At the peak of Buzhou Mountain, winds and clouds churned!
Xuanzheng stood with his hands behind his back, a "simple and honest" smile at the corner of his lips.
Who would have thought that this universally acknowledged dim-witted Ancestral Witch of the Primordial World was plotting how to swallow this vast merit, principal and interest included, while also topping up the Witch Clan's fortune account?
"A few hundred years? Gone in the blink of an eye!"
Xuanzheng sneered inwardly.
Rumors outside claimed that he had poured his heart and soul into repairing Buzhou Mountain, working day and night without rest, the very model of a hardworking Witch Clan laborer.
Pah!
All he had done was move his mouth, direct honest brothers and sisters like Gonggong and Zhurong to do the work, and occasionally step in personally to "guide" them. As for the real Core Technology—such as the Buzhou Mountain Dragon Vein Ancestral Source that was about to return to its place—those were all limited-edition treasures he had "plucked" from the Primordial World Bug Fixing Manual!
Thinking of how Jieyin had recently worn a mournful face and, in order to let that stubborn rascal Zhunti successfully make it to Zixiao Palace to hear the Dao without falling behind, had forcibly scraped together another batch of "toll money" from that barren Western land where not even birds bothered to shit, Xuanzheng wanted to laugh.
"Tsk, the Western Duo really is my stable source of income!"
This deal was no loss!
At this moment, within Buzhou Mountain's core region, the unstable cracks throughout the mountain had long been filled seamlessly with countless portions of Pangu Divine Concrete, each flickering with an eternal black-and-yellow radiance!
This divine concrete was indestructible and perfectly fused with Buzhou Mountain itself, as though they had always been one since ancient times!
Inside the mountain, Gonggong had not been idle either.
The originally tangled underground waterways, which frequently flooded and caused trouble for the Witch Clan, had now been sorted out neatly by him. Like docile jade dragons, they flowed quietly through the depths of the mountain, nourishing this ancient massif.
"Big Brother Gonggong really did a fine job!"
Xuanzheng sent his voice across the distance, his tone filled with "sincere" praise. "When we update the merit ledger later, we absolutely have to give you a bold and prominent entry!"
That fool Gonggong could be felt scratching the back of his head and chuckling stupidly even from far away. He slapped his chest loudly. "Just watch, Thirteenth Brother! From now on, Buzhou Mountain won't leak even a single drop of water!"
On the other side, Zhurong, with his fiery temper, had transformed into the finest master blacksmith.
He directed a group of muscle-bound Fire Witches to melt down the enormous quantities of divine gold and exotic iron "amicably negotiated"... ahem, "reasonably compensated" from the Demon Clan, along with all sorts of treasured materials collected by the Witch Clan, into enormous crimson Sky-Pillars resembling the spinal bones of ancient dragon gods!
Boom! Boom!
Zhurong personally drove these crimson "Dragon Bones" one by one into Buzhou Mountain's most central and fragile nodes.
Every pillar fit perfectly along the mountain's veins as it fell, emitting a scorching yet incomparably stable aura that firmly locked the mountain in place!
"Brother Zhurong, your firepower is fierce enough! From now on, Buzhou Mountain will probably be tougher than a turtle shell!"
Xuanzheng shouted from afar, his smile "pure and innocent."
Zhurong wiped away sweat that did not exist on his forehead, waved his fan-sized hand, and boomed, "Of course! If some blind little bastard dares crash into this mountain in the future, he'll have to ask whether my fists are harder, or these freshly forged mountain bones!"
Xuanzheng nodded repeatedly as he listened. Yes, yes, that's exactly the spirit! The tougher it is, the higher the Bug Fix completion rate, and the more merit there'll be!
At last, the final stage that everyone had been watching—and that Xuanzheng had awaited for so long—had arrived!
The "simple and honest" smile on his face instantly vanished, replaced by an unprecedented solemnity and sanctity.
"Brothers and sisters, focus up!"
Xuanzheng's voice was not loud, but it clearly reached every Ancestral Witch's ears. "The final array eye of the Sky-Supporting Mountain-Suppressing Pangu Great Array—the Buzhou Mountain Dragon Vein Ancestral Source—must return to its place!"
