Chapter 201: Original Intent, Dao Essentials, the Demon Ancestor's Curtain Falls!

The Demon Ancestor finally remained silent.

Pangu was more open-minded and broad-minded than he imagined.

This divine being who opened heaven and earth possessed not only supreme combat power, but also a heart of great love for heaven, earth, and all beings, perfect and holy virtue.

Moreover, he was truly a wise sage with foresight and a broad mind.

He perceived the future clearly, fully understanding the currents of the era.

Being able to see the outcome directly, he never cared how tortuous the process would unfold.

Because……

Everything cannot escape his palm.

Thus, he could watch the play with leisurely ease.

And let certain people be smug for a few days!

Winning first doesn't count as a win.

He who laughs last is the true winner!

Pangu possessed the greatest strength, the most open-minded attitude, and the farthest-reaching wisdom.

In the game with the three thousand Chaos demon gods, he was actually the banker.

From the start, they were not opponents of the same level.

So, what do the actions of Luóhóu the Demon Ancestor amount to?

The three thousand demon gods were betting, betting that from the moment the Honghuang universe would perish, the true opponents against them would have become the human sentient beings of this world.

Have the human sentient beings forgotten the most precious original intention spirit bestowed by Pangu, choosing instead the path of mutual harm and suppression, of the weak being devoured by the strong?

It doesn't matter.

At the moment of life and death, the utmost will to survive erupts, and everything will be set right!

Pangu also placed a bet.

But the target of his wager was the sentient beings of endless spacetime in the Honghuang world—whether they could be awakened at the brink of life and death, and to what extent.

If they awaken thoroughly, what would the arrangements of the three thousand demon gods amount to?

After all, this vast Honghuang has buried a living Pangu!

When sentient beings unite as one, of one mind, that most brilliant spirit can cause the soul power originating from Pangu to resonate, blazing with splendid radiance… At that time, no need for the Great Luo Heavenly Will to preside in the middle; the boundless human destiny will drive, granting the utmost power to overturn heaven and earth!

At that moment, even if the three thousand demon gods reappear and destroy the Honghuang world?

It doesn't matter.

Because 'Pangu' has been resurrected.

Enough to slay those former losers once more, then, on the ruins of heaven and earth's destruction, create a brand-new universe, crossing eternity!

Heaven has been changed.

Earth has been changed.

This is the ultimate overturning of heaven and earth!

It is the most beautiful moment belonging to humanity!

Pangu, awaits thus.

……

The Demon Ancestor guessed wrong about Pangu's heart, misjudged Pangu's intention.

In this battle, he then has no chance to suffer an utter defeat.

Pangu's attitude toward the Honghuang world determines that, even if sentient beings forget him, there is no possibility of forcing him into a state of losing himself.

Without this precondition, it's even less possible to speak of Pangu proactively destroying the Honghuang to break the stalemate.

Even if the Demon Ancestor's divine powers remain effective, causing Pangu's will to be spontaneously expelled by the Honghuang sentient beings, on an obscure level distancing from the Honghuang spacetime, the two begin to be eternally separated.

But……

Pangu can still leisurely raise his axe and deliver a finishing blow to the Demon Ancestor!

A moment of time.

The Honghuang world seems to have fallen into eternal silence.

Only a blade of axe-light swept across, illuminating eternity.

The Demon Ancestor gazed at that axe-light, a grim smile appearing on his face.

He seemed to have understood——

Why were the three thousand demon gods of the Chaos era so fragile when facing Pangu?

Why was their goal merely to destroy the Honghuang?

Rather than shouting, wanting Pangu to personally experience the pain they had endured?

"This, you also dare say he is still a Great Luo?"

The Demon Ancestor lamented, he gave up resistance.

It's not that he didn't want to resist.

But rather, 'resistance was abandoned'.

Because in the endless struggle across boundless spacetime, as soon as his thought of resistance arose, it was all worn away by the will within the trembling eternal axe-light…… In the end, all spacetime results converged.

Besides stretching his neck to be slaughtered, the Demon Ancestor discovered he could do nothing.

The axe-light, brilliantly splendid, also infinitely gentle.

Its momentum was the grandest, yet it caused not the slightest damage to that heaven, earth, and the Great Dao.

Except for the Demon Ancestor's aura, which was wiped away completely clean.

That was like the collapse of a dharma manifestation that sought to stand heaven and earth.

Merely by existing, it guided the world toward the destructive aura of annihilation, and it was also completely cleansed away.

All the great battles and cruel magical calamities, with their myriad terrifying omens—blood rain and sunless darkness in the Honghuang world—were also halted, and everything returned to normal.

The rain stopped.

The sky cleared.

The Honghuang world once again felt that it had succeeded.

Thus.

The speed at which Pangu was rejected increased.

His form suddenly became faint; in the blink of an eye, he was left with only an illusory outline.

However, just as Pangu said——

He actually didn't care about this.

Even though rejected, he still smiled faintly……his smile was radiant.

