"Now that my own little problem had been solved, it was time to deal with the Witch Clan's old nest!" Xuanzheng chuckled. After fixing his own BUG, he felt refreshed and invigorated, and that air of "the landlord just collected rent and was figuring out how to make the granary even more impressive" rose up in him again.
He immersed his mind once more and connected with the Primordial World Bug Fixing Manual within the sea of consciousness between his brows. His gaze locked onto [BUG No. Pangu_002: Pangu Hall's defensive system is severely lacking...]
"Repair Plan... construct the 'Pangu World-Suppression Mysterious Yellow Great Array.'" Xuanzheng opened it with a thought.
The next moment, a grand and magnificent three-dimensional animated projection unfolded within his sea of consciousness!
It was a towering divine hall that shone all over with Mysterious Yellow treasure light, floating amid endless currents of chaotic qi! Runes flickered in and out around the hall, forming barriers of laws. Beyond those barriers, earth, water, fire, and wind raged while chaotic lightning exploded! The hall itself resembled a slumbering primordial beast, radiating an oppressive aura capable of suppressing the heavens and remaining invulnerable to all laws!
Several ancient, vast characters gleamed brightly upon the hall's plaque—[Pangu War God Hall]!
"Holy shit... this, this was where a real man ought to live!" Xuanzheng practically drooled, his eyes blazing. If Pangu Hall could be upgraded into this, then forget those feathered beasts from the Demon Clan—even Saints could forget about tearing down his house!
However, when he excitedly looked over the repair materials list, the smile on his face instantly froze, and the corner of his mouth began twitching uncontrollably.
[Main Material]: Buzhou Mountain Dragon Vein Ancestral Source (a small segment)—(Status: Already owned, stored in the system storage space).
"Mm, this one's good. Father God's inheritance really delivered!" Xuanzheng nodded in satisfaction. As expected of Father God's final gift—the core material had been covered directly.
But then he read further down—
[Supplementary Materials List (Partial)]: 1. [Nine Heavens Breathing Soil]: 13,600 cubic units! (Note: Must contain Essence of Innate Wutu, to establish the great array's foundation and ensure endless regeneration.)
Xuanzheng's eyelid twitched. "Over ten thousand cubic units of Nine Heavens Breathing Soil? How much did Empress Nuwa need to create humans again? This could probably create several hundred more human races!"
2. [Star Divine Iron]: 99.99 million jin! (Note: Must be harvested from Primordial Star Cores and fused with Circulation of Heavenly Stars Power, to construct the array-rune framework.)
"Nearly a hundred million jin of Star Divine Iron?!" Xuanzheng gasped in cold air. "Was this fucking plan to melt down several primordial stars and use them as rebar?!"
3. [Solar True Gold]: 108 pieces! (Note: Each piece must be fist-sized, harvested from the core of the Solar Star and containing the power of utmost yang and hardness, to power the yang array nodes.) 4. [Taiyin Moon Essence]: 365 strands! (Note: Must be origin moon essence from the Taiyin Star, refined over a thousand years, to harmonize yin and yang and stabilize the array.)
"We even have to dig up local specialties from the Solar Star and the Taiyin Star? Wouldn't those Golden Crows and Changxi fight me to the death?"
5. [Chaos Origin Copper]: 3,000 jin! (Note: Divine copper naturally formed within chaos, capable of bearing Great Dao Laws, to inscribe the core talismans.) 6. [Eyes of the Four Seas]: One each! (Note: The cores condensed from the origins of the eastern, southern, western, and northern seas, to draw upon the power of the Four Seas and enhance the array's might.)
"Chaos Origin Copper... Eyes of the Four Seas... what grade of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were these?!"
Xuanzheng rapidly scrolled down the list. There were still over a hundred densely packed entries after that, including [Innate Geng Metal Mother Qi], [Essence of Yimu], [Ten Thousand Year Empty Azure], [Poison Fire of the Earth's Lungs], and more. Any one of them alone would be enough to make Primordial Great Powers fight until their heads bled! Yet the moment the Manual opened its mouth, it wanted wholesale quantities! And those amounts... were simply outrageous!
"This... this list would probably require stripping the entire Primordial World clean, wouldn't it?" Xuanzheng silently calculated. With the Witch Clan's current primitive method of accumulation—"take whatever you fancy by force, and beat them into submission if you can't take it"—forget gathering all these materials. They might not manage it even after the Witch-Demon Calamity ended!
This was no longer something one Ancestral Witch—or even thirteen Ancestral Witches rolling up their sleeves—could solve. It clearly required mobilizing the entire Witch Clan for a prolonged campaign of "large-scale Primordial World resource development"!
"Could I just take out a loan from the Heaven and Earth Bank?" Xuanzheng still refused to give up. He immediately connected with the [Immeasurable Karma Scale] on his left hand. He tried treating "all materials needed to repair Pangu Hall's defensive system and construct the Pangu World-Suppression Mysterious Yellow Great Array" as a "debt," intending to see just how much "karma" he would need to pay.
