The Stripping of the Three Pure Ones' Title as Pangu's True Lineage, Hongjun's Poisonous Scheme!

"Shu Dao Mountain!"

"One!"

"Two!"

Chen Xuan's voice echoed across the entire Witch-Demon battlefield.

The Three Pure Ones all fell silent.

All living beings between Heaven and Earth were terrified. They trembled uncontrollably, every hair on their bodies standing on end.

In the eyes of countless Primordial World cultivators,

the Great Array of the Stars was bound to explode today!

After all,

that "Houtu" had demanded—extorted—so many supreme treasures from the Three Pure Ones. There was no way they would agree!

Unless they were idiots!

"Three!"

Three breaths felt immensely long, yet passed in an instant.

When Chen Xuan's final word fell, it was like the tolling bell of the apocalypse, shaking the myriad heavens and worlds of the Primordial World.

All living beings held their breath, as though awaiting the arrival of a world-destroying calamity!

They were dead! This time, they were absolutely dead!!

"Wait!"

Suddenly, Taiqing finally spoke. He hurriedly tried to smooth things over. "Fellow Daoist Houtu, everything is negotiable, everything is negotiable! An apology and compensation are not impossible, but... but what you're demanding is simply too much. Far too much!"

The implication was obvious.

The Grand Pure Sage, who had always considered himself lofty and above all others, had compromised yet again!

Did that mean there was still room for negotiation?

"That's right, Ancestor Witch Houtu. At any rate, we share the same origin and belong to the same lineage of Pangu's True Lineage. What you're doing puts us in a difficult position. For the sake of Great God Pangu, couldn't you ask for a little less?"

Following Taiqing, Yuanshi Tianzun also chimed in. His previous arrogance and overbearing manner had completely vanished, replaced by humble flattery and fawning words.

Tongtian, meanwhile, remained silent, unable to say anything.

After all,

if not for the fact that he could not disobey his master's orders, along with the karmic bonds of brotherhood among the Three Pure Ones, he would never have involved himself in this mess.

Since he had come, he had to prepare for the worst!

Therefore, he could accept being asked by "Houtu" to offer compensation and apologize.

He could blame no one!

Besides...

Compared to Taiqing and Yuanshi,

even in the end, he would only lose a Qingping Sword.

It was not an unbearable loss!

In Tongtian's view, as long as "Houtu" was willing to compromise, everything could be discussed!

Trading a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure for the safety of all living beings and an end to the conflict between the Witches and Demons was not a loss!

Tongtian possessed great righteousness.

Taiqing and Yuanshi, however, acted only for their own selfish interests.

Hearing this,

Chen Xuan was immediately displeased. The Ever-Combative Chen instantly went online—

"Bastards! You are exalted Saints, yet you treat this like haggling at a street stall! Aren't you ashamed? Where is your Saintly integrity? Where is the pride of supreme Hunyuan beings? Your principles? Your bottom line? I'm embarrassed for you!"

"And you, Yuanshi—I've put up with you for a long time. You keep calling yourself part of Pangu's True Lineage. Do you even deserve it!?"

"If you are descendants of Pangu's True Lineage, how can you become the running dogs of Hongjun's Profound Gate lineage? How can you side with outsiders, collude with Father God Pangu's former Dao enemies, and join them in persecuting your own kin?!!"

"You Three Pure Ones falsely claim to be Pangu's True Lineage! You are utterly unworthy!"

"Say something! Go on, say something! Look me in the eyes and answer me! Why have you all gone mute?!! Ah!!!"

Rolling thunder exploded, reverberating through the Four Seas and Eight Wastes and soaring to the thirty-three heavens. Countless stars throughout the heavens trembled violently, as though they might fall at any moment.

Chen Xuan's words struck the Three Pure Ones like deafening thunder, awakening them with every syllable. Their faces flushed red at once, and they were overcome with shame.

As the saying went, honest advice grated on the ears, and good medicine tasted bitter.

Chen Xuan's words might have been crude, but his reasoning was not.

He was simply telling the damn truth!

The past was too painful to revisit.

Back during the calamity of the creation of Heaven and Earth, Great God Pangu had held the Creation Jade Disc above his head, stood upon the Chaos Green Lotus, and wielded the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe. With his strength alone, he slew all Dao enemies and cleaved apart three thousand Chaos God-Demons.

The clear and turbid qi of Heaven and Earth separated, transforming into the cosmos, and in the end, he transformed his own body into all things in the Primordial World!

What a feat, worthy of songs and tears!

Even after endless ages had passed, Pangu had sacrificed himself for the Dao. Who among the living beings of Heaven and Earth dared forget such an act of great righteousness?

