The Primordial Path of Kong Xuanming

Guang Chengzi and Duobao bowed and said: Thank you for your generous gift, Senior Brother!

Kong Wu Daoren continued: "You can arrange for your disciples to lead human cultivators to the Primordial Wilderness to collect innate and acquired spiritual materials and rare flowers and herbs. After this great war, these spiritual items in the Primordial Wilderness are greatly scarce, and we need to collect a large quantity for our disciples' use."

After receiving Kong Wu's instructions, Guang Chengzi and Duobao quickly summoned their fellow disciples and other students to arrange tasks.

Led by a fourth-generation Taoist disciple, numerous human cultivators from the Kunlun Realm formed teams and ventured into the prehistoric world to collect materials.

Meanwhile, a colossal castle appeared on the edge of the central continent of the primordial world. This castle was named the Castle of Salvation. Rumors began to circulate throughout the primordial world that a great war between the witches and demons was imminent, and that a great calamity was about to befall all living beings. To leave a glimmer of hope for all living beings, the master of the Castle of Salvation set up a Great Array of Seven Emotions and Six Desires at the castle gate. Those who could pass through the Array of Seven Emotions and Six Desires at the gate of the Castle of Salvation could enter the castle and escape the calamity. The creatures of the primordial world were overjoyed and flocked to the Castle of Salvation in droves, hoping to become a member of the castle and avoid the great calamity.

Over the years, countless cultivators from the primordial era have entered the great formation for trials, but only one in a thousand can pass through it and enter Jishi Castle. Usually, many cultivators with ordinary cultivation can pass through the formation, but those with extremely high cultivation cannot. Once, a powerful cultivator with the cultivation of a Great Luo Golden Immortal attacked Jishi Castle because he could not pass through the formation, but was struck to ashes by a bolt of lightning that appeared from nowhere. Since then, no one has dared to attack Jishi Castle.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches emerged from seclusion this time having broken through to the Quasi-Saint realm, having cultivated their own world of rules to perfection. They could now deploy the Pangu Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation, summoning the true form of Pangu from billions of miles away to fight. Its power was boundless, and no one except a Saint could withstand it. However, setting up this formation required the Twelve Ancestral Witches to burn their own essence and blood, combining all their vital energy and spirit to complete it. Every punch thrown by the true form of Pangu would burn a drop of the Ancestral Witches' essence and blood. Therefore, unless it was the final battle, the Twelve Ancestral Witches would not use this formation.

Meanwhile, Donghuang Taiyi and Tiandi Dijun also broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm. Although Demon Queen Xihe, Demon Master Kunpeng, and Southern Emperor Fuxi did not break through to the Quasi-Saint realm, they all reached the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm. Since the beginning of the Great Calamity, the five demon leaders have devoted themselves to comprehending the Zhou Tian Star Array. They gathered two Quasi-Saints, three peak Quasi-Saint experts, more than twenty Quasi-Saint experts, hundreds of Daluo Xuanxian, and tens of thousands of Daluo Jinxian and above experts to form a new Zhou Tian Star Array, making the power of the Zhou Tian Star Array tens of thousands of times stronger than before.

In order to win the battle hundreds of millions of years later, both the Lich and Demon races used either bribery or force to subdue more than thirty quasi-saints and supreme supernatural beings who were living in seclusion in various parts of the prehistoric world. Even the thousands of experts who had heard the Dao of Zixiao Palace and broken through to the Great Luo Xuanxian realm were searched all over the prehistoric continent by the Lich and Demon races and coerced into joining them in various ways.

The Lich and Demon races' hardline stance offended all the powerful beings in the prehistoric world, leading many to form alliances to resist them. The two races acted with remarkable coordination, their leaders personally subduing any powerful beings they found, annihilating those who resisted. Some clever powerful beings sought refuge in human territory. Although the Lich and Demon races occasionally clashed with humans, they dared not push too far. While the strength of Guang Chengzi, Duobao, and others was not valued by the Lich and Demons, their greatest fear was provoking Kong Xuan Daoren. Although the Lich and Demons, with their current overall strength, might not necessarily be afraid, provoking an unpredictable opponent was not the act of a strong person.