Primordial Era: A Counterattack Against Hongjun Daozu at the Start

The collision of two world-destroying energies tore a hundred-mile-long spatial rift in the sky.

When the demonic energy dissipated, the innate battle halberd that terrified all races was found diagonally stuck on a mountain ridge three hundred miles away, trembling incessantly.

The million demon soldiers watching the battle gasped in unison. Since the establishment of the Demon Court, no human had ever been able to directly defeat the Jiao Demon King's weapon.

The demon warrior's pupils contracted sharply; he clearly sensed the weight of civilization contained within the opponent's flames. It was no ordinary fire, but rather a legacy of wisdom passed down through generations, a crystallization of knowledge that transcended the age of ignorance.

What shocked him even more was that the aura of the human commander before him was completely different from what was recorded in the records of the Demon Master Palace.

The veins on the hand gripping the halberd bulged as the Flood Dragon King finally realized that the rumors about the weakness of the human race might need to be re-examined.

Under the influence of Heavenly Dao's merits, this spark of civilization has transformed into a sacred object of law, its power no less than that of a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

Although the Dragon Halberd inherited ancient bloodlines, it was no match for the True Flame of the Humanity's Fortune, so it was only natural that the halberd was knocked back.

This thousand-year-old dragon spirit was indeed somewhat skilled. After its initial astonishment, it immediately locked onto the key point, its crimson vertical pupils fixed on the leaping golden flames: "You lowly human, if you offer the sacred fire to this king, I may still spare your whole corpse."

Amidst the sizzling sound of scales and claws rubbing together, greed almost solidified into a tangible form.

"How dare these remnants of the demon race speak such nonsense!" The holy fire in Suihuang's palm surged three zhang. After being enlightened by the Ancestor of Humanity, this first ancestor of the human race had long since abandoned his weakness.

As the battlefield commander, his aura surged like a crimson dragon: "Today I will teach you that the backbone of humanity will never bend!"

"Laughable ants!" The dragon's tail shattered hundreds of miles of mountains, and the black iron halberd, wrapped in eerie blue lightning, struck down.

In the Jiao Demon's mind, how could a human who had quickly attained the Great Luo realm through merit be a match for his Demon Emperor's secret techniques honed over ten thousand years? If it weren't for his fear of that strange flame, such a weak creature would have long since become food for him.

The halberd stirred up thunder and lightning from the heavens, causing the clouds within a thousand miles to condense into a dark blue vortex.

Such power would likely cause an ordinary Great Luo Immortal to tremble on the spot.

But then the Emperor Sui turned his palm and pushed the flames forward. The originally warm and gentle holy fire suddenly transformed into a golden curtain that burned the sky, with ancient runes appearing in the blazing light.

"Good treasure!" The dragon demon roared, its demon core reaching its full power.

Little did he know that this flame carried not only merit, but also the power of faith embodied in the day-and-night worship of millions of people.

Where the golden flames passed, the sky full of demonic lightning, like snow meeting the blazing sun, melted away the instant it touched them.

"Humans, you ant-like race, may you be annihilated!"

The Great Sage of the Overturning Seas, the Flood Dragon Demon, let out a deafening dragon roar, and the black iron battle halberd in his hand, imbued with the power of thunder, cleaved through the raging flames.

But as the fierce weapon burst through the flames, the Emperor Sui remained unmoved, his feet treading the void. With a flick of his palm, thousands of tongues of fire danced like golden snakes, weaving a crimson net in mid-air.

The halberd thrust wildly through the fire array, but like a ferocious beast trapped in a lava inferno, it could never reach the hem of the human saint's robe.

With a slight twitch of his brow, Suihuang clenched his fingers, and the entire fire domain twisted and coiled as if it were alive, transforming into nine fire dragons that swept toward the location of the Jiao Demon.

"This is impossible!" The Great Sage of the Overturning Sea's pupils shrank sharply, and the blood crystal horn on his forehead emitted a dark light.

Throughout his long demonic life, he had never seen a being that could so skillfully wield the primordial fire. At this moment, he finally understood that the seemingly ordinary human before him was actually a primordial Dao body born from the fire.

"In my eyes, you are nothing more than a mere dragon." The Emperor Sui's words were icy, and the flame of civilization leaping in his palm suddenly rose. What he feared was always the overwhelming shadow of the demon race's heavenly court, not some arrogant dragon-type demon king.

