Chapter 191: Ancestral Witch Identity; The Slaying Immortal Sword Formation!

Dragon-Phoenix Great Calamity.

As the name suggests, this is the era of the dragon and phoenix.

The two powerful leaders, after leading the Primordial Divine Collective to suppress the ferocious beast faction born from the remnants of the Chaos Demon God, fell out over their differing governance philosophies and could not convince each other, thus resorting to force in the internal struggle of the Honghuang upper echelons.

——Honghuang Historical Records

Fengxi had read this great work thoroughly.

Although, he had doubts about many of its statements.

For example, what "ideological incompatibility"…… changing it to "uneven spoils" would be about right.

Of course, such a self‑destructive act, he would not voice it when visiting and drawing lessons in this era; at most he would mutter it to himself once or twice.

After all, although Fengxi had someone behind him——the saying of the Ancestral Witch Houtu, she exists in all endless time and space, and also gazes down upon this ancient era…… in the end, it's better to have fewer troubles than more.

"I'm just a visitor."

Fengxi muttered to himself, reminding himself, suppressing the heart that constantly wanted to cause trouble.

"I must endure, I must restrain myself…… now is not the time of my days on Kunlun Mountain, nor is it the time to devise strategies for the clan's high‑level."

"I am here to cultivate, not to cause trouble……"

After Fengxi went through a difficult ideological struggle, he finally beat down his inner demon.

There was no way.

He watched as this era's "righteous wars" appeared from time to time——the dragon and phoenix clans often fought in the most upright and proper manner, that is, lining up forces and clashing head‑on; sneak attacks, assassinations, and underhanded schemes were rare, and he had never heard of any conspiracies or tricks……

Comparing this with what Fengxi had seen and personally experienced in those years on Kunlun Mountain—the conspiracies he himself had orchestrated or been targeted by——

Things like "King of the Great Treasure Sword," "Benevolent Lord," "Super Evolution"…… the performance of the Primordial Divine beings in this era is pure to the point of being unable to be any purer.

Although the great calamity is tragic, with bloody clashes occurring from time to time, there may also be a struggle for hegemony, wishing to smash the enemy's heads.

But what is crushed is merely the fleshly body, not the three views.

Speaking reasonably, this is far better than the atmosphere of the Witch‑Demon era.

Fengxi cannot help but sigh and lament: as time goes on, the atmosphere becomes worse and loses its simplicity.

At the same time, it arouses in him an impulse to leave a mark in this era, to pass on the know‑how of causing trouble, and to dye this pure white paper with a hint of his own color.

For example, pull off a "Reincarnation Grand Deception"?

This is pure mischief.

Of course, Fengxi has also wondered——

If he really were in this era, and directly put into practice the ideology that the Wu Clan has always promoted…… what would it look like?

"I really want to know…… "

He let out a sigh.

In the end, Fengxi did nothing but seriously observe the Great Dao of this ancient, vast Honghuang era, borrowing a different arrangement from later ages to stimulate his own inspiration.

During this period, the mini Houtu tattoo on his brow kept glowing.

In the hazy halo, disturbing the River of Time, Fengxi's standpoint experienced abnormal time flow, accelerated to a speed tens of millions of times faster than normal.

Only at such a speed could Fengxi adopt a supremely transcendent, macroscopic viewpoint, look down upon the overall changes of the Honghuang Great Dao, and see how it unfolds and develops.

In a daze, Fengxi felt that he had changed.

With his realization, it seemed that a phantom River of Time had been stored in his Dao fruit, a vast and magnificent world.

"Virtue bears all things."

"The five virtues combined embrace the universe and encompass all existence."

Bit by bit, spiritual light arose in his heart, the brilliance of his spirit clear and shining.

At this point, even without relying on the power of innate spiritual treasures, Fengxi could clearly sense his more than a thousand trumpets and establish contact with them.

On the road to Daluo, his strength increased once more.

Although he had already stood on the threshold of becoming a Dao before.

But the Daluo realm is especially special, representing the infinite and boundless.

Below Daluo everything is finite.

Yet the finite and the finite are still different.

If he had an idea, he could also take a cue from that unfortunate fellow who once broke through Daluo without authorization, stacking on ten‑eight‑thousand dimensions, becoming terrifyingly overpowering.

Fengxi pondered that, judging solely by his Taiyi‑period accumulation, he might not match that person.

But what if he cheated?

Adding the Pangu Dharma Aspect and the Opening Heaven Nine Axes, he might possibly earn the title of an invincible Taiyi.

"Unfortunately, Daluo is no longer a matter of quantity increase but a qualitative change……"

Fengxi shook his head.

