Chapter 513: Following the will of the Great Dao, becoming a Saint on the spot

Tang An stood in mid-air at the Demon-Suppressing Pass, looking down at the entire battlefield outside the pass.

She saw the corpses of the Great Tang soldiers piling up into high walls. She saw soldiers covered in blood, holding tattered Great Tang military flags, using their long spears to prop up their bodies, refusing to fall even in death.

She saw those charred corpses burned by demonic fire, and saw those severed limbs and remains scattered across the ground, torn apart.

The aura on Tang An, originally rational to the point of indifference, clearly shifted into one permeated with killing intent.

"You didn't die?" The Primordial Demon did not expect that not only was Tang An alive, but her cultivation realm had also improved, and she had returned completely unscathed.

When she was rescued, she had clearly been burned by the demonic fire until she was barely recognizable.

Tang An raised her eyebrows slightly and sneered, "How could this Venerable One die before you?"

She gave a look to Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Jiuyue. The four of them joined the battlefield outside the pass one after another, helping the Great Tang army turn the tide.

"An'er?"

Tang An looked toward the source of the call, meeting the gaze of an old father's concern.

In an instant, she appeared beside Li Shimin. "Father."

Li Shimin grabbed Tang An's wrist, pulling her over to examine the wounds on her body. "How are you? Are your injuries any better?"

"I'm fine, Father." Before Tang An could finish speaking, she saw the blood-filled hole in Li Shimin's chest.

She probed Li Shimin's wound with her divine sense and immediately understood the cause and effect of the injury.

At that moment, Tang An glanced sideways at the Primordial Demon, a faint red glow appearing in her eyes.

The Primordial Demon did not care about Tang An's eyes filled with killing intent, because he knew that last time, Tang An had only gone mad from the provocation, which led her to perish together with him.

He was eager for Tang An to be provoked like that once more; after all, Tang An was not like him—she was not immortal and indestructible. Being lucky enough to pick up her life once was already a stroke of immense fortune.

She would not always be that lucky, so as long as he kept provoking her into perishing together with him, she would never be able to return again.

"Do you think you can avenge him?"

"Do you think you can kill me?"

"Do you dare to detonate your magic treasure here?"

"And do you think I will be pushed into a spatial rift by you again?"

Tang An waited quietly for him to finish. "And so?"

The Primordial Demon's expression darkened slightly; Tang An did not seem to have the intense emotions he had imagined.

Tang An gave Li Shimin a leaf from the Ginseng Fruit Tree. "Imperial Father, rest for a while. Leave the matters that follow to me."

Li Shimin grabbed Tang An's arm. "An'er, you cannot risk your life like that again."

"Don't worry, Father." Tang An patted his hand. "I cherish my life very much; I won't risk it with him again."

Watching this scene of fatherly kindness and filial piety, the Primordial Demon only found it laughable.

Because if Tang An did not risk her life, it would be fundamentally impossible for her to kill him.

"Tang An, every time you kill me, my cultivation and physical strength will grow a few points stronger."

"Even if you can kill me today, and kill me in the future, very soon, your magic treasure will no longer be able to break through my physical defense."

Tang An remained unmoved; her heart did not produce any feelings of anger or unwillingness because of the Primordial Demon's words.

There was only a heart as calm as water, without a single ripple, filled with incomparably pure killing intent.

"This Venerable One did not think about using a great killing weapon to deal with you upon returning this time."

"Hmm?" The Primordial Demon laughed. At that moment, he even doubted whether Tang An had been provoked too severely by him, causing her consciousness to have problems.

"Without using that magic treasure, do you think you can kill me?"

"Of course."

Tang An looked back at Li Shimin and nodded to let him rest assured.

Afterward, she stepped into the air; with every step she took, ripples of the Great Dao's Yin and Yang spread out beneath her feet.

"Without using that magic treasure, I can still enter Sainthood to kill you."

"What?"

"Today, I shall use the Great Tang's national fortune to open a path connecting to the Great Dao."

"And with the faith of the world's people, the power of Huaxia's fortune origin, and the merit of guarding the Three Realms, I accept the will of the Great Dao and enter Sainthood on the spot!"

A transparent bridge formed of nine-colored clouds descended from the sky, leading to the mortal world and arriving before Tang An.

All living beings in the Three Realms felt it and looked up toward the horizon one after another.