The ten-thousand-foot-long demonic dragon suddenly revealed its true form, its black scales as dark as ink, obscuring the sky and the sun, while its blood-crystal horn burst forth with shattering light.

As the giant tail swept across, it turned half of the fire domain into fireflies. The moment its fangs caught the halberd, innate demonic patterns lit up layer by layer on the halberd, forcibly tearing through the fire curtain and aiming straight for the saint's vital point.

Golden flames flickered in the eyes of the Fire Emperor, and the sea of ​​fire beneath his feet suddenly collapsed into a crimson-gold lotus platform.

That flame of merit that once illuminated human civilization has now transformed into a blazing sun. Although its power is not as great as the true fire of the sun that can burn away all the wilderness, it is in accordance with the orthodox order of heaven and human relations.

"This is the way of passing on the torch!" The sage's voice resounded throughout the universe, and nine rings of fire bloomed one after another.

No matter how the demonic dragon activated its natal demon core, its seemingly violent attacks were always neutralized by the mysterious fire.

The demons watching the battle were horrified to discover that the Great Sage Overturning the Sea's attacks were like moths caught in a spider's web, the more they struggled, the more desperate they became.

"Zhou Yi nodded in admiration as he looked toward the battlefield. The crimson aura surging around Suihuang indicated that the Hengyu Scripture had reached its pinnacle and was only half a step away from perfection."

Since the Zhou Yi introduced the secret technique of covering the sky to the human race, Emperor Sui has had a wonderful resonance with this technique created by Emperor Hengyu.

In just three to five cycles of sixty years, this ancient sage of the human race had mastered this imperial classic to a high level.

Zhou Yi's eyes were sharp, and he could clearly see that Suihuang had already touched the threshold of Quasi-Emperor, and his power was comparable to that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal in the Primordial World.

Although the former Emperor Sui possessed the Sacred Flame of Merit, he was ultimately limited by the method of attaining enlightenment through merit, making him difficult to be considered a strong figure in the Great Luo Realm. Now, with the help of the Heaven-Covering Technique, he has broken through to the Quasi-Emperor realm, resulting in a qualitative leap in his combat power.

What's even more amazing is that the accompanying holy fire of merit not only perfectly matched the profound meaning of the "Hengyu Scripture", but was also refined into an exclusive artifact for proving the Dao, making its combat power leap to the peak of the Great Luo realm.

The overwhelming situation on the battlefield at this moment is clear proof that even an ancient demon king like the Jiao Demon King is being completely suppressed.

The ancient beast, covered in black scales, charged left and right within the fiery cage, but the lava chains tightened with each impact.

Horror washed over the Demon King like a tidal wave, and his centuries-old perception of the human race was crumbling.

Is this really the same human who only rose to the Great Luo realm through the mercy of Heaven? The overwhelming power before him, capable of burning the heavens and boiling the seas, is clearly the result of genuine, heaven-reaching cultivation.

The Demon King's scarlet vertical pupils trembled violently, and he even felt a sense of temporal and spatial distortion: had he been sleeping for too long, or had the primordial world changed?

When the tense battle turned into a life-or-death crisis, this infamous ancient demon finally realized the reality: not only could it not kill its opponent, but even its ability to escape unscathed depended on the opponent's attitude.

Meanwhile, high above in the clouds, the Crimson Flame and Windwave armies were sweeping through the demon race's battle formation with overwhelming force.

The powerful demons, including the Green Snake Demon Commander, were tightly entangled by the Changlin Army. The demon army, having lost its high-level combat power, collapsed in waves like wheat before the Zhetian Battle Formation.

The defeated demon soldiers abandoned their armor and fled in all directions, and even some of the demon generals began to consider retreating.

The Emperor Sui's resounding cry echoed throughout heaven and earth: "Suppress!"

In an instant, countless fire patterns condensed into the World-Burning Dao Diagram, turning the surrounding area of ​​a thousand miles into a blazing inferno.

Suddenly, the majestic voice of the Fire Emperor resounded throughout the heavens and earth, and the raging flames that blotted out the sky suddenly subsided, condensing into a dazzling sun hanging in the sky.

The great sun, formed from this true fire, burst forth with boundless golden light. Vast energy surged like a reversed celestial river, and the laws of heaven intertwined to form a net, completely sealing off the Demon King's escape route.