Primordial Era: The Witch Clan's Dog-Headed Strategist

But Hongjun's ambitions never stopped there.

In the era of the God of Destiny, the three thousand Chaos Gods fought each other, and none of them could rule over the others.

Although the God of Fate can foresee the future, he can never grasp the supreme Dao.

Because in chaos, there is no concept of "order".

Chaos is inherently disordered; power is the sole law, while the law of fate is ultimately secondary to power.

But the prehistoric world was different.

The primordial world was created by Pangu, and it was divided into pure and impure, yin and yang, and the order of the five elements.

The primordial world itself was a vast system of order, the Way of Heaven.

Whoever can control the Heavenly Dao can control the order of the entire primordial world;

Whoever can control the order of the primordial world will be able to access the supreme path that even the era of the Destiny God could not reach.

This is Hongjun's ultimate goal: to steal Pangu's fruits of enlightenment.

Pangu created the world and created all things; this achievement itself is the most immense foundation for proving the Dao.

If only I could claim this achievement as my own.

He brought the primordial world created by Pangu under his control.

He, Hongjun, was able to transcend the level of the Chaos God and all innate deities, reaching an unprecedented realm.

That is a level that even the complete three thousand Chaos Demon Gods cannot reach; it is the true realm of the Great Dao.

He had been planning for this for countless years.

During the Great Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts, the ferocious beast race, led by Shen Ni, ravaged the prehistoric world. The innate gods and saints of the prehistoric world fought each other, resulting in countless deaths and injuries.

Hongjun did not make a move immediately; he was waiting.

When the ferocious beast race and the primordial innate saints are both severely injured.

When Shen Ni's fortunes turned from prosperity to decline, he joined forces with Yin Yang Ancestor, Qiankun Ancestor, Yang Mei, and others to wipe out the ferocious beast clan.

In that battle, he gained both merit and prestige.

More importantly, he took this opportunity to observe all the innate deities who participated in the siege.

Make a mental note of their strengths, personalities, and weaknesses.

During the Great Calamity of the Dragon and Han Dynasties, the three races of Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin fought for supremacy, causing widespread suffering to the creatures of the primordial world.

Hongjun once again chose to sit back and watch the tigers fight.

He watched as Zulong, Yuanfeng, and Shiqilin were all severely injured in their defeats.

Watching Luo Hou trap and kill the elites of the three races with the Zhuxian Sword Formation.

Watching the three clan leaders swear an oath to the Great Dao to withdraw from the struggle for supremacy in the primordial world.

When Rahu was at his most rampant, Hongjun intervened.

He joined forces with Yin Yang Ancestor, Qiankun Ancestor, and Yangmei to fight Rahu in the West.

In that battle, the Yin-Yang Ancestor and the Qiankun Ancestor perished, Yangmei vanished into the chaos and disappeared without a trace, Rahu self-destructed and died, and the western earth veins were completely destroyed.

Hongjun emerged as the ultimate winner.

He accepted Luo Hou's Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and God-Slaying Spear, the spiritual treasures left behind by the Yin-Yang Ancestor and the Qiankun Ancestor, and also the fortune of the entire prehistoric world.

With the three races withdrawing from the struggle for supremacy, a power vacuum emerged in the primordial world.

Taking advantage of the situation, Hongjun, as a sage, preached the Dao three times in the Zixiao Palace.

He promoted the Xuanmen Immortal Path to the entire prehistoric world and took the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa as his personal disciples.

He accepted Jieyin and Zhunti as his disciples, bestowed upon them seven strands of Primordial Purple Qi, appointed the Eastern King Duke and the Western Queen Mother as the heads of male and female immortals, and supported Dijun and Taiyi in establishing the Heavenly Court to fight against the Wu Clan.

Every step was precise and deadly, every step was on the optimal path deduced by the laws of fate.

Everything was proceeding according to the trajectory of fate he had predicted, until the Witch Clan suddenly jumped off the chessboard.

Hongjun's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

In his deductions, the fate of the witch clan was already sealed.

Without a primordial spirit, one cannot comprehend the Dao of Heaven; one can only reach the pinnacle of the physical body.