"Buzz—!" The [Immeasurable Karma Scale] shook violently. Above its pan, on the side representing "cost," a terrifying mass of black Karmic Force instantly condensed! Its crushing aura made even his soul tremble, as though the moment he dared agree, his newly forged "Unjudged Primordial Chaos: Innate Ancestral Witch Dao Embryo" would be crushed apart by that horrifying karma!
"Cough, cough... Sorry to bother you. Goodbye!" Xuanzheng shuddered in fright and hurriedly severed his connection to the [Karma Scale]. That path was a dead end. He should not even think about it! As expected, Father Heaven's money was not so easy to borrow.
"Then... what about forcibly assigning the burden?" Xuanzheng turned his thoughts toward the [Myriad Heavens Script Mirror] on the back of his right hand. He attempted a deduction: if he used his identity as "formed from Father God's final drop of essence blood" and the one who had rendered great service by fixing Pangu Hall's BUG, then forcibly demanded that his twelve brothers and the entire Witch Clan gather these materials at all costs, what would happen?
Within the mirror, a hazy future scene gradually appeared. Arguments erupted one after another inside Pangu Hall. Zhurong pointed at Gonggong and cursed furiously; over a piece of ore suspected to be "Solar True Gold," they nearly caused a clash of water and fire. Dijiang's face was grim as he tried to mediate, but achieved little. Worse still, some Great Witch tribes secretly fought fiercely over resources, until blood flowed like rivers... In the end, they might manage to gather some of the materials, but the entire Witch Clan would already be riddled with internal conflicts. It might even trigger civil strife ahead of time and give the Demon Clan an opportunity to exploit...
"Hiss—!" Xuanzheng sucked in a cold breath and quickly dispersed the scene in the mirror. "Damn, this script was even more exciting than borrowing directly from the Heavenly Dao! One wrong move and the Witch Clan would explode from within—what the hell would be left to play?" Simple and crude methods truly were not the path to sustainable development.
Xuanzheng rubbed his chin, his eyes flickering as the shrewdness of a professional foreman and BUG-fixing master resurfaced. "Brute force won't work, and I can't afford a loan... then I can only take them 'softly'!"
"I need a foolproof strategy—one that makes the entire Witch Clan willingly and proactively hand over the treasures they've kept hidden away, while remaining grateful to me for it!" His gaze drifted unconsciously beyond Pangu Hall, as though passing through its doors and seeing the twelve brothers with their varied personalities, all of whom had treated their "Thirteenth Brother" reasonably well.
Especially Eldest Brother Dijiang, the Spatial Ancestral Witch and leader of all witches. He was responsible and mindful of the greater good, but sometimes he was easily moved by lofty labels such as "Father God" and "the Witch Clan's greater cause." Then there was Second Brother Zhujiuyin, the Time Ancestral Witch—most wise and unfathomable. Ordinary tricks could not fool him, but if it involved matters such as "Father God's final wish" or "the Witch Clan's future," he would consider them seriously.
"Looks like it's time to launch the upgraded version of the 'Father God's Dream 2.0: Pangu Hall Is on the Brink of Collapse and Urgently Needs Everyone United to Build a Divine Hall' plan!" A meaningful curve rose at Xuanzheng's lips. For a moment, the absurd notion of "building a love nest together" even flashed through his mind before he promptly shook it off.
"But before that..." He sensed the newly stabilized power within his body. "I need to add a little more 'weight' and increase the credibility and influence of my role as Father God's spokesperson." Relying only on the merit of fixing his own BUG still made it somewhat unlikely that his brothers would empty their family fortunes.
His gaze returned to the Primordial World Bug Fixing Manual, and the calculating smile at his lips grew even deeper. "The [High-Risk] BUG repair project for Pangu Hall itself is too enormous, so there's no need to rush it. But there's still plenty of room to work around Pangu Hall!"
"For example, Pangu Hall's spirit-gathering efficiency has improved, but how can this pure Primordial Ancestral Qi be converted into the strength of Witch Clan warriors more efficiently? How can the bloodline purity of newborn witches be improved? Those... are all excellent BUGs to work with—ones that can show results quickly and earn me reputation!" Xuanzheng's eyes shone brilliantly with the professional integrity of a great construction engineer and the keen instincts of a master fleece-harvester.
A "super project" aimed at the entire Witch Clan, along with a "spectacular speech" intended to "empty out" the Twelve Ancestral Witches' family fortunes, was rapidly brewing in his mind!
"Hehe, brothers, are you ready to receive a 'surprise' from your most 'innocent' little brother?" Xuanzheng licked his lips and began carefully searching the Manual for minor BUGs that were easier to fix but produced remarkable results.
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