Within the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, Ancestral Dragon single-handedly withstood sixty percent of its power.
The incessant Immortal Slaying sword energy, like the terrifying killing intent within the formation, was endless and unending.
Ancestral Dragon unleashed his Dragon Seal punches, shattering the void, breaking space, and pulverizing countless Immortal Slaying sword energies, only for more to descend.
A flicker crossed Ancestral Dragon's brow. He sensed danger.
Candle Dragon was in peril!
He took a step forward, the Ancestral Dragon Seal landing upon the Immortal Slaying Sword Gate, stabilizing the sword intent.
With a wave of his hand, Azure Dragon responded.
Even though they had lost their bearings within the great formation, their primordial spirits could still sense each other.
Azure Dragon replaced Ancestral Dragon in guarding the Immortal Slaying Sword Gate. The Slaughtering Immortal sword energy within the formation had vanished, and the Immortal Slaying sword energy had ceased.
Ancestral Dragon strode through the void, the killing aura parting before him, unhindered.
Phoenix Ancestor, pursuing the Black Lotus, also arrived near the altar.
Ancestral Dragon's mind reached Candle Dragon.
Candle Dragon, battered and bleeding from the attacks of two Grand Demons, was a gruesome sight.
However, Rahu was faster. The altar spun, and Candle Dragon was instantly teleported away.
Wuxiang and Jiutian Grand Demon, knowing they were no match for Ancestral Dragon, plunged into the endless killing aura of the formation to escape.
Ancestral Dragon roared and stepped towards the center of the altar.
Phoenix Ancestor entered the altar, saw Rahu, and said coldly, "Hand over the Golden Peng True Spirit!"
A smile played on Rahu's lips. "Wait a moment."
Before he could finish, Ancestral Dragon arrived outside the altar. "Hand over Candle Dragon!"
Rahu, seeing them both present, laughed heartily. "Excellent! You are both here. If you wish to save him, you must defeat me!"
With a wave of his hand, the altar vanished, the Four Sword Gates sealed, and the three of them were trapped in the center of the great formation.
Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor's expressions changed; they knew this was not good.
At the same moment, countless great demons hidden within the formation's killing aura emerged, and endless demon races charged towards the Dragon and Phoenix armies. Wuxiang Grand Demon and Jiutian Grand Demon led the charge, wreaking havoc.
Furthermore, the Trapping Immortal sword energy and the Destroying Immortal sword energy descended from the Sky Sword Gate, each with killing intent targeting the supreme powers of the Dragon and Phoenix races.
The Dragon and Phoenix armies, weary from countless ages of fighting, were already injured. With their supreme ancestors trapped within the sword gates and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation spewing endless demonic energy to corrupt them, the Dragon and Phoenix tribesmen were falling.
In an instant, the Dragon and Phoenix armies scattered, slaughtered by the countless great demons, or corrupted and turned into demons, slaughtering their own kin. Golden Immortals and Taiyi True Dragons died in their rage.
Their deaths generated more heaven and earth killing aura, which was collected within the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
The Dragon and Phoenix armies no longer had any powers above the twenty-sixth heaven. How could they possibly contend with two Grand Demons of the thirtieth heaven?
Moreover, the Destroying Immortal sword energy struck with absolute lethality. With each strike, the world turned white, and their peerless sharpness took the lives of supreme beings.
It was tragic. Many had achieved the Da Luo Immortal status, which should have made them immortal.
But in this epochal tribulation, trapped within the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, cut off from heaven and earth, they had nowhere to flee and nowhere to hide.
Dragon clan great beings roared to the heavens, their dragon souls immortal, attempting to break the formation with their spirits!
A hundred dragons wailed, a hundred phoenixes mourned, and the world filled with killing intent became their graveyard!
An elder of the Dragon clan shouted, "Our Dragon Clan's might shakes the four seas. As long as our ancestors live, even if we perish, the Dragon Clan will prosper!
Esteemed ancestors have protected us for countless ages. Now, with our bodies, we shall open a path for the ancestors, and seek a sliver of hope for our kin!"
As his words fell, this Dragon Clan great being transformed into a colossal divine dragon, soaring through the nine heavens, crashing into the Immortal Slaying formation. A single beam of light illuminated all existence!
