Chapter 679

He looked at the two of them, "It seems you can't give me anything, this is troublesome. My Dao arts aren't just picked up randomly, you're not my disciples, if you don't give me some benefit, how could I possibly give you my Dao arts?"

However, the two did not leave ashamedly, and even lacked an ashamed expression.

Ye Qin instantly understood; these two probably wanted to forcibly seize his method to open up the world.

"Venerable Ye, we're all seeking to prove the Dao, so we can only say sorry!" Hongjun lifted his head to look at Ye Qin, his gaze growing colder; at the same time, the Creation Jade Disc appeared above his head.

Yangmei Laozu didn't waste a word, directly spitting out the Chaos Pearl, which began to slowly rotate around him.

Ye Qin watched this scene, shook his head, "Why go to such lengths? Hongjun, you've personally seen my trump card, so how dare you act so arrogantly?"

Yangmei Laozu laughed, "Pangu is dead; even if you could summon a strike from his prime, what then? Do you really think we chaos demon gods are vegetarians?"

"Back then we could escape from Pangu's hands; naturally we can do so now!"

"Moreover, the last time Pangu's remnant soul was completely exhausted; I'm curious, even if you summon the power of a strike from his prime, how much of his strength could you exert?"

Ye Qin laughed, "After all that, you still lack confidence. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't be saying all this nonsense."

"However, since you want to know how much of Pangu's prime strength I can display, I'll show you!"

Ye Qin stood suspended in the air, said to Hongjun and Yangmei Laozu, "Let's go; the Honghuang pattern is too small, let's fight in the Chaos Space."

Having said that, Ye Qin first flew toward the Chaos Space.

Hongjun and Yangmei Laozu exchanged a glance, closely followed Ye Qin, and the three arrived together in the Chaos Space.

Instantly, the entire Chaos Space fell into chaos again!

"Ye Qin! I'm here!"

Ye Qin turned his head, saw Houtu rushing over from her seclusion, a faint smile appeared on his face, "You watch from the side; I'll fight them first, if I truly can't win, you come help me."

To be honest, Ye Qin himself didn't know if he could handle two opponents.

He turned around, quickly chanting the Chaos Secret Language, while his primordial spirit formed a Dao seal; the Thirty-six Grade Chaos Azure Lotus flew out from his body, a terrifying aura surged out and swiftly transferred into Ye Qin's body.

Ye Qin's aura grew stronger and stronger until it reached a heaven‑destroying, earth‑annihilating degree; his flesh began to swell, reaching the size of Pangu before he created heaven and earth, after which Pangu's Axe appeared in his hand.

"This axe, I hope you can withstand it!"

Having said that, Ye Qin raised his Pangu Axe, and instantly a terrifying killing intent locked onto Hongjun and Yangmei Laozu.

Boom!

Ye Qin swung the Pangu Axe; the axe‑light shot like lightning toward Hongjun and Yangmei Laozu, that locking killing intent left them nowhere to escape, unable to dodge!

Their expressions grew solemn; Yangmei Laozu's eyes even showed a hint of regret. But it was too late; they could only hard‑block this strike!

Patriarch Hongjun's Creation Jade Disc spun rapidly above his head, shedding ring after ring of mysterious white light; while Yangmei Laozu's Chaos Pearl orbited around him, appearing and disappearing intermittently, elusive.

Boom!!!

The axe‑light split in two, each shooting toward the two chaos demon gods at the peak of the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. They gritted their teeth, activating their respective chaos supreme treasures, desperately resisting this axe‑light!

Afterwards, the axe‑light dissipated; at the same time, the two figures vanished!

They ultimately managed to block this strike, but the price was that they had to flee far away to dispel the power of Ye Qin's axe!

At this moment, Ye Qin's flesh had returned to normal, but the mana of Pangu's prime had vanished without a trace……

However, Ye Qin had no intention of letting them go; he stepped forward and closely tailed the two.

Others have already come knocking; how could he merely repel the enemy and call it a day?

Thus, without a word, he matched their speed and swung his Pangu Axe again with fierce force.

After Hongjun and Yangmei took Ye Qin's axe head‑on, they each suffered internal injuries of varying degrees; at this point, what they needed most was to find a safe place to recuperate.

But Ye Qin pursued relentlessly, never letting go, occasionally swinging his Pangu Axe to attack; they could only fend off his assaults while fleeing in a sorry state.

Madman! Yangmei Laozu only now recalled his earlier evaluation of Ye Qin. This Ye Qin is simply a downright lunatic!

"Yangmei fellow Daoist, hold on! We'll heal while we flee; once our injuries recover, we'll join forces to deal with him!" Hongjun said.

Yangmei Laozu could only nod. All this was still within their plan. They estimated Ye Qin had a trump card, which they had now witnessed; how many more times could that trump card be used?

Hongjun told him, Ye Qin could still use it at most twice. Once they fled far enough and their injuries healed, they would then exhaust Ye Qin's final opportunity, at which point they could truly gain the upper hand!

