Chapter 352: The Irreverent Qilin, the Heavenly Emperor Arrives!

The sudden intervention of the Qilin clan caught both the Dragon and Phoenix clans off guard.

“Is this Qilin Patriarch serious?” Some Dragon clan deities were puzzled—had their clan’s plan been exposed, prompting the Qilin clan’s move?

They didn’t know whether the Qilin Patriarch was dead or alive.

But if the Phoenix clan hadn’t interfered, the Dragon clan would have devoted most of its energy to the Qilin clan.

Now, watching the Dragon and Phoenix clans clash, the Qilin clan launched a sudden strike—causing the Dragon deities to suspect this might be a conspiracy between the two clans.

“Framing others, staging it all yourself, and teaming up with the Qilin clan to attack us Dragon clan?”

The Dragon Patriarch glared at Yuan Huang and sneered: “Your Phoenix clan has sunk too low!”

Yuan Huang’s delicate brows furrowed as she calmly said: “Utter nonsense!”

From her perspective, it was the Dragon clan that had broken its word and struck first against the Phoenix clan.

As for why the Qilin clan had intervened, it was entirely outside her consideration.

But now that the Qilin clan’s target was the Dragon clan, the enemy of my enemy is my friend!

A roar erupted, its sonic wave carrying the primordial Wu Earth essence, coalescing into roaring Qilin divine beasts.

The Qilin Patriarch charged forward, twin hammers in hand, shaking heaven and earth.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

Wind and thunder roared, mountains and rivers toppled, sun and moon shifted.

An unparalleled dominant force pressed down upon the Dragon Patriarch.

“You old dog, who are you calling?!”

The Dragon Patriarch flew into rage, swinging his right fist into the void—immediately, vast stretches of space collapsed.

Laws of nature raged wildly; jagged fissures tore across the void, shattering boundless mountains and rivers.

“Kill!”

The Dragon Patriarch surged upward, launching a terrifying assault toward the nine heavens; his golden radiance edict illuminated countless worlds, aiming to seize the Qilin Patriarch.

“Qilin Subdues the World!”

The Qilin Patriarch stepped forward; above the heavens, seven-colored auroras poured like a celestial river, each ray imbued with primordial auspicious laws.

Auspicious clouds surged from the void, layer upon layer stretching for hundreds of millions of miles; within the clouds, sacred Qilin patterns emerged, suppressing the cosmic fortune of all realms.

As auspicious mist rose, the shattered void instantly healed, halting the Dragon Emperor’s edict coldly in its tracks.

【Does this guy really have a Dragon Emperor’s edict?】The Qilin Patriarch stared at the Dragon Patriarch’s spiritual treasure, slightly surprised.

When he impersonated the Dragon Patriarch to do evil deeds, to avoid being traced back, he forged all his divine gear except the name “Dragon Patriarch.”

He had always assumed the forged Dragon Emperor’s edict was something the real Dragon Emperor didn’t possess.

He never expected the Dragon Patriarch actually had one.

“Old dog, retreat now, and I’ll pretend nothing happened.”

The Dragon Patriarch stood firm in the void—he didn’t want to face a two-pronged assault from two Primordial Ancestors.

“Old mud eel, surrender land and pay reparations now, and I’ll pretend I never came!” The Qilin Patriarch refused to yield.

Joke’s on you—how could he possibly retreat from such a perfect opportunity?

The Dragon clan had to pay at least an appearance fee!

As fellow Primordial Three Clans, they couldn’t afford to lose face.

“Exactly, Dragon Patriarch—you had the guts to do evil, but not the guts to take responsibility?”

Yuan Huang looked at the Dragon Patriarch and said: “I haven’t even settled accounts with you for seducing my clan’s sacred maiden and siring Chaofeng!”

“????”

The once mighty Dragon Patriarch froze in place, eyes wide: “How do you know that?”

The Qilin Patriarch chuckled beside him: “Dragon Patriarch, don’t forget—you still owe us Qilin clan!”

“You deceived the sacred maiden of the Fearless Lion clan and sired Suanni—I haven’t settled that score either!”

“Qilin Patriarch, you—!”

