Chapter 4: The Great Calamity of the Witch and the Demon is about to begin, the Crown Prince plots against Jiugu Wu.
And so, after the previous episode, Yu Long Dao Jun Zhang Zi Long and Jiu Xian Shan Guang Cheng Xian Shi, two high-ranking disciples of the Tianyi Sect, rescued tens of thousands of humans within a radius of ten thousand miles around Jiu Xian Mountain. They then relocated these tens of thousands of humans to the interior of the Guang Cheng Sub-Altar of Jiu Xian Mountain and had them settle there temporarily until the great calamity passed before allowing them to descend the mountain again.
Zhang Zilong reunited with his family and put aside his worries, practicing diligently in his senior brother's dojo. In his free time, he would accompany his parents and playfully tease his seven beautiful sisters. His life was quite comfortable. Some people might say that during the great calamity of the human race, how could Zhang Zilong, as a human being, indulge in pleasure and ignore the fate of billions of humans?
It's not Zhang Zilong's fault, after the two rescued the Jiuxian Mountain human tribe, they received a decree from the Yu Xu Palace Original Heavenly Venerable, ordering them to stay in Jiuxian Mountain and recite the "Huang Ting Jing" quietly, and not to step into the Great Tribulation again. Even if the two continued to rush about, it would be of no use to the Great Tribulation, and instead would cause karma to entangle their bodies, causing the human tribe's karma that had already been resolved through the Great Tribulation to reattach itself. This time, the witch and demon tribulations were actually a test given by the Heavenly Way to humans, and the Three Pure Saints followed closely behind to protect the human tribe because of the Original Heavenly Venerable sending human disciples into the tribulation, based on the principle of "brothers in arms". However, the Original Heavenly Venerable was actually aware that Zhang Bainian was the next Heaven and Earth, Hong Jun Dao Zu's disciple Haotian, so he let his disciples split up to protect the human tribe, mainly to protect Zhang Bainian's family and establish a good relationship.
With the cause and effect gone, Zhang Zilong and Guang Chengzi could only cultivate quietly in the mountains. Among them, Zhang Zilong reunited with his loved ones, and the huge stone on his heart disappeared. The Nine Turns of the Mysterious Skill, which had reached a bottleneck, slowly started to operate again, almost breaking through the fifth layer and reaching the realm of Taiyi Golden Immortal of Six Turns of the Mysterious Skill.
Thus, taking this opportunity, he obtained the Taiyi Dao fruit and refined his own body into a treasure.
A hundred years later, the Demon Emperor Di Jun and his brother Dong Huang Tai Yi returned to the Heavenly Court in a state of disarray. The plan to slaughter the human tribe had been completely abandoned because the two had chased after the billions of humans to the Five Elements Pagoda of the ancient great sage Zhen Yuanzi. Originally, Zhen Yuanzi had hated the demon tribe for killing Hong Yun Daoist and had taken in the billions of humans. Also, as a virtuous immortal with deep blessings, he sensed that the human tribe was extraordinary and thus fought to protect them to the death. The full force of the Wu Di Earth Extreme Array, one of the five great arrays of the Primordial Chaos, was activated to block the Heavenly Court's army led by Di Jun and Tai Yi.
Just as the demon tribe broke through the grand array and Zhongyuanzi was severely injured and unable to resist, the human tribe rose up. Billions of humans, led by the three great ancestors Youchaoshi, Suirenshi, etc., knelt down to heaven and earth, wailing in grief, remembering the great kindness of Zhongyuanzi's salvation. Now that their benefactor was in danger himself, the human tribe would also be slaughtered. On the other hand, Ling was heartbroken that the Holy Mother of the human tribe, Nüwa Niangniang, had abandoned them and left them unattended, while even the Three Pure Ones had taken action to save many scattered tribespeople, but this mother of humanity coldly watched from the sidelines, even condoning the demon tribe's slaughter of the human tribe. How could one not be sorrowful?
The grievances of the billions of people shot up to the sky, in the palace of Jinxiu Tianxuan, Nüwa, who was contemplating the Tao, suddenly felt a thrill and discovered that her aura was rapidly declining, and her merits for creating humanity were about to leave her. It's worth noting that Nüwa is the only one among all the saints who achieved her sacred position solely through her merits. Now that her merits are unstable, although she can suppress it, it's enough to make her terrified.