But this Ye Qin is truly a lunatic! His posture bent on driving them to death is fiercer and more troublesome than Pangu back then!

Back then Pangu only had the Power Dao principle; Yangmei relied on the Space Dao principle to escape a calamity. But now facing Ye Qin, he has nowhere to flee, for Ye Qin not only masters the Power Dao principle, he is also versed in the Space Dao principle!

During the flight, Yangmei Laozu recalled the words he had once used to persuade Ye Qin; upon remembering, his old face flushed red.

Back then he considered himself superior, teaching Ye Qin from the standpoint of an experienced one, saying that one should specialize in a Dao principle, cultivating to its extreme was enough.

Yet Ye Qin made him understand what genius is, what cultivating multiple Dao principles together entails, and that even in the comprehension of a single Dao principle he could stand shoulder‑to‑shoulder with those chaos demon gods.

"Ye Qin, chasing us like this won't kill us. Why don't you just tell us the method to open up the world? We can swear, as long as this Dao law of opening up the world." Patriarch Hongjun advised while fleeing. He thought Ye Qin's advantage was gradually fading, soon his and Old Ancestor Yangmei's advantage would become apparent. Because in this flight, Ye Qin basically had no chance to summon the combat power of Pangu's prime.

Because that requires time, although the time is short, that bit of time is enough for them to flee to a place where Ye Qin cannot find them.

Ye Qin let out a cold snort, the Pangu axe in his hand continuously swung, the axe light incessantly slashing toward Hongjun and Yangmei. He cared for nothing else, just wanted to chase and hack these two!

He wanted these two demigods to flee like bereaved dogs, thereby humiliating them and venting his dissatisfaction.

These two actually dared to join forces to demand from him the method to open up the world, and moreover they came hard. Today he will make Hongjun and Yangmei know just who is stronger!

At the same time, he realized he had been gradually approaching these two. Although this closing of distance was very slow, roughly it took about a year to close one meter.

He glanced at the distance between himself and the two, about twenty meters. As long as he could close it to ten meters, he could make them look bad!

Because he also mastered the spatial Dao. As his cultivation level broke through to the mid-stage of the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm, if he now exerted the spatial Dao to the fullest, he could cause time to stand still within a ten-meter radius centered on himself!

That is to say, when the distance between him and Yangmei and Hongjun is only ten meters, he can make time stand still for an instant. In that instant, he can use the last opportunity to summon the strength of Pangu's heyday, then heavily wound these two in one blow!

Of course, he definitely couldn't kill them. After all, before Pangu created heaven and earth, they were able to escape from Pangu's hands, which shows they have the ability. But heavily wounding them is certain!

These two actually wanted to join forces to threaten him, wanting him to compromise and then obtain his method to open up the world. So don't blame him for being ruthless!

One year passed, two years passed…… all the way until ten years passed. The distance between him and the two also grew ever closer.

From the initial twenty-meter distance, to later nineteen meters, eighteen meters…… up to the current ten-meter distance. To be safe, Ye Qin chased for an extra year, pulling the distance with Hongjun and Old Ancestor Yangmei down to nine meters!

At this very moment! Ye Qin glared with both eyes, and time instantly stood still!

Patriarch Hongjun's and Old Ancestor Yangmei's bodies froze in place!

Ye Qin wasted not a single moment. He chanted the Chaos Mantra in his mouth, and his primordial spirit condensed the Dao Seal. Finally, at the moment when time's stasis ended and Hongjun and Yangmei were able to move again, he once again obtained the combat power of Pangu at his peak.

Ye Qin brandished the Pangu Axe! The axe's light had completely locked onto the two's qi mechanism.

At this moment, Yangmei Old Ancestor and Hongjun Patriarch's faces changed drastically, their eyes even filled with despair. They never expected that Ye Qin had been scheming against them, pursuing them for eleven full years, and plotting against them for eleven full years of time!

What immense hatred is this? Both hearts were filled with bitterness. Old wounds not yet healed, and now they must add new injuries!

Ye Qin's this axe, they must block. For no matter how they flee, they cannot outrun the speed of the axe's light. For this is equivalent to Pangu swinging the axe's light at them; although this axe possesses only six‑sevenths of the power of Pangu's swing, it is still not something they can afford to disregard.

Unable to escape, then receive the attack! The two exchanged a glance, each activating their own Chaos Supreme Treasure. To prevent Ye Qin from pursuing them again after they were injured, they fled while preparing to block this axe light.

But Ye Qin, seeing this scene, stopped his steps and ceased pursuit.

Pfft!!! Pfft!!!

Under his gaze, Hongjun Patriarch and Yangmei Old Ancestor were both heavily wounded by the axe light, their realm dropping by one minor stage, falling from the peak of the Primordial Luo Golden Immortal realm to the late stage of the Primordial Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Then, the two fled like bereaved dogs, disappearing from Ye Qin's sight. He turned and left.