The Dragon Patriarch instinctively felt a twinge of guilt.

Then he snapped back—this was all baseless speculation; they hadn’t caught him red-handed—why should he fear?

So he declared confidently: “You two old fools understand nothing!”

“My romance with the two sacred maidens was consensual—what business is it of yours?”

Hearing this, Yuan Huang gritted her teeth: “You’re shameless!”

The Qilin Patriarch glanced at the Dragon Patriarch with contempt and spat: “You’re despicable!”

The Dragon Patriarch’s skin was thick as armor; he blithely said: “You don’t understand love—what right do you have to scold me?”

【Is that even love? We’re too polite to call you out!】

The two Primordial Ancestors now found common ground, feeling a sudden sense of united outrage.

“Enough talk—fight!”

Yuan Huang drew her Phoenix twin blades and attacked the Dragon Patriarch.

The Qilin Patriarch swung his twin hammers, relentlessly hammering the Dragon Patriarch.

After surviving the Fiend Beasts’ Catastrophe, the deities not only received gifts from their own Dao paths but also earned rewards from the Taiwei Heavenly Dao.

Both their personal strength and fortune had greatly increased.

Especially the Primordial Ancestors of the Three Clans: the Dragon Patriarch, Yuan Huang, and the Qilin Patriarch.

They were now genuine Tai Su Da Luo.

This chaotic battle truly shook heaven and earth, dimmed sun and moon, and wore away the Dao laws themselves.

Yuan Huang and the Qilin Patriarch found harmony, unleashing full force against the Dragon Patriarch without mercy.

The Dragon Patriarch fought alone against two, struggling to hold his ground.

“Wicked dragon, surrender now!” Yuan Huang swung her twin blades, cleaving through the clouds, splitting endless thunder.

“Surrender land and pay reparations—or you have no path to survival!” The Qilin Patriarch smashed his hammer, shattering the golden radiance—the Dragon Emperor’s edict flickered dimly.

He pressed forward, raising his hammer again.

“You two are pushing me too far!”

The Dragon Patriarch flew into a rage, hurling a beam of five-colored light.

“Hit!”

Twelve perfect orbs flashed past—unseeable, unfathomable—crashing down upon the Qilin Patriarch’s head, blasting him backward.

As the Dragon Patriarch prepared to activate another spiritual treasure, Yuan Huang instantly sensed it.

She swung her Five Fires Seven Birds Fan fiercely; five streaks of flame shot out, blocking the orbs.

“Change!”

The Dragon Patriarch formed a hand seal; the twelve orbs transformed again, radiating boundless divine light, becoming twelve heavenly realms.

Each realm churned with boundless oceans, suppressing ancient and eternal time-space!

Yuan Huang’s eyes narrowed—within the center of the twelve realms, each held a towering supreme deity.

Their faces mirrored the Dragon Patriarch’s, yet more majestic, as if the supreme incarnations of the Ancestor of All Dragons.

“Dinghai Divine Pearls?” Yuan Huang’s heart stirred slightly.

Weren’t these the possessions of the Inverted Immortal? Didn’t they become Jing Yao’s spoils of war?

How could there still be twelve of them here?

Xiang Xuanqing was organizing the Phoenix clan’s younger generation’s retreat when he sensed something, turned his head—and grinned: “Fate’s come knocking!”

East Kunlun Mountain.

The Supreme Immortal within the Jade Void Palace suddenly opened his eyes.

The twenty-four Dinghai Pearls within his sleeve flew out automatically, swirling in the void, manifesting a chaotic battlefield scene.

At the center of the scene: the Dragon Patriarch’s twelve Dinghai Pearls.

“Huh? The remaining Dinghai Pearls are in the Dragon Patriarch’s hands?” The Supreme Immortal chuckled—perfect timing, like a pillow handed to him while he napped.

The Dinghai Divine Pearls were primordial artifacts.

One pearl: a lower-grade primordial spiritual treasure; twenty-four: upper-grade spiritual treasures; a full set of thirty-six: supreme-grade spiritual treasure!

After seizing twenty-four Dinghai Pearls from the Inverted Immortal, the Supreme Immortal had specifically calculated the locations of the other twelve.

