I am Jiang Ming, the Eternal Demon Emperor

Chapter 881 The Great Archer of the Witch Clan
The people of the Chan Sect all fled.

Golden Spirit Mother curiously observed Jiang Ming. This was the first time she had seen Jiang Ming, who was walking with Zhao Gongming, so she was naturally curious. Especially Jiang Ming's methods; they were truly impressive. He was, after all, a powerful and mysterious quasi-saint.

Moreover, there are still many things that haven't been explained clearly today.

Jiang Ming released Shi Ji immediately. Shi Ji's injuries had recovered to about 50-60% and she was fine. Now, she just needed to focus on recuperating.

Then, naturally, everyone began to ask about the whole story of Shi Ji.

Just as the Cloud Boy and Azure Cloud Boy had said, Shi Ji had unwittingly stumbled upon a great calamity and nearly died. Fortunately, Jiang Ming and Zhao Gongming arrived in time.

The most unfortunate one was Ma Yuan; that sycophant deserved a terrible death. He came here to curry favor with Shi Ji, but ended up going to his death.

However, when Ma Yuan was mentioned, Shi Ji was very grateful for his life-saving grace, but she still disliked Ma Yuan's way of doing things; Ma Yuan followed a crooked and evil path. When fighting with others, he enjoyed eating their internal organs to use for cultivation.

It can be said that they were extremely brutal.

Moreover, his death put the Jie Sect in a favorable position.

No matter who is dissatisfied in the future, even if Yuanshi Tianzun intervenes and the matter goes to Tongtian Jiaozhu, the Jie Sect will still have the right to speak and provide evidence.

As for who was ultimately behind this, it remains to be seen.

Jiang Ming suggested that they pay more attention to the Western Sect, since the two saints of the Western Sect still owed the Heavenly Dao karma and had not yet paid it off. They would do anything to achieve their goals.

As for the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, Jiang Ming did indeed discover Hou Yi's primordial spirit, which had been refined into a weapon spirit, inside. However, during the war between the Wu and Yao tribes, the Wu tribe crashed into Mount Buzhou, destroying the primordial land and incurring the same scorn as the Ancestral Dragon, the Primordial Qilin, and the Primordial Phoenix.

Boundless karma will weigh upon him, and he will never see the light of day again.

Fortunately, Houtu Niangniang, the most intelligent among the Wu tribe, abandoned her ancestral Wu body and transformed into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, thus perfecting the Heavenly Dao. She gained a great deal of merit and fortune, and protected a portion of the Wu tribe. She was able to enter the Underworld to serve as a guide for the dead for countless lifetimes, accumulating merit and fortune to atone for the sins of the Wu tribe.

Jiang Ming planned to send Hou Yi's primordial spirit to Hou Tu Niangniang. Hou Yi's primordial spirit already had the strength of an ancestral witch, but so what? It was entangled by immeasurable karma and had been refined into a ferocious weapon, killing countless people. It was almost completely ruined by the ordeal.

Jiang Ming sighed, "What a tragic fate!"
When Zhao Gongming and Jinling Shengmu heard that the primordial spirit of the Wu Clan's Dayi was actually inside this gourd, their curiosity was completely aroused by Jiang Ming.

And then there it is.

During my trip to the underworld, I gained a few more fellow cultivators who were just watching the drama unfold.

When Houtu Niangniang, the benevolent incarnation, saw Jiang Ming and his group at the Naihe Bridge, she was very curious. She didn't understand why so many quasi-saints had come to her Naihe Bridge.

Throughout these countless years, she has maintained an extremely low profile, focusing solely on managing the Underworld and ignoring everything else. It could be said that from the moment she entered the Gates of Hell, the Underworld has been overseen by powerful members of the Witch Clan.

Take the Ox-Head and Horse-Face guards at the Gates of Hell, for example. They are two great sorcerers, mainly there to suppress the Gates of Hell. If any fools dare to cause trouble, they will naturally be beaten up.

There are also Black and White Impermanence. The original Black and White Impermanence are two great witches of the witch clan, at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortals. They walk between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang. They dare to collect souls even if a Great Luo Golden Immortal has died.

