A Cup of Tea to Calm the Nerves

I didn't dare open my eyes, hoping it was all an illusion, as I stood at the edge of the Earth...

That was exactly how Xiang Dong felt. He wished everything he had seen was an illusion, and that it would all be gone when he opened his eyes.

But the Principle imprints in his Primordial Spirit were shining brightly, as if telling him that closing his eyes was useless. They were right there, and they were no illusion.

Xiang Dong was furious. Since things had come to this, he would first drink a cup of tea to calm his nerves and settle himself down.

He reached for a teacup on the table, not even caring whose it was, and grabbed it and poured the tea into his mouth.

"Gulp, gulp, gulp."

He downed the whole cup of Enlightenment Tea brewed with Three Lights Divine Water in one go, making Yangmei's eyebrows twitch.

Drinking it like that was a bit of a waste of heaven's gifts. This was Enlightenment Tea, after all. A single sip could greatly improve one's comprehension, yet Xiang Dong had just chugged the whole cup.

But when Yangmei thought of Xiang Dong's terrible talent, he recalled that a cup of tea had only been enough to get Xiang Dong started on the Space Great Dao back then. Presumably, it wouldn't have much effect now either.

But the result was completely unexpected.

In the past, nothing much would indeed have happened. After all, Xiang Dong's own comprehension really wasn't high.

And even if his comprehension improved, it would be useless if he had nothing to comprehend. But now, the Primordial Spirit of Xiang Dong's alt account contained not only his own Light and Creation Principle, but also the ten Principle imprints the Ancestral Witches had given him.

As the tea passed down his throat, there was indeed no reaction at first. But once it reached his stomach, an indescribable coolness shot straight to the top of his head.

Boom!

Xiang Dong felt as if the top of his skull had been lifted off, giving him the exhilarating sensation of a skylight opening and his mind expanding. A chill swept through his heart and sent it soaring, and even his Primordial Spirit left his body.

This cup of Three Lights Divine Water Enlightenment Tea was like an acceleration switch, letting Xiang Dong activate a hundredfold comprehension mode with a single click. In this strange state, everything around him changed.

Xiang Dong seemed able to see the faint Dao rhythm on Nuwa. It was the Dao of Creating Life, and it was still very immature.

The Dao rhythm on Fuxi was the Dao of deduction. Deducing heavenly secrets was his forte, and there were very few in the entire Primordial World who could claim to have a definite edge over him.

Dijun and Taiqing were slightly better than Fuxi. One reason was that their cultivation realms were high enough for them to communicate with the Heavenly Dao faster and more effectively. It was like having a stronger signal, faster internet, and a VIP download channel.

Moreover, one had the Top-grade Innate Spirit Treasure Hetu and Luoshu, while the other had the heaven-splitting supreme treasure, the Taiji Diagram. With the help of compatible Spirit Treasures, if they still couldn't gain the upper hand, they might as well find a block of tofu and bash their heads against it to death.

But Fuxi had yet to become Emperor Xi. He was still relatively immature, and he hadn't even perfected the Primordial Eight Trigrams yet.

By comparison, the spatial Dao rhythm on Yangmei was the most dazzling. Its naturally formed folds of space and the spatial ripples created by its Dao rhythm drew Xiang Dong in with a single glance. He was unable to pull himself free, watching in a trance.

Thus, under this mode of hundredfold comprehension, Xiang Dong rapidly mastered the Space Principle imprint that his eldest brother Di Jiang had given him.

The ten Principle imprints given to him by the ten Ancestral Witches who had already emerged were engraved in the Primordial Spirit of Xiang Dong's alt account, but he had yet to master them. They had only reached the stage of preliminary fusion.

Now, with the hundredfold acceleration, these Principle imprints were quickly digested, comprehended, and mastered. As the Power of Principle continued to rise, the Primordial Spirit of Xiang Dong's alt account also improved.

"What the hell!"

Xiang Dong wanted to complain, but his Primordial Spirit was outside his body. His mind wanted to complain, yet his mouth didn't respond at all.

Come on, I only wanted a cup of tea to calm my nerves. How did I end up pouring oil on the fire and screwing myself over instead?

This tea's aftereffects are too strong. I can't suppress them at all!

"Senior, has Xiang Dong experienced an epiphany?"

After drinking the tea, Xiang Dong had remained standing there in a daze, and Nuwa couldn't help feeling a little worried. But sensing the rapidly rising Power of Principle, she felt it wasn't a bad thing.

"Yes, young friend Xiang Dong has experienced an epiphany..."

Yangmei looked at Xiang Dong with a gaze full of inquiry and disbelief.

He had just been thinking that Xiang Dong couldn't possibly experience an epiphany, but to his surprise, he had been slapped in the face. Xiang Dong had not only experienced an epiphany, but had comprehended more than one Principle.

Space, time, water, fire...

The Ancestral Witches were born with these origin Principles, possessing them from the moment they began to form. That was why they were at the Great Unity Golden Immortal realm as soon as they were born.

But if anyone else tried to comprehend them, mastering even one would require at least countless yuanhui of painstaking effort.

Yet now they were being stuffed into Xiang Dong's head all at once as if they cost nothing. With his hundredfold comprehension, he was rapidly learning and mastering them.

There were more than ten of them! Where had this guy gotten so many Principles? When Yangmei had taught Xiang Dong the Space Great Dao before, the guy had known nothing and possessed nothing.

And now? He was practically turning into an all-round academic ace, knowing a little of everything.

As his Power of Principle rapidly increased, the power of Xiang Dong's Primordial Spirit and his realm were also carried upward considerably. This stirred the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, forming a vast vortex of Spiritual Qi as large amounts of Innate Spiritual Qi actively poured into his body.

Xiang Dong could feel all of this, but he had lost control of his body and was completely unable to stop it from happening.

What drove him to even greater despair was that, at that moment, the blood pool in Pangu Hall was churning.

A streak of darkness and icy cold broke out of its cocoon. It was Xuanming, with a human face and a bird's body. Her whole body was covered in blue-black ice armor, with fearsome bone spikes.

When she appeared in the form of an Innate Dao Body, she was an ice-cold goddess whose frigid bearing kept others a thousand miles away.

Immediately afterward came Houtu, the last of the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the only one whose story had been told in vivid strokes.

Houtu's true form as an Ancestral Witch resembled Nuwa's true form somewhat, with a human body and a serpent's tail. But she had seven hands on her back and two on her chest, making her look somewhat unbalanced and lacking in symmetrical beauty.

When she appeared in the form of an Innate Dao Body, she was a gentle, compassionate goddess wearing an earth-yellow dress. No matter how one looked at her, she didn't seem like an Ancestral Witch.

With that, all Twelve Ancestral Witches had emerged!

"Our two younger sisters have finally appeared. Now only our little brother is left."

Di Jiang clapped his hands as he spoke, and Zhu Jiuyin nodded in agreement. Now that only their little brother remained in the blood pool, he no longer needed to go to the trouble of purifying the Innate Sha Qi.

Moreover, their little brother's Primordial Spirit and Power of Principle were both improving rapidly. It looked as though he was developing well, so presumably he would emerge soon too.

After the newly born Xuanming and Houtu briefly greeted their ten elder brothers, they exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Elder sister, we're the only two left now."

"Mm!"

Xuanming gave a soft assent, and the familiar scene played out once more.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

Two more drops of heart's blood containing origin Principles merged into the flesh cocoon of Xiang Dong's alt account.

The final pieces of the puzzle had been put in place. Xiang Dong could now say, "I'm not missing anything anymore."