Chapter 319: Dragon Dao, Emperor Jun Suppresses the Dragon Clan

Hmph!

Gong Gong snorted coldly, saying nothing more.

However, the force of his attack grew several notches stronger, rolling the vast Heavenly River and blasting forth, nearly reducing myriad Dao to nothing.

The Heavenly River, that's also a river!

Since it is a river, it certainly ought to give Gong Gong, the Water Ancestral Witch, some face, heeding his command and boosting his vigor.

As Taiyi, the Eastern Emperor of the Heavenly Court, how could it be simple?

Even if that Chaos Bell is casually brandished by him, guarding the Heavenly River's naval forces, with only himself remaining, it is immensely strong to the extreme.

Taiyi's true form manifested within the Star Sea, causing the myriad ancient starry skies to thus alter their trajectories, revolving around him.

His robe sleeves fluttered, embroidered with the pattern of thousands of spirits and myriad demons, which now seemed to come alive together, vivid and lifelike, leaping forth in heaven and earth, expounding an extraordinary principle.

The Dao of demons is simple and pure, expounding heavenly principles; amidst barbarity it always bears just the right refinement, harmonizing with the operation of the Heavenly Dao.

Demons possess innate talents and divine abilities; in fact, they are a concrete description of one aspect of the Dao, a detailed manifestation of the transformation of laws.

And at this moment, the emergence of those thousands of spirits and myriad demons seems to be expounding a supreme principle, encompassing all worldly laws and Dao, all turning toward the Eastern Emperor!

Human Dao…… is lending support!

Speaking of intent.

Human Dao is far loftier than the Heavenly River.

Even if this Human Dao is divided into many portions, for Taiyi it is enough to dispel the edge of the Heavenly River, and still leave some surplus strength to strike at Gong Gong.

Taiyi chuckled lightly, drew his personal sword, and slashed at Gong Gong!

"Clang!"

The world-shocking impact rang out, shaking the heavens even more violently.

One sword, one hook, killing intent filling the wild, shaking ancient and modern.

After the collision, the long sword slightly rebounded, unable to slash further.

And Gong Gong was no better off.

"Hah!"

With a furious shout, the Ancestral Witch's body swayed, retreating three steps, treading in the Heavenly River, unknown how many star realms shattered, how many universes.

Gong Gong fell slightly into a disadvantage.

This is not due to a gap in his power realm, but merely a shortcoming in external support.

The Water Ancestral Witch.

The Demon's Eastern Emperor.

Just from the name, one knows the former is at a disadvantage in style.

"Human Dao…… hah! Human Dao!"

Gong Gong's eyes turned crimson, faintly revealing three parts ferocity and three parts excitement: "Now this Human Dao, is it only capable of this level?"

"If you were the most ancient, primordial, supreme and leisurely kind of enterprising Human Dao, I would turn and leave without a word today."

"But if it is the present Human Dao dominated by the demon race, I have a way to break you!"

Gong Gong said, then suddenly let out a long sigh: "Alas…… alas!"

"Back then I…… no, I was the opponent of the Dragon Ancestor; if it were someone like you with such a Human Dao, how good would that be?"

"Even the Dragon Transformation Dao would not lose by a single move, leading to total defeat in the end."

"The Dragon Clan failed to become the biggest victor of the previous era."

Gong Gong lamented, "I never imagined that after ages of time, the Dragon Dao would have a day to battle the Human Dao again…… only the things remain, the people are not."

"Your Human Dao is tattered and worn."

"My Dragon Dao is nothing more than secondhand goods learned from the Dragon Clan's Dragon Ancestor."

"Alas! Truly alas!"

This Ancestral Witch, speaking of alas with his mouth.

But in fact, his actions show no hesitation at all.

Only in an instant, from the source of the vast heavens and earth, a distant call seemed to come, descending across ages of time.

"Dragon!"

"Dragon!"

"Dragon!"

At this moment, it is no longer the surging of the Heavenly River.

But the entirety of Honghuang is resonating, faintly yet present!

Spanning time, spanning ancient history, it is a mighty will of a perfect fusion of peoples and civilizations that is shouting.

In a haze, all beings in the Honghuang heaven and earth feel an illusion, vaguely sensing that they seem to have a brand-new life path that can be opened.

That is evolution!

That is sublimation!

All conscious beings between heaven and earth can have the same ultimate-directed journey of life evolution.

What is ultimately to be cultivated is the supreme, ultimate true dragon!

No matter how lowly and base the original birth,

but as long as you can meet the needs along the path of evolution, you can become a true dragon, roaming the heavens and traversing the eight wildernesses.

And precisely because of this—low entry threshold, high achievement limit, this Dragon Dao has long been engraved in the source of Honghuang, thoroughly becoming a great trend.

