Primordial Era: A brick knocks Hongyun unconscious, and he seizes the throne at the start.

Deep within Mount Buzhou lies an unnamed cave.

The three fragments of the God-Slaying Spear floated in mid-air, their dark, malevolent auras intertwining like tentacles, emitting a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound as they slowly pieced themselves together.

Lu Chen was covered in sweat, his hands forming hand seals. The Chaos Heaven-Opening Brick hung above his head to suppress the evil spirits, and the Three Lights Divine Water transformed into a light screen to protect his body. Even so, the wisps of evil energy that leaked out still corroded countless holes in the cave walls.

"This thing truly lives up to its reputation as a fierce and malevolent treasure of the Heavenly Dao; even the fragments are so ferocious..." Lu Chen gritted his teeth and unleashed another Heaven-Opening Merit.

The golden light of merit collided with the malevolent aura, producing a sizzling sound. The speed at which the fragments were pieced together increased slightly.

Over the past three years, he first went to the Blood Sea.

The Styx Ancestor was in seclusion, refining an avatar of the Myriad Demon Banner (Lu Chen later learned that the Styx Ancestor had cooperated with Rahu), leaving the Blood Sea's guardians vulnerable. Relying on the Chaos Brick and the Void Shadow Robe, Lu Chen infiltrated the deepest part of the Blood Sea and, right under the noses of countless Blood Gods, stole the third fragment of the God-Slaying Spear.

The price was that the Styx discovered him and chased him for three million miles. He barely managed to escape by using brick escape and a substitute puppet.

Afterwards, he hid in Buzhou Mountain, refining the Morning Bell while absorbing the inheritance of the Power Demon God.

As expected of the Chaos Bell's companion spirit treasure, the Morning Bell resonated with the Chaos Brick after being refined, and the two combined to amplify their power. Lu Chen even devised a move called "Morning Bell and Brick Combo"—the Morning Bell freezes spacetime, and the Chaos Brick smashes down, which even a mid-stage Quasi-Saint cannot withstand.

The inheritance of the Demon God of Power allowed him to make rapid progress in his understanding of the Law of Power, and his cultivation naturally broke through to the early stage of Quasi-Saint! Moreover, he was a Quasi-Saint who proved the Dao with power, with a terrifyingly solid foundation and combat power that rivaled that of the late stage of Quasi-Saint!

"Buzz—!"

The fragments of the God-Slaying Spear have finally been pieced together!

A three-foot-long, broken black spear hovered in the air. The spear was covered with cracks and half of the spearhead was missing, but the ferocious aura of slaughtering saints and destroying Buddhas made Lu Chen feel apprehensive.

"It's done! Although it's only an incomplete version, its power should be no less than that of a supreme innate treasure!" Lu Chen was overjoyed and reached out to grasp the gun barrel.

It was icy cold to the touch, and a fierce aura rushed up his arm and into his mind, but he forcibly suppressed it with the law of power.

"Good gun! Let's call you 'Godslayer Spear'. Once we find the last fragment to complete it, we'll restore its legendary name!"

He was about to store the broken spear in his dantian and nurture it—

"BOOM!!!"

The entire Buzhou Mountain suddenly trembled violently! Rocks collapsed and the earth's veins churned!

Immediately afterwards, a vast and imposing pressure descended, enveloping an area of ​​hundreds of millions of miles around Mount Buzhou!

"Lu Chen, you little thief! Get out here—!!!"

The roar of the Styx Ancestor resounded throughout the heavens and earth, and the phantom of the blood sea condensed above Mount Buzhou. Hundreds of millions of Blood God Sons roared, dyeing half the sky blood-red!

"And my demon race! Lu Chen, the grudge for stealing the treasure will be settled today!" Donghuang Taiyi's voice followed closely behind, and the phantom of the Chaos Bell appeared, its sound shaking the primordial world!

What made Lu Chen's scalp tingle even more was that a third voice came from the west—

"Amitabha... Benefactor Lu Chen, you stole the most precious treasure of my Western Sect and caused my fellow disciples to be reincarnated. This karmic debt should be settled."

Jieyin and Zhunti? No, these are their new incarnations! Their auras have actually recovered to the early stage of Quasi-Saints, and they are filled with rich golden light of merit, clearly indicating that they have obtained a great opportunity!

"Three Quasi-Saints... no, four!" Lu Chen scanned the sea of ​​blood with his divine sense and discovered that there was also a hidden demonic aura hidden in the sea of ​​blood—Rahu's clone had also arrived!

He's surrounded!