He had pursued Hongjun and Yangmei Old Ancestor for eleven years in this Chaos Space, and throughout those eleven years he had been giving chase with all his strength. Thus, at this moment he is already extremely distant from the Honghuang World; even rushing at full speed would take eleven years to return to Honghuang.

After a brief rest, Ye Qin set out on the road. Finally, after twenty‑two years of leaving the Honghuang World, he returned to the Honghuang World.

Then, a flash of killing intent appeared in his eyes. From today onward, the Honghuang World will have no lineage of Hongjun and Yangmei! He will completely erase their traces! This is their fate for provoking him.

Returning to Penglai Immortal Island, Ye Qin immediately summoned Laozi and Nether River, etc., temporarily entrusting them with the God‑Slaying Spear and the Execution Immortal Sword Formation, ordering them to go and unify Kunlun and the Heavenly Court.

Laozi's face showed hesitation, and he finally asked: "Heavenly Venerable, what about Hongjun Patriarch and Yangmei Old Ancestor..."

Ye Qin said indifferently: "From now on, there will be no names of Hongjun and Yangmei in the Honghuang World!"

Upon hearing this, Laozi and Nether River exchanged a glance, both seeing shock in each other's eyes.

What this means, the two understood implicitly!

It meant that those two had either perished or, defeated, dared not return to Honghuang.

The latter possibility is greater.

But regardless of which case, they understood: Honghuang — the heavens have changed!!!

Ye Qin issued a strict order: everything related to Hongjun and Yangmei must be erased.

Even those who have cultivated the Three Corpses Slaying Method must swear an oath never to mention Hongjun and Yangmei again.

In an instant, Honghuang stirred up a great wave, and the tripartite stance came to an end.

Within Honghuang, only the voice of the Way of the Cut remains!

Above Honghuang, only Ye Heavenly Venerable is supreme!

At this moment, Ye Qin was gazing toward the direction of the Heavenly Court.

Laozi, holding the God‑Slaying Spear, personally appeared at the Heavenly Court, opening with: "By the command of Ye Heavenly Venerable, the Heavenly Court shall henceforth submit to Penglai Island! Will you not quickly surrender?!"

Haotian and Yaochi, however, regarded him coldly: "Laozi! You traitor, thinking that by relying on Penglai Island, my Zixiao Palace lineage can do nothing to you?"

"Just wait, when Hongjun Patriarch returns, knowing you have rebelled against the Heavenly Court, even if you flee to Penglai Island, the Patriarch will surely take your life!"

Laozi gazed at Haotian and Yaochi; these two are truly pitiful, still kept in the dark to this day, unaware that their master Hongjun can no longer return to Honghuang.

He said no more, brandished the God‑Slaying Spear, quickly wounded Haotian and Yaochi severely, and had his subordinates bring them back to Penglai.

Afterwards, he turned toward the abode of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

The Primordial Heavenly Venerable, after Laozi defected to Penglai, then suffered a crushing defeat at the Human Ancestor Mountain, thereafter became obedient and hid at Laozi's Shouyang Mountain.

Laozi ascended Shouyang, looking toward the Jade Void Palace atop the summit where Yuanshi resided; Yuanshi dared not step half a step out of the Jade Void Palace's gate.

Yet Yuanshi had not expected that he was still on the list to be settled.

Laozi slowly approached the Jade Void Palace; Yuanshi gazed at him, and the two remained silent for a long time.

In the end, Yuanshi gave a bitter laugh: "Elder Brother, you still have foresight."

Laozi nodded: "Your mind is narrow, and you lack vision."

Yuanshi fell silent; who could have imagined that the former junior would actually grow to this extent?

"Surrender, for I act by the Heavenly Venerable's order to eradicate all of Hongjun's forces, and you are included among them."

Yuanshi heard these words and recalled that over twenty years ago, Hongjun had joined forces with Yangmei to seek Ye Heavenly Venerable; back then he had been excited, thinking that Ye Heavenly Venerable would lose, allowing him to vent his frustrations.

But he did not expect that what awaited was Ye Heavenly Venerable's triumphant return; Yuanshi gazed at Laozi and said: "Elder Brother, tell me truly, how did Hongjun Patriarch fare?"

"From now on, Honghuang will have no more Hongjun and Yangmei."

Yuanshi's body trembled, as if losing his last support, he collapsed onto the ground, filled with disbelief.

"I……" Yuanshi was shocked to the extreme, at this point unable to speak.

"Come, I will personally send you back to Penglai; if it were someone else, you would surely suffer hardships along the way."

Yuanshi came to his senses, knelt on the ground, crawled to Laozi's feet, and clung to his legs: "Elder Brother, save me; we are brothers, you cannot send me to Penglai, for if I go…… I will lose my life."

I gazed at Yuanshi complexly: "If I had known it would be like this, why bother in the first place?" (End of chapter)