The future Heavenly Emperor was conceived in the body of an ordinary woman. Imperial purple energy condensed within her womb, and in the void, a golden dragon coiled, radiating boundless power.

This golden dragon sensed the coming of the future Heavenly Emperor and thus came to protect him, hoping to gain some merit. When the Heavenly Emperor's merits are fulfilled and he ascends to the Heavenly Court, the dragon can also ascend to heaven with him and attain enlightenment.

Sensing Hu Le's arrival, the golden dragon quickly withdrew its dragon might and bowed to Hu Le from a distance.

Hu Le naturally wouldn't pay any attention to a small dragon trying to take advantage of the situation.

He glanced down from the clouds, and after confirming that the future Heavenly Emperor was being conceived, he left.

A short while later, he arrived at another nearby village, where the future Heavenly Queen Yaochi was conceived.

Above the village, a five-colored phoenix hangs, its feathers bright and beautiful, radiating endless auspicious light and auspicious energy.

Hu Le glanced at it and then returned to the Heavenly Court.

They were just two boys. As long as it was confirmed that they had been successfully reincarnated, that would be enough to give Hongjun Daoist an explanation. They weren't worth his excessive attention.

He had just returned to the Heavenly Court when Yuanshi Daoren arrived at the South Heavenly Gate in his cloud chariot.

Hu Le ordered the boy in blue to invite the Taoist Primordial Lord into the Tongming Hall.

The two greeted each other and took their seats as host and guest.

"Brother Dao, have you come here for the Jade Pool of Haotian?" Hu Le asked.

Yuanshi Daoist nodded slightly, “Under the will of Heaven, these two children must undergo 1,700 tribulations before they can achieve perfect merit and ascend to Heaven to become emperors and empresses.”

"Indeed, Brother Dao, are you preparing to personally set up a tribulation for them?" Hu Le asked again.

“That is precisely why I have come. My Xuanmen desires to take one thousand kalpas, and it would be rightful for you, fellow Daoist, to carry out the remaining seven hundred kalpas,” Yuanshi Daoist replied.

Hu Le nodded after hearing this, "That's good. When the time is right, I will help them achieve their goals."

"Excellent!"

Seeing that Hu Le had agreed, Yuanshi Daoist did not linger and took his leave.

Hu Le personally escorted him to the outside of Tongming Hall and watched as the Taoist Primordial Ridge rode away on the clouds.

Yuanshi Daoist returned to Kunlun and sat down in Yuxu Palace, where he ordered the White Crane Boy to ring the palace's golden bell.

As the bells rang.

The scattered disciples of the Chan Sect left their cave dwellings and flew towards the Jade Void Palace.

Before long, they arrived at Kunlun and paid their respects to Yuanshi in the palace.

Yuanshi then recounted the story of Haotian and Yaochi, and entrusted the matter of setting up the calamities to his disciples.

After all, they were just two mere children; it wasn't worth his personal intervention. He could leave everything to his disciples.

The disciples all smiled and accepted the order.

Setting up tribulations for the future Heavenly Emperor would be an interesting thing for them, a way to pass the time during their leisure time outside of cultivation...

East China Sea.

Jin'ao Island.

Tongtian Daoren also ordered Shuihuo Tongzi to recruit disciples.

Setting up a tribulation for the future emperor and empress of the Heavenly Court is a major event for all Xuanmen (Taoist sects), and of course, it cannot be left to the Yuxu Palace lineage to do alone.

There were a total of one thousand tribulations belonging to the Xuanmen sect, and Yuanshi Daoren gave five hundred of them to Tongtian Daoren.

As for Taiqing Daoren, he was impatient with these mundane matters and politely declined, leaving the matter to Yuanshi Tongtian to handle.

Tongtian, having received five hundred kalpas, naturally did not refuse and, following Yuanshi's example, entrusted the matter to his disciples.

