Chapter 696: Xuanzang: This Xuanzang is unfathomable

Chat Group.

First Extraordinary Woman of the Yin-Yang School: "Do you dare believe it? That Yan Dan is truly a transmigrator, not a traveler."

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Sister Yanfei, please explain in detail what happened."

Leader of the Exploding Heavens Faction: "What did we miss?"

Demon Queen: "Eating melons! It's been really lively lately; there aren't even any opponents."

Number One Golden Core of the Nine Provinces: "Heh."

First Extraordinary Woman of the Yin-Yang School: "It happened like this..."

Yanfei recounted what happened in Baiyue, her words concise and comprehensive.

Xiao Yanlingji: "That detestable Yan Dan, is it all because of him that so many of our Baiyue clansmen were harmed?"

Foshan Ye Wen: "Sigh, if it prospers, the people suffer; if it perishes, the people suffer."

The Demon King Who Never Suffers a Loss: "Indeed."

Scripture Seeker of the Journey to the West: "Everything has two sides. In a sense, the fates of Yanfei and Yanlingji have also undergone some changes."

First Extraordinary Woman of the Yin-Yang School: "That is true, Great Xuanzang, but I don't feel happy; instead, I have an inexplicable sense of crisis. I don't know where this crisis comes from."

Diviner: "The trajectory of fate has changed, so the future path is unknown; everything is changing."

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Speaking of which, was Yan Dan finished off by Brother Zheng?"

Ying Zheng of Great Qin: "Yes, but in the end, Yan Dan's system appeared on me, and then it was devoured by the Chat Group."

Leader of the Exploding Heavens Faction: "Damn, the Chat Group is also a Diliu. In the past, when it recycled systems, it would even issue rewards for tasks. This time, it just greedily kept it. Regarding this, Group Owner, do you have any explanation?"

Diviner: "What does that have to do with me? I am just a Group Owner; the Chat Group wasn't created by me."

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "What a convenient way to shift the blame. I don't believe you don't know the trickery behind it."

Diviner: "It's not the first day you've known that the Chat Group is a black-hearted profiteer."

Han Paopao of the Seven Profound Sect: "I agree with this point."

Regarding this, Han Li deeply agreed. If it weren't for the Chat Group's mechanism not allowing for bugs, he could have used the Small Green Bottle to constantly exploit bugs and produce millions of years of spiritual plants; if he sold those, he would have a continuous stream of points.

Chat Group: "..."

Scripture Seeker of the Journey to the West: "Yanfei, Yanlingji, what are your plans next?"

First Extraordinary Woman of the Yin-Yang School: "Wow, Brother Xuanzang, are you concerned about me? This little woman is truly flattered."

Xiao Yanlingji: "Hee hee, happy, Brother Xuanzang is concerned about me."

Scripture Seeker of the Journey to the West: "..."

Demon Queen: "Xuanzang, we are old acquaintances; you don't care about me either."

Number One Golden Core of the Nine Provinces: "Exactly, exactly, begging for concern."

Pope of the Spirit Hall: "Yingyingying, begging for concern, Brother Xuanzang."

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "So envious!"

Leader of the Exploding Heavens Faction: "Ye Laoliu, what are you envious of?"

Leader of the Axe Gang: "As expected of Master, this charm has already broken through the sky."

Qingqiu Bai Qian: "Zhizunbao, you really know how to talk. However, the charm of Holy Monk Xuanzang is indeed great; otherwise, there wouldn't be so many female demons or female immortals on the Journey to the West trying to get their hands on Xuanzang."

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Haha, my weak-looking Xuan Ge has been captured by a female demon again."

Scripture Seeker of the Journey to the West: "Ye Fan, you dare to tease me? Your courage has grown. Do you believe I'll throw you into the Dark Plateau to dance with the Ancestors?"

Leader of the Exploding Heavens Faction: "Haha, agreed, it must be done."

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Damn, no way. Xuan Ge, this is not a good joke."