When the Lich-Demon Calamity broke out, both the Lich Clan and the Demon Clan suffered heavy losses, and all twelve Ancestral Lich Clan perished. The Lich Clan withdrew from the stage of the struggle for supremacy in the prehistoric world.

Hongjun will rebuild order in the name of the Heavenly Dao after the great calamity, bringing the entire prehistoric world under his complete control.

But reality deviated completely from his predictions.

The witch clan did not decline; on the contrary, it grew stronger step by step right under his nose.

First, when establishing their clan, they swore an oath to the Great Dao to complete the Heavenly Dao, thereby invoking the Great Dao to bestow blessings and obtaining the divine law.

Then, while he was preaching in the Zixiao Palace, he established a divine system.

Then, in the name of the divine way, they subdued the Dragon Clan, Qilin Clan, and Phoenix Clan, united with the Blood Sea and the Styx River, established the Zhou Tian Star Array, and created the Star Witch Clan.

Now, in the Pangu Palace, the essence of Pangu and the primordial spirit of Pangu are reunited, the Three Pure Ones enter the divine path, and the descendants of Pangu join forces.

Pangu's true form pressed down on him in the Heavenly Dao space, making it hard for him to breathe.

None of this should have happened.

This branch simply doesn't exist in the future predicted by the laws of fate.

Hongjun remained silent for a long time.

There are many things he can't understand.

Why was the Wu tribe able to produce a strategist like Pan Xuan?

Why is Pan Xuan able to possess the unheard-of divine power of Heavenly Enlightenment?

How can a law deity be created without a primordial spirit?

How could they find another way outside of his chess game and establish a divine system that could rival the immortal path?

But one thing he was certain of was that the Wu Clan had become the biggest variable in his plan.

And this variable is changing the future trajectory of the primordial world in ways he cannot predict.

While the laws of fate can deduce the cause and effect of all things, they have a fatal limitation.

It can only deduce known variables.

If a variable is not within the scope of the laws of fate, then all deductions about that variable will be flawed.

Pan Xuan is the variable that is outside the scope of the laws of fate.

His divine wisdom, his righteous spirit, his meritorious and mysterious Dharma form, his treasure-dropping coins, and all his supernatural powers and methods are not within the laws of fate.

Therefore, whenever Pan Xuan's deductions are involved, the results given by the laws of fate are always vague and uncertain.

It's like a sea shrouded in thick fog, where you can't see any reefs or shipping lanes.

It was this uncertainty that made Hongjun feel truly apprehensive for the first time in countless years.

It's not fear of power, but fear of the unknown.

He was used to being in control of everything, used to finding the optimal path under the guidance of the laws of fate.

However, Pan Xuan's existence made every deduction he made full of variables, causing his once-proud laws of fate to lose their accuracy.

However, Hongjun is still Hongjun.

He is someone who has experienced countless life-and-death tribulations, someone who rose from the remnant soul of a Chaos Demon God to become a Primordial Dao Ancestor.

Although the pressure from Pangu's true form was heavy and the deviation from the laws of fate was troublesome, it had not yet reached the point where he was helpless.

Over the centuries, he has faced far more perilous situations than he has now.

Even when the God of Destiny was reduced to a mere remnant soul by Pangu's axe, he was able to find a glimmer of hope using the laws of destiny and rise again amidst the chaos of the primordial world.

He is now the Primordial Dao Ancestor, controlling the core of the Heavenly Dao.

Holding fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation, with disciples scattered throughout the primordial world, the chess pieces in his hand are far more than just the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa.

This setback wasn't enough to throw him off balance.

He slowly raised his hands, lifting the fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation from in front of him.

The fragment slowly rotated in the purple-gold light.

The runes of the Three Thousand Great Dao flowed endlessly on the surface of the fragment, each rune containing the most primordial power of the laws of heaven and earth.

This is his most fundamental reliance, the trump card he has stored up since the chaotic era.

Although Pangu's true form was powerful, it was ultimately just a phantom, not the real resurrection of Pangu.

The power of the phantom comes from the law deities of the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones, and the law deities themselves are also part of the Heavenly Dao.

As long as the Heavenly Dao exists, the fragments of the Creation Jade Disc can contend with it.

It's not about defeating them, just delaying them.

He doesn't need to defeat Pangu's true form; he only needs to buy enough time for his own body to escape and do something more important.