Chapter 837: then translation of title, then ===GLOSSARY=== with list of named entities/coined terms appearing in these lines, using

Dragon Ancestor all his life was strong-willed, never yielding, thus he hit too many walls.

He wouldn't turn back until hitting the south wall… even if he hit it, he'd smash straight through! Unfortunately, for this he paid a price, opening the Pangu trial, which was practically an abyss of nightmares, with opponents each fiercer than the last.

In the end, no one would duel him one-on-one; it was the black manor! It was a gang beating! But… perhaps luck will turn.

The Human Dao granted his plea and opened the dueling mode for him.

And right away, what he saw was Yandi!

Dragon Ancestor was both angry and amused.

He was angry because, how could he have lost face so much? Even a human emperor who never reached the peak dared to tease his dragon whiskers! He laughed… naturally because, this was a sure win! Dragon Ancestor laughed wildly, laughed unrestrainedly, laughed until his waist bent.

"Is it funny? I don't think so." Yandi merely looked at him quietly, somewhat moved, "Between us, there is also karma… I came to settle karma with you—what's there to laugh about?"

"Oh? You're not here to contend for Pangu?" Dragon Ancestor the Great Sage caught some subtext, his smile faded slightly, he examined Yandi up and down, "Indeed!"

"This is when our gap is smallest… if I succeed in a leap at my peak, I will become Pangu, and no matter how strong the Taiji, none could be my opponent!"

"But you're still inferior to me!"

"So-called settling karma, aside from repaying debts, can also mean beating the creditor to death."

"Are you sure you want to fight me?!"

Dragon Ancestor looked at Yandi coldly.

"Certain." Yandi nodded slightly, "You bullied my natal spirit beast, harmed my teacher… later you invested in humanity, your motives impure, everyone like dragons, borrowing a shell to go public."

"All these need to be properly settled."

"Bullied your natal spirit beast?" Dragon Ancestor pondered briefly, instantly understood, and sneered, "So it's Yinglong that scoundrel… her activity had your strong backing."

"I haven't even charged you with the crime of lax discipline!"

"As for the so-called teacher… Nüwa?"

"She can't!"

"Nüwa's virtue is fine, but she can't suppress the world's heroes, her nature is gentle, lacking in martial vigor… I defeated her just to give her a long lesson!"

"As for humanity, borrowing a shell to go public… it's just each relying on their own abilities!"

"If you have the ability, wipe out my remnants… why talk about karma?"

Dragon Ancestor the Great Sage overlooked the ages, "At the dawn of humanity's rise, my dragon clan certainly did its part!"

"Today, I reclaim principal and interest—what's wrong with that!"

"That makes sense." Yandi nodded, "The world isn't simply black and white, but a fine gray… as time has come to today, all kinds of karma have intertwined, inseparable, orderly yet chaotic."

"Thus, today we have this great reckoning, to settle past conclusions once and for all."

"Opportunity, the Human Dao gave you."

"If you want a duel, then I'll satisfy your wish for one."

"Thus, you were suppressed, defeated… surely you'd have no complaints."

Yandi spoke softly.

Dragon Ancestor laughed loudly, "Just you? Yandi, I admire your extraordinary conduct, worthy of a hero, a model for the gods… but your strength compared to mine is still far lacking!"

"If you seek death, I won't hold back!"

"Coincidence!" Yandi's lips curled slightly, "That's also what I wanted to say to you."

"Arrogant!"

The Ancestor Dragon gave a soft shout, he unleashed slaughter, a supreme powerhouse struck, amidst roaring, the Honghuang heaven and earth serving as battlefield burned, myriad ways surged, boundless Chaos immortal light exploded, collapsing ages, submerging eternity!

The Dragon's Dao spans all ages, inscribed upon the Myriad Heavens, unique, eternal!

All manner of inconceivable power burst forth, ultimately even refining and seizing the Dao origin of this battlefield heaven and earth, the Pangu true intent left by Haotian when he opened the heavens, every inch of spacetime burned, splendid and gorgeous, amidst the haze of all things, a divine seal was forming!

Dragon Ancestor the Great Sage, Ancestor Dragon Supreme Emperor… he is majestic, towering; now he establishes law for the ages, sets statutes for myriad generations, seemingly possessing the supreme pattern that dominates the rise and fall of the mortal world.

Everyone is like a dragon, and the Dragon Ancestor is him.

He pushed forward all future eras, which must follow his path of great unity; only by receiving his mandate can one enjoy lasting prosperity! Finally, all grew calm.

A jade seal appeared in the Ancestor Dragon's hand, this being the evolution of his Dao, just as the Heaven-opening axe is to Fuxi, and the Chaos green lotus is to Nüwa.

The Ancestor Dragon glanced indifferently at Yandi, and with a flip of his hand the jade seal struck down, intending to crack Yandi open.

Yandi merely calmly watched this splendid conquest of the mortal world.

When the seal approached his person, he only let out a soft sigh, a long sword leapt into his hand, and he sliced toward the seal.

Without grand brilliance, without dazzling spectacle, it was just that ordinary, yet the result was world-shaking!

"Crack!"

