Nuwa's Origin
With a single move, he had grievously injured Fire Qilin.
With such severe injuries, Fire Qilin could no longer concern himself with keeping watch.
He immediately fled, covering hundreds of millions of miles before landing on this high cliff.
Fire Qilin hid behind the cliff and waited for a long time. When no one came after him, he breathed a quiet sigh of relief.
"I should have escaped that monster's pursuit!"
"Who exactly is that man?"
"His cultivation must have reached the Quasi-Sage realm. Why would such a terrifying expert appear near the Witch Clan?"
"I wonder whether this man's appearance will be a blessing or a curse for my Qilin Clan?"
"No, I must inform the clan of this as soon as possible!"
His thoughts in turmoil, Fire Qilin rose and prepared to leave.
"Don't bother thinking about going back. You're not going anywhere today!"
Suddenly, a mocking voice rang out behind Fire Qilin.
"Who!?"
Fire Qilin turned around in horror, only to see the very man wreathed in demonic Qi.
Even with Fire Qilin's late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal spiritual perception, the man had managed to approach him from behind without a sound. His concealment had clearly reached the pinnacle.
If the man had wished, he could even have killed Fire Qilin without him noticing.
And Fire Qilin might have died without ever knowing who had done it.
At the thought, Fire Qilin's heart trembled, and even his Dao heart could not remain steady.
The instant Fire Qilin's thoughts wavered, demonic light burst from the mysterious man's eyes as he stared fixedly into Fire Qilin's.
"Netherworld Puppet!"
The mysterious man gave a soft shout, and his eyes abruptly became bottomless black holes, as though any living being that met his gaze would be swallowed whole.
"This is bad!"
Fire Qilin immediately realized the danger and tried to struggle.
But it was already too late. His ruby-like eyes had been tainted by demonic Qi and quickly turned pitch-black.
At the same time, Fire Qilin stopped struggling, as though he had become a puppet.
The mysterious man nodded in satisfaction and then asked,
"Tell me what you know about the Witch Clan."
Under his control, Fire Qilin had lost his ability to discern and obediently recounted everything he knew from the beginning.
From Thunder Qilin's death to Fuxi's grievous wounding of Ancestral Qilin, and then the shattering of the Qilin Seal, every last detail...
Once Fire Qilin had finished recounting what he knew about the Witch Clan, the mysterious man swept out his hand.
A black spear formed from demonic Qi appeared and stabbed straight at Fire Qilin's vital point.
But under the Netherworld Puppet's control, Fire Qilin could not dodge. He could only watch helplessly as the spearhead pierced his body.
His powerful flesh, once his pride, and the protection of his late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal scales were now like paper, easily pierced by the spear.
Fire Qilin let out a wail and finally broke free of the Netherworld Puppet's control. But he had already suffered a fatal blow, and there was no way to save him. He could only wait for death.
The black spear seemed capable of absorbing vital essence, and Fire Qilin withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, a stream of Calamity Fiendish Qi rose from Fire Qilin's corpse and was easily absorbed by the mysterious man.
After putting away the spear, the mysterious man wore an indifferent expression, as though killing a late-stage Daluo Golden Immortal were as ordinary as eating or drinking.
This mysterious man was naturally an avatar of Luohu, who had come from Western Mount Sumeru.
Fire Qilin was not the first spy from the various clans he had killed. Several had already died at his hands, but Fire Qilin had known the most.
In truth, Luohu had no other choice. As soon as he arrived at Buzhou Mountain, he had used his divination powers to calculate the Witch Clan's exact circumstances.
As a reincarnation of one of the Three Thousand Chaos Gods and a mighty late-stage Quasi-Sage, Luohu possessed divination powers that were nearly unmatched in the Primordial World. Only Hongjun, with his fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation, could reliably surpass him.
Although this avatar was one realm below his true body, the strength of his divination was determined by his true body, so it had not been affected much.
Even so, the results of Luohu's calculations had been extremely vague, yielding him almost nothing.
With no other choice, he had turned on the spies from the various clans.
And now he had gathered enough information!
"Fuxi!!"
"Even with my cultivation, I cannot calculate this man's exact circumstances. How interesting!"
Luohu murmured to himself, seemingly quite interested in this man.
"To defeat Ancestral Qilin while he wielded the Qilin Seal, this man must at least be an early-stage Quasi-Sage. If I can use him, he will surely become a great asset to me."
"But if he doesn't know what's good for him, I don't mind making him vanish from the lands of the Primordial World."
With that thought, Luohu prepared to head to the Witch Clan's territory and meet this Fuxi.
But just then, a vast surge of Source Qi erupted beneath Buzhou Mountain, its surging presence spreading across hundreds of millions of miles.
This presence seemed to contain a trace of the essence of the Way of Creation. All living beings caught in its reach benefited greatly, and many even succeeded in taking form on the spot.
Luohu's heart stirred, and he hurriedly formed a hand seal and began to calculate.
A moment later, Luohu released the seal, and realization flashed in his eyes.
"So that's how it is. This Source Qi belongs to an unborn Xiantian divine being, and it actually shares the same origin as Fuxi. In that case, I must make the trip."
With that thought, Luohu took flight as a streak of light and sped straight toward the place where the Source Qi had erupted.
As a mighty Quasi-Sage, Luohu's streak of light was as swift as lightning. A single step carried him hundreds of millions of miles, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived at his destination.
The land for hundreds of millions of miles around was blessed with the beauty of heaven and earth, its mountains green and waters lovely, yet nothing unusual was in sight.
But Luohu was not surprised. Unborn Xiantian divine beings were often protected by a Xiantian Grand Formation, which could also block spiritual sense and erase heavenly secrets. Ordinary methods would naturally fail to find them.
However, as a mighty Quasi-Sage of the Primordial World, Luohu would not be stymied by this.
Once he knew of it, finding the hidden Xiantian Grand Formation would be no difficult task.
With a thought, Luohu sent his spiritual perception out of his body, sweeping it repeatedly over the land for hundreds of millions of miles in search of the Xiantian Grand Formation.
After an unknown amount of time, Luohu suddenly opened his eyes, and a sharp light burst from them.
"Found it!"
The next moment, Luohu took a single step and appeared in a valley tens of millions of miles away.
The valley before him was quiet and secluded, stretching deep into the distance. At a glance, it seemed no different from anywhere else.
But when his spiritual perception had swept over it earlier, the power of heaven and earth within this valley had been slightly different from that elsewhere.
The difference was extremely faint, but it could not escape him!
As the thought flashed through his mind, Luohu struck decisively. With a casual gesture, he sent out a stream of pure demonic Qi, which exploded in the valley.
Sure enough, when the demonic Qi struck the valley, a grand formation suddenly appeared and neutralized it.
"Oh? This formation is quite resilient!"
With Luohu's current Mid-Quasi-Sage cultivation, even a casual stream of demonic Qi held enough power to destroy heaven and earth.
Yet the grand formation had withstood it. Its performance was remarkable indeed.
"In that case..."
Luohu clenched his right hand, and a vast mass of demonic Qi soared into the air. Terrifying demonic might tore through the sky. Then the demonic Qi condensed inward, and a demonic dragon appeared between heaven and earth.
"Roar!"