Simulating the primordial era? That's way too extreme.

Chapter 82 Houtu

The battle to reclaim the Northern Wilderness is about to begin!

Driven by the Demon Emperor's wrath, twenty Great Luo True Dragons, including the Four Seas True Dragon Kings, led a vengeful alliance of demons from the Eastern and Northern Wildernesses in an attack against the dozens of Great Witches and numerous witch soldiers who had slaughtered and occupied the Northern Wilderness.

Although these athletic wizards have been cultivating for a long time and are far stronger than ordinary Grand Luo Golden Immortals, fortunately, the True Dragons of the Four Seas are not to be trifled with!

As the overlords of the ancient times, the dragon race may have fallen on hard times, but even a weakened camel is bigger than a horse. While the situation is uncertain for other vassal races, the true dragons are undeniably powerful.

After a fierce battle with the great shamans, both sides suffered casualties.

The powerful shamans, their blood boiling, initially intended to continue their rampage, but... none of the favorable circumstances—timing, location, or popular support—were on their side. Instead, the previous slaughter only fueled the hatred of the myriad demons of the Northern Wilderness!

[Therefore, many wild demon clan Grand Luo Golden Immortals spontaneously joined the Equal Heavenly Court, launching a war to protect the territory and its people against the invading Great Witches of the Northern Wilderness. As time passed, the balance of power between the two sides gradually shifted...]

Finally, unable to withstand the siege, the great shamans had no choice but to retreat from the Northern Wilderness. While they fled, the ordinary shaman soldiers did not escape; they were all captured by the demon-human alliance. The Equal Heavenly Court reclaimed its lost territory, achieving a resounding victory in the war of reconquest!

In the aftermath of the war, there was much discussion within the Equal Heavenly Court regarding how to deal with the captured witches.

[A demon survivor from the Northern Wilderness has angrily petitioned you, requesting the execution of all prisoners to avenge the dead!]

Some argue that since the Equal Heavenly Court wants to divide the vast power of the Supreme Heavenly Court in order to rule the primordial world, it needs to pay a price, such as releasing prisoners to demonstrate its magnanimity to the officials and people under the Supreme Heavenly Court's banner...

This suggestion immediately ignited the emotions of the survivors in the Northern Wilderness, who cursed these people for talking without understanding the situation. They questioned whether these people had received fifty sacks of Buzhou Mountain's local specialties from the Twelve Ancestral Witches for speaking up for the Witch Clan.

[A group of people are condemning the traitors!]

[One group is criticizing the lack of understanding of the bigger picture!]

The two sides almost came to blows over this...

[Of course you want to execute all the prisoners, because these people are truly guilty of heinous crimes. The total number of races they have killed in the Northern Wilderness is in the hundreds of millions. Whether it's to quell public anger or out of personal feelings, they deserve to be executed!]

But at this crucial moment, the return of someone changed your mind...

[The delighted Xuandu has returned to Shouyang Mountain with fifty sacks of local specialties from Buzhou Mountain, brought back by the Wu tribe!]

You: ...

[The two sides arguing: ...]

[No, everyone was just joking around, how come you actually accepted local specialties?!]

Before everyone could start cursing him, Xuandu gave you a private report on what he had seen and heard in the Witch Clan: Just as you thought, the Witch Clan has split into two factions!

One faction, already swept away by their fervor, felt that the myriad demons were nothing special, and the Equal Heavenly Court was a complete coward, slaughtering the Northern Wilderness without a second thought. They also considered the Supreme Heavenly Court a spineless coward, readily ceding the Central Plains when ordered to do so!

[At this rate, the Witch Clan could easily take over both Heavenly Courts, establish their own "Supreme Witch Court," and from then on enslave all demons and dominate the primordial world!]

[What? Quasi-saint? Saint?]

"Take a punch from my Pangu Dharma Body first, or you'll be dead!"

[Judging from Xuandu's description, this witch clan has gone mad, and it is highly likely that they will invite the ancestral witches to intervene and unleash the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation to sweep away the primordial world by force...]

[You were shocked at the time. Everyone had banned Quasi-Saints and Saints, assuming the war between the two Heavenly Courts would only be limited to those below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level. Under these circumstances, the Witch Clan actually wanted a Quasi-Saint level Ancestral Witch to participate!]

[The Ancestral Witches are already overpowered, not to mention the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation. You witnessed it firsthand in your past life, how it brutally crushed the Quasi-Saints of the Heavenly Court.]

[One punch sent Kunpeng flying, two punches shattered Taiyi's heart, and even the three consorts of Emperor Jun, Xihe, Wangshu, and Changxi, received no mercy; the Zhou Tian Star Array was nearly smashed to pieces as well.]

[If Di Jun hadn't become a saint and crushed it, the only way you could think of to defeat it was for a few peak quasi-saints to drag it into self-destruction...]

You're filled with anxiety, hoping that you can eventually bring down the Six Saints and crush them in a decisive victory.