His final gaze lingered on the Buzhou Heavenly Pillar, as if he had seen something?

Was it the boundless distant future, his spirit reviving in this universe to save the age?

Or perhaps, before the worst case arrived, all beings of heaven and earth spontaneously received his spirit?

No one could understand.

But……

Fengxi beneath the heavenly pillar unconsciously shrank his neck.

He felt……

Pangu, as if he were looking at him?

This father of the Houtu Grand Witch somehow has a leadership and subordinate relationship with Fengxi.

Before Fengxi could figure it out, the lingering thought of the Rahu Demon Ancestor stubbornly struggled, driving his ruined body to speak, drawing everyone's attention.

"Pangu, with such confidence…… aren't you worried that in that future era, someone not relying on your spirit could arise to help all beings cross eternity?"

Even if the demon ancestor is about to fall asleep, he still wants to give Pangu and Honghuang a bit of eye drops.

Unfortunately.

Pangu merely smiled and said.

"Why should I worry?"

"If such a result could indeed come to pass, wouldn't it mean I have gained a fellow cultivator?"

"My Dao is not alone!"

He has the broadest mind: "Able to guide all beings, conquer the age, sweep away all the dust and debris buried in the past, resolve the boundless troubles of the Great Calamity…… If such a person could arise in the Honghuang world, I would be delighted beyond measure."

"What if He…… deliberately chooses to be your enemy?" Rahu said unwillingly.

"Then I would be even happier." Pangu's voice rang bright: "Although I have subdued many Chaos demon gods…… after all, I have yet to suppress a peer of equal rank."

"I am very curious."

"How great a tempering and enhancement would such a battle bring to my wisdom and thought?"

Pangu, absolutely unafraid of battle!

"But I think it probably won't come to that." Pangu's form grew ever more faint, yet the smile in his voice remained radiant: "If one could reach that step, how could the pattern be small?"

"Original intention and burden are both perfect and flawless."

"And, having permeated life's past, present, and future…… this is precisely the foundation for attaining the Great Luo Dao!"

"It is also, after reaching the peak of the Great Dao, to continue sublimating, pursuing the fundamental basis of such supreme achievement as mine……"

Pangu's will drifted away from the Honghuang world.

Yet his most precious spiritual wealth remained behind, becoming earnest instruction for those who have attained the Great Luo, and a choice nectar anointing and precious guidance for those about to prove the Great Luo!

At this moment, Fengxi lost perception of the external world.

Because his mental world was influenced by a supreme will, receiving an immensely precious spiritual conviction——

"Never forget the original intention, forge ahead!"

"Engrave the mission, strive forever!"

Fengxi's heart was greatly shaken.

He finally understood: the purpose the Houtu Grand Witch gave this reverse-flowing time, to witness the great historic opportunity…… was precisely for Pangu's final sixteen characters!

It is a most precious spiritual legacy, the perfect material for forging any being's ladder to climb eternity!

It is the supreme life guidance covering past, present, and future, a timeless outline for proving the Dao that applies to all ages.

This, then, is the era's teaching that Houtu hopes Fengxi will accept and comprehend, taught by the greatest lecturer——Pangu, of immeasurable value, leaving a deep impression.

Following this precious spiritual legacy, Fengxi examined himself, reorganized his past life, and set future principles of action…… gradually, a bright lamp was lit in his heart, dispelling much fog in a daze.

For a time, Fengxi felt many changes occurring in his body…… yet when he tried to describe them concretely, he could not express them clearly and accurately.

Only such a feeling——

The gate to the Great Luo lies right before him; a light step forward will allow advancement, with no possibility of failure.

Fengxi faintly realized that he might have resolved some hidden barriers that needed to be broken when attaining the Great Luo, thereby increasing the success rate.

"Spirit…… life…… fulfillment……"

He raised his head; his pair of eyes were limpid beyond compare, with no trace of darkness in their depths, only the purest clear light——that was Fengxi's own noble spiritual light!

The spiritual light resonates with the fruition of the Five Virtues, together with the surging illusory river of history that flickers within the fruition…… three as one, awaiting the ultimate leap, thereafter gaining boundless spacetime eternal freedom, successfully ascending to become a member of the Honghuang universe's great administrators.

Don't look down on this level; under Pangu the Great God it amounts to nothing, and even the Rahu Demon Ancestor could slaughter it slice by slice.

Yet it truly is an eternal level, possessing an immortal and indestructible foundation!

Haven't you seen the Rahu Demon Ancestor challenging Pangu the Great God? Although he was abolished beneath the Peerless Axe, he wasn't completely dead, was he?

Fengxi looked toward the battlefield, looked toward the demon ancestor whose body was breaking apart, whose faint spiritual light was gradually dimming.

Rahu, truly the biggest villain boss of the Dragon-Phoenix era.

Pangu was driven away by all beings, far removed from the Honghuang heavens and earth.

He was still tenaciously, struggling to breathe and live!

