?

Since Hongyun's Primordial Purple Qi was meant for whoever was fated to obtain it, then once Hongyun was killed, the Primordial Purple Qi would naturally choose a new master.

In that case, Hongyun, go die!

"Dijun, Kunpeng, if you dare touch Hongyun, I, Zhen Yuanzi, will fight you to the death!"

Holding the Earth Book, Zhen Yuanzi drew upon the earth veins of the Primordial World and continuously resisted the man before him, clad in golden robes and tyrannical beyond measure.

At the same time, he kept looking toward the distance and spoke in an extremely hard voice.

"Too noisy!"

A hint of displeasure flashed through Donghuang Taiyi's eyes. The Chaos Bell swayed slightly, and time in this region rapidly flowed backward, even affecting the terrain to a certain degree.

Zhen Yuanzi's connection to the earth veins was continuously vanishing. The droning Chaos Bell crashed wantonly into his body, making him cough up blood again and again.

With the Chaos Bell in hand, Donghuang Taiyi's strength was enough to rank among the top five in the Primordial World.

Even against anyone, relying on the Chaos Bell's unrivaled power and its unfathomable abilities over time, he could remain invincible.

Though the Earth Book could draw upon the earth veins and form the so-called Moral Coercion Formation, the Chaos Bell could directly turn back time and return one to before they had connected to the earth veins.

Every Innate Spiritual Treasure in the Primordial World was incomparably precious, each containing immensely mysterious and unfathomable power.

Jing Chu watched with a solemn face, holding his breath and focusing his mind. This truly was a battle between genuine great powers of the Primordial World.

The current him probably could not withstand even a single ripple from the battle.

If he approached, he would be blasted into flying ash in an instant, his Primordial Spirit collapsing as he reverted directly to his original form.

The battle continued without pause. Zhen Yuanzi repeatedly tried to rescue Hongyun, but due to Donghuang Taiyi's strength, he was helpless.

Facing the joint assault of Dijun and Kunpeng alone, Hongyun was also being forced back again and again.

But this Innate Divine Being was not without strength. A blood-red gourd, three feet and three inches in size, flew out from his spirit platform.

It was the Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure wielded by Hongyun—the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Dispelling Gourd.

As the mouth of the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Dispelling Gourd aimed at the lightning-fast Kunpeng, it continuously spewed out massive quantities of red sand. This red sand was exceedingly strange: Soul-Scattering Sand, rarely seen even in the Primordial World. Not only was it immensely powerful, it could also defile one's Primordial Spirit.

Kunpeng, who possessed extreme speed, was caught within it at once after a moment of carelessness.

He struggled from side to side, constantly trying to break free from the killing confinement of Hongyun's Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Dispelling Gourd, but to no avail. For a time, he found it difficult to respond.

Though Kunpeng was an Innate Divine Being, he did not possess a single Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. In terms of poverty, he was even worse off than the two from the West.

"Space Lockdown!"

"Time Shroud!"

"Solar True Fire!"

Facing Kunpeng, who had been trapped by the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Dispelling Gourd, Dijun's expression was icy as the River Chart and Luo Script flew from his hand.

As treasure light continuously radiated through the air, space and time were immediately frozen in place.

Blazing Solar True Fire flew from Dijun's body and descended directly upon Hongyun.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

The Solar True Fire continuously burned Hongyun's Dao body, even scorching his True Spirit.

As one of the only two Innate Divine Being Three-Legged Golden Crows in the present Primordial World, Dijun's Solar True Fire was the foremost divine fire beneath heaven.

Even an Innate Divine Being like Hongyun would suffer grievous injuries the moment he was tainted by it.