Chapter 856

In your impulsiveness, the moment you swung your fist at me, defeat was sealed!

Fuxi spoke languidly.

No!

Nüwa's eyes blazed, "The one who took the bait… is you!"

You think that, just because I have become Dao Pangu, you come to block me, leaving me unable to attend to other matters… then I have no way?!

Little do you know, your coming to restrain me is exactly what I wanted… because it means I also restrain you!

You're so pleased, isn't it just because both the Wu Clan and the Human Race owe you a debt?

Pangu's essence blood!

But today… I too have become Dao Pangu!

Nüwa's eyes gleamed, full of spirit, "Replacing the source, this Pangu is not that Pangu, Fuxi, you have miscalculated!"

"Impossible." Fuxi frowned, "I came neither too early nor too late, just right… you don't have this opportunity."

"Nothing is absolutely impossible… who will win the deer is still unknown!"

Nüwa shouted loudly, a green lotus burst forth, the Great Dao like a sea, flooding the era of Chaos, throwing everything into turmoil.

The ultimate showdown erupted!

For a moment, none of them could attend to anything else, unable to divert their energy from this place; only a few decisive moves blossomed in the downstream ages of the River of Time, becoming the ultimate Absolute Kill!

……

The silent spacetime, the eternally sealed hall.

The Wa Huang Palace, the earthly abode of the Heavenly Dao Saint Nüwa, who knows how long it has lain dust‑sealed.

That most secret treasury was fitted with intricate locks, making it hard to breach.

And who knows when—perhaps from the very beginning—a priceless sacred treasure was stored here, looped by a tributary of the River of Time into a lake, sealed away, hidden, a covert subterfuge.

Until the great upheaval at the source of time erupted—that was a world‑shaking slaughter of the Chaos era—it then unsealed itself… the lake of light and shadow dried up, the rhythm of time faded, replaced by a torrential surge of life force that reflected the primal scene.

A female saint—none other than Nüwa—stood here, her expression alternating between bewildered and clear, as if her trans‑temporal self had coalesced into one, and in order to pull off a covert subterfuge, deceive the fearsome mastermind behind the scenes, she undertook a genuine disguise, merely to become a fish that slipped through the net, hiding the greatest treasure.

Blood!

Crimson fresh blood!

At the moment of clarity, Nüwa pressed her joined fingers like a sword to her own chest… scalding divine blood poured from her heart, infinitely powerful—that was Pangu‑level blood!

"How powerful can dual verification of the Dao be? Can it defeat and crush that person head‑on?"

Nüwa whispered, "I don't know… maybe it will work, maybe it won't."

"But at the very least it should buy a time gap, hide a trump card for a turnaround, beyond my brother's expectations."

"What should I target?"

"It seems there is no concrete target…"

"But initially, I started with the benefits I gained from him… Pangu's essence blood!"

"This is a flaw in my foundation; I will make amends."

"Fortunately, I have already become Pangu… though kept secret, it is genuine."

"If that's the case… then let me play a big hand!"

"To close the loop of cause and effect, steal heaven and swap sun, the true… Pangu manipulates the present!"

In a soft sigh, the divine blood fell at the proper time and place into the River of Time, following her will, at the moment when the two Pangu mutually restrained each other, dripping into the source of the Wu‑Yao era, merging and exchanging with the Fuxi‑marked Pangu essence blood originally held by Houtu!

Thus, everything in the future seemed unchanged, yet in reality a world‑shaking transformation occurred!

……

At the end of the Wu‑Yao era, one ancestor witch after another had taken sides, choosing to board August Emperor's pirate ship.

——Indeed, they were not optimistic about Nüwa, and with the final authority over Pangu's essence blood, feeling helpless, they thought it better to be pragmatic.

"Princess Nüwa has great talent and strategy, alas… after all, there are heavens beyond heaven, people beyond people."

Di Jiang Zu Wu wore a look of regret and said to his peers, "Next, to reduce casualties in the war of all gods, we should set an example, properly soothe our own Wu tribes, let everyone see reality clearly, and not engage in futile struggle."

"Alright…" the half‑hearted echoes showed that nobody's enthusiasm was high.

Although reality was helpless, the Wu ancestors' feelings about stabbing Nüwa in the ribs were not good.

Xuanming Zu Wu remained silent, facing the ten top experts alone—a sure‑loss situation—but she refused to give up, wanting to fight until her last breath.

Zhurong remained silent, Xi Zi lost speech, Zhusou, Jumang, Shebi Shi, and Tiānwú shook their heads and sighed, unwilling to act against her… alas, Di Jiang, Zhu Long, Gong Gong, and Lei Ze still remained; their combined force could easily suppress and kill her on the spot!

"Xuanming… Golden Mother, surrender." Zhu Long sighed lightly, "We can give you a dignified way to retreat, it won't hurt you, only a seal in Yaochi."

"No need for many words." Golden Mother smiled carefreely, "To die at the hands of so many of you united, I count it as not dying in vain."

"Alas!"