Ye Fan thought of the Dark Ye Heavenly Emperor's encounter and couldn't help but shiver.

With Xuan Ge's great power, saying he would throw him to the Plateau was no boast.

Even the Dark Ancestors would have to be physically transcended in front of Xuan Ge.

Scripture Seeker of the Journey to the West: "Know you're afraid now? Heh."

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Ahem, Yanfei, Sister Yanlingji, so what are you planning to do next?"

Ye Fan hurriedly changed the subject, not wanting to continue.

Otherwise, who knows if a joke might become reality in the next second.

Xiao Yanlingji: "I don't know, I'll just follow Sister Yanfei."

First Extraordinary Woman of the Yin-Yang School: "I don't have any plans for now either, and I don't intend to return to the Yin-Yang School. Perhaps I'll just wander the world; anyway, with my current Martial Dao cultivation, I wouldn't say I'm invincible, but no one in the whole world can do anything to me."

After all, this is a fused martial arts world, and there are other group members.

Yanfei remained a bit humble and didn't claim to be invincible.

Great Tang has a Bad Commander, Great Ming has a Zhang Sanfeng; they are all old monsters.

Ye Fan Zhen Bu Hei: "Sister Yanfei, aren't you afraid that the Eastern Emperor of the Yin-Yang School will come to trouble you?"

First Extraordinary Woman of the Yin-Yang School: "Heh, at this point, do I still need to fear Donghuang Taiyi? If he insists on pestering me, I'll finish her off and become the person in charge of the Yin-Yang School myself."

Leader of the Exploding Heavens Faction: "666."

Demon Queen: "A big rebellious streak, but I, the Queen, like it."

First Extraordinary Woman of the Yin-Yang School: "No choice, hee hee!"

Leader of the Exploding Heavens Faction: "Brother Zheng, what about you? What do you plan to do next?"

Ying Zheng of Great Qin: "Naturally, it is to sweep across the six states and establish the Great Qin Empire."

Bad Commander: "Looking forward to it."

Wudang Old Immortal: "Indeed, the heroic posture of the First Emperor sweeping across the six states; I didn't expect that I, an old man, would be able to see it with my own eyes."

Ying Zheng of Great Qin: "Haha, compared to you Immortals, this is nothing."

Ying Zheng smiled and said, "Sweeping across the six states is merely a beginning."

What he wants to do is to carve out a foundation for ten thousand generations, surpass his former self, let the banner of Great Qin be planted in every corner of this land, and let the boundless starry sky shine with the Black Bird totem of Great Qin.

If it is possible, he also wants to conquer the multiverse of the Great Qin universe.

This is his ambition!

……

Yin-Yang School, deep within the Astrology Tower.

This is the pavilion where Eastern Emperor Taiyi stays alone, and only she can come here; others of the Yin-Yang School, unless specially summoned, have no qualifications to come here alone.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi looked up at the stars in the night sky, her whole body wrapped in a black robe of Golden Crow stars; her expression could not be seen, nor could her gender be distinguished. No one knows who she is, and no one knows where she came from.

Regarding the knowledge of the Yin-Yang School, the Hundred Schools of Thought only know that two hundred years ago, a traitor with peerless talent emerged from the Daomen, who comprehended the Yin-Yang Arts that cover the heaven, earth, and five elements, divination of stars, and destiny from the Taoist arts; since then, the Yin-Yang School was born.

As soon as the Yin-Yang School appeared, it became a top-tier sect among the Hundred Schools of Thought.

And their leader calls herself Eastern Emperor Taiyi, taken from the deity of the Golden Crow in the Nine Songs, mysterious and powerful.

But from beginning to end, no one knows the identity of Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi watched the stars flicker, among which a newly emerged star representing majestic Qi Luck lost its radiance, then vanished and turned into a shooting star.

"Yan Dan has fallen after all. It seems the gears of destiny have begun to turn."

