Within Pangu Temple, the Twelve Ancestral Witches diligently cultivated the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
Li Xinghe cast Time Acceleration on them, allowing decades to pass inside for every year outside.
As for their cultivation progress, Li Xinghe could only admit that he was inferior.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches had inherited every advantage of Pangu's physical body. They were naturally suited to cultivating the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, and their speed was countless times faster than Li Xinghe's.
With the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, completing the first three revolutions allowed one's physical body to rival an Early Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
At the fourth revolution, one's Physical Strength could rival a Late Grand Unity Golden Immortal. At the fifth, it could rival an Early Golden Immortal of the Origin. At the sixth, it could rival a Late Golden Immortal of the Origin.
Once one completed the seventh revolution, one could achieve Body Becoming a Saint. Even without the blessing of the Heavenly Dao's power, one could still suppress and kill all experts beneath Saints.
The eighth revolution would make one a powerhouse among Saints, while completing the ninth would create another Pangu, the foremost being beneath the Great Dao.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches had already been Grand Unity Golden Immortals when they took form, so they quickly completed the first three revolutions.
Now, with Li Xinghe's assistance, they were close to completing even the fourth revolution. Truly, comparing people could drive one mad.
Even when Li Xinghe had Pangu's Essence Blood to aid him, his cultivation speed had not matched theirs.
It was not that he was too dull-witted, but that he truly possessed little Talent in the Great Dao of Strength.
In the end, he was merely an ordinary man. Only after receiving gifts from Daoist Shichen and the Lord of Destiny had he deceived Heaven and become the three-thousand-and-first Demon God.
Strictly speaking, he was a fusion of the Time Demon God and the Destiny Demon God. Every field had its specialists, and what he excelled at most was the Law of Time and Destiny.
Just as Li Xinghe was preparing to leave Pangu Temple again, Ancestral Witches Houtu and Xuan Ming suddenly awoke from their cultivation.
"Foster Father, can you take us outside to have a look? We still do not know what the outside world is like!"
After all, they were still girls, and their curiosity was stronger. Having remained in secluded cultivation within Pangu Temple for so long, they truly felt stifled.
"Fine, but once we leave Pangu Temple, you must behave yourselves," Li Xinghe said with a smile.
The two Ancestral Witches were still young and exceedingly lively. Having two such beauties by his side was rather pleasing to the eye.
Their current strength was roughly equivalent to Mid Daluo Golden Immortals. Combined with their Ancestral Witch bodies, they were enough to match Late Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal experts, so there was no need to worry about them holding anyone back.
Meanwhile, atop Buzhou Mountain, two masses of spiritual energy took form. They were Fuxi and Nuwa.
According to legend, Nuwa had formed from a wisp of Creation energy between Heaven and Earth. She possessed immense Merit, and her ability to create the Human Race in the future stemmed precisely from her power of Creation.
If Li Xinghe saw her, he would surely sigh. Nuwa's so-called Creation energy was likely connected to Creation Demon God, one of the Primordial Wilderness's top-level Demon Gods.
However, during the Creation Tribulation, Creation Demon God had been unlucky enough to be completely slain by Pangu. Not even his true spirit remained, while his flesh and blood fell into the Primordial Wilderness and instead gave rise to Nuwa, this Great God.
As for her elder brother Fuxi, he too possessed great Fortune. Yet he later involved himself in the conflict between the witches and demons, perished by accident, reincarnated as a human, and became one of the Three Human Emperors.
The brother and sister both had human heads and serpent bodies. They coiled beneath Buzhou Mountain, deducing the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth as they devoted themselves to cultivation, ignoring the disputes of the Primordial Wilderness.
Meanwhile, within Kunlun Mountain, Auspicious Clouds gathered, the power of Merit enveloped the area, and three masses of clear qi took form.
"I am Taiqing Laozi, formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit."
"I am Yuqing Yuanshi, formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit."
"I am Shangqing Tongtian, formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit."
Pangu's Primordial Spirit had split into three and become the Three Pure Ones. Today, they had finally taken form upon Kunlun Mountain.
The Three Pure Ones possessed Creation Merit, and in terms of foundation, almost no one in the Primordial Wilderness could compare to them.
