Primordial Era: Starting by overwhelming the Sages, Hongjun was stunned!

Mount Sumeru.

The once blissful Western Paradise has now been completely reduced to a desolate and hellish place.

The mountain collapsed, the earth's veins dried up, the Eight Treasures Merit Pool turned into a turbid blood swamp, and the Golden Lotus Spiritual Root withered and decayed.

With the deaths of Jieyin and Zhunti, the Western Buddhist lineage was severed, and the remaining disciples were suppressed and killed by Kong Xuan. Their true spirits were all listed on the Investiture of the Gods.

This place has lost all semblance of Buddhist peace; instead, there is an overwhelming aura of resentment, death, and a faint, yet unsettling, demonic energy.

Kong Xuan took a step and disappeared from the sky above Chaoge.

When it reappeared, it had reached the summit of Mount Sumeru.

His black robe fluttered gently, his black hair fell down, and his gaze calmly looked down.

Just now, humanity was restored and the nine saints appeared together. Although he used the power of the late stage of Hunyuan Wuji Luo to forcefully suppress the backlash of the Heavenly Dao, his mind was also affected and he had no time to pay attention to this place.

Now that everything is settled, it's time to deal with the restless demonic energy deep within Mount Sumeru...

"Rahu's demonic thoughts..."

Kong Xuan muttered to himself, his eyes swirling with a chaotic light, as if piercing through layers of mountains and earth veins, looking straight into the deepest part of the mountain.

There, an extremely dense mass of purplish-black demonic energy was churning and expanding wildly.

Amidst the demonic energy, a phantom humanoid silhouette could be vaguely seen, with three heads and six arms, two wings on its back, and black lotus under its feet, surrounded by the howling of endless vengeful spirits.

It is the wisp of demonic thought left in the world after the Demon Ancestor Rahu's fall!

In the battle between the Dao and the Demon, Rahu was besieged and killed by Hongjun, together with Yangmei, Yin Yang, and Qiankun, three Chaos Demon Gods. His demonic body shattered and his true spirit perished, leaving only a wisp of remnant spirit that fled into the depths of the Western Earth Vein, where he lingered on the spiritual veins of Mount Sumeru.

Later, the Western religion was established, and the monks Jieyin and Zhunti set up a temple here to suppress demonic thoughts with the peaceful energy and golden light of Buddhist merit, preventing them from manifesting.

For millions of years, demonic thoughts have been suppressed and worn down, almost to the point of extinction.

But now...

With the passing of Jieyin and Zhunti, the Western religion perished.

The Buddha's light dissipated, and the merits crumbled.

More importantly...

Hongjun's original source of Dao was damaged, and the four saints Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti were all severely injured, causing a great decline in the fortune of Xuanmen.

When the Tao prospers, the demons diminish; when the Tao diminishes, the demons increase.

This is the great vow that Rahu made back then.

When the Xuanmen declined, Luo Hou, a demonic thought that had been dormant for billions of years, was like a parched land receiving sweet rain. He frantically absorbed the negative energy in the world and grew rapidly!

Just now, humanity was restored, and the nine sages appeared together. The backlash from the Heavenly Dao was forcibly suppressed by Kong Xuan. The rules of the primordial world were in turmoil, and cause and effect were disordered... which gave this demonic thought a once-in-a-millennium opportunity!

"They certainly know how to pick their timing."

Kong Xuan's lips curled slightly, revealing a cold smile.

He took a step forward, his figure like a phantom piercing through layers of mountain rocks and cliffs, heading straight into the belly of Mount Sumeru.

Deep inside the mountain was a vast, empty underground cave.

The cave is vast, stretching for thousands of miles, with countless blood-red stalactites hanging from its dome, dripping with a viscous, dark red liquid that has a pungent, fishy stench.

The ground was piled high with corpses, including humans, demons, witches, and countless ancient beasts.

They were all "converted" by Western religion, but in reality, their souls were extracted and their essence was used to nourish this place...the sacrifices!

In the center of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​bones, a hundred-foot-tall black lotus slowly rotated.

On the lotus platform, the purplish-black demonic energy had expanded to a size of several tens of feet, and the humanoid outline within it was becoming increasingly clear.

The three heads, the one in the center with a ferocious face and exposed fangs, is the true form of Rahu.

