# Chapter 3997: Sudden Change, True Primordial Ancestor
No matter how many doubts there were, they could only be suppressed in his heart for now.
Zhang Ruochen rushed back to the battlefield. From afar, he saw the Nether Sea floating above the Eighteen Layers of Hell World, trying to break out from the Void World, but was intercepted by the Southern Universe gods led by Chongming Laozu.
Inside the Nether Sea region, a mass of Nether Fire was burning, its will powerful, able to continuously mobilize the power of the Eighteen Layers of Hell World.
In terms of aura alone, it was even above the Nether River.
"Chongming Laozu is worthy of the title of number one in the Southern Universe. He still has some courage."
Zhang Ruochen had some understanding of Chongming Laozu's information, so seeing that he could rush to this star domain and dare to intercept the Nether Sea greatly improved his impression of him.
The Darkness Cauldron released an eternal dark radiance, contending with the Nether Sea from another direction.
In the darkness, Lady Shiji's enchanting figure appeared faintly, ethereal and agile, performing mysterious divine abilities, trying to take the Nether Sea into the cauldron.
The other cultivators, including Ba Er and Meng Ge who had flown out of the Nether Prison later, all participated in the struggle for the remnants of the Nine-Headed Stone Man's body.
That was the broken body of a Primordial Ancestor, containing Primordial Ancestor Divine Patterns and order. Each piece had value for enlightenment and research, like a demonic path heavenly scripture.
For cultivators who had reached their level of cultivation, nothing was more precious than this.
Of course, the most precious among them was undoubtedly the Primordial Ancestor Divine Source.
"The battle situation is settled. The calamity of the Primordial Ancestor has finally been suppressed."
Zhang Ruochen's gaze wandered over Ba Er, Jiusi Yitianhuang, Gu Yanluo, and others, finally settling on the Nether Sea.
Legend had it that the Nether Sea, like the Nether River, was part of the Nether Ancestor's Divine Realm World.
And the Eighteen Layers of Hell World below the Nether Sea was a quarter of the Seventy-Two Layer Tower. The swept-away Eighteen Layers of Ghost Gate were most likely still in the seawater.
Killing the Nine-Headed Stone Man was cutting off one of the Nether Ancestor's arms.
Taking the Nether Sea and seizing the Ghost Gate would be enough to severely wound the Nether Ancestor.
"This is... how is this possible..."
Zhang Ruochen's mind shook as he sensed a terrifying force from a distant star domain that made his heart palpitate.
"It's the Kunlun Realm."
Zhang Ruochen no longer had any intention of suppressing the Nether Sea.
Without any hesitation, a Space Teleportation Array capable of crossing star seas condensed beneath his feet, and he rushed back to the Wuding Divine Sea at the fastest speed.
"Such a terrifying aura. A great upheaval has occurred in the Wuding Divine Sea. Who is the one making the move?" Hao Tian's wise divine eyes were filled with concern.
Tian Mu gazed in the direction Zhang Ruochen had left, then looked at the group of powerful beings scrambling for the shattered remnants of the Nine-Headed Stone Man, and said, "An even greater upheaval has already occurred. I'll leave this place to you and Shi Ji."
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The Kunlun Realm was located in the northern waters of the Wuding Divine Sea, responsible for guarding the north.
In the starry sky above the northern waters, the Divine Throne Planets of the Kunlun Realm gods floated, stars shining brightly, each releasing blazing radiance, containing endless energy like stars.
After Xuanji Sword God's remnant soul fused with the Five-Colored Clay Man, it gained new life.
In the past fifty thousand years, Xuanji Sword God had returned to the divine realm.
The Five-Colored Clay Man's body was powerful, having once been possessed by the Ancient Hall Master of the Space Divine Temple. After being tempered countless times, it could erupt divine king and divine venerable level power.
Xuanji Sword God and his senior disciple Qingxiao sat in a majestic war city above the Kunlun Realm.
