"Is it strong now? It's not that it's strong, it's that Hongjun's body! What Hongjun's merging with the Dao? It's clearly the Heavenly Dao that tricked Hongjun into offering his body, the Heavenly Dao that stole Hongjun's body! And the real Hongjun is already dead—what you think is the Heavenly Dao's strength is just this weak consciousness stealing the power of Hongjun's body!"
"And you—you are the Golden Crow born from the Sun Star after ten thousand years of nurturing, a being who truly inherited the power of the ancestral god Pangu! As long as you grow up, you can even rival Hongjun… no, you are a being stronger than Hongjun! You can replace the Heavenly Dao, do you understand?"
"The Heavenly Dao is a coward! It is vain and insecure, arrogant and cowardly. It wants to be the ruler of the primordial world, so it kills everything that threatens it!"
"I want you dead because your talent is too great; I want the demon race dead because their future is too bright; I want the witch race dead because they don't respect or worship it—look at this ridiculous thing, are you willing to be bullied by it? Can you tolerate it? If it were me, I couldn't tolerate it!"
Jinwu listened silently to the inner demon's incessant chatter, then scoffed, "And what about you? What good will it do you to incite me to defy the Heavenly Dao?"
The inner demon suddenly fell silent.
For the first time, its face, which had been either maliciously mocking or full of fervor, revealed a sad and lonely expression. It tugged at the corners of its mouth, and after a long while, its whole face drooped with a sigh.
"You know who my true identity is, right?"
Jinwu said, "It is Rahu. The Demon Ancestor who is imprisoned in the back hall of Zixiao Palace."
He grunted, "That's right, the imprisoned Demon Ancestor—when I roamed the chaos, your great-grandfather Pangu hadn't even hatched yet. And you think I, the mighty Rahu, could do that?" The inner demon scoffed softly, his tone filled with arrogance, "In this world, how many can defeat me? From ancient times to the present, there has only been one person, only one!"
There is only one: Dao Ancestor, Hongjun.
“I admit, Hongjun is stronger than me,” he said, “but only Hongjun is stronger than me. Only Hongjun can defeat me, and only I can outmaneuver Hongjun—what is the Heavenly Dao anyway?! He killed Hongjun! He killed Hongjun!”
He suddenly jumped up, the entire demonic statue went berserk, cursing and kicking within the sea of fire of Jinwu's consciousness: "Only I can bully and curse Hongjun, what is he! The Heavenly Dao that only steals people's bodies—who allowed it to deceive Hongjun! Who allowed it!!"
The golden crow narrowed its eyes.
"Cooperate, let's cooperate!" The inner demon jumped over again, cackling evilly, "You're just one step away from becoming a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, aren't you? I won't cause you any trouble, I'll even help you cultivate and let you break through immediately!"
"I can also help you break the Heavenly Dao's seal that imprisoned you in Tanggu. You can leave Tanggu and go to the mortal realm to find your woman! Oh, that's right, she's not in Jiuli now, but in the mortal realm, in the Tao Tang Kingdom established by Emperor Yao, with Yi—and you can even kill Yi while you're at it!"
"What I want? What I want is very simple. You storm up Zixiao Palace, break the restrictions in the back hall, let my true form emerge, and let me kill the Heavenly Dao to avenge Hongjun! Once the Heavenly Dao is dead, you will be the only one who can replace it! From now on, you will rule the prehistoric world. Isn't that wonderful!"
The inner demon clicked its tongue and muttered, "Didn't your father say that a man should 'wield power over the world when awake and rest his head on a beauty's lap when drunk'? Look at you now that you've broken through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and fused with ten Golden Crows, which Ancestral Witch is still your match?"
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