Primordial Era: A Counterattack Against Hongjun Daozu at the Start

"clang!"

The moment the three-legged crow's beak struck the bell wall, the entire primordial earth trembled. The sound waves transformed into tangible silver-white ripples that swept across the eight directions, causing mountains tens of thousands of miles away to collapse in response.

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the face of the ancient bronze clock, yet they instantly healed as the Dao patterns flowed. Blood trickled from the corner of Zhou Yi's mouth, and the ground beneath his feet had sunk into a thousand-foot-deep pit.

"Nothing special." Zhou Yi wiped away the bloodstains, and all 360 acupoints on his body lit up simultaneously.

The celestial bell roared and floated to the ninth heaven. The moment the bell mouth reversed, it completely swallowed up the remaining true fire of the sun.

The powerful figures watching the battle were all horrified. This was clearly a case of using war to fuel war, borrowing the power of the Taiyi God to forge their natal magic weapon.

Taiyi Shen's eyes were bloodshot, and he was about to activate his life essence when he saw Zhou Yi's eyes flash with starlight: "It's my turn."

The primordial sound of chaos emanated from within the celestial bell, and countless Dao patterns on the bell wall peeled away and reassembled, ultimately condensing into a fist that created the world.

This strike, though seemingly slow, actually encompasses the workings of the celestial bodies; where the fist passes, time and space are reversed, and yin and yang are in disarray.

"All things return to their source." With a long roar from Zhou Yi, the newly born Dao body radiated seven-colored light.

The fist shadow sometimes transformed into the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi, sometimes into the Chaos Green Lotus, and finally returned to its original simplicity, penetrating the Taiyi Divine Body Protective Qi with the purest force.

At the point where the two supreme beings clashed, the void collapsed into a black hole, swallowing up all the spiritual energy within a radius of a hundred miles.

The roc could still deceive itself by saying that its old wounds had not yet healed, but now it saw that the young human had a celestial bell on its head, which was actually able to stand up to the pressure of the Chaos Bell.

The aftershocks of the battle emanating from beyond the Trayastrimsa Heaven caused the powerful spectators to unleash their protective magic treasures. Some noticed that each time Zhou Yi's shattered body reformed, it would imprint Dao patterns on the surface of the Immortal Bell, and the originally simple bell now exuded an aura of the primordial chaos.

"The Dao gives birth to Yin and Yang!" Grand Master Miaole suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

Zhou Yi's left fingertips danced with Yin True Water, while his right hand was entwined with Yang True Fire. The two opposing forces merged perfectly amidst the vibrations of the Immortal Bell.

Taiyi's three-legged black horse let out a piercing cry, and the raging flames it stirred up were torn open by the Yin and Yang energies.

The demon master, Dapeng, suddenly took half a step back. He clearly saw twelve dazzling points of light traveling along the meridians from Zhou Yi's tattered sleeve.

That was the resonance of the ancestral witch's essence and blood! This discovery sent a chill down his spine; this person had actually pushed the witch clan's body-refining technique to such an extent.

When the celestial bell rang for the ninth time, the entire primordial land trembled.

Zhou Yi's figure, shattering the void, trailed a galaxy-like tail of flames, and the Yin-Yang Dao diagram condensed into a black and white vortex at the tip of his fist.

The solar essence fire surrounding Taiyi was swallowed up by the vortex, and the Chaos Bell emitted the most intense buzzing since the creation of the world.

The Lord of the Styx suddenly clutched his chest, his karmic red lotus trembling violently.

Deep within the sea of ​​blood, the twelve-petaled lotus platform, silent for ten thousand years, bloomed spontaneously, as if welcoming the arrival of some supreme law.

This sign caused the Lord of the Blood Sea's pupils to shrink sharply; this person was nurturing his own Heavenly Dao!

Under this earth-shaking blow, the three-legged crow was sent flying hundreds of feet through the air. The blazing true fire of the sun had just leaped up ten feet of flame when it was completely suppressed by the surging energy of Zhou Yi's fist.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators held their breath, watching as the dark figure broke through the flames and split the light, his fist force creating a silvery wave of energy that rushed straight towards Taiyi's face.

The demon supreme's pupils suddenly contracted, and his knuckles clenched until they turned white. He clearly remembered that a hundred days ago, this physical body had been suppressed by his own pressure and could not move an inch, but now it was able to tear apart the barrier constructed by the true fire of the sun.

