Chapter 87

Just after the human race's fortune golden dragon killed several people of various races, the races not belonging to the human race all withdrew from Kyushu.

From today onward, this Kyushu is the territory of the human race, of course, this Kyushu is not entirely inhabited by the human race.

Some races on good terms with the human race can still live within Kyushu, and even their strength will not be affected, because they never had any intention to harm the human race.

Among them, the twelve zodiac races take the lead, and there are also some other races.

Myriad Demon Mountain, the Great Golden Crow saw that the human race's Kyushu had already appeared; he knew he too should make a move, otherwise the people of the Wilderness would think the Demon Race had died.

"As for this lifetime, let Bai Ze be; the others can still be worked on." the Great Golden Crow muttered to himself.

Afterwards he began counting on his fingers.

"Dragons, phoenixes, and qilins—these three races have nothing to do with my Demon Race anymore; as for the rest, Bai Ze participated in that incident back then, so let's set him aside for now. That leaves the Xun clan, the Biwing Bird clan, the Dangkang clan, the Xiezhi clan, the Lushu clan, and the Cheng Huang clan—six races in total, which is enough; at least it will let my Demon Race show its face before the human race." the Great Golden Crow said with a smile.

Having said that, he summoned the chiefs of those tribes; after the Great Golden Crow told them his plan, they were all very pleased.

Nowadays everyone wants to cling to the human race's thick thigh; if they can manage to do so, it will surely be a good thing!

"Then you go prepare; follow what this prince said, and you handle the operations yourselves." the Great Golden Crow said with a smile.

"Yes, Your Highness the Prince." Everyone nodded and then left.

In the Sheng Huang Hall, after Pan Huang established himself in Kyushu, he directly poured all the human race's fortune under his control into the human race's fortune golden dragon.

This does not mean he abandoned the human race's fortune; what belongs to him remains his. Previously the human race's fortune had no reliance, now it does, so he placed the fortune he controlled here in the human race; anyway, whenever he wants to use it, he can mobilize it at any time.

After doing all that, Pan Huang took a deep breath.

"It is impossible to create a world in Chaos; in this lifetime it is impossible to create a world in Chaos, so we can only create a world within the Chaos Pearl, then become a sage, that way we can sustain our livelihood." Pan Huang took out a pearl, then said with a smile.

In fact, obtaining the Chaos Pearl was purely an accident.

Initially, after Pan Huang used the Great Dao's merit to evolve his primordial spirit, he has been constantly plotting to become a sage.

Initially, because the Great Dao's merit descended frequently, he formed a certain speculation about the relationship between the Great Dao and the Heavenly Dao, so he thought of the Chaos Pearl.

But he had no Chaos Pearl in his hand at all; in the end, Pan Huang decided to refine one himself.

After initially refining the Pan Huang axe, some Chaos Divine Stone remained; later Pan Huang gathered more materials, and after the Wu-Yao battle, Tai Yi struck Mount Buzhou, creating a breach; the falling fragments of Mount Buzhou's body, he also did not let go.

That Mount Buzhou material eventually also became Pan Huang's refining material; after a thousand years of collection, Pan Huang decided to begin refining the Chaos Pearl.

In the end he actually managed to refine it successfully, but it was not really a success, for the Chaos Pearl Pan Huang refined does not even contain a small thousand-world; at most it can be considered a slightly larger space capable of holding living beings.

Fortunately, the magical treasures he refined all possess the property of being upgradable; as long as they are nurtured properly, when the space inside the Chaos Pearl evolves into a small thousand-world, he can become a sage—that was Pan Huang's original idea.

Unexpectedly, when this false Chaos Pearl became an innate magical treasure, it actually attracted the true Chaos Pearl.

What happened next needs no saying: the true Chaos Pearl devoured Pan Huang's Chaos Pearl, and thus the Chaos Pearl came into Pan Huang's possession.

Because the true Chaos Pearl devoured Pan Huang's Chaos Pearl, it does not resist Pan Huang's mana; thus, the Chaos Bell was initially refined by Pan Huang.

Afterward, Pan Huang began to cultivate within the Chaos Pearl, and then came the scene of the Immortal Volcano.

Now, everything is ready; only the act of opening heaven to become a sage remains.

"Becoming a sage is today!" Pan Huang said with a smile, then vanished from the Sheng Huang Hall.

When he reappeared, he had already arrived inside the Pangu Hall within Mount Buzhou.

He originally intended to become a sage in the Sheng Huang Hall, but after thinking it over, he felt it unsafe; in the Wilderness, the only places that made Pan Huang feel safe were Mount Buzhou and the Pangu Hall.

"Pay respects to the Ancestor Witches!" Upon entering the Pangu Hall, the surviving Wu Clan members all bowed to Pan Huang.

