Honghuang: Starting from the Enlightenment of the Great Emperor Dongyue

Chapter 54: Heaven's Way Cuts Itself and Creates a New Heaven

Demon Court.

"Hahahaha... It feels so good, so good!" Di Jun, wearing the Golden Crow Emperor robe, stood on the Lingxiao Palace, overlooking the entire prehistoric land, his eyes full of pride.

"Brother, now you have obtained the holy foundation, and you are destined to be a saint in the future. Now you and I brothers will kill the good corpse one after another and become quasi-saints. The fortune of our demon clan will soar, and we will be able to rule the world in the near future!" Taiyi's voice was full of excitement. He waved the Chaos Bell in his hand, and it jingled.

"Those barbarians are nothing to worry about. We should not give them the opportunity to develop while we are breaking through to Quasi-Sainthood. The Wu Clan cannot follow the path of corpse-slashing and cannot break through to Quasi-Sainthood in a short period of time. We should take advantage of this period to suppress the Wu Clan in one fell swoop." Di Jun sneered.
"Now, my demon clan controls the Heavenly Palace, and with the support of the saints, we will unify the prehistoric world within a hundred years!"

"Big Brother is right! Twenty percent of those fence-sitting races have already come to surrender! Once the Wu Clan surrenders, the entire prehistoric world will grovel at Big Brother's feet!"

Taiyi's face was full of pride. He seemed to have already seen the grand scene of himself and his elder brother dominating the world and being worshipped by all races.

And at this time.

Inside the dark and deep Pangu Palace, the atmosphere was completely different from the lively scene in the Demon Court.

The twelve ancient witches looked solemn as they sat in a circle in the center of the hall.

The Pangu Temple, which used to be full of noise and grandeur, was now eerily quiet, with only the heavy breathing of the ancient witches echoing in the temple.

"In the past hundred years, the demon clan has developed rapidly, and several people including Di Jun and Tai Yi have broken through to the quasi-saint level. My Wu clan has suffered heavy casualties, and the living space of each tribe has shrunk sharply. If this continues, my Wu clan will be in danger!" Di Jiang said in a deep voice, his thick fingers clenched tightly, and the joints turned slightly white due to excessive force.

He and his companions had never imagined that after Emperor Jun became a Heavenly Saint, the demon race would experience such explosive growth. Especially since Emperor Jun had recruited Kunpeng, the North Sea Quasi-Sage, to become his demon master, the witch race had been steadily losing ground against the demons, and the witch race was now clearly on the losing side.

"Gong Gong, tell me, how much has my Wu clan lost?"

"Brother, in the hundred years since returning from Zixiao Palace, our Wu clan has suffered 20% more casualties. Each tribe has suffered heavy losses. Now, less than 70% of those still able to fight are still there compared to during their heyday..."

Gonggong's voice became lower and lower, and at the end, even he himself felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

"boom!"

Zhu Rong punched the stone pillar beside him, and the hard stone pillar instantly shattered into powder, which showed how angry he was.

"Damn those birdmen! If they weren't so lucky and could practice Hongjun's method of beheading the three corpses, how could they have broken through to the Quasi-Sage realm so easily?! Once we break through, we will definitely tear them into pieces!"

The ancestor witch has unparalleled combat power at the same level. Apart from the pervert like Di Tai, Zhu Rong Zhen is not afraid of Di Jun and Tai Yi.

"What's the point of saying this now?" Zhu Jiuyin's cold voice interrupted Zhu Rong's roar. His eyes, which seemed to see through everything, swept over every ancestor witch present. "Instead of complaining here, why not think of a way to break the deadlock!"

"Break the impasse? How do we break it?!" Zhu Rong stood up suddenly and roared, "Are we supposed to bow down to that old villain Di Jun?! I'm the first to disagree!"

Zhu Jiuyin glanced at him coldly, "My fellow Wu people would rather die standing than live on their knees! But now the demon tribe is so powerful, and they have the support of the saints. If we fight them head-on, it will only cost the lives of our fellow Wu people!"

Hou Tu sat quietly at the back, gazing at Mount Buzhou standing in the distance in the center of heaven and earth, and was lost in thought for a moment.