Yet the Three Pure Ones were something else entirely!

Not only had they entered Hongjun's sect and become disciples of the Profound Gate, but now they were even helping outsiders suppress the Witch Clan, Pangu's surviving lineage.

They were truly hateful!

One had to know,

that old bastard Hongjun was one of the three thousand Chaos God-Demons who had reincarnated and cultivated anew. He had once been Great God Pangu's Dao enemy!

He had even tried to obstruct Pangu from opening Heaven and Earth!

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It would have been one thing if the Three Pure Ones had failed to remember the bloodstained history of their forebears and their humiliation. Yet they had actually acknowledged a thief as their father!?

They wagged their tails before that old bastard Hongjun, begging for favor and shamelessly flattering him.

It was truly pathetic!

Silence.

The Three Pure Ones had all been rendered speechless by Chen Xuan's impassioned tirade!

"Silent? Good! That means you still know how to write the word 'shame'!"

"Then today, in Pangu's name, I shall strip you Three Pure Ones of your title as Pangu's True Lineage!"

"From this day onward, the Witch Clan alone shall be Pangu's True Lineage in the Primordial Desolation World. May the Great Dao bear witness!!"

Not long afterward, Chen Xuan still seemed unsatisfied after berating them. He immediately swore an oath to the Great Dao and stripped the Three Pure Ones of their title as "Pangu's True Lineage."

Rumble!

As his words fell,

a supreme and majestic will, vast and boundless in its authority, suddenly rose from the depths of chaotic void, seemingly originating from that mysterious primordial Hongmeng world. Rolling thunder resounded.

In an instant, it spread through the chaotic heavens and rang across the myriad worlds of the Primordial World!

The Will of the Great Dao, which had long withdrawn from the world and hidden itself away, had actually... responded!?

Everyone was dumbfounded!

The living beings of the Primordial World and all the Saints of Heaven and Earth were utterly dumbfounded!

Among them,

the most shocked were naturally the Three Pure Ones themselves.

From this moment onward, they were no longer Pangu's True Lineage?

What would they be called from now on, if not the Pangu Three Pure Ones?

The Profound Gate Three Pure Ones?

No!!!

"Enough. I can't be bothered to waste words with you anymore. Since we can't reach an agreement, then let's stop talking."

"Since it's so difficult for you, then don't do it!"

"Dutian God-Demon Array, give me..."

After berating the Three Pure Ones and stripping away the title of Pangu's True Lineage that they had once taken pride in, Chen Xuan began roaring toward the sky again.

He was here. He was here. He was about to detonate the Dutian God-Demon Array again!

"Three Pure Ones, quickly agree to that bastard's terms!"

"Stabilize him first!"

At that very moment,

Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who had been watching the spectacle all along, suddenly transmitted his voice. It exploded beside the Three Pure Ones' ears, leaving them buzzing and stunned.

The moment those words were spoken,

they were dumbfounded!

The Three Pure Ones were even more dumbfounded!

Wait, why was even their Dao Ancestor master forcing them to hand over their treasures?!

They could not understand it!

They had already been unwilling to submit to "Houtu's" extortion, and now even their title as Pangu's True Lineage had been forcibly stripped away.

This made them even less willing!

"Master, what do you mean by this?"

Taiqing Laozi hurriedly asked.

"Agree to that bastard's demands first. Afterward, I shall set a trap and permanently confine this creature within the Outer Heavens of Chaos. At that time... not only will your treasures return to their rightful owners, but even if Houtu refuses to transform into reincarnation, she will have no choice but to do so!"

"Once the Witch Clan loses the Dutian God-Demon Array's fierce might, won't they be easily crushed? Mere playthings of the Heavenly Dao!"

Layer upon layer of ethereal Dao voices once again echoed beside the Three Pure Ones' ears.

Sect Master Tongtian frowned throughout, finding it disgraceful, yet he did not dare say so openly.

Taiqing and Yuanshi, on the other hand, were delighted after hearing Hongjun's suggestion.

They praised him again and again. "Master, what a brilliant plan!"

"Master is mighty!"

As expected of the ancestor of scheming. This plan... was truly sinister! Truly vicious!

Hongjun truly was the Primordial World's greatest old schemer!

Taiqing and Yuanshi admired him beyond measure and willingly conceded defeat.

"Fellow Daoist Houtu, show mercy!"

"We... agree to your demands!"

Rumble!!

The instant those words were spoken,

all living beings between Heaven and Earth were dumbfounded and astonished.

The Twelve Ancestor Witches: "?????"

The two Golden Crows: "????"

Jieyin and Zhunti: "!!!!"

Nuwa: "..."