These two figures were none other than two of the Three Pure Ones: Taishang Laojun and Yuqing Yuanshi!
Originally, the two of them had merely been watching from the sidelines, but they received a voice transmission from Dao Ancestor Hongjun ordering them to save Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
And so, they had come!
"What? Why are Taishang and Yuqing here? Could they be in cahoots with the Yao Clan?"
Seeing the two appear, the onlookers were all taken aback!
"Strange, why did Big Brother and Second Brother go over there? And why didn't they call me?"
Even Tongtian, who was still back at Kunlun Mountain, was utterly baffled!
Meanwhile, Dao Ancestor Hongjun gave a faint smile. "Good. This way, Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi will be saved, and it will also accelerate the conflict among the Three Pure Ones. Excellent, truly excellent!"
Earlier, when he saw Dijiang's power of Law, he had a feeling that Dijun and Taiyi were going to lose, which was why he came up with this plan. Now it seemed his move was proving quite effective!
Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi also spotted the two newcomers. Overjoyed, they immediately called out, "Fellow Daoist Laojun, Fellow Daoist Yuanshi, please lend a hand!"
Although asking for outside help was somewhat humiliating, was saving face more important than keeping their lives?
"Very well." Laojun gave a calm nod.
He turned his gaze toward Dijiang. "Fellow Daoist Dijiang, do us this favor and let this battle end here today, what do you say?"
"Do you a favor?"
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
Dijiang, however, furrowed his brow and retorted coldly!
Boom!
Instantly, everyone was dumbfounded!
The Three Pure Ones! Disciples of the Dao Ancestor and destined Saints! Was there anyone in the entire Honghuang who didn't recognize them? You had to be kidding!
For a moment, the onlookers were completely at a loss for words!
"Big Brother is really... so domineering!"
Even Zhurong, whose temper was notoriously hot, swallowed hard as he muttered this!
The other Ancestral Witches felt the exact same way.
Laojun and Yuanshi frowned at this, yet even so, they didn't fly into a rage. Laojun simply said calmly, "We are the Three Pure Ones of Pangu, disciples of the Dao Ancestor."
"Hahaha! The Three Pure Ones of Pangu?"
Dijiang burst out laughing, his laughter dripping with mockery. Then, making a look of absolute disgust, he demanded, "Fine! Since you claim to be the Three Pure Ones of Pangu, let me ask you: what place is this?"
Dijiang pointed around at Mount Buzhou and the Pangu Temple nestled upon it!
"This?"
All the onlookers were instantly bewildered, staring at Dijiang in utter confusion!
Mount Buzhou? Did that even need to be asked?
Wasn't it common knowledge to every living creature in Honghuang? Even Laojun and Yuanshi knew it by heart!
Laojun asked, puzzled, "This is Mount Buzhou."
At that moment, he still couldn't fathom why Dijiang would ask such a question.
"Hahaha! So you do know this is Mount Buzhou! To think you still remember that this is Mount Buzhou!"
Dijiang laughed again, then suddenly pointed a finger at Laojun and shouted fiercely, "Since you know this is Mount Buzhou, you should also know that Mount Buzhou was formed from the spine of our Father God, Pangu! Here lies the will of Father God Pangu—which means this place is the final resting place of our Father God!"
"And yet, what about you? You go around proclaiming yourselves to be the Three Pure Ones of Pangu, born from the Primordial Spirit of the Great God Pangu! But now, outsiders have come to attack your Father God's resting place, and you actually step forward to help them? Father God Pangu sure gave birth to two fine sons in you two!"
Dijiang sneered repeatedly, looking at Laojun and Yuanshi with unadulterated contempt.
Whenever he used to read tales of Honghuang, he had always felt these two fellows were no good. As descendants of the Great God Pangu, it was bad enough that they acknowledged a thief as a father and acted like dogs for Hongjun!
To top it all off, they were even helping him castrate Honghuang—they were utterly devoid of any filial decency!
And seeing it now, they truly were!
"Boom!"
The surrounding crowd felt one shock after another, leaving them completely dumbfounded!
How dared this Dijiang speak to the Three Pure Ones like this?
Yet... what he said actually made a lot of sense!
Consequently, the looks people cast toward Laojun and Yuanshi became somewhat strange!
Even Tongtian, back in Kunlun Mountain, sighed and said, "Alas, Big Brother and Second Brother really went too far. Mount Buzhou is the resting place of Father God's will, no matter how you look at it. Since Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi dared to bring an army to attack it, they naturally should have been prepared to perish here. Why save them?"
At that moment, Tongtian simply didn't understand their actions.
On the other hand, Dao Ancestor Hongjun watched Dijiang's display with a cold smile. "A brilliant stroke of psychological warfare. I never expected there would be such an anomaly among the Ancestral Witches. Still, despite all that, you won't be able to kill Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi today. After all, in this Honghuang, might makes right!"