"How did these guys find me?!" Lu Chen instantly realized, "The murderous aura from when the God-Slaying Spear was assembled gave away my location!"

Great!

"escape!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Chen put away the God-Slaying Spear, activated his full Brick Escape Technique, and rushed towards the depths of Buzhou Mountain—that was the territory of the Witch Clan, where he might be able to use their power to maneuver.

But as soon as he rushed out of the cave, four attacks arrived!

A sea of ​​blood surges to the heavens! The tolling of bells destroys the world! Buddha's light brings salvation! Demonic claws tear the sky apart!

The combined attack of the four Quasi-Saints was enough to shatter a section of Mount Buzhou!

"I can't stop it!" Lu Chen's face turned pale, and he instantly unleashed all his defenses: the three sides of the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner (a replica) appeared simultaneously, the five pieces of the Eight Trigrams Purple Ribbon Immortal Robe were stacked on top of each other, the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover protected his body twice, and he even held the Chaos Brick in front of him.

"boom--!!!"

Crashed!

Lu Chen shot backward like a meteor, crashing through seven mountain peaks before finally plunging thousands of feet into the ground. All his defensive magical artifacts shattered, cracks appeared on the surface of the Chaos Brick, blood flowed from his seven orifices, and almost all of his internal organs shifted.

"Not dead?!" Styx exclaimed in shock and anger. "That little thief's shell is really hard!"

"Chase!" Taiyi charged down first.

Lu Chen crawled out from underground, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, his eyes fierce.

"Want to kill me? Then don't blame me for rigging this!"

He took out something—the Phantom Pearl, which he had taken from the Treasure Sharing Cliff.

Crush it in one swipe!

Nine identical phantom clones of him appeared, fleeing in nine different directions. Each clone carried a trace of his aura and deliberately revealed the fluctuations of different treasures:

The first clone carried a strong aura of Chaos Bell (Morning Bell disguise).

The second clone exuded the ferocity of a god-slaying spear.

The third clone exuded the Daoist aura of primordial purple energy.

The fourth clone possesses the flames of the karmic fire red lotus.

The fifth clone is the force field of the Demon God of Power.

……

Nine clones, nine kinds of bait!

"Split up and chase them!" Styx, Taiyi, and the reincarnations of Jieyin and Zhunti immediately dispersed.

But Rahu's clone didn't move. Its crimson demonic eyes swept across the entire area, and it suddenly sneered, "A mere trick. The real body is over here!"

His demonic claws tore towards the direction where Lu Chen's true form was hidden—a crack three hundred feet underground!

Lu Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he activated his Brick Escape technique again, bursting out of the ground.

"You can't escape!" Rahu's clone chased after him, its speed even faster than the Brick Escape technique!

Seeing that he was about to be caught up, Lu Chen gritted his teeth, took out a Heaven-Escape Talisman, and crushed it.

"Whoosh!"

Randomly teleported 100,000 miles.

They appeared in an unfamiliar valley.

Before he could even catch his breath, his divine sense detected four auras approaching from different directions—the other side had a tracking technique!

"Since we can't get rid of them, let's shift the blame!" A ruthless glint flashed in Lu Chen's eyes.

He rushed toward the nearest aura—the direction from which the reincarnation of Jieyin and Zhunti had come!

Three breaths later, the two sides met in the sky above the valley.

"Lu Chen, surrender!" Jieyin (reincarnation) held a vajra pestle, and Zhunti (reincarnation) held a bodhi branch. The two were covered in golden light of merit, which had a faint effect of restraining the demonic path.

"Hey you two, I have a big gift for you!" Lu Chen grinned and suddenly tossed something to Jieyin.

That was a black token—the Demon Abyss Token!

Jieyin instinctively caught the token, and the instant it touched his hand, a torrent of demonic energy erupted, enveloping him entirely! Furthermore, a mark of Rahu emerged from it, drilling into Jieyin's brow!

"This is... the Demon Ancestor's contract?!" Jieyin screamed, "You've ruined me—!"

The Demon Abyss Token was given to Lu Chen by Luo Hou, and it contains a demonic contract. Whoever accepts it will form a karmic bond with Luo Hou. Lu Chen has never dared to use it, and now he can conveniently shift the blame!

"Senior brother!" Zhunti exclaimed in surprise, and was about to help.

Lu Chen, however, had already turned and rushed in the second direction—Taiyi!

"Donghuang, here you go!" He tossed something over.

It is a fragment of a Chaos Bell (simulated using a morning bell)!