This war city was dark and deep, cast from divine iron, built on a Divine Throne Planet condensed by Empress Chi Yao. It was an important node of the Wuding Divine Sea's defensive formation.
After the War Ancestor Divine Army set out, the Wuding Divine Sea fell into its most empty state. Therefore, all war cities that formed the defensive formation nodes entered a state of high alert, ready to respond to any possible attack.
Of course, the defensive formation of the Wuding Divine Sea was arranged by Spiritual Power Half-Ancestor "Yunshen Daozhu," leading the flawless "Xinghai Diaozhe," "Jiutian," "Zhang Ruochen," and many formation divine masters.
After fifty thousand years of reinforcement, it could withstand the calamity of a Primordial Ancestor.
That was why no one believed there was any power in the universe that could break through it.
"Boom!"
The defensive formation above the Wuding Divine Sea was activated by a sudden eruption of external force. Light flashed, and the formation curtain quickly rose.
As part of the formation, all Divine Throne Planets shook violently.
Below, the calm sea surface raised layer upon layer of giant waves, striking the clouds.
"Enemy attack! All cultivators, listen to orders, activate the formation with full force."
Xuanji Sword God and Qingxiao rushed out of the war city, looking up at the starry sky above, and were immediately stunned, shocked on the spot.
One black and one white vortex appeared in the starry sky above the Kunlun Realm's world barrier.
The diameter of the vortices was even larger than the Kunlun Realm's world barrier, both burning.
The black flame vortex released cold energy, freezing the formation inscriptions solid.
The white flame vortex contained scorching violent energy, heavily striking the defensive formation of the Wuding Divine Sea, causing the formation light curtain to dent.
"Boom!"
The impact force penetrated the formation light curtain, landing on the surface of the Wuding Divine Sea, pressing the seawater down by hundreds of meters. Then it surged up, forming a tsunami.
After the collision of the one cold and one hot vortex, cultivators in all the war cities above the Wuding Divine Sea were thrown into chaos, with countless injured.
Fortunately, the formation was not broken.
"All gods stationed in the Wuding Divine Sea, listen to orders, go to the Divine Throne Planets, and join me in welcoming the great enemy."
Xinghai Diaozhe was responsible for the garrison. His ninety-third level spiritual power was released from the direction of Guixu, spreading across the entire Wuding Divine Sea.
Before his spiritual power could spread to the Kunlun Realm, a death beam flew out from behind the one black and one white vortex, piercing the defensive formation, and falling straight toward the Eastern Domain of the Kunlun Realm.
"Boom!"
The Kunlun Realm's realm-protecting formation only held for the time of one breath before being penetrated by the beam.
The war city was only hundreds of thousands of miles away from that beam.
"Damn it, this... what kind of power is this..."
Qingxiao could clearly sense the aura released by the beam, as if it would tear his divine soul apart. In extreme pain, his body curled up, unable to maintain standing.
The beam shot straight toward the Zhang Family ancestral land on Wangshan.
Jie Tian stood in the Ninth Heaven World within the ancestral land, his expression unprecedentedly solemn. He roared, "Where are the Zhang Family descendants? Cut your wrists, spill your blood, and guard the ancestral land with your lives."
"With my blood, sprinkled on the ancestral land, call upon the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable's Primordial Ancestor divine power to protect our home from destruction."
Chi Kongle, Mingjiang Wang, Zhang Yuyan... and many other Zhang Family descendants who had moved into the Ninth Heaven World all cut their wrists, blood flowing, soaking the Heaven World.
The nine-colored chaotic divine light emitted by the Ninth Heaven World was covered with a layer of blood.
Jie Tian roared hoarsely, using all his strength to mobilize the Primordial Ancestor divine energy within the Primordial Ancestor Divine Source. The radiance emitted by his body was so dazzling it seemed about to explode.
"Boom!"
