"Third, if you don't ask others, but ask all you fence-sitters, do you despise my Demonic Path for lacking Saints?"
"But who dares to say that the current Demonic Path has no Saints?"
As the Demonic Saint spoke, the already bustling Three Realms of Honghuang immediately generated new interest, new curiosity, and new discussions.
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"Hongjun, the scourge you left behind has finally returned. This time, it's not just you who will suffer, but also I, the Heavenly Dao."
"This matter started because of you, and it should end because of you. Whether you can do it or not, you must give an explanation. Otherwise, after the end of the tribulation, when the Great Dao's restrictions on each Great Thousand World are lifted."
"I, the Heavenly Dao, will be the first to spare you!"
In a certain place in the chaotic void, the Heavenly Dao, having been publicly embarrassed, was not too angry. Instead, it directly shifted the blame to Old Ancestor Hongjun.
Hearing this, Old Ancestor Hongjun felt incredibly wronged. He wanted to retort a few words, but then he remembered that ever since he merged with the Heavenly Dao to quickly achieve sainthood that year.
Although he gained the cultivation of a Heavenly Dao Saint and the status of the Heavenly Dao's spokesperson, he also lost his autonomy.
How could he possibly dare to challenge the Heavenly Dao?
In helplessness.
Old Ancestor Hongjun, who had always commanded Saints like dogs, had no choice but to join this battle between Dao and Demon!
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In Wa Huang Palace.
Seeing this scene, Yuanshi Tianzun, who gasped, was speechless for the first time. Angered for his team, he spoke again after a long while.
His words were no longer as confident or as certain that they were right, but revealed a hint of unprecedented pessimism!
"Junior Sister Nuwa, it seems that the fragmentation of luck in the Three Realms of Honghuang, the choices of the six Saints, and our two having mistaken the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor, all three of these matters are true."
"Alas, we were just defending the Heavenly Dao, yet it is watching the revival of the demon race, with two Journeys to the West about to run in parallel, and perhaps even threatening us in the future."
"It's laughable, we have fought and risked our lives for the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor all these years, and in the end, this is how they set an example?"
"Tell me, with such a Heavenly Dao, what reason do we have to continue helping it?"
Hearing that even Yuanshi Tianzun was beginning to lose heart and express dissatisfaction.
Empress Nuwa dared not let such pessimism spread further. Although both of them were disappointed with the Heavenly Dao and Old Ancestor Hongjun at this moment, they had to stop the losses immediately.
She then comforted Yuanshi Tianzun with kind words!
"Senior Brother Yuanshi, the righteous path that we two adhere to, although it was once tied to the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor, is not absolutely for them alone."
"Setting aside other things."
"Just look at the Investiture of the Gods tribulation. During that great catastrophe, four of your twelve Golden Immortals disciples defected, yet there were still eight others like Guang Chengzi, who were incomparably tenacious and loyal."
"For their sake, and for the original intention of your founding of the Chan Sect, you must not be swayed or convinced by a few words from that Demonic Saint. Our persistence is for the Heavenly Dao, for the Dao Ancestor, and also for our own choices."
"It is said that evil cannot prevail over good. The Demonic Path has only sent out one Demonic Saint, plus a new Six-Eared Macaque, and Sect Master Tongtian, the Jade Emperor, and others, but it is still not enough to change us."
With Empress Nuwa's words, Yuanshi Tianzun, after losing his composure for less than a second, regained himself!
In his eyes.
Besides the disappointment towards the Heavenly Dao and Old Ancestor Hongjun.
There was more of the unyielding resolve of the Sect Master of Chan Sect that had remained unchanged for billions of years!
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Western Teachings.
In the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
Unlike others who chose sides and had to speak for their own factions, Jieyin Daoist and Zhun Ti Daoist, who had just declared a neutral stance.
At this moment, they were not cursing the Heavenly Dao for its shamelessness after its scandal was exposed, nor did they find the Demonic Path endearing because the Demonic Saint had revealed these matters.
Instead, they were discussing whether there truly existed Demonic Path Saints behind the Demonic Saint!
"Senior Brother, I have made several calculations, but I can't get any results. Perhaps this battle between Dao and Demon is just a farce, and this Demonic Saint might truly be the last direct descendant of the Demonic Ancestor Luohu."
"But he's not even a Quasi-Saint, so where does he get the courage to boast about the existence of Demonic Path Saints?"
"However, Kongkong is in great danger now. You and I cannot be too neutral, too fence-sitting. No matter what, he is the senior disciple of the Journey to the West that we have chosen."
"As long as we slightly lean towards him and towards the Heavenly Dao while remaining neutral, we will have no trouble completing the Journey to the West in the Earth Immortal Realm, nor will we fear the Demonic Path continuing to cause trouble."
Zhun Ti Daoist's support for Sun Kong did not decrease due to this major revelation; instead, it increased.
However, these words did not seem to have much effect on Jieyin Daoist.
Jieyin Daoist clearly divined some heavenly secrets further than Zhun Ti Daoist. Hearing that he was still so stubborn and old-fashioned, insisting on supporting Sun Kong regardless of other factors.
He couldn't help but let out a cold laugh!
"Junior Brother, you are still too naive. Don't you see that since the appearance of the Demonic Path's fortune, the entire Three Realms of Honghuang can no longer maintain the peace and stability of so many tribulations?"
"The Heavenly Dao and Old Man Hongjun could do shameless things in the past, and they can use us now. In the future, can't they betray us?"
"I think that although the Demonic Saint's cultivation is ordinary and inferior to a Quasi-Saint, the new Six-Eared Macaque, Sect Master Tongtian, the Jade Emperor, and the three Quasi-Saint Old Ancestors of the demon race are all not weak."
"Moreover, I sense from the depths of the thirteenth demonic land behind the Demonic Saint, there are thirteen more terrifying and awe-inspiring presences. Perhaps, Demonic Path Saints truly exist!"
These words stunned Zhun Ti Daoist!
The two Saints of the Western Teachings immediately had different thoughts about whether to support Sun Kong, and whether they could only support Sun Kong!
...
Looking at the Demonic Saint's side again.
Apart from him personally standing at the pinnacle of the mortal world with his cultivation of the Great Perfection of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, responses also came from the new Six-Eared Macaque, Sect Master Tongtian, the Jade Emperor, and the three Old Ancestors.
Even.
Just as countless people were wondering about the truth of his words, from the deepest part of the thirteenth demonic land, those thirteen mysterious presences he had met with last time.
Indeed, a surge of aura, not weaker than that of a Saint, erupted.
It supported the Demonic Saint.
And proved the Demonic Path!
"We, thirteen Demonic Path Saints, now have a word to inform all beings in the Three Realms of Honghuang: The Heavenly Dao is in decline, the Demonic Path is about to rise. In the year of the Journey to the West, Honghuang will be auspicious."
"Entering the Demonic Path is no different from entering the Heavenly Dao; there has never been an absolute distinction between black and white, it was all brainwashing by the Heavenly Dao in the past, carried out by Hongjun the second."
"Our Demonic Path lineage, with Demonic Ancestor Lord Luohu about to return, all of you quickly pledge allegiance, and you will have the opportunity to achieve Demonic Path Sainthood, surpassing the Saints of the Heavenly Dao!"
These thirteen mysterious voices shocked all beings, and even the Heavenly Dao revealed a rare look of apprehension.
Only Sun Kong's side sensed something unusual!
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"What a familiar scent."
"Such a weak aura."
"No, these thirteen voices are definitely not at the Saint realm. They..."