Xuanyuan reckoned that things were running smoothly. He'd marshaled his forces towards the Starry Skies as soon as he received word that the primary forces of the demons had landed in the centre of the Heavenly realm.

Of course, some hiccups occurred. Hu Jiaren had gone entirely missing. The Yellow Emperor was unable to track him, not even through reading karmic lines. He concluded one of two factors.

Either Hu Jiaren was kidnapped and his kidnapper was powerful enough to obscure karma. Or Hu Jiaren hid himself through obscuring his own karma. The latter of which means the man was up to his old opportunistic tricks again.

It was no issue however, Xuanyuan was prepared for the transmigrator's betrayal.

In the Starry Skies, his generals systematically wiped out outposts of the demons. With Eastern Emperor Taiyi concentrating his power elsewhere, the stars were crewed by a skeleton force.

"Your majesty, are we really the halfbreed has taken down the Kang constellation. The the path forward will be open soon."

Xuanyuan nodded at the announcement. His daughter's husband was proving himself useful to the human cause. As long as he remembered which side of his blood was most sacred.

Houyi briefly glanced back towards the Yellow Emperor. His wife was not far behind her father, also fighting a horde of weaker demons. Their gazes met with a knowing signal.

Soon enough, the defensive line of the demons collapsed, exposing the Solar Star. Xuanyuan ushered his men forward. This was his chance to take down the Heavenly Demon's base of power.

"Brat! You dare attack our backs?" An ancient voice roared out. It was then that a series of stomps reduced a portion of Xuanyuan's army into paste.

'He destroyed a number of my war formations. This must be an expert.' Xuanyuan drew his sword and unleashed his attack 'Yinglong killer,' made in the image of the ancestral dragon.

The image of the great dragon roared while a torrent of blade feathers rained towards the voice.

"We protected your kind and this is how you repay us," the voice from a white furred creature echoed. His paws slashed forward at the Yellow Emperor.

"The legendary Baize, I thought you retired," Xuanyuan replied.

"Baize? The former demon prime minister before Luya took over?" Zhuanxu gasped. The phoenixes he'd cultivated shivered beneath the gaze of the old demon.

"Apologies for bothering you old friend," feminine bee like creature, the Qin Yuan great sage said. "His majesty will rejoin us once he's done wiping out the earthly scum.

"Two peak Saint to Be experts, we can't fight that."

Despite his soldiers' worries, Xuanyuan rode forward on his chariot. He knew all the demon great sages by reputation. In prehistoric times, they were renowned as Primal Zenith Chaos Immortals.

"Old fossils, move out of my way!" He charged forward on his dragon drawn chariot. They weren't true dragons though, merely projections of his qi.

Their clash ruptured the Starry Skies, sending shockwaves to all corners of the Three Realms.

"Don't you dare think about touching the palace," Baize spat.

The appearances of the greatest demons alive invigorated the demon army, and they regrouped accordingly.

Xuanyuan's own forces marshaled into their formations. Though most of them were younger men and women, whose cultivation was bolstered by the methods of their emperor, they had amassed many methods to resist.

In the heat of battle, Xuanyuan's family members began falling. It was an inevitable fact that the Yellow Emperor had long since come to terms with. Hence he did not even look back from his own bout.

"Seventh brother, fourteenth sister, ninth bro…ro…other," Heng'e felt devastated as more of her siblings fell.

"Eyes on me human!" Her opponent, a member of the Jade Rabbit clan demanded. "You're a daughter of the Yellow Emperor right? That makes you prime target."

Despite the rabbit being objectively adorable, its Great Unity Golden Immortal cultivation base made her too much for the princess.

Hence, joining hands with seventy two thousand Heavenly Immortals in and numerous treasures, she piloted a war formation to face it. I

"Sister!" Shaohao stopped mid combat. But he could not make much to fight alongside her as a spear intercepted his advance.

"I knew humans were kissing up to divinities. But an outright alliance." The spear wielded was a six tusked anthropomorphic elephant. "I'm going to enjoy tearing you apart."

"Yellow tooth Daoist. Then the Azure Lion Daoist isn't far behind." Of course, Houyi recognized strong demons by sight.

"Haha, his majesty was smart leaving us behind. I remember protecting a kingdom or two of their kind only for them to desecrate my temple. Truly an ungrateful race." Following the elephant's appearance, a blue anthropomorphic lion came in swinging a saber.

Both of them were Great Unity Golden Immortals, a level of power Shaohao could not help but retreat.

"Sons of the Yellow Emperor deserve death!"

"Houyi, where are you? Your wife is in danger!" The voice of Shaohao was drowned out by another battle that broke into celestial wildfire.

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A burnt Houyi gripping his bow was locked in combat against Luya, in his true form as a golden crow. His body stretched so much that he could envelop stars.

"The demon prince is here? Should he not be with the Eastern Emperor?"

"Luya returned to the Starry Skies?" Even Xuanyuan was shocked. News stated that he was alongside his uncle and mother.

