Chapter 700

Ye Qin is well-versed and perceptive, and at a glance he saw what made Hou Tu different.

"Fellow Daoist Ye Qin truly has piercing eyes—Hou Tu is the strategist of our Witch Clan, our advisor, just like Zhu Jiuyin, both are the most important figures of our Witch Clan." Emperor Jiang praised.

"By the way, where did Fellow Daoist Zhu Jiu go?"

"Hehe, since Bai Qi is your disciple, Fellow Daoist, he must know what happened recently. The backlash of the Time Divine Ability is too strong; Zhu Jiuyin is now fully repairing his soul wounds." Emperor Jiang explained, then looked at the fiercely battling Zhurong, Bai Qi, and others, saying: "Fellow Daoist Ye Qin, can you get them to stop?"

"Let them keep fighting—no one will die."

Emperor Jiang gave a helpless wry smile, his understanding of Ye Qin deepening somewhat.

Time flowed slowly, and the Land of Divine Grace gradually regained tranquility.

Not far from Buzhou Mountain lies a vast expanse of land. On this land, mountain ranges undulate, forests are dense and deep, killing intent permeates the air, shooting straight to the heavens. This is the territory of the Witch Clan, also their awakening ground, shrouded within the Primordial Heavenly Slaughter Formation.

At this moment, two figures appeared at the edge of the great mountain.

"Fellow Daoist Ye Qin, farewell then. Though our Witch Clan is warlike, we are utterly sincere to our friends, with deep affection. From now on, Sister Nü Huang will be our sister by blood, Bai Qi and Long Xiang will also be our brothers in the Witch Clan." Hou Tu said softly.

"Farewell, Fellow Daoist Hou Tu! Through calculating the heavenly secrets, I know your Witch Clan is about to face a great calamity. If you overcome it, you will rise swiftly to prominence, becoming a great clan of Honghuang; if you fail, it will be a heavenly upheaval, and the Witch Clan may well fall." Ye Qin said solemnly.

This is no alarmist talk by Ye Qin, but after arriving at the Witch Clan's ancestral land, he truly sensed the dense calamitous qi, whose source is precisely that mysterious palace within the ancestral land.

Ye Qin knew that was Pangu's Palace, yet he did not enter it. First, Pangu's Palace strongly rejects non-Witch Clan individuals, making it hard for outsiders to enter; second, at that time he had not yet comprehended other primordial paths. For these reasons, he left Bai Qi and Bai Yu Longxiang in place and himself set out on the path of continued cultivation.

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At the summit of Buzhou Mountain exists a mysterious space. This space consists of thirty-three layers in total, each permeated with a special aura. This aura is extremely mysterious, carrying a semblance of the "immortal" essence, as if there is a noble feeling lofty above all worldly beings.

Within this thirty-three-layer space stands a palace. Inside the palace, countless fairies come and go amidst the misty, immortal qi, like a dream, like an illusion.

At this moment, two men and two women walked out of the palace. The male has extraordinarily handsome features, naturally exuding a sovereign's majestic aura between his brows; the female is beautiful and moving, pure and noble, possessing a holy radiance like the bright moon, also combined with the pure sanctity of moonlight.

"Please, Fellow Daoist Changxi!"

"Please, Fellow Daoist Xiyue!"

"Senior Sister, this place is truly beautiful! Look, there's actually a staircase leading straight to the sun star over there!" said a girl with brown curly hair and green eyes excitedly.

"Xiyue, what's fun about this place? In my opinion, it's still not as good as our Guanghan Palace. Though this place is large, it lacks even a trace of sentient life's aura. Look down below—there are still thirty-two layers of space, all empty." The girl radiating a cold, pure sanctity replied disdainfully.

"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Changxi is absolutely right—this place is indeed too desolate. However, I, Emperor Jun, firmly believe that one day this will become the core stronghold of our Monster Clan. Only, our master said the time has not yet ripened; otherwise, we would have long gone to subdue numerous great demons and strengthen our Monster Clan's power."

"Exactly—when that time comes, the elder brother becomes the Monster Emperor, and I will become the Eastern Emperor, determined to control this heaven and earth!"

In the midst of their words, a powerful sovereign aura emanated from these two men, spreading in all directions.

Originally, these two couples are Emperor Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, Changxi, and Artemis. Now Artemis has already taken the Moon God Wang Shu as her master, changed her name to Xiyue. This name implies a crescent moon, which harmonizes well with the great path she cultivates.

