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Chapter 354 The Primordial Chaos Returns to Ruins!

"Havoc in Heaven..." After suppressing Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain, Fang Xun returned to Heaven with the saints.

"That's pretty tragic. The most important thing is that all the celestial gods and immortals in the Heavenly Court were wiped out?" Fang Xun blinked and looked at Fuxi.

"To buy time, I had the gods of Heaven set up a divine array for me," Fuxi said calmly.

“If it weren’t for the Eastern King’s interference, you wouldn’t have had a chance to show yourself at all.”

This is true, but it sounds ridiculous to anyone except Laozi and Nuwa.

Because those who died were all their disciples.

"Don't worry, the Investiture of the Gods contains their innate, indestructible spiritual light, so they won't die." Fuxi reached out and grabbed the Investiture of the Gods, which landed in his hand.

"Return!" Fuxi shouted softly, and countless names on the Investiture of the Gods suddenly lit up. Rays of light shot out from the Investiture of the Gods, forming the celestial beings of the Heavenly Court.

However, these people all looked rather grim. Normally, the Heavenly Emperor didn't interfere, and Fuxi was also quite kind-hearted, so he wouldn't directly use the Investiture of the Gods to control them. Therefore, their only resentment towards the Investiture of the Gods was that it would restrict their cultivation levels.

This time, however, the Investiture of the Gods revealed its bloody and cruel side.

This was their first death since being listed, and it was a complete and utter one.

Even death could not free them from the control of the Investiture of the Gods!

"You have rendered meritorious service in helping me resist Hongjun Daoist this time, so I will plead for your sake." Fuxi sensed the bad mood of these heavenly gods and immortals and smiled slightly.

He looked at Fang Xun, "Could you lift the restrictions on their cultivation?"

“…That’s an internal matter of the Heavenly Court.” Fang Xun paused for a moment, but naturally had no objection.

These people are among the strongest in the primordial world, and their talents are exceptional. They may well go further and become Grand Luo Golden Immortals.

"Thank you, Emperor Fu!"

At this moment, all the celestial beings and gods in the heavens suddenly looked up at Fuxi, overjoyed, and quickly bowed to express their gratitude.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Fuxi, for granting these disciples their wish." At this moment, the Shangqing Sage suddenly sighed and bowed to Fuxi in gratitude. The Yuqing Sage and the two Buddhas, Jieyin and Zhunti, did the same.

"If any of you are able to achieve the Great Luo Golden Immortal Dao Fruit in the future, I will erase your name from the Investiture of the Gods."

At this moment, Fuxi suddenly spoke, giving the celestial beings of the Heavenly Court a real hope.

This made the celestial beings in the Heavenly Court even more determined to die!

“Of course, you might be included in another Investiture of the Gods,” Fuxi suddenly added, as if remembering something.

The other list of deities is actually the one Ye Fan wrote by hand; it lists the teachers of these celestial gods and immortals...

This Investiture of the Gods is far more powerful than the real Investiture of the Gods.

"Congratulations to all my fellow disciples! The path to the Great Dao is now within reach." Fang Xun smiled as he congratulated these immortals and gods who now had hope and were no longer confined to the Investiture of the Gods.

With a gentle touch, he once again probed his senses into the origin of the Heavenly Dao, wielding the authority of the Dao Ancestor.

He completely removed the cultivation restrictions on the Investiture of the Gods list.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Xuansu!"

"Thank you, Emperor Xuan!"

Today is probably the day when these celestial beings and gods experienced the greatest emotional fluctuations.

"Oh, right, you can't count Sun Wukong on your behalf. He was trained by Hongjun Daoren." Looking at these familiar faces who were overjoyed, Fang Xun suddenly looked at the Shangqing Sage.

This refers to his agreement with the saints.

“How can this be allowed?!” the Shangqing Sage objected.

“Wukong has been taught by me for a long time…” He suddenly stopped, realizing that this statement was rather untenable.

"You should have some faith in them," Fang Xun said, pointing to the eight disciples of the Jie Sect.

Looking at his disciples, the Sage of Shangqing felt relieved. Without the restrictions on cultivation, his disciples would be no worse than others.

“It seems that Junior Brother Xuandu is also here…” Fang Xun looked at Laozi.

"Thank you for your trouble, Xuan Su." Laozi nodded slightly.

"Hmm?" Sage Yuqing sensed something and looked at Fang Xun and Laozi. "Nephew Xuandu, what about him?"

The sage asked with some surprise and uncertainty.

The other sages also understood the implied meaning.

"Misfortune and fortune are interdependent." Lao Tzu nodded slightly, thus confirming the sages' conjecture.

“It is indeed better for me to do it.” Fang Xun reached out and summoned the innate undying spiritual light belonging to Xuandu. With a flick of his finger, the origin of the Heavenly Dao fell down, and he also flicked out a source of the Five Primordial Sources of the Primordial Dao.

