34: Signs of the Great Way

Across the Primordial Land, battlefields where Vicious Beasts and the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races engaged in slaughter were everywhere.

The corpses of all living things could be seen everywhere.

The remains of billions of Vicious Beasts emitted dense baleful qi, fully detonating the calamity energy of the Beast Calamity.

The Primordial Land saw its mountains and rivers shattered.

Since the outbreak of the Beast Calamity, it had become difficult to find a single pure land in the Primordial World.

On the shores of the East Sea, the waters that were originally vast and azure were now shimmering with an eerie dark red.

Millions of Vicious Beast corpses floated on the sea surface, their rotting flesh continuously releasing turbid Evil Qi.

These auras eroded the seawater, turning the sea area for a million miles into a dead zone—fish and shrimp vanished, and coral withered to death.

Occasionally, waves would crash against the shore, but they no longer churned up white spray; instead, they brought filthy foam mixed with broken bones and poisonous blood.

The Central Land was in even greater disarray.

The once lush forests were now reduced to charred trunks.

Wherever the tribes led by the Vicious Beast Taowu passed, the earth cracked, and magma flowed freely.

The soil contaminated by Evil Qi could not even support the growth of the most tenacious Spiritual Plants.

Even more terrifying, the Laws of the world in certain regions had been distorted—rain flowed backward, flames froze, and time and space were in Chaos.

Above one battlefield, countless corpses remained suspended, frozen in the moment of death, as the entire space-time was locked by baleful qi.

The sky was perpetually shrouded in thick clouds of Evil Qi.

Sunlight could hardly penetrate, and the stars were dim and lusterless.

Occasionally, birds would attempt to fly through the clouds, only to be corroded into white bones in an instant.

The ravages of the Vicious Beasts not only destroyed living beings but also eroded the Origin of the Primordial World.

On the land, a rift spanning a million miles was constantly expanding.

What gushed out from the rift was not earthly fire, but turbid Chaos Qi.

This was the evil consequence of Taotie gnawing at the earth's veins—in order to replenish its strength, it had directly devoured Innate Spiritual Veins.

There were countless similar earth fissures across the Primordial Land.

Like festering wounds in the world, they continuously oozed the pus and blood of Chaos.

This day, the Dao, which had been silent for so long, finally manifested.

From beyond the nine heavens, 129,600 golden pillars of light suddenly descended.

Each pillar of light precisely enveloped a powerful Vicious Beast, melting it instantly.

A gap tore open in the sky, and mysterious Dao runes drifted down like snowflakes; upon touching a Vicious Beast, they ignited unquenchable Dao fire.

"The Dao's Summons!"

A magnificent Dao sound rang simultaneously in the ears of all the myriad races of the Primordial Land.

All Cultivators above the Taiyi Realm felt it in their hearts.

The destruction caused by Vicious Beasts to the Primordial World had reached a level of abhorrence that even the Dao could no longer tolerate.

It issued a summons, calling upon the Cultivators of the Primordial Land to join forces and exterminate the Vicious Beasts.

This calamity that had swept across the Primordial Land finally reached its turning point.

For a time, those powerful Cultivators who had been hiding in the background stepped forward, fighting alongside the myriad races.

With their participation, the offensive of the Vicious Beast army was quickly eased.

And the situation rapidly reversed.

Under the Dao's Summons, exterminating Vicious Beasts had a high probability of yielding Karma rewards, and the Dao operated actively, responding immediately.

With the blessing of the power of Karma, the strength of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races quickly recovered, and they began to counterattack against the Vicious Beasts, eventually driving them back into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

But the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races clearly would not let this opportunity pass; they seized the chance to invade the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, determined to end this calamity once and for all.

Likewise, Qing Wu and Yuan Feng also received the summons, and two figures emerged from the Immortal Volcano.

Thanks to its location in the southern lands, the vicinity of the Immortal Volcano had long been undisturbed by Vicious Beasts.

Even if there were any, they were just some blind Vicious Beasts coming alone to knock at the gates, which posed no threat at all.

