Primordial Era: I really don't want to be the Heavenly Emperor!

Chapter 234 The Situation in the Primordial World, the Lich's Thoughts

Although the primordial world was not exactly peaceful and idyllic at this time, it had indeed been tranquil for tens of thousands of years. Both the Wu and Yao races, as well as the Zifu, were quietly developing their power and increasing their strength.

The entire prehistoric world appeared harmonious, but anyone with discerning eyes could see that beneath this harmony lay an even greater storm—a storm capable of sweeping across the entire prehistoric world, in which countless lives would perish.

In the celestial realm, Taiyi and the ten demon saints sat in the Sun God Temple, discussing important matters.

The only pity is that of the original ten demon saints, only four are still alive. The rest have all died in several great battles and returned to the embrace of the Great Dao, their return date unknown!

However, the number of demons is too large, so it is not difficult to gather ten demon saints. After all, the demons are still the overlords of heaven and earth, the rulers of the celestial realm and the starry sky. They are blessed with good fortune and favored by heaven and earth. Cultivation is not as difficult as in later generations, so there are naturally many experts.

"Tell me, what should we do about this situation with the human race? Should we intervene?"

Taiyi sat on the imperial throne, the sun and moon essence wheel behind him spinning, his body exuding a terrifying aura, giving off an impression that kept strangers at bay, making people tremble with fear.

The ten demon saints in the main hall looked at Taiyi with great respect, appearing extremely humble, or rather, extremely fearful, with fear outweighing respect!

After Taiyi finished speaking, the entire hall remained silent, and no one dared to discuss it casually. Only Bai Ze, the Prime Minister of Heaven, stepped forward and said:

"Your Majesty, regardless of whether this news is true or false, we should limit the development of the human race. Since the birth of the human race, in just two Yuanhui (a unit of time), it has already reached such a scale."

"In terms of population, they are almost catching up with our demon race. Although their overall strength is far inferior, the human race was created by a sage, has unlimited potential, and is also cared for by a sage. They are truly a major threat to us and we must be on guard!"

Taiyi nodded slightly on his throne. Bai Ze's words were exactly what he had in mind. He looked at the other demon saints, wanting to hear their opinions, since this was a big matter concerning the entire demon race and the Heavenly Court.

None of the other demon saints spoke first, especially the newly promoted ones. They all represented a race within the demon clan, and there were many interests and things to consider involved. Before Taiyi's purpose was clear, none of them were willing to speak.

The veteran demon saint Fei Dan stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the Purple Mansion is currently the most powerful, and we and the Witch Clan are both weak. We should not make any more enemies at this time. Moreover, the human race was created by Nuwa, and they should be our natural allies, not enemies. I urge Your Majesty and everyone to reconsider."

Fei Dan's words made sense and instantly gained the support of several demon saints. After all, using the souls and flesh of humans to refine spiritual treasures sounded unreliable. With Donghua's current strength, how could he be restrained by a mere spiritual treasure? Even innate supreme treasures don't have such power.

In the main hall, the two factions split instantly: one supporting and the other opposing. However, there was no arguing; they simply expressed their opinions and then focused their attention on Taiyi on the throne.

Taiyi looked at everyone. In fact, he didn't care about this news. Whether he could deal with Donghua, he only believed in his own strength and the Chaos Bell. He didn't care about anything else.

His real purpose was to unleash a massacre in the primordial world and increase the intensity of the Great Tribulation!

"Everyone, I will go to see the Sage Nuwa and see what her opinion is. If she does not want to get involved in the affairs of the human race, then this matter will be handled according to Prime Minister Bai Ze's wishes: restrict the development of the human race, collect their souls, refine spiritual treasures, and deal with Donghua. If the Sage Nuwa objects, then this matter will be dropped. What do you all think?"

The group exchanged glances, some clearly unwilling but also resigned, and finally stepped forward to say, "We will obey His Majesty's command!"

"Very well, then you may go and make preparations. I am going to the Chaos Primordial Heaven!"

As Taiyi left, the main hall immediately became lively, and everyone started talking and discussing among themselves.