The terrifying power of the Great Dao swept through countless demons, even blasting away considerable demonic energy and killing aura. The Four Heavenly Sword Gates themselves trembled slightly!
This Dragon Clan great being did not hesitate to self-destruct his primordial spirit, using his power to shake the nearly primordial Immortal Slaying Sword Formation!
Under the dark, oppressive sky, elders of the Dragon and Phoenix races rose, their hair white and their bodies frail, but their eyes remained resolute. They were still great beings of the Dragon and Phoenix.
They had once soared through the firmament and dwelled in the deep seas. They were the great beings of this era, born and raised here. They refused to let the glory of the Dragons and Phoenixes fade. They were born under glory and were willing to die in its light.
Giant dragons flew into the sky, proud giant phoenixes spread their wings. Dragons soared through the nine heavens, phoenixes flew gracefully.
Dragons roamed the four seas, their might glorious, their power immense, all beasts bowing in subservience.
Phoenixes danced in the nine heavens, their brilliance dazzling, their virtue luminous, all birds flocking to the phoenix, bowing their heads.
True dragons and heavenly phoenixes flew to their deaths. In life, one dwelled in the deep sea, the other in lava. In death, they both soared to the sky. Dragons and phoenixes perished together!
Heaven and earth mourned, light flared, piercing the darkness. Even the tribulation of heaven and earth could not withstand the might of the Dragons and Phoenixes!
All races prostrated, the four seas submitted.
The eight directions bowed, the ten lands became their territory.
The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation was an ancient killing formation. Though its diagram was born beneath Mount Buzhou, its four swords hidden within Sumeru, its master was Rahu.
Yet, the combined might of the Dragon and Phoenix armies was the strongest force of this era, capable of substituting for all sentient beings to form a momentum!
The momentum of all beings opposed the momentum of heaven and earth, opposed the momentum of destiny. This momentum altered heaven and earth, turned the universe upside down, reversed yin and yang, and the forms of the eight directions could not be suppressed.
The Four Heavenly Sword Gates collapsed with a roar. The Four Peerless Fierce Swords, which slaughtered billions of beings and ancestral dragons and phoenixes, could not slay the hearts of the people.
The Four Ferocious Beasts were violently expelled from the firmament, the Four Swords fell, and the sword formation was broken!
However, sorrow echoed endlessly across heaven and earth, and withered bones lay everywhere.
Miles of mountains and rivers were filled with corpses, and the sky was stained crimson with blood.
Young dragons cried, fledgling phoenixes wailed, the four seas grieved, and the sky was desolate.
Rahu was shocked, unable to believe that his Immortal Slaying Four Swords could be broken by mere ants!
Ancestral Dragon roared in despair, a lonely dragon singing in the sky.
Phoenix Ancestor's cry was stifled, her peerless grace halted.
Qingluan lost her composure, and the world fell silent.
Azure Dragon's palm gripped the blade, dragon blood dripping.
The two Grand Demons' minds were greatly shaken. They exchanged glances and silently prepared to flee.
But the Azure Heaven Sword struck with celestial radiance. Azure Dragon's eyes were bloodshot as he blocked their path.
Qingluan also reacted, and the primordial divine wind rose again, encircling the two demons.
Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor simultaneously turned their gaze towards Rahu.
Even Rahu felt a chill down his spine.
But he refused to believe that the first ancient killing formation had been broken so easily!
Ancestral Dragon's fists were filled with rage, dragon blood splashing. Phoenix Ancestor's dual maces struck fearlessly, advancing resolutely.
Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor, their hearts filled with fury, unleashed their anger upon Rahu.
Rahu, standing on the World-Ending Black Lotus, wielded the God-Slaying Spear against the two, his demonic dominance showing no signs of yielding.
Yet, he was still driven back, forced westward.
The Southern Heaven was already very close to the West. The furious attacks of the three, without restraint, destroyed countless spiritual veins, mountains, and living beings.
Rahu was pushed all the way to the western lands. He ferociously reached out again, and the Immortal Slaying Four Swords reappeared. The demonic eyes on the foreheads of the Four Ferocious Beasts split open, and the four supremely dead beings struggled and were dragged into the formation. Simultaneously, the demonic eyes of the Ancestral Demon appeared on the foreheads of Wuxiang Grand Demon and Jiutian Grand Demon, their primordial demonic power flowing entirely westward.
