Chapter 152: Scorched Earth, Ten Heads

What extraordinarily exquisite Witch language.

Luo Zu could only wish they would speak more of it if they knew how.

The wretch who launched this wave of attack showed utter disregard for morality, affecting such a vast expanse of land. If this strike were allowed to fully land, Luo Village would undoubtedly be reduced to a scorched wasteland, devoid of all life.

Moreover, following that roar came a counterattack. Luo Zu could not clearly perceive the nature of this counterattack; he could only sense that the pressure upon him had suddenly plummeted, relieving him of the need to maintain the "Heaven and Earth Severance" to contend with that scorching sunlight.

The ensuing battle remained hidden from Luo Zu's sight. Perhaps it had ascended to another plane, dueling within other dimensional spaces, which was only natural given Luo Zu's current abilities.

As for the source of that roar, Luo Zu could easily guess that it must be Houyi, the "village chief" of this Dayi Village.

The Golden Crow Crown Prince who had been subjected to His roar must be an offspring of the Celestial Emperor.

Luo Zu attempted to sense the fluctuations of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, as well as the shifts in various natural laws, in order to catch a glimpse of the Great Witch's duel. Alas, he still discovered nothing at all.

Thinking about it, even if he had grown the three eyes of Erlang Shen and possessed the fiery golden eyes of Sun Wukong, at his current realm he still would not be able to catch the slightest trace of change in a duel between such existences.

Helpless, Luo Zu first transmitted his voice across various regions to spread the news about the "Cavemen." Beyond that, he also sent his voice far into the distance to inquire about the condition of the Hot Witch Tribe.

After all, this bout of "immortals fighting" was a genuine battle of deities, and the mere aftermath alone threatened to engulf the entire Dayi Village. By the time Luo Zu cast his divine sense a myriad of miles away, he was already greeted by a scorched wasteland.

It was truly ferocious; the blazing sun baked the earth as if countless hydrogen bombs had scoured the terrain. Just thinking about the searing sunlight from moments before—it had been denser than a torrential downpour.

Therefore, aside from the ten-thousand-mile radius around Luo Village which managed to retain its vitality, the land beyond was not only reduced to a scorched wasteland, but soil, rocks, and minerals had all been burned and irradiated into extremely pure spiritual energy. This energy drifted aimlessly between heaven and earth, unable to condense back into any clearly attributed spiritual energy, let alone evolve back into physical matter like soil.

Of course, this spiritual energy was not entirely unusable; it could still be refined into True Qi or Immortal Qi, and then projected outward to manifest as magical spells and immortal arts. Once the various powers of these spells and arts dissipated, the True Qi and Immortal Qi within them would naturally dissolve, reverting once more into spiritual energy. However, the spiritual energy at this point would undergo a further degradation, falling into spiritual energy particles of even finer, smaller energy scales.

Absorbing such weak spiritual energy into the body and refining it into True Qi and Immortal Qi would be significantly less efficient. It meant that previously, one needed to absorb one hundred wisps of spiritual energy to refine a single wisp of True Qi, whereas after absorbing these degraded spiritual energy particles again, one would need one hundred and ten wisps.

Of course, such degradation was always extremely minute, and with the primordial land continuously receiving new spiritual energy channeled from beyond the heavens, everyone remained oblivious to the change amidst the mixture—only Luo Zu, with his fondness for analysis, managed to perceive this sensation.

Yet now, under the illumination of the Golden Crow Crown Prince's solar rays, the spiritual energy of this entire region was directly and comprehensively degraded, dissolving even physical matter such as soil, mountains, rocks, gold, wood, water, and fire along with it.

This scoundrel was truly venomous.

Suddenly, Luo Zu could understand why Houyi would shoot down the suns in the "future."

If a single Golden Crow Crown Prince was this vicious, then what about ten of them...?

Luo Zu dared not imagine the scene of such an earthly wasteland.

Yet when that time truly arrived, it probably wouldn't just be Houyi shooting the suns; other mighty figures would certainly not spare them either.

However, on this particular occasion, the Golden Crow Crown Prince—along with the entire Monster Race—was bound to earn the disdain of the primordial grand lords.

A duel was a duel, so why resort to such environmental destruction?