The various ancestor witches wore complex expressions.

"Why bother?"

"Some things just need someone to do them." Golden Mother simply said, "If not even one powerful divine expert is willing to bury themselves with Nüwa's cause, wouldn't that show she's a failure?"

"I know, you all have your difficulties… Zhurong, you are Xihe; with Emperor Jun's Heavenly Court collapsed, you must bear the responsibility of cleaning up the aftermath, and dare not oppose Fuxi's faction."

"Xi Zi is Xuan Su, bound by Xuanyuan's interests, with capital sunk in, making withdrawal difficult."

"Shebi Shi, Doumu Yuanjun, allied with the Buddhist sect… this must not offend the Master of Fortune's Dao, otherwise a Heaven‑Earth Bank will come to audit the accounts, and even if not dead, one will lose a layer of skin."

"Zhusou, Tai Yuan Daoist… Yuanshi Tianzun has placed his bet on the Human Emperor; your relationship with him is ambiguous, making it ill‑advised to turn against him."

"Jumang is the Yuan Huang Prince; that goes without saying."

"……"

Golden Mother said languidly, this group of ancestor witches, not one of them is simple.

Either they are not simple, or it is oneself who is not simple.

Either the background is not simple.

Either one Taiji titan, or the background is a Heavenly Dao Saint, a peerless human emperor.

"The Wu Clan has come to the end; we ancestral witches each went our separate ways, each with our own undertakings." Jinmu was very calm, "As former comrades-in-arms, I also shouldn't forcibly drag you along, wasting the investments we poured our heart and blood into."

"That's me."

"I have no plans for the future, nor any talk of vested interests……Since that's the case, let me go and be buried with Nüwa's undertaking."

"I and Houtu……are likely the last surviving ancestral witches."

Jinmu's expression suddenly brightened, showing a smile, "Perhaps in future records, aside from me and her, all the ancestral witches died in battle."

"Only we two remain, accompanying the surviving Wu Clan, as failures, recorded in the songs of the myriad peoples."

"Some people, though they 'die,' merely change their appearance, active in a new identity, and win big."

"Some people, though she lives, merely lives, nailed to the framework of a loser, worse off than death."

"Death is not necessarily failure; life is not necessarily victory."

"The ancestral witches fell silent."

"After a long while, someone finally wanted to speak, to say a few comforting words."

"But then, this very moment!"

"I won't let you die."

"My undertaking also doesn't need any burial companions."

"A faint, soft whisper echoed in everyone's ears."

"In an instant!"

"One ancestral witch after another, one mighty expert after another, felt their hairs stand on end, all feeling a chill down their spines."

"This voice!"

"It does not come from the four directions, but arises from deep within the bloodline of their ancestral witch bodies!"

"Moreover……it is Nüwa's voice!"

"Nüwa Empress!" Jinmu's face showed unprecedented joy.

"Little Nüwa!" Emperor Jiang was moved, crying out that title.

"Big sis?!" Tiānwú Kunpeng's face turned green——there's no such scene in the script!

……

"At this moment, not a single ancestral witch remained unmoved."

"I think, everyone should reorganize their wording, reconsider their stance."

"Bloodlines trembled, divine tones rumbled, as if a supreme deity sat at the source of ancient history, overlooking era after era, issuing a decree here: 'Fuxi, he is not omnipotent!'"

"Dao Gate! Buddhist Gate! Taiyuan! Doumu!"

"You can cooperate with Fuxi, so why can't you cooperate with me?!"

"Xihe!"

"I too am one of the demon emperors, capable of tending the demon race's lineage and protecting you!"

"Nüwa Empress's countermove activated; the latent profound consciousness in the ancestral witches' Pangu essence blood revived, making each ancestral witch's body tremble, unable to move."

"Only by achieving the Dao of Taiji can one barely struggle a bit."

"This is the shackles of cause and effect!"

"The strong can ignore causality toward the weak, but the weak cannot disregard the causality coming from the strong."

"However, within the Wu Clan's inheritance also lies a portion of the August Emperor Heavenly Emperor's essence blood, which likewise revived its divine might now, attempting to counteract Nüwa Empress's countermove……but, Nüwa Empress came prepared, gaining the upper hand!"

"With apparent ease, she compelled the ordinary ancestral witches to consider their stance and reorganize their wording."

"At the same time, Nüwa Empress was also moving to deal with those Taiji titans."

Emperor Jiang! Zhulong! Gonggong! Kunpeng! Jumang!

"This lineup is not ordinarily strong."

"But……is she afraid?"

"As for Gonggong……a defeated subordinate, yet dares to speak of bravery?"

"First, look after yourself!"

"Nüwa Empress's cold words instantly caused time to surge, the nodes shifting."

"There once was a pinnacle showdown, that being the battle where Nüwa Empress realized her own Dao fruition, and she personally split the Dragon Ancestor Great Sage alive!"