The moment the two powerful energies collided, countless golden rays exploded across the heavens and earth, and the visible shockwaves shattered all the clouds within a radius of three hundred miles.

"Retreat!" Grand Master Miaole rolled up his sleeves and unleashed nine layers of protective mystical light.

Even so, some with slightly weaker cultivation levels were still knocked to the ground by the aftershocks.

The ground where the two stood had turned into a crystallized, glass-like surface. Taiyi's gilded battle boots remained completely still, while Zhou Yi's armor on both arms was cracking inch by inch, yet an excited smile appeared on his lips.

"This is quite interesting." Taiyi flicked away the starlight on his shoulder armor, and the phantom of the Chaos Bell appeared faintly behind him.

Only now did he truly understand his elder brother Di Jun's warning: this boy, who carried the destiny of the human race, had actually turned battle into a whetstone to hone his very essence.

Zhou Yi wiped the golden blood from his forehead, and all 720 acupoints on his body simultaneously absorbed and released spiritual energy.

The Dao patterns he had glimpsed during the earlier fist-fighting became increasingly clear, and the spatial ripples caused by Taiyi activating the Chaos Bell seemed to unfold a Heavenly Dao array for him.

The Tai Chi diagram slowly rotates in the sea of ​​consciousness, transforming each life-or-death crisis into nourishment from the Dao.

"You think you can save your life by borrowing a supreme innate treasure?" Taiyi laughed in anger, and the Chaos Bell itself broke through the sky from outside the Trayastrimsa Heaven.

The instant the bell tolled, rivers within a thousand miles seemed to hang upside down, and seven floating immortal mountains crashed to the ground. The Great Luo Golden Immortals watching the battle were horrified to discover that their own natal magic treasures trembled and wailed within the sound of the bell.

Zhou Yi soared into the sky, stepping on the Yin-Yang fish formation, his hair flying wildly under the violent spiritual pressure: "Today, let the Demon Emperor witness that the fighting spirit of the human race is as bright as the sun and moon."

Before he finished speaking, he deliberately crashed into the innate treasure that had suppressed the Dragon and Phoenix Calamity, his fist flashing with a chaotic blue light as if the world had been created.

As the war drums resounded through the heavens, Zhou Yi gripped the ancient scroll in his hand, which contained the flowing yin and yang energies.

He never expected that Master Miaole would entrust the Taiji Diagram to him in the name of the Sage Taiqing.

Bronze boots crushed the clouds, and Taiyi's body was engulfed in the true fire of the sun.

Enraged, the Demon Lord laughed, his voice shaking the thirty-three heavens: "An ant dares to look directly at the sun and moon? Today I will teach you the difference between heaven and earth!"

The Chaos Bell glowed with a deep blue light, and the totems of countless ancient races on its surface lit up one after another. As Taiyi infused it with demonic power, the bronze bell even revealed the phantom of Pangu creating the world, its immense pressure causing the waters of the four seas to reverse.

Zhou Yi wiped the golden blood from the corner of his mouth, and all 360 acupoints in his body resonated simultaneously.

This was the moment he had been waiting for. When the energy of the Chaos Bell and the Taiji Diagram canceled each other out, it was the perfect opportunity to peer into the origin Dao patterns of the Demon Race's Supreme Being.

"So what if you have a treasured companion?" Zhou Yi shattered the void, and the phantom of the Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared behind him. "You see the world as a chessboard, but you don't realize that you are also a piece on the board."

Taiyi's pupils contracted sharply. Since the start of the battle, every time this human's physical body was destroyed by the True Fire of the Sun, his reborn body would have several more mysterious patterns.

At this moment, those patterns resonated with the Daoist rhythm of the Chaos Bell, frantically imprinting the secrets of the treasure under the protection of the Taiji Diagram.

"How dare you, you brat!" The Demon Emperor finally erupted in fury, and the Chaos Bell unleashed a sound wave like falling stars.

Wherever the bell tolls, space peels away like shards of glass, revealing a primordial chaos before its separation.

At this moment, Zhou Yi withdrew his protective aura, allowing the destructive power to tear apart his Dao body. The sound of countless people chanting scriptures emanated from within his body, and what flowed through his damaged meridians was no longer blood, but golden light of merit that seemed to solidify.

"So that's how it is..." The Tongtian Sect Leader, who was watching the battle, suddenly clapped his hands and laughed. "Using battle to cultivate the Dao, and borrowing the demon race's supreme treasure to forge the human emperor's body, this kid has really gambled on the fate of the human race."