The demon saint Fei Dan came to Bai Ze's side and said angrily, "Bai Ze, why did you make such a suggestion? Doing so will harm the demon race and the Heavenly Court. You have ulterior motives!"

Bai Ze looked at Fei Dan, sighed, and shook his head, but said nothing. Instead, he went straight out of the Temple of the Sun and headed towards his residence.

Several veteran demon saints in the main hall immediately left the hall and headed towards Bai Ze's residence.

"Brother, what are you thinking about this? You are Bai Ze, who is best at avoiding misfortune and listening to the voice of the world. Even I think something is wrong with this. How could you make such a choice?" After arriving at the mansion, Fei Dan was no longer angry as before and looked at Bai Ze calmly.

Bai Ze smiled bitterly and said helplessly, "His Majesty has already made up his mind about this matter. He had already spoken to me about it before, and although I strongly opposed it at the time, it was to no avail. In the main hall, we could only follow His Majesty's wishes!"

"But why? Why would His Majesty do this? Does he really believe that the flesh and soul of the human race can defeat Donghua? Isn't that absurd?" Shang Yang said angrily, finding it hard to understand the rationale behind such a decision.

Fei Dan shook his head and said, "His Majesty is no longer the spirited Eastern Emperor he once was. He has changed, so much so that I don't even recognize him anymore. He's so unfamiliar. Facing him is like facing a ferocious beast; it sends chills down my spine!"

"You feel that way too?"

Shang Yang stared wide-eyed at Fei Dan in disbelief, then looked at Bai Ze and Ying Zhao, only to find that they all had the same expression.

"It seems something else has really happened to His Majesty, otherwise we wouldn't all feel this way," Bai Ze sighed.

He felt that the demon race was suffering so much. He had originally been full of enthusiasm and wanted to do something for the demon race and the Heavenly Court, but the successive events that happened in the Heavenly Court made his heart turn cold again.

Fei Dan said worriedly, "Brother, we can't watch the Heavenly Court decline. If this continues, there will really be a crisis of extinction for our race. If we're not careful, the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race will cease to exist."

"The demon race and the Heavenly Court were established by us, and they grew up under our care. It hasn't been easy to get to where we are today; it's all our hard work!"

Bai Ze sighed again, as he had done many times today, his eyes filled with helplessness. He then stood up, put his hands behind his back, and gazed at the primordial land, slowly saying:

"His Majesty won't listen to my advice at all, and I've given up. Let him be. Perhaps only when the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court is destroyed will I be truly free. Being a free and unfettered auspicious beast of heaven and earth isn't so bad!"

Looking at the disheartened Bai Ze, the group felt a sharp pang in their hearts, as if a heavy hammer had struck them.

"Yes, from the day Emperor Jun passed away, the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race should have ceased to exist. It's time for us to wake up from our dream!"

Shang Yang, who was usually taciturn, suddenly spoke, and then walked out of the Bai Ze residence in a dejected manner.

He was a follower of Di Jun, having followed him since the Taiyi era, but now he was truly disheartened.

"It's time to wake up from this dream!"

After Yingzhao finished speaking, she got up and left!

Only Bai Ze and Fei Dan remained in the main hall, and the two remained silent for a long time.

Perhaps from this point on, the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race will exist in name only, and everyone will become estranged from Taiyi.

……

Buzhou Mountain, Pangu Palace!

Looking at his brothers sitting down, Dijiang felt quite helpless. The longer the Purple Mansion didn't take action, the longer the time dragged on, and the more the internal conflicts within the Witch Court gradually surfaced.

After all, the Wu tribe had a large population, and now only had territory in the north and the center. The Gonggong tribe in the north had also gradually withdrawn, so all the Wu tribe lived in the central Buzhou Mountain.

Various conflicts would erupt between the tribes. Sometimes, fights would break out over a single prey. Once, the conflict even reached the ancestral shaman, which was truly outrageous!

The purpose of this meeting was to discuss how to deal with the situation, but the meeting has been going on for a long time and no consensus has been reached.