Although, under the aftermath of that axe light, he inevitably headed toward a sinking state.

"Hehehe... hahaha..."

The demon ancestor gave a grim laugh.

"I have exhausted all schemes... what can be done? What can be done ah!"

He sighed sadly, in his final moment a brief brilliance returned, as if giving his last words.

"I am unwilling... I truly am unwilling ah!"

"Hmph!"

A cold snort came, "How dare you be unwilling!"

The river of fate that swept through endless time and space trembled at this moment and spontaneously disintegrated.

Many gods in a miserable state fell... using their ultimate ability felt good for a moment, but after using it the whole god became empty.

Only the Dao Ancestor Hongjun could still leap about lively.

It was also he who let out a cold snort, representing justice condemning the evil demon ancestor.

"Even by your own reasoning, the victor is king, the loser is bandit—how dare you be unwilling!"

The Dao Ancestor Hongjun stood righteous and stern, "Demon ancestor, surrender your head!"

"We will not humiliate you without cause."

"We only want to judge and punish according to law the myriad sins you have committed, giving an explanation to the era you have devastated, the shattered heavens and earth, and the departed souls."

"Moreover, having you, this ultimate evil demon overlord, undergo judgment and punishment would serve as the most solemn warning to all who later wish to do evil, letting them consciously dispel their demonic thoughts and return to the righteous path."

The Dao Ancestor, upholding righteousness for the public, possesses noble virtue.

He did not, because of the brutal ordeal of having hundreds of thousands of blood slashes inflicted on his body by Rahu earlier, resort to private punishment to vent resentment at this moment; instead, he remained reasonable and considered future consequences.

This is worthy of the Heavenly Dao's spirit-communicating identity, far-sighted.

However, Rahu does not follow the path given by the Dao Ancestor at all.

He merely smiled.

A cold smile.

"Hongjun!"

"I lost to Pangu, I accept it!"

"He is too great, too inconceivable... my loss is not unjust, I am convinced of my loss."

"But you... what are you even!"

"You dare to say you will judge me?!"

The demon ancestor swayed, his laughter growing ever more frenzied, "Don't even think about it!"

The Dao Ancestor Hongjun's face turned cold, "You were struck by Pangu's axe, about to sink and lose me, yet you are still so arrogant?"

"It seems I no longer need to speak nicely with you."

"Heh... hahaha..." Rahu the demon ancestor's form swayed, the vast residual magical power within his body burning, and suddenly he moved.

He fell toward the western mountains and rivers of the Honghuang continent, and a destructive aura reappeared!

"With your last bit of life, you still want to cause trouble?!"

The Dao Ancestor was shocked and angry, decisively striking out.

Boom!

The brilliant fireworks of the demon ancestor's self-detonation plowed the western continent anew... fortunately, the Dao Ancestor acted in time, suppressing most of the power and reversing time to erase the damage.

Yet, the Dao Ancestor's face showed little joy.

He suddenly turned his head, looking toward the place where the gods had previously sealed the demon lords and demon kings.

There, an innate immortal light suddenly appeared, flashing with brilliant radiance.

This is the spirit light of Rahu the demon ancestor!

"I will fall asleep."

The demon ancestor's icy voice echoed throughout the Honghuang universe.

This perhaps was his final statement in this era.

"I lost this round... but I will surely make a comeback!"

"The Great Dao above, Pangu bears witness!"

The innate immortal light burned, and he resonated with a certain power.

That was the residual of his earlier divine ability, mobilizing the power of all beings to forget Pangu's spirit and Pangu's achievements.

At this moment, the last trace of residue combined most strangely with the demon ancestor's Great Dao.

A gloom thus shrouded the ages and the hearts of countless cultivators.

A calamity... has appeared!

This is——the Demonic Calamity!

A calamity established specifically for cultivators!

This is a calamity that even the Great Luo Heavenly Will cannot eradicate—they themselves will not suffer the calamity, but cannot guarantee that their subordinates' souls will also be free from disturbance.

At this moment, in the time-space sealed by the gods, the magical power of each demon lord and demon king boiled, surged, and spread, here transforming into countless bizarre demonic beings, forming a realm of their own!

"Throughout the ages of Honghuang, the Dao rises and the demon falls, the Dao falls and the demon rises, repeating endlessly, boundless!"

"One day I will return, to destroy the myriad worlds and slaughter all living beings!"

The Demon Ancestor's last words shook the boundless spacetime.

The iron-blooded killing aura makes any living being turn pale!

Hongjun Dao Ancestor's face was grim.

Even the holy mighty ones who are still alive wear worried expressions.

"Troublesome."

Fuxi the Great Sage let out a light sigh, "Luo Hou Demon Ancestor, truly possessing vast divine powers, indeed still having such means…… I don't know how he managed it, actually able to mislead the heavenly rules, opening a backdoor for those demonic mighty ones to cultivate and obstruct the path."

"This is to stop the birth of new blood among us Great Luo beings!..."

"Danger! Danger!"

(End of chapter)