This might have been related to the Vicious Beast Grand Marshal stationed in the south—Qiongqi.

Having suffered a setback at Qing Wu's place last time, he had learned to be smart and no longer dared to come.

It was a pity that Qing Wu and his companion had prepared to entertain him properly.

But since you won't come, I will have to go find you.

Therefore, the main goal of Qing Wu and Yuan Feng's trip was that Beast King, Qiongqi.

After entrusting everything at the Immortal Volcano to Jin Feng and Qingluan, the two flew out from the Immortal Volcano and headed toward the northern continent.

The further north they went, the closer they got to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and the more turbid the Spiritual Qi in the world became.

"This is only the periphery, and it is already this unbearable." Yuan Feng narrowed her red eyes, and a wisp of Nanmingli Fire ignited at her fingertip, scorching the Spiritual Qi of this world.

The flame should have been pure and flawless, but at this moment, it was faintly tinged with black energy.

Qing Wu said nothing, and several parasol tree leaves flew out from his sleeve. As soon as the leaves left his hand, they withered rapidly and dissipated into fly ash.

Below, the originally lush hills had now become scorched earth.

In a gully spanning tens of millions of miles, countless skeletons of living beings were piled up.

There were broken horns of the Dragon Clan, shattered scales of the Qilin, and even more severed limbs of unrecognizable races.

A few Vicious Beasts resembling jackals were rummaging through the pile of corpses, gnawing on the organs that had not yet rotted.

"Die!" Fire surged in Yuan Feng's eyes, and she flicked her finger.

That wisp of Nanmingli Fire arrived in an instant, burning the Vicious Beasts and the pile of corpses to ashes.

For these Vicious Beasts that had made the Primordial World such a mess, the two would not be the least bit polite.

Upon arriving at the edge of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, the battle here was also in full swing.

Among them, the battle between the Dragon Clan and the Qilin Clan was particularly conspicuous.

The Ancestral Dragon's roar shook the sky as he led an Alliance of thousands of tribes, engaging in war with the Vicious Beast army led by the Beast King Taotie.

Under the blessing of the power of Karma, the current Ancestral Dragon could contend with Taotie on his own.

Coupled with the billions of tribes behind him, he could even suppress the Vicious Beast army.

The Qilin Clan, under the leadership of the First Qilin, was closely connected with the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races, deploying a great formation to fight against the Vicious Beasts.

The Myriad Spirits Pilgrimage Formation was opened again, but under the blessing of the power of Karma, the Holy Light became brilliant.

Countless Vicious Beasts, just as they walked out of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, had their baleful qi directly purified, losing the power of the Vicious Beasts.

But as the base of the Vicious Beasts, the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains naturally would not lack Vicious Beasts.

A steady stream of Vicious Beasts, under the command of the two Beast Kings, emerged from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

The battle was earth-shattering, like a meat grinder, with piles of remains of various living beings everywhere.

As more and more living beings died, the calamity energy around the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had reached a peak.

Wisps of calamity energy merged into the heads of all the living beings present, and the living beings became even more fearless of death, beginning to launch desperate attacks against the Vicious Beasts.

Qing Wu and his companion were slaughtering Vicious Beasts while searching the battlefield.

They discovered many powerful auras hidden within the battlefield.

Their existence was even more powerful than that of the Ancestral Dragon, the First Qilin, and others.

Among them were some they were quite familiar with.

They must be those Chaos Gods and Demons, waiting to hunt that Vicious Beast Emperor.

Shaking his head, Qing Wu did not intend to go and greet them.

They wanted to find the Vicious Beast Emperor, but Qing Wu had no such intention.

He and Yuan Feng would just find trouble with those Beast Kings instead.

Soon, in one of the battles, Qing Wu and his companion discovered a familiar figure.

A figure that blotted out the sky was soaring up and down in the battlefield, leading the Vicious Beast army to slaughter billions of flying birds.

That broken horn was particularly conspicuous, allowing Qing Wu and his companion to lock onto their target; this was undoubtedly Qiongqi.