Zhou Heaven Stars vs. Twelve Heavenly Gods
Within the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation.
The great witches of the Witch Race displayed their overwhelming might one after another. Their fearsome true forms rampaged through the formation, obliterating countless stars.
But...
There were too many!
Every time the 365 primordial stars controlled by the Daluo demon gods shattered, they reformed in an instant.
Supported by the mighty power of the Primordial World's starry sky, the demon gods of the Demon Race seemed to have inexhaustible strength. Ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times...
The battle within the Zhou Heaven Star Formation lasted a full three days and three nights.
Charge after charge, each one practically suicidal, left the once-rampaging, domineering great witches gasping for breath.
Their fearsome true forms were no longer unscathed either. They had even sustained considerable damage.
At the same time, beneath the endless starlight, which they could only withstand or evade, the countless members of the Witch Race suffered devastating losses. Their true forms were pierced, and countless witches fell, gravely wounded, before being ground out of existence.
The scenes unfolding before them sent the Twelve Ancestral Witches' fury soaring to the heavens. Their Witch Race could not reproduce nearly as fearsomely as the Demon Race.
"Roar!"
With an angry roar, "Pangu" clenched both fists. Black-and-red divine patterns spread over his arms, and his muscles swelled, becoming fearsome to the extreme.
"Rumble!"
His massive arms swung out. His fists carried the mighty power and will to destroy everything, and the starry space for hundreds of millions of miles around him collapsed with a thunderous crash.
Like shattered glass, it broke apart inch by inch. A violent storm swept through the void, raging in every direction.
"Dong! Dong! Dong!"
Eastern Emperor Taiyi's expression changed drastically. He frantically struck the Chaos Bell, and its power to suppress heaven and earth enveloped the realm for hundreds of millions of miles in an instant.
The shattered void was immediately held in place, while every demon god within that area fled madly, their faces pale.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Suddenly, incomparably brilliant streaks of arrow light flashed past, piercing straight through the Daluo demon gods fleeing the shattered space.
Nine streaks of arrow light in succession pierced nine Daluo demon gods. The power carried by the arrows forcibly ground the nine demon gods out of existence, sending them to their deaths in the void.
The sudden turn of events sent Eastern Emperor Taiyi, who was nearby, into a towering rage.
The fleeing demon gods were not the illusory primordial stars they had controlled before, which could reform after being shattered. Every demon god who fell now was truly dead.
"Die!"
Dijun, who had transformed into a great sun, was now burning with fury. A ray of divine sunlight shot straight toward Hou Yi.
After firing nine divine arrows capable of grinding Daluo beings out of existence, on top of the fighting he had already done, even Hou Yi, a top-tier great witch, was nearly at the end of his oil and the last of his lamp.
But Kuafu, who was nearby, stepped forward without hesitation and stood before Hou Yi, desperately blocking the ray of divine sunlight.
In the distance, the dense killing intent in "Pangu's" eyes was almost ready to burst forth. Dark light flashed over his massive arm as he punched at the great sun Dijun had become.
In an instant, the great sun was like a shattered mirror, its entire surface covered in a dense web of cracks.
But in the Primordial World's starry sky, the great sun had almost instantly returned to its original state under the Sun Star's terrifying power.
The sight made the expressions of the Twelve Ancestral Witches who formed "Pangu" extremely grim.
This was not the first time they had beaten Dijun to the brink of death, but within the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation, the Demon Race's power seemed inexhaustible.
Ordinary members of the Demon Race were manageable enough: once the formation's protection was breached, they could be killed.
But the Daluo demon gods controlling the 365 primordial stars did not even reveal their true forms, fighting only by directing the stars.
Unless they were killed as Hou Yi had done, in the instant they were forced out of the formation, there was simply no way to send them to the void.
Dijun and Taiyi, the main focus of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation's amplification, were joined as one with the countless members of the Demon Race.
They had the support of the Sun and Moon, the two supreme stars, the 365 primordial stars, and the endless power of countless other stars.
Unless they were killed in a single blow, they would recover in an instant.
And to kill Dijun and Taiyi in a single blow within the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation-
Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!
"Retreat!"
Houtu's voice sounded in the hearts of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
"The Demon Race has spent a million years preparing for this day. Their preparations are exceedingly thorough, and on top of that, they have this formation."
