In an instant.
The entire Primordial World erupted into an uproar!
All manner of clamor and commotion surged without end, refusing to subside for a long while.
All living beings between heaven and earth trembled uncontrollably.
The saints of the Profound Gate were all seized by panic.
Even Hongjun, upon hearing this news—he whose Sage's Majesty and Dao Heart had once been as unshakable as stone, remaining calm and undisturbed through endless ages—suddenly widened his eyes at this moment!
"Crash—"
As pure qi churned within Zixiao Palace, Hongjun roared in rage, utterly losing his composure: "How dare that wretch!!!"
His voice was incomparably thunderous, piercing the boundless chaos and echoing endlessly through the heavens. It terrified all living beings out of their wits and made the saints' Dao Hearts shudder wildly.
Hongjun had issued the Dao Ancestor Master's decree and sent the saints of the Profound Gate to intervene in the conflict between the Wu and Demon clans. His original intention had merely been to break the Dutian God-Demon Array, sever the Witch Clan's sole remaining reliance, and force Houtu to Transform into Reincarnation.
That was all!
Who could have expected Hongjun to anticipate that Houtu would be this insane!?
She had forcefully broken the deadlock with the resolve to die!
This move was truly ruthless!
Houtu's outrageous stunt had sent all his calculations scattering to the ground!
Damn it all!!!
However...
Chen Xuan was utterly unfazed by Hongjun's furious and threatening words.
He even found them a little funny!
Hongjun was losing it. He was losing it!
Hongjun was panicking. He had begun to panic!
Then.
Chen Xuan answered bluntly—
"What is there to fear!? Hongjun, you old bastard, just try me!!"
"You forced my hand!"
"Since the saints of the heavens have done wrong, they should bear the corresponding price!"
"So what if it evolves into an Immeasurable Calamity? Come on, then! Who's afraid of whom? Let's hurt each other!!"
"The Witch Clan is not made of clay! Nor are we easy to bully!"
Every word rang with force, impassioned and beyond refutation!
His voice was equally vast and thunderous, shaking the universe and all the heavens!
Everyone who heard it trembled in terror!
For a moment, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi nearly regretted it to the point their intestines turned green. They should never, ever have provoked that pack of lunatics from the Witch Clan!
This was no exaggeration.
If there had not been so many people present, the two Golden Crows would have kowtowed twice to Ancestor Witch Houtu and begged her to stop while she still could.
What Demon clan rules the heavens and Witch Clan governs the earth?
It really was a little unfair!
They could give up the Heavenly Court. They were even willing to hand over the position of Primordial World overlord!
They only begged Ancestor Witch Houtu not to be so crazy, not to go so completely off the rails. That was all!
"Madwoman. Houtu is... absolutely a madwoman!"
"If I had known, I never would have waded into this mess! Regret! Too late! Fuck!!!"
Taiqing and Yuanshi both turned pale. Trapped within the Dutian God-Demon Array, their mighty saintly bodies trembled uncontrollably, their faces drained of color.
Tongtian's Qingping Sword, hanging at his waist, also trembled and buzzed without end. He was stunned, his heart churning with stormy waves, before he asked weakly, "Houtu... Daoist friend... are you serious?"
At first, Tongtian had believed that bringing the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to the battlefield between the Wu and Demon clans, breaking the Dutian God-Demon Array, and cutting off one of the Witch Clan's greatest supports would bring an end to the war between the two clans and set everything back on track.
As for what came afterward.
Even though Tongtian was extremely unwilling to see the Witch Clan reduced to less than one-tenth of its number and Houtu Transform into Reincarnation.
That was already the Witch Clan's only chance of survival!
But he had never imagined...
Never imagined that Ancestor Witch Houtu intended to detonate the Dutian God-Demon Array and perish together with the Primordial World, the saints, and all living beings between heaven and earth!?
Better to shatter like jade than remain whole like tile!
She had forcibly broken the deadlock!