Back then, the Red Bright Dao Patriarch invited the Moon God Wang Shu to come here to discuss the Dao. Emperor Jun and Donghuang Taiyi were fortunate to see Wang Shu's two disciples, and were instantly astonished. Especially the aura they emitted, which harmonized with their own yin and yang, made Emperor Jun and Donghuang Taiyi's hearts flutter. Thus, from then on, Emperor Jun and Donghuang Taiyi have persistently pursued Changxi and Xiyue. This time, they obtained a spiritual root and specially invited Changxi and Xiyue to come together to admire it.

"Hehehe, your ambitions are truly not small! Carefree Wanderer Brother once said, those with great ambitions often die young." Xiyue covered her mouth and laughed lightly.

"Hahaha, Fellow Daoist Ye Qin really loves to joke. He has a body full of powerful cultivation but doesn't know how to build forces or dominate Honghuang. What use is such high cultivation? Better to just hide in his cave dwelling and seclude himself in cultivation." Donghuang Taiyi said indifferently.

Not long after, their party arrived at a mountain valley. Below the valley is a pool of true solar fire, with the sun star in the sky continuously pouring down countless true solar fires, which fall into the pool.

"This is the Solar Pool, the pool entirely filled with liquid true fire refined from solar true fire. Do you see that small sapling in the middle of the pool? That is the Fusang tree bestowed upon us by our master. Once it grows, it will surely be able to bear the civilization inheritance of our Monster Clan!" Emperor Jun introduced proudly.

"What's so great about just one small sapling? Not even comparable to the laurel tree on our moon star! Xiyue, let's go!" Changxi urged impatiently.

"This Emperor Jun and Donghuang Taiyi are too childish, treating such a small sapling as a treasure—truly they've seen little of the world. If it weren't for the master saying I and this Emperor Jun share innate causality, I wouldn't have come!" Changxi muttered silently in her heart.

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At the peak of Buzhou Mountain, there is a special dimensional isolation zone, where twelve dimensional spaces exist—the birthplace of the primordial source of Honghuang heaven and earth. Here, Pangu's will is extremely strong, permeating every inch of space.

Ye Qin quietly appeared here, his posture graceful, calmly resisting the pressure of Pangu's will. Fortunately, he cultivates the Carefree Wanderer's Supreme Dao, enabling him to maneuver flexibly within this storm-like Pangu will without being completely suppressed.

"Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, rain, thunder, electricity, qi, time, and space—these are the twelve primordial sources of Honghuang heaven and earth. These twelve primordial source spaces are layered and nested. To enter the next layer, one must start from the first layer, break through layer by layer, step by step. My Carefree Wanderer realm's five primordial source realms have already been opened; I imagine passing through these five primordial source spaces should not be too difficult—the key lies in the later primordial source spaces."

Ye Qin gazed upon this vast and mysterious twelve primordial source space, and couldn't help but feel moved. He suddenly realized that his Carefree Wanderer realm's five primordial source realm, compared to this, is truly too minuscule—probably not even one ten-thousandth of it.

Not long after, Ye Qin, relying on his own insight, successfully comprehended the five primordial sources.

As his understanding of the five primordial sources deepened, the five-petal wheel in the Carefree Wanderer realm became more complete, and the Five-Colored Flower of Creation blossomed with vibrant life, continuously generating streams of creative qi, filling the entire Carefree Wanderer realm with vibrant vitality and energy.

Next, Ye Qin entered the wind primordial source space.

Here, wild winds rage—gales, storms, tornadoes… all wind forms from nature are present. The entire space is azure, with gusts mixed with bursts of tremendous tearing force. As a primordial source land, it contains the immense vital energy source of Honghuang heaven and earth, and with Pangu's will integrated within, the power here becomes even greater and more violent.

Since Ye Qin had already comprehended the five primordial sources earlier, during the five-petal dimensional space, he felt the five-petal qi was extremely gentle.

However, at this moment, he truly felt what violent power is.

Powerful gales like countless blades instantly tore his body apart, bones clearly visible, blood vessels exposed all over.

Yet Ye Qin did not retreat; he circulated his bloodline power, quickly repairing his injured body. At the same time, he deployed the Soul Divine Ability—Breaking Law Divine Eye, focusing entirely on comprehending the great Dao of the wind primordial source.

Wind, free and unbound, everywhere. It can be as gentle as a breeze caressing, or as violent as a storm sweeping across.

As Ye Qin's body was repaired time and again, his physique gradually became light, as if able to merge with the omnipresent gales, flying freely up and down in the wind.

