Primordial Era: Taking the blame to become a saint, proving one's path through eccentricity!

Chapter 425 [Cataclysmic Calamity Arises, Demon Lord of the Primordial World]

Lishan.

Xuan Yin arrived quietly, without alerting anyone, but he could not escape the notice of Li Shan Lao Mu, who was actually Nuwa in disguise. As the ancestor of humanity, Nuwa had an unbreakable karmic connection with Xuan Yin.

"Your Majesty?"

Looking at the Old Mother of Lishan, Xuan Yin tentatively asked, "Is it the Goddess Nuwa in person?"

no way!

The Old Mother of Lishan before us is a universal alias, sometimes used by the Goddess Nuwa, and sometimes by Houtu, the Queen Mother of the West, the Golden Mother of Yaochi, the Holy Mother of Wudang, and others.

These powerful beings, though they may share the same stance as the Goddess Nuwa on some matters, inevitably have moments of conflicting ideas.

Xuan Yin sought out the Goddess Nuwa to discuss important matters, and he did not want the other powerful beings to overhear his plans!

"Why are you here at my Mount Li instead of tending to your Mount Sumeru? I have no intention of getting involved in your karma with Yuanshi and the others!"

The Old Mother of Lishan smiled, and endless light of creation appeared behind her head, with the Great Dao of Primordial Purity transforming into a bright moon behind her.

In the Primordial Realm, only the Goddess Nuwa could use her own Dao Fruit to materialize the Primordial Creation Dao and the Primordial Primordial Dao.

Xuan Yin gazed intently and saw the power of creation emerge like a tide, making even the light of the sun, moon, and stars pale in comparison. Several invisible causal relationships were instantly severed by the power of creation.

Clearly, this was Nuwa using her own Great Dao to temporarily suppress the others, so that she could monopolize the identity of the Old Mother of Lishan.

"There's something I'd like to discuss with Your Majesty! If we can obtain Your Majesty's approval, perhaps the demonic path can reach a point where it is on par with the Heavenly Dao!"

Xuan Yin slowly opened his mouth and told Nuwa about his plan to use the demonic path to penetrate the four paths of heaven, earth, humanity, and gods, and then use the dark side of the four paths of heaven, earth, humanity, and gods to support the demonic path.

"You really dare to dream!"

Nuwa neither refused nor agreed, but slowly said, "In the past, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, in order to perfect the Heavenly Dao, had us sages jointly construct the foundation of the Heavenly Dao, which is why the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World became the symbol of the order of the Primordial True Realm!"

"Even Rahu is merely a cornerstone of the Heavenly Dao. Although he can mobilize the power of the Heavenly Dao, he can never touch its core!"

"This time, the Dao Ancestor is preparing to break away from the Heavenly Dao and choose a new Lord of the Heavenly Dao. Taiqing Laozi and the others are all trying to prevent you from inheriting the Rahu Dao Fruit, so that you will not become a Heavenly Dao Saint and compete with them for the qualification of Lord of the Heavenly Dao—but they never expected that you would actually be planning to sublimate the Demonic Path and make it equal to the Heavenly Dao!"

She paused, a strange light flashing in her eyes, as if she were weighing the pros and cons, to see how much chance Xuan Yin had of success!

If successful, how much benefit could this bring me?

To become the master of the Heavenly Way, one must not be tainted by the Earthly Way, the Human Way, or the Divine Way, otherwise the balance between the various Ways will be disrupted!

Nuwa, on the other hand, wanted to follow the path of attaining enlightenment through the three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man, and then use her own path to fuse the mysteries of the three paths into one. Naturally, she could not abandon her position as the Sage of the Earth Path to compete with Laozi and others for the position of Lord of the Heaven Path!

However, if the demonic path were to be elevated to the same level as the heavenly path, and she were to prove herself as a demonic saint on top of her status as a heavenly saint and an earthly saint, it would definitely allow her foundation to advance even further!

"I can help you, but after it's done, I want the title of a Demonic Saint!"