He failed to locate them.

He asked Xiang Xuanqing, who replied: “When fate calls, you’ll meet.”

He never expected fate to manifest through the Dragon Patriarch.

“Twelve Dragon Forms, All Heavens Revere!”

The Dragon Patriarch roared; the twelve deities opened their eyes simultaneously—wherever their gazes fell, time-space froze—even Yuan Huang’s Nirvana True Flame slowed!

“Kill!”

The twelve deities raised their hands; boundless oceans reversed, becoming apocalyptic torrents, crushing down upon Yuan Huang!

“Merely illusions—what can you do to me?”

Yuan Huang’s spiritual eyes flashed icy light; behind her, nine-colored divine flames surged skyward, burning a path of Nirvana Dao through the twelve heavens!

Where the flames passed, oceans evaporated, dragon forms trembled!

Faintly, two phoenix silhouettes flapped their wings within the boundless divine fire, standing equal to the twelve dragon forms!

“BOOM!”

The two supreme forces collided; the entire void shattered inch by inch, even the Dao laws twisted in agony!

“Friend, I’ll help you!” The Primordial Qilin swung his great hammer and smashed down, forcing the Ancestral Dragon to retreat step by step.

“Grow!” The Ancestral Dragon waved his hand again; the blazing sun blazed overhead, and the roots of the Tree of Desire suddenly tore through the void, causing vast stretches of space to violently tremble!

Countless crimson vertical pupils split open across the tree’s trunk, each eye reflecting the fallen splendor of a different world. What hung from its branches were no longer fruits, but curled embryos of primordial divine demons, twisting into form amid ecstasy.

The cry of the nine-headed divine bird atop the canopy solidified into tangible sound waves—wherever they passed, even the Dao hearts of Great Luo Sovereigns would shatter!

This transformation clearly indicated that the Tree of Desire’s corruption had ascended to a new level.

Yuan Huang urgently unleashed her divine art: “Protect my Phoenix lineage!”

The Primordial Qilin pulled out a Qilin Great Seal and pressed it upon himself to suppress the corruption.

“Knowing your tricks, do you think we’d be unprepared?” The Primordial Qilin shouted while resisting the Tree of Desire’s corruption.

“Let them see the power of Earth’s Great Dao within the Five Elements!”

Upon hearing this, most Divine Lords had not yet grasped the meaning.

Only the Ink Jade Qilin understood the clan chief’s intent.

He gazed at the Responding Dragon in the clouds, then pulled out a divine mirror and connected with his wife, the White Jade Qilin: “My love, my devotion to you is like the Responding Dragon stirring thunder—loud, fierce, and blazing!”

Responding Dragon: “???”

At that moment, the Cloud Deer Divine Lord contacted his Dao partner.

Cloud Deer asked: “Do you know who I am?”

“Little Deer Person?”

Cloud Deer blinked. “No—I’m your sweetheart!”

The Dragon clan’s great cultivator facing him twisted his face in horror, unable to hold his composure: “So lame!”

Yet what followed was even more unbearable for the divine beings present.

[Divine Lord of the Underworld] Hou Tu turned to face the Azure Dragon chasing her and declared: “Don’t say the four seas are vast—I’m the moat you’ll never cross!”

The Azure Dragon’s scalp went numb; he felt utterly defeated.

“I’m married!”

Hou Tu sneered coldly, expressionless: “I’m the queen—my confidence shines bright!”

“.”

The Azure Dragon froze in place, stunned into stillness, forgetting to pursue.

The White Tiger Divine Lord, facing the Tree of Desire’s corruption, contacted his partner to preserve his true form: “I suddenly want to buy some land.”

“What kind of land?”

The White Tiger Divine Lord smirked wickedly: “Your unwavering devotion.”

“. Disgusting!”

His partner blushed and promptly ended the connection.

The Dragon clan’s great cultivators surrounding him trembled with awkwardness.

The Purple Gold Qilin couple exchanged glances, their eyes deep: “Wife, mind your mouth.”

Gold Qilin: “I’m not greedy.”

Purple Qilin: “No—I mean I’ll kiss it anytime.”