No matter how strong a Taiyi, facing Daluo ends in a miserable defeat.

Administrator!

Endless Time and Space, eternal and free!

Fengxi envied such an achievement, and the transcendence of its authority.

"Combat power, simply outrageously ruthless…… "

He raised his head and gazed toward the Celestial Cycles Star Sea.

There, another grand conquest was erupting.

A true dragon whose form could coil around Honghuang roared, and in the starry sky countless stars shattered into calamity ash; terrifying ripples swept across the star sea, annihilating a vast, boundless army.

"Cry!"

A sharp cry rang out, a flame sparked from the void, igniting many star fragments in the star sea and also igniting the corpses of the slain army's soldiers.

But this fire is not the fire of destruction and burial; it is the fire of rebirth, of nirvana!

In the firelight, the destroyed starry sky underwent nirvana, and the annihilated army was reborn!

A vast, boundless phoenix dharma manifestation appeared in the starry sky, its phoenix eyes icy and merciless, looking down upon the true dragon.

Suddenly, It pounced down, striking directly at the dragon's reverse scale.

A death battle among great divine-ability users erupted.

And this was not the only one.

Dragon and phoenix, as leaders among the innate divinities, how could their subordinates lack great power?

One after another, eternal divine light struck.

An extraordinary powerhouse stepped forth from the ages, with a human face and serpent body, eyes gazing forward, a serpent tail striking at the Yin star, seeking to make Honghuang forever without sun and moon shining together.

At the critical moment, the Yin star burst forth with light that freezes all things, freezing time itself, sealing a segment of the ages, contending with the top power of the Time Great Dao—Candle Dragon.

"Buzz!"

The Zhou Tian star sea, countless stars bursting forth with splendid light—such a phenomenon, such a prelude, seemed as if the Zhou Tian Star Dipper Grand Formation had prematurely appeared in this era.

But, it is not.

This is merely the Zhou Tian stars offering an auspicious omen for the advent of a divine being.

Mother of the Stars—Purple Light Dao Mother!

Also known as Doumu Yuanjun, the Nine Ling Tai Miao White Jade Tortoise Platform Night Light Gold Essence Grandmother, who commands the seven stars and is served as mother.

This is the leader deity of the star lineage!

Perhaps in the Lich epoch, the commander of the Zhou Tian star sea is the two Supreme Emperors of the solar god star—Donghuang, Di Jun.

But in the Dragon-Phoenix era, it is absolutely this female ancient star deity who is revered as the star sea.

She advances, with a sweep of her sleeves rolling and smashing the star sea, moreover accompanied by nine Great Luo aides, making her might shine to the utmost, causing the Honghuang continent to display a terrifying scene as if the world were ending.

Storms, lightning, dark clouds, blood rain…… shroud the land, all kinds of great destruction phenomena, as if the world were weeping and wailing.

At this critical moment, a dim light came from the extreme north of the Honghuang earth.

The dim light was initially faint, but soon it became blazing, brilliant, dazzling… in a haze one could see a colossal kun fish, appearing clumsy yet actually agile, swimming about, making the heavenly earth's vital energy its sea, making the vast void its sea, making the Suiyue Changhe its sea, swimming freely.

Wherever it passed, it carried spiritual vitality, calmed phenomena, smoothed all kinds of violent calamity anomalies…… at a certain moment, it seemed to have accumulated enough, and then made an ultimate leap.

The kun, disappeared.

In its place, came the peng!

The great peng, soaring freely in the heavens and earth.

It possesses the utmost speed; in an instant it shattered the sunken star sea, killing toward the Doumu Yuanjun who governs the star sea.

…

One after another, great divine-ability users personally entered the fray, participating in the great tribulation.

They united beside the dragon and phoenix, forming a collective, fighting for the hegemony of Honghuang.

This is a brilliant era.

It is also a cruel era.

Through this scene, Fengxi seemed to see the climax of the Lich Great Tribulation, the same madness!

"From the time I arrived in this era, such large-scale battles have already occurred how many times?"

Fengxi whispered, "The 121st? Or the 122nd?"

"Too many…… too many……"

When Fengxi thought of it, the thought that the eras he had experienced would have similar situations made his scalp go numb.

Living in such a vast, boundless universe of Honghuang, a path to eternity looms faintly; this is good, yet likewise bad.

However, Fengxi can only evaluate the positive side.

The bad?

Not daring to utter a single word.

Because he sensed some terribly frightening secrets.

——When some great divine-ability users exerted their full power, some of the tattoos on his body showed slight signs of heating.

For example——the Great God Candle Dragon!

When this mighty figure who stirred boundless waves in the ages waged war, Fengxi's Candle Nine Yin tattoo glowed and heated.

