Chapter Eighty: The Golden Crow Emerges from the Cauldron

  Wuji and the various saints took their leave after fixing the heavenly numbers, each returning to their own Daoist temple. Wuji explained his intentions to the Taiqing Saint, saying he would go into seclusion in the Primordial Chaos to consolidate his spiritual realm. He hoped that the teacher could take care of the four girls and bring them back to Mount Sanyang, as Wuji was worried about letting the four girls travel during the impending catastrophe, lest they be tainted by karmic forces.

  The Supreme Saint naturally wouldn't oppose, and Taiji had a conversation with the four girls of Fengqiu before heading towards Hundun. With Taiji's cultivation speed, it didn't take long for him to arrive at the place where he had previously gone into seclusion. After setting up the formation, Taiji began his closed-door meditation.

  Wuji, although having consolidated his cultivation through two thousand years of Taoist practice, still hadn't fully grasped his own strength. Wuji was simultaneously mastering his realm and diligently absorbing the Chaos Energy. In the midst of chaos, another Spiritual Energy Storm arose. The vast Chaos Spiritual Energy became even more refined and gentle after being combed by the 24th rank Creation Blue Lotus above Wuji's head. Wuji's absorption speed greatly increased.

  The infinite mind's meticulous perception, due to its own realm being elevated, grants itself an increase in divine power. The infinite domain has also expanded to a range of 10,000 meters, and the closer it is to oneself, the stronger one's control over it becomes. Time acceleration, time suspension, and time acceleration - these divine powers become even more formidable when used within this range. The infinite space law can also be stepped out in an instant, reaching tens of millions of miles away.

  The infinite heart and spirit sank into the infinite boundary, discovering that the infinite heaven and earth had expanded twice again, already having a size of one-thousandth of the vast continent. However, the infinite clearly felt that at this time, the infinite heaven and earth seemed to have entered a bottleneck, and would not grow further without a breakthrough. The infinite's manipulation of time in the infinite boundary accelerated even more, reaching around a thousand times faster. The infinite heaven and earth also absorbed quite a bit of information from the vast continent's great dao laws due to the infinite breaking through the mixed yuan da Luo golden immortal and merging with the vast continent's heavenly way.

  The living beings in the boundless heaven and earth have developed for tens of millions of years, breaking through the hundreds of billions. With the original size of the boundless heaven and earth, the population has become extremely dense. At this time, the boundless heaven and earth expanded twice, and the population density suddenly decreased. However, the spiritual energy of the world had been absorbed by cultivators over the years, becoming much thinner. The Boundless knew that although many cultivators had perished in these years, the spiritual energy returned to the heaven and earth after their death was far from proportional to the spiritual energy absorbed by the cultivators. The Boundless understood that this might be the reason why the world was stuck in a bottleneck. For the development of the boundless heaven and earth, the Boundless decided to emulate the Desolate World and initiate the Great Calamity.

  In the boundless heaven and earth, although great wars are ongoing, it is still insufficient as far as the boundless heaven and earth are concerned. The boundless one utilizes its identity as the master of the boundless realm to slowly pull in the evil energy lingering within the boundless heaven and earth, preventing it from being expelled outside the heaven and earth and flowing into the chaos. The boundless one gathers these evil energies together, and after a hundred years, it will make those enormous evil energies descend, allowing them to be absorbed by the living beings within the heaven and earth, affecting their divine wisdom. From then on, the great wars among the living beings in the boundless heaven and earth become even more brutal. After the boundless one has determined the grand trend of the heaven and earth, it will naturally follow its inherent development according to this grand trend.

  Wuji now has another task, which is to re-refine the newly synthesized 24th-grade Causal Green Lotus. Although the 24th-grade Causal Green Lotus has already broken through the Xiantian Treasure level and reached the Hunyuan Spiritual Treasure level, Wuji had previously refined the three 12th-grade lotus platforms, so this time's refinement will naturally not be too slow. However, Wuji still spent a million years refining it in the Wuji Chaos, and outside, it was also a thousand years.

  After refining and transforming the twenty-four products of creation into a blue lotus, he did not leave the pass, but continued to be in the midst of chaos, on the one hand, comprehending the great Tao, and on the other hand, absorbing the chaotic air.

  Wuji was cultivating in the midst of chaos, but let's not talk about that. Instead, let's say that after Zhengtian and Jieyin returned to their own Daoist temple, Ling Mountain, they began to share their feelings about Wuji. After that, they started making preparations for the Great Calamity. Zhengtian and Jieyin decided that when the time was ripe, they should take action early on. After all, the two tribes of witches and demons were destined to be the main protagonists of heaven and earth, but their grand aspirations would never come true. Once the infinite calamity arrived, Zhengtian and Jieyin had not yet achieved their grand aspirations, and they would inevitably be counterattacked by the Heavenly Dao, turning into nothingness.

  Five thousand years later, two streams of light flew from the west and plunged into the River of Fate, transforming into a law that entwined the threads of fate related to the Demon Emperor, causing them to become chaotic and obscure. The heavenly mechanism connected to the Demon Emperor immediately became unclear. Guan Ti thought the time was ripe, so he left for the Heavenly Court in the west.

  The Supreme Sage in the Ba Jing Palace, the Original Sage in the Yu Xū Palace, and the Patriarch of Tongtian in the Jin Ao Island naturally knew the heavenly machine at the first time. Only the Niú Wāng Niáng was deliberately blinded by the two saints of the Western world and did not know. The Three Pure Saints were naturally happy to let the two saints of the Western world plot against the Wu and Yao tribes, offending the Niú Wāng Niáng. Each gave orders to their disciples to guard the cave tightly and not to leave the sacred place without permission, lest they be affected by the great calamity.