[But Xuan Du, while saying this, then laughed: "Great Chief, don't worry, that grand formation can't be set up!"]

Why?

[Because another faction of the witch tribe doesn't think this way. They are not only not crazy, but also very calm. Hou Yi is from this faction, and Xuan Du encountered this faction among the witch tribe this time.]

After all, no race is born evil unless someone is deliberately educating them in that direction!

Clearly, there are now normal people within the Witch Clan. Unlike those muscle-bound lunatics obsessed with the idea that "our Witch Clan is inherently noble," they believe that although the Witch Clan is powerful and possesses certain privileges due to Pangu, they are essentially the same as all other beings.

Therefore, this faction of the witch clan actually strongly supports the Equal Heavenly Court!

[After listening, you think to yourself, "I knew I shouldn't make sweeping generalizations; even the witch clan has normal people... Wait a minute!"]

[You asked him, puzzled: Even if there are normal people in the Witch Clan who support the Equal Heavenly Court, does that still affect the fate of the Ancestral Witches? The Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation doesn't need the assistance of the Great Witches.]

Xuan Du smiled mysteriously: "The great formation certainly doesn't need a Grand Shaman, but what if it lacks an Ancestral Shaman...?"

"Great Chief, the Goddess Houtu asked me to deliver a message to you!"

[While you stare blankly, Xuan Du secretly invites you to a private party...]

……

Outside Shouyang Mountain, in a makeshift pavilion in the wilderness.

Jin Bing sat in the pavilion, looking at the person opposite him with a surprised expression:

This is a beautiful woman, dressed in a pale yellow dress, with a faint aura of earth energy emanating from her.

As for her face, he was very familiar with it. Firstly, he had seen her in his previous life, and secondly, perhaps because of the blood ties between sisters, she looked quite similar to his wife Xuanming from his previous life.

This person is none other than Houtu, the Ancestral Witch!

Houtu smiled and said:

"What? Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, aren't you afraid I've come to behead you?"

Jin Bing's lips twitched:

"The Ancestral Witch doesn't need to make fun of Jin Bing. Just say what you have to say."

"Excellent! As expected of the Demon Emperor who reigns over the primordial world with the appearance of a true immortal!"

Houtu simply stopped pretending and said directly:

"Regarding the Lich War, although I cannot change their ambitions, I have always believed that it is wrong. All races in the world should coexist equally, and there is no such thing as one being superior to the other."

"Although the Wu tribe does not incur karma from killing, they are not considered the most powerful of all demons. Therefore, since the establishment of the Heavenly Court, despite possessing the divine power of Pangu, the Wu tribe has never taken the initiative to cause trouble."

"As for their threats to force the Heavenly Court to cede territory and their enmity with the Demon Emperor, these are all the culprits of my siblings' ambitious schemes..."

At this point, Houtu paused, then said seriously:

"I know that the Witch Clan has offended all other races, therefore I dare not absolve my clan of their sins. Those who are guilty... truly must pay with their lives!"

Jin Bing looked at the determination in her eyes with surprise, pondered for a moment, and said:

"What does the ancestral shaman mean?"

"First, I won't care whether those lunatics live or die. If you encounter them on the battlefield, just kill them!"

Houtu's expression was solemn:

"Secondly, I will not participate in the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation, so you don't need to worry about the formation's threat. However, I cannot stop them either, so they might actually join the battle... You can ask a sage to subdue them, but please be sure not to harm their lives!"

Jin Bing raised an eyebrow:

"……Can."

Houtu breathed a sigh of relief. She was naturally not a loser, but firstly, she was unwilling to kill innocent people, and secondly... the six fathers above the head of this True Immortal Little Flood Dragon were too frightening. Therefore, for the sake of her siblings' lives, she had to cooperate with the enemy.

"Thirdly, although our chief and junior shamans will still fight on the orders of other ancestral shamans, they will not use excessive force, so... please show mercy."

Kim Byung frowned:

"Please forgive me, but I cannot agree."

Why?

Houtu did not understand.

Jin Bing said in a deep voice:

"Your Hou Yi conquered my Central Plains, killing countless of my vanguard and the allied forces of demons. He must pay with his life!"

But to everyone's surprise, Houtu breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the reason, and then took out a pitch-black disc.

As soon as the disc appeared, Jin Bing's eyes widened. He could clearly sense a massive amount of soul energy within it, many of which were familiar to him... the human vanguards he had personally trained!

"What...is this?"

Houtu answered truthfully:

"These are the souls of all living beings that I had Hou Yi collect when he killed the Central Plains demon alliance. Each one is complete. I originally intended to create new forms for them and then secretly send them back to the Eastern Wilderness."

"But since you've mentioned them, I'll return them to you in person. You can revive them at any time, but you'll need to rebuild your cultivation... Could this be exchanged for Hou Yi's life?"

Jin Bing was stunned.

But he wasn't just happy that the children would be resurrected; his thoughts drifted back to the first life.

It seems I've been forgetting something... something important that could somewhat ease the mindset of human supremacy!

……

(End of this chapter)