Just look at those mountains and rivers…… which have become climate, not judged by people to harbor dragon veins nurturing potential within?

The divine dynasties' states, the substantive power of their laws and institutions, are also titled under the name of dragon aura.

It is too extraordinary.

This is a kind of recognition, imperceptibly becoming mainstream.

Although the dragon clan now feels wronged, shrinking in the lakes and rivers of the four seas, and even many of its people have been seized to serve as labor, the foundation of its cognition and consciousness remains extraordinarily deep and weighty.

As long as this foundation remains, the dragon clan will never perish and can always afford to lose—even if cleansed a thousand times, ten thousand times.

Not long after turning around, they could again jump about lively.

Among them, the ancestral figure—the Dragon Ancestor—naturally enjoys the endless dividends of the Dragon's Dao.

Of course, today this dividend seems no longer exclusively enjoyed by this Dragon Ancestor.

Gonggong Zuwu, as if having learned this core technique from the dragon clan, wields the Dragon's Dao to go to war against Taiyi.

The universe seemed to be moved by the action, the myriad beings seemed to return... At this moment, Gonggong Zuwu, towering and majestic, as a lighthouse guiding the evolution of life, illuminated the road ahead, writing the most magnificent epic.

Accompanying that epic is the resonance of the will of countless beings across endless time and space, offering their insignificant thoughts, to fight together with it!

In a daze, the universe darkened for an instant, as if turning into a deep pool.

Immediately after, the deep pool exploded, light gushed forth, and a pure white holy dragon leapt out, moving to suppress Taiyi!

Taiyi's expression at this moment became utterly solemn.

He formed a circle with his hands, as if to embrace the universe, to embrace eternity... Within this circle, a phantom bell shadow appeared.

That bell shadow, at first glance looks like the Chaos Bell, but in fact it is somewhat different.

The carvings above are clear and distinct, depicting the eternal scene of the human way, the picture of myriad races flourishing, the Heavenly Court suppressing the universe, and the Yao Emperor overseeing the human way.

Even if life undergoes evolutionary leaps, so what?

As long as not all demons become dragons, there will be hierarchy, there will be division of labor and cooperation—some will be lowly, some will be high above.

Everything is to force the development of potential, in this process eliminating the weak, strengthening the excellent, the excellent surviving and the inferior eliminated, in the advance of one era after another, through involution it is sublimated, stimulating the brilliant pearl to burst forth its radiance, accelerating to ultimately set foot on the endless road.

This is a cold yet indeed efficient road.

For the individual, it is somewhat tragic.

But for the whole, it is indeed greatly beneficial.

This is the human way practiced by the Demon Race.

How much power of the human way Taiyi's this divine ability can mobilize is hard to say for now.

But the efficiency of its combat power exertion has reached a peak.

When the bell shadow solidified, suppressing toward the pure white holy dragon... between them burst the purest light, illuminating the vast Suiyue Changhe.

In this era, any active Daluo pays attention to the battle in the heavenly river, commenting on it.

Gonggong Zuwu's Dragon's Dao makes them admire and sigh.

Taiyi's exposition of the Demon Race's way also provoked much thought, arguing its feasibility.

Of course, those who can maintain such a cheerful state of mind are mostly some neutral Daluo or those without decision-making power.

Those true Wu-Yao big shots, however, are each on the verge of drawing swords, having prepared to intimidate the opposite side.

The ten Yao Marshals' qi surged, wanting to intervene in the battle, to take down the Gonggong Zuwu who runs wild in the Heavenly Court's territory.

The ancestor witches' group, with their divine thoughts silent, except for Houtu, each of the ten ancestor witches locked onto a Yao Marshal, wandering like assassins, awaiting a sudden brilliant explosion.

Each ancestor witch masters a pillar rule of Honghuang's foundation, possessing supreme interpretive authority... This inherently makes them assassin material.

Their presence makes some Yao Marshals feel a chill on their necks, not daring to move about casually for fear of exposing a flaw, and being suppressed by the uprising ancestor witches.

The Yao Marshals stayed still.

But there are still a few Yao Emperors.

However, as the elder brother of Taiyi, the Heavenly Emperor Di Jun did not seem particularly panicked, as if he had great confidence in his younger brother, and also seemed to have other plans, knowing something.

He still had leisure, summoning the East Sea Dragon King who was also invited to the Heavenly Court, to chat.

"Dragon King... does your dragon clan have any dissatisfaction with my Heavenly Court?" Di Jun asked with a smile, but the concealed sharpness in his tone put great pressure on the East Sea Dragon King.

"Heavenly Emperor, you jest." The East Sea Dragon King replied with an apologetic smile, "Our dragon clan has always been law-abiding proper dragons; where would we dare to show dissatisfaction with the Heavenly Court, or even oppose it?"

"It doesn't exist! Impossible!"

