Indeed, he had truly turned the demon monkey into a pawn to replace him.
And the conspiracy behind this was even more unpredictable!
It was likely more than just completing the second round of Journey to the West in the mortal realm.
It was likely more than just crushing Sun Wukong, seizing the luck of the Western Sect, and resisting the Heavenly Dao.
It was likely more than just causing the Heavenly Dao, Ancestor Hongjun, and other old gods to fall, turning the Three Realms of the Primordial World into territory for the Demonic Path and demonic races.
It was likely even more than just controlling the Great Dao from the lowest level, making the Primordial Great World, one of the three thousand great worlds, its domain. It held an even more terrifying and grander ambition than that!
"Back then, who exactly caused this seat to fail at that step, forcing me to lurk for many years, wait for Sun Houzi, and then scheme with the Six-Eared Macaque."
"This matter, this seat will definitely get to the bottom of it."
"Now, do you Heavenly Dao faction or those neutral, useless Saints truly think this seat's eyes only see a mere bit of merit, or to replace the Heavenly Dao?"
"You all continue to scheme amongst yourselves."
"With the Six-Eared Macaque as a substitute, fighting you all slowly on my behalf, this seat can free up time to deeply explore that chaotic void, just like Pangu in the past, to find this seat's opportunity."
"Never underestimate this seat."
"What this seat desires is not merely the title of Demon Ancestor, but... hehehe, thirteen senior demonic path powerhouses, the situation has come to this, why are you not helping this seat? When else are you waiting?"
After a few words spoken silently to himself, this increasingly incomprehensible Demon Saint, having completely shed the constraints of his original identity, surprisingly abandoned his past apprehension towards the thirteen demonic saints.
He spoke to them with a smile.
And those thirteen demonic saints, seeing the Demon Saint so sensible, although some of it might have exceeded their expectations and could be detrimental to their future, they had no choice.
They had to rely on him to revive themselves.
They also had to rely on him to fully revitalize the Demonic Path.
Finally, with the full efforts of the thirteen demon statues, under the stimulation of a crimson light, the Demon Saint, through a special method, left the Three Realms of the Primordial World.
Unknown to any Saint.
Unknown to the Heavenly Dao and Ancestor Hongjun.
Even Sun Wukong himself did not notice anything, only vaguely feeling a sharp pain in his heart, as if a great crisis would appear in the future.
But he did not overthink it.
He merely considered it the human world's precarious situation in the struggle between Dao and Demon.
Who would have thought.
After just a single breath, the Demon Saint's divine sense, with the help of the thirteen demonic saints, traversed the trillions of miles of the Primordial Three Realms and arrived at the even vaster, countless trillions of trillions of miles of chaotic void.
At this moment.
He was, just like Sun Wukong last time, besides feeling boundless loneliness, he also saw that, besides Ancestor Hongjun, the innate supreme treasures and true spirits of the other six Saints.
They were not truly free and unrestrained.
Instead, they had to be entrusted to a certain place within the chaotic void.
To put it plainly.
These six great Saints, besides being unable to defeat Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, even the freedom they believed they possessed was a sham.
With these innate supreme treasures or a sliver of true spirit remaining in this chaotic void.
It meant that the Heavenly Dao and Ancestor Hongjun could strike against them at any time in the future.
Therefore.
Upon seeing this scene, the Demon Saint couldn't help but chuckle.
He chuckled not at anything else.
But only at the bitter experience he had endured back then, which was now being suffered by the six great Saints.
And it was even more tragic than his own!
"They all say Saints view sentient beings as straw dogs, playing with them as they please, yet few know that in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao and Old Man Hongjun, are these Saints not also toys like straw dogs?"
"If not for the boundless kalpas being too lonely, too boring, too empty, the Heavenly Dao and Old Man Hongjun would have been too lazy to create these useless Saints."
"Heh heh, if we're talking about true freedom, this seat is a complete one, and that Sun Houzi's encounters were no less than mine back then, making him half of one."
"But, when this seat finds what it desires, there will only be one in the end."
"And besides this seat, including the Heavenly Dao and Old Man Hongjun, everyone will become this seat's straw dogs, this seat's toys. Only I can lead this increasingly decadent Primordial Three Realms to a new stage!"
After a few cold laughs, the Demon Saint's divine sense, without attracting anyone's attention, wandered freely in this boundless wide, boundless long, boundless high chaotic void.
What was he looking for?
No one knew.
What was he going to do?
This could be barely understood, as this person seemed to have even higher ambitions than the Heavenly Dao and Ancestor Hongjun, intending to become an existence superior to the Heavenly Dao and the Demonic Path!
Behold.
Wherever his divine sense reached, it could scan trillions of miles of space-time every second.
Wherever his divine sense reached, it triggered a series of causal reactions every second, causing countless middle-thousand worlds and small-thousand worlds in the chaotic void.
Countless beings wailed.
Countless beings suffered.
But he paid no mind, truly as cold-blooded as ten thousand times colder than the Heavenly Dao and Ancestor Hongjun!
...
At the same time.
On the other side, Luohou, who had just been renamed and received all the cultivation of the Demon Saint, would never have thought that all his encounters, his supposed transmigration like Sun Wukong, and the super demonic system in his mind.
Were actually not his at all.
Instead, they were a set of shackles that the Demon Saint had obtained long ago but transferred to him after failing in his attempts.
At this moment, Luohou, because Sun Wukong and others could overcome every tribulation and because, apart from Tongtian Jiaozhu clearly taking a side, his own Saints and quasi-Saints were still insufficient.
For this reason.
Luohou actually went mad and planned a complete overhaul of the mortal realm.
And the first step of this had long been completed, which was none other than the time when Mo Zang and Mo Bailong tricked the people of Mount Vulture Peak into becoming a demonic army.
And the second step, after the Demon Saint's nod, he decisively implemented it.
In just one hour.
Luohou summoned his three junior brothers, Patriarch Minghe, Patriarch Youming, and Patriarch Huangquan. With his cultivation, which was not weaker than a quasi-Saint, his supreme status as the eldest senior brother, and the practical benefits he offered, he quickly made these three old foxes actively compromise and cooperate.
"Since all three junior brothers have agreed so readily, this eldest senior brother will not be stingy either."
"Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty in the mortal realm is far inferior to Emperor Taihuang Li Shimin of the Great Tang Empire in the immortal realm. Therefore, I will let you three take over as the next three emperors and enjoy the luck."
"This treatment should be good, right?"
"Minghe, second junior brother, you can be Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and use this opportunity to accelerate your cultivation of the Blood God Scripture."
"Youming, third junior brother, you can be Emperor Taizu of Song, and use this opportunity to accelerate your cultivation of the Youming Scripture."
"Huangquan, fourth junior brother, you can be Emperor Taizu of Ming, and use this opportunity to accelerate your cultivation of the Huangquan Scripture."
"In addition, all those under your command, especially the Four Great Demon Gods of the Asura Sect, must be handed over to this eldest senior brother's command. Is that all right?"