After crossing the starry river, they entered the chaos.
Zhunti and Jieyin wandered aimlessly in search of the Purple Heavens Palace.
Yet the two of them grew increasingly anxious. The three-thousand-year deadline was almost upon them.
Still, they had not found the location of the Purple Heavens Palace.
Jieyin could not help but complain.
"Junior Brother, I told you back then that we should have come quickly, but you refused to listen. If we are late now, what are we supposed to do?"
Zhunti's face flushed red. He had not expected the Purple Heavens Palace to be so difficult to find.
Had he known this would happen, why would he have gone around mooching off others? He should have come straight to the Purple Heavens Palace.
He felt a trace of regret.
But he could not voice that regret.
"Senior Brother, say no more. I know I was wrong. We should hurry and find the Purple Heavens Palace."
Yet the three-thousand-year deadline was nearly here.
They grew more and more anxious.
But the more anxious they became, the less able they were to find its exact location.
They also had to constantly resist the fierce winds within the chaos, along with the disorderly Earth Fire Water Wind.
Inside the Purple Heavens Palace, countless people were already waiting for its doors to open.
They began discussing matters among themselves. Nuwa, standing nearby, walked forward and tugged Fuxi along as she spoke.
"Come on. We'll head in as soon as it opens. Maybe we can grab good seats."
After saying that, she immediately began squeezing forward.
Some people saw Nuwa and prepared to put her in her place.
But Nuwa clearly had no intention of indulging them. She released her imposing aura.
The aura of a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal instantly spread out, seemingly even surpassing that level by a sliver.
Her strength made countless people gasp.
Even the expressions of the Three Pure Ones darkened.
They considered themselves Pangu's legitimate descendants, and they too had reached the peak of the Grand Unity realm.
Yet they had no clue how to take the next step.
Now someone had suddenly appeared who had gone one step farther than them.
Naturally, they felt somewhat displeased.
Tongtian was merely envious, but Yuanshi beside him wore a sour expression.
He even snorted coldly.
Once everyone had settled into place, Haotian emerged from the palace.
"By my master's decree, the three thousand years have elapsed. You may enter the Purple Heavens Palace to hear the Dao."
After saying that, he opened the palace gates.
Just as he turned around to take a look, countless people surged into the Purple Heavens Palace.
Nuwa pulled Fuxi along without ceremony and went straight to the first row, sitting down on the spot.
Fuxi also reached the first row, but when he tried to sit on a cushion, he could not sit down no matter what he did.
It was as though some invisible force was stopping him.
Seeing this, Fuxi could only sigh and sit behind Nuwa instead.
The Three Pure Ones followed close behind, only to see that the first seat in the front row had already been taken.
They could only sit down in sequence beside it.
Hongyun and Kunpeng took the final two seats.
Thus, the seats in the first row were settled.
Everyone else also sat down. With their positions decided, they waited for Hongjun to come out and expound the Dao.
No one dared to speak, and they waited quietly.
Just as the palace gates were about to close, a voice rang out.
"Wait! We have not entered yet!"
At the very last moment before the gates closed, Zhunti and Jieyin finally made it.
After entering the palace, they saw several people sitting neatly in the front-row seats.
Zhunti felt somewhat bitter.
Then an idea struck him. He put on a pained expression, and tears even welled up in his eyes.
"We came too late. The road from the west was long, and we lost some time in the chaos. If this continues, how are we supposed to answer to the living beings of the west when we return?"
"I might as well smash my head against the Purple Heavens Palace and die."
The two of them acted while standing beside Kunpeng and Hongyun.
Nuwa, seated in the foremost position, looked at the two bald donkeys and recalled her master's words.
"Remember this: none of the bald donkeys in the Primordial World are any good, especially the ones from the west."
Nuwa spoke up at once.
"This is the Purple Heavens Palace. What are you two crying and whining for?"
"If you want to smash your heads and die, then do it. You make it sound so righteous. Who you are, I imagine quite a few people in this hall already know."
"You're crying here because you arrived late and have no seats. Don't tell me it was because the western road was too long. More likely, while us cultivators came to the Purple Heavens Palace, you went around the eastern lands mooching off others, didn't you?"
At her words, everyone in the hall changed expression.
They knew that two cultivators from the west enjoyed mooching off others.
But Naihe, both of them were Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and they specifically targeted cultivators with lower cultivation.
Since they had never provoked the pair before, they had naturally ignored it.
Now, upon hearing Nuwa's words, a thought immediately arose in their minds.
Could these two shameless old bastards really have done that?
One by one, the way they looked at Zhunti and Jieyin changed.
Even Zhunti and Jieyin could not help but shudder when they saw the scene before them.
With thousands of Grand Unity Golden Immortals in the Purple Heavens Palace staring at them, their hearts trembled as well.
Zhunti hurriedly stepped forward and spoke.
"Fellow Daoist, you are slandering us."
Nuwa merely waved her hand.
"You say I'm slandering you, then do you dare swear a Dao oath? A Heavenly Dao oath or a Great Dao oath, either is fine. If you dare say that you did not go around mooching off others while we were coming to the Purple Heavens Palace, we will give you two seats."
Zhunti's expression changed at those words, while Jieyin beside him sighed.
Zhunti looked at Nuwa with a trace of resentment in his eyes.
Nuwa did not care in the slightest.
Hongyun had just been about to stop their argument and voluntarily offer up his seat.
But after hearing Nuwa's words, he sat back down, wanting to see how Zhunti would respond.
Who would have thought that, with so many people watching them, Jieyin and Zhunti did not dare utter the oath?
If they did not swear it, everyone would certainly know that they had indeed been mooching off others.
If this continued, once the sermon ended, this crowd would likely set their sights on them.
The more this happened, the more venomous Zhunti's gaze toward Nuwa became.
Nuwa immediately noticed that look and took out a Wooden Token from her robes.
"If you keep looking at me like that, I'll kill both of you right now!"
Hongjun, who had been watching the farce from behind the scenes, had been waiting for them to finish making trouble. But seeing that Nuwa was actually about to flip the table, he knew that if he did not appear now, those two might really die today.
So he revealed himself and sat upon the cloud platform above.
"No quarreling. The seats have already been decided. You two may find somewhere else to sit."
Upon hearing this, Zhunti and Jieyin prepared to leave. Yet Zhunti's gaze became even more vicious.
Feeling that malice, Nuwa recalled what her master had said.
If you make an enemy, destroy their soul completely!
She immediately took out the Wooden Token.
"You still dare look at me? If I don't kill you today, you'll definitely attack me in the future."
Just as Hongjun was about to stop her—
Nuwa flicked her hand and hurled the Wooden Token out. Looking at Hongjun, who was seated over there, she said,
"If you dare interfere, I'll kill you too!"
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