  Zhun Ti the Holy One arrived at the Sun Palace where the ten Golden Crows of Di Jun and Xihe were born, Zhun Ti transformed into a golden immortal's demonic general, first showing the guards outside the palace his imitation of Di Jun's token, then entering the Sun Palace to see the ten Golden Crows.

  The little demon transformed by Zhunti Saint said to the ten golden crows: "I have seen that you are for the Crown Prince."

  The Great Crown Prince said: "Who are you, how dare you come to my Sun Palace?" Zhunti said: "I am a general under the command of the Heavenly Court's Ying Zhao, the Saint of Demons. However, some time ago, I was ambushed by the Witch Clan and suffered severe injuries, my cultivation can no longer be restored. The Demon Saint pitied me and recommended that I come to take care of you princes." Zhunti then showed his transformed Demon Emperor token.

  The ten princes naturally recognized the token of Emperor Jun, and after confirming that there was no mistake, they added that the current cultivation of Zhunti was inferior to that of the ten golden crows, not by a little bit. As for Zhunti, he didn't mind, and afterwards, the Holy One became familiar with the Golden Crows.

  Then, the Saintly Ancestor began to speak eloquently and at length, describing how in the past, before the rebellion of the Wu tribe, the world was under the rule of the Yao tribe, and what a glorious scene it was, with peace and harmony throughout the land. The ten golden crows were deeply moved and proud for their father, Emperor Jun. Later, Ancestor Zhu spoke again about how after the Wu tribe emerged, they brought chaos to the world with their cruel and evil ways. Originally, the Yao Emperor had a trump card that could have controlled the Wu tribe, but he was benevolent and did not want to use it against his own people, so he refrained from taking action. As a result, during the previous rebellion of the Wu tribe, the Yao tribe lost half of their territory and were forced to retreat to the Heavenly Court. Your aunt, Changxi, also died in that battle, and the power of the Heavenly Court was greatly diminished.

  Ten Golden Crows were still young at heart, so they naturally felt happy and proud when they heard about the former glory of the demon tribe. When they heard about the brutal destruction caused by the witch tribe that ruined the peaceful world of the demon tribe, they became extremely angry. When they heard that Emperor Jun had a kind heart and couldn't bear to see innocent people suffer, so he didn't give the order to kill the witch tribe, even though it made them proud, they were also angry with their own father emperor for being so weak-willed.

  The Third Prince was curious about what methods his father, the Emperor, would use to quell the rebellion of the Wu tribe. He asked Zhun Ti, the Holy One: "I ask you, do you know what methods my father has to put down the rebellion?"

  The Zhun Ti saint looked at the ten golden crow princes who were curiously looking at him and said, "Originally, I also didn't know about it, but because of this, when Lord Ying Zhao got drunk, I happened to be serving by his side, so I heard that the demon emperor's Golden Crow clan has a divine ability called 'Liet Riyong Kong' which can transform into the sun, control its own heat to scorch rivers and boil seas. If the demon emperor transforms into the sun and walks back and forth over the witch tribe's residence several times, the people of the witch tribe will definitely turn to ashes. This may also be why Your Majesty has a kind heart and cannot bear for the common people to suffer, so he ordered each of you princes to patrol the sky and earth every day."

  The tenth Golden Crow prince knew that the heat on his body was indeed astonishing, but compared to Emperor Jun, it was still far behind, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of longing. The eighth prince suddenly said: "Brothers, why don't we help our father emperor suppress this witch tribe rebellion? Our blazing sun in the sky is really no match for our father's blazing sun in the sky, but if the ten brothers work together to display our blazing sun in the sky, even if it's not as good as our father's, it will definitely be close."

  "As the demon prince, the son of the emperor, I should naturally be loyal and filial to my father, help him resolve his worries. If we can quell this rebellion, no one in heaven will dare look down on us again, and we won't be locked up here suffering anymore. Even if Father gets angry afterwards, as his princes, with his love for us and Uncle's pleading, the worst that could happen is a scolding."

  All the princes were moved by the words of the eighth prince, only the eldest prince was a bit more mature and did not put his heart at ease, saying that he had to wait for the emperor to come before making a decision. However, good men can't stand against many people, after all, they are just children's hearts, and soon they were moved by the words of Jinwu Prince. But another difficult problem was placed in front of them, the Sun Palace was sealed off by Emperor Jun, each time only allowing one prince to go out, until this prince returned, the next prince could go out.

  Just as the various Golden Crow princes were feeling disheartened, the Zhun Ti saint said: "Look at how hard you princes have been working for the Emperor, being loyal and filial to alleviate his worries. I am deeply moved by this. This time, I will stake everything on it. My token can temporarily lift the seal and allow you princes to pass through. For the sake of the demon tribe, for the heavenly court, and for the Emperor, even if the Emperor were to punish me with reincarnation, I would accept it."

  All the Golden Crow princes were delighted with Zhunti's loyalty. The second prince said, "Don't worry, after we have accomplished our task, I will definitely ask Father Emperor to plead for you and spare your life." The other princes also nodded in agreement.

  "Thank you, princes, for your concern. You should act quickly, after all, if the messenger doesn't return to Heaven's Court for a long time, it will arouse Emperor Yingzhao's suspicion, and that won't be good." After saying this, Zhunti Saint used his token to force open a small entrance with great difficulty, allowing the ten Golden Crows to pass through. As for the guards outside, they had already been subdued by Zhunti Saint.

  The Golden Crows looked at Zhunti Sage with gratitude, then left for the Vast Expanse of the Great Wilderness. Zhunti Sage disappeared in the Sun Palace with a smile on his face.