By setting up tribulations for the Heavenly Emperor and Empress to help them achieve their goals, the one who sets up the tribulations will also receive some of the merit in the future...

Next, Haotian and Yaochi went through countless hardships and tribulations.

However, both of them were destined for greatness, and although their tribulations were difficult, they still managed to overcome all obstacles and survive safely...

At this moment, inside the Sun Palace.

Di Jun also learned about Haotian and Yaochi.

He was furious. Why could two children sit on the thrones of the Heavenly Emperor and Empress, while he, the Demon Emperor, had always been unable to obtain them?

Then, he thought of the demon race under his rule. After years of recuperation, the demon race had not only recovered from the previous losses, but its strength was also greater than before.

However, he was also aware that the human race had developed rapidly over the years, and its strength was now vastly different from what it used to be.

At this time, the demon race was no match for the human race and could not become the true protagonist of the prehistoric world.

Fortunately, although humans are nominally one race, they are actually divided into two groups.

A Yanhuang tribe led by a human emperor.

The other is a tribal alliance that does not worship the Human Emperor and is controlled by Houtu Niangniang and others.

Although they belong to the same race, they have always been in a state of hostility and have had many disputes over the years.

However, both sides' leaders had exercised restraint, knowing that the time for unifying the human race had not yet arrived, thus preventing a larger conflict from escalating...

If their demon race wants to surpass the human race and become the main protagonist of the prehistoric world, perhaps they can think of a way to do so from this perspective.

As for why Di Jun was so insistent on making the demon race the protagonists of the prehistoric world, it wasn't for any so-called power or status, but simply to compete for fortune and merit.

In the past, when he cultivated the method of severing the Dao fruit, he needed a lot of luck and merit to support him.

Now he has changed his cultivation method to the Three Corpses Severing Method, which requires not only innate spiritual treasures to support the Three Corpses, but also a large amount of merit and good fortune.

As for where his merits and fortune come from, they naturally need to be extracted from the demon race.

Otherwise, if he were to rely on his own efforts to accumulate enough merit and fortune to complete the task of slaying the corpse, it would probably take him forever.

After all, he was different from Pangu and the Three Pure Ones.

The Three Pure Ones of Pangu not only possess the merit and fortune of Pangu, but also receive a share of sufficient fortune and merit from the Xuanmen (Taoist sect).

As for Nuwa, as the Earth Sovereign, she can collect the merits and fortunes of the earth. As one of the three sovereigns of the demon race, she also receives a share of the merits and fortunes of the demon race.

The two Venerable Ones in the West have been purifying the Yin energy on the Western Continent since the Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts, constantly working to restore the Western Earth's veins. In addition, their disciples and followers have been spreading the Dao among the human race, so they naturally have no shortage of merit and good fortune.

Even the Styx Ancestor, when he created the Asura Clan, had already received a great deal of merit from the Heavenly Dao. Later, he joined the Demonic Path, so of course he could also share a certain proportion of the Demonic Path's fortune.

Even Zhen Yuanzi once pioneered the path of Earth Immortals, sending his disciples and followers to the primordial world to cultivate the spiritual energy of the earth's veins, thus accumulating a great deal of merit from time to time...

But Di Jun is different. He doesn't have those kinds of good fortune, and if he wants to gain merit and luck, he can only try to obtain it from the demon race.

As a result, he was almost bound to the demon race.

If the demon race prospers in the future, he may still have a chance to achieve enlightenment.

If the demon race declines, it will be tantamount to cutting off his future path to primordial chaos.

The human race is the biggest obstacle in the path of the demon race if it wants to become the protagonist of the prehistoric world.

As the Demon Emperor, he was constantly scheming to suppress or even exterminate the human race.

The strength of the human race has always been a headache for him, but fortunately, the fact that it has split has given him some opportunities.

The moment he made that thought, wisps of calamity energy began to gather above the sacred mountains of destiny for both the demon and human races...