The beam fell, impossible to resist. It directly pierced through the Ninth Heaven World, leaving a hole hundreds of miles in diameter.
All the cities built on the Ninth Heaven World were flattened by the shockwave.
The beam did not directly hit Jie Tian, but the residual force tore Jie Tian's body apart, causing it to explode into dozens of pieces of flesh and broken bones.
"Bang! Bang! Bang..."
All nine layers of the Heaven World were pierced. Finally, the beam collided with the Second Confucian Ancestor's Primordial Ancestor Realm below the Ninth Heaven World.
"Boom rumble!"
The tremors leveled the Zhang Family ancestral land on Wangshan to the ground, then spread across the entire Eastern Domain, the entire Kunlun Realm.
The earth split at the speed of light, each instant tearing up hundreds of thousands of miles of territory.
The towns that had been painstakingly rebuilt over fifty thousand years vanished in an instant. Many cultivators didn't even know what had happened before their bodies exploded into blood mist.
Jie Tian's broken body reconstituted, his eyes filled with horror, staring at the abyss hole not far away. "Primordial Ancestor, it's the Primordial Ancestor making a move against the Zhang Family."
Chi Kongle crawled out of the ruins, covered in blood, her war sword completely shattered. While coughing blood, she said, "Old man, his target isn't the Zhang Family, it's the dark remnant body suppressed in the Second Confucian Ancestor's Primordial Ancestor Realm. We need to escape quickly..."
Jie Tian walked step by step to the edge of the hole, looking down, and laughed self-mockingly, "Escape where? Is there any place safer than the Kunlun Realm in this world?"
"Whoosh!"
Strands of dark energy seeped out from the Second Confucian Ancestor's Primordial Ancestor Realm, spreading along the earth fissure hole into the Ninth Heaven World.
The terrifyingly eerie energy rose all the way to the Ninth Heaven World, wrapping around a headless, armless figure.
It hovered above Jie Tian and Chi Kongle's heads. The other cultivators, even those who had reached the divine realm, were all crushed to their knees by that unparalleled aura, trembling uncontrollably.
Jie Tian wanted to self-destruct his divine source to keep it here, but when he tried to mobilize his divine energy, he found his spiritual consciousness completely out of control, and even moving his body was extremely difficult.
Chi Kongle could clearly feel the increasingly intense killing intent from the dark remnant body, death energy spreading.
Just then, golden light erupted from deep within the ancestral land, accompanied by a deafening dog bark.
Golden radiance spread out, enveloping the Ninth Heaven World.
The earth of the Heaven World gradually turned golden, even the soil seemed to become like gold.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
...
Footsteps kept sounding.
Chi Yao held the Blood-Dripping Sword, with layers of heavens above her head, slowly walking out from deep within the ancestral land.
Behind her followed a mountain-sized giant beast, its entire body golden, with an aura that swallowed mountains and rivers, its might covering the universe.
At the same time, within the Divine Communication Temple in the Central Domain, Half-Ancestor aura erupted, Half-Ancestor divine patterns spreading out in an instant, covering the entire Kunlun Realm.
"Whoosh!"
Wen Tianjun rushed out of the temple, his blood energy surging like a divine sea, crossing space to land on a wilderness in the Eastern Domain.
The continuously cracking earth was stopped beneath his feet.
The dark remnant body ultimately did not make a move. It transformed into a beam of light, flying out of the Kunlun Realm, then rushing out through the hole in the Wuding Divine Sea's defensive formation.
By the time Wen Tianjun chased out, the dark remnant body had already disappeared without a trace.
As for the mysterious existence that had broken the Wuding Divine Sea's defensive formation earlier, not even a trace of heavenly opportunity was left behind.
"Shua!"
Xinghai Diaozhe appeared beside Wen Tianjun. The two looked at each other, deep fear in their eyes.
This fear came from reverence for Primordial Ancestor power and worry about the future.