Metal and jade collided, with the jade seal's shattering becoming the end of this round's clash!

"Pfft!"

The Ancestor Dragon coughed up a mouthful of blood; the jade seal was the evolution of his Dao, yet at this moment that long sword actually chopped off a corner! Damage to the Dao means injury to the person.

Thus the Ancestor Dragon was wounded, blood flowing incessantly.

"How is this possible?!"

He couldn't comprehend it.

"Nothing is impossible." Yandi answered his confusion, "You think you're merely fighting me?"

"Wrong, totally wrong."

He sighed, seeming troubled by conscience's rebuke, "Ancestor Dragon, admit defeat."

"You cannot possibly beat me."

"You think you're fighting just me alone, little knowing… you're actually fighting a group!"

"All of humanity… even all sentient beings of the Human Dao, are actually my trumpets!"

"Don't believe me? If you don't, I'll switch accounts and say the same thing to you."

Yandi spoke softly, and then his figure became blurry.

The next moment, he returned to clarity, but……

He has changed!

He became…… Xuanyuan! That is…… Dihong! This is not merely a superficial change in appearance, but a thorough transformation, the true Dihong standing here!

Possessing such an origin, such cultivation, his majesty unmatched, standing at the pinnacle of the mortal world, he is the kind who could block Houtu in reincarnation without even a trace of temper.

Even more, it doesn't stop there! "Wow, how adorable!"

Another Dihong, he stood before reincarnation, taking over what Haotian left behind when he went to battle the August Emperor—a thing like a caterpillar, a Nüwa.

——Girl! Haotian went to quarrel with the August Emperor, but before leaving, he handed the girl over to Dihong…… This is reasonable.

After all, everyone knows Haotian and Dihong have an unclear relationship, passing things from left hand to right hand—isn't that quite normal?

The girl fell into Dihong's hands, her fate…… is worrying.

Dihong held her, glanced twice, then extended a finger, poked the girl's forehead, and gently touched her chubby little cheek…… Seeing this, Houtu jumped in reincarnation, the three corpses gods leaping with rage.

"This little girl, dead and reborn, has gained heavenly affinity."

"I and Yandi, my Imperial Elder Brother, felt an instant kinship…… This girl is his daughter, thus also my daughter!"

Dihong spoke with confidence, assigning himself seniority, making the gods' scalps tingle, foreseeing a cataclysmic blood war.

"Nüwa, must not be insulted!" Dihong seemed unaware of the magnitude of his actions, chatting happily as he ordered the left Historian Cangjie: "Convey my decree: from now on, the cloud master shall have a princess 'Ying'…… After I abdicate, you shall reign in my stead over all under heaven!"

Cangjie, or rather Báizé…… his expression was near collapse, he swallowed hard with difficulty, his heart trembling, his hand shaking, he did not want to be dragged into such a self-destructive act.

But he had no choice.

Dihong is a loudmouth; though he said to let him pass the order, it had already been broadcast throughout Honghuang…… Those who needed to know already did! The people's descendants sang praises, for a great human sovereign's successor has appeared.

Alas, they do not know the truth, how ferocious it is! "Xuanyuan!"

Houtu flew into a rage, like an angry lion: "You abandoned the struggle for Pangu just to play these despicable tricks with me?"

"Do you want me to die without a whole corpse someday?" "Want me dead? That would be quite difficult." Dihong smiled faintly, "I'm curious, Houtu…… can you manage it?"

"Ah! You make me furious!"

Houtu trembled with rage, she gathered her strength and threw a punch that could shatter the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds! But Dihong blocked it! His power is likewise astonishing! The Dao Ancestor Hongjun cut out the path he once walked and gave it to him…… That is the former pioneer of the human Dao, who, though defeated, still shines boundlessly! Moreover, as successor, Dihong gained even more, even harvesting the Heaven‑Opening Divine Axe that the Dao Ancestor once desired but never obtained, comprehending its true essence, rising to a higher level!

Even though Houtu is the ancestral witch form evolved from Nüwa, sharing cultivation, what can she do against him?

Hard to defeat!

However, Houtu is not fighting alone.

"Put down the girl!"

Yinglong employed the Great Divine Ability of the First Seven Heads Method, successfully escaping the karmic backlash's sanction.

While the big shots went to battle for Pangu's Dao fruit, she rushed back, intending to act in the chaos and rescue the girl.

But! Immediately, Dihong employed a forbidden means——

"Hold the girl to command the gods!" Yinglong at once felt hesitant to act.

"Come, work for me…… if you do well, I'll return her to you, how about that?"

Dihong reluctantly played the villain, pinning Yinglong between morality and loyalty, saying, "Come to think of it, you ought to thank me…… without Haotian's intervention, you'd still be dragged into the human‑monster‑dragon struggle, hardly free."

"This……"

Yinglong trembled, painfully closing his eyes.

"Don't listen to his nonsense!" Houtu stepped in the underworld, propping up the sky of the nether realm.

She boldly attacked, aiming to blast Dihong's dog head.

"Houtu, you're too impulsive, too hasty."

Dihong gathered all his jokes, his expression indifferent, "If you can't endure this, how will you later uphold the human Dao and rule all beings?"