Seeing his brothers arguing, Dijiang said impatiently, "Alright, stop arguing. Since we can't make a decision, let's see what the demon race does. If they make a move, we'll make a move too; if they don't, we won't. How about that?"

Upon hearing this, Xuanming quickly stepped forward and said, "Brother, we really can't make a move. We are different from the demon race."

"Many of our tribes have intermarried with humans, forming new tribes. We are intertwined, so how can we slaughter humans? That would truly lose the hearts of our people."

"Besides, does elder brother really believe that he can defeat Donghua with just a spiritual treasure? That's simply impossible. Don't we understand that level of power? Why would you knowingly do something that's impossible?"

Dijiang was speechless after hearing this. He never expected that his sister Xuanming would have such eloquence.

"Because we can't afford to lose. Even if there's only the slightest chance, I don't want to give up. The Witch Clan can't lose, they can't lose to anyone, not even a Saint!" Di Jiang said, his sharp gaze fixed on Xuan Ming.

However, these words not only failed to persuade Xuanming, but instead made him even more agitated.

"Why can't the Witch Clan accept defeat? When we were weak, we were oppressed by the three races, driven to our doorstep by the Western Demon Clan, and suppressed by the Demon Clan. Why can't we accept defeat? Since the Father God created the world, which race has never been defeated?"

"Besides, we are shamans, upright and honorable shamans. Why would we use such means to achieve victory? If humans truly had nothing to do with us, that would be one thing, but now many human tribes have allied with us. The bloodlines of the shaman and human races are mixed. If we slaughter humans, how will these people face us?"

At this point, Xuanming became even more agitated and roared at Dijiang, "Brother, wake up! Look at the state you've become! You're blinded by desires and obsessions, surrounded by calamity energy. You're hardly yourself anymore!"

As Xuanming finished speaking, the Pangu Palace fell into complete silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The other Ancestral Witches all looked at the two of them, but most of their gazes were fixed on Dijiang, eager to know what Dijiang's choice would be.

At this moment, Dijiang seemed to have lost all his strength, leaning back on the imperial throne, looking at Xuanming in shock, and out of the corner of his eye, he could see the expectation of his other brothers.

He felt abandoned by the whole world, and a sense of powerlessness welled up inside him.

Is this how you see me?

A hoarse, choked voice echoed in the main hall as Dijiang looked at the assembled ancestral witches.

The ancestral witches wanted to say something, but in the end they said nothing.

"Why do you think I'm fighting for this? Is it really just for that elusive position of Heavenly Emperor? Is it really just to deal with Donghua?"

"Let me tell you, you've seriously underestimated me, Dijiang. Who am I? I am the eldest son of the Father God, the first demon god born from the blood of the Father God in the world, the Ancestral Witch of Space!"

Dijiang stood up angrily, his imposing aura dominating the entire Pangu Hall. A Pangu image was faintly visible behind him, with chaos and heaven and earth evolving within it.

This shows that Dijiang has broken through to the peak of Quasi-Saint!

"Even if I were to seize the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, I would only do so through my own abilities, through the abilities of the Witch Clan, by fighting against Taiyi and Donghua!"

"Victory! The might of my Witch Court overwhelms the primordial world!"

"Defeat, and I, Dijiang, will perish!"

"Absolutely no complaints!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Rong stood up excitedly and said, "Elder brother, I..."

But before he could finish speaking, Zhu Jiuyin stopped him and asked, "Brother, since we've come this far, let me ask a few more questions."

"I don't know what you're thinking, elder brother, but we have no chance of winning against the Purple Mansion Realm right now. Why should we insist on fighting them?"

"It's not that I, Zhu Jiuyin, am afraid of death, or fear Zifu and Donghua, but it's truly not worth it. This is a war in which I cannot see victory, a war that could cause all my Wu clan warriors to perish."

"If my witch clan truly has a chance of winning, even just a slight one..."

"We opposed the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race because we couldn't stand the demon race and didn't agree with the ideals of Di Jun and Tai Yi, who wanted to rule the world with the demon race. A bunch of furry, armored beings born from eggs in the wet actually dared to covet the world created by our father god—what wishful thinking!"