Upon the western lands, the Immortal Slaying Formation diagram unfurled once more, drawing upon the myriad killing auras of the heavens, combining with the source of the western spiritual脉, and merging the origins of the Four Ferocious Beasts and the two Grand Demons. The sword formation rose again!
This time, Rahu merged with the formation. Rahu was the formation, and the formation was Rahu.
The ancient killing intent fully awakened, unleashing a killing intent that made heaven and earth tremble.
The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation instantly absorbed the endless killing aura of the heavens. All the killing energy, death energy, and evils of the Primordial World were swallowed into the formation, even the tribulation energy of the heavens surged into it.
Not copper, nor iron, nor steel, it was once hidden beneath Mount Sumeru.
Without the alchemy of yin and yang reversed, how could its edge be quenched by water and fire?
Immortal Slaying is sharp, Slaughtering Immortal brings death, Trapping Immortal ignites red light everywhere.
Destroying Immortal's transformations are infinitely marvelous, the blood of Great Luo Immortals stains their robes.
The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation was now fully complete, the killing intent of heaven and earth unified!
Sentient beings could no longer kill, for all fear and killing resided in the Immortal Slaying!
The Immortal Slaying Sword emerged, the Destroying Immortal Sword emerged, the Trapping Immortal Sword emerged, the Slaughtering Immortal Sword emerged. Swords rose to the vastness, swords emerged boundlessly, swords merged with the center of heaven, swords became the primordial chaos!
This time, it was not chaotic sword energy, but primordial chaotic sword energy!
The firmament shattered, the earth cracked, the Primordial World trembled, and the winds, waters, and fires outside the thirty-three heavens shook. The four extremes of the Primordial World became unstable.
Even the reclusive Qilin clan, suppressing the central land, could only stabilize the center, not the four directions!
Rahu stared coldly at the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors and said in a chilling voice, "Since a great calamity has already formed, then there will be no end until one of us perishes!
Today, either the demonic path will dominate the Primordial World, or I, Rahu, will merge with the demonic path!"
The Four Swords struck lethally. Heaven and earth faced killing intent, yet beings had no killing intent. The primordial chaotic sword energy emerged, the world tilted, the Primordial World shattered, entering the Hunyuan realm.
All the Great Gods were shocked; none remained unmoved.
On Jade Capital Mountain, Hongjun sighed, took the Jade Plate, and walked out of the white jade mountain.
The Daoist stepped forward, flicking his whisk, and the heavens arose. Jade Capital ascended, and a mountain emerged, bringing forth an era.
In the void of the heavens, the Heavenly Dao devoured endless Great Luo Dao treasures, evolving into countless smaller, medium, and even great worlds.
The Daoist walked with the wind, his sleeves billowing, raising dust and wind with each step. Behind the Daoist, phantom images of all the worlds appeared, carrying three thousand worlds.
Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor had not expected the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to have reached the Hunyuan realm. As the boundless sword light descended, one retreated and the other advanced.
Ancestral Dragon moved forward, Phoenix Ancestor retreated.
Thirty-three Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearls manifested around Ancestral Dragon. Three Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearls, hidden beneath Mount Xi, instantly returned, forming thirty-six heavens. The waters of heaven and earth poured into him.
Phoenix Ancestor ignited the Nirvana True Flame, burning her primordial fire. All flames in the world merged into one. There was no fire in the four directions, only the long cry of the divine phoenix.
The two Great Daos of Water and Fire, which should have been antagonistic, turned to mutual generation.
Dragon Ancestor, as Yang, controlled the myriad waters of the four seas.
Phoenix Ancestor, as Yin, controlled the myriad fires of the world.
The Great Dao of Water and Fire merged into one. Dragon and Phoenix united, bringing harmony to heaven and earth, perfection to Yin and Yang, and completeness to the Dao, reaching Hunyuan.
The spiritual energy of the countless Dragon and Phoenix tribesmen who perished in heaven and earth converged upon the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors. They were now at their peak.
But it was also their end.