Of course, as things developed, the underworld became too large and powerful to manage, so more Black and White Impermanence appeared. These were just figureheads, there for the purpose of intimidation.

Without wasting any words, Jiang Ming took out the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife and directly released Da Yi's primordial spirit. Da Yi's condition required a large amount of merit power to save him.

Jiang Ming possesses the power of merit, but it's not something that can be obtained by chance; he can't just give it away casually.

Jiang Ming knew one thing: if there was one being in the world with the most merit and virtue, it was none other than the Goddess Houtu.

Guiding the departed souls, a bowl of Meng Po soup washes away all past lives. What immeasurable merit!

After Da Yi was released, the karma on his body turned black and red, and he was in a very bad state. However, surprisingly, he did not go mad. Instead, he calmly nodded to Jiang Ming and said, "Thank you." Then, Da Yi knelt down before Hou Tu Niangniang of the Wu tribe and said, "Mother."

For the Wu tribe, all the ancestral witches were like fathers and mothers. After all, the Wu tribe themselves called themselves Pangu, the Father God. They were born from a portion of Pangu's essence and blood.

"Get up, child, you have suffered. You originally had merit for shooting down the golden crow. You did nothing wrong."

The day after tomorrow, the goddess will know that Da Yi must have been suffering all these years because he shot down the nine golden crows, which caused the war between the witches and demons.

However, in reality, the ten golden crows were lawless and the ten suns burned mountains and boiled seas. Wherever they passed, the earth withered and all things died. Their deaths were not a pity.

Da Yi did not do anything wrong.

However, the outcome was that he killed nine sons of the demon emperor Jun, which triggered a war between the demons and the witches.

His wife, Chang'e, regained her memories and discovered that she was Heng'e, the elder sister of the Nine Golden Crows. Naturally, she could not accept this reality and was in great pain. She abandoned Da Yi and left, cruelly saying that they would never see each other again.

Husband and wife became enemies.

This is the end for Yi the Archer. It's so painful.

Heng'e still couldn't bear to part with Hou Yi, so she begged her father not to kill him. Hou Yi then split into two parts, one of which became the weapon in the hands of Lu Ya, the youngest son of Emperor Jun.

Some of them were in a daze, instinctively clinging to the Taiyin star and unwilling to go anywhere else.

He wanted to enter the Moon Palace, but the entrance to the Moon Palace was the innate spiritual root, the Taiyin Laurel Tree. So he could only instinctively chop down the tree every day, hoping to cut it down and enter the Moon Palace to see Chang'e.

Unfortunately.

That's the Taiyin Laurel Tree, its hardness is that of a treasure, and it's alive. The wounds that Da Yi cut into his body will heal completely in less than a breath.

Unless one day Da Yi's attack power reaches the level of a sage, directly destroying this Taiyin Laurel Tree.

Back then, at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, there grew a primordial gourd vine. If it weren't for the intervention of a sage, among the countless quasi-sages of the primordial world, who could have done anything to it?

The innate gourd vine is far more ferocious than the innate laurel tree; it can attack and destroy on its own.

As a result, the poor innate gourd vine was too miraculous, and it ended up being divided up by a group of saints.

Nuwa even used gourd vines to create humans.

The ending was so tragic that it's best left unsaid.

Houtu Niangniang didn't say much. With a wave of her hand, a large expanse of golden light enveloped Dayi's body. The power of immeasurable merit met with the karma on his body and began to cancel each other out.

This is what Kong Xuan often did: karma can only be gradually erased by the power of merit. The power of fortune can also be used to protect the spirit of someone suffering calamity, keeping them conscious and reducing their pain.

"As expected, it is the ancient god Yi."

Zhao Gongming spoke up, somewhat excitedly.

The Golden Spirit Mother's eyes also shone brightly. Many innate beings disliked the Witch Clan because they had broken the Heavenly Pillar Buzhou Mountain, making it even more difficult for them to seek immortality and attain enlightenment.

Not only that, the pillar of heaven was severed, cutting off the path to sainthood. From then on, saints could no longer achieve sainthood through trickery.

(End of this chapter)