"But I acknowledge the deeds of the Purple Mansion in the East and South, as well as the Eastern Hua's philosophy of establishing the heart of heaven and earth, the integration of all races, that all are one family, and that all are manifestations of the Father God. Moreover, they are indeed superior to us in every aspect, including strength, spirit, and methods. I admire them."

After Zhu Jiuyin finished speaking, he looked at Dijiang, wanting to know what the other party was thinking.

But Dijiang remained unmoved, looked at the crowd in the hall, and slowly said:

"I know many of you brothers feel the same way. We, the Witch Clan, are not afraid of death, but we don't want to die meaninglessly, we don't want to die for a war we can't win!"

At this point, Dijiang glanced at the people in the hall again. He could tell from their eyes that they all thought the same thing.

"I agree with what my second brother just said. Even if my Wu clan wins, I, Dijiang, admit that I cannot do what Donghua did. So why do I still insist on conquering the world?"

"Because we, the witch clan, have no other choice! We have no other choice!"

A sharp voice rang out in the hall, its imposing aura overwhelming the entire area, causing several ancestral witches to frown.

"Brother, why is that?" Zhu Rong asked, puzzled.

Dijiang sat down again, sighed, and said, "Because we, the people of the Wu clan, can only attain enlightenment through luck and by conquering the world. There is no other way!"

"Because we don't cultivate the primordial spirit, but only the laws and the true body, the number of great paths we can cultivate is limited. If we cultivate too many, the true body will have problems."

"My younger sister is a cautionary tale. The reason she has been unable to break through to the peak is because her true form and turbid energy have restricted her breakthrough in the Great Dao of Reincarnation. Otherwise, she would have already broken through to the peak, or even higher. Why did she only barely break through to the peak of Quasi-Saint now?"

"Therefore, if we want to attain the Dao of Hunyuan, we can only rely on the path of destiny and imperial power, and contend for supremacy in the primordial world. The rest are all dead ends and dead ends. It is too difficult to attain the Dao through a single Dao, so difficult that it leads to despair!"

Upon hearing this, the people in the hall fell silent, because they had not yet reached this level. Currently, most of their cultivation was at the mid-stage of Quasi-Saint, a time of vigorous and aggressive progress, and they had not yet experienced the feeling of difficulty in breaking through their cultivation level.

Others may not know, but Zhu Jiuyin sensed it. After breaking through to the late stage of Quasi-Saint, his cultivation had slowed down to a crawl, no longer as vigorous and aggressive as before, even when the Witch Court's fortune had not yet been lost.

At that moment, they all understood Dijiang's thoughts.

"As for why we must target the human race, it's because they are too terrifying. This acquired race, created by Nuwa and Donghua, a race that prides itself on humanity, has immense potential, especially the Three Sovereigns and the first few to be born. Each of them has potential no less than ours, and the human race also has the sage Nuwa behind them!"

"If I'm not mistaken, the human race was born to replace the witch and demon races. Donghua's ambition is truly great. He must have already reached an agreement with Nuwa, otherwise the human race would not have been born."

At this point, Dijiang sighed helplessly and said, "Moreover, just when I broke through to the peak of Quasi-Saint, I had a feeling and traveled through the long river of time and destiny, and saw that the human race occupied the prehistoric world and became the most powerful race in the world."

"Although this is only one possible scenario in the future, it indirectly shows that humanity is also our great enemy, a great enemy that has not yet grown strong. Therefore, now is the best time to destroy them!"

"This is why I am determined to settle things with the demon race and the Purple Mansion. Brothers, that's all I have to say. You decide the rest. Whether it's war or peace, I will listen to you."

After speaking, Dijiang left the Pangu Palace and walked alone on Buzhou Mountain, slowly climbing to the top and looking down at the entire prehistoric continent.

In fact, he did not tell the ancestral witches that what he saw was not only the human race dominating the prehistoric world, but also hundreds of millions of witches lying dead, and the twelve ancestral witches dying and extinct, self-destructing at Buzhou Mountain.

"How can we change all of this?"

"Donghua, are you truly invincible?"