"Hmph, Jiutian Xuannu warned me of humanity's treachery. Aligning with divinities. How foul." Luya's sudden appearance threw everyone off balance.

"You should know human trash. My imperial uncle is already on his way after disposing of the Ancestral Divinities. Now then hybrid, let me test that arrow technique of yours. I hear it's based on my own mother magic."

"Damn you." Houyi for all his innate power, became trapped in an equally difficult battle as Xuanyuan. Luya was the furthest thing from weak as he's also obtained the Saint to Be realm.

"Hold your ground, I'll be there in a sec. And don't worry about Heng'e, she cannot die." Haotian's voice reverberated in his skull. It did little to alleviate the concern in Houyi.

Even more so now, humanity was being pressured more so than any single battlefield prior. Their hope in Xuanyuan was the single thing withholding them from breaking.

"His majesty can do anything."

"His majesty will win. We will ensure of it!"

"Your human emperor is nothing!"

"Crush the human trash. We will dine on their flesh in the victory feast."

During the battle, Baize was reminded again why Xuanyuan was such a concern. For a comparatively young man, his strength was terrifying.

His meteoric growth was the fastest in recorded history. He had not even burned humanity's collective karmic luck to his offensive means yet meaning he could throw out a trump card at any times

Even so, the oldest and strongest demon present winced at the sheer power of the human. "If only you were a demon."

The words enraged Xuanyuan. "Furry beasts, scales beasts, flat haired beasts, I'd rather extinguish my soul."

As he spoke, he felt his senses dull. Weakened, he only barely got his chariot to avoid a devastating strike. 'This qi is remind of the cultivation style of the ancients.'

"Human. Effort pointless." Xuanyuan was then forced on the defensive when another mighty figure recruited into the demon faction, the Chenghuang appeared.

He was legendary at this point, a hermit known for his substantial cultivation. With this Chaos Immortal in the fray, the Yellow Emperor was forced onto the defensive.

…

On the Lunar Star watching it all go down, Wangshu did not even blink at the carnage. Rather, she started at the war formations and the cultivation state of all these humans.

"Devil in origin. Did he really obtain these on his own terms?"

She stopped her observations with a sigh. That conflict wasn't her problem anymore. She considered it best not to think about it.

"And that Heng'e girl. I can see why Haotian want me to teach her."

The ancient immortal sat back deep in thought. This era brought about by Hongjun was coming to a close. The next would be utterly radical compared to the current.

She didn't understand how someone like Haotian could come from her old friend.

"I'm sorry Luya." Yi Fei'e had remained silent with her until now, also observing the siege. But unlike Wangshu, she wore a vivid expression of guilt.

…

'Uncle is late.'

Luya had been fighting for a while now. Even if he was in danger of dying, it was strange his almighty uncle was taking this long to make the trip.

His old caretaker, Jiutian Xuannu's warning had come not too long ago, necessitating an urgent response. But Eastern Emperor Taiyi should've finished the Ancestral Divinities off by now.

He'd even brought out his Chaos Bell, the Sun Chakram, and the Celestial River Map with him to deal with the Pangu Genesis formation.

Even though the Sun Chakram was brought back by Luya to face the human threat. It sat within his three claws, comfortably emitting solar rays

"Your body is sustaining my fire. If you hadn't been a filthy divinity."

"I had to train my solar archery somehow."

'Seriously though, where is uncle? When he dispatched me, the Pangu Genesis formation was already breaking apart.'

The avian was ultimately not too concerned about finishing the human legion. Their numbers were very impressive, so were their war formations. But his own faction had extremely deep roots.

When the Yellow Tooth sage and the Azure Lion sage showed up, more Great Unity Golden Immortal powerhouses appeared to pressure the humans.

Suddenly, a tremor resonated throughout the Starry Skies. The stars began shifting uncontrollably. Spacetime tremors as if it were about to break.

"This era's resistance to damage is far greater than the primordial era, what could possibly." Baize hesitated to finish his words. If even he, a Primal Zenith Chaos Immortal can safely brawl within one of the Three Realm's major dimensions without it falling apart, what could possibly cause this?

In the chaos that ensued, a curtain of fire ripped into the Starry Skies. It instantly toasted a number of stars, end reduced an entire human war formation to ash. Numerous True, Profound, Heavenly, and Golden Immortals perished in an instant.

The greater experts retreated, urging their own protective spells forward.

"Uncle?" Luya however felt ecstatic.

The crack that open up showed a world of of fire and the loud ringing of a bell. Time slowed and sped up with each 'GONG'. In the centre of that world was a gargantuan imperially dressed man wearing a sun shaped monocle.

"Haha, his majesty has personally arrived. He'll make quick work of you all," the Azure Lion boasted while holding a shattered Shaohao.

"Something's wrong," Baize was not convinced however. His senses was far greater and he saw that beyond Taiyi, there was an even bigger white lotus flower.

