Hongjun: Who Is Plotting Against Me?!

The laughter in the hall came to an abrupt halt.

Zhurong frowned and said irritably:

"Tongtian?"

"What is he doing at our Pangu Temple? Who gave him the nerve?"

The smiles on the Ancestral Witches' faces vanished instantly, replaced by anger.

They and the Three Pure Ones were practically fire and water. Although Tongtian had not acted during the battle outside Zixiao Palace,

the Three Pure Ones were one entity—this was common knowledge throughout the Primordial World. Naturally, they had no favorable impression of Tongtian.

Gonggong slapped Zhurong on the shoulder and said viciously:

"Come on, brother. Let's beat him up first and talk later."

"Good idea!" Zhurong nodded in wholehearted agreement.

The moment he finished speaking, the two sprang up from the ground.

At that moment, Qin Xuan's divine sense stirred. He suddenly noticed that Tongtian outside the hall had yet to sever his corpses and was still only at the peak of the Great Golden Immortal realm.

In an instant, an idea came to him.

A perfect idea for making things difficult for Hongjun!

Seeing Zhurong and Gonggong truly about to rush out and beat someone up, Qin Xuan hurriedly stopped them.

"Brothers, don't be hasty. Let's first see what Tongtian wants."

He smiled faintly.

"Anyway, now that he has entered our territory, whether he leaves round or flat is up to us, isn't it?"

Hearing this, Zhurong and Gonggong exchanged a glance and felt that Qin Xuan had a point.

Indeed, if Tongtian was harboring any ill intentions, they would let him walk in upright and leave lying down.

Thus, the two brothers returned to the wall, picked comfortable positions, and lay back down.

At that moment, Tongtian's voice came from outside once more:

"I, Tongtian, seek an audience with the Ancestral Witch fellow Daoists!"

Yet Qin Xuan was in no rush to answer. He slowly walked over to the pool of Chaos Spirit Liquid.

He took out the azure Innate Gourd.

With a thought, he directly absorbed 99.99998 percent of the Chaos Spirit Liquid into the azure gourd, leaving only a tiny trace at the bottom of the pool.

He naturally understood the principle that one should not flaunt one's wealth and must always guard against others.

Although the other treasures within the divine temple were precious, they were not entirely unique within the Primordial World.

But a supreme treasure like Chaos Spirit Liquid—perhaps even Hongjun did not possess it!

If word got out and the beings of the Primordial World learned of it, they would never know peace again.

"Isn't this a little too shabby?" Qin Xuan rubbed his chin and muttered inwardly.

With that thought, he poured a little more back out, until the Chaos Spirit Liquid at the bottom of the pool appeared to form a thin layer.

Only then did he nod in satisfaction. He casually put away the azure gourd and unhurriedly headed outside Pangu Temple.

However, he did not know that after absorbing such a vast amount of Chaos Spirit Liquid, the surface of the azure gourd seemed to faintly glow.

Outside Pangu Temple, Tongtian waited for a while.

Seeing no response whatsoever from within, he assumed the Ancestral Witches were absent. Disappointment rose in his heart, and he turned to leave.

Just then.

"Creak—"

The incomparably massive gates of Pangu Temple slowly opened amid a dull grinding sound.

Qin Xuan walked out of the hall with a smile on his face.

"Fellow daoist Tongtian, your arrival honors us. Forgive me for failing to welcome you sooner! Please come in, please come in!"

As he spoke, he made a welcoming gesture.

The two immediately walked into Pangu Temple one after the other.

The instant he stepped inside Pangu Temple, Tongtian froze completely.

His eyes widened round, his mouth hung slightly open, and his face was filled with shocked disbelief.

Within the great hall, dense Primordial Aura, so thick it nearly condensed into substance, rushed toward him.

He had always considered Kunlun Mountain one of the finest Cave Heaven Blessed Lands in the Primordial World.

But compared to the Pangu Temple before him, it was like the light of a firefly before the moon!

What left him even more dumbfounded were the several treasure mountains in the distance, each over a thousand zhang tall.

They were actually piled from countless Innate Spiritual Fruits, dazzling his eyes.

He looked further inside.

"Innate Spiritual Root Yellow Plum, Ginseng Fruit..."

"A whole pool of Three Lights Divine Water!"

"How is this possible?!"

Tongtian could not help crying out in shock.

Then, when his gaze finally fell upon the nearby pool, he was struck as though by lightning, and his eyes could no longer move away.

