Chapter 156 The Beginning of the Great Tribulation
In the Phoenix Clan, the two clan leaders, Yuan Feng and Tian Huang, who were both already Quasi-Saints, opened their eyes at the same time.
Phoenixes are originally one, and when they secluded themselves in the same phoenix nest, they saw excitement in each other's eyes.
"The Heavenly Dao is guiding us; it is time for us to unify the three races. By gathering the innate fortune of the three races, our cultivation can break through, allowing us to reach the Saint realm, which is on par with the Primordial Golden Immortal."
"Haha, this land will eventually belong to my Phoenix Clan."
"Pass down the order: all birds shall immediately wage war against the aquatic and beast tribes. From now on, this primordial world will belong to my bird race."
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"Under the command of the Qilin Clan, all beasts shall immediately wage war against the birds and aquatic creatures to seize control of this primordial world."
The powerful figures of the three innate races immediately issued orders, almost as if by prior agreement.
After nearly 300 million years of recuperation, the vitality of the three innate races has long since recovered. In particular, the patriarchs of the three races have all broken through to the peak of the Quasi-Saint level, and their combat power has skyrocketed.
Even those stronger than them, such as Azure Dragon, Candle Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger Ancestor, Water Scale Ancestor, Fire Phoenix, Ice Phoenix, Vermilion Bird, etc., have also raised their strength to the Quasi-Saint realm.
Quasi-Saint is a realm where one has initially broken through the shackles of the Great Dao. Although the essence is still that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, it is not easy to break through. It is normal to spend tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands or millions of yuan and still not be able to break through.
However, they broke through so easily, as if there were no bottlenecks.
Once the order was given, none of the three innate races, whether they submitted willingly or were forced, raised any objection.
They all naturally chose to carry out the orders of the three innate races and then launched wars against the other two sides.
In just a few hundred years, the ancient world, which had been at peace for over 2,900 years, has been plunged into complete chaos.
Countless races, regardless of strength, began to slaughter each other.
Even those minor races that were not closely related to the three primordial races and belonged to the most peripheral groups were still treated the same way.
The Dragon-Han Calamity was not only a calamity for the three innate races, but also a calamity for all primordial beings, including the innate beings and the acquired races created by the innate gods and demons.
Every living being that has been born on the primordial earth is part of the great calamity, and no one can escape it.
In just a few thousand years, countless subordinate races of the three innate races have been wiped out in the war. However, the victorious beings did not enjoy the fruits of victory. They had long been bloodthirsty, eliminating one group of opponents and then turning to other opponents until they died.
The carnage spread rapidly across the primordial land, countless lives perished, corpses piled up, blood pooled, and flesh turned into mud, becoming nutrients for the earth and making this land even more fertile.
Amidst such bloodshed, even more calamity energy was generated, causing those races that were too far from the three main races to act beforehand to become frenzied.
Then...
Without any notification from the three races, these races began to fight amongst themselves, resulting in the deaths of more and more lives and the generation of more calamity energy.
Less than ten thousand years after the start of the great war, the calamity aura enveloped the entire prehistoric world, spreading even faster than the journey of a mid-stage Great Luo Innate God or Demon.
"What exactly is a 'great calamity'?"
"Is this a means by which Heaven eliminates the traces left behind by Pangu in the primordial world?"
High above the primordial world, Xu Qiankun looked solemnly at the battlefield below. A group of strange beasts with six legs, two heads, and three eyes were fighting against a group of fish demons with four arms.
The strongest of the six-legged beasts is a being in the early stage of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
The leader of the fish demon's side was a mixed-blood dragon from the early stage of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
The two Taiyi Golden Immortals fought fiercely together, abandoning all their so-called supernatural powers and spells, revealing their physical advantages and launching a reckless attack on each other.
Each strike takes away a large piece of the opponent's scales and flesh.
The blood and flesh of Taiyi Golden Immortals, containing immense energy, spilled onto the earth, transforming into pools of blood or mountains of flesh, which were then absorbed by the earth.
On the battlefield between Golden Immortals and True Immortals, there have been numerous casualties, but the two sides fighting each other seem oblivious to it. They show no fear, only their determination to kill their opponent.
"I've been attacked by the aura of calamity."