Dijiang, Zhujiuyin, Houtu, Qiangliang...
The other twelve Ancestral Witches had long since taken their positions at the twelve most critical nodes surrounding Buzhou Mountain, following the script Xuanzheng had "arranged" beforehand.
Their expressions were grave, their auras unfathomably deep, as each pushed their origin witch power to the utmost limit!
Hummm—!
In an instant, the earth veins of not only Buzhou Mountain, but the entire central axis of the Primordial World, seemed to be stirred by an invisible force!
The earth let out a deep, thunderous roar, echoing the tyrannical and mighty auras of the Twelve Ancestral Witches and forming a profound, mysterious resonance!
Xuanzheng alone walked slowly toward Buzhou Mountain's peak, where an enormous, unfathomably deep groove had long been meticulously constructed by him.
The groove's shape, size, depth, and even the runes engraved within it perfectly corresponded to the object in his hands.
With both hands, cautiously yet as steadily as a mountain, he held a strange jade stone roughly the size of a human head. It gleamed all over with a lustrous, warm white treasure light and emitted an immense vitality and supreme dragon aura so dense it could not be dispersed!
[Buzhou Mountain Dragon Vein Ancestral Source]!
This was no ordinary item! It was a top-tier Bug Fixing material from the Manual's reward pool, the key to suppressing Buzhou Mountain's fortune and rebuilding Pangu's Spine!
"Primordial World Bug Fixing Manual, final command confirmed. Commencing Bug Fix—the final phase of [Buzhou Mountain's Calamity of Collapse]!"
Xuanzheng muttered under his breath, his voice as faint as a mosquito's hum, as though conversing with some unseen existence.
In his left palm, the ancient and weathered Karma Scale grew slightly hot. Its beam trembled softly, as though weighing the earth-shaking "karma" that was about to unfold.
On the back of his right hand, countless profound runes flowed across the Script Mirror's surface, flashing with dark, deep light as it faithfully recorded this historic moment that was enough to alter the Primordial World's entire landscape.
Before the eyes of the masses!
Holding the Buzhou Mountain Dragon Vein Ancestral Source, Xuanzheng slowly placed it into the enormous groove at the mountain peak, step by step.
A flawless fit!
Perfectly matched!
Hummm—!!!
At the instant the Buzhou Mountain Dragon Vein Ancestral Source completely fused with the groove!
The entire Buzhou Mountain suddenly erupted with a heaven-shaking tremor!
That tremor was not collapse, but... awakening!
It was as though a primordial giant beast that had slept for countless eons, one that had emerged from chaos itself, had been utterly awakened at this moment, unleashing the supreme divine might hidden in its deepest depths!
Rumble, rumble, rumble—!
A radiant light stretching ten thousand zhang surged furiously from Buzhou Mountain's summit like the first divine ray of World Creation. It instantly tore through the endless clouds Above the Nine Heavens, pierced through the Thirty-Three Outer Heavens, and shot straight into the dark, frigid Chaos Void!
Countless streams of auspicious energy poured down like the celestial river spilling from the Nine Heavens, transforming into cascades of brilliant rainbow light that enveloped the towering Buzhou Mountain in a sacred, peaceful, solemn, and eternal halo!
An ancient, boundless aura beyond all description, as if it came directly from the earliest days when Pangu Father God created heaven and earth—a force that supported the heavens, steadied the earth, and suppressed eternity—erupted from the deepest, most fundamental core of Buzhou Mountain!
That aura was vast! Mighty! Boundless! Endless!
Carrying an invisible great power that could not be matched, shaken, or defied, it linked the heavens and earth of the entire Primordial World at the very moment it appeared!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A dense series of strange sounds, like beans popping in a pan, rang out from within Buzhou Mountain.
The newly poured and fused Pangu Divine Concrete resonated with the ancient mountain stone at the deepest level and underwent a transformation, shining with the undying radiance of Indestructible Through Ten Thousand Calamities!
The mountain's stature rose higher before the horrified gazes of all Primordial Great Powers!
