Watch This, Core Impact

Buzhou Mountain had been formed from Pangu's backbone.

It held up the heavens and connected them to the earth, making it the foremost divine mountain of the Primordial World.

This was the finest embodiment of standing tall between heaven and earth. Even the Divine Ability Heaven and Earth Manifestation was merely an imitation of it.

Though he was still a great distance from the foot of the mountain, the vast presence unique to Buzhou Mountain swept over Xiang Dong. The sight left his heart surging with emotion.

"I have an urge to drop to my knees and sing 'Conquest,' but I've forgotten how it goes."

He had forgotten how to sing "Conquest," but he hadn't forgotten how Buzhou Mountain collapsed.

On Buzhou Mountain, where Pangu's pressure reigned, only the Ancestral Witches, formed from Pangu's Essence Blood, could act without restriction and deal the mountain a fatal blow.

Gonggong had rammed Buzhou Mountain in a rage, knocking half of it down.

Xiang Dong gestured, working out the corresponding position.

"That spot should be around the kidneys, right? He kept calling him Father God, then dealt his old man a heavy blow to the kidneys and broke his backbone."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. What a roar of filial piety!"

"But it doesn't matter. I'm here now. I came here to stop the tragedy from happening."

After that reflection came a long journey. As the saying went, a mountain might look close enough to run to, but a horse would die before reaching it. That was exactly Xiang Dong's situation.

Buzhou Mountain looked close, but he had been running at full tilt for at least several decades, and the distance had barely shortened.

The mountain remained just as tall, stretching for who knew how many miles, and the surrounding scenery had hardly changed. Xiang Dong had only just arrived, so he couldn't judge how far he still was from Buzhou Mountain.

What else could he do? Keep running.

In any case, his lifespan was infinite, and the distance wasn't. He would reach his destination one day.

On this day, Xiang Dong was still running at full tilt, but the scenery was a little different, because he saw a battle.

A young woman in a long cyan dress was controlling a stone as she fought a fierce beast.

The giant beast resembled a wild dog. Black-and-red Sha Qi shrouded its entire body, and its attacks were wide and sweeping.

Every attack stirred up a great deal of Sha Qi.

Facing the dense Sha Qi, the young woman frowned slightly. As Five-Colored Divine Light protected her and blocked the Sha Qi, a snake's tail appeared beneath the hem of her dress.

A snake's tail and a human body, Five-Colored Stones, Innate Divine Beings—all those traits brought one name to Xiang Dong's mind.

Nuwa!

When Xiang Dong realized that the young woman was Nuwa, a very strange feeling welled up in his heart.

As a human in his previous life, he had naturally felt affection for this Innate Divine Beings who had created the human race and refined stones to mend the heavens. He had viewed her through a thick filter.

He just hadn't expected Nuwa, a future Sage, to have gone through a stage like this.

If Nuwa after becoming a saint was a lofty, high-ranking mature queen,

then the Nuwa before him now was just a young, inexperienced girl, struggling to deal with even a remnant soul of a fierce beast.

But that was normal. After all, Nuwa was not yet a Sage, and Hongjun had yet to preach the Dao. Presumably, she had only recently taken human form, and it was hard to say whether she had even reached the level of a Great Unity Golden Immortal.

As a Sage, Nuwa had a rich store of treasures, with a great many Law Treasures, nearly all of them top-grade.

There were the Golden Gourd, the Demon-Summoning Banner, the Landscape, Mountain and River, State and Country Map, the Red Embroidered Ball, the Lotus Lantern, and the Demon-Refining Pot. Supposedly, she even had the Hongmeng Sacred Sword.

But right now, she was only just starting out. The spiritual treasures she possessed weren't strong, nor were they suited for attack.

And her opponent, if he wasn't mistaken, should be Fierce Beast Hou.

Fierce Beast Hou's origins were no ordinary matter either. It had been formed from Pangu's skull, so it had been extraordinary from birth, possessing an invincible body and being the bane of the Dragon Clan.

Like Xiang Dong, it was difficult to kill, an existence that was almost undying and indestructible.

Nuwa had bombarded Hou dozens of times with the Five-Colored Stones without leaving a single scratch on its body. It was easy to imagine how troublesome it was.

And this was Buzhou Mountain, where Pangu's pressure suppressed other living beings, but naturally had no effect on his own skull.

At that thought, Xiang Dong hesitated no longer and swaggered out.

"Let that girl go! Come at me instead!"

Xiang Dong bellowed at the top of his lungs, successfully drawing the attention of both the woman and the beast.

Nuwa had actually noticed Xiang Dong long ago. Her Divine Sense was constantly watching their surroundings, but she hadn't expected him to step out with his hands on his hips and deliberately provoke Hou.

His behavior stunned Nuwa, because as far as her Divine Sense could tell, Xiang Dong wasn't particularly strong. At the very least, he was no stronger than she was.

So, upon encountering a battle like this, the wisest choice would have been to protect himself and pass straight by, yet he had jumped right in.

Such behavior was undoubtedly courting death, even courting death like a madman.

That was precisely Xiang Dong's intention. He wanted to see whether a fierce beast formed from Pangu's skull and possessing an invincible body really couldn't be killed either.

Hou turned to stare at Xiang Dong. Although Xiang Dong was very weak, it sensed a dangerous presence from him.

Because of that, instinct drove it to abandon Nuwa and rush at Xiang Dong as a black-and-red whirlwind.

It opened its bloody maw and spat out a ball of Sha Qi.

Xiang Dong watched the Sha Qi ball approach. Not only did he make no move to dodge, he curled his lip in disdain.

That's it? Who are you looking down on?

He wasn't the least bit worried, but Nuwa shouted anxiously, "That's a fierce beast's Sha Qi! If it touches you, it'll corrode your origin!"

Xiang Dong gave Nuwa a bright, sunny smile, then spread his arms and shouted.

"Watch this, Core Impact!"

With his shout, the sun totem on Xiang Dong's chest unleashed a pillar of golden light.

The pillar of light and the Sha Qi ball held against each other in midair for a moment, but the Sha Qi, which even innate divine beings were desperate to avoid, rapidly dissolved beneath the light.

The Sha Qi ball was soon completely purified, and the golden light continued unabated, blasting into Hou.

To Hou, this light that could purify Sha Qi wasn't lethal, but it was certainly painful, a torment like having its flesh carved with a blunt knife.

Much of the dense black-and-red Sha Qi around its body dissolved in the golden light, and its once enormous body shrank like a deflated ball.

Sensing a fatal threat, Hou didn't hesitate for a moment or even leave a parting threat. It forcibly changed direction in midair and vanished in an instant.

Xiang Dong was speechless as he watched Hou flee.

You were supposed to have been formed from a skull, with an invincible body that couldn't be killed, and you just ran away like that. What a disappointment.

I haven't even gotten serious yet. I haven't even used my Zeperion Beam.

He couldn't give chase even if he wanted to. After all, in this place, he hadn't been formed from Essence Blood, a Primordial Spirit, a bone, or anything else, so he had no privilege to fly and could only stare helplessly.

Meanwhile, Nuwa looked at Xiang Dong with utter disbelief in her eyes.

That fierce beast had been so troublesome that she could barely protect herself against it, yet this man had driven it away with a single move.

What a formidable Innate Divine Beings!