This source of the Five Primordial Elements is his own understanding of the Five Primordial Elements, which can help Xuandu walk more smoothly on the road ahead.

"Thank you," said Laozi upon seeing this.

"You're too kind, Uncle-Master." Fang Xun handed a ball of light to Laozi. This ball of light would also go through the Eight Trigrams Furnace. After a few hundred or a thousand Yuanhui, it would become another Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.

Moreover, he is a Primordial Golden Immortal who has practiced the method of reversing the limitless!

"Alright, everything has been explained. Why did you ask us to come with you?" At this moment, Nuwa, who had been observing from the sidelines, suddenly asked.

"You never do anything for nothing."

Nuwa knew Fang Xun too well. He had specially invited the saints over. Otherwise, with some being believers and others in seclusion, how could they have so much time to stroll around the Heavenly Court?

"Teacher, please wait a moment. I want to confirm something." Fang Xun opened a portal to the heavens in front of him.

Something was thrown over from behind the door, and the other saints' brows twitched as well. It was the Jade Disc of Creation!

The moment Fang Xun obtained the Jade Disc of Creation, he returned to his Dao Ancestor state.

"Do you all know about the Fifth Calamity, the Return to Nothingness?"

Fang Xun's voice became unusually serious.

"The Calamity of Returning to the Void?" Even the sages were speechless, completely clueless about it.

"This calamity is probably only known to the Great God Pangu, but he never told me about it."

Fang Xun fiddled with the Great Dao rules within the Jade Disc of Creation, looking at the ruins of the Heavenly Court.

“Hongjun might know, but he wouldn’t tell me, so I have to find out for myself.”

"You found it?" Nuwa asked.

"No, but we've already ruled out the other options."

"The first is Zixiao Palace, but when Zixiao Palace was destroyed last time, there was no reaction."

"The second is the Heavenly Court, but you've seen it now."

The other sages all subconsciously looked at the ruins of the Heavenly Court, which were now in ruins. Apart from the Lingxiao Palace, all the other palaces were completely destroyed.

"The fourth is the Four Seas, but there is no sea eye there, no Nine Defiled Springs, and no Abyss of Sin."

"The fifth is the Demon Realm." Fang Xun looked at the Demon Realm, which was isolated in the sky.

"It wasn't me." Demon Ancestor Rahu suddenly appeared here. He had also broken through to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and because he was united with the demonic path, he was stronger than the other saints!

"I do not yet have the ability to destroy the primordial world and reduce heaven and earth to nothingness." The Demon Ancestor's words made the other saints nod in agreement.

“Then there’s only one left,” Fang Xun said.

"You think it's my underworld?" At this moment, Houtu Niangniang also appeared in the ruins of the Heavenly Court, bringing with her the vitality of revival.

The spacetime of Heaven trembled slightly, and those beings caught in the turmoil and who perished in the battle began to revive and return. Even Heaven itself was recovering. "Your Majesty is merciful," Fang Xun nodded slightly.

"But I don't know." Houtu frowned and thought for a moment, but she had no clue at all.

“It’s not the underworld, it might be somewhere deeper,” Fang Xun said.

"The Underworld is already the deepest part of the primordial land. Any deeper and it's absolute nothingness. There's no chaos or spacetime there at all." Houtu shook her head slightly.

Fang Xun fiddled with the Creation Jade Disc in his hand for a long time until the changes in the Great Dao on it finally stopped.

"Mount Buzhou?!" The others were all astonished.

The countless rules on the Jade Disc of Creation intertwine to form a pillar that reaches straight up to the heavens!

"In Hongjun's plan, after the Investiture of the Gods, the primordial world will be perfected and closed off, completely isolating the inside from the outside. The Journey to the West is just to sweep away the last ashes of the calamity."

"He never seemed to have made any preparations for the Ruins of Return."

"Was it too late, or were the hidden dangers eliminated long ago?"

Fang Xun's words silenced all the saints.

"It's the latter," replied the Demon Ancestor, Hongjun's "confidant," with great persuasiveness.

“That’s it,” Fang Xun affirmed.

"The pillar of heaven tilts, and the earth's axis breaks. The heavens tilt to the northwest, and the sun, moon, and stars shift; the earth rises to the southeast, and floods and dust return to their source."

The sages immediately thought of the consequences of Mount Buzhou collapsing.

"Mending the sky?" Nuwa murmured.

"Perhaps there is more to this matter than meets the eye."

Fang Xun looked at the Jade Disc of Creation with a solemn expression, and gently pushed over the illusory image of Mount Buzhou inside the jade disc.

Rumble!
Mount Buzhou has broken and collapsed!
At this moment, an extraordinary phenomenon of the heavens and earth collapsing appeared in the primordial world!

Suddenly, a terrifying rift appeared in the primordial sky, piercing through the entire primordial world!
The primordial land slid directly towards the southeast!