"We are destined by Heaven. There must be a place for us three brothers within this Primordial Wilderness," Taiqing Laozi, the first of the three to emerge, said. As their eldest brother, his aura was clearly somewhat stronger than that of the other two.
"Now that the Fierce Beast Tribulation has only just passed and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races reign supreme, we should cultivate diligently within Kunlun Mountain. Once our cultivation grows stronger, we can explore the Primordial World."
Though the three had only just taken form, they had long possessed consciousness. The Fierce Beast Tribulation had not escaped their notice.
At that moment, all three felt something. "Eldest Brother, I seem to have sensed our opportunity," Yuanshi suddenly said.
"I sensed it as well," Tongtian said, also feeling the same.
The three rapidly flew in one direction and eventually discovered a green lotus emerging within a valley.
"Twenty-Four Grade Creation Green Lotus!" The same thought arose in all three minds.
As beings formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, they naturally knew how formidable this treasure was.
It too had been divided from that unfortunate Chaos Green Lotus, and its grade was even higher than the Four Divine Lotuses.
The three watched the lotus bloom. At that moment, several figures suddenly appeared before it. They were Li Xinghe and the others.
The Chaos Shovel contained the Law of Time and Destiny. It could divine the future and alter Destiny, so it had naturally foreseen the birth of the Three Pure Ones and known that this Twenty-Four Grade Creation Green Lotus would emerge.
"Who are you?" The Three Pure Ones' expressions changed. The treasure was about to fall into their hands, yet someone had appeared halfway through to snatch it.
Li Xinghe had naturally not come to seize treasure. He did not even care about a few top-grade spirit treasures.
However, having divined that the Three Pure Ones would take form, he had come today to forge a good connection. After all, they had been formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit. If he wished to revive Pangu in the future, he would likely need to rely on their strength.
"Can you not sense this one's aura?" Li Xinghe stared at the Three Pure Ones before him.
"Stop playing tricks. Do not obstruct our opportunity," Yuanshi said coldly.
Taiqing and Shangqing, on the other hand, looked puzzled. The man before them seemed somewhat familiar, but the three brothers had only taken form today. It was impossible for them to know him.
"How presumptuous! Who said this treasure belongs to you? First come, first served," Xuan Ming and Houtu said, unwilling to accept this.
They were both traveling through the Primordial Wilderness for the first time and had been curious about everything.
Besides, the three fellows before them were merely Grand Unity Golden Immortals. What gave them the right to speak to their foster father like that?
"Fellow Daoist, this treasure is fated to us," Laozi said, displeased as well. They were Pangu Orthodox and bore immense Merit. They were not people who feared trouble.
"Fellow Daoist? By seniority, you should at least call me uncle," Li Xinghe said with a frown.
He had originally intended to offer them some guidance because they were formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit. He had not expected them to be so ungrateful.
"Bold! We three brothers were formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit. How dare you compare yourself to Pangu?" Yuanshi immediately raged.
Xuan Ming and Houtu understood as well. No wonder the three were so arrogant—they had originated from the same Great God Pangu as themselves.
However, their own foundations were not inferior. They were not necessarily afraid of them.
Li Xinghe came to a realization. Though the Three Pure Ones had been formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, they did not possess Pangu's memories.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches were the same. However, Li Xinghe had helped them strengthen their origins and gifted them twelve drops of Pangu's Essence Blood, which was why they acknowledged his status.
Furthermore, he cultivated the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and had absorbed much of Pangu's Essence Blood. Because they shared some bloodline connection, the Twelve Ancestral Witches were closer to him.
The Three Pure Ones, however, could not recognize his identity and instead believed him to be a thief blocking their path to steal treasure.
Even so, Yuanshi's attitude deeply displeased him. No wonder Yuanshi would later always disdain Tongtian's disciples as creatures born from dampness and eggs, covered in fur and bearing horns.
In the end, Yuanshi simply believed himself superior to everyone else and considered all others trash.
"Foster Father, these people do not know what is good for them. We might as well seize this treasure," Xuan Ming said as she immediately acted, reaching directly for the lotus.
Yet a flash of light appeared, and Xuan Ming was sent flying. She was a Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, after all—even the current Three Pure Ones were weaker than her.
Houtu tried as well, using the Law of Earth to reach for it from underground. The result was the same. The Twenty-Four Grade Creation Green Lotus seemed to be enveloped in energy from above, below, and all sides.
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