At that moment, had Hongjun or any Ancient Mighty Experts of his generation been present, they would have been horrified beyond measure.
There was only one reason!
An existence on Hongjun's level would have recognized it in an instant.
The aura emanating from that figure was exactly the same as that of Demon Ancestor Luohu in the past!
Yet Luohu had long since perished, his body and soul annihilated. How could he have reappeared in the Primordial World?
Just then, the figure murmured to himself again:
"Hmph, Hongjun, you old bastard Chaos!"
"You joined forces back then to destroy my physical body, but what of it?!"
He paused, his eyes fixed intently on the Outer Chaos Region, then continued:
"Though I died, the Devil Dao endured."
"Now... through the heart-demon path, I shall return to Heaven and Earth."
Indeed!
This figure was not truly Demon Ancestor Luohu.
Or rather, not entirely.
He was the undying demonic will left behind after Luohu's fall, the amalgamation of every negative emotion in Heaven and Earth, which had settled over countless epochs before coalescing anew into a heart-demon body.
He was a new Luohu.
A Luohu stranger than before, and far harder to guard against.
How terrifying the heart-demon path was.
All creatures in the world, whether mortals and beasts or immortals, gods, sages, and buddhas, possessed the seven emotions and six desires. All harbored obsessions and delusions.
These were the soil in which heart-demons bred.
Ordinarily, heart-demons lurked in the deepest recesses of the divine soul, seldom revealing themselves.
But once stirred, they could destroy a living being's Dao Foundation from within, devouring all their cultivation and fortune.
And what Luohu intended was to become the one and only Demon Herder.
He would control the heart-demons of all living beings, turn the entire