It became more majestic and more upright!
More towering!
More sacred and inviolable!
All traces of tilting, cracking, and damage caused by great calamities such as the Dragon-Han Primordial Tribulation and the conflict between Dao and Demon were completely swept away at this moment by the cleansing of Pangu's aura and the return of the Dragon Vein Ancestral Source!
At this moment, Buzhou Mountain was no longer merely a cold, lifeless mountain!
It had come alive!
It seemed to have once more transformed into Pangu Father God himself—the being who created heaven and earth and turned his body into all things—into that spine that would never bend!
Once more, with an invincible bearing that looked down upon eternity and dominated the Primordial World, it steadily bore the entire Primordial World upon itself!
"It succeeded!"
"Buzhou Mountain... it really... came alive!"
Every Witch Clan member involved in this "Buzhou Mountain Restoration and Reinforcement Super Project," whether they were the supreme Ancestral Witches or ordinary Greater Witches and Lesser Witches, all clearly felt an incomparably pure and vast power of Pangu surge from the depths of Buzhou Mountain into their limbs and bones like the warmest, most nourishing spring tide, merging into their Witch Clan bloodlines!
All exhaustion from their days of labor was instantly swept away!
Many cultivation bottlenecks that had troubled them for hundreds or thousands of years made faint cracking sounds under the cleansing of that power of Pangu, showing signs of loosening and even breaking through!
"Hahaha! I can feel my strength soaring again!"
"Awesome! So damn awesome! This is what our Pangu Father God's heaven-supporting spine should look like!"
Ancestral Witch Dijiang threw back his head and roared. The power of Space Law around him churned as violently as boiling water, tearing open tiny spatial cracks.
A relieved, heartfelt smile also appeared on Ancestral Witch Houtu's exquisite face. She could clearly feel the joy and excitement rising from the deepest depths of the Primordial World's land.
Xuanzheng still stood at the mountain peak, his robes snapping wildly in the vast, surging aura, his hair flying in all directions.
That trademark "simple and honest" smile remained on his face.
Yet in the deepest depths of his profound eyes flickered an excitement and anticipation that only he could understand, like a fox that had stolen a chicken.
"Heh, this is only the beginning. The real payoff is still waiting to surprise me!"
In his mind, the pleasant notification chime of the Primordial World Bug Fixing Manual had already begun flooding his screen!
[Ding! Detected that the core Bug Fix completion rate for "Buzhou Mountain's Calamity of Collapse" has reached 90%!] [Ding! Heavenly Dao Merit is being settled at a rapid rate... It is expected to set a new Primordial World record for merit gained in a single instance!] [Ding! Pangu's Legacy is gathering at an accelerated rate... The quality is extremely high! The quantity is astonishing!] [Ding! The host has successfully set things right and stabilized the Primordial World's heavenly and earthly axis, obtaining the special achievement—[Heavenly Pillar Guardian (Pseudo)]! Primordial World fortune is continuing to take notice!]
Xuanzheng was blooming with joy inside, but his words remained "humble." "Ah, brothers and sisters, you've all worked hard! For the harmony and stability of the Primordial World, our Witch Clan has truly spared no effort!"
He looked at this renewed, new Buzhou Mountain, whose presence was more than ten times stronger than before, as if he could already see boundless Heavenly Dao Merit and Pangu's Legacy raining down upon him and the entire Witch Clan like free candy beans!
"Everyone, for the final cleanup work, give me one hundred and twenty percent effort and finish it!"
Xuanzheng waved a hand, high-spirited and full of vigor.
"For the celebration feast afterward, there'll be plenty to go around! Pangu Divine Concrete... ahem, no, I mean Pangu Father God's divine power reinforcement—there'll be plenty to go around!"
Gonggong was the first to slap his chest, which was harder than an iron plate, and promise in a muffled voice, "Just watch, Thirteenth Brother! I guarantee Buzhou Mountain will be impregnable from now on. Not even a single hair will fall off it!"
Xuanzheng nodded in satisfaction. Hair falling off? What a joke! This is the key KPI for how much wool I can keep shearing later!
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