Primordial Era: Reborn as a Qi Immortal, Steadily Cultivating

Chapter 101 Heaven is selfish
"Kunpeng! Styx!"

In the chaos of the Outer Heavens, facing the combined attack of two Quasi-Saints, Ancestor Hongyun's eyes widened in horror, and his heart sank to the bottom.

He never imagined that these two would choose to join forces for the sake of a wisp of Primordial Purple Qi on his body!

Even more unexpectedly, they had already set up such a deadly formation here, cutting off all their escape routes!
"Excellent! What a brilliant plan!"

At the critical moment of life and death, even the kind-hearted Old Ancestor Hongyun's face showed an unprecedented determination.

He knew that today's situation had reached a point where it was either him or her to die!

"Since you leave me no way out, then this humble Taoist priest will fight you to the death today!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ancestor Hongyun held nothing back.

He suddenly slapped his head, and a blood-red figure, whose face was seven parts similar to his but whose temperament was full of killing intent, stepped out from the auspicious cloud behind his head!
This figure exuded a terrifying pressure that was no less than that of a Quasi-Saint in the early stages.

It was the evil corpse, Blood Cloud Daoist, that was severed from the three corpses by Ancestor Hongyun using the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd as a vessel!
"go with!"

Hongyun himself suddenly threw the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd in his hand.

The Blood Cloud Daoist immediately understood, grabbed the gourd in his hand, and his body shone with blood-red light. He actually took the initiative to meet the Styx Ancestor who was attacking with the Yuan Tu and A Bi swords!

As for Hongyun's true form, after summoning the evil corpse, red clouds rolled around her, transforming into a fleeting beam of light.

They were trying to find a chance to break the formation under the blockade of the demon master Kunpeng.

In an instant, a two-on-two balance was formed in this chaotic void.

Hongyun himself faced off against the demon master Kunpeng.

His evil corpse, Blood Cloud Daoist, then faced off against the Styx Ancestor!

However, Kunpeng and Styx came prepared after all.

After exchanging several blows with Blood Cloud Daoist, Styx suddenly opened its mouth and spewed out a crimson lotus platform that was burning with raging karmic fire and had a twelve-petaled lotus platform on it!

It was the supreme innate spiritual treasure that was born alongside Yuan Tu and Abi in the Blood Sea—the Twelfth Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus!

This lotus platform is unparalleled in defense, impervious to all magic, and can even draw upon the karma of all beings, transforming it into karmic fire to burn everything. It is a first-class treasure for offense and defense in the primordial world!
"town!"

With a flick of his finger, the Crimson Lotus of Karmic Fire shone brightly, unleashing countless karmic flames that suppressed the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd in the Blood Cloud Daoist's hand, preventing it from unleashing its full power!

At the same time, the Yuan Tu and A Bi swords in his hands transformed into two blood-red rainbows that tore through the heavens and earth, each move aimed at the vital points of the Blood Cloud Daoist's primordial spirit!

Upon seeing this, Kunpeng, standing to the side, revealed a hint of barely concealed jealousy in his sinister eyes.

"We are both innate deities born in the northern part of the primordial world, so why am I so poor and destitute, while the River Styx is filled with countless magical treasures?!"

He was filled with resentment.

The Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, the Yuan Tu and Abi Twin Swords, are all supreme treasures capable of suppressing the fortune of a major sect!

"If I also possessed such a treasure, why would I need to join forces with the Styx River to besiege and kill a mere Hongyun?!"

Although Kunpeng was filled with jealousy, he did not stop what he was doing.

He activated the Demon Master Palace, transforming it into a black dome that blotted out the sun, suppressing Hongyun's true form and giving him no chance to catch his breath or aid the evil corpse.

At this moment, the tide of battle completely turned in favor of Kunpeng and Styx!
"puff--!"

However, after only a few dozen rounds, the Blood Cloud Taoist, who was already at a disadvantage, was ultimately unable to withstand the sharpness of the Yuan Tu and A Bi swords.

One careless move and his body was struck by the Avici Sword, which is specifically designed to slay the primordial spirit!

His figure instantly dimmed by three points!

"Hahahaha! Hongyun, today is your death day!" Upon seeing this, Kunpeng let out a savage laugh filled with pleasure and intensified its attack.

Hongyun, however, was unwilling to perish here. He continued to fight back, his red clouds gathering and dispersing around him as he tried to break free from the suppression of the Demon Master Palace.

However, the surrounding void had already been frozen by the Blood Sea Formation of the Styx River, not to mention that Kunpeng was suppressing all directions with the Demon Master Palace. How could Hongyun possibly have any chance to escape?