"You have worked hard!" Pan Huang sighed upon seeing these Demon Race members.

"Great Ancestor Witch, we are not suffering; by suppressing the fortune of the human race and the Jiu Li clan, we feel greatly honored." This is the newly promoted great witch, named Wu Xing.

"If there is a chance in the future, you will have the opportunity to live under the sunshine." Pan Huang said to Wu Xing.

"En!" Wu Xing nodded.

After concluding the conversation with Wu Xing, Pan Huang entered the rear hall of the Pangu Hall.

"Please, Father God, bless me!" Upon entering the rear hall of the Pangu Hall, Pan Huang bowed before the statue of Pangu, then the next second he plunged into the Chaos Pearl.

When Pan Huang plunged into the Chaos Pearl, Pangu's aura instantly filled the entire Pangu Hall, and even a faint Pangu aura appeared on Mount Buzhou.

Fortunately, no tribe resides within a hundred thousand li of Mount Buzhou; although Mount Buzhou remains the center of the Wilderness, no one pays attention to it anymore, for it is no longer worth noting.

After Pan Huang entered the Chaos Pearl, what appeared before him was a expanse of Chaos; he had previously cultivated within the Chaos Pearl, so he was already quite familiar with this sight.

After making a slight adjustment, Pan Huang directly summoned Pangu's true form, and then the Pan Huang axe was also summoned by him.

"Pangu failed back then; this time I will surely succeed! Open!" Pan Huang took a deep breath, then the Pan Huang axe in his hand split forth along an extremely mysterious trajectory.

After this axe strike, the Chaos within the Chaos Bell immediately underwent violent undulations.

Seeing this, Pan Huang hastily swung another axe; as this axe fell, a bright silver light suddenly appeared before him.

Upon seeing that bright silver light, Pan Huang knew he had just taken the first step toward success.

Thereafter he continuously swung the Pan Huang axe; when the forty-ninth swing was made, the Chaos within the Chaos Pearl was split open by Pan Huang.

Immediately thereafter he hastily employed the Dharma Aspect Heaven-Earth, propping up the newly born heaven and earth.

As he began to prop up heaven, countless essences of earth, water, fire, and wind transformed into attacks that struck Pan Huang's body; besides these essences, endless gangfeng and boundless ruishui constantly scoured his flesh.

Almost instantly, Pan Huang turned into a skeleton, yet his eyes still flickered with bright light; as long as he could endure, this side of the world could be formed.

But at that moment, a deep soul-piercing pain appeared upon Pan Huang's primordial spirit; this is the new world tearing his primordial spirit to shape the Heavenly Dao.

When this pain struck, Pan Huang's body staggered slightly; that very stagger caused the newborn heaven and earth to press down directly, making Pan Huang unsteady and he fell to one knee on the ground.

When he was half-kneeling on the ground, chaotic qi began to appear in the void; if before the world was opened, this chaotic qi he would not fear at all, because the Chaos Pearl had already been refined by himself, the chaotic qi inside would not harm him, but rather it was an aid to his cultivation.

But now, this chaotic qi is unusually violent; under its scouring, Pan Huang feels his primordial spirit and the bones of his fleshly body are being eroded.

If this continues, he might possibly be drained to death within this Chaos Pearl.

"Rise!" Pan Huang roared angrily, then he exerted all his strength to stand up.

In the eye sockets of his skull, which had turned to white bone, blazing primordial spirit flames jumped; when he finally stood fully, the chaotic qi receded, allowing Pan Huang to breathe a sigh of relief.

But this does not mean he has already succeeded.

Heaven and earth are not yet settled; earth, water, fire, wind, spatial storms, endless gangfeng, endless ruishui, and the Three Thousand Great Daos are all attacking his body.

Every attack left a trace on Panhuang's skeleton; it was both an attack and a trial, the trial of becoming a saint.

No one knew how long had passed; that soul‑deep pain vanished, and in the next instant, an emotionless consciousness appeared in Panhuang's perception.

This must be the Heavenly Dao formed from his own primordial spirit; when the Heavenly Dao appeared, the power of the attacks against his origin and the Three Thousand Great Daos diminished slightly, but only slightly.

"Soon, soon, just hold on a little longer—Mount Buzhou will appear right away." Panhuang muttered to himself.

The Chaos Pearl devoured the Chaos Pearl that Panhuang had refined earlier; some things were inherited, such as this fragment of Mount Buzhou.

Just now, Panhuang received word from the Heavenly Dao: if he endures until the newly opened world stabilizes, he can transform the Mount Buzhou fragment into the Mount Buzhou of this new world.