The Eastern Emperor muttered to herself, walking step by step into the depths of the pavilion, arriving inside an antique-scented room.

This room is extremely primitive, lit with charming incense, the surroundings hung with various portraits of the Nine Songs deities, and a bronze mirror over eight feet tall placed in the corner.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi came before the bronze mirror, only to see ripples appear on the mirror's surface, and a slender figure slowly emerged from within?

The Eastern Emperor waved her hand, and the person in the mirror made the same movement; it was evident that it was the Eastern Emperor's reflection.

No one would have guessed that the mysterious leader of the Yin-Yang School, the Eastern Emperor, is actually a woman.

This slender female figure gradually became clear, as did her blurred face, and in the end, it actually formed a face of stunning, heavenly beauty.

If Yan Fei were here, she would discover that the appearance of the person in the mirror was no different from her own; except for an added air of vicissitudes, they were almost exactly the same.

There is actually such a similar person in the world!

"Yan Fei."

The Eastern Emperor whispered, and she, under the black robe, did not know what she was thinking, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

……

Journey to the West World, the outskirts of Western Mount Xumi.

Xuanzang, Houtu, Sanqing, Anlan, and the Demon Venerable's group continued to advance toward the west.

The closer they got to the west, the more they could feel the spiritual energy in the heaven and earth becoming increasingly turbid, filled with baleful energy that makes one lose their composure; those with weak cultivation and unstable minds could very likely be contaminated by this baleful energy if they were not careful, falling into the Demon Dao.

"Is this the territory of Demon Ancestor Luohou? How terrifying." Anlan could not help but say.

He thought the contamination of the Darkness Ancestor was already serious enough, but compared to the baleful energy near this Mount Xumi, it was still far too inferior.

If it were not for Xuan Ge and Houtu Dalao protecting him, he would likely have fallen into the Demon Dao or even lost himself in the process of subtle influence.

"Back then, during the war of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Tribes, Luohou devoured the blood energy and baleful energy of the three tribes. Using that as a catalyst, he set up the Immortal Execution Sword Array and the Immortal Execution Array Diagram in the west; the entire western spiritual vein was to be contaminated, and the living beings covered within it naturally could not resist the power of the Demon Dao," Xuanzang said.

Even though they had not yet reached Mount Xumi, they could still feel that in the firmament of the west, there was vaguely an array diagram as large as the edge of the world appearing and disappearing, constantly devouring the baleful energy of all living beings and the tribulation energy under this Great Tribulation.

Although Luohou has not yet become a Saint, the Immortal Execution Sword Array he set up is likely not much worse than that of the later Tongtian.

The Saint Tongtian only used the timing and geographical advantages to simply set up the Immortal Execution Sword Array, which did not harm the harmony of heaven.

Luohou is different; using the entire western spiritual vein as a foundation, combined with the power of the Great Tribulation and the resentment of the three tribes, it is feared that there are over a hundred Great Luo Golden Immortals guarding the array, and the power of slaughter is rarely seen in the world.

"Such a heaven and earth is not suitable for cultivation," Yuanshi said.

"Indeed, the baleful energy is too heavy, affecting the minds of all living beings; if it gets serious, one might fall into endless slaughter and tyranny," Taiqing said.

"Now is the Dao-Demon Struggle; if Luohou wins, then the future Honghuang will be filled with the baleful energy of the Demon Dao just like this west, and looking at Luohou's formation, I don't know how much chance Hongjun has of winning," Tongtian said.

"Hmph, even if Hongjun loses, we, the Sanqing, as descendants of Pangu, will not sit by and watch Luohou dominate Honghuang," Yuanshi said.

"It is too late; once the Dao-Demon Struggle has a result, it means someone can achieve Transcendence.

Because the general trend of the Heavenly Dao and the Qi Luck of the Heavenly Dao will be devoured by the other side; our cultivation is insufficient, and the time is too short," Taiqing said.

The Dao-Demon Struggle is not a simple appointment to fight.

