Attack the myths of the heavens and create the Taoist Tibetan wilderness!.

Some of the demon cultivators rushing towards him became incredibly slow, as if they were stuck in a swamp.

Some age rapidly, their lifespan dwindles, and they turn to ashes.

Even worse, the attack would strangely flow back and back at him as it approached, turning against him!
The six Ancestral Witches manifested their enormous forms and went against the current to meet the desperate attack of the billions of demons!
Every time they made a move, it was accompanied by the collapse of vast star fields and meant the fall of tens of thousands of demons!
The demons' attacks slammed into the Ancestral Witch's massive body, creating a deafening roar.

However, the result was cruel.

Besides Di Jun's crimson-gold pillar of light, which condenses the essence of the sun star, it can also create violent ripples in Zhu Jiuyin's time law domain.

Aside from Taiyi's chaotic bell waves, which could cause Zhurong's fiery body to show obvious vibrations and cracks.

The attacks from the other billions of demon cultivators, when they landed on the Ancestral Witch's true body, which was condensed from the purest laws and baleful energy, could at most only splash a few sparks of laws, and could not even leave a trace!
The true form of the Ancestral Witch is impervious to all magic!
This is an ironclad rule universally acknowledged throughout the primordial world! Only power of the same level, or a supreme treasure containing special laws, can inflict real damage upon it!
In contrast, every attack from the Ancestral Witches was a devastating catastrophe!

Qiang Liang unleashed a powerful punch, wiping out a battle formation composed of tens of thousands of demon cultivators, along with the meteor belt beneath their feet!
As the Xizi electric net swept across, it was like the Grim Reaper's scythe harvesting wheat fields, silently disintegrating and disappearing swathes of demons!
The freezing air from the Xuanming realm swept across the land, instantly freezing thousands of miles, turning countless demons into eternal ice sculptures!

Tragic! Utterly tragic! The void surrounding the Sun Star has been transformed into a hellish realm!

The corpses of demons, shattered magical artifacts, scattered essence blood and fragments of divine souls floated, burned, froze, and decomposed!
Blood stained the void, and wails and roars intertwined to form the most tragic elegy!
However, what is truly moving is that even with such heavy casualties, and even with attacks that were like ants trying to shake a tree, not a single one of those hundreds of millions of demon cultivators retreated!

They trampled over the corpses of their comrades, burning with their last breaths, and charged forward one after another towards the six world-destroying demon gods!
In their eyes, there was only unwavering fighting spirit, not fear!

The giant beast of battle spirit that floated in the air had dimmed its body due to the continuous fall of the demon race, but the golden flames in its eyes burned even more fiercely!

That was a flame ignited with lives and blood!
"Roar! You damned hairy beast!"

Zhu Rong let out a painful roar!

He was too arrogant, charging at the forefront and taking the most hits!
Di Jun's True Sun Fire was already restraining him, and Tai Yi's Chaos Bell Wave further shook his very essence!
At this moment, his enormous fiery body was covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and golden flames kept gushing out from the cracks, his aura was clearly weakening!
If it weren't for Gonggong's crimson ocean repeatedly shielding him from fatal attacks, and if it weren't for Qiangliang's lightning timely shattering the combined attack of Dijun and Taiyi, he would probably have been severely injured long ago!

"Zhurong, step back!"

Gonggong's voice was solemn, and his crimson ocean had been significantly depleted by the attacks of billions of demons and the fierce assaults of Dijun and Taiyi.

Although Qiangliang's thunder was violent, his thunderclouds were torn open in several places when faced with the fearless and self-destructive attacks of the demon race.

Hiz's power grid remains deadly, but its coverage is shrinking.

The icy chill of Xuanming's glaciers still freezes everything, but the freezing speed seems to have slowed down.

Only Zhu Jiuyin still controlled time, appearing to be in complete control, but his gaze toward the war-spirited behemoth grew increasingly cold.

Throughout the primordial world, countless powerful divine thoughts sighed.

The demon race's indomitable spirit and tragic fate earned them some respect, but mostly pity and helplessness. The gap was too vast!

The six Ancestral Witches joined forces and, at the cost of Zhu Rong being seriously injured and the other Ancestral Witches being slightly injured, almost completely slaughtered the core force of the demon race gathered here!

Meanwhile, the Wu tribe, based in the ancestral land of Buzhou Mountain, has six other ancestral Wu tribesmen stationed there, and hundreds of millions of Wu tribesmen are ready to fight at any moment!

On the other hand, if the demon race is completely wiped out here today, they will never have a chance to rise again!

In this first battle, the demon race's defeat was already inevitable, with no chance of victory in sight!

At the summit of Mount Sumeru, demonic energy surged.

