Chaos in the Primordial World: How Did the Immortal Slaying Sword End Up in Kunpeng's Hands?

Dao Ancestor Hongjun showed no reaction to the clamoring man before him.

He did not even care.

The Dao of Slaughter was not merely about slaughter.

Beast Emperor Shen Ni had been influenced by outside interference. He was destined never to become a Saint.

The Heavenly Dao would never permit it either.

The most important matter now was how to deal with these outside invasions.

The Fierce Beast calamity might have been nothing more than a probe.

Indeed, in his eyes, the Fierce Beast calamity hardly counted as a disaster.

They had already experienced such disasters many times.

The Fierce Beast Tribulation of old had been far more ferocious than this.

He did not take a calamity of this scale seriously at all.

Besides, even with the vast numbers of Fierce Beasts back then...

They had still managed to handle them.

What was more, Hongjun had now become a Saint, and the Primordial World had many mighty Quasi-Saints. Matters concerning the younger generation could be left to the younger generation.

"Luohu, may I ask you a question?"

Demon Ancestor Luohu frowned as he looked at Hongjun before him.

"Oh? Have you finally come around?"

Dao Ancestor Hongjun shook his head.

"Let me guess. Since you're alive, the Hongjun of that Primordial World must have long since become a handful of yellow earth."

"You needn't answer. I know my guess is right."

"You couldn't tolerate that Hongjun, so how could you tolerate me? You intended to get rid of me from the very beginning."

"But I am a Saint. As long as the Primordial World endures, so do its Saints. Even if you blasted my body apart, what would that accomplish? It would only make me go into hiding, and I wouldn't give you an easy handle to seize."

"The reason you want to imprison me is simply to keep me here where you can watch me."

"Which means..."

He did not continue, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

A flicker of surprise crossed Demon Ancestor Luohu's face.

"You bastard, what are you trying to do?"

He thought of a possibility. From what he knew of Hongjun, this fellow truly would dare to do it.

Sure enough, under his gaze, Hongjun's body began to swell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Terrifying energy instantly detonated throughout the Purple Firmament Palace.

In a single instant, Demon Ancestor Luohu's true body vanished along with the entire Purple Firmament Palace, reduced to dust.

"Damn you, Hongjun! You actually blew yourself up!"

Indeed, this was the solution Hongjun had devised.

His Saint's body was already akin to an undying body.

As long as he was not brought under the enemy's control, no one could truly capture a Saint.

In that case, why not blow himself up in one clean, decisive blast?

The results were quite good.

Moreover, the Purple Firmament Palace stood amid Chaos, so the explosion would not strike the Primordial World. That was another reason he had dared to detonate himself.

Otherwise, within the Primordial World, even he would have had to fear breaking the vase while striking the rat.

Wang Shi and the others kept searching.

Gradually, they recovered the Ten Great Demon Marshals, along with the four guardian deities: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.

Almost all of them were severely injured, however. Very few had escaped unscathed.

The Demon Court had truly suffered devastating losses this time.

Had they not arrived in time, these Demon Marshals would probably have died here as well.

As they continued searching the surrounding area...

They soon found Demon Emperor Taiyi in the Thirty-Three Heavens.

His battle with Beast Emperor Shen Ni was still raging.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi had been severely injured in a sneak attack.

Now he could only rely on the Chaos Bell to protect himself.

When the Three Pure Ones and Wang Shi arrived...

Eastern Emperor Taiyi was coughing up blood incessantly, his core essence damaged. He looked as though he was about to die.

"Save him!"

Wang Shi rushed forward to shield Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

With a flat crutch in hand, Taishang Laozi struck straight at Beast Emperor Shen Ni.

Sect Master Tongtian's Qingping Sword and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi's Jade Ruyi showed no mercy either.

They attacked the Beast Emperor relentlessly.

Yet the Beast Emperor was overwhelmingly powerful at this moment.

Wielding the God-Slaying Spear, he fought the Three Pure Ones alone without giving an inch.

With the complete God-Slaying Spear, the Primordial World's foremost supreme treasure of slaughter, in his possession...

He single-handedly forced the Three Pure Ones to strain themselves just to hold him off.

Fortunately, all three were peak quasi-saints, powerful figures who had nurtured their Three Corpses.

After the Three Pure Ones Daoists summoned their Three Corpses...

They swarmed Beast Emperor Shen Ni with their superior numbers, leaving him struggling to fend them all off.

"Hmph. I didn't expect the Three Pure Ones to arrive so quickly. You have no ties to the Demon Emperors, do you? Why help them?"

The Beast Emperor was rather exasperated. He had been so close to killing Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

Compared to the Three Pure Ones, Eastern Emperor Taiyi's Chaos Bell made him far more wary.

Even his God-Slaying Spear could not damage that thing.

Although Taiyi could only use it to defend passively...

That was merely because Eastern Emperor Taiyi's cultivation was limited.

If Eastern Emperor Taiyi broke through to the peak of the quasi-saint realm, it would be anyone's guess who would live and who would die.

Wang Shi saw that this fellow was stalling for time.

"Go save Demon Emperor Dijun. He must be in danger."

Sect Master Tongtian snorted.

"Senior Brothers, hold him off. I'll go find him."

Since Eastern Emperor Taiyi was here, Demon Emperor Dijun presumably could not be too far away.

Sure enough, shortly after leaving, he found Demon Emperor Dijun due east.

At that moment, Dijun held the River Diagram and Luo Book, struggling to resist Old Ancestor Kunpeng.

Despite wielding an innate supreme treasure, he could do nothing against a mere Kunpeng.

No one would have believed it if they heard it.

Yet that was the truth.

Kunpeng stood before him with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords in hand, wreathed in an aura of slaughter, as though he might cut Di Jun down at any moment.

"Your Majesty, I'm innocent! This has nothing to do with me. I'm being controlled too!"

Kunpeng wanted to weep but had no tears. He was utterly miserable.

For all his imposing might at the moment, he could not actually move even a single finger of his own accord.

At some unknown point, someone else had taken control of both his body and his soul. He was like a puppet on strings, utterly unable to resist.

Demon Emperor Dijun's expression was grave. From the moment the battle began, he had noticed something unusual about Old Ancestor Kunpeng.

But what did that matter? Faced with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, he simply could not break through.

When Wang Shi and Sect Master Tongtian found Di Jun, their expressions immediately grew much graver.

"Impossible! Why have the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords appeared at this point?"

"Why are they in Kunpeng's hands? This makes no sense."

Wang Shi's eyes were filled with horror. Something that should never have appeared had appeared.

A battle that should never have happened had begun.

Everything was slipping out of his control.

"Master Tongtian, don't go in to break the formation. Breaking the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation requires four experts of the same level. The two of us aren't enough, and my cultivation is too low. I'm afraid I won't be any help."

Sect Master Tongtian had been about to enter and break the formation, but he hurriedly stopped upon hearing those words.

"This Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation looks like the one Luohu possessed back then. He relied on it to fight Dao Ancestor Hongjun."

"That battle shattered heaven and earth and robbed the sun and moon of their light. Even the entire Primordial World nearly sank into oblivion."

Wang Shi nodded gravely.

"That's right. From what I observed back then, Dao Ancestor Hongjun invited three others to break the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation with him. Only then did they manage to slay Demon Ancestor Luohu."