A Heavy Burden and a Long Road Ahead!

Luohu's blatant actions finally made some people unable to sit still!

Though the three races of birds, beasts, and scaled creatures had once turned the Primordial Wilderness upside down, they had merely been making small troubles. A little punishment would have sufficed, yet Luohu actually sought to exterminate their clans—truly no son of man!

Thus, many reclusive innate great gods emerged from seclusion. They understood well the truth that cart and wheel relied upon each other, and that when the lips were gone, the teeth would grow cold. If the three innate races were destroyed, they would likely be next...

A cold wind blew softly, and the sky was shrouded in gloom. Upon the North Sea stood a vast solitary island. Birds sang and flowers bloomed upon it, spiritual beasts frolicked, white clouds drifted by—a scene straight from an immortal realm!

At this moment, guided by heavenly secrets, Mu Jizi and Kunpeng both awoke from cultivation! The two sat within a crude bamboo hut, their expressions slightly grave.

After a long while, Kunpeng finally spoke:

"Brother, the Primordial Wilderness is in great chaos. What are we to do?"

In a little over five thousand years, Kunpeng's cultivation had leapt from the early stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal to its peak. He was only one step away from opening the Three Flowers above his head and attaining the Dao Fruit of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!

"Demons are rising in chaos throughout the Primordial Wilderness. We should leave our abode and slay demons—that is the righteous path!" Mu Jizi said with a smile. Every gesture of his hand carried immense power. After more than five thousand years of cultivation, his cultivation had reached the late stage of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, placing him among the very best in the present Primordial Wilderness!

"What Brother says is very true!" Kunpeng nodded. "However, though the two of us may be considered top-tier in cultivation and magical power, we are still somewhat lacking if we wish to uphold the Dao by eliminating demons!"

"Of course I know your concerns, worthy brother!" Mu Jizi smiled at Kunpeng. "But there is no need for the two of us to worry about such a demon. Someone will naturally subdue him. We need only join forces with our fellow Daoists and kill those who have fallen into demonhood!"

"Oh?" Kunpeng was startled. He could not understand who could possibly subdue such a demon, but he also knew that Mu Jizi's Dao cultivation ran deep, and that he must have divined something. After pondering for a moment, he said, "Then I shall follow Brother's orders!"

"Mm!" Mu Jizi nodded and glanced at Kunpeng. "This time, the demons have risen in chaos and filled the Primordial Wilderness with foul miasma! This is an act that defies Heaven! If we leave our abode to eliminate demons, we shall be following Heaven and answering the Dao, and will surely enjoy boundless merit!"

"Excellent!" Kunpeng said with a smile!

The two then exchanged a glance before riding auspicious clouds toward the lands of the Primordial Wilderness!

At this moment, the Primordial Wilderness had long since become unrecognizable. Countless wrongfully slain resentful spirits were either absorbed by Luohu's incarnations or refined by him into new demons!

The instant Mu Jizi and Kunpeng stepped onto the lands of the Primordial Wilderness, they felt waves of bleakness. Five thousand years ago, birds had sung and flowers had bloomed across these lands, with spiritual beasts everywhere. Now, they presented a desolate scene. How could such a vast contrast not shock one?

The two walked slowly onward. Even Kunpeng, an ancient ferocious beast, could not help knitting his brows tightly. He glanced at Mu Jizi and asked in a deep voice, "Brother, where should we go this time?"

"Not far ahead lies the sacred land of the beast race. Other than the sea, it is the only peaceful place remaining, and many reclusive experts have gathered there!" Mu Jizi looked into the distance and sighed. "That is our destination!"

Upon hearing this, Kunpeng silently nodded and said no more!

The two continued for a while longer when a figure suddenly flew toward them from afar. The figure had delicate features and appeared to be a young man of barely twenty, yet his face was filled with terror!

When the young man saw the airborne Kunpeng and Mu Jizi, his face immediately filled with wild joy. Like a drowning man clutching at a life-saving straw, he rushed toward them at top speed!

Yet in that instant, a streak of black light suddenly flashed past. It was swift as lightning, and in the blink of an eye, it struck the young man.

At that moment, the young man's expression changed drastically, deep terror filling his face. Immortal power surged through him, his robes billowing without wind as dense immortal power swirled around his body.

Yet all of it seemed utterly useless. The black light appeared able to ignore every obstacle as it plunged directly into the young man's body. Immediately afterward, his face twisted in agony. Before long, the divine light in his eyes dimmed, and he fell helplessly from the sky!

Everything happened with extreme speed, taking no more than an instant from beginning to end. Mu Jizi and Kunpeng had not even had time to react before their divine senses detected that the distant young man's aura had vanished completely, his body falling limply downward!

"This..." Mu Jizi and Kunpeng exchanged a glance, horror visible in their eyes. Then their speed abruptly increased as they arrived before the young man who had fallen to the ground.

Whoosh!

Yet in that instant, an abrupt change arose. The young man's tightly shut eyes suddenly flew open, crimson light flickering within them. He sprang up, both hands moving sharply. Immortal power immediately surged forth as his palms, carrying the force to pierce the air, struck at the utterly unprepared Mu Jizi and Kunpeng.

Boom!

Mu Jizi and Kunpeng had been completely unprepared, but fortunately, their cultivation was extraordinary. Within one-thousandth of an instant, they reacted. Without even looking, both struck out with a palm.

The four palms collided. Kunpeng and Mu Jizi remained as immovable as mountains, while the young man seemed as though he had been struck by a great mountain. His body was blasted backward, and then, with a boom, it exploded apart. His blood and flesh could not withstand the impact and were instantly blasted into powder!

Yet at the instant the young man's body exploded into dust, a jet-black shadow shot into the sky. It then transformed into a fierce gale, swept up endless blood essence, and rushed straight into the heavens before vanishing from sight!

Watching this scene, Mu Jizi and Kunpeng both fell silent. In that brief instant, their powerful divine senses had swept over the black shadow, yet they had discovered nothing at all. Only with their eyes had they barely managed to make out its appearance!

It possessed a pitch-black body roughly the size of a head, a tiny tail trailing behind it, crimson light in its eyes, and two especially savage fangs. That was the appearance of the black shadow they had seen!

"This, this..." Kunpeng was utterly shaken. No words could describe how he felt at that moment!

Yet Mu Jizi was even more shocked than Kunpeng, for he knew very well what that black shadow was!

"A demon—an actual demon refined through the Demonic Dao Grand Art!" Mu Jizi could not help recalling that earth-shaking battle that had shaken the cultivation world in his previous life. I should have thought of it long ago. Luohu, as the patriarch of the Demonic Dao, created this art of refining demons himself. How could he possibly fail to refine demons that feared most attacks?

Mu Jizi understood the terror of demons better than anyone. Other than certain special divine abilities, all attacks were ineffective against them. Moreover, they could disregard a cultivator's physical body, burrow into it, devour the cultivator's soul, and then take control of the cultivator's body!

Mu Jizi had personally experienced every one of these horrors in his previous life. Even recalling them now made his scalp tingle. The demons refined by Patriarch Luohu were far more terrifying than those refined by later practitioners of the Demonic Dao!

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