Inside her clothes, she had a Taishan jade pendant hanging on her chest.

That was after Di Tai attained enlightenment. He once came to find her and told her that if the Wu clan encountered any difficulties, they could go to him.

Perhaps, he had foreseen the future of the Wu clan long ago.

Hou Tu knew very well what it meant to go looking for Di Tai. Perhaps it was really time to make a choice.

"As I said before, go seek help from the gods." Zhu Jiuyin's low voice echoed in the hall.

As soon as he finished speaking, silence fell in the hall. The eyes of all the ancestor witches fell on Hou Tu at the same time, and complex emotions intertwined in their eyes.

Once upon a time, they were born with such pride and power!
Pangu is authentic and stands tall and upright. They firmly believe that they are the masters of this world.

Have they ever imagined that one day they would have to sacrifice their own sister and seek refuge from Shinto?
When Zhu Jiuyin proposed this cooperation suggestion before, everyone agreed in their hearts but did not take it seriously. They just regarded it as a last resort.

They also believe that as long as the twelve ancient witches work together, they will be able to dominate the world. Who can force them to bow their heads?

What’s more, now we have to bow down to Shinto for help?
However, reality slapped them hard in the face.

Hongjun accepted Dijun as his disciple, bestowed upon him the Hongmeng purple energy, and enabled him to achieve the status of a saint. The meaning behind this is self-evident.

Saint! The most holy man in the world!
Daozu! He chose the demon race!
Over the past hundred years, the demon race has become more arrogant and its strength has expanded rapidly.

However, their Wu clan could never find a way to break through to the realm of the God King.

For them, listening to the teachings in Zixiao Palace did not bring them much benefit.

On the other hand, the demon clan, relying on the method of beheading the three corpses, has produced a large number of saints in just a hundred years, and even has the potential to compete with the Shinto.

If we include the saint Hongjun behind them, the outcome between them and Shinto is even more unpredictable.

Di Jiang waved his hand, interrupting everyone. He took a deep breath and looked at Hou Tu, "Sister, we respect your choice. If you don't want to, even if Hongjun comes in person, he will have to step over the corpses of our brothers!"

Dijiang spoke with a resounding voice, showing a determination to face death.

The other ancestor witches also nodded in agreement.

Hou Tu looked at her brothers with mixed feelings.

She suddenly smiled, as brilliant and dazzling as a hundred flowers in full bloom.

"Brothers, why do you think this is a bad thing..."

Suddenly, the world changed.

Purple air filled the sky, and an immense pressure descended upon the world.

A figure slowly emerged, his figure was tall and majestic, but also blurry, making it impossible to see his true appearance.
The saint comes to the world.

"Heaven! This world owes me the karma of giving birth to Pangu, and now it's time to repay it!"

The holy sound rumbles and echoes throughout the universe. It is the true word of heaven, obscure and difficult to understand.

Only Taicang and Ditai understood the meaning, and their expressions changed suddenly.

The Heavenly Dao Wheel slowly emerged.

Hongjun waved his hand, and visible [cause and effect] poured into the Heavenly Dao Wheel.

With the influx of the power of cause and effect, the Heavenly Dao Wheel began to vibrate violently, and the heavenly sound it emitted was so heartbreaking that all living beings could not bear to listen to it.

Almost at the moment when Hongjun arrived, Taicang entered the state of Hedao, and at the same time in front of Hongjun.

Taicang clearly saw the [cause and effect] between Hongjun and Pangu in the way of heaven.

Even though he knew it in advance, Taicang still looked grim for a moment.

At the beginning, it was Hongjun who nurtured the three thousand Dao seeds, the Green Lotus of Creation and the original power of Pangu Axe in the chaos, which led to the birth of Pangu in this world.

Even if Hongjun was acting for his own selfish desires, he was indeed the "cultivator" of Pangu in this world, and the way of heaven would reward him for the fruits of his "cultivation."

At the beginning, it was Hongjun who nurtured the three thousand Dao seeds, the Green Lotus of Creation and the original power of Pangu Axe in the chaos, which led to the birth of Pangu in this world.