This is a wonderful sensation of qi perception. Deep in his soul, gradually a bit of azure runes condensed and formed. Once these runes appeared, they triggered gusts of wind in the Carefree Wanderer realm.

At this moment, a great cauldron appeared in the Carefree Wanderer realm, its might astonishing, instantly suppressing the entire heaven and earth.

No matter how those azure runes wildly disturbed the yin-yang order in the sky, the great cauldron remained as stable as Mount Tai.

The heavenly Dao of the Carefree Wanderer realm rapidly formed a heavenly Dao net, beginning to absorb these wind primordial source runes. Gradually, an azure chain penetrated heaven and earth, slowly taking shape in the Carefree Wanderer realm.

After an unknown time, the Carefree Wanderer realm suddenly underwent a violent tremor. All azure runes rapidly gathered together, then voraciously absorbed the surrounding vital energy. With a tremendous boom, a dimensional blade capable of cleaving space appeared out of nowhere, successfully opening a new space in the Carefree Wanderer realm.

"Wind belongs to wood—this is the wind primordial source realm, accomplished!"

A mysterious voice echoed in Ye Qin's heart. The dimensional blade finally succeeded in opening a small space, where countless wind primordial source powers began to gather and form.

The opening of the wind primordial source realm brought many benefits to the Carefree Wanderer realm. With the existence of natural wind, the vital energy in the Carefree Wanderer realm can flow more smoothly, and the light of life can be more evenly spread across the entire land.

A hundred years of time, to the vast Honghuang heaven and earth, is merely a flick of the finger.

Thereafter, Ye Qin, using the same method, successively comprehended the runes of rain, thunder, electricity, and qi. However, these primordial sources are quite special—they did not form independent primordial source realms like the wind primordial source, but instead integrated into every corner of the Carefree Wanderer realm.

For example, the rain primordial source integrates into the void of the Carefree Wanderer realm, appearing with the gathering of clouds and vanishing with their dispersal; the thunder and electricity primordial sources are even more special, forming in the Carefree Wanderer realm a heavenly thunder pool and a judgment lightning hammer, and integrating into the heavenly punishment eye.

When Ye Qin prepared to enter the time-space realm, he felt as if he had instantly entered a bizarre spacetime tunnel. Yet, merely a moment later, he returned to his original position.

"Time and space are everywhere, without fixed patterns or constants. They can penetrate Hongmeng, the Great Dao, Chaos, and the Daoist universe—no one can truly control them." Ye Qin murmured to himself.

"Yeah, if time and space could be so easily controlled, then one would truly be omnipotent. One could compress millions of years into a single instant—alas, I was too greedy. Since time and space are everywhere, the power of time and space naturally exists within my Carefree Wanderer Realm, so why should I obsess over controlling it?"

After gaining this insight, Ye Qin's soul power instead increased greatly, and he gained a deeper understanding and realization of the two divine abilities: time stasis and time acceleration.

In an instant, Ye Qin's figure flashed like lightning, and in the blink of an eye he appeared outside Buzhou Mountain.

Looking up, the killing intent between heaven and earth in the Honghuang world spread like thick ink, freely diffusing. At the foot of Buzhou Mountain, countless strange beasts fought fiercely without rest, their immense and unmatched power causing even Buzhou Mountain to tremble slightly.

Ye Qin keenly sensed that Pangu's will was like fine sand in an hourglass, slowly flowing away.

"As expected! If the ancient Dragon-Han Calamity had erupted as scheduled, the three clans would have launched a true life-and-death war, Rahu would have reappeared to disturb heaven and earth, the chaotic demon gods would have come forth from the mountains to vie for the holy position—such fierce battle would inevitably cause Pangu's will to instantly dissipate. Fortunately, the ancient war did not occur, which is why Pangu's will has endured to this day."

Ye Qin gazed down at the chaotic battle below, then at the all-pervasive, almost materialized calamity qi in the Honghuang world. Deep in his heart, he knew this calamity was unprecedented in terror, a continuation of the previous Dragon-Han Calamity, and was about to evolve into an immeasurable calamity of supreme power.

Upon reflection, this actually makes sense. Originally, following the normal trend of the Honghuang world, the three clans would decline, and Hongjun and Rahu would contend for the holy position—this would merely be an ordinary calamity.

But who could have predicted that, after accumulating calamity qi for tens of millions of years, Rahu and the other chaotic demon gods would grow ever stronger, and now even an ancestral dragon has joined the fray. (End of chapter)