Chapter 60: The Anomalous Movement of the Primordial Purple Qi

"Oh? Xihe and Changxi actually left Lunar Star together?" Di Jun wore a look of surprise after hearing the report from his subordinate.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Did you find out where they went?"

"Your Majesty, both of them are mighty figures in the mid-stage of Quasi-Sage. We didn't dare get too close and could only confirm that the two of them went to the East China Sea."

Taiyi had long known that his elder brother was very interested in the two residing on Lunar Star, likely wanting to win them over to join the Demon Clan, but Taiyi hadn't expected his brother to actually send people to keep an eye on them.

With a suspicious look, he sized up his elder brother before speaking, "Brother, the East China Sea is the territory of the Dragon Clan. Could they have gone to the Dragon Palace?"

"It's possible, but why would those two go to the Dragon Palace?"

"Perhaps..."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! It's done!" Taiyi's sentence was cut short as Bai Ze barged into the Lingxiao Hall in great excitement.

Bai Ze was normally extremely composed and rarely lost his composure like this.

Di Jun was not angered. For something to make Bai Ze this excited, there was likely only one matter concerning the Demon Clan nowadays. He asked Bai Ze, "Could it be that the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array is complete?"

"That's right, Your Majesty. Fuxi has just emerged from seclusion and has completed the deduction of the great array. However, to unleash the array's maximum might, it is best to refine array flags to serve as the foundation, borrowing the power of the heavenly stars through the flags. By then, the might unleashed by the array may rival that of a Sage."

Hearing that it could rival a Sage, Di Jun stood up directly from his throne in excitement.

"Is the power of this array truly this formidable?"

"Your Majesty, this old minister didn't believe it at first either, but after seeing the array in person, I knew Fuxi was not exaggerating. If the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array can unleash its full power, it will far surpass a Quasi-Sage. Even if it falls short of a Sage, the difference will be negligible."

"Hahaha! Good! Bai Ze, go tell Fuxi that he may freely use any materials from the Demon Clan's treasury and refine the array flags as quickly as possible. Once the refinement of the array flags is complete, it will be the time for our Demon Clan to emerge into the world!"

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Beyond the thirty-three heavens, in the Zixiao Palace.

Hongjun, sitting cross-legged on a futon, suddenly opened his eyes.

"Has the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array emerged? Then Nuwa should also become a Sage soon." Hongjun's voice was very soft, seemingly talking to himself.

Soon after, a voice even more ethereal than Hongjun's sounded, "Nuwa's mastery of the Dao of Creation has already exceeded ninety percent."

"She is a person of great fortune; it ought to be so."

"A Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian should not exist in the primordial world. You, who have merged your body with the Heavenly Dao, should understand this better than an onlooker like me."

"You are hardly an onlooker. Yang Mei being banished from the primordial world also had your hand in it."

"I merely let the Heavenly Dao know Yang Mei's true origins and did nothing else."

Hongjun was noncommittal about this.

"After merging your body with the Heavenly Dao, you have indeed become increasingly detached, but is the current you still Hongjun?"

Hongjun spoke no more, merely closing his eyes in silence.

The next second, Hongjun's eyes opened once again. This time, his gaze was filled with complete indifference, devoid of the slightest trace of emotion. That wispy, ethereal Dao charm from a moment earlier had long since vanished.

At this moment, Hongjun was indeed no longer Hongjun, but rather the carrier of the Heavenly Dao's will. Calling him Heavenly Dao Hongjun was far more fitting.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun used the might of the Heavenly Dao to look down upon the primordial world, his gaze piercing through boundless space to land upon Nuwa.

Nuwa, much like Bai Jing, was at a critical juncture of comprehending the Dao.

Just as the previous voice had stated, Nuwa's mastery of the Dao of Creation had already exceeded ninety percent, lacking less than ten percent to reach perfection.

If Nuwa were given a few more epochs of time, she might well have achieved perfect mastery of the Dao of Creation, subsequently merging her body with the laws, attaining the Dao through brute force, and becoming a Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian.

Yet the next second, Nuwa's comprehension of the Dao was interrupted because the Grand Purple Qi within her sea of consciousness suddenly began to stir restlessly.

Nuwa opened her eyes and pinched her fingers to calculate, a flash of sudden realization crossing her eyes. The restlessness of the Grand Purple Qi was due to the fact that her timing to become a Sage had arrived.

Nuwa felt deeply reluctant; she was merely a hair's breadth away from fully comprehending the Dao of Creation. If she stopped at this moment, not only would she fail to fully master the Dao of Creation, but she wouldn't even be able to sever her obsession corpse, likely barring her from attaining the Hunyuan fruit of the Dao, reducing her to a mere merit-based Sage.

The deeper her comprehension of the Dao of Creation, the more Nuwa yearned to attain the Dao of Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian.

Having cultivated to this stage, Nuwa had come to understand what Hunyuan truly meant.

Hunyuan refers to the primordial qi being undivided, chaos uniting as one, the very beginning of primordial breath! Hunyuan encompasses everything and lacks nothing; Hunyuan is not chaotic and disorderly, but rather a form of orderly blending and evolution. Hunyuan is principle, it is the Dao, it is the great Dao of heaven and earth. All things originate from Hunyuan, with nothing outside its greatness and nothing inside its minuteness.

Failing to attain Hunyuan would be an immense regret for Nuwa.

Nuwa took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down, and then attempted to suppress the restlessness of the Grand Purple Qi, returning to her state of Dao comprehension.

Yet the agitation of the Grand Purple Qi was utterly impossible to suppress. Because her mind was divided on suppressing it, Nuwa remained unable to re-enter the state of Dao comprehension.

Left with no choice, Nuwa had to temporarily abandon her comprehension of the Dao and instead investigate the source of the Grand Purple Qi's restlessness.

Upon doing so, Nuwa experienced a sense of the clouds parting to reveal the sun; she understood almost instantly how her path to becoming a Sage should be walked.

She needed to create an entirely new race based upon the Dao of Creation.

With a shifting thought, Nuwa realized that in the process of creating a race, she could also comprehend the Dao of Creation further, so she simply halted her Dao comprehension entirely and began to ponder what kind of race she should create.

Over the next fifty thousand years, Nuwa attempted to use the Dao of Creation as a foundation, bringing forth one new life after another through various methods.

Unfortunately, none of these lives could evoke a response from the Grand Purple Qi, let alone stir the Heavenly Dao.

However, Nuwa's mastery of the Dao of Creation deepened continuously through the process of creating new races, reaching ninety-five percent now, leaving her only a single step away from complete mastery.

Meanwhile, on Penglai Immortal Island.

Qinglin suddenly sensed that the innate spiritual Qi on Penglai Immortal Island, which had been constantly pouring into his master's dwelling, had abruptly stopped.

Following that, an immensely terrifying pressure erupted from the place where Bai Jing was in seclusion.

Despite being separated by a vast distance, Qinglin was pressed flat onto the ground by this pressure, unable to move a muscle.

Fortunately, this pressure came quickly and left just as fast, vanishing in an instant as if it had never appeared at all.

Qinglin raised his head to look. Once the pressure dissipated, the innate spiritual Qi of Penglai Immortal Island no longer surged toward his master's place—his master must have emerged from seclusion!

Thinking of this, Qinglin quickly flew toward the place where Bai Jing had been in seclusion.

To Qinglin's surprise, upon arriving at the location, he could not see Bai Jing at all, because the area was enveloped by a peculiar Dao charm. This Dao charm was like a bottomless abyss; anything that touched it was instantly swallowed, and no matter what one did, this abyss could never be filled.