Meanwhile, on the other side, the evil corpse Blood Cloud Taoist, who was fighting with the Styx River, finally succumbed to the strangulation of the Yuan Tu and A Bi swords after struggling for hundreds of moves.

The Styx River found a flaw, and then the Avici Sword completely destroyed his primordial spirit.

With a mournful cry, the Blood Cloud Daoist transformed back into a stream of light and returned to the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd!

"what--!"

Sensing the fall of the evil corpse, Ancestor Hongyun let out a shrill scream.

With the evil corpse severed, his primordial spirit was also injured, and his aura instantly weakened. His already stable Quasi-Saint Dao Fruit began to become somewhat unstable, and there was a faint risk of him falling out of his realm.

He unleashed his intangible and formless Crimson Cloud Escape Technique to its fullest extent, hoping to find a glimmer of hope in this desperate situation.

"Hahaha... Heaven is unjust! Heaven is so unjust!!"

In the final moments before his primordial spirit was about to be completely obliterated by the Yuan Tu and A Bi swords, an unprecedented madness appeared on the kind face of the Red Cloud Ancestor!
"Since I cannot escape this calamity, then you... will not have an easy time either!"

"burst!!!"

A roar filled with resentment echoed throughout the chaotic outer heavens!
At this final moment, Ancestor Hongyun resolutely chose to self-destruct his Quasi-Saint Dao Fruit and his Innate Hongyun Body!
"boom--!!!!!"

A terrifying energy, indescribable in words, erupted from the center of Ancestor Hongyun!

The destructive torrent, formed by the self-destruction of a quasi-saint, instantly tore a huge gap in the seemingly indestructible Blood Sea Formation!

"No! Back away!"

Kunpeng and Styx, who were at the forefront of the attack, changed their expressions drastically and were terrified!
They never imagined that Hongyun would be so fierce, willing to die and perish with them!
The two frantically activated their respective protective magical artifacts, attempting to withstand the devastating torrent of self-destruction.

However, how could one so easily withstand the final counterattack of a quasi-saint?
"puff--!"

Even powerful beings like Kunpeng and Styx were both severely injured by this terrifying impact!

Both of them coughed up blood and their auras weakened. Their bodies, which had been refined to perfection, were now covered with countless terrifying cracks!
However, the two seemed completely oblivious to their injuries.

They endured the excruciating pain that could tear their very souls apart, their eyes, filled with greed and fanaticism, fixed intently on the core of the self-destruction!

There, a primordial purple aura, exuding the supreme aura of the Great Dao and seemingly containing the most fundamental mysteries of heaven and earth, was quietly suspended!

"its mine!"

The two roared and charged madly toward the primordial purple aura without regard for anything else!

But just as their fingertips were about to touch that primordial purple aura...

Mutations reborn!

Suddenly, the primordial purple aura that had been quietly floating suddenly flashed with light.

As if possessing its own life, it instantly tore through the void and vanished without a trace.

Thirty-three heavens away, in the Purple Cloud Palace.

An old Taoist priest, dressed in a simple gray robe and with an ancient face, seemed to be one with the entire universe and the Great Dao, and was sitting quietly on the high cloud bed.

His eyes were closed, showing neither sorrow nor joy.

Suddenly, his unchanging eyebrows twitched slightly.

In the void before him, a purple stream of light quietly appeared, eventually transforming into a primordial purple aura radiating the supreme aura of the Great Dao, which hovered silently in front of him.

It was the foundation for sainthood that disappeared from the chaos of the outer heavens before Kunpeng and the Styx River!
Hongjun slowly opened his eyes. In those eyes, there was no sun or moon, no mountains or seas, only the purest laws of heaven slowly rotating.

He reached out and gently grasped the primordial purple energy in his palm.

I could feel the lingering trace of Hongyun's original aura within it.

Even the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who had long since merged with the Heavenly Dao and whose heart was as still as water, couldn't help but reveal a trace of helplessness in his eyes.

"Red Clouds..."

A soft sigh echoed through the empty and desolate Zixiao Palace.

He bestowed this last wisp of primordial purple energy upon the seemingly virtuous but actually shallow-founded Hongyun Ancestor, with a hint of testing in his heart.

He wanted to see if there really was a glimmer of a "variable" in this grand trend that had long been determined by the will of Heaven.

Although Hongyun's origins are profound, it is the first red cloud in the world to take form.

However, he was easygoing and did not compete with others.

It had neither the ambition to establish a new school of thought nor the foundation to dominate the world.