Suddenly, Xu Qiankun, who was watching the play, had a drastic change in expression.
Because in his eyes, the originally thick, ink-like aura of calamity disappeared, and the world became clear again.
This did not mean the end of the Great Tribulation, but rather that He was also affected by the tribulation energy, pulled into the Great Tribulation, and became one of its members.
How can one see the aura of calamity when one is in the midst of it?
"From now on, all my judgments may be affected by the calamity, leading me to do some crazy things. I must find a way to stay clear-headed."
Just as He was being pulled into the great calamity, a thought suddenly popped into His mind: to go to the western part of the prehistoric continent.
This idea was inexplicable yet incredibly strong, giving him an irresistible urge to rush over and see for himself. It even affected the World Tree clone and the two clones in the chaos.
Xu Qiankun's expression turned solemn. He quickly sealed off all his consciousness and then used the consciousness of the Swallowed Star World to take over these clones.
"It really worked!"
Xu Qiankun's mind cleared instantly. Although he could still not see the aura of calamity, he no longer felt that sense of control.
Xu Qiankun finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"I was too naive. I thought that sending out the Qiankun Great World and my two clones would help me avoid the effects of the Great Tribulation, but it turned out to be useless."
"The World Tree clone will indeed not be pulled into the Great Calamity, but since the World Tree clone shares a consciousness with the other clones, its mind will still be affected by the Calamity's energy."
"The only way to avoid a great calamity is to stay away from it altogether."
Xu Qiankun, in the vast world of Qiankun, glanced at Wangshu and found that she was completely unaffected, still quietly cultivating and comprehending the Great Dao of Taiyin.
"To truly fight against the Great Calamity, you still need to cheat," Xu Qiankun said with a smile. "With the arrival of consciousness from two worlds, even if the Primordial Heavenly Dao is powerful, it cannot affect me."
"Let's go see the West first."
Xu Qiankun piloted the Heavenly Array Divine Palace directly towards the western part of the prehistoric world.
He had no intention of running away. As long as his two clones in the Chaos did not come to the Primordial World, even if all three clones left in the Primordial World were destroyed, it would not have much of an impact on him.
The Five Elements Avatar Divine Power allows the avatars to be reassembled after they perish; at most, some treasures will be lost.
Although the losses were severe, they were still within acceptable limits.
This is also why Xu Qiankun did not leave the top-grade innate spiritual treasure "Qiankun Reverse Origin Pearl" in the prehistoric world. The Qiankun Reverse Origin Pearl has too many functions, including defense and offense, and it can also refine the Creation Spirit Liquid. Among top-grade innate spiritual treasures, it belongs to a relatively mediocre category.
In terms of attack, it is inferior to the Four Swords of Zhuxian; in terms of defense, it is inferior to the Golden Lotus of Merit.
However, it has an identity that Xu Qiankun can never give up: it is the companion spirit treasure of the Qiankun God and Demon, which was conceived from the same womb as the heaven and earth, and is equivalent to a part of the life origin of the Qiankun God and Demon, which cannot be lost.
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In the primordial west, this is the territory of the Demon Ancestor Rahu, and the demons he created live in this region.
Besides the Demon Ancestor Rahu, there is another extremely powerful clan here, namely the White Tiger Clan. The White Tiger Ancestor is the strongest member of the Qilin Clan besides the Primordial Qilin.
The Demon Ancestor's cultivation mainly focuses on devouring the seven emotions and six desires of living beings in the world. His requirements for rare and precious materials are relatively low. The competition with the White Tiger Clan is not very fierce, which makes the White Tiger Clan extremely rich in resources and extremely powerful. They are the fourth strongest clan in the prehistoric world.
Just as Xu Qiankun was heading west, a faint black mist appeared in the ancestral land of the White Tiger Clan, so faint that even the White Tiger Ancestor, who was at the Quasi-Saint level, could not detect it.
Four top-grade innate spiritual treasures were buried outside the White Tiger Ancestral Land, covering an area of trillions of kilometers, faintly forming an array.
"As long as a large number of powerful beings from the three races are sacrificed, the Immortal Slaughtering Formation Diagram will be formed immediately, and the Immortal Slaughtering Formation should be born."
Rahu's eyes shone brightly.