The goddess Nuwa immediately stated her conditions: "The dark sides of Heaven, Earth, Humanity, and Gods must jointly support the Demonic Path. Besides you, the master of the Demonic Path, at least three holy positions must be created!"

"This condition shouldn't be too unreasonable, right?"

According to her calculations, even if the origin of the sublimated demonic path is inferior to that of the heavenly path, its status is still equal to that of the heavenly path.

The Lord of the Demonic Path, along with the three Holy Ones, form the cornerstone of the Demonic Path!

If other sages were to join the demonic path in the future and work together to elevate it, the demonic path might not be unable to truly rival the primordial Heavenly Dao!

Could it transcend the laws of nature?

Ultimately, the Heavenly Way's current status is the result of the support of all the sages!

"We'll do as Your Majesty says!"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yin immediately nodded. He already had a general idea about the future of the demonic path: the Lord of the Demonic Path would be the Origin of the Demonic Path, ruling over everything, and below the Origin would be the three positions of demonic saints, evolved through the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance.

Of these three positions of Demonic Saint, he has already promised one to Shen Ni, while the remaining two positions are temporarily unclaimed.

Since Nuwa wants it, promising her one is not a big deal!

With Nuwa's foundation of two Hunyuan Daluo attainments, the foundation of the demonic path can be greatly enhanced!

Moreover, without Nuwa's control over the dark side of the underworld, relying solely on the dark side of the Heavenly Way, the Human Way, and the Divine Way, he really wasn't confident that he could make the demonic path achieve its final sublimation!

As for the remaining holy position, let's ask the Yellow Heaven Demon Lord first, since he is the incarnation of the Tongtian Sect Master.

only----

Although the Tongtian Sect Leader also had an alias in the demonic path, he was obsessed with the acquired path and seemed to have no intention of taking the path of multiple paths to attain enlightenment.

If the Yellow Heaven Demon Lord is not interested in the Demonic Saint Position, then Jianbing, one of the Four Extreme Saint Lords under Xuan Yin, is also a good choice. It all depends on whether he can seize the opportunity!

After finalizing some details with Nuwa, Xuan Yin left Lishan, just as he had come quietly and left without taking away a single cloud!

Everything is ready, except for the final push!

After Xuan Yin returned to Mount Sumeru, he saw the calamity energy spreading throughout the Primordial Realm and knew that the outbreak of the war between the three races was not far off!

While the manifestation of inner demons certainly played a role, it was merely a contributing factor.

The fundamental reason for the great war between the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans was the struggle over the Great Dao among the three great supernatural beings: the Ancestral Dragon, the Primordial Phoenix, and the First Qilin.

Even without the involvement of the inner demon incarnation, a war between the three races would have broken out sooner or later.

only----

The actions of the demonic incarnation were like adding fuel to the fire, making even Zulong, Yuanfeng, and Shiqilin unable to suppress the anger of their clansmen.

The first to make a move was Yazi, the son of the First Emperor. He had an extremely violent temper, and anyone who made an enemy of him would face relentless revenge. This is the origin of the legend of Yazi's vengeance.

He killed several Grand Luo Immortals of the Qilin Clan through sneak attacks, and even framed the Phoenix Clan for the deaths of some of them.

War is imminent!

As the Great Luo Immortals and Primordial Golden Immortals of the three races descended into battle, the conflicts escalated, and the Primordial True Realm was instantly covered by endless calamity energy.

True dragons shed blood, Qilin lay dead, and phoenixes lost their wings. The scaled, beast, and bird lineages of the three races suffered even more heavy casualties, with millions of lives lost every day.

From the highest heavens, the Phoenix True Fire fell from the sky and crashed into the ancestral land of the Qilin clan.

The waters of the four seas surged back, carrying boundless power, and poured down upon the primordial land.

Not to be outdone, the Qilin clan used the Eight Desolate Qilin Calamity Annihilation Array to draw the evil energy of the Primordial Realm to impact the ancestral lands of the Dragon and Phoenix clans.

