Harvesting the Heavenly Dao! Xuanzheng Mortgages Future Merit and Swindles Tens of Billions in Loans to Build the Netherworld!

On the way back to Pangu Hall, Xuanzheng shut out everything beyond himself.

His entire mind was immersed in the crimson warning panel in his mind.

[Epic-level critical BUG!!!]

[The Six Paths of Reincarnation are missing!]

[Heavenly Dao Merit! Pangu's Legacy! Primordial World fortune! And... the ultimate authority of the Manual!!!]

[Hehehe! I've struck it rich! This isn't a BUG—it's a backdoor the Heavenly Dao opened for me, a super dungeon begging me to grind it! That old fool Hongjun is still talking about Severing Three Corpses. His vision is far too narrow! I'm going to install an underlying system directly into the Primordial World!]

The moment he stepped into the majestic Pangu Hall, dense baleful and bloody auras rushed over him.

"Brother Xuanzheng! You're finally back!"

Zhurong's booming voice shook stone dust from the ceiling.

Xuanzheng raised a hand and tossed over a condensed origin spark of Solar True Fire.

"Brother Zhurong, catch. Your dividend from the Solar Star project."

Zhurong caught it in one hand. The violent flame seed was incomparably docile in his palm. He opened his mouth and swallowed it, and the Law of Fire around him surged explosively as his aura instantly rose to a new level!

"Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!" Feeling the explosive growth of power within him, Zhurong looked at Xuanzheng with fanatical admiration. "Brother, from now on, if you tell me to strike east, I will never head west!"

The other Great Witches who had taken part in the project also received rare materials such as Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi and Geng Metal Divine Iron. Every one of them beamed with delight, and Pangu Hall was filled with cheerful energy.

Xuanzheng exchanged a few pleasantries with everyone, but his gaze passed through the crowd and settled on the tranquil woman in the corner.

Houtu.

She was looking outside the hall, her brows clouded with an inescapable trace of sorrowful compassion.

Xuanzheng slowly walked over.

"Sister Houtu, are you troubled by those wandering souls with nowhere to turn on the lands of the Primordial World?"

Houtu trembled slightly and turned toward him, surprise on her face.

"Thirteenth Brother, how did you..."

"Father God... came to me in a dream." Xuanzheng's expression instantly became incomparably solemn and heavy, as though he bore the grief of the entire world.

He did not mention the Manual, only saying it was Pangu's perception.

"Father God said that when he transformed into all things, he alone forgot to leave the living beings a destination after death, a way forward. Now, beneath the lands of the Primordial World, countless dead souls have nowhere to rest. Their resentment, baleful aura, and deathly aura have gathered together and are eroding the world he left behind."

Xuanzheng's voice was low, every word striking Houtu's heart.

"Father God... is deeply saddened."

Boom!

The words "Father God" were like the heaviest hammer, crashing viciously into Houtu's Dao heart!

She had always possessed a compassionate heart and often sensed the endless wails and despair deep beneath the earth, yet she had never found their source or a solution.

Xuanzheng's words were like a lightning bolt that created the world, splitting apart every last trace of confusion in her heart!

"Father God... came to me in a dream..." Houtu murmured, as a light of understanding gradually lit her eyes. "Dead souls... reincarnation... so that was it. So that was it!"

An unprecedented sense of mission erupted from the depths of her bloodline.

This was the destiny she had been born with as the Earth Ancestral Witch!

[Very good! Step one: establish an emotional connection and sense of mission, complete!]

Seeing this, Xuanzheng immediately pressed his advantage.

"Sister, your heart is compassionate. You must already have a way to save all living beings?"

Houtu's gaze became incomparably resolute, and an aura of determination radiated from her.

"My body is one with the Law of Earth. If I transform my body into a place of reincarnation, I should be able to open a path home for all living beings and ease the regret Father God left behind!"

[Here it comes, here it comes! The standard answer! Too bad it's the wrong answer!]

A complex expression of "shock, grief, and reluctance" immediately appeared on Xuanzheng's face.

He abruptly raised his hand and pressed it onto Houtu's shoulder.

"No! Sister, absolutely not!"

"Why not?" Houtu frowned. "Completing heaven and earth for Father God, and seeking boundless merit for the Witch Clan—this is a great good!"

"It may be good, but it is not a greater good!" Xuanzheng's expression turned solemn, and the phantom of the [Script Mirror] flashed in his right hand.

A screen of light unfolded before them.

Within it, Houtu transformed resolutely into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and boundless merit descended from the heavens. Yet her figure was forever imprisoned in that Netherworld realm. She could never return to Pangu Hall or see her brothers and sisters again.

The Witch Clan gained merit, but forever lost an Ancestral Witch!

More importantly, the scene shifted. As the Heavenly Dao operated, the realm of reincarnation gradually slipped from the Witch Clan's control and eventually became another's sacred ground. The Witch Clan received only a one-time buyout of merit.

"Sister, look!" Xuanzheng pointed at the scene, heartbroken. "This isn't completing heaven and earth. This is a 'personal asset donation'!

You sacrificed yourself, yet the lion's share of the merit was taken by the Heavenly Dao, leaving the Witch Clan only a little broth to drink! If Father God still watched from above, seeing you sell his bloodline so cheaply would only pain him more!"

"This..."

Houtu was completely dumbfounded.

Personal asset donation? Selling her bloodline cheaply?

These unheard-of terms dealt an unprecedented blow to her pure Dao heart.

"Then... what does Thirteenth Brother think we should do?"

Xuanzheng put away the light screen, revealing a "professional" smile.

"Sister, broaden your horizons! How can you shoulder such a huge project alone? What we need to do is establish a Project Team, bring in investment, carry out construction, and turn the 'Six Paths of Reincarnation' into a self-operated, inheritable core industry that can continuously generate profits for our Witch Clan!"

He patiently guided her.

"You are not a sacrifice. You are this project's legal representative and Image Spokesperson! You will step forward to hold the fort, while the technical work, dirty work, and exhausting work will be handled by our entire Witch Clan!"

Houtu's mind had