Luo Hou's crimson eyes were fixed on the extremely tragic battlefield reflected in the water mirror, his brows furrowed.

"It's terrible, so terrible. Di Jun, is this what you meant by Hongjun not letting the demon race be crippled? If the fighting continues, the demon race on Sun Star will probably be wiped out! Even if those two golden crows manage to escape, the demon race is finished!"

The Green Lotus Boy also had a somber expression.

"Indeed, Fellow Daoist Di Jun. The Witch Clan has a profound foundation, the Twelve Ancestral Witches are immortal and indestructible, and they have yet to unleash a heaven-defying technique like the Great Array of the Heavenly Gods and Demons. The Demon Clan... sees no hope."

Di Jun (an avatar of Mount Sumeru) stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze deep, as if piercing through the water mirror and landing on the golden crow that was fighting a bloody battle.

His face was expressionless, but deep in his eyes, it seemed as if billions of stars were being born and dying.

Just then, a cold, mechanical, and emotionless voice suddenly resounded deep within his mind:
[Ding! Detected the first battle against the Lich. The demon faction is at a significant disadvantage, suffering heavy casualties and a sharp decline in fortune.]

[Option 1: Intervene immediately. Use the power of Mount Sumeru to forcibly reverse the battle and rescue Emperor Jun, Taiyi, and a portion of the demon race's core members. Reward: One million acres of Heavenly Merit.]

Option Two: Ignore it. Let the battle unfold naturally. Reward: One random innate treasure.

The sound appeared without warning, yet it carried an undeniable power of rules.

Di Jun's (clone's) gaze instantly sharpened, as if it could pierce through the void! The system? It's that mysterious and unpredictable entity again!
It always seems to appear when he faces crucial decisions.

Intervene? With the power of Mount Sumeru, plus Rahu and the Azure Lotus Child, it is indeed possible to force back the six Ancestral Witches and save Dijun, Taiyi, and some of the core members of the demon race.

The merit of a million acres of Heavenly Dao is enough to make any powerful being envious of immense wealth!

However, this would directly expose the connection between Mount Sumeru and the demon race, and would completely draw them into the center of the Lich War!
More importantly, this violated a certain tacit understanding between him and Hongjun, and also violated his original intention to let the demon race be tempered and condensed in blood and fire!

To ignore it? To let the billions of demons on the Sun Star perish under the slaughter of the Ancestral Witches? To let Di Jun and Tai Yi fall into a desperate situation?

This is undoubtedly a high-stakes gamble! A gamble that Hongjun will not stand idly by and watch the demon race be completely wiped out!
I'm betting that the so-called "protagonist of the great calamity" identity might actually bring a glimmer of hope!
The reward is a random, innate treasure!

The temptation is just as great!

Di Jun's (clone's) thoughts raced through billions of times in the blink of an eye.

Finally, the sharp light in his eyes slowly faded, transforming into a bottomless pool.

He made his choice.

[Option: Ignore it.]

[Rewards are being distributed...]

[Randomly draw innate treasures...]

As he confirmed his thoughts, a fist-sized ball of light, radiating a hazy, chaotic aura, appeared out of thin air in the void in front of him.

The ball of light rotated slowly, seemingly containing the power to create the world, yet also appearing to be empty.

Immediately afterwards, the ball of light stretched and deformed, transforming into an ancient and mysterious illusory wheel!

There are no markings on the roulette wheel, only endless chaotic energy flowing, colliding, and being born and dying!
It started to rotate slowly, very slowly at first, and then faster and faster!
The chaotic air currents were stirred up, forming a huge vortex that exuded a chilling aura of devouring and destruction!

Rahu and the Azure Lotus Child were startled by this sudden phenomenon. Their gazes were instantly drawn to the Chaos Wheel, and their faces showed expressions of surprise and uncertainty.

"This is……"

Luo Hou narrowed his eyes; he could sense the terrifying power contained within the roulette wheel, a power that posed a threat to him.

The Chaos Wheel spun faster and faster, eventually turning into a blurry blur of light and shadow!

Its rotation speed seemed to transcend the boundaries of time, and even Zhu Jiuyin's Eye of Time would probably find it difficult to capture its trajectory at this moment!
The demonic energy of the entire Mount Sumeru was stirred up by this rotating wheel, forming a huge vortex!

I don’t know how long it took, maybe a moment, maybe eternity.

The wildly spinning wheel of chaos suddenly stopped!
At the center of the roulette wheel, at the core of what was originally a chaotic void, a single point of dazzling golden light, seemingly capable of piercing through all chaos and darkness, suddenly erupted!