It is to decide the future direction of heaven and earth; if Demon Ancestor Luohou wins, he will obtain the recognition of the general trend of heaven and earth and devour the Qi Luck of heaven and earth, advancing further to become the First Demon Saint, and also the strongest in the entire Honghuang.

At that time, these Great Luo Golden Immortals of theirs would not be his match at all.

According to the consistent style of the Demon Dao, those who submit prosper and those who resist perish; perhaps they, these descendants of Pangu, would be the first batch of Innate Sacreds to be killed by Luohou.

"Fellow Daoist Xuanzang, who do you think will win this battle?" Taiqing asked.

"Fellow Daoist Taiqing, the secrets of heaven must not be revealed. Besides, you should know who will win," Xuanzang smiled mysteriously and did not say directly.

Although he knows the direction of Honghuang, these are all popular versions.

If a variable appears in this Honghuang and Luohou kills Hongjun and becomes a Saint, it is not impossible.

Therefore, until the last moment, he does not dare to guarantee what the result will be.

Not to mention this is a game between Great Abilities of this level; one careless move, and the whole game is lost.

"……"

Upon hearing this, Taiqing could not help but secretly complain in his heart.

What does he know? How would he know who will win?

Fellow Daoist Xuanzang is really something, what kind of cryptic talk is this?

And "the secrets of heaven must not be revealed"!

As the few chatted and flew, it was not long before they discovered that there were living beings ahead.

Those were several practitioners wearing black Taoist robes, each with peerless cultivation that could not be underestimated.

They were Hongjun, Yinyang Daojun, Qiankun Daoren, and Wuxing Laozu, who had gone to Mount Xumi early to engage in battle.

It turned out they saw that the momentum of Luo Hou was truly too great, so they did not immediately launch a heaven-shaking battle against him, but instead plotted together, causing time to be delayed.

"Greetings, fellow Daoists."

Xuanzang and the Sanqing all bowed together.

"Greetings, fellow Daoists."

Hongjun, Yinyang Daojun, Wuxing Laozu, and Qiankun Daoren replied together.

Xuanzang looked at the group of four before him, guessing their identities; at this time, being at Mount Xumi and possessing such unfathomable cultivation, could it be?

Subsequently, Hongjun, Yinyang, and Qiankun introduced themselves, which also confirmed Xuanzang's guess.

"So you are Hongjun? You are the one who wants to fight a decisive battle against the Demon Ancestor Luohou," Yuanshi said.

"Indeed, everything is for the future of Honghuang. If the Demon Ancestor dominates Honghuang, the billions upon billions of living beings in the future will likely suffer," Hongjun said.

"I see that you young friends have deep blessings and Qi Luck like a rainbow; coming to this Mount Xumi, could it be that you are also here to oppose the Demon Ancestor?" Hongjun asked.

"No, we are here to watch the show," Houtu spoke up at this moment, her expression playful.

"??"

Hongjun, Yinyang, Wuxing, and Qiankun were all dumbfounded.

"Hahaha, watching the show, fellow Daoist Houtu, your joke is inconceivable," Wuxing Laozu laughed.

"We Ancestral Witches never joke," Houtu said.

"Ancestral Witches."

Yinyang, Hongjun, Qiankun, and Wuxing Laozu's expressions changed slightly.

Especially Hongjun, whose brows were tightly locked; he had the Jade Plate protecting his body, and the Jade Plate could deduce parts of the future trajectory and the great trends of heaven and earth.

According to the great trends of the Jade Plate, this was not the time for the Ancestral Witches to emerge, and Houtu's cultivation was very strong, not much worse than his own.

Besides this, there were also the Sanqing; why were these three descendants of Pangu here as well?

Hongjun cast his gaze back onto Xuanzang, still unable to see through him; his past and future were blurred, which was truly strange—what exactly had happened?

The Supreme and Anlan were ignored.

Because their cultivation was too weak, they could not influence the great trends of this world at all.