At that moment, a pair of sacred eyes pierced through the river of fate and saw the sorrow of the billions of humans outside the Five Elements Temple. Those humans she had abandoned to complete the demon tribe emitted a thick aura of resentment, constantly erasing her human luck while also continuously stirring her foundation. This female saint, the only one among all the saints in heaven, suddenly lost her composure, and her beautiful face that was so stunning it made people dare not look directly at her turned deathly pale in an instant.
"Our human tribe is grateful for the great immortal's help. If our tribe does not perish in the future, we will offer sacrifices to the great immortal as the ancestor of the earthly immortals and forever enjoy the incense and fire of the human tribe." The three human ancestors bowed three times and knocked their heads nine times against the ground in front of the heavily injured Zhenyuanzi. Zhenyuanzi's calm and unruffled heart was moved by humans to the point of almost shedding tears, sighing incessantly.
From then on, the billions of people pointed to the sky and swore: "We, the human race, will never give up with the demon race from now on. Humans and demons will not coexist for millions of years! All descendants of the human race must take it as their duty to slay demons and eliminate evil spirits. If they violate this oath, heaven and earth will be destroyed!" With countless people's resentment towards the demon race and dissatisfaction with the demon saint, the human saint Nuwa, they all declared together.
Di Jun and other powerful demons were shocked by the momentum of the human tribe. Di Jun, Tai Yi, and others looked at each other, discovering the shock in each other's eyes. At this moment, as soon as the human tribe made their vow, they felt that their own aura was almost completely depleted, and a thick death aura floated above the heads of all the demons. It was because they had slaughtered the human tribe too much, and the heavens were disgusted with them, their lives would not last long.
Di Jun's face turned ferocious: "Pass down my order, slaughter all the people of Wuzhuangguan!" Not stopping at this, Di Jun planned to kill off these humans and then continue pursuing the remaining humans in Honghuang. This way, once the human race was exterminated, the demon race would have no more worries!
However, the ideal is plump, but reality is bony. The various sages have already felt the trend of the Tao of Heaven and are also constantly suppressed by the Tao of Heaven, knowing that it's time to save the human race. Therefore, the countless demon armies that were about to rush towards the human race all felt the immobilization technique being applied, unable to move. Immediately after, strange phenomena began to appear in the heavens and earth. First, three clear lights appeared at the Five庄观, which was precisely the three Xuanmen saints: Taichu Dao De Tian Zun Laozi, Yuqing Yuan Shi Tian Zun, and Shang Qing Tong Tian Jiao Zhu.
Then came the golden light from the West, which was the embodiment of the Primordial Qi of Metal and Wood (Jin and Mu), namely Guan Yin (the Bodhisattva of Compassion) and Taizi (the Primordial Wisdom). These two saints have been cultivating their spiritual wisdom since the dawn of creation. They manifested themselves in human form, became friends, and traveled together. Seeing the poverty and suffering in the Western world, they made forty-eight great vows to "save all sentient beings". They established the teachings of the West, and the Heavenly Way was moved by their compassionate hearts, bestowing upon them boundless merits. With these merits, they achieved indestructible bodies that would last for countless eons, free from the sufferings of the mundane world, and attained the state of Mixed Yuan Golden Immortals, revered as saints.
Finally arrived, however, was the complex-minded Human Tribe's Holy Mother, the Demon Tribe's Holy Maiden Nüwa. Emperor Jun saw that all six saints had arrived and understood that his idea of slaughtering the human tribe would probably be shattered. Nevertheless, thinking about the human tribe's oath, he still couldn't bear it and knelt down in front of Nüwa, saying: "Holy Maiden, now the human tribe and the demon tribe are like fire and water, irreconcilable. If we don't kill them now, I fear that future troubles will be endless!" With tears in his voice, this generation's Heavenly Emperor was able to put aside his imperial dignity for the sake of his own tribe, which was truly a rare and precious thing.
Nüwa looked at the billions of human tribes with a face full of grievances, as if they were a group of children abandoned by their mother. Countless demon tribes also looked at Nüwa with high expectations, just like their own sons and daughters fighting with each other, making Nüwa's head ache endlessly.