When Zhang Ruochen rushed back to the Kunlun Realm, everything had already calmed down, leaving only the Zhang Family ancestral land on Wangshan in ruins, with corpses everywhere.
The Eastern Domain had suffered calamity again, devastated.
Zhang Ruochen walked into Wangshan, silently stepping over the ruins and rubble, arriving at the Ninth Heaven World. He crouched down, looking at the earth fissure hole that had pierced through nine layers of worlds, his expression extremely grave.
The Second Confucian Ancestor's Primordial Ancestor Realm had been taken away by the dark remnant body!
Zhang Ruochen could feel the terror of the two auras remaining here.
When his hand touched the ground, images of the light pillar piercing heaven and earth and the dark remnant body emerging appeared in his mind. The former was infinitely mysterious, the latter could be called taboo.
"Don't bother looking. There's no need to calculate. It was the Primordial Ancestor, definitely the power of the Primordial Ancestor, or perhaps the Immortal made the move!"
Jie Tian's voice was weak, his face pale as he sat not far away.
Zhang Ruochen walked past Jie Tian, arriving beside Chi Kongle and Zhang Yuxi. With a wave of his sleeve, he dissolved the dark eerie energy that had invaded their bodies.
Chi Kongle said, "Father, I have disappointed you."
"It's not your fault. Facing such power, even if I were in the Ninth Heaven World, I still couldn't have stopped it," Zhang Ruochen said.
Jie Tian said, "Fortunately, you moved a large number of Zhang Family descendants to the Sword Realm. Otherwise, who knows how many of our children would have survived this calamity. Damn heaven, is it targeting our Zhang Family?"
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the Ninth Heaven World and saw Wen Tianjun standing with his hands behind his back, Chi Yao with a heavy expression, and the golden beast as majestic as a golden divine mountain beside them.
Wen Tianjun's breakthrough to Half-Ancestor should have been a cause for celebration, but at this moment, even he felt no joy in his heart.
Zhang Ruochen broke the heavy silence, saying, "Since the dark remnant body and the unknown existence that rescued him did not take this opportunity to destroy the Wuding Divine Sea, it shows they still have concerns and cannot do as they please. Some potential balance we don't yet know about has not been broken."
Wen Tianjun still couldn't fully control his explosively increased power, Half-Ancestor radiance flickering on his body. He asked, "How is the situation at the Nether Prison?"
"The overall situation is settled."
Zhang Ruochen suddenly thought of something, his expression changing slightly. "Has the War Ancestor Divine Army and Grandmaster not returned yet?"
Wen Tianjun thought of the dark remnant body that had just emerged, worry appearing in his eyes. "You stay and guard the Wuding Divine Sea. I'll go to that different space-time battlefield."
Before Wen Tianjun could leave, the space above the Wuding Divine Sea split open with a roar, and massive bloody divine corpses fell from within.
The divine corpses fell into the waters of the Wuding Divine Sea, splashing large amounts of water.
Each one was a god from the War Ancestor Divine Army.
Some had their armor broken, their flesh burning. Others were corroded by dark energy, turning into dark red pus.
Xiao Hei was pierced by a divine arrow, his body almost broken in two, falling from the shattered space, caught by Zhang Ruochen.
Xiao Hei's eyes were dim, and he said intermittently, "Quick... go... A Fuya has betrayed us... the War Ancestor Divine Army has suffered heavy losses... it was Shigong who opened the space gate to send us back... quick, go to support him..."
The divine arrow that pierced Xiao Hei belonged to A Fuya.
"Shua!"
Wen Tianjun rushed into the space fissure.
Zhang Ruochen's brows tightened, cold light shooting from his eyes.
Chi Yao watched the divine corpses falling into the waters, the smell of blood pungent. Her battle intent and killing intent were even stronger than Zhang Ruochen's, but she restrained herself and said, "Chen Ge, take the ancestor and go. Leave the Kunlun Realm to me. You must rescue Grandmaster and bring back A Fuya's head."