In Yu Hongjun's view, even such a person, after obtaining the Primordial Purple Qi and ultimately attaining sainthood, would only become another carefree Primordial Golden Immortal, and would not have any impact on the overall trend of the Heavenly Dao.

This was the method he could think of that would cause the least interference with the operation of the Heavenly Dao.

However, even such a trivial variable is still not tolerated by the laws of nature.

This reminded him of the ancient times before the Dragon-Han Calamity.

He had not yet become a saint at that time.

He was merely a top-tier innate deity who had been searching tirelessly in this vast and desolate world.

He once harbored great ambitions, traveling to the four extremes of the primordial wilderness and traversing the nine heavens and ten lands, spending countless eons of time to collect many top-tier innate spiritual treasures.

His goal was to use his supreme divine power to reshape a chaotic treasure powerful enough to suppress heaven and earth and create the universe!

However, even if he eventually gathered all five innate flags and collected the Taiji Diagram and the Pangu Banner, these are the most precious treasures created at the beginning of time.

Yet he still found that no matter how he deduced or refined them, he could never reverse these innate things back into the supreme divine objects in the chaos.

It was as if some supreme, mysterious will was preventing all of this from happening.

It was from that moment that he understood.

This is the will of Heaven.

The Heavenly Dao will not allow that chaotic spiritual treasure, which is beyond its control, to reappear in this world.

Primordial treasures are the ultimate existence allowed in this primordial world!

From then on, Hongjun completely abandoned the idea of ​​collecting spiritual treasures and rebelling against chaos, and instead followed the way of heaven.

He ultimately emerged victorious after the Great Calamity of Longhan and attained sainthood.

After becoming a saint, he thought he had transcended all things and was able to guide the direction of this primordial land.

Thus, in an era when the Lich and Demon races coexisted, he made another attempt.

He also personally enlightened the Eastern King Duke and the Western Queen Mother in the Zixiao Palace.

He bestowed upon her a dragon-headed walking stick and a plain-colored cloud-shaped banner, instructing her to rule over all male and female immortals in the world.

They attempted to forge a new path within the predetermined power struggle between the witches and demons by "harmonizing Yin and Yang and promoting the rise of immortality," thereby quelling the boundless calamity to come.

However, the result was still that it was not tolerated by the will of Heaven.

The "Heavenly Marriage" ordained by Heaven's will is between the incarnation of the Sun Star—the Demon Emperor Di Jun, and the incarnations of the Moon Star—Xi He and Chang Xi.

Only through the union of the sun and the moon can one attain the immeasurable merit of harmonizing the primordial yin and yang.

Even if the Eastern King Duke, the embodiment of pure Yang energy, were to unite with the Western Queen Mother, the embodiment of pure Yin energy, they would not receive the approval of Heaven, nor would they receive any favor from the merits of a heavenly marriage.

Ultimately, the Eastern King's temperament changed drastically. Under the influence of the calamity, he became arrogant and domineering, his ambition swelled, and he ended up with a tragic end, his body and soul perished, and the Celestial Court was destroyed.

The fall of this red cloud is just like that.

The workings of Heaven follow their own immutable laws.

For example, the main characters chosen by Heaven for the merits of a celestial marriage are the Sun and the Moon.

If it were anyone else, no matter how well their attributes matched, they might disrupt the original trajectory of the Heavenly Dao, and would naturally be rejected.

The way Heaven adjusts this trajectory and brings it back to the right path is through the formless and intangible yet omnipresent 'calamity energy,' which is enough to make even the most powerful immortals lose their way!
Whether it was the Eastern King in the past or the Red Cloud today.

All of this is because the calamity energy entered their hearts, and they were unknowingly blinded to their Dao heart, amplifying their own desires and flaws.

Ultimately, they gradually walked towards the fate of death and annihilation, which had long been ordained by Heaven.

"Ugh……"

Hongjun let out another long sigh, and a rare, indescribable weariness was revealed in his eyes.

Under the laws of Heaven, all living beings are merely pawns.

He originally intended to guide all living beings to find a glimmer of hope and true freedom and ease under the great trend of Heaven.

But they felt that the Heavenly Dao was like an invisible and intangible giant net that covered the entire primordial world, binding everyone tightly within it, making it impossible for them to break free.

Hongjun slowly closed his eyes and channeled the Primordial Purple Qi, which exuded supreme power, back into the high platform beneath him.

Let it escape on its own as the cycle of heaven turns.

"The Great Way is impartial, yet Heaven's Way is biased..."

"How sad!"

(End of this chapter)