Qin Xuan stood atop Buzhou Mountain. With a flick of his hand, the palm-sized Taiji Diagram responded to his will and swelled in the wind in midair.
In the blink of an eye, it spread across the heavens, black and white energies flowing within it.
Qin Xuan's figure flashed as he rose into the air.
Following the method he had spent ten thousand years deducing in his mind, he began inscribing and laying down array patterns across the enormous diagram, bit by bit.
Every time he placed an array pattern, he drew upon the Pangu bloodline within his body and infused it with streams of pure bloodline aura.
This was the inspiration he had gotten from Zhen Yuanzi.
Zhen Yuanzi could rely on the Earth Membrane and connect closely with the entire Primordial Continent, borrowing the earth's strength.
And Qin Xuan was a genuine descendant of Pangu. Buzhou Mountain itself had been formed from Pangu's spine.
Could he use his own Pangu bloodline aura as a catalyst to connect with Buzhou Mountain?
Could he draw upon Buzhou Mountain's power and continuously pour it into the array formed by the Taiji Diagram?
Then use that power in turn to protect Buzhou Mountain?
Wouldn't that make it a perpetual motion machine?
Though thoughts raced through his mind, Qin Xuan's hands did not pause in the slightest.
His figure flickered and shifted across the array diagram.
Every time he landed and lightly tapped with his fingertip, an array pattern on the diagram would instantly light up, giving off a faint glow.
As the final array pattern lit up as well,
Qin Xuan paused, slowly descended, and looked up at the Taiji Diagram floating in the air, his eyes filled with anticipation.
However, the Taiji Diagram merely hovered quietly in the air. Its patterns shone, but it did not activate.
Qin Xuan's gaze swept across the diagram again as his mind worked rapidly.
Where was the problem?
Suddenly, inspiration flashed through his mind!
Could it be that aura alone was not enough to activate Buzhou Mountain, and that purer bloodline power was needed?
Thinking of this, Qin Xuan immediately mobilized all his strength and painstakingly forced a drop of blood essence from his heart.
The instant this drop of blood essence appeared, it emitted an indescribably terrifying aura. Even the surrounding space trembled.
It seemed to contain the mighty power of creation itself. Pure Law of Strength flowed within it, along with specks of dazzling golden Merits of Creation.
Without hesitation, he cast the drop of blood essence into the array diagram.
In an instant, the entire Taiji Diagram shook violently.
"Buzz!"
The array patterns that had originally been as faint as stars instantly erupted with majestic pillars of light soaring into the sky, piercing straight through heaven and earth!
At the same time, all of Buzhou Mountain below began to tremble violently. Rocks tumbled down as the winds and clouds changed color.
What followed was the boundless power contained within Pangu's spine deep inside Buzhou Mountain, surging like a bursting mountain flood along the bloodline array patterns Qin Xuan had laid down and madly pouring into the Taiji Diagram.
The Taiji Diagram seemed like a bottomless abyss, greedily devouring that vast power. The yin-yang fish upon it spun faster and faster, and the light it emitted grew brighter and brighter.
The next moment, the Taiji Diagram pressed downward. A heavy and majestic barrier slowly spread out like an enormous inverted bowl, completely enveloping Buzhou Mountain.
At that moment, Nüwa and Fuxi, the sister and brother cultivating halfway up Buzhou Mountain, looked toward the summit in shock and uncertainty.
"Why has the sky gone dark? Is the earth dragon turning over?" Nüwa cried softly.
"What happened?!" Fuxi looked utterly bewildered.
They could clearly sense streams of unimaginably vast power being frantically drawn out from deep within Buzhou Mountain and gathering toward its summit.
At the same time, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who had originally been in seclusion within Pangu Temple, also clearly sensed the unusual tremors of Buzhou Mountain.
Thinking that something earth-shattering had happened to Buzhou Mountain, they were consumed with worry. They could not continue their seclusion and hurried together toward the summit.
When they rushed to the peak of Buzhou Mountain and saw Qin Xuan, the tension in their hearts finally eased, and they secretly let out sighs of relief.
So Qin Xuan was the one causing trouble.