The one on the left, with a sorrowful face and faintly visible Buddha light, bears a striking resemblance to the Bodhisattva Amitabha.

On the right is a face that is both compassionate and strangely sinister, resembling Cundi!

The demonic thoughts... were actually devouring the sacred essence that had dissipated after the deaths of Jieyin and Zhunti, and merging into itself!

"Hongjun... Yangmei... Yin and Yang... Qiankun..."

Within the demonic thoughts, Rahu's true form slowly opened its eyes, its pupils blazing with a surge of purplish-black demonic light, its voice hoarse, filled with deep-seated hatred:

"You joined forces to kill me... to steal my Four Swords of Zhuxian... to ruin my great cause of the demonic path..."

"This hatred... is irreconcilable!"

The head on the left, resembling a guide, also had its eyes open, its gaze a mixture of Buddhist light and demonic energy, yet its voice was eerily calm:

"The Western religion... its salvation of all beings... is all illusory..."

"Only the demonic path... is eternal..."

The head resembling Zhunti on the right side grins in a grotesque manner.

"Senior brother is right... What Western Paradise... What Buddhist Pure Land..."

"It's nothing but... a cage..."

Three heads, three voices, all controlled by Rahu's demonic thoughts.

It is integrating the sacred origins of Jieyin and Zhunti, attempting to use demons to control Buddhas and Buddhas to nurture demons, forging an unprecedented path of... Buddha-demon unity!

"interesting."

Kong Xuan stood at the edge of the cave, his black robes motionless amidst the dense demonic energy, his voice calm:

"I thought it was just a lingering regret, but I never expected... that it would have such ambition."

His gaze swept over the black lotus, over the surging demonic energy on the lotus platform, and finally landed on Rahu's true form's head.

"Unfortunately, you chose the wrong time."

"And they chose the wrong opponent..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kong Xuan slowly raised his hand.

With five fingers spread wide, he gently grasped at the hundred-foot-tall black lotus.

"Buzz!"

It lacked any earth-shattering grandeur.

It does not possess the power to destroy the world.

But... the void solidified.

Inside the cave, the churning demonic energy suddenly stopped.

The dripping blackish-red liquid hung suspended in mid-air.

Even the spinning black lotus seemed to be held down by an invisible hand, frozen in place!

"Um?!"

Rahu's three heads trembled simultaneously, their eyes filled with horror.

It was so focused on merging with the origin of the sacred path that it didn't even notice someone sneaking into this place!

Even more terrifying is...

The opponent's move of solidifying the void rendered even this wisp of demonic thought unable to move!

What level of cultivation is this?!

"Who are you?!"

Rahu's true form roared and hissed, his demonic energy surging wildly as he tried to break free of his restraints.

It may be useless.

Faced with that invisible force, its struggle was like an ant trying to shake a tree, failing to even create a ripple.

"The one who killed you."

Kong Xuan's voice was indifferent, and his right hand suddenly clenched into a fist.

"Bang!"

The hundred-foot-long black lotus... exploded with a deafening roar!

Lotus petals scattered, the lotus platform shattered, and the monstrous demonic energy contained within was forcibly compressed and crushed!

"No!!!"

Rahu, the demon, let out a mournful howl.

The black lotus was formed from its foundation over billions of years and was one with its demonic origin. Its collapse at this moment is equivalent to directly severing its foundation!

The purplish-black demonic energy dissipated wildly, and the three illusory heads flickered on and off, almost completely disappearing.

"Trying to escape?"

Kong Xuan's eyes turned cold, and he raised his left hand, pressing it into the void towards the dissipating demonic energy.

"Divine Light of the Great Dao...Seal!"

brush!

Chaotic divine light surged from his palm, transforming into a chaotic net that blotted out the sky, completely enveloping the scattered demonic energy!

The net of heaven contracted, like a fisherman pulling in his net, locking Rahu's demonic thoughts tightly and compressing them into a fist-sized purplish-black sphere of light.

Within the sphere of light, the three illusory heads of Rahu struggled and roared, but could not utter a sound.

"Even a wisp of lingering resentment dares to stir up trouble."

Kong Xuan remained expressionless, and with a flick of his right finger, he prepared to completely refine it.

But at that very moment...

A sudden change has occurred!