But...
Even so, the Witch Clan would ultimately still be unable to escape death!
Tongtian could not understand. He truly could not understand.
I don't get it!
He really did not understand!
This was too crazy!
The unyielding attitude Houtu displayed, along with her resolve to die, was simply terrifying.
Even Old Ancestor Minghe, who pursued the Dao through slaughter—slaying heaven, slaying earth, slaying all living beings—felt inferior upon witnessing it!
"What does it mean to prove the Dao through slaughter? Only now do I understand! Ancestor Witch Houtu, this is what proving the Dao through slaughter truly means!! Hiss—"
Realizing that his killing intent was actually weaker than that of a woman, Old Ancestor Minghe was horrified and shaken, his heart filled with indescribable mixed emotions.
Fuck, it turned out all my cultivation in the first half of my life had gone to the dogs!
Zhen Yuanzi was dumbfounded.
Zhulong was terrified.
The Phoenix Matriarch sighed sorrowfully.
The Qilin clan elders sighed in renewed emotion.
Every one of them reassessed Ancestor Witch Houtu. Who would dare look down on her as merely a woman now?
All of them regarded her with solemn respect!
If—if there truly had been an if—had the former overlords among the Three Innate Clans possessed even half of Ancestor Witch Houtu's bearing today, how could they have fallen to such a state?
Let alone everyone else.
Even Houtu herself was frightened by Chen Xuan's ruthlessness.
"Senior actually intends to detonate the Dutian God-Demon Array!? Hiss—this... this..."
Houtu stood dazed for a long while, then trembled like a flower in the wind from fright. Cold sweat broke out over her body, and her pretty face turned deathly pale.
But after the initial shock and horror.
Upon thinking it over carefully.
Houtu found it hard to believe.
In her view.
Looking back on everything, although Senior Chen Xuan's style of doing things had always been crazy and extreme.
He was not a brainless brute, and his intelligence had been online throughout the entire process!
So how could he...
Hmm... Senior Chen Xuan must be bluffing them.
Yes, that had to be it!
"Daoist friend Houtu, please calm down. Do not do anything foolish. Do not act rashly!"
"Whatever conditions you have, name them. I will personally petition the Dao Ancestor Master one by one and definitely obtain justice for your Witch Clan!"
"I, Taiqing, swear this in the name of Pangu's True Lineage!"
Sure enough, Taiqing Laozi had been thoroughly frightened. After regaining his senses, he hurriedly tried to persuade her.
"That's right. We, the Three Pure Ones of Pangu, and the Witch Clan are family in a sense. We share the same origins and all descend from Pangu's lineage. Born from the same root, why torment each other so fiercely? There is no need for this, Daoist friend Houtu. No need!"
Yuanshi Tianzun immediately echoed him, trembling all over.
What Sage's Majesty?
What saintly dignity? What integrity? What bottom line?
What were those things?
They were all worth jack shit!
Sect Master Tongtian: "-_-||..."
Seeing his two elder brothers in such a state, Tongtian was speechless.
Why had his brothers' way of doing things begun to resemble those two shameless Westerners?
Alas, this disgraced Pangu's True Lineage!
They had truly let Great God Pangu down!
How embarrassing!
"Taiqing, Yuanshi, stop trying to claim kinship here! You only know fear now? What the fuck were you doing earlier?!!"
Seeing that his threat had achieved such a powerful and immediate deterrent effect, Chen Xuan's raised lips were harder to suppress than an AK.
After angrily berating them, he fixed his gaze on Taiqing Laozi. A trace of mockery appeared on his face as he asked coolly, "Taiqing, do you truly mean that any condition is acceptable?"
Taiqing Laozi's eyes suddenly widened, and a bright light flashed through them.
From the looks of it, there still seemed to be room to salvage the situation!?
Only...
Only why did Taiqing feel a chill run down his spine for no reason when he met Chen Xuan's gaze?
Uneasy!
And anxious!
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