Yujing Mountain!
Hongjun slowly exhaled a breath of stale air!
"After countless years of cultivation, my Dao injuries are finally healed. Hahaha!" Hongjun laughed triumphantly!
Remembering Taichu whom he had met back at Mount Buzhou, Hongjun's aged face instantly darkened once again!
"Very well, Taichu. The next time this Ancestor sees you, I will certainly have a proper score to settle. You have repeatedly seized my opportunities, and this debt is firmly noted by this Ancestor!"
With that, Hongjun slowly closed his eyes and resumed his seclusion!
As flowers bloom in pairs, each follows its own branch!
Leaving Mount Buzhou, Taichu headed straight for the Pangu Palace, though this time he did not go inside!
Standing before the gates of the Pangu Palace, Taichu could distinctly sense a faint, almost imperceptible aura!
"It seems these little fellows will need some time yet before they are born!"
With that, Taichu took a single step, flickered a few times, and arrived at the shores of the East China Sea!
"Since the Chaos Bead brought me here in the first place, I might as well make this place my Dao domain!"
Saying this, Taichu flew above the East China Sea, drifting deep into its waters before he even realized it!
Vaguely, he felt an inexplicable tug at his heartstrings, yet try as he might, he could find no clue as to its source!
"I must have missed it. A guiding force in the dark brought me here—how could there be nothing at all?"
Channeling his divine power to its utmost, he unleashed his divine sense as a Mid-Stage Da Luo Golden Immortal, sweeping across the entire surface of the East China Sea!
"So it's right here. Hahaha!" Taichu laughed heartily and flew straight toward it!
"It turns out to be a Xiantian Five-Elements Grand Array! No wonder it was so difficult to spot!"
"However, even if it is a Xiantian Five-Elements Grand Array, so what?"
It was not that Taichu was arrogant; after all, having debated the Dao with the Five-Elements Demon God in Chaos for tens of thousands of years, Taichu considered himself fully capable of easily refining any five-elements formation!
Since an opportunity had fallen into his hands, there was nothing to hesitate about!
Without further ado, Taichu unleashed his immense magic power and began pounding furiously against the Five-Elements Grand Array!
It was not that Taichu was being reckless; quite the contrary, it was precisely because he knew the Five-Elements Grand Array was difficult to refine that he chose to batter it with simple, brute force!
Once the formation's defenses were weakened through attacks, refining it afterward would require half the effort for twice the reward!
This strategy was a direct benefit of his Dao debates with the Five-Elements Demon God!
If he had simply attempted to refine it blindly, it would only have consumed excessive time and effort!
"Rumble, rumble!"
Outside the grand array, Taichu continuously battered the formation.
Yet this also left a hidden danger for his subsequent entry into the array!
Because just as he was exerting himself to smash the formation, two figures in the distance were closely watching him!
These were none other than Ancestor Hunkun and Ancestor Wuji!
Without exception, these two ancestors were also reincarnated remnant souls of demon gods!
A thousand years later, the grand array finally began to loosen!
At a single glance, Taichu spotted the location of the formation's core!
"Open for me!"
With a loud shout from Taichu, the grand array was finally shattered!
Taichu dusted his hands off with satisfaction and was just about to step inside when a voice drifted over!
"Hahaha, thank you, fellow Daoist, for spending a millennium breaking the array for us!"
As the laughter faded, two figures materialized in its wake!
Taichu raised an eyebrow and asked, "Judging by that, I've been breaking the array for the two of you this whole time?"
"You could say that!" Ancestor Wuji also laughed and said!
"Courting death! It seems you two lingering remnants still harbor unrepentant ambitions. Since that is the case, this seat shall take care of both of you."
"Impudent! This seat is Ancestor Hunkun, and this is Ancestor Wuji. Are you, an ignorant wretch, fit to speak of us so casually!"
"Utterly ridiculous. I don't care who you are. Ask the old dog beside you if he recognizes who I am," Taichu said!
Hearing Taichu say this, Ancestor Hunkun looked at Ancestor Wuji and asked, "Do you know him?"
Ancestor Wuji replied, "You could say that!"
Upon hearing Ancestor Wuji's reply, both Taichu and Hunkun stared at him simultaneously.
Was this Ancestor Wuji out of his mind?
Why did he only ever say that one line!
Right now, however, Taichu was pondering a different question: how had these demon gods managed to survive?
"Hey, brat! Are you scared witless upon hearing our grand names?" Ancestor Hunkun said!
Then Taichu figured it out: these demon gods were essentially scraps left over from the Chaos.
They must not have participated in the great war of heaven-opening, staying far away from the center of Chaos, which was why the heaven-opening tribulation had failed to wipe them all out!
Now, with the Heavenly Dao yet to emerge and the Great Dao paying them no mind, these remnant souls had crawled out to stir up trouble!
Seeing Taichu standing there without moving or speaking, Ancestor Hunkun continued, "If you know what's good for you, get lost quickly! Considering that you broke the array for this Ancestor, I'll spare your life!"
"You talk too damn much!" Before the words faded, Taichu struck out with a single palm strike!
"Boom!"
With a deafening crash, Ancestor Wuji and Ancestor Hunkun were sent flying ten thousand miles away!
"So weak!" Taichu sneered!
"I must say, you Chaos Demon Gods have arrived in Honghuang, yet your brains are still this dim. Have you no self-awareness of your own cultivation level?" Taichu looked at the two figures who had been blasted away and said indifferently!
Ancestor Hunkun and Ancestor Wuji exchanged glances and spoke in unison, "So strong!"
Hearing this, Taichu almost burst out laughing. Are the two of you absolute fools?
Could you not even tell whether someone is strong or not?
Right now, however, he was in no mood to joke with them!
Taichu had only one goal in mind: to execute them utterly!
Just as Taichu moved to close in on them, Ancestor Hunkun and Ancestor Wuji had already rushed back before him!
The two of them launched a joint attack, and both sides retreated a few steps from the clash!
"I underestimated the two of you after all!"
Ancestor Hunkun laughed wildly and said, "Brat, just now this Ancestor was caught off guard by your sneak attack. Do you really think you can kill the two of us?"
At this, Taichu also turned serious and said coldly, "Let's find out, shall we!"
With that, he threw a punch—a heavy, powerful blow!
Ancestor Hunkun and Ancestor Wuji's expressions changed drastically, and they hurriedly summoned their spiritual treasures to block it!
"Boom!"
Following a massive explosion, both sides retreated a million miles!
Glancing at each other, the two sides lunged forward once more. In the blink of an eye, violent winds howled across the East China Sea, spiritual light flashed, and they had already exchanged thousands of blows!
Taichu thought to himself, "It seems every Chaos Demon God has their extraordinary aspects and cannot be underestimated. Even a mere remnant soul cannot be easily obliterated."
However, Ancestor Hunkun and Ancestor Wuji were not having an easy time either. Exchanging glances, a sudden urge to retreat rose in their hearts! It seemed they had run into a tough opponent today!
Thinking of this, Taichu waved his large hand, and a ruler glowing with mysterious yellow light abruptly appeared in his palm!
"The Heaven-Measuring Ruler!" Ancestor Hunkun cried out in alarm!
The moment the Heaven-Measuring Ruler was unleashed, a sky-full of ruler shadows swept toward the two of them, leaving no room to dodge and nowhere to hide!
Yet these two ancestors were no ordinary figures; both were decisively ruthless individuals!
Too fast to describe, Ancestor Hunkun instantly hurled the spiritual treasure in his hand—the "Dragon Soul Wood"—and chose to detonate it!