From that moment on, Fengxi became wholly obedient.

And this, is it the end? No!

Almost all of Fengxi's tattoos have glowed at some point!

Like the Tiānwú ancestral Wu?

Like the Jumang ancestral Wu?

Like the Xuanming ancestral Wu?

So……how could Fengxi not be obedient? Dare he be disobedient?

All troublemaking impulses were stillborn in the womb.

He profoundly understood the saying of the Houtu ancestral Wu like never before—all time and space exist.

No……this is no longer merely "all exist".

It is constantly active, constantly causing trouble!

In the Dragon-Phoenix era, how many of the mighty figures who roamed freely had ties to the Wu Clan's ancestral Wu?

In the end, Fengxi became a bit confused.

"Is it that my Wu Clan's ancestral Wu's boundless domineering aura, having attained the Dao in the future, yet pulled his own active traces into the Dragon-Phoenix era?"

"Or is it that he himself is an innate divine sage of the Dragon-Phoenix era, later through very secretive means, bought shares in the Wu Clan, holding original shares—Primordial Witch shares?"

This bizarre and strange situation left Fengxi baffled.

And what left him even more baffled was…

Houtu Primordial Witch's tattoo, aside from steadily helping him accelerate time, never glowed during the battles of any mighty divine adept, leaving Fengxi with nothing to speculate about in his heart.

Pretty mysterious.

"Would this count as prying into my direct superior's privacy?"

Fengxi unconsciously shrank his neck, on one side cutting off his miscellaneous thoughts, on the other watching as, after a bout of fighting, the mighty divine adepts who could not overcome their opponents each went back to their own homes.

Leaving only a ruined battlefield, it highlighted the sorrow of an era where the weak are prey to the strong.

After Fengxi sighed a little, he turned his gaze toward the heavenly pillar of Mount Buzhou behind him, carefully shifting his chair to squeeze into a corner.

Not long after, a goddess set out from Mount Buzhou, traversing the eight wildernesses, launching the most grandiose "land-cleansing" operation.

She walked across the shattered Honghuang, primordial luminous light spreading; wherever she passed, time reversed… between the heavens and earth returning to their ruined state, all living beings were overturned between life and death.

The fierce battle, for a moment, seemed to become an illusory dream, as if it had never erupted.

During this process, no mighty divine adept came to interfere, as if tacitly allowing it.

"Why must living beings suffer in the chaos of heaven and earth?"

The goddess wore a face of pity, lamenting the sorrow of the age.

Her holy radiance at this moment illuminated the dawn of heaven and earth… it was practically a rare white lotus among the innate divine sages who wield absolute martial violence.

This scene is destined to be deeply embedded in the ages, becoming an immortal mark.

Although, the number of these marks is somewhat large.

Just what Fengxi saw amounted to over a hundred—equivalent to the number of battles he had witnessed.

It seemed there was… something.

Had it been an ordinary person, Fengxi might have looked at them with biased eyes.

Too fake!

Is this an act?

But as for her… he dared not entertain such thoughts at all.

Then, although not the Houtu Primordial Witch.

Yet his standing in Fengxi's heart is no less, equally exalted!

——Nüwa!

Although Fengxi is now of the Wu Clan,

but the past human affinity and bond let him hold this goddess in reverence.

Even going up to speak to her… he absolutely dare not.

"Truly worthy of being the creator god of humanity…"

He gazed far off at Nüwa's holy back, feeling immense emotion, paying her high respect.

"Although the created humanity has both high ceilings and low floors in spirit, with the utmost goodness and virtue, as well as the utmost evil and wickedness… yet in her I can only see supremely exalted spiritual radiance, the best exemplar worthy of study and emulation."

"Alas…"

"If it weren't for the great kindness of the Houtu Primordial Witch toward me, and if I weren't of the Wu Clan… perhaps I would have already gone to follow her, to listen to her guidance."

Fengxi sighed with feeling, and then moved on from this period of time.

Although Nüwa the Sage's conduct is a model of morality.

But the frequency is high, eventually causing some aesthetic fatigue.

Accelerating time, he renewed his focus on his own cultivation, observing the evolution of Honghuang, perfecting his Dao fruit.

Until one day, a terrible and horrifying aura of destruction overwhelmed Honghuang, startling Fengxi from his deepest meditative state.

No one knows how long a stretch of time passed, the finale of the Dragon-Phoenix era arrived.

The victor, however, was neither the dragon nor the phoenix.

Because they both lost to the same opponent!

——The demon ancestor Rahu!

A single battle diagram covered Honghuang.

Four killing swords ended the era.

(End of chapter)