Corroded by malevolent energy, the fire veins on the primordial land were disrupted, and the Phoenix Clan's ancestral land, the Tiannan Undying Volcano, erupted violently, sweeping across the world and causing countless Phoenix Clan members to suffer calamity.

The dragons aren't much better off!

As the water veins were eroded by the evil energy, the stability of the Four Seas Eyes was broken. A trace of power belonging to the Void leaked out from the Four Seas Eyes, turning the waters of the Four Seas into a raging catastrophe wave. Any living being that came into contact with this catastrophe wave would instantly lose its mind and become a tool that only knew how to kill.

After discovering the actions of the Qilin clan, Zulong and Yuanfeng decided to temporarily join forces to first break the Qilin clan's Eight Desolate Qilin Calamity Annihilation Formation, and then settle the grudges between the dragon and phoenix clans.

Thus, the Phoenix Clan of the Undying Volcano in the South of the Sky poured out of their nests, and the Dragon Clan from the Four Seas, led by the Ancestral Dragon, also came ashore from the Western Sea.

As for the scaled and flying bird lineages under their command, they surged like a tidal wave, carrying the destructive intent to annihilate the beast lineage, sweeping across the heavens and earth. The western part of the primordial wilderness, where the ancestral land of the Qilin is located, has completely become the battlefield for the great war between the dragon, phoenix, and Qilin clans.

Even though Xuan Yin was in Mount Sumeru, he could feel the overwhelming murderous aura. The four swords of Zhuxian beneath Mount Sumeru were eager to try their luck, seemingly wanting to use the blood of the three races as a sacrifice.

"What a stroke of luck!"

The demons on Mount Sumeru also showed joy on their faces, feeling all sorts of mysterious powers surging into their demonic bodies.

Greed, anger, delusion, killing, destruction, chaos, hatred, fear —

As the war between the three races broke out, various negative emotions belonging to living beings continued to grow. These negative emotions might be deadly poison to cultivators of the divine path, something to be avoided like the plague, but to the demon race, they were a rare source of cultivation resources.

They only need to stay quietly on Mount Sumeru to absorb the negative energy caused by the war between the three races through the mysteries of the demonic path.

This is undoubtedly an incredible opportunity!

Xuan Yin also used this power to continuously improve himself. At this moment, his cultivation in the demonic path had reached the level of a sub-saint, and even his cultivation in the divine path had been raised to the level of a saint.

The Western White Emperor's rule of war and the struggles at the level of the Three Races War are undoubtedly the best means for him to rapidly expand his power.

Clang!

The Four Swords of Zhuxian emitted a series of sword cries, eager to emerge immediately and forge their supreme prestige with the blood of the powerful beings of the three races.

So what if he's a Great Immortal?

Even under the extreme killing power of the Four Swords of Zhuxian, they would still perish, not to mention the all-encompassing Zhuxian Formation Diagram!

The war between the three races resulted in the death of hundreds of millions of lives, with corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowing like rivers. Countless lives' essence and blood surged into the sea of ​​blood!

However, on the western land, the essence and blood of those fallen beings mostly flowed into the earth's veins and were then absorbed by the Four Swords of Zhuxian and the array diagram.

Seeing this, Xuan Yin stood with his hands behind his back and laughed loudly: "Neither copper nor iron nor steel, it was once hidden beneath Mount Sumeru. Without the reversal of Yin and Yang to refine it, how could it lack the tempering of water and fire? It brings benefit to those who slay immortals, and death to those who kill them; it traps immortals, causing red light to rise everywhere. Its transformations are infinitely wondrous, even the blood of the Great Luo Immortals stains their robes!"

"It's time for you to be born!"

As soon as he finished speaking, four sword energies soared into the sky, sweeping across the western border of the prehistoric world. All beings below the Great Luo level trembled under the sword energies.

Above the nine heavens, thunder roared and the Great Dao trembled. It seemed that the Heavenly Dao, which symbolized order, also sensed the ultimate destruction symbolized by the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and wanted to prevent this spiritual treasure from being born.

Go!

Xuan Yin didn't care about anything else. With a thought, the four killing swords, controlled by the sword spirits, rushed towards the battlefield of the three races.