The Milky Way poured into the human world, and stars fell like rain!
The people suffered terribly, and the great principles were overturned!

Such a terrifying phenomenon made the saints tense up, feeling a strong sense of crisis!
But in the next instant, all the strange phenomena disappeared, and the real Buzhou Mountain was not harmed at all; this was just a simulation by Fang Xun.

"So the secret lies at the bottom of Buzhou Mountain?" Nuwa withdrew her gaze from the terrifying rift in the primordial sky.

"Not the actual bottom, but a more abstract concept, perhaps... the soles of Pangu's feet?"

The other sages all had strange expressions on their faces.

It smells good now.

"Let's go, let's go together!" Fang Xun tapped the Creation Jade Disc in his hand, and he and all the saints teleported directly to "the bottom of his feet".

This is absolute nothingness; even the underworld is above us.

However, this area is still within the sphere of influence of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, and the sages can still borrow the power of the Heavenly Dao.

"Here?" Houtu looked at this void and let out a soft "hmm".

She reached out and grasped, and this absolute nothingness seemed to be held in her hand, gaining a real substance.

The others all twitched their eyes and silently looked at Houtu.

At this moment, Houtu simply standing there gave these sages the illusion that she was indestructible and eternally immortal.

It was like...seeing the primordial world itself!

"Is this the Primordial Golden Immortal Chapter of Panwang Xuan Gong? It seems somewhat different from Xuanming's." Fang Xun couldn't help but ask.

Xuanming fought alongside him in other worlds. Fang Xun had also witnessed the power of the Panwang Xuan Gong, but Houtu's physical strength seemed to have reached an even higher level.

“I have embarked on the path of the Father God, and the more I resemble the Father God, the stronger I will naturally become.”

Although the Ancestral Witch Xuanming was also a Primordial Golden Immortal, he was still "not like" him.

Houtu has already pioneered the Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian path, a terrifying path that imitates the Dao body of Pangu, exclusively for the Wu clan!
No one doubts the strength of Pangu's Dao Body. Even if they only obtained a fraction of it, the Ancestral Witches of the Quasi-Saint era could still overpower Quasi-Saints of the same realm.

Now that Houtu has achieved the Great Golden Immortal of Hunyuan through this, it is even more extraordinary!

That single grab demonstrated her physical strength; if any other saint were to get close to Houtu, they would probably be punched to pieces!
"I see." Fang Xun couldn't help but nod.

Houtu now gives him a very powerful feeling, truly possessing the Daoist essence of Pangu!

"Hmm?" Houtu seemed to have discovered something, and the other sages also narrowed their eyes and looked "below".

The word "below" here is more of a concept, representing the primordial foundation.

"The foundation of the primordial world is the so-called Ruins?!" Fang Xun's expression was somewhat complicated at this moment.

When he sensed the existence of "below", he confirmed that this was the Ruins of Return.

"So the Guixu Calamity will erupt from here?" Nuwa couldn't help but ask.

Although they explored the concept of "below," they could not sense the true return to nothingness.

The Creation Jade Disc in Fang Xun's hand flew out, and the Primordial Purple Qi within the Saint's primordial spirit or golden body trembled slightly. In the next instant, they entered another world.

"Wuji?!" the sage exclaimed in surprise.

“Yes, only those of the Limitless can perceive this place. We are now part of the Primordial World, so we can see it,” Fang Xun explained, then seemed to step into another world.

laugh!
The moment Fang Xun entered, he felt a beam of axe light slashing towards him.

He forcibly suppressed his urge to resist, letting the axe strike him.

These are all remnants of time, not real things.

“This is the end of time,” Fang Xun said to the other saints.

"This place faces the source of time, and is the end of the primordial river of time. Here..."

Fang Xun hesitated for a long time before speaking.

There is no Pangu.

A thunderous roar seemed to echo, and even the sages were horrified.

"No Father God Pangu?!" Even the Supreme Sage, also known as Laozi, couldn't help but ask at this moment.

“Yes, the Great God Pangu will enter a state of complete ecstasy when the Ruins of Return descend,” Fang Xun said.

Unable to express.

"That state transcends the limitations of existence and non-existence; perhaps for us, it is death."

The sages all fell silent, finding it difficult to process the information for a while.

"The Great Dao is boundless. Father God has achieved his wish and has stepped into a realm beyond our imagination," the Sage of Taiqing said softly.

The others nodded in agreement; they preferred this version of events.

They couldn't even imagine that state; this was the only way they could understand it.

"The Father God no longer exists, so the primordial world will fall into ruin?" Houtu asked in confusion.

Strictly speaking, in the primordial world today, Pangu is also in a state of death!

"No, the disappearance of the great god Pangu was just the beginning. After coming here, I think I understand what caused the primordial world to return to nothingness."

(End of this chapter)