"If we remain deadlocked like this, we may eventually grind the Demon Race out of existence, but the sons of our Witch Race will be all but wiped out."
"Agreed!"
After a brief hesitation, the other eleven Ancestral Witches within "Pangu's" true form agreed.
Though they were arrogant beyond measure and extraordinarily reckless, they were not stupid. At a time like this, they would naturally not clamor to keep fighting the Demon Race to the death.
"Hah!"
"Pangu" let out a furious roar, and vast quantities of black-and-red Sha Qi burst forth. Then he stretched out both hands, holding them before him as though gripping something.
Countless specks of golden light took shape between "Pangu's" hands. The black-and-red Sha Qi around him immediately condensed, and a black, sky-reaching great axe fell into his grasp.
"Pangu Axe!"
Eastern Emperor Taiyi, who held the Chaos Bell, turned pale in an instant. He hurriedly restrained the bell in his hand, which seemed instinctively driven to rush toward the "Pangu Axe."
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Wisps of Sha Qi surged around Pangu. As though splitting heaven and earth apart, he swung the Pangu Axe in his hand fiercely forward, in the direction of the Witch Race.
The space within the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation was torn open like a rag, revealing the world of the Primordial World beyond.
Countless great witches immediately understood the Twelve Ancestral Witches' intent. Protecting vast numbers of their people, they charged out of the formation and into the Primordial World.
In the Primordial World.
Countless great powers were watching this war between witches and demons, the first in a million years.
They watched the scroll the Demon Race had formed after setting up its formation, a scroll that seemed to contain endless stars.
Throughout the Primordial World, countless great powers speculated about the battle's final outcome.
Would it be like a million years ago, with the Witch Race crushing and slaughtering the Demon Race? Would the Demon Race, which had spent a million years preparing for war, win? Or would...
Both sides suffer grievous losses!?
Before the great powers could give it much thought, they saw a rift torn down the middle of the starry scroll in the sky.
Then the Witch Race poured out in vast numbers. But there were considerably fewer of them than when they had first attacked the Heavenly Court, and all bore serious wounds.
"The Demon Race won?"
Just as the great powers were thinking this,
A giant whose head reached the heavens and whose feet stood on the earth stepped out of the scroll, carrying a sky-reaching great axe in his hand.
"Pangu? The Pangu Axe?"
Although they had seen him once before, now that they saw this "Pangu" summoned by the Twelve Ancestral Witches again,
The great powers of the Primordial World were still utterly shaken.
After all, this was Pangu!
The great god Pangu, who had split heaven and earth apart!
The Three Purities of Pangu on Mount Kunlun, however, wore extremely grim expressions.
After all, they had always regarded themselves as Pangu's true heirs and looked down on the Witch Race, who had been tainted by innate turbid Qi and called themselves Pangu's descendants.
But...
The Witch Race had a means of summoning Pangu's "true form," though this was only Pangu's "true form" in the eyes of others.
"Father God's love was boundless. He has already transformed himself into all things in the Primordial World. Pangu is all things, but all things are not Pangu," Laozi said calmly.
"Indeed!"
Yuanshi and Tongtian both nodded beside him.
They naturally understood what Laozi meant.
Pangu had transformed into all things. Aside from the Witch Race, all things had been formed from Pangu, but all things were not Pangu.
Only they were Pangu's true heirs!
As for the Witch Race's method...
They might have been shocked when they first saw it, but on seeing it a second time, they had already gained some understanding of this "Pangu" true form.
They would never acknowledge that what the endless Sha Qi and the Twelve Ancestral Witches had summoned was Pangu's true form.
It was nothing more than a "puppet" with Pangu's appearance and a trace of his power!
The Three Purities of Pangu gazed at the distant Witch Race with ever greater indifference and coldness.
Elsewhere, the Witch Race naturally had no idea what the Three Purities on Mount Kunlun thought of them, or what they were... plotting!
But even if they had known, they probably would not have taken it to heart.
The instant the sky-reaching giant stepped out of the starry scroll, he turned and swung the sky-reaching great axe in his hand.
Black-and-red Sha Qi gathered along the axe blade and sliced through the void, tearing the slowly mending starry scroll before the heavenly palace cleanly in two.
The black-and-red axe light struck the magnificent heavenly palace with crushing force, piercing through six heavens in an instant. Endless Sha Qi spread rapidly through those six heavens, filling heaven and earth.