"The great calamity of the human race has ended. Emperor Jun, Taiyi, you and your kind should quickly return to Heaven's Court and cease killing humans. Otherwise, we saints will have to take action on behalf of Heaven." The Primitive Heavenly Venerable beside him had always looked down on the demon tribe and coldly snorted at this: "You egg-born, damp- transformed creatures, hurry up and leave, don't stay here and lose face." Emperor Jun Taiyi was squeezed by the two saints, but he didn't dare to speak out in anger. The female saint of the demon tribe, Nüwa, was also silent at this moment, after all, even if she wanted to help the demon tribe, she couldn't defeat the five saints.
Di Jun saw that the other saints were not speaking, but also stood on the side of Laozi Yuanshi. He pulled down Donghuang Taiyi, who was holding the Eastern Emperor's Bell and was about to move, and coldly swept his eyes over the various saints before ordering a retreat. Those who are not yet saints will always be ants; they cannot compete with the saints.
As the demon army retreated back to Heaven like a tide, the human tribe knew that the disaster had passed, and the earth-shaking cheers spread from the human tribe. After this calamity, the human tribe thoroughly established its position as the favored child of the Heavenly Way. The witch and demon tribes both felt that their own luck was almost completely gone, knowing that they were affected by the slaughter of the human tribe, but also helpless to do anything about it.
On the other hand, Zhang Zilong, the Jade Dragon Taoist who had been in seclusion for a hundred years on Mount Jiuhua, also emerged with a joyful expression. The Nine Turns of the Mysterious Skill had broken through to the fifth turn and reached the sixth turn realm. The Divine Murder Gun had further refined its power and could now unleash six layers of strength. The initial Heavenly Spiritual Treasures such as the Purple Wei's Life-Granting Immortal Robe had all been refined, and with his innate spiritual treasure, the Purple Wei Star-Chasing Fan, Little Zhang's power had greatly increased.
It is learned from the original Tianzun's oral instruction that the great calamity of the human race has also passed, and the tens of thousands of people on Jiuxian Mountain have left one after another and returned to their hometowns. However, Zhang Bainian and Yaochi and other members of the Zhang family did not leave. It turned out that in recent years, Zhang Bainian and his wife had been feeling more and more that there was a mission guiding them in the dark, but as the war between witches and demons approached, the memories of their past lives were also stirring, and after the great calamity, they would be able to return to their origins and transform back into Huang Tian Yaochi.
Zhang Zilong understood the reason for his parents' change in his heart, and to avoid causing trouble, he let his parents and seven sisters stay on Jiuxian Mountain, asking Guang Chengzi to take care of them. He himself left Jiuxian Mountain to plan for the great calamity of witchcraft.
Zhang Zilong, who has memories of the future, knows that before the calamity of quantity, two major events will occur. One is that the ancestor of the Wu tribe, Hou Tu Niangniang, will undergo a transformation and reincarnation, which is a great merit. The other is that Hou Yi will shoot down the nine suns, Zhang Zilong's plan is to obtain the merit of reincarnation and also the physical body of the Golden Crow.
Due to the Nine Revolutions of the Mysterious Furnace, Zhang Zilong couldn't behead the Three Corpses. So he shifted his attention to creating external incarnations, just like the master of the Asura School, Minghe, and the billions of Blood God Sons' incarnations - how sharp were they? As the young master of the future Heavenly Court, how could he fall behind the trends of the times? He had to create a few external incarnations.
At this moment, the only thing he could plan for in the world was the nine golden crows that were about to die. The golden crows were good things, they were divine birds transformed from the sun star, and Emperor Jun Taizhong was born as a great Luo Golden Immortal, accompanied by the Lingbao treasure. The ten small golden crows were also extraordinary, they were golden immortals as soon as they were born, and now they had all become Taiyi Golden Immortals through cultivation. Their bodies were treasures, how could Zhang Dashi not be tempted?
After careful consideration, Yu Long decided to visit Hou Tu first and take a stroll around to see if she had already prepared for her reincarnation. If he wasn't mistaken, Hou Tu should have conceived this idea after the Golden Crow's chaos in the Primordial Era. But being cautious was crucial, as that would be the greatest merit since the creation of heaven. If he went too late, wouldn't it be a pity?
With that, Zhang Zilong flew towards the residence of the Hongyuan Witch Tribe with a Golden Rainbow Immortal Technique.