With that, the couple embraced and kissed deeply.

The assembled Divine Lords all froze mid-action, leaving the Dragon and Phoenix clans utterly bewildered.

“Too lame! Even our Dragon clan’s self-proclaimed romance masters never proposed this lamely!”

“Is this what your Qilin clan’s Earth Great Dao means?”

“I give up—it’s too lame!”

“Lame to the extreme!”

[Great Emperor of Longevity] Shen Cang hesitated, then glanced at the Turtle Chancellor.

The Turtle Chancellor panicked, scrambling backward and retreating into his shell.

“My heart belongs only to Your Majesty!”

Shen Cang’s mouth twitched; he turned to the Qian Kun Demon God.

“Bro!”

Qian Kun: “?”

Shen Cang: “Unchanging through ten thousand ages!”

Qian Kun: “. Fine!”

Fu Xi glanced left and right, unable to find anyone suitable to deliver a cheesy line to.

[Who’s suitable? Little sister, Yaochi, Yinghuo, Wangshu, Xihe]

He struggled internally, choosing among the female cultivators he knew.

Finally, Fu Xi gritted his teeth.

He abandoned all suitable women, choosing death over social annihilation and seduction.

Fu Xi directly approached Xiang Xuanqing.

“Comrade Ji Du?”

Xiang Xuanqing: “What?”

Fu Xi’s face turned solemn: “These eyes of mine can pierce the truth of all things, the boundless heavenly mechanisms—but I cannot fathom your heart!”

Xiang Xuanqing: “. Do you have a point?”

Fu Xi asked: “No point—just tell me, is this lame?”

Xiang Xuanqing: “Lame to the point of crumbling!”

“Thank you!”

Fu Xi felt the Earth Great Dao strengthening within him, completely resisting the Tree of Desire’s corruption, untouched by desire’s seduction.

Indeed, that line was absurdly lame.

Even Fu Xi felt slightly nauseated.

But thankfully, the Heavenly Emperor was magnanimous and did not strike him down with heavenly lightning.

“My heart is eternal, loyal to the Heavenly Emperor!” Fu Xi used the Earth Great Dao to siphon a bit more power from Xiang Xuanqing.

As soon as the Qilin clan’s Earth Great Dao manifested, even the Ancestral Dragon could barely withstand its lameness.

“Primordial Qilin, you’re ruthless!” The Ancestral Dragon, as Lord of Desire, had scoured the Three Thousand Rivers of Weakness and still considered himself a romance master.

But these cheesy lines nearly killed him!

“How’s that? Our clan’s Great Dao surpasses your imagination!”

The Primordial Qilin beamed proudly: “Don’t think only you can study strange Great Daos—our Qilin clan became one of the Three Primordial Clans for a reason!”

“It’s just the Tree of Desire? Hard to break through your defenses? But defending ourselves? No problem.”

“As long as our Qilin clan stands upon the earth, attuning to the vastness of the soil’s bounty, we stand invincible!”

“Hahaha!!”

Having shown off in front of the Ancestral Dragon, the Primordial Qilin felt utterly elated.

The temporary ally Yuan Huang glanced at the Primordial Qilin and quietly stepped farther away.

Why? Too lame.

[The Dragon clan’s water isn’t real water—and your Qilin clan’s earth isn’t real earth either!] Yuan Huang mentally grumbled.

[Our Phoenix clan is proper—we cultivate the Nirvana Great Dao, rebirth through fire, radiant and majestic—the perfect embodiment of flame!]

Thinking this, Yuan Huang felt much better.

The unorthodox Dragon and Qilin clans had no right to govern Hong Huang.

Only our radiant Phoenix clan deserves to rise!

In the Grand Weiyuan Hall, upon the main seat.

Xiang Xuanqing’s true form had been seated there for some time.

He had nearly been silenced after being treated as Fu Xi’s lifeline.

“The Qilin clan’s Earth—this is too lame!”

A sigh echoed through the divine hall.

This Hong Huang had become utterly insane.

Xiang Xuanqing pondered for a moment.

He took the Divine Ranking Scroll, gripped the Emperor’s Sword, and descended from the Nine Heavens.

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