While Dijiang's words had indeed dealt a certain blow to Laojun and Yuanshi's reputations, in Honghuang—a place where everything was determined by sheer strength—you couldn't defeat an opponent with just a few words!
Sure enough, the moment Dijiang finished speaking, Yuanshi, standing beside Laojun, flew into a rage!
The next instant, he let out a furious roar: "Dijiang, you brat, how dare you humiliate us so! Today, I shall cut you down!"
Boom!
In a flash, the Pangu Banner—radiating an aura of slaughter of the same origin as the Chaos Bell—appeared in his hand!
Hum!
The moment the Pangu Banner emerged, an aura of slaughter instantly permeated the entire Mount Buzhou. Wielding the banner, Yuanshi charged straight at Dijiang!
"Second Brother, I'll help you!"
Not only him, but even Taishang Laojun, seeing Yuanshi make his move, roared and quickly followed suit!
He might have pursued the Dao of Inaction, but that didn't mean he had no temper at all!
Although Dijiang's words earlier hadn't driven him into a frenzy like Yuanshi, they had still stripped away his pride and honor!
Therefore, he naturally had to step in and teach a lesson!
"How bold! Two against one? Do you really take us brothers for pushover mud-figures?"
Behind Dijiang, the rest of the Ancestral Witches grew furious!
"Stop Laojun!"
With that, they all charged toward Taishang Laojun en masse!
Earlier, when Dijiang had fought Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi, they hadn't intervened because their eldest brother had forbidden it!
Another reason was that Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi were at the same cultivation realm as their big brother; under equal realms, the Ancestral Witches possessed absolute confidence!
But now, Laojun and Yuanshi were both powerful beings of the Late Quasi-Saint stage, not to mention disciples of a Saint!
Given such status and strength, they actually had the nerve to try a two-on-one fight?
Not a chance!
Rumble!
Instantly, Taishang Laojun's attempt to assist was intercepted by the other eleven Ancestral Witches!
Though their individual strength fell far short of Taishang Laojun's, there were simply more of them!
Moreover, the Ancestral Witches possessed indestructible physical bodies, and Taishang Laojun didn't dare to truly unleash fatal attacks to kill them outright.
Thus, they genuinely managed to block Taishang Laojun in his tracks!
Meanwhile, over on Dijiang's side, he and Yuanshi were locked in a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering battle!
Rumble!
The Pangu Banner swept through Yuanshi's hands unceasingly, while the Three Treasures Ruyi shattered the void repeatedly, threatening to demolish the entire Honghuang!
Dijiang did not dare to be careless either, revealing his true form. His fiery-red body stretched tens of thousands of feet tall, and his six legs and four wings pulsed with the concentrated Law of Space. A single flash of his figure caused space to collapse, and a flap of his wings summoned roaring torrents of Law.
Boom, boom, boom!
Every single powerful entity in Honghuang watched this battle with rapt attention!
Even Taishang Laojun and the other Ancestral Witches fighting nearby cast glances over here from time to time!
Though only for a fleeting moment!
Boom!
The next instant, just as everyone was engrossed in the spectacle, Yuanshi's Three Treasures Ruyi suddenly smashed down onto the top of Dijiang's head. Seizing the opening, the Pangu Banner roared through the air, directly blasting Dijiang's true form backward!
"Has Dijiang lost?"
Instantly, that was the exact thought that flashed through the minds of the watching experts!
For some inexplicable reason, they genuinely hoped Dijiang would lose right here and now—because if he didn't, the implications were simply too terrifying!
After all, Dijiang was only at the Mid-Hunyuan stage!
"Big Brother!"
Even the other Ancestral Witches roared in anxious alarm!
Yuanshi, meanwhile, burst into loud laughter. "Hahaha! Head of the Ancestral Witches? You're nothing special after all!"
"You mere beasts covered in fur and horns, hatched from eggs—how dare you contend with us Three Pure Ones?!"
Yuanshi declared coldly, his arrogance towering like a mountain!
"Is that so? Is that really what you think?"
Dijiang suddenly smiled!
Boom!
The Hongmeng Measuring Ruler flashed behind him, erupting with boundless power of Law. With a loud *bang*, it batted away the Three Treasures Ruyi that was trying to circle back, and with another explosive strike, it swatted the Pangu Banner flying into the firmament. The next moment, clutching the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, Dijiang charged forward and began raining blows down upon Yuanshi's head and face!
Rumble!
The terrifying sound of shattering void echoed through the air!
"Bang!"
"Argh—"
Following that, the onlookers watched in shock as Yuanshi—who had looked so majestic just moments before—was hammered straight down into the earth by the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler!
Without a moment's hesitation, Dijiang strode forward and continuously rained blow after blow upon Yuanshi's body with the ruler, roaring with every strike, "So you're the Three Pure Ones of Pangu? I'll show you the Three Pure Ones of Pangu..."