The brilliant golden light that erupted from the core of the Chaos Wheel did not illuminate the surroundings; instead, it rapidly receded and condensed the moment it erupted!
As the golden light faded, what remained before Di Jun (his Mount Sumeru clone) was a miniature palace model, no bigger than the palm of his hand, its entire body swirling with chaotic energy.

The palace has an extremely simple and ancient design, without any complicated decorations, only the most basic beam and column structure, yet it exudes a vast and ancient aura originating from the beginning of chaos and the simplicity of the great way.

On the palace's surface, countless intricate runes, too fine to be seen with the naked eye, flowed and vanished on their own, forming a seemingly thin yet indestructible layer of chaotic light. Inside the palace, the faint shadows of mountains, rivers, the sun, moon, and stars could be seen evolving and rising and falling, creating a world of its own!
"Tianji Palace?"

Di Jun (his clone) gently touched the miniature palace with his fingertips, and a vast and boundless amount of information instantly flooded into his mind.

This is actually a primordial treasure of the cave type!

Its inner world is a universe unto itself, with spiritual energy far surpassing any other blessed land in the primordial world!

What shocked him even more was that this palace came with a protective array at the level of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal!

Once activated, this formation cannot be broken without the power of Hunyuan!

The most powerful aspect of this treasure is—concealing the secrets of heaven!
Its ability to conceal is even enough to obscure the perception of Heaven!

"Primordial-level guardian... concealing heavenly secrets..."

Di Jun's (avatar) eyes became incredibly deep, like two bottomless ancient wells.

Primordial treasures are rare to begin with, and those in the cave dwelling type are even rarer. And those that come with a Primordial Chaos-level protective array and whose core ability is to conceal the secrets of heaven…

This is definitely not something that was naturally formed in the primordial world!
Its refining techniques and the Daoist principles it embodies subtly point to the more ancient and mysterious Primordial Era!

Thinking of the mysterious "system" in his mind, and the subtle connection between his clone and his original self that transcended time and space...

A terrible thought arose in his mind.

Could it be that my identity as a transmigrator, this so-called "system," and this mysterious primordial treasure before me are all being manipulated by an invisible hand? What is its purpose? Is it to trigger a great calamity?

Or... He slowly clenched his fist, his knuckles turning white, and fell into unprecedented contemplation.

Meanwhile, the battlefield outside the Sun Star has transformed into a true hell!

"Kill! Kill all these hairy beasts!"

Although Zhu Rong was covered in cracks and golden flames kept gushing from his wounds, and his aura was weak, his fighting spirit became more and more frenzied!
Like a wounded ancient beast, his million-foot-long fiery true body raged wildly. Every punch he threw brought up a sea of ​​fire that burned the heavens and the earth together with any demon cultivators who dared to approach, turning them into nothingness!
He laughed wildly, his voice hoarse yet filled with violence.

"Struggle! Wail! When Brother Dijiang and his reinforcements arrive, it will be the day you are completely annihilated! Hahaha!"

Reinforcements are on their way!

These four words struck like a heavy hammer into the hearts of Di Jun (Sun Star), Tai Yi, and all the demons who were still fighting a bloody battle!
Already at a significant disadvantage, they had already suffered heavy casualties against the six Ancestral Witches. If reinforcements from the Witch Clan were to arrive... it would truly be a certain death for them!

Emperor Jun's Golden Crow true form withstood the impact of Gonggong's crimson wave, its golden feathers stained with filthy blood light, and its aura became disordered.

His thoughts intersected with Taiyi's in an instant, and they both saw the heaviness and determination in each other's eyes.

We cannot fight any longer! We must evacuate! Otherwise, today will be the day the demon race is wiped out!
"His Majesty!"

Bai Ze's voice was hurried and tired. He waved his feather fan, scattering clear light to temporarily repel a patch of extinction grid, and transmitted his voice.

"As long as the green hills remain! The Ten Thousand Mountains! The terrain there is treacherous, with countless natural restrictions, and there is also the residual malevolent energy from ancient times, which can block the divine sense of the Ancestral Witches! It is the last retreat for our demon race!"

The Ten Thousand Mountains! A glint flashed in Di Jun's eyes.

That was a vast and desolate wilderness in the southern part of the prehistoric world, with steep mountains, miasma, and countless ancient ferocious beasts. The environment was extremely harsh, and even the Wu tribe rarely set foot there.

It is indeed the only possible way out for the demon race at present!
"Order the retreat!"

Di Jun's voice resounded in the souls of every demon cultivator.

"Target: The Ten Thousand Mountains!"

The order to retreat was given, but at this moment, they were held firmly by the six Ancestral Witches, so how easy was it to leave safely?
The billions of demons were like moths caught in a spider web, and every struggle they made resulted in huge casualties!
"Want to leave? Dreaming!"

