Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 82 Nuwa and Fuxi Descend

"This time I truly consider you an opponent of equal caliber, Brother Qingtian."

As the lingering sound faded, Zi Xiao's figure had already transformed into wisps of purple smoke and disappeared before Yang Mei's eyes. Watching Zi Xiao leave, Yang Mei frowned. The fleeting aura that had just passed through Zi Xiao's body was clearly from his true form.

Even Yang Mei felt some pressure from this aura. Just as Taiwei had told him before, although Zixiao advanced to the top-level Primordial True Saint much later than them, his strength was already close to theirs and much stronger than Tianxu.

"Does this count as raising a tiger to cause trouble? I should have just killed his physical body earlier, which would have relieved some of the pressure on you."

Yang Mei turned around and looked at the Great Dao Furnace, saying with a smile, "But I think you shouldn't care. It's just a top-level Primordial True Saint. It's not like you haven't killed one before."

The Great Dao Furnace trembled, and purple-gold Dao patterns spread across it, as if responding to Yang Mei. Upon seeing this, Yang Mei smiled, slapped his hand, and layers of spatial power intertwined into gears, shattering a dark and mysterious demonic aura.

Turning to face the black-clad, ink-haired Demon Ancestor Rahu with a gloomy expression, Yang Mei raised his white eyebrows, and the Taixu Lock, a supreme treasure of the Taixu Realm, appeared behind him.

The tangible power of spacetime slowly turned like layers of interlocking gears. Yang Mei looked at Luo Hou and said, "You arrived quite quickly. Were you in a hurry?"

With a flick of his deep, blood-red cloak, Demon Ancestor Rahu unleashed a fierce and terrifying aura of destruction, as the four deadly swords around him clanged and clashed with the relentlessly crushing gears of time and space.

Yang Mei and Luo Hou stared at each other from a distance of tens of thousands of feet. The auras on both of them began to rise infinitely. In the beginning of the creation of the world, the reason why Taiwei was locked by the Heavenly Punishment was because of the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou.

In order to deal with Taiwei, Demon Ancestor Rahu took out hundreds of fragments of the Creation Lotus he had collected and challenged Taiwei to a duel. Although Taiwei sensed something was wrong, he did not find any traps after joining forces with Fuxi, so he accepted the challenge directly.

Taiwei took out more than a hundred fragments of the Creation Lotus from his hand. The two agreed that whoever won would get these nearly three hundred fragments of the Creation Lotus, enough to refine a supreme treasure of the Void.

In the ensuing battle, Taiwei defeated the Demon Ancestor Luohou despite his own severe injuries, and even nearly killed him on the spot. However, what Taiwei did not know was that this was a trap set by Luohou.

The fragments of the Creation Lotus in their hands already account for one-ninth of the Creation Lotus in its perfect state during the Chaos Era, which is about one-fifth of all the Creation Lotus fragments that flowed into the primordial world.

These fragments of the Primordial Lotus are destined to evolve according to the Heavenly Dao. Luo Hou somehow learned of this in advance, but Taiwei did not.

So whether Luo Hou's eventual defeat was intentional or not is unknown, while the victorious Taiwei naturally wanted to refine all these fragments of the Creation Green Lotus into a supreme treasure of the Void.

However, the moment this supreme treasure of the Void took shape, the heavenly punishment arrived as scheduled. Taiwei, looking bewildered, used all his skills but was still severely injured and on the verge of death. In the end, he barely managed to save his life with the help of Yang Mei.

Only after a long period of slumber and rebuilding its foundation was it able to barely split off its own Golden Core Dao Fruit and enter the primordial world, taking the name Taiwei, to cultivate anew. It can be said that the reason why Taiwei was severely injured and on the verge of death and was sealed away until now is all thanks to the Demon Ancestor Rahu.

Taiwei wanted to return to his peak after his tribulation, but Luo Hou would not allow it. So even with Yang Mei holding the Taixu Lock blocking his way, Luo Hou still did not hesitate to take action.

The four swords of the Supreme Treasure of the Void, Zhutian, transformed into four colors of fierce light and attacked Yang Mei. The silver-white Dao light was as bright as stars. Yang Mei did not back down in the face of Luo Hou.

The Void Lock completely froze spacetime, suppressing the extremely fierce Four Heavenly Swords. The silvery-white spatial power and the dark, deep demonic energy collided millions of times in an instant, shattering the layers of void between the two.

Yang Mei and Demon Ancestor Luo Hou have similar cultivation levels and foundations. If they don't engage in a life-or-death battle, it would take at least tens of thousands of years for them to determine a winner.

Yang Mei naturally did not want to get entangled with Demon Ancestor Rahu here. Taiwei had more than just Rahu as its mortal enemy at the beginning of creation. If he was held up by Demon Ancestor Rahu here, then Taiwei would have no one to protect it.

Just as Yang Mei had guessed, at the moment when his energy clashed with Luo Hou's, Xuan Si, with a smile on his face, appeared in front of the Great Dao Furnace.

Upon sensing the Taiwei-like energy within the Great Dao Furnace, Xuan Si did not hesitate. A sharp, cold light, as swift as lightning, shot from his palm directly towards the Great Dao Furnace.

Xuan Si did not see through Tai Wei's true identity. Even though he knew that Xuan Si had little contact with Tai Wei at the beginning of the creation of the world, Tai Wei had clearly schemed to shield him from calamity. This was a cause and effect.

Xuan Si disliked being schemed against, so he came outside the Great Dao Furnace. If Tai Wei could escape with his life from this attack, then the cause and effect between him and Xuan Si would be over.

However, Taiwei's schemes were not limited to Xuan Si alone. After Xuan Si, the auras of Cang Di, Yuan Huang, and Zhu Qi also appeared in the sky. Although they did not descend in person, it was clear that they were not going to let the matter rest.

"Get out of here!"

A dazzling sword light suddenly burst forth, severing the cold light that Xuan Si had unleashed. His own divine sense was also torn apart by the extreme killing intent contained within the sword light.

Nuwa, dressed in a light green palace dress, and Fuxi, with his blue robes and black hair, and an indifferent expression, descended together. The two divine rulers, the top-level Primordial True Saints, stood on either side of the Great Dao Furnace, looking at Xuan Si, whose expression had suddenly changed.

Nuwa looked at the divine thoughts of Cangdi, Zhuqi, and Yuanhuang hovering above her. A cold light flashed in her phoenix eyes, and a bright red longsword appeared from her white, soft hand, its blade pointing directly at the divine thoughts of the three in the sky.

The pure yet icy killing intent intertwined perfectly with the sword light. Nuwa made no move, but the sharp sword light in her phoenix eyes forced the divine senses of the three royal clan leaders to feel a bone-chilling cold, and they dared not make the slightest move.

Fuxi took out four exquisite silver-white iron rods from his sleeve and casually tossed them aside. The four iron rods emitted brilliant light, and the four great Dao principles of Yin, Yang, purity, and turbidity intertwined to completely cover the Dao Furnace.

(End of this chapter)