Slaying for Blood, the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl

With a thought from Dijiang, the Space Law unfolded. He took Houtu and Xuanming with him, strolling as though through a leisurely courtyard as they crossed tens of thousands of miles in an instant, silently appearing at the edge of the battlefield.

They stood atop an untouched cliff and watched coldly.

"Big Brother, they're going to fight to the death over a single immortal herb?" Houtu looked at the brutal slaughter below, her clear eyes filled with confusion.

They had only just descended from Mount Buzhou. Such immortal herbs were not exactly everywhere, but neither were they particularly rare. The herbs they had collected were all of a higher grade than this one, so Houtu felt that fighting to the death over a low-grade innate spiritual root was not worth it.

"This is the terrifying part of Tribulation Aura." Dijiang sneered. "Their Primordial Spirits have already been completely clouded by the Tribulation Aura, and the greed and killing intent in their hearts have been magnified without limit. This spiritual herb is merely a pretext. Even without it, the moment they met, they would fight until one side died."

Just as the three were speaking, a sudden change arose in the battle below.

The Ink Jade Qilin endured a divine thunderbolt from the Azure Dragon head-on, then slammed forward and pierced straight through the Scarlet Phoenix's chest. Yet immediately afterward, the Azure Dragon's claws crushed the qilin's skull as well.

Boom!

Three divine beasts at the Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm had actually perished together in only a few brief moments. Their enormous bodies crashed heavily onto the ground, their blood staining the land for a hundred miles around.

And at the instant they fell, a broken section of dragon horn flung out by the Azure Dragon before its death hurtled toward the cliff where Dijiang and the others stood, wrapped in violent mana.

"You're courting death."

A cold glint flashed through Xuanming's eyes. She had remained silent until now.

She did not use any mana. She merely extended her slender, fair hand into the air and made a grasping motion toward the mountain-like dragon horn hurtling down at them.

"Crack!"

A bone-chilling law descended in an instant.

The imposing dragon horn abruptly halted in midair. A thick layer of dark blue ice formed across its surface in an instant, and then, with Xuanming's cold snort, it shattered inch by inch, turning into ice fragments that scattered on the wind.

"What a tyrannical Ice Law." Dijiang nodded approvingly. His younger brothers and sisters had been well protected, but as Ancestral Witches, their talent for battle was carved into their bones.

"Let's go. Time to collect some interest."

Dijiang led the two women down, landing beside the three enormous corpses.

Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortals were already considered formidable experts in the current Primordial World. Their essence blood, scales, armor, and bones were all excellent materials for tempering the body and refining artifacts for the Witch Clan.

Dijiang raised a hand and waved. The Creation Jade Disk turned slightly within his sea of consciousness, releasing a force of devouring.

The origin essence blood that had yet to dissipate from the bodies of the three divine beasts was instantly drawn out. It gathered in midair into three fist-sized spheres of blood that radiated boundless vitality.

Then Dijiang uprooted the Nine-Leaf Swordgrass that had caused this calamity and casually tossed it into his own spatial storage.

"The bloodlines of these three clans do have some redeeming qualities."

After storing the essence blood, Dijiang swept his gaze over the devastated earth, his eyes gradually deepening.

"Let's continue and take a look around elsewhere."

With that, Dijiang swept his sleeve. The Space Law circulated, wiping away every last trace of karmic aura in the surroundings. He turned into a streak of light with Houtu and Xuanming and vanished beyond the horizon.

After leaving the region of Mount Buzhou, the three of them traveled eastward.

As they ventured deeper into the Primordial Wilderness Continent, the brutal scenes of war between the three clans became ever more frequent before their eyes.

Places of blessed cultivation once wreathed in immortal aura had now mostly become scorched earth. Spiritual springs and vast marshes that had once been crystal clear were now filled with severed limbs and foul, bloody filth.

Along the way, they saw countless living beings wailing and falling amid the flames of war.

At times, hundreds of thousands of Dragon Clan warriors clashed with innumerable flying creatures amid the clouds, broken feathers and shattered scales pouring down like a torrential rain. At other times, the Qilin Clan drove billions of beasts forward like an iron flood, trampling one immortal mountain after another flat.

In the face of all this, Dijiang remained absolutely calm. He led Houtu and Xuanming to conceal themselves in the void, watching coldly like passing travelers.

"Big Brother, is there really no possibility of a truce for the myriad beings of the Primordial World?"

One day, the three stood above an inland lake that had been ravaged by war and nearly dried up.

Houtu looked at the corpses piled high along the lakeshore, as well as the weak creatures struggling to survive in the mud, and a trace of pity surfaced in her eyes.

She was born with control over the Earth Law and was most sensitive to the pulse and burden-bearing of the land.

Seeing the Primordial Wilderness torn apart alive and riddled with holes, a faint ache would always rise from the depths of her Primordial Spirit.

Dijiang turned to Houtu and sighed inwardly.

Houtu was compassionate by nature. It was simply who she was.

In the future, she would transform herself into reincarnation and complete Heaven's Way. It was precisely because of this great love she held for all living beings.

"It can't be stopped." Dijiang's voice was calm.

"The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans all believe that they can unify the Primordial World and monopolize the destiny of Heaven and Earth. Unconsciously, they have overlooked the endless karmic debt hidden behind that immense destiny."

Dijiang pointed toward the tribulation clouds above, which had grown so dense they seemed ready to drip blood. "This great tribulation is a cleansing of the Primordial World by Heaven's Way. The more slaughter the three clans commit, the heavier the karmic debt they bear. Only when they exhaust their foundations and bleed out their final drop of blood will this tribulation truly come to an end."

Xuanming added coldly from the side, "The strong devour the weak. That has always been the law of the Primordial World. Since they chose to fight for supremacy, they must be prepared for death and the destruction of their clans."

Dijiang nodded. Just as he was about to lead the two women onward, the Creation Jade Disk, which had remained quiet in his sea of consciousness, suddenly trembled. It cast down an exceedingly obscure violet-golden gleam that pointed toward the depths of the lake.

"Hm?"

Dijiang halted, silver light blazing in his eyes as the Space Law instantly locked onto that dried-up lakebed.

Guided by the Creation Jade Disk, he sensed an exceedingly faint yet incomparably pure innate spiritual radiance.

That spiritual radiance was concealed beneath an extraordinarily sophisticated innate grand formation. Had the Jade Disc not issued a warning, he would have missed it.

"Come on. There's something below."

Without hesitation, Dijiang swept his sleeve. Spatial power enveloped the three of them, directly ignoring the obstruction of the mud and rock beneath the lake as they fled tens of thousands of zhang underground.

After passing through a hidden formation barrier, a small underwater residence no more than a hundred zhang across appeared before them.

The water residence was completely empty. Only atop a white jade platform at its center floated a fist-sized pearl, quietly emitting a gentle blue radiance.

Within the pearl seemed to lie a vast ocean. As its waters flowed and shifted, it released an immense aura capable of suppressing the Four Seas and calming all waters.

"This is... the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl?!"

Dijiang's pupils contracted. He recognized the origin of the object at a glance.

Houtu and Xuanming also sensed the powerful Water Origin contained within the pearl, and both revealed looks of astonishment.