As her words fell, Houtu looked toward the Witch Clan and remained silent for a long while before finally speaking:
"From this day onward, there is no more Houtu in this world. There is only Pingxin of the underworld. All races and living beings of the primordial world who enter the underworld shall be treated equally, their standing determined by merit!"
As her words fell, Houtu—no, the Dharma body of Empress Pingxin of the underworld—sank into the underworld.
Immediately afterward, an unfathomable Dao aura spread out, instantly enveloping the entire primordial world. In the void, passageways of guidance appeared one after another, drawing the resentment drifting through the primordial world into the underworld.
For a time, countless resentful thoughts were drawn into the underworld. In an instant, the entire primordial world seemed cleansed. The resentment in the void vanished, leaving only the boundless calamity aura that shrouded the primordial world unchanged.
On Central Phoenix Mountain, Jiang Haofeng looked at the primordial world as it returned to calm, and the tension in his heart eased slightly.
The Six Paths of Samsara had been established; Houtu was no longer a Witch!
The Witch-Demon Calamity was about to formally begin. The final battle between the two races was drawing near, but accordingly, the human race was safe as well.
After the calamity, it would be time for the human race to truly flourish!
As the primordial world settled into calm, the Witch and Demon Clans could not remain calm.
Beneath Buzhou Mountain, the eleven Ancestral Witches looked at their younger sister Houtu, whose aura in the void had become stronger than ever before. Their faces were filled with wild joy. They had originally thought the Witch Clan now had backing and could directly crush the Demon Clan and rule the primordial world.
But