Though there was only a thin layer of seemingly unremarkable clear liquid within the pool,

the inscrutable aura it carried, as though it contained the beginning of Primordial Chaos itself, made even his Dao Heart tremble violently.

"Fellow cultivator Qin Xuan," Tongtian swallowed with difficulty, "did you... did you rob Zixiao Palace?"

Seeing Tongtian looking like a country bumpkin visiting a grand estate, Qin Xuan found it somewhat amusing.

That made sense. The current Tongtian was still far from the future master of Jie Sect, whose Ten Thousand Immortals Pilgrimage would dare challenge the four Saints.

At most, he was merely a Great Golden Immortal blessed with profound foundations.

Qin Xuan smiled faintly and gestured with his hand.

"Please sit, fellow cultivator."

Tongtian was still somewhat dazed and sat down cross-legged almost instinctively.

Then, Tongtian's gaze casually swept over the other corners of the hall, sensing the auras of the Ancestral Witches.

The next moment, Tongtian sucked in a sharp breath, his words even beginning to stammer.

"Ten... eleven... eleven Primordial Golden Immortals!"

He was completely numb.

Everything he had seen in Pangu Temple today had utterly overturned all his understanding since his birth.

The Ancestral Witches did not look kindly upon Tongtian, but they did not cause trouble either. Each found a room and went off to cultivate.

They also knew that Qin Xuan must have his own reasons for bringing Tongtian inside.

Qin Xuan asked:

"May I ask why fellow cultivator Tongtian has come to our Pangu Temple today?"

Tongtian suddenly came back to his senses. He took a deep breath and said:

"To be honest, fellow cultivator, I feel that the Dao Ancestor's method of Three Corpses is not the path best suited to me."

"I cultivate the Law of the Sword, yet for many years, I have made no progress in it."

"That is why I shamelessly came here to seek fellow cultivator's guidance."

Qin Xuan's eyes lit up at those words. His guess had indeed been correct.

He thought to himself:

"Hongjun, Tongtian came knocking on my door himself."

"You can't blame me for this!"

Qin Xuan kept his expression unchanged and said:

"If not for the help of this Chaos Spirit Liquid, we brothers likely could not have become Primordial Golden Immortals either!"

As he spoke, he sighed and pointed to the pool of Chaos Spirit Liquid, where only a thin layer remained.

"Ah, unfortunately, there is only this tiny bit left."

The moment Tongtian heard this, his heart turned ice-cold.

Then Qin Xuan changed the subject.

"However, fellow cultivator Tongtian, do not underestimate this little that remains."

"Even this is enough to help a cultivator at the peak of the Great Golden Immortal realm comprehend their own law and become a Primordial Golden Immortal."

Tongtian's face burned with excitement.

"Fellow cultivator, might I..."

Tongtian's voice trembled slightly. He could clearly feel that with the aid of this Chaos Spirit Liquid, his Sword Dao Law would certainly succeed!

But such a precious treasure was not something he could easily bring himself to request.

Seeing this, Qin Xuan laughed heartily.

"If fellow cultivator needs it, I can simply give you some!"

Tongtian's face immediately filled with surprise and joy.

"This..."

Qin Xuan smiled.

"It is nothing. Just a trifling external possession."

Tongtian's expression changed several times.

In the end, he rose to his feet and solemnly bowed to Qin Xuan.

"In that case, I will shamelessly accept it."

"I, Tongtian, will remember this favor in my heart. If fellow cultivator has any requests in the future, simply speak!"

Qin Xuan smiled and nodded.

Then, Tongtian carefully collected that thin layer of Chaos Spirit Liquid.

After obtaining the Chaos Spirit Liquid, Tongtian could not remain for even a moment longer.

He wished he could immediately return to Kunlun Mountain and enter seclusion to comprehend the Sword Dao Law, so he promptly rose and bade Qin Xuan farewell.

Qin Xuan did not try to keep him and escorted Tongtian out of Pangu Temple.

Watching Tongtian's figure disappear beyond the horizon, Qin Xuan's lips slowly curled upward as he thought to himself:

I wonder what expression Hongjun will have when he sees that Tongtian not only did not cultivate the method of Three Corpses, but instead directly became a Primordial Golden Immortal!

Within Zixiao Palace.

Hongjun suddenly sensed something. His brows furrowed as he muttered:

"Who is plotting against me? Could it be Yang Mei?"

Then he began frantically rubbing the Creation Jade Plate again.

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