On the Zhuxian Sword, boundless and fierce killing intent surged forth like a tide, rushing straight to the heavens and instantly killing several Dragon Clan Grand Luo Immortals.

Following closely behind was the Immortal-Trapping Sword. Within its sword light, countless illusions arose and vanished, captivating even the minds of Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Taking advantage of the illusion created by the Immortal Sword while the three Great Luo Immortals were trapped, the Immortal Slaughtering Sword and the Immortal Severing Sword suddenly unleashed their ultimate destructive power.

The Immortal Slaughtering Sword transformed into a dark light, constantly weaving through the void. Wherever the sword light passed, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would bleed!

In a daze, a ferocious aura that slaughtered all living beings and annihilated everything emerged, and in a moment it killed several Great Luo Immortals!

The Immortal-Slaying Sword is equally impressive.

Wherever the sword light passed, life was extinguished, true dragons bled, unicorns lay dead, and even the Phoenix Clan's Great Luo Nirvana Dao lost its effect.

The four swords were unleashed simultaneously, shaking the universe, slaughtering Great Luo Immortals and slaying Quasi-Saints. In the blink of an eye, dozens of Great Luo Golden Immortals from the three races perished.

As for beings below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level, they are not qualified to be targeted by the Four Swords!

However, the aftershocks caused by the four swords slaughtering the Great Luo Golden Immortal also swept across the four directions, causing heavy casualties to the armies under the command of the three races!

Even Zu Long, Yuan Feng, and Shi Qilin were each slashed by a sword.

When the Immortal-Trapping Sword manifested boundless illusions, the Immortal-Slaying Sword directly slashed at the Ancestral Dragon, while the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the Immortal-Severing Sword directly targeted the Primordial Phoenix and the First Qilin.

"Gentlemen, why not join my demonic path?"

Just then, Xuan Yin's voice resounded throughout the heavens and earth, and primordial demonic energy spread outwards from Mount Sumeru, aiming to transform all living beings in the primordial world into demons.

In just a short time, millions of living beings had their original Dao bodies eroded by the Primordial Demonic Qi activated by Xuan Yin.

When Zu Long and the others saw this, they tried to stop them, but the bodies of those creatures tainted by demonic energy suddenly exploded like fireworks.

Above Xuan Yin's head, a Demon Transformation Pool appeared, absorbing the true spirits of these beings and transforming them completely into demons.

"Cataclysmic chaos erupts, the Demon Lord reigns supreme!"

After those true spirits emerged from the Demon Transformation Pool, they instantly transformed into Heavenly Demon bodies, with wisps of demonic origin power forging an indestructible demonic body for them, causing them to completely convert to the demonic path.

Zulong, Yuanfeng, Shiqilin and others wanted to stop it, but having just experienced a great battle, they were powerless to do so.

Moreover, this is simply the natural evolution of the great trend of Heaven. They can change the minor trends, but they cannot change the great trend of the demonic path!

Now, all three races have suffered heavy losses and their vitality has been greatly depleted. In the Primordial True Realm, the only ones qualified to compete with Xuan Yin are the immortal forces led by Dao Ancestor Hongjun!

Hongjun, Yin Yang, Qiankun, Yangmei, Sanbaojun and other great immortals stepped forward, releasing their immortal radiance to resist the overwhelming force of the demonic path. In an instant, immortal light and demonic light intertwined, and the power of order clashed with the power of chaos, forming a completely new trend.

Seeing this, Xuan Yin was not afraid. He simply looked eastward and laughed loudly, "Fellow Daoists, I will be waiting for you at Mount Sumeru!"

These are merely the visible forces; although they appear extremely terrifying, they are insufficient to prevent him from evolving the dark side of the Heavenly Dao.

What truly made him wary were the disguises of sages like Taiqing and Yuanshi!

Although they cleared out a wave of ferocious beasts during the previous calamity, who knows if they have evolved new identities during the Dragon-Han Calamity?

The battle between the righteous and the demonic is about to erupt!