Honghuang: It makes sense that there are four Sanqing, right?

Seeing the white silk of righteousness sweeping away dust getting infinitely closer to Xu Qing, Houtu made a tough decision, gritted her teeth, and grasped the Earth Book that had been floating in the air with her fair hand.

The moment her fingers touched the Earth Book, in a trance, a thick, profound brown cloud stretched across the heavens and earth, which was the manifestation of the underground passage.

With the support of the earth's power, Houtu's aura surged, far surpassing the realm of a sage in the blink of an eye, and her strength was already approaching that of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

"Walk!"

Houtu shouted loudly, and her jade hands reached out to grab the righteous qi whisk, successfully blocking it.

Even so, though the primordial world is vast, once Hongjun holds it back, where can it escape to?

It should be understood that without achieving the Great Primordial Chaos Realm, one cannot exist in the chaos for long.

Xu Qing's face was ashen; this Naguo Guardian Jade was indeed unreliable.

Is it inevitable that I'll be captured by Hongjun this time? Or should I try my luck in the Chaos Realm?

No more hesitation, go to Chaos!

With a single slash of Xu Qing's divine spear, space shattered; with another slash, it was about to break through heaven and earth and descend into chaos.

Before Xu Qing could finish his second strike, Houtu could no longer hold on and flew backward to the side, while Hongjun's expression only changed slightly.

Even among Dao Lords, there are varying degrees of strength!

An overwhelming pressure swept over him, and Xu Qing's face turned pale; he could barely stand.

It was still too careless. Such an obvious oddity and the work of Hongjun, yet the real body still came.

Xu Qing sighed inwardly, feeling utterly helpless.

"Relax your mind!"

A thought emerged: at the critical moment, it was actually Taiyi who withstood the pressure of the Dao Lord and defied the superior!

Having perfected the laws of chaos, he directly shattered the heavens and earth, sending himself and Xu Qing into the chaos.

With a flash of dark brown light, the two disappeared from this world.

Hongjun was not annoyed at missing her. He still had that smiling look on his face, glanced at Houtu Yuanshen, and threw her into the Samsara Disc.

"Have the variables... been resolved?"

In the vast天地 (heaven and earth), Hongjun spoke to himself, but no one responded, nor was a response necessary.

……

This was the first time Xu Qing had truly experienced chaos. There was only a concept of time, but no concept of space. There was no distinction between front, back, left, or right, which made Xu Qing feel extremely strange.

In the chaos, there was no heaven and earth, and naturally no space. As soon as he entered the chaos, Xu Qing had an extremely strange feeling, as if he were with countless living beings.

This feeling is hard to describe. If I had to describe it, it would be that with the movement of a finger, he could simultaneously feel animal fur, bird feathers, human skin, fish scales, metals, stones, grasses, and trees.

Even Taiyi's clothes were among them; he could feel the dragon patterns carved with gold thread on the imperial robe.

However, perhaps seeing Xu Qing's lack of interest, Taiyi also remained silent and did not speak.

In addition, there is a concept of distance in chaos, but the distance does not come from space, but from time.

The river of time materialized in the chaos. If you take a step "forward," you don't arrive at the future, but rather at the present. If you take a step "backward," you arrive at the past.

But we can only walk along the banks of the long river of time, and cannot truly travel through time.

Normally, Xu Qing would definitely have been curious enough to experience it, but right now, he had no interest in it at all.

"Hehe, young friend, you've been silent, but you seem to be worried about Houtu."

A voice rang out. There was no space in the chaos, so it was neither a sound in one's ear nor a sound transmitted through the mind, nor a sound from the heart. It was extremely mysterious.

Xu Qing recognized the voice, or rather, he would never forget the voice for the rest of his life!

On Fangzhang Island, he had been tormented by this voice for three hundred years. Before that, Xu Qing had been in human form for countless years and had never felt that three hundred years would be so agonizing.

"Senior, what brings you here?"

