Lotus and Fire

Trial? Creation Ancient God?

Heng Hua instantly recalled the warning engraved on the stone stele left behind by his ancestors.

"I refuse."

"Mm, as expected."

The Heavenly Demon Master did not mind in the slightest and continued, "From the future I know, you had no desire to transform into the Creation Ancient God—but..."

He blinked, his face brimming with smiles.

A sense of foreboding surged within Heng Hua, and he swiftly retreated.

The Heavenly Demon Master reached out and grabbed. The power of time warped spacetime, reversing the time around Fu Henghua and dragging him back before him step by step.

"This old man has been hiding here since the Third Era. It is terribly boring—"

Without giving Fu Henghua room to refuse, he struck with a backhand palm and sent him into the trial illusion.

It was a Chaos Azure Lotus growing within a palace.

Boundless azure light illuminated the palace. The divine figures in the surrounding murals seemed to come alive. One after another, the "Creation Ancient Gods" raised their hands, lifting divine radiance. Void primal energy merged with the power of Creation Dao, and the azure lotus slowly bloomed.

The Heavenly Demon Master looked at those "Ancient God phantoms," his heart turning grave.

Though he was currently only an incarnation hidden away in the Third Era, he possessed memories inherited from the future. He knew exactly how powerful his future self was.

Yet even his self from before the Fifteenth Era had been unable to contend with the power left behind by the Creation Ancient God.

Only from the Sixteenth Era onward, after he had taken on the identity of the Heavenly Demon Master Zhuyin, did he possess the confidence to contend against the Dao shadow left behind by the Creation Ancient God.

"This is the supreme