For their kin were annihilated, and their spiritual energy, consumed, scattered. With no source of spiritual energy, their destiny waned, their time expired, and death arose!
Rahu's sword struck boundlessly, the primordial chaotic sword energy slicing through time and space. The ancient killing intent was complete.
The two Great Daos of Water and Fire formed a single force. Chaos had water, and great tides surged forth. Chaos had fire, and life was born.
Water and fire were endless, the source of power inexhaustible. The sword light was invincible, slicing through countless water and fire worlds, yet it could never escape the water and fire of the primordial chaos!
Rahu's sword struck, the Four Swords roared, the Heavenly Sword Gate would not cease, the primordial chaos was boundless, and the sword light was unending.
At this moment, Rahu transformed into the demon leader among the three thousand divine demons, regaining his primordial chaotic demon body. He was the demonic path, dominating heaven and earth, and all daos were to be trampled beneath him.
The primordial chaotic sword energy was invincible in the Primordial World, cleaving heaven and earth, breaking into the primordial chaos.
The two extremes of water and fire in Chaos were born, but they had their own extremes, their own limits.
Phoenix Ancestor's life flame dimmed, Ancestral Dragon's life sea gradually dried up. The water and fire of the primordial chaos grew dim, but the primordial chaotic sword energy remained undiminished.
However, the spiritual veins of the western lands, the myriad mountains, were depleted. Spiritual energy was nearing exhaustion. Life had ceased, and only dry bones remained. Nothing lived!
Rahu's sword struck forth from the primordial chaos, shaking the Four Swords. The Four Swords roared, and heaven and earth submitted.
Heaven issued killing intent, earth issued killing intent, man issued killing intent. The three powers were complete. The river of destiny boiled and churned. Rahu merged himself with the sword, and the primordial chaotic sword energy struck, severing destiny, breaking through time and space, cutting off karma, and annihilating water and fire!
"Boom—"
The Primordial World trembled, the void collapsed, and winds, waters, and fires ravaged into the Primordial World. The Primordial World was nearly destroyed.
The West, in particular, was utterly annihilated. Not a single living being remained.
Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor, heavily wounded, fell from the sky. The dragon's leg was broken, the phoenix's wings were snapped.
Qingluan and Azure Dragon looked panicked, shielding the two ancestors.
Ancestral Dragon struggled to speak, "Azure Dragon, live on. Live on for me!"
The first helplessness appeared in Azure Dragon's eyes. He wept sadly and said, "Elder Brother! I will take you back to the East Sea."
Ancestral Dragon shook his head, placed the Dragon Seal in his hand, and resolutely walked towards the Immortal Slaying formation.
Concurrently, Phoenix Ancestor spread her wings. The energies of heaven and earth were drawn, and the phoenix descended to her two sons, one of five colors, the other of yin and yang!
The five-colored one was born from Chaos, while the yin and yang were born from the union of Dragon and Phoenix!
Qingluan Ancestor wept, picked up Phoenix Ancestor, and was about to turn back to the South Heaven.
But Phoenix Ancestor stopped her. A shard of essence from the Lihuo descended, lifting the five-colored and yin-yang energies. "Qingluan, look after them for me!"
Qingluan pleaded, "Let's go back to the South Heaven and be reborn, shall we?"
Phoenix Ancestor smiled and shook her head. "I no longer have the source for Nirvana."
Qingluan was greatly shocked and suddenly asked, "Just now, you and Ancestral Dragon?"
"Correct! The union of water and fire, my source of Nirvana, his sea of life."
Phoenix Ancestor stood up, her red robe flowing, her phoenix crown resplendent yellow.
Dragon Ancestor's yellow robe was majestic, his presence like the sea, the king of all beasts.
Dragon and Phoenix met each other's gaze, then simultaneously advanced towards the Immortal Slaying formation.
The sounds of heaven and earth, the dragon roared in the firmament, the heavenly phoenix cried in the nine heavens. Dragon and Phoenix were born, Dragon and Phoenix died, Dragon and Phoenix returned to the beginning!
