He looked at Xuandu, who stood behind the Grand Pure Sage.
"Xuandu," he said with a smile, "do you recognize me? Do you recognize what race I am?"
Xuandu's eyes fixed on Fang Ming, and he exclaimed in surprise, "You are Human?"
Then, as if remembering something, he burst into laughter. "A mere Human child, seeing the Grand Pure Sage arrive, knows that humanity faces doom and comes to abandon the dark for the light?"
"Very well! I shall take it upon myself to ensure that in an era when Humans are to be annihilated by Immortals, Buddhas, and Deities, you will be left in my Master's alchemy room as a fire-tending boy!"
"After all, I, Xuandu, am one of the three thousand innate Humans. As the ancestor of Humanity, I naturally must protect the lineage of Humanity… I think you are very suited to alchemy…"
Seeing this, Fang Ming sighed. "Xuandu, tell me, what does a Human Emperor look like?"
Xuandu seemed stunned, his eyes fixed on Fang Ming. He said coldly, "You are the Human Emperor Fang Ming? That joke is not funny at all…"
Fang Ming looked at him and sighed, "Indeed, it is not funny at all!"
Fang Ming's current strength had been amplified by all Humans to the level of a Great Emperor who had lived through two lives.
With a gentle sigh,
a wave of sound spread out.
For an expert slightly surpassing the peak of a Saint, a mere sigh was terrifying!
In less than a second…
Xuandu was immediately heavily injured by the sigh!
His primordial spirit was half-collapsed!
His body cracked in all directions, already shattered into pieces!
His Taiyi peak magical power was almost entirely dispersed, his cultivation crippled, his Taiyi Dao fruit dimmed, his path forward extinguished!
Xuandu was heavily injured, almost rendered a cripple!
"You… you are truly the Human Emperor Fang Ming?"
Xuandu trembled, pointing a finger at Fang Ming before letting it fall powerlessly.
Like Lu Ya, his cultivation had been crippled by Fang Ming's sigh, his future bright path extinguished.
He was no longer the eldest disciple of the Three Sects, the first disciple of the Human Sect.
He was a cripple.
"How could my mythical Taiyi body be so fragile?"
"I, Xuandu, am a mythical Taiyi! A Taiyi Golden Immortal of the mythical Primordial Era! How could I be defeated by a mere Heaven-Shielding Great Emperor…"
Xuandu muttered to himself.
This was the reaction of someone like Xuandu, who was arrogant and ignorant, when his lies were exposed.
The Emperor's New Clothes had been revealed.
He fell into self-doubt.
His worldview began to crumble.
His values began to collapse.
He finally realized…
That his Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation was worthless! His self-proclaimed mythical Taiyi was nothing more than a puff of smoke!
Xuandu began to encounter the harsh reality…
However, neither the beings of the Primordial Era, nor the eight Taiyi Golden Immortals carrying the sedan chair, nor the Grand Pure Sage himself, were willing to accept or acknowledge the reality!
They were already immersed in a world of boasting where Saints were invincible and all below Saints were ants! They were unable to extricate themselves!
One of the Taiyi Golden Immortals carrying the sedan chair, seeing Xuandu fall, angrily pointed at Fang Ming and cursed repeatedly:
"So you are the Human Emperor Fang Ming? How dare you! Do you know who you crippled?"
"This is the eldest disciple of the Three Sects, the first disciple of the Human Sect, the Great Master Xuandu!"
"You are finished! You are finished! The supreme Grand Pure Sage will only need a single thought to turn you into dust!"
This temporary Taiyi Golden Immortal began to spout nonsense, nine out of ten sentences praising the Grand Pure Sage.
Another Taiyi Golden Immortal carrying the sedan chair said repeatedly, "A mere Human Emperor, who only defeated the Wu and Yao tribes, such a trivial accomplishment, and you dare to challenge the great Grand Pure Sage?"
"Those you defeated before were merely non-Saints, cultivators below the Saint realm!"
"You only defeated a few ants, and you are so arrogant, attempting to challenge the authority of a Saint! You have no idea what it means for all below a Saint to be ants!"
"There is an infinite gap between non-Saints and true Saints!"
The eight temporary Taiyi Golden Immortals continuously sang praises to the Grand Pure Sage.
One, holding a long banner displaying "Unrivaled in Chaos!" "Dominating the Primordial Era!" "Grand Pure Sage Forever Invincible," seemed to intend to intimidate Fang Ming into immediately kneeling and begging for mercy.
Another looked Fang Ming up and down, pondering, "These flatterers are too impressive. How can I praise them even more to please the Grand Pure Sage…"
"I have it! The most important aspect of flattery is to belittle others to elevate oneself. Compared to stepping on Pangu or Hongjun, directly trampling on this Human Emperor Fang Ming on the spot would be more in line with the Grand Pure Sage's wishes!"
This cultivator, who had been dragged by a friend to flatter the Grand Pure Sage's divine might, had an idea and immediately put it into practice!
He immediately sneered and shouted, "Human Emperor Fang Ming! You crippled the Great Master Xuandu, destroyed his Taiyi Dao fruit, and are courting death!"
"But Heaven has a benevolent heart! Considering you are a Human Emperor, a heroic figure, and once unified the Primordial World."
"The supreme Grand Pure Sage will spare your life!"
A Saint-level thought suddenly focused on this temporary Taiyi Golden Immortal, its malice causing the temporary Taiyi Golden Immortal to feel fear.
He quickly uttered the crucial words.
"When the supreme Grand Pure Sage captures you, he will cripple your cultivation, repaying you in kind!"
"Then, he will imprison you in Shouyang Mountain to be a fire-tending boy for the rest of your life, living a life worse than death, becoming a mere alchemy slave!"
"You will labor for the Grand Pure Sage for a lifetime, refining numerous six-turn Golden Pills and seven-turn Golden Pills!"
"Human Emperor Fang Ming, you crippled the Great Master Xuandu's cultivation, and the debts must be repaid! You can't possibly accept others having their cultivation crippled but refuse to have your own cultivation crippled, becoming a truly powerless young Human?"
"The most important thing for a person is not to be hypocritical! You, Fang Ming, have always been hypocritical!"
After speaking, the temporary cultivator bowed to the Grand Pure Sage.
"Great Grand Pure Sage! The best way to increase your prestige, the best way to increase the Sage's authority, is to directly cripple the Human Emperor Fang Ming's cultivation and take him as an alchemy boy!"
"This way, firstly, you can avenge the Great Master Xuandu for having his cultivation crippled!"
"Secondly, and most importantly, defeating the young Human Emperor who once unified the Primordial World, who was supreme in heaven and earth, and who defeated the Wu and Yao tribes, and taking him as an alchemy boy is an extremely effective way to increase the Sage's prestige!"