They saw the sky filled with nine-colored auspicious clouds, beautiful as a dream. Spiritual birds and auspicious beasts, as if summoned, soared and circled in the sky.

Until they saw Tang An's Dharma body appear, they immediately knelt on the ground and worshipped sincerely.

And their power of faith made Tang An's Dharma body increasingly solid. The power of the Great Dao contained within her Dharma body also benefited the earth.

Withered crops encountered timely rain to relieve the drought. In flooded areas, water gathered into rivers and returned to the sea of its own accord, without destroying farmland or houses.

Fierce beasts gained wisdom and sought the Dao of Immortals. Demons who had accumulated merit obtained the opportunity to become immortals.

The sick had their illnesses completely wiped away. Those seeking children had their spiritual fetuses set.

Outside the Demon-Suppressing Pass, the earth even returned to a yellowish-brown color, growing lush green grass, full of vitality.

And the bones of those Great Tang soldiers dissipated, their souls returning to heaven, from then on attaining the Dao and becoming immortals.

"Mind and spirit return to one, ten thousand laws return to the heart, without birth and without extinction, immeasurable and infinite."

Tang An sat cross-legged in mid-air, the dress on her body transforming into magnificent robes formed by the laws of the Great Dao. The ribbons and hem of her skirt moved without wind, drifting with nine-colored flowing light.

She opened her eyes, which were devoid of emotion, desire, sorrow, or joy.

The Primordial Demon's eyes narrowed slightly; he actually felt a faint, looming sense of danger from Tang An.

"Even if you join the ranks of the Great Dao Saints, it will be difficult to surpass me."

In truth, there was a hint of reluctance in his tone.

Did he want Tang An to enter Sainthood? Clearly not. Then why didn't he stop her just now? Was it also because he didn't want to?

No, it was because he had been trapped by the power of the Great Dao laws just now and was fundamentally unable to break free to stop Tang An from entering Sainthood.

Tang An looked at the Primordial Demon. "The source of all evil must be destroyed."

She formed a seal with one hand, circling it to her chest.

As the seal was formed, a magnificent pavilion rushed out from the clouds. With its spire pointing downward, it pressed toward the Primordial Demon.

The Primordial Demon felt the pressure of the pavilion and appeared in many places in a flash, but he was unable to shake off its pursuit.

The pavilion continued to press down, emitting bursts of explosive sounds, and the air waves even cut open spatial rifts a thousand zhang long. Wherever it went, space was crushed and destroyed.

Helpless, the Primordial Demon could only block, unleashing his Innate Demonic Fire, wanting to use the fire cage technique that had trapped Tang An before to disintegrate the pavilion.

But the pavilion was formed by the power of the Great Dao and was not disturbed by the karma of the demonic fire.

"Hmph."

The Primordial Demon snorted coldly and unleashed his Innate Demonic Artifact, a black long ruler. The ruler transformed to a size that covered the sky and sun, blocking the pavilion from descending further.

Both were continuously exerting force, just waiting to see who would have the slight upper hand.

At other times, Tang An would indeed be unable to easily defeat the Primordial Demon in a short time. But at this moment, it was the opportunity of her just having entered the Great Dao Sainthood; she occupied the right time, the right place, and the right people, and was further blessed by the fortune of the human race.

Therefore, here, at the Demon-Suppressing Pass, the Primordial Demon would not be her match.

"Destroy."

Tang An shouted the word indifferently and coldly, and the pavilion struck down like a blade opening the sky.

Only hearing a "Boom—", it struck the demonic ruler, causing a crack to spread, and then the demonic ruler was damaged, splitting into two.

The Primordial Demon was shaken away, vomiting several mouthfuls of black blood before he could barely steady his form.

When he realized the danger and turned his head, Tang An had already appeared behind him.

Her finger tapped lightly on the Primordial Demon's brow, and the surging, vigorous power of the Great Dao instantly filled and destroyed his demonic body.

"No!"

He was unwilling; how could he have lost so easily?

"No!!!"

Following his unwilling shout, white light cracks appeared on his demonic body from head to toe.

With a "Bang!" sound of an explosion.

Tang An's figure appeared in the sky above the Demon-Suppressing Pass, while the Primordial Demon's body exploded on the spot into countless fragments, turning into black gas and dissipating between heaven and earth. ===== CHAPTER 514 =====