Occasional venting of emotions is conducive to preventing mental breakdown.
Under the circumstances of having one's cultivation completely abolished, even a Quasi-Saint's Dao heart would not be able to endure for tens of millions of years without such an outlet; it would completely collapse, turning one into an imbecile, numb.
"Ma Yuan has completely gone mad, his spirit utterly broken, but Lu Ya's spirit is in a state of semi-collapse, yet not entirely broken."
"The former Crown Prince of the Demon Race indeed possessed some capability."
Daoist Randeng's gaze drifted towards the shed where Lu Ya was drinking water.
The Golden Crow Crown Prince Lu Ya was also confined by chains, his range of movement restricted.
His body was covered in visible cracks in the flesh, large bruises, swelling, and whip marks.
Beneath his two feet were horseshoe-shaped iron shoes.
It was evident that many humans who had come here treated Lu Ya as an exhibition mount.
The former Crown Prince of the Demon Court, in this era of humanity, was reduced to the fate of a beast, a mount.
It was just like in the past, when the myriad races of the Demon Court preyed on humans and amused themselves by toying with them.
It was simply that…
The roles had been reversed…
The Demon Race's paradise had become humanity's paradise…
Therefore, if the Demon Race treated humans as livestock, then humans naturally treated the Demon Race as livestock.
Karma, after all, was a cycle…
At this moment, as Daoist Randeng pondered, the shed was suddenly opened.
"Human?"
Daoist Randeng glanced at Si Hanwen, then lowered his head again.
He could recognize the aura of a cultivator and knew that this human's strength was comparable to that of a nascent Taiyi.
Over the past million years, although Randeng had not personally ventured out of this place, many humans had visited. Thus, Randeng had a general understanding of how the Human Heavenly Court had developed externally.
Nascent Taiyi stage, in this era, among hundreds of billions of humans, forty percent possessed strength at or above the Taiyi level.
It was almost a certainty that one out of every two humans would achieve the Taiyi realm.
Nascent Taiyi stage was truly nothing significant.
However, even knowing Si Hanwen's status among humans and being able to guess his position, Daoist Randeng could not dare to speak disrespectfully, because the status of any random human was higher than his!
Daoist Randeng naturally did nothing else, merely trying to minimize his presence, hoping that this human's resentment would not be directed at him.
Fortunately, Si Hanwen did not approach him but walked towards Lu Ya's location.
Daoist Randeng thought to himself, "Lu Ya, may you fend for yourself," and felt a slight sense of schadenfreude.
As for the Golden Crow Lu Ya, upon seeing Si Hanwen approach, especially noticing the whip in his hand, his heart turned cold.
Si Hanwen wasted no words.
The first whip cracked through the air, and before it even reached Lu Ya, it produced a sonic boom.
The very air was shattered!
One could imagine the immense power of this whip and how painful it would be if it landed on Lu Ya.
Before the whip even fell, Si Hanwen felt a sense of pleasure.
After all, a figure like the former Crown Prince of the Demon Court, the young master of the myriad races, was far beyond his league to interact with. Now that he was in distress, a petty individual like Si Hanwen naturally wished to humiliate a once-great figure and gain a sense of superiority from it.
However, he, with his Taiyi Golden Immortal strength, failed to notice a consciousness awakening within Lu Ya.
An ancient, vast consciousness awakened within Lu Ya. In an instant, the original consciousness of the Golden Crow Crown Prince was completely erased!
The Golden Crow Crown Prince Lu Ya of the past was dead!
Lu Ya, who possessed only the peak cultivation of a Golden Immortal, had perished forever!
In his place stood—Ancient Sage Lu Ya Daojun!
The will of an ancient sage now occupied the Golden Crow Crown Prince's body, primordial spirit, and magical power.
The awakened Lu Ya Daojun merely glanced at the whip, and the distance between the whip and Lu Ya's body extended to countless light-years.
Even attacks that could span across the universe, transcend dimensions and distances, could not harm Lu Ya Daojun in the slightest!
Before Si Hanwen could even react in shock,
Lu Ya's body began to change.
The horseshoe-shaped iron shoes that pierced his feet, the humiliating brand of a mount, which were supposed to be indelible, turned to dust.
The fiery divine patterns on his forehead, damaged by the slave mark of the Human Heavenly Court, were restored. The Solar True Fire blazed anew, its power tens of millions of times greater than that of Emperor Jun in his prime!
"What demon are you? Could you be a Chaos Demon God?"
Si Hanwen looked at Lu Ya Daojun. Such an instantaneous transformation, such immense power, was the definitive proof of possession!
"Chaos Demon God…"
Lu Ya Daojun smiled.
"Hongjun came after the heavens, but my Dao predates Hongjun!"
"Born only eighteen years old, one eon is one year!"
"I am the essence of Innate Li Fire!"
"Within Li Fire, eighteen tribulations are enacted. Within each tribulation lies the opening of Pangu's heavens, the war between the Wu and Yao tribes, the Investiture of the Gods, and the tribulation of the End of Dharma…"
"The reign of the Three Sovereigns and the establishment of the Five Emperors all occurred within this single tribulation…"
"You who are submerged, Si Hanwen, may call me, the Awakened One!"
The ancient Great Dao Sage, who had once unified the eons, had finally descended, surveying all beings submerged in endless reincarnation, eternally unable to attain transcendence, with the posture of the Awakened One!
Fire!
All Si Hanwen could see was a sea of flames.
This was not the Solar True Fire, one of the most supreme fires in the Primordial World.
It was Innate Li Fire, sublimated from the Solar True Fire…
The infinite profundities and the gate of all wonders evolved within the Innate Li Fire were so astonishing that even the Fire Demon God, if alive, would be utterly astounded!
For this flame had surpassed the Great Dao!
It contained the Dao of Fire of this chaotic eon, wielding one hundred percent of the Dao of Fire, making it equal to the Fire Demon God of the past!
But beyond encompassing the Dao of Fire of this chaotic eon, it also contained the Daos of eighteen other chaotic eons that the Fire Demon God had never understood!
The Great Dao differed in every chaotic eon, and Lu Ya Daojun, this ancient Great Dao Sage who had once unified the chaotic eons, now contained them all within his Innate Li Fire form…
"So, the heavens and earth are merely a cycle of repetition, the opening of heavens, the extinction of myriad beings, the destruction of the Primordial World, all within a single tribulation?"
Although Daoist Randeng's cultivation was abolished, his eyesight remained.
At this moment, Lu Ya Daojun no longer embodied the Golden Crow but acted through Innate Li Fire.
Within this Innate Li Fire, Daoist Randeng could see the opening of Pangu's heavens, the tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods, the era of the End of Dharma, and eighteen cycles of reincarnation.
A total of eighteen different Daoist Randengs, each with slightly different personalities and cultivation levels, manifested within this Li Fire.
During the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, Lu Ya Daojun laughed heartily. With a bow of the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book, Zhao Gongming immediately breathed his last…