"In this world, where some respect you, others will also slander you."

"The more impulsive, the more prone to error."

"It seems your cultivation of calmness hasn't passed the test; you still need a period of tranquil reflection."

Speaking, he swept a hand through the void, and a refined, splendid longsword appeared therein.

By this time, at this moment, Xuanyuan had reached the pinnacle of perfection.

Needing no external reliance, whatever he thinks and desires can be forged into his own Xuanyuan sword!

The sword is extraordinary, its blade and hilt both inscribed—one side of the blade bears the sun, moon, and stars; the other side bears mountains, rivers, and flora; one side of the hilt writes the art of development and expansion; the other side writes the strategy for unifying Honghuang.

As Xuanyuan gripped it, the rise and fall of the Myriad Heavens, the prosperity and decline of the human Dao, were all entrusted to this sword; accompanying the most brilliant civilization's light, it struck down!

It cut toward reincarnation, it cut toward the netherworld! Before that infinite radiant sword light, it seemed nothing could block its edge.

"Boom!"

In the gorgeous light, Houtu was driven back, reincarnation was pierced through, a speck of vivid red light leaked, flowing along the sword's momentum, spreading across the years, dyeing the long river of time crimson!

In the endless crimson blood‑light, it seemed as if all beings were shouting, roaring, praising the greatness of the human Dao, praising the sage virtue of the emperor! One sword drawn, myriad ages changed!

Xuanyuan surpasses the world!

He indifferently looked down upon humanity, observing the rise and fall of all worlds, a hint of sorrow in his eyes, yet his words sounded lofty and ancient—the proper human Dao is vicissitude.

"You shall no longer be Houtu, but become Pingxin!"

"Cultivate tranquility, nurture virtue, be dignified and virtuous, a model for the world!"

"Pingxin jingqi, heart calm and breath even, no leaping up or down;"

"Self‑reflection and observation, cultivating excellent fine virtues; bearing and conduct proper and solemn, character worthy and kind, not frivolous nor greedy for empty fame and honor;"

"Thus, as an exemplar for all beings under heaven, thereby setting the maternal standard…… with the broad, loving heart of a kind mother, to care for the people of the world, to preserve the harmony and stability of the vast Honghuang cosmos, the state."

"This is Dihong's expectation for Houtu…… or rather for Nüwa! But Houtu does not want to accept it."

"You!"

Here!

Do!

Dream!

Each word was paused, as if the sound was squeezed out from between the teeth.

……

You…… Yandi?! Huangdi?!

The Ancestor Dragon was shocked.

The injury from a chipped corner of the jade seal could not shake the shock in his heart at this moment.

He was certain that the transformation from Yandi to Huangdi was certainly not some deceitful divine ability, a trick to deceive Heaven.

But rather a transformation of 'unity'!

You are actually the same existence, the same source!

"Didn't I tell you already?" the transformed Yandi chuckled lightly, "It's just a Trumpet, a routine operation… stay calm."

Not to mention Huangdi.

Even the White Emperor would do!

In Yandi's tone, Huangdi's Dao, within his soft-spoken voice, he transformed again.

This time, he became…… the Donghua Emperor! "Dragon Ancestor Daoist, I am Donghua, for Shaohao, for the ancestor of the Bird Master… may I ask, Daoist, how have you been?"

Donghua, or rather Wenming, his face full of smiles, greeted the Dragon Ancestor.

Fake…… it must be fake!

The Dragon Ancestor Great Sage murmured, "I can accept Yan and Huang, but the White Emperor…… absolutely impossible."

No…… it's not that there's no possibility……

He seemed to think of a hair-raising situation: "You…… are all Fuxi?!"

"Daoist, you're thinking wrong." Yandi calmly replied, "It's just a trade."

Just changing a guise, what's the big deal?

Stay calm, stay calm.

He said this.

But, this is even more frightening.

"Change a disguise? How could one change it? Who can afford to change? Donghua wasn't... suppressed and killed by Haotian..."

Dragon Ancestor's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of a needle's eye.

"Looks like, fellow Daoist, you've figured it out." Yandi's tone was calm, "Taking over a position, swapping internships, gaining work experience... none of that is a big deal!"

"If you don't believe me... look."

He shook his form, no longer the White Emperor, this time transforming into... Hongjun! However, this Hongjun is quite different, distinct from the Heavenly Dao Patriarch seen by the gods on ordinary days, as if it is another facet of this Patriarch, never revealed to the world from beginning to end, a future that was nipped in the bud.

This aspect is obviously not as overbearing as the Heavenly Dao Patriarch, yet it bears the dignity and majesty of a Human Emperor, and is also a Heavenly Emperor.

A series of transformations was the most straightforward answer to Dragon Ancestor.

He, Yandi, is not merely someone's disguise; he is the alter ego of some already-famous great figure... but rather, he can assume many forms!

"Ha... haha..." Dragon Ancestor let out a bitter laugh, "No wonder you'd say that."

"I never expected that!"

"In this era, something like the Human Dao... can actually become a spirit!"

"I'm not willing!"

(End of chapter)