Time trickled by; Panhuang had grown numb, unaware of the passage of time, his consciousness now somewhat dull—a bad omen. Pangu had once been in this state, and after waiting for heaven and earth to stabilize, he exhausted his strength and died.

Finally, the Heavenly Dao of this new world, for reasons unknown, actually summoned the Five Declines of Heaven and Man and began to afflict Panhuang with them.

Panhuang screamed in pain outright; when he had torn his soul to give birth to the Heavenly Dao earlier, he had not cried out, but these Five Declines of Heaven and Man truly tormented him, for they targeted his origin.

"I will become a saint, I will become a saint!" Panhuang suddenly roared, and his stature involuntarily grew a bit more.

At this point his skeleton had turned variegated, with black and white among the colors—leftovers of the Five Declines of Heaven and Man—but Panhuang still persisted.

Suddenly, the newly opened world shuddered; the all‑pervading earth, water, fire, and wind, the endless gales, the endless weak waters, and even the Three Thousand Great Daos and the Five Declines of Heaven and Man all vanished.

After they disappeared, a mountain peak visibly appeared beside Panhuang, identical to Mount Buzhou in the primordial wilderness—this was precisely the form taken by the fragment of Mount Buzhou from that era.

With this little Mount Buzhou propping up the heavens, Panhuang could finally rest.

As he sat slumped on the ground, his flesh and blood swelled visibly; then, in the newborn world, a great amount of merit appeared and poured into Panhuang's body.

Phantasms of the Three Thousand Great Daos also appeared, rushing into Panhuang's body; his aura began to surge, reaching the peak of the quasi‑saint, then the lesser saint…

Boom—

With a muffled boom, Panhuang's aura turned profound; an immensely powerful pressure blanketed the newborn world—the pressure of a saint, the realm of the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.

"Excellent, so strong!" He clenched his fists, felt his aura, and Panhuang smiled.

After consolidating his cultivation within the world of the Chaos Pearl and feeling accustomed to it, Panhuang flew out of the Chaos Pearl.

After he flew out of the Chaos Pearl, the Chaos Pearl shot straight into his dantian and then merged with it.

When Panhuang appeared in Pangu Hall, Pangu's pressure instantly withdrew, all of it shrinking back into the Pangu statue.

"Thank you, Father God, for your protection!" Panhuang bowed before the Pangu statue, then left Pangu Hall.

Upon returning to the Hall of Sacred Radiance, Panhuang summoned all his disciples as well as Changxi and Xihe.

"Congratulations, Master!" Zhao Gongming and the others, upon seeing Panhuang return, clasped their hands before him.

For they could no longer sense Panhuang's aura; he now seemed like an ordinary person, but obviously he was not.

Thus there was only one explanation: their master had already proved the Dao and become a saint.

"Since you became my disciples, I have rarely expounded the Dao to you; this time I will lecture you on the Dao for a thousand years." Panhuang smiled as he looked at Zhao Gongming and the others.

"Thank you, Master!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Gongming and the others' faces lit up with excitement.

Although their strength was that of quasi‑saints, in the primordial wilderness they were still inferior to disciples of saints, because their master was not a saint.

But now their master is also a saint, and they can hear the saint's Great Dao; if the cultivators of the primordial wilderness learned of this, they would surely go mad.

After all, the Dao Ancestor once said that without Hongmeng Purple Qi one cannot become a saint, yet their master actually achieved sainthood without relying on Hongmeng Purple Qi.

Just as Panhuang was preparing to lecture on the Dao, Dayu also proved the Dao; he abdicated the throne of the human sovereign to Bo Yi, and after Yun Zhongzi finished the proclamation, he returned to the Hall of Sacred Radiance.

When Yun Zhongzi returned, he found Zhen Yuanzi, Minghe, and Wen Daozi all present; they were already on good terms with Panhuang, so it was natural for them to come listen to the Dao.

Just as Panhuang began to lecture on the Great Dao, an accident occurred in the Xia court: Yu's son Qi, dissatisfied that the position of human sovereign had been taken by Bo Yi, gathered men, killed Bo Yi, and then took the throne himself.

Although his claim to the throne was illegitimate, his status was special—he was the son of King Yu—so everyone respected him as the new human sovereign, while Bo Yi was forgotten by all.

Thus, starting with Qi, the abdication system turned into hereditary rule, and the realm of all under heaven became a family domain.

At the eastern sea shore, Dayu and Nüjiao witnessed this scene and merely sighed, for they could do nothing—neither the Three Sovereigns of humanity nor the Three August Ones would intervene.

Because only the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of humanity are fixed in number; after the Five Emperors, it's every person for themselves—so long as the human race can prosper, they care not who the next human sovereign is.

(End of chapter)