In the Journey to the West Tribulation, Burning Lamp was enfeoffed as the Ancient Buddha, achieving the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm. With the Dinghai Divine Pearls, he opened up the Twenty-Four Heavens...
In the End of Dharma Tribulation, the Brahma invaded, bringing tribulation. Even though Burning Lamp, the Ancient Buddha, was at the Sub-Saint realm, he was immediately corrupted by the Brahma, his will becoming one with the Brahma and no longer with the Buddha...
Eighteen times!
A full eighteen repetitions!
Of the Burning Lamp Daoists, only seven had stepped into the Sub-Saint realm, only three had achieved the Heavenly Dao Saint realm, and only one had cultivated to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal...
The Burning Lamp Daoist who cultivated to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, known as the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, possessed vast divine abilities, yet under Hongjun's scheme, he was still utterly destroyed, transforming into destructive power to aid Hongjun Dao Ancestor, who was at the Half-step Great Dao realm, in the struggle for Pangu's Dao Fruit!
Hongjun Dao Ancestor was defeated! In that chaotic epoch, the Seven Great Chaos Demon Gods fought amongst themselves, leading to their own demise and falling almost simultaneously... No cultivator could achieve the Great Dao Saint...
That chaotic epoch, immeasurable tribulations buried all cultivators...
But Lu Ya Daojun had always been there!
He had always been looking down on all of this, looking down on the chaotic epochs!
To the awakened, how insignificant were the fallen sentient beings, the beings in infinite reincarnation...
Pangu's creation of the heavens, the destruction of the Primordial World, the destruction of all realms, even such grand scenes, were merely events within a single tribulation!
"The awakened... Daojun!"
"Lu Ya Daojun has awakened!"
"He has awakened!"
The awakened, Lu Ya Daojun, merely cast a glance.
Si Hanwen, a cultivator at the early stage of Grand Unity Golden Immortal, was already turned to dust by the Great Dao法则 fluctuations stirred by his gaze, utterly annihilated, his fundamental particles erased.
Lu Ya Daojun recorded: "Si Hanwen, a member of the fallen, one of the fallen sentient beings. In the eighteen tribulations, his highest cultivation was only at the Heavenly Immortal realm. Seeing a Si Hanwen at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level now clearly indicates the work of the Human Heavenly Court."
"The Human Heavenly Court indeed possesses some skill."
"To be able to cultivate such a mere good-for-nothing to the Grand Unity realm..."
Lu Ya Daojun, in the first chaotic epoch he transmigrated to, had, as the Lord of the Demon Court, defeated Yang Mei and Hongjun, who were at the Half-step Great Dao realm, and swept across the myriad realms, defeating several Half-step Great Dao realm Chaos Demon Gods.
He knew intimately the past of all beings in a chaotic epoch. Even in the Witch-Demon era, he knew everything about an ordinary human, a human with a poor disposition, like a parasite.
Before Lu Ya Daojun, Si Hanwen held no secrets.
Lu Ya Daojun had already seen seven Si Hanwens.
The reason it wasn't eighteen was that Si Hanwen was merely a minuscule and insignificant human extra in the Primordial World script.
The Primordial World narrative was centered around numerous well-known mythical figures. In almost every chaotic epoch, there was Suiren, there was Pangu, there was Houtu.
But when it came to the Ten Great Demon Saints and over three hundred Great Luo Demon Gods, this rule was no longer so accurate. In a chaotic epoch, beings like Xiu Pi Demon God were merely extra demon gods, not even supporting characters.
Extra demon gods, like Zhu Yan and Xiu Pi, Lu Ya Daojun had only seen six in eighteen chaotic epochs.
The names of extra demon gods were utterly unimportant. The Honghuang-flow novels never explicitly recorded the names of all three hundred-plus demon gods.
Naturally, the changes in extra characters in each chaotic epoch, such as Xiu Pi not appearing in this epoch but Zhu Yan does, or Zhu Yan appearing but Xiu Pi not, were perfectly normal phenomena.
As for Si Hanwen, he belonged to the Witch-Demon era, one of the humans in the Mingyuan Tribe among the three thousand tribes constantly being devoured by the myriad races of the Demon Court. Lu Ya Daojun had seen seven of them.
Two Si Hanwens cultivated the Golden Core Great Dao in the Mingyuan Tribe, but died of old age before even reaching the Immortal realm.
Four Si Hanwens, although they cultivated to the Earth Immortal realm, were devoured by demon soldiers when they attacked the Mingyuan Tribe.
Only one Si Hanwen cultivated to the Heavenly Immortal realm and went to the Human Ancestral Land to participate in a Human Emperor selection. Naturally, he was defeated in the early rounds and had no chance of becoming the Human Emperor. In the end, Chi You of the Jiuyi Tribe became the Human Emperor first.
"The transmigrator Chi You... transmigrated into a Great Witch. It's a shame he didn't ascend the Dao Fruit like us ancient saints and become awakened."
"Therefore, even with the body of a Great Witch, cultivating to the Thirteen Ancestral Witches, proving the Dao with strength, and confronting saints, he was merely a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal. Under immeasurable tribulations, he could not transcend..."
Lu Ya Daojun, recalling the scene of Si Hanwen's fundamental particles being annihilated earlier, felt something was not quite right, as if this person hadn't been completely eradicated.
"A hallucination? Or the methods of the Human Heavenly Court?"
"The primordial spirit core has been destroyed. Could there be an even deeper origin at the root of the core..."
"It's just a human extra, it doesn't matter..."
Si Hanwen's ability to be cultivated to Grand Unity Golden Immortal by the Human Race also deepened Lu Ya Daojun's emphasis on the Human Heavenly Court.
Being able to cultivate a good-for-nothing to Grand Unity Golden Immortal showed how strong those humans who diligently cultivated would be.
The Human Heavenly Court of this chaotic epoch had reached its zenith. Not only had they occupied the Primordial World and defeated the Witch and Demon races, but the Five Saints of the Heavenly Dao had even defeated the myriad realms, repelling the demon gods.
They occupied the entire chaos!
Compared to Lu Ya Daojun's unification of chaos with his supreme Demon Court in that chaotic epoch, their strength had even surpassed it.
Moreover, Lu Ya Daojun's Demon Court back then was an immortal civilization, while the Human Heavenly Court was a mixed civilization. Daojun naturally understood the difference.
A mixed civilization would likely have more means, and caution was necessary.
Lu Ya Daojun displayed his divine might, his strength far exceeding that of the three Chaos Demon Gods of the past, Yang Mei, Wuxing, and Xuantian, who were Hunyuan Wuji Demon Gods.
In this penal servitude punishment facility, there were many criminals from the old era. Excluding demon immortals like Ma Yuan, whose minds had collapsed and who were psychologically dead despite being alive.
The other criminals only now reacted.
"Is that... Lu Ya? The Golden Crow's Tenth Prince, Lu Ya?"
"How could the Crown Prince of the Demon Court possess such ability?"
"No, this isn't him. The Golden Crow Crown Prince has a Postnatal Golden Crow body. This senior before us is the essence of Innate Li Fire... the two cannot be confused!"
"Golden Crow Lu Ya and Lu Ya Daojun are merely namesakes; there is no relation whatsoever!"
"This is someone who has lived through eighteen chaotic destructions! Even Pangu hasn't lived through one chaotic destruction, but Lu Ya Daojun has lived through eighteen! Eighteen!"
Many immortals, Buddhas, and demons from the old era, those who still possessed their sanity and had not been driven mad by torture.
They quickly realized that the opportunity to truly break free from human control had arrived!