The primordial essence of the Great Dao of Water and Fire returned to the three thousand Great Daos. Ancestral Dragon returned to Chaos, Phoenix Ancestor returned to Chaos. Chaos contained the Great Dao Golden Dragon, Chaos gave birth to the Great Dao Heavenly Phoenix, the union of Dragon and Phoenix as origin. Birth implies separation, separation implies existence. Death implies union, union implies oneness!
The Immortal Slaying Four Swords were broken once more. Rahu fell to Da Luo, his breath faint.
He felt no victor's joy, for he saw visitors approaching from afar.
Yin Yang Old Ancestor arrived on a golden bridge. Qian Kun Old Ancestor carried a tripod. Yang Mei Old Ancestor strolled with a willow branch.
Yin Yang Old Ancestor sighed, "Pitiful Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor, a generation of unparalleled beings, all destroyed by your hand."
Qian Kun Old Ancestor said indifferently, "The Primordial World is broken, the Pangu beings will perish. Rahu, the karma you have created, you must bear."
Yang Mei Old Ancestor said nothing further, only stating, "Let us act!"
"Wait!"
Rahu shouted, "Where is Hongjun?"
Yin Yang Old Ancestor smiled and said, "Hongjun does not concern himself with worldly affairs. He is in seclusion, not emerging. Why would he come to see you?"
Qian Kun Old Ancestor also said, "The Grand Demons are all gone, only you, Rahu, remain. The three of us are sufficient."
Yang Mei remained silent, merely waving his willow branch, space annihilating ceaselessly as it swept towards Rahu.
Rahu let out a sneer. The World-Ending Black Lotus bloomed, protecting him. "How laughable that you presume to be Great Gods; you are all being used by others!
Hongjun, oh Hongjun, you and I, one the leader of Chaotic Demons, the other the leader of Chaotic Gods, have fought for endless years. I never knew where I lost to you!"
In the distance, Hongjun the Daoist, carrying three thousand worlds, paused slightly. His body had merged with the Heavenly Dao; he was the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao was him. No one in the world knew.
He sighed and softly said, "You did not lose, therefore you lost."
In the West, Rahu's expression faltered. He murmured, "I did not lose, therefore I lost!"
He burst into mad laughter. "Hongjun, oh Hongjun, this time I admit defeat!"
As his words fell, Rahu's aura exploded violently, engulfing the West.
Yin Yang Old Ancestor and Qian Kun Old Ancestor hastily retreated. The self-destruction of Ancestral Dragon and Phoenix Ancestor was comparable to Hunyuan. They naturally knew its critical points.
However, what they did not expect was for Rahu to roar to the heavens, his voice echoing through the primordial chaos: "I am Rahu, the leader of Chaotic Demons!
Today, I establish the demonic path, wishing to return to the three thousand Great Daos of Pangu. Today, sentient beings seeking the Dao must all undergo my demonic tribulation to achieve true enlightenment!
The Demonic Path of Pangu, established!"
As the sound faded, Rahu self-destructed. His true spirit transformed into the demonic path and merged into the Pangu world before the Heavenly Dao.
The terrifying power contained within Rahu's Dao body as a Chaotic Demon Leader completely destroyed the West, perishing along with Yin Yang and Qian Kun.
The Primordial World was no more the West.
Yang Mei Old Ancestor looked back and saw Hongjun returning.
He sighed and looked at Hongjun, saying nothing, yet his gaze conveyed more than a thousand words.
The Creation Jade Plate appeared where Yin Yang and Qian Kun Old Ancestors had stood.
Hongjun spoke, "The nine Great Gods, their origins unified, and I will achieve completeness."
Yang Mei Old Ancestor coldly laughed and finally spoke, "That year I gave up my origin as a Void Great God to you; I wonder if it was right or wrong!"
"We coexist; it makes no difference whose origin it is."
In the distant Primordial Epoch, at the beginning of the birth of the three thousand divine demons, a salamander lay beneath a giant willow. The salamander climbed the giant willow, living on the temporal power of the giant willow. The giant willow lived on the space created by the food of the salamander.
Yang Mei shook his head and stepped into the void.
Hongjun sighed and continued his steps, walking towards the West.
Behind him, the three thousand worlds gradually increased. Three thousand was a measure. Hongjun walked towards the now-vanished West and laid down the three thousand worlds he carried on his back.