Even if Hongjun was acting for his own selfish desires, he was indeed the "cultivator" of Pangu in this world, and the way of heaven would reward him for the fruits of his "cultivation."

The will of heaven turned into a sword, and it did not cut at all the living beings in the world, but cut at the way of heaven itself!
The magnificent Heavenly Dao Wheel vibrated violently, emitting a heart-pounding humming sound, and ripples spread out, sweeping across the entire prehistoric world.

Nearly 40% of the origin of the way of heaven was forcibly stripped away.

At the same time, the entire prehistoric world felt the collapse of the way of heaven.

The earth cracked, mountains and rivers collapsed, and with the Central Region as the boundary, a bottomless abyss divided the sky and the earth into two, and the sea water flowed back, forming a vast ocean.

The Western and Northern Regions were completely severed, and the portion of the Heavenly Dao's essence that had been severed slowly condensed in the skies above them, forming a new Heavenly Dao Wheel, emitting an aura similar to that of the Heavenly Dao yet profoundly unfamiliar. The Heavenly Dao itself was severed, transforming into a new Heaven.

The way of heaven was cut off, its vitality was severely damaged, the order of heaven and earth collapsed, the earth, fire, wind and water raged, and the world fell into chaos.

The heaven and earth began to collapse.

In the state of Taicang Hedao, one can clearly feel the weakening of the power of the Heavenly Dao, as if returning to the beginning of the establishment of the Shinto, when the Longhan catastrophe had just ended and the Heavenly Dao that the Shinto had strengthened for tens of thousands of years was burned to ashes.

"Gods, listen to my orders and stabilize the heaven and earth!" Taicang spoke with the divine will in his mouth, his voice resounding throughout the ancient world.

Taicang had no time to care about anything else at this time. He and Ditai merged into the heaven and earth, one carrying the sky and the other suppressing the earth.

Millions of gods responded in unison, each performing their duties, rushing to various parts of the wilderness to repair the broken heaven and earth.

Fuxi sat in the center, mobilizing the power of heaven and earth with a solemn expression to maintain the precarious balance of the world.

The Five Great Emperors, the Four Divine Lords, and even countless gods in heaven and earth, all tried their best to unite heaven and earth and stabilize the universe.

For a moment, above the ancient land, divine light shot up into the sky, and countless figures of gods shuttled between heaven and earth, fighting against the raging disaster.

They use their divine power to repair the earth's veins, suppress volcanoes, drain floods, calm strong winds, and use their divine bodies to guard the world that is about to collapse.

On the other side, Hongjun looked at the newly born Heavenly Dao Wheel and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Ignore the collapsing world.

He held the Jade Butterfly of Creation in his hand and gave it a gentle push, and the Jade Butterfly merged into the new Heavenly Dao Wheel.

"Hedao!"

The moment the Jade Butterfly of Creation merged into the Heavenly Dao Wheel, Hongjun's figure also dissipated and merged into the new Heavenly Dao.

The newly born Heavenly Dao Wheel was no longer as grand and impartial as before, but instead exuded a cold and indifferent aura, looking down upon all living beings.

The Heavenly Dao Wheel slowly rotated. Every time it rotated, countless powers of laws overflowed from it and merged into the heaven and earth of the ancient Western and Northern Regions. The originally broken space began to heal.

At this moment, the power of Heaven surged into his body like a tide, cleansing his origin and repairing his foundation of Tao.

He finally broke free from the constraints of the Heavenly Dao and could release the power of the Heavenly Dao without restraint. Hongjun was Hongjun and also the Heavenly Dao.

Taicang and Ditai just managed to stabilize this ancient world that was on the verge of collapse.

Before he could even catch his breath, a cold and indifferent voice boomed like thunder, shaking the universe: "I am Juntian!"

【Juntian】Hongjun, from the new heaven of Hedao, appeared before everyone again.

He was surrounded by the cold power of law, looking down at all living beings with no emotion in his eyes.

He raised a finger indifferently, pointing at Pangu Temple, his tone cold and ruthless: "Hou Tu should return to heaven and earth to complete the cycle of reincarnation."

