Chapter 265: The Fated One! Luo Fu Reverses the Dao

"Which demon clan elder was it?" Houtu continued to ask.

"It was Jiuying, the Demon God Jiuying—my lord must avenge our clan!" the Wu clan member cried in grief.

"I know," Houtu nodded, her eyes glinting with cold light. "Demon God Jiuying."

"The direction Jiuying headed toward is..."

Houtu's gaze turned to the place where the spiritual light had exploded—a scent of a top-tier primordial spiritual root.

She had already sensed this when she first came rushing toward this Wu tribe, but compared to the top-tier spiritual root, her clan's welfare mattered most to her.

So she did not head straight to where the spiritual light had appeared, but instead came first to this tribe where the demon clan and Wu clan had clashed.

Now she knew it was Demon God Jiuying who had attacked this demon clan tribe.

To Houtu, she had heard of this Demon God Jiuying—he was one of the lower-ranked Demon Gods.

In past battles with their Wu clan, Jiuying had never possessed such status.

After all, those were battles between Quasi-Saints.

Only Emperor Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, Kunpeng, Fuxi, and a few other Demon Gods with Quasi-Saint-level power had the qualifications to fight against their Ancestral Wus.

If it were merely a Demon God at the Great Luo Jinxian level,

and he dared to directly confront their Ancestral Wus, the outcome would surely be tragic.

He would become nothing but a burden to the demon clan.

For Quasi-Saint-level Ancestral Wus, killing a Great Luo Jinxian-level demon was an effortless matter.

That was precisely why.

In past battles between Houtu and the demon clan's top powerhouses like Donghuang Taiyi, Jiuying had never appeared—this was why Houtu felt no strong familiarity with the demonic aura Jiuying had emitted.

If pressed, she did have a slight awareness of the name Jiuying.

Though Jiuying's strength was only Great Luo Jinxian, he was still one of the demon clan's high echelons, ranked among the Demon Gods.

In the demon clan's heavenly court,

Emperor Jun and Donghuang Taiyi were the two most powerful figures in the demon clan.

After them came Fuxi and the Demon Master Kunpeng.

The Demon Gods ranked below those individuals.

This alone showed that the status of Demon Gods was among the highest in the demon clan.

Of course, this excluded Emperor Jun's wife and his son, the Jin Wu.

But regardless, the Demon Gods were unquestionably among the demon clan's high echelons.

So Houtu had heard of this Demon God Jiuying.

"Clean up your clan's corpses and head to my tribe—someone will meet you there." Houtu's figure vanished instantly, her voice faintly echoing across the heavens and earth.

"Yes, thank you, my lord." The Wu clan members bowed deeply again, watching Houtu disappear.

…………………………

In an ordinary mountain hollow,

the top-tier primordial spiritual root, the Five-Needle Pine, now fully released its previously suppressed radiance.

Countless Dao inscriptions flowed across the ancient trunk of the Five-Needle Pine.

As a top-tier spiritual root, it would normally flee under such circumstances, for Luo Fu was not the destined one of this Five-Needle Pine.

If it were the destined one, such primordial spiritual roots and heavenly treasures would, to some extent, naturally gravitate toward him.

This was a rule system of the Primordial World.

Treasures conceal themselves—they do not emerge until the proper time.

Even seizing treasures belonging to the destined one could draw the influence of the Primordial World's Daoic calamity qi.

That influence could sometimes be extreme.

Just like the great final battle between the Wu and demon clans, where both sides annihilated each other—this was, to some extent, even more extreme than the previous Great Calamity experienced by the Long Feng and Beginning Qilin.

After all, the Wu-demon Great Calamity already involved many Quasi-Saints, whose numbers far exceeded those of the Era of Dragons and Phoenixes.

After Ancestor Hongjun's teachings, the overall power of the Primordial World had risen several tiers beyond the Era of Dragons and Phoenixes.

Yet even so, the calamity qi generated by the Daoic Great Calamity remained extraordinarily extreme.

According to history,

the Wu and demon clans nearly annihilated each other—not only ordinary powerhouses, but even the top powerhouses were nearly wiped out.

That was precisely why.

Even Hunyuan Da Luo would not lightly interfere in a Great Calamity, let alone act upon things tied to the Great Calamity or the destined one.

It was like,

when the Long Feng and Beginning Qilin vied for dominance over the Primordial World,

the Three Pure Ones were perhaps only just beginning to take form, and Donghuang Taiyi, stationed at the Sun Star, was the same.

At that time, Ancestor Hongjun and Luo Hou may have known that Donghuang Taiyi possessed the primordial supreme treasure, the Chaos Bell.

But even so,

they did not act against him.

As Quasi-Saints, even reincarnated Chaos Demons, they understood the workings of the Primordial World's Dao far better.

Before Donghuang Taiyi emerged, the next Great Calamity's central figure was the Sun Star itself.

If they had acted rashly, the Primordial World's Dao would have targeted them.

In that case, not even achieving Hunyuan Da Luo would be possible.

Even surviving peacefully in the Primordial World would not be easy.

That was precisely why.

Whether it was the past Ancestor Hongjun or Luo Hou, or the many Saints of today, even if they truly discovered something of great importance related to Heaven's Mandate, they would not act lightly.

As Saints of the Heavenly Dao, they, to some extent, must also follow the operation of the Heavenly Dao.