Xu Qing subconsciously opened her mouth and discovered that she could actually speak, but she didn't know how she could communicate.

Yang Mei is right. Hou Tu used the Earth Book to borrow the power of the Earth Path, and her strength was not as great as when she still had her physical body. She must have been imprisoned by now.

The two Dao Lords who had the best chance of confronting Hongjun have now lost their freedom, and he himself is in the Chaos. Without Taiyi's protection, he probably will not be able to survive for long.

Xu Qing was also feeling melancholy because of this.

"Young friend, there's no need to worry. Come with me, and you too, little bird."

Since there's nothing to say, let's hear what he has to say.

The two followed Yang Mei "back" and arrived at a "secluded" place—before the creation of the world.

Walking in chaos has requirements; without mastering the laws of time, one can only reach the time of birth at most.

Only Yang Mei, born very early, was able to lead Xu Qing and Taiyi back through the long river of time to this point.

Apart from Hongjun and Yangmei, all the Chaos Gods have died, so there are only three people here now.

For example, when Xu Qing waves his hands now, he no longer feels any strange or unusual things.

"Young friend, there's no need to be so wary of me. I gave you that jade because I genuinely want to help you."

"Back then, when the power opened up the world, all three thousand demon gods died, but he also left three people behind: me, the immortal, and the demon, because we were on good terms with him."

"He wanted to create the heavens to prove the Great Dao, but in the end he failed and died on the path of seeking enlightenment. He had no regrets, but he was worried about the newly established primordial world."

"The power then entrusted the three of us to take care of the primordial world. In return, he stipulated that the Immortal Path could be in harmony with the Heavenly Path, the Demonic Path could be in harmony with the Earthly Path, and I would be in harmony with the Human Path."

"Heaven teaches and guides, earth nourishes and sustains, and humanity prospers."

"If the primordial world were prosperous enough, the two of them, by combining the Heavenly Dao and the Earthly Dao, could become the Primordial Limitless, and I, by combining the Human Dao, could become the Primordial Immeasurable, both of which would be one level higher than their original realms."

"The three of us were naturally tempted and immediately agreed. We then waited for the Primordial World to grow and prepared to enter it when it could withstand the pressure of the Primordial Grand Luo."

"But later, the two of them were dissatisfied with this allocation and both wanted to advance further. So they cut off their cultivation and entered the Primordial World as Hunyuan Golden Immortals."

"Intending to be the first to unite with the Way of Humanity, they discovered that the power had been preordained, and the two could only unite with the corresponding Way."

"Later, the two of them went their separate ways, trying to suppress the other two paths with their own and achieve immeasurable success. This is the reason for what you call the conflict between the Dao and the Demon."

"I used Yu'er as cover to send a quasi-saint realm clone into the prehistoric world to observe the heavens and earth."

"If I'm not mistaken, young friend, is it because your elder brother's soul is imprisoned and you wish to rescue him? That is why you have repeatedly tried to repair the underground passage and the human passage."

"Even if the Path of Earth and the Path of Humanity are restored, and the Path of Immortality is defeated by you, your brother's soul will ultimately be imprisoned. Aren't you afraid that he will fight to the death and shatter his soul at the last moment?"

Xu Qing remained silent. He had indeed thought about this matter, but there was no way to resolve it except to repair the humane tunnel.

"That's probably why you came out."

"Senior, what do you mean by that?"

"Heavenly Dao was unwilling to be controlled, so it used some power to separate two Jade Discs of Creation. The Law of Emotions is with you, and the Law of Chaos is with the bird."

"The laws of chaos can replace the way of earth, the laws of emotion can replace the way of humanity, and the laws of space can replace the way of heaven, thus creating a small world independent of the primordial world."

"Although it is far inferior to the primordial world, it is still an independent world. If two worlds collide, the three Dao Lords of the two worlds will have conflicting authority."

"At that time, Hongjun will have an indestructible soul for a moment, which will be your opportunity."