Taiyi's pupils shrank sharply: "A fragment of the Chaos Bell? Where did you get it?!" He instinctively reached out to catch it.

In the instant he was distracted, Lu Chen used his third item—a drop of essence blood exuding the aura of the River Styx (which he had casually retrieved from the Sea of ​​Blood), which he shot towards the distant River Styx!

"Minghe, how did your essence blood end up in Taiyi's hands?!" Lu Chen roared.

Upon hearing this, Styx scanned the area with his divine sense and indeed sensed his own essence blood's aura in Taiyi's direction. He immediately flew into a rage: "Taiyi! How dare you scheme against me?!"

Before Taiyi could react, the sea of ​​blood from the Styx River surged toward him!

"Styx, are you insane?!" Taiyi roared, and the Chaos Bell met the attack.

The two quasi-saints are fighting!

Taking advantage of the chaos, Lu Chen rushed towards the last direction—the clone of Rahu.

"Demon Ancestor, accept this great gift!" He tossed out the last item.

A photographic stone containing images of the reincarnation of Jieyin Zhunti secretly contacting the Demon Abyss (photographed by Yan Chen at Lu Chen's behest, half real and half fake)!

Rahu's avatar caught the recording stone, swept it with his divine sense, and roared in fury: "Jieyin and Zhunti! How dare you betray me and secretly collude with Hongjun?!"

He abandoned Lu Chen and charged towards Jieyin Zhunti!

Thus, all four Quasi-Saints were successfully framed by Lu Chen and plunged into a chaotic battle:

Styx vs. Taiyi (due to a misunderstanding involving blood essence).

Rahu's clone vs. Jieyin and Zhunti (due to the provocation of the image stone).

Lu Chen himself, on the other hand, used the last Heaven-Escape Talisman to slip away silently.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to use his voice-changing technique to imitate Rahu's voice and shout to Styx, "Fellow Daoist Styx, Taiyi has joined forces with Hongjun to destroy the Blood Sea and seize your Karmic Fire Red Lotus!"

Then, imitating Taiyi's voice, he shouted to Rahu, "Demon Ancestor, Jieyin and Zhunti are spies sent by the Dao Ancestor! Kill them quickly!"

Then, mimicking the voice of the guide, he cried out to Taiyi, "Your Majesty the Eastern Emperor, the Styx River and Rahu are colluding to overthrow the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race!"

Finally, he imitated the voice of the River Styx, laughing maniacally: "Hahaha, today you will all die!"

Four sentences, four directions, completely muddied the waters.

When Lu Chen had traveled a million miles away and looked back, the area around Buzhou Mountain was already in chaos, with the sky and earth shattering. Blood seas, bell tolls, demonic energy, and Buddhist light were all locked in a fierce battle, and it was estimated that it would take at least ten days to half a month to determine the outcome.

"Perfect." Lu Chen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and swallowed a healing pill.

He's in a bad state right now and needs to find a safe place to heal.

"Go to Wuzhuang Temple? No way, too obvious. Go to Demon Abyss? Even worse. The Witch Clan... Oh right, the Ancestral Witch Houtu owes me a favor."

Lu Chen changed direction and flew towards the ancestral land of the Wu tribe at Buzhou Mountain.

Although he narrowly escaped death this time, he gained a great deal: he forged the God-Slaying Spear, broke through to the Quasi-Saint level, and successfully made his four powerful enemies fight each other.

"Once I've recovered from my injuries, I should go to the Demon Abyss to destroy the Myriad Demon Banner... There are only three months left of the three-year period given by the Dao Ancestor."

His eyes flickered.

"However, before heading to the Abyss of Demons, I must first thoroughly refine the Morning Bell and the God-Slaying Spear, and then comprehend several of the Demon God's killing moves..."

"Rahu, just you wait. I'm taking your Ten Thousand Demon Banner!"

The figure disappeared into the horizon.

The chaotic battle at Buzhou Mountain intensified.

This "Four Saints' Battle," orchestrated by Lu Chen, will completely alter the landscape of the prehistoric world—the demon race will become enemies with the Blood Sea, the demonic path will turn against the Western Religion, and the witch race will reap the benefits.

But what no one knew was that deep within the chaos, the Dao Ancestor Hongjun was watching all this through the water mirror, a meaningful smile on his face.

"This kid... he's quite the troublemaker."

"Rahu, it seems your Ten Thousand Demon Banner is doomed."

The Taoist patriarch lightly swept his whisk, and the water mirror dispersed.

The primordial chess game is developing in a direction that no one can predict, thanks to the crazy actions of a certain sixth brother.