Luo Zu even felt an urge to shoot down the sun himself.

Extending his divine sense further outward, he still found only desolation. The terrain had collapsed by three hundred miles, and the demons and monsters previously lurking beneath the earth had been swept away in one fell swoop; all those wandering corpses, ghost fiends, and ley-line malevolence had been completely eradicated.

Seeing this, Luo Zu could only click his tongue in wonder—could this even be considered a blessing in disguise?

Yet since all the living beings here were already gone, they no longer needed to worry about the harassment of those demons and monsters anyway.

It could be considered mutual annihilation into silence.

Pushing his divine sense another hundred thousand miles outward, Luo Zu finally spotted a giant beast. It had already birthed spiritual wisdom and begun cultivating, though its cultivation was not high—merely that of a True Immortal. The only reason it had survived was purely due to its massive physique and the vast amount of spiritual energy it carried within its body, allowing it to stubbornly endure the ordeal. Even so, it was now on its last breath and might well expire after a little while longer.

Luo Zu used an immortal art to purge its injuries, and then commanded it to hasten toward "Luo Village."

The giant beast lowered its head and shed tears, recounting its suffering and lamenting how its descendants had been incinerated by the sunlight, before obeying Luo Zu's arrangements and hurriedly setting off for "Luo Village."

Just like that, Luo Zu picked up a spiritually awakened giant beast and brought it home.

While healing the beast, Luo Zu's divine sense continued to expand. As the creature recounted its painful past, Luo Zu's divine sense had already reached the Hot Witch Tribe.

The Hot Witch Tribe was unharmed—purely by luck. Shi had not yet been transferred to Dayi Village, so he was still able to shield the Hot Witch Tribe and withstand this sudden "man-made disaster."

Luo Zu's divine sense quickly located Shi, as well as Tang.

Luo Zu and Shi exchanged views directly through their divine senses.

"That Golden Crow Crown Prince is truly audacious, actually daring to use such methods to attack our Dayi Village. I believe Great Witch Houyi will surely help us reclaim our justice," Shi declared.

Luo Zu likewise felt that Houyi would retrieve this lost dignity. After all, Great Witch Houyi had always been hailed by outsiders as a Great Witch comparable to the Ancestral Witches; how could a mere Golden Crow Crown Prince possibly be His match?

However, behind the Golden Crow Crown Prince stood the Celestial Emperor. While the Celestial Emperor might not personally step in to settle accounts with Houyi for the prince's sake, the supreme mighty figures of the Heavenly Court would certainly never allow the Golden Crow Crown Prince to suffer harm.

Therefore, at this very moment, high above in the boundless heavens, dog-eat-dog battles were likely already raging.

When fifth-tier immortal arts were unleashed amidst the Ninefold Heavens, the resulting turmoil would surely far surpass the might of fifth-tier immortal arts as deduced by Luo Zu previously.

It was only a pity that he could not witness these duels, for they were too distant. Furthermore, the Great Dao is formless and the greatest sounds are silent; when such existences fought, without reaching their realm, one could only silently endure the aftermath of their clashes.

For now, he could only endure.

Once he successfully cultivated his Dao and Dharma and attained the realm of Da Luo, he would not only be able to watch, but also participate and scheme.

Subsequently, Luo Zu's divine sense continued to spread outward, stopping only when it reached five million miles away.

Aside from those few Witch tribes, all other flora and fauna had perished utterly, and the land had been directly evaporated into degraded, pure spiritual energy, collapsing downward by three hundred miles. This caused the ten-thousand-mile territory protected by Luo Zu to stand like an isolated island, a towering plateau.

Of course, compared to the vast expanses of scorched black earth, that ten-thousand-mile territory could hardly be called a plateau; it was more like a mountain peak.

Come to think of it, that Kua Fu Lake had also been more than half-evaporated, its waters spilling outward as the entire lake teetered on the brink of desiccation.

To counter this, Luo Zu specially moved a thousand-mile-wide mountain and wedged it squarely across the breach to block the outflow, lest the ecological environment of Luo Village be ruined.

"Houyi!!"

A roar!

Another colossal entity crushed downward from the heavens, tearing apart billions of miles of white clouds and revealing a tiny fraction of its true form.

It was a monstrous ten-headed behemoth.