"At this moment, with Nüwa Empress's will surging, the Dragon Ancestor's defeat instantly bore consequences……the source of Honghuang trembled, one Great Dao after another turning into tangible shackles, entwining Gonggong the ancestral witch's body, resonating with the tumultuous Pangu essence blood, pulling and dragging him into the Suiyue Changhe."

"It is almost like the tragedy when the Dragon Ancestor, in the post-witch-demon era, opened up and was brutally suppressed alive beneath Honghuang!"

"No!"

"The Dragon Ancestor Great Sage roared, struggling desperately……but, a Pangu-targeted strike, plus the rules previously set by the Human Dao, how could he resist?"

"He was captured on the spot!"

"Kunpeng!"

"Nüwa Empress gritted her teeth, making the Tiānwú ancestral witch and Kunpeng Great Sage's entire divine essence go numb, stunned like a wooden chicken, not daring to move a muscle."

"Seeing such a Kunpeng, Nüwa Empress felt embarrassed, too lazy to say anything about him, setting him aside to settle accounts later."

"By then……"

"The Kun is so huge, a cauldron cannot contain it!"

"The Peng is so huge, two barbecue grills!"

"Absolutely!"

"\"Jumang! \" Nüwa Empress softly sighed, her heart full of unspoken worries, \"Sister Yuanhuang, are you willing to help me? \""

Jumang the ancestor witch smiled slightly, "I... I am a wallflower, a mascot, I'll side with whichever side is stronger. Now you're the stronger one, so I'll stick with you."

Such blunt words left even the Nüwa Emperor speechless.

With a sigh, she shifted the gun's aim, pointing it at Di Jiang and Zhulong.

The bloodline origin of the ancestor witch's body was burning; Pangu's essence blood carried a 'poison,' and they needed to be imprisoned and restrained.

"Di Jiang, how do you feel?"

"Aren't you delighted?"

"Aren't you surprised?"

"The Wu Clan—ultimately, I'm the one who decides!"

Nüwa's will was indifferent; thus she decreed.

"Your ability to pull strings is not small, and behind you lurk the August Emperor's scheming... alas, this is my era!"

The bloodline boiled, Pangu's aura spread, but this was no good thing—it became a calamity.

The two great ancestor witches of time and space, at this moment, face calamity!

"I underestimated you..." Di Jiang's eyes held a hint of surprise and admiration, then he resolutely teamed with Zhulong the Great Sage, "Break out! Charge forth!"

"Her true form will be restrained by the August Emperor; even if she lays hidden hands, there are limits... we still have a chance!"

"Alright!" Zhulong the Great Sage sighed, "What on earth is all this?!"

Though that was the case, his cooperation was also perfect.

"Boundless time and space! Eternal and free!"

This is the trait of the Great Luo; at this moment, the two supreme beings of time and space jointly enact it to its peak, in an instant possessing the most transcendent aura, breaking the norm and transcending all constraints.

Soaring through the void of ages, they could reach anywhere, nowhere was beyond them, elusive and hard to grasp.

"Where could you possibly flee to?" The will of Nüwa within Pangu's essence blood slowly manifested, taking tangible form, "the giant fish-bird, Zhulong will handle you."

"As for Di Jiang..." she hated this ancestor witch to the point of gritted teeth, "I will make you know my wrath!"

"Replace you, suppress you... Rahu's fate will be yours!"

"Raise your eyebrows!"

Nüwa gave a soft shout.

"Her Majesty Nüwa!"

An ancient Daoist with silver hair and silver brows appeared silently, reverent.

"Go!"

"Seize Di Jiang and bring him to justice, dead or alive!"

"As you command!" The demon god who once blocked the Dao Ancestor smiled and departed on his orders.

A string of sudden changes stunned the remaining ancestor witches.

Nüwa, terrifying indeed!

The powerful anti-Houtu faction, in just a brief moment, saw all its major cadres suffer a dreadful purge!

The Five Great Simplicities—whether they surrendered, fled, or were suppressed—all came to ruin!

"What's your choice?"

Nüwa's will turned to look, issuing a final ultimatum to the remaining ancestor witches.

"Rather die than surrender!"

Leize the Great Sage stuck out his neck and replied.

"Then go die!"

Nüwa had pent-up a great deal of resentment, which she now fully unleashed.

She pressed down with her jade palm; even a mere thought of Dao was enough to slay a top-tier divine adept.

"Pfft!"

Blood blossomed; Leize the Great Sage drenched the mountains and rivers in blood!

Killing a chicken to warn the monkeys—nothing more than this.

Instantly, the remaining ancestor witches all came to realize, knowing who held sway at this moment.

"Honghuang... the heavens have truly changed!"

The Wu Clan's banner fluttered through the ages, brighter than ever before.

The fate of this faction burned to the extreme... it might yet forge brilliance, or it might... march toward doom!

……

"As expected."

"An internal coup in the Wu Clan? Still not very reliable."

"Ultimately, the Five Heavenly Emperors must appear to suppress the last resistance."

"At this moment, I have waited a long time."

From the depths of the human Dao's origin, Fengxi emerged—truly myself, the one and only!

(End of chapter)