That was no surprise...
The Ancestral Witches quickly gathered around, looking up at the enormous barrier covering Buzhou Mountain. Feeling the terrifying aura it emitted, they could not help exclaiming in amazement.
Dijiang asked with a puzzled expression,
"Qin Xuan, what new trick are you up to now?"
Qin Xuan chuckled and replied,
"Nothing much. I just set up an array around Buzhou Mountain to reinforce it."
Upon hearing this, Dijiang immediately widened his eyes and pretended to be angry.
"Protecting Father God's spine is such a major matter, yet you didn't even call us."
"Is there anything you need us to help with?"
Qin Xuan smiled awkwardly.
"Wasn't it because I saw that my brothers were all cultivating?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Xuan looked at the Ancestral Witches, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
An idea immediately came to him.
A single drop of his blood essence could draw upon Buzhou Mountain's power and make the grand array erupt with such might.
If all the Ancestral Witches integrated their blood essence into the grand array, then the power of this array...
Thinking of this, Qin Xuan grew excited and hurriedly said,
"Brothers and sister, you came at just the right time. My grand array is still missing one final step—I need a drop of blood essence from each of you!"
The Ancestral Witches did not hesitate in the slightest upon hearing this.
This kid had countless ideas, and nothing he made had ever disappointed them!
They simultaneously mobilized their strength, each raising a giant palm as large as a cattail fan and ruthlessly slamming it against his own chest.
Qin Xuan's eyelids twitched as he watched.
Was that really necessary...?
The next moment, twelve drops of terrifying blood essence containing different law auras flew out from their chests.
Every drop contained incomparably pure Ancestral Witch origin power and the strength of its corresponding law.
At the instant the blood essence merged into the Taiji Diagram!
The entire Primordial Chaos World trembled at that moment!
Countless great powers who were cultivating in seclusion or traveling across the world suddenly raised their heads and stared in shock toward Buzhou Mountain.
"What is happening? Did something happen to Buzhou Mountain?"
"This aura... it's terrifying! What are the Ancestral Witches doing?!"
Within Zixiao Palace, Hongjun, who had been sitting quietly upon a prayer mat, was suddenly startled. His gaze pierced through layers of void and fell directly upon Buzhou Mountain.
However, the Buzhou Mountain before his eyes was now shrouded in a layer of mist, making it impossible to see clearly.
He hurriedly activated the Creation Jade Plate and began to deduce.
On Buzhou Mountain, at the very moment the Ancestral Witches' blood essence fused into the array,
the light upon the entire Taiji Diagram reached an unprecedented brilliance.
Vast power erupted within the array!
The power of yin and yang!
The power of time and space!
The power of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth!
The power of the four phenomena—wind, rain, thunder, and lightning!
And the dazzling power of Merits of Creation!
All kinds of powers with different attributes merged perfectly within the Taiji Diagram array.
The sky above Buzhou Mountain became a riot of color, filled with countless wondrous phenomena.
After an unknown amount of time, the earth-shaking phenomenon gradually subsided.
All the erupted power withdrew and flowed into the Taiji Diagram.
After absorbing all that power, the light barrier covering all of Buzhou Mountain instantly became even more solid.
Mysterious patterns flowed across it, radiating waves of terrifying aura that made hearts palpitate!
Seeing this, Qin Xuan nodded in satisfaction.
Now let's see who still dares to go crashing into Buzhou Mountain!
He subconsciously glanced at Gonggong.
Should I let Gonggong give it a try?
At this moment, all the Ancestral Witches stared at Qin Xuan with dumbfounded expressions, their bodies frozen stiff as if they had turned to stone.
The same thought arose in all their hearts.
"No..."
"We only went into seclusion in Pangu Temple and took a little nap."
"And you managed to cause such a huge commotion?"
"Even the entire Primordial World shook?!"
While they were still utterly bewildered and had yet to recover their senses,
a colossal pillar of merit suddenly descended through the void.
Half of it entered Qin Xuan's body, while the other half was evenly divided among the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
At the exact moment the pillar of merit descended, an indescribably terrifying pressure suddenly enveloped all of Buzhou Mountain.
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