"I don't believe it! I don't believe you have no weaknesses. A new era awaits you; then we'll see who's stronger!"

At this moment, the main hall fell into silence, and no one spoke.

"If what you say is true, then I support the battle, even if it means death and the destruction of my Dao. After all, if one cannot attain enlightenment, there is no point in remaining in this world!" After saying this, the Ancestral Witch Ru Shou left the Pangu Hall.

"Then let's fight! I, Zhu Rong, simply don't want to perish in vain, but if it concerns the attainment of Dao and the great affairs of the Wu Clan, what does it matter if I die and my Dao dissipates!"

Since the last battle, Zhu Rong has no desire to fight Zi Fu again. To be precise, he doesn't want to continue vying for supremacy with Zi Fu. It's not that he's truly afraid of Zi Fu. Now that it concerns proving his Dao, Zhu Rong has an inescapable responsibility!

Although the other Ancestral Witches did not speak, it was clear from their eyes that they had been persuaded by Dijiang and were willing to fight, even if it was a fight to the death, they were not afraid!

The hearts of the Wu tribe were once again united by Dijiang, and all of Donghua's previous efforts had been in vain.

It can't be said that it was all for nothing; after all, a seed was planted in people's hearts. As long as it's a seed, it will eventually take root and sprout.

Unless this seed is not that seed!

……

After leaving the Heavenly Realm, Taiyi headed straight for Chaos, eventually stopping outside the Tai Su Heaven, where he hesitated about whether to go find Nuwa.

Regardless of Nuwa's attitude, he was determined to slaughter the human race with overwhelming force, and no one could change that. So, his visit to Nuwa this time was merely to appease the people of Heaven, not to truly seek Nuwa's opinion. Furthermore, he had a favor to ask of Nuwa.

Just as Taiyi was about to enter Taisu Heaven, a barrier suddenly rose up, blocking his way and preventing him from entering Taisu Heaven.

Jin Feng appeared inside the barrier at some point, bowed to Taiyi, and calmly asked, "May I ask what brings the Eastern Emperor here today?"

Taiyi stood proudly in the chaos with his hands behind his back, his expression indifferent, not caring about the title of Golden Phoenix.

"I have business with the Goddess Nuwa. Go and inform her!"

Jin Feng spoke up, "Your Majesty, the Empress has gone out on business. She is neither in the Tai Su Heaven nor in the Primordial World. If you have anything to discuss, please come another day!"

Upon hearing this, Taiyi clearly did not believe it. How could Nuwa not be in the primordial world? He then shouted in a deep voice:

"Taiyi requests an audience with the Sage Goddess Nuwa!"

The sound was like the ancient sound, rising from the chaos, engulfing layers of chaotic storms, and flowing through the Tai Su Heaven.

But after a long time, Nuwa still did not appear. Taiyi frowned, the power of the Dao surged around him, the phantom of the Chaos Bell appeared, and he shouted again.

The sound resounded throughout the primordial world through the Chaos Bell, and the river of time was no exception.

But Nuwa was still nowhere to be seen!

"Nuwa is truly no longer in the primordial world!"

Taiyi was certain of this idea. If Nuwa were truly in the prehistoric world, she would surely appear before him at this time, since it was now a matter of face.

"Could it be that Nuwa foresaw the calamity that would befall humanity and escaped it in advance?"

Just as he thought of this, Taiyi shook his head. This possibility simply did not exist. Saints are indestructible, so how could the tribulations of the human race really trouble them?

"Taiyi, how dare you be so presumptuous! The Empress is not in the Primordial World, yet you dare to look down on a sage like this!" Jin Feng, who was in Tai Su Tian, ​​angrily scolded.

A spirit sword appeared in his hand without his knowledge, and he used the power of the Tai Su Tian formation to attack Tai Yi.

Taiyi glanced at them disdainfully, without even moving a hand. With just a look, all the attacks instantly turned to dust and dissipated into the chaos.

After doing all this, Taiyi left Chaos and returned to the Heavenly Court.

"Issue the order: Assemble the army and annihilate the human race!"

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