It's radiant form remained untouched by solar flames. Eastern Emperor Taiyi even knocked his bell with the intention to wilt the flower.

Baize saw, much to his own horror, sword slashes dismantling the temporal anomalies. The lotus also descended, pushing Taiyi.

"Who is his majesty fighting?"

"Is that the Pangu Genesis formation?"

It wasn't just Taiyi suspended in the void between realms. A faded Pangu giant was even further away, only visibly due to its immense size. It was also being held down by a woman who had her back turned.

The tear wasn't on purpose. The aura leaking out from the void was utterly crushing. Xuanyuan, Baize, Qin Yuan, Luya, Houyi, all representatives of the highest points of cultivation that was not a transcendent existence. All of them understood that they stood no chance.

In the void, they witnessed a beam of light break out of the lotus. Then a quick explosion followed by a slow grunt was heard. The Eastern Emperor had been struck.

He showed no sign of pain on his person, only a wound leaking Dao essence from his chest.

"12 Petals White Lotus of Purification? I thought it was lost," the Qi Yuan great sage gasped. "Didn't it belong to."

"Don't say his name," Baize warned her.

"Venerable. No." The Chenghuang was not convinced. Crawling to the edge of reality, it read the full scene that had transpired since it left the Eastern Emperor's side.

"I know that sword technique anywhere." This time it was Xuanyuan who boasted. "My brother in arms has not abandoned me."

"With me sons of man, put down these beasts once and for all. Let's use the opening Zhang Youren's gave us!"

"Hail venerable lord Zhang."

"Hail lord Zhang!"

This distraction actually gave Xuanyuan a successful strike that gravely damaged Baize. With him out of the way for now, Qi Yuan had no means of fighting Xuanyuan.

"Vast Heaven Sword, Vast Heaven Mirror, 12 Petals White Lotus. If Haotian is fighting uncle…then is Zixiao Palace picking sides?" Luya quickly reaccessed his situation.

Another thunderous boom crashed into the Starry Skies, this time bringing the suffocation levels to an extremity.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi stood holding his bell with an aggravated look. The large lotus was no longer there, now floating back alongside the Vast Heaven Mirror.

"It didn't have to be this way. All I'm asking is for the map." Haotian sounded terrifyingly calm from his position.

Taiyi snorted, raising his bell like one would a hammer. He and Haotian clashed, sword against bell.

The resounding 'GONG' caused the stars to utterly spiral out of control and for gashes to open up all over the Three Realms.

"Gah since when could Haotian fight on that level? Even back then he wasn't…" Baize was torn between surviving the aftershocks or Xuanyuan's pursuit. "Leave me be!"

'Did he have a breakthrough?' Even Xuanyuan was startled by Haotian's display of might. He felt that even at his best, he wouldn't be able to handle Eastern Emperor Taiyi's strike as well as Haotian did.

In the void, unseen by all two Dao fruits collided with each other. One threatening to burn with a light that saved all beings as the highest authority, and the other that showed the unreachability despite visibility.

"You really aren't making it easy," Haotian scolded Taiyi.

"I thought Yellow Emperor was the one biding his time. Who knew." Taiyi was also giving it his all. The full brunt of a Limitless Supreme Chaos Immortal was on full display.

In response, Haotian drew out the full might of Da Hai. That power, masterless, was fully in his possession after all.

"Please stop Taiyi. You were never a kingly aspirant. You could've killed Di Jun ten thousand times over and still chose servitude. Even now I can see how much you hate it."

"Don't talk as if you understand!" Taiyi called back. He took a quick look around the Three Realms and was disgusted.

In the Heavenly Realm, both his army of demons as well as the Earthly Divinities were suppressed. The Three Pure lineages as well as the secluded immortals of Mt Penglei had banded together.

All over the Three Realms, experts were coming out of the woodworks in unison to suppress his faction on all fronts. In fact, every similarly sized faction was being met with these immortals.

In front of him, Haotian brought out a book and began flipping through its pages. "I don't want to fight you nor am I here for a demon genocide. Though if you keep making things difficult for me."

"You've really hidden yourself deeply."

Their conversation, as well as the full scale of their battle could not be properly perceived anymore. The techniques being thrown out far exceeded Saint to Be experts and spiraled all throughout the realms.

In this chaos, Xuanyuan successfully landed in the defenceless Celestial Palace on the Solar Star. With a grin, he beckoned his chosen successors to follow him.

"We Five Emperors of man are on the cusp of completing our destiny," he told his four descendants. Move forward and deploy the formation.

"Fuck!" Luya changed toons as soon as this happened. He flapped his fiery wings and attempted to chase after them. "Yellow Emperor, don't you dare."

"Don't think about it!" Houyi's arrow shot into Luya's back, causing the crow to cry in pain. "I'm not finished with you."

On the Celestial Palace, Xuanyuan made a hand seal to converge the karmic luck of the human race. He stepped into the throne room with Zhuanxu, Ku, Yao, and Shun flanking him in colour coded uniforms. "At last, my rightful seat."

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