Zhu Rong laughed wildly, ignoring his injuries, and pounced again, his huge fiery hand grabbing at Ji Meng, who was directing the demon race to form a defensive formation!

He wanted to tear this demon general apart and completely crush the demon race's will to resist!

At this critical moment!
"Zhurong! I am your opponent!"

Emperor Jun's Golden Crow form let out a long cry, flapped its wings, and instantly appeared in front of Zhu Rong!
Instead of attacking directly, he suddenly unleashed the Hetu Luoshu!

The Hetu and Luoshu swelled with the wind, instantly transforming into a gigantic scroll that blotted out the sky!

On the scroll, stars shifted and mountains moved, and a mysterious and unpredictable power of deduction and sealing suddenly erupted!
Countless chains made of stellar power shot out from the scroll, not to attack, but to entangle Zhu Rong's enormous fiery form!

"Little tricks!"

Zhu Rong roared, his body engulfed in flames, attempting to incinerate the chains.

However, the star chains were not physical entities, but rather "Dao traces" derived from the Hetu Luoshu, specifically targeting the weaknesses in Zhu Rong's power and the gaps in the operation of the laws!
Ignoring the raging flames, they precisely wrapped themselves around the law nodes of Zhu Rong's true flame form!

In an instant, Zhu Rong's ferocious movements suddenly stopped, as if he had fallen into an invisible quagmire, and the flames on his body dimmed and solidified!

He was temporarily trapped by this sudden deduction and sealing technique!
"It's now!"

Di Jun shouted sternly!

"clang--!"

Taiyi's Chaos Golden Bell rang almost simultaneously!

This time, the ripples were no longer spreading, but condensed into a dark golden sonic blade that was extremely refined and visible to the naked eye!
The giant blade tore through the void, ignoring spatial distance, and slashed straight at the head of Zhu Rong, who was temporarily trapped!

"Zhurong, be careful!"

Gonggong was filled with shock and rage, and the blood-red ocean surged with towering waves in an attempt to intercept it! Qiangliang's destructive thunder and Xizi's extinction electric net also simultaneously bombarded Taiyi, attempting to relieve the siege of Wei by attacking Zhao!
However, a flash of clear light appeared!
Bai Ze appeared beside Taiyi, waving his feather fan. Countless profound runes formed layers of light shields, forcefully blocking Qiang Liang's lightning and Xi Zi's electric net!
The light shield shattered instantly, and Bai Ze spat out blood and flew backward, but he had bought that crucial moment!
The dark golden sonic blade struck Zhu Rong's neck, which was bound by star chains and unable to defend itself completely, without any hindrance!

"Pfft——!"

A sickeningly loud cutting sound rang out!
A huge, deep wound, revealing bone, was forcibly cleaved open on the neck of Zhurong's million-foot-tall fiery body!

Golden blood gushed out!

Zhu Rong let out a deafening scream, his aura plummeted instantly, his massive body shook violently, and the flames on his body were almost extinguished!
If it weren't for the Ancestral Witch's true form being incredibly powerful, this attack would have been enough to decapitate him!
"Do it!"

Di Jun roared!

Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, Fei Lian, Jiu Ying...

All the powerful demon race members who still had strength left, along with the hundreds of millions of fearless demon race cultivators around them, unleashed their final and most frenzied power at this moment!
Countless attacks relentlessly bombarded the heavily injured and weakened Zhu Rong!

Rumble, rumble—!
A deafening explosion resounded throughout the universe! The void where Zhu Rong was located was completely engulfed by violent energy!

The laws of space shattered, and space collapsed!
Qiangliang's roar, Gonggong's howl, the hiss of the Xizi electric net, Xuanming's chilling aura, and Zhujiuyin's icy gaze as he attempted to reverse time...

Everything was overshadowed by this final, desperate strike that concentrated the last of the demon race's power!

When the turbulent energy subsided and the light faded, revealing the scene within, the entire battlefield, along with the countless probing divine thoughts of the primordial world, fell into a deathly silence!

One of the giant claws of Emperor Jun's Golden Crow form was firmly gripping the wound on Zhu Rong's neck!

The sun's true fire, powerful enough to incinerate stars, burned Zhu Rong's wounds like the cruelest branding iron, causing him to roar in agony!
Zhu Rong's million-foot-long fiery true form was now dim, cracked, and its golden blood was flowing out. Its aura was extremely weak, and it was completely restrained by Di Jun, unable to move!
Taiyi stood beside Dijun, the Chaos Golden Bell hovering above his head, while Zhongbo locked onto Zhurong's divine soul to prevent it from self-destructing or unleashing its secret techniques. (End of Chapter)