Sun Wukong witnessed this scene and instantly understood everything; clearly, Houtu had known all along that Di Jiang and the others had not perished, and likely, all of this was a part of Hong Jun's arrangement.
All along, it should have been Fate using the Heavenly Dao to plan calamity after calamity, whereas Hong Jun was preserving the essence of the Vast Wilderness.
The mighty ones from the Ancient Demon Clan and Witch Clan had all been hidden by Hong Jun within the Heavenly Dao Origin, where they recuperated and reproduced, now all re-emerged in the world.
At this moment, after the collision of the Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Human Dao, numerous powerhouses began to take action.
Under the leadership of Jin Ling, the Saintly Mother, and countless stars in the sky, bolstered by the Heavenly Dao and the Zhou Heaven Constellations Great Formation, they attack the Wheel of Reincarnation and the Hall of Valiant Spirits with divine might that overshadowed the world.