The East Sea Dragon King wiped the sweat from his forehead, thus indicating.

"Then... what do you think of the Wu Clan's Gonggong Zuwu so casually wielding your dragon clan's fundamental foundation?" Di Jun said in a deep tone, "This is no small matter!"

The East Sea Dragon King fell silent for a moment, then spoke again, "Regarding this, I think I can explain."

"When the Dragon Ancestor's forefather, pondering Pangu's great sacrifice in creating heaven and earth, thus looked favorably upon the Wu Clan... when Gonggong Zuwu came to ask for instruction, he casually passed on this technique."

"But the forefather also didn't expect that the Wu Clan would later cause such unpleasantness with the Heavenly Court."

"So the forefather has recently not gone out—this is him punishing himself, shutting himself away to show remorse."

What a fine Dragon King.

He clings firmly to righteousness, the transmission of the core technique is entirely out of reverence for Pangu, with no intention of rebellion.

As for the secret dealings between humans and the dragon clan... that is even more a rumor, a sowing of discord by outsiders, aiming to make a major strong clan of the Demon Race alienated from the Heavenly Court!

"Is that so?" Di Jun gave a noncommittal response.

"In that case, this Gonggong Zuwu is indeed a remarkable person!"

"I see the might of this Dragon's Dao he displays... even if the Dragon Ancestor himself were present, he might not surpass it."

"He is a good student."

"The Dragon Ancestor is also a good teacher."

Di Jun snorted with laughter.

The East Sea Dragon King lowered his hands, said nothing, responding with silence.

"Regarding this matter, I have some small thoughts." Di Jun said, "Since you say—the dragon clan from top to bottom are proper dragons, firmly supporting the Heavenly Court..."

Then, I will have the Dragon Clan contribute a little to make Honghuang even better… Surely the Dragon Clan, up and down, won't refuse, right?

As long as the Heavenly Court's demands are reasonable and just, my Dragon Clan will naturally not refuse." Dragon King said cautiously, "If the Heavenly Court goes too far… there are plenty of fair‑minded people under heaven; justice resides in the hearts of the people.

Heh." Di Jun gave an inscrutable smile, "My Heavenly Court naturally speaks reason."

My demands on you are not too high either.

I only want you, the Dragon Clan, to assist my Heavenly Court by stationing some troops… a trade‑protection force in the Four Seas." Di Jun flipped his hand on the table, took out a jade slip, "After all, the common folk of the Demon Race have reported that doing business on the way to Buzhou is truly dangerous, with bandits cutting the road and robbing.

That won't do!

So my Heavenly Court will have to trouble itself, diverting part of the Heavenly River Water Army down there to help keep the roads safe.

Yet the Wu Clan is overbearing, their resolve to obstruct extremely firm.

After much thought…

Still, let's first make use of the Dragon Clan's territory… that ought to win the approval of the Demon Race's populace, high and low.

After all, the Dragon Clan once signed on and became a member of my Heavenly Court.

Di Jun's eyes were bright as snow, his aura sharp and pressing.

The East Sea Dragon King first fell silent, then said, "This, I need to go back and consult the Primordial Ancestor."

Please go ahead and consult; I think he'll understand." Di Jun smiled lightly, "Once this battle yields a temporary result, if the Demon Way prevails over the Dragon Way, given the Dragon Ancestor's nature, acknowledging the bet he will accept defeat.

Your Majesty seems quite confident in the August Personage of the East's strength." The Dragon King said in a low voice.

Because this is the Heavenly Court's home ground." Di Jun merely said, "When Gong Gong comes here, it's just to make a fuss, to show off his personal might.

But if the fight goes to the end, he cannot possibly win.

Not to mention winning.

Just not getting his head split open and bleeding would be good enough.

We have countless ways to bolster Taiyi without letting the Wu Clan side cut it off… otherwise, how could the Wu Clan now be a strategic defense?

I hope the Dragon Clan can see clearly whose side is stronger now, and make the correct choice.

Di Jun carried a hint of warning.

The Dragon King opened his mouth, "Going by what Your Majesty said, this is a fine opportunity to keep Gong Gong's Ancestral Witch here, to sever one arm of the Wu Clan.

I wouldn't mind that." Di Jun chuckled, "Too bad.

Some people, at the right time and place, holding the right thing, will come to stop this fight, letting both sides settle with a draw.

At most, Gong Gong will end up with a dirty face… Look, that person has already arrived.

Di Jun slightly raised his head.

……

Holy Dragon.

Zhong Ying.

The two clashed, fiercely intense.

For a time, neither could overwhelm the other.

Just as Di Jun had said.

This is the Heavenly Court's home ground!

Taiyi can receive help far, far exceeding what Gong Gong can get.

But, at the most critical moment.

A savior appeared, subtly tilting the balance.

(End of chapter)