Before he finished speaking, an invisible force from heaven and earth instantly descended upon Pangu Palace, tightly binding Houtu inside.

Hou Tu's delicate body trembled, and she was unable to resist this supreme power. She was captured uncontrollably into the void.

In the void, the true body of Hou Tu, the ancestor witch, was forced to appear. The ten thousand feet tall Dharma image stood majestically, but like a lamb to be slaughtered, it was tightly entangled by the power of the heaven of [Juntian].

The power of Juntian was like an invisible millstone, slowly turning, trying to completely grind her down and assimilate her into a part of the way of heaven.

At this moment, Hou Tu was filled with unspeakable despair. She watched helplessly as her Dharma body cracked inch by inch and felt the pain of her origin being constantly devoured, but she was powerless to resist.

It turns out that she herself has the mission of reincarnation?
Hongjun established a new heaven, so there was no need to make any further estimates. He wanted to refine her completely and use it to complete the new cycle of heaven and earth.

In Pangu Palace, Dijiang and other eleven ancient witches watched Houtu being captured. They were so angry that their eyes burst into tears and rushed out of Pangu Palace like crazy.

"Houtu!"

"Hongjun, old thief, how dare you!"

The eleven ancient witches all revealed their true forms, roaring and rushing towards Houtu in the void.

However, no matter how hard they tried, they could not break through the invisible power of heaven. They could only be trapped in the place and watch Hou Tu suffer.

At this critical moment, the seemingly ordinary Taishan jade pendant on Hou Tu's chest suddenly burst into dazzling light.

The jade pendant instantly turned into Mount Tai, protecting Hou Tu firmly inside it.

This Taishan jade pendant was given by Emperor Tai earlier.

At this moment, it exuded the heavy power of the earth, temporarily resisting Hongjun's attack.

However, this is just a drop in the bucket.

Hongjun is now a saint of the Heavenly Dao. Even if the Heavenly Dao behind him is slightly weaker, it cannot be stopped by Ditai's jade pendant, which is a half-step supreme being.

The shadow of Mount Tai trembled violently, letting out a wail as it could not bear the heavy burden.

The body of Hou Tu, the ancestor witch, was still cracking inch by inch, and blood was constantly oozing out, dyeing the earth red.

On her deathbed, Hou Tu took a nostalgic look at her helpless brothers and sisters in the distance, and then turned her gaze to Di Tai who was still suppressing the earth.

At this time, Di Tai had just recovered from the state of suppressing the earth and saw this scene.

"Hongjun, how dare you attack Houtu!"

Emperor Tai was furious.

He secretly thanked himself for having given the Taishan Jade Pendant to Hou Tu in advance, which gave her a chance of survival.

Hou Tu is related to the future of the tunnel, nothing can go wrong!

Without any hesitation, Di Tai took a step forward and instantly arrived in front of Hou Tu.

"Hongjun, how dare you!"

A roar, like thunder out of nowhere, resounded throughout the universe.

The power of the underground was bestowed on Di Tai, and thousands of dragon veins roared and gathered on Di Tai's fist. The golden dragon of the underground slammed into Hongjun's power of the sky.

boom!
boom!
boom!
The two forces collided, making a deafening noise.

Three earthly dragon punches shattered Hongjun's power of heaven!

Di Tai was also repelled by Hongjun's power of heaven, with golden blood left at the corner of his mouth.

This is not because Di Tai's strength has surpassed Hong Jun, but because the power used by Hong Jun comes from the Heavenly Dao of [Jun Tian]. When it reaches Di Tai's world, it is like water without a source and a tree without roots.

Although the Heavenly Dao of this world had just severed itself and had not yet fully recovered, it still instinctively weakened the power of the alien Heavenly Dao.

If the Heavenly Dao is fully restored, it will never allow other Heavenly Dao forces to invade, even if this power is divided by himself.

Hou Tu fell from the sky, and a gentle force from the earth caught her.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Di Tai nodded slightly, but did not look back, concentrating on dealing with Hongjun.

Hou Tu, who was slumped on the ground behind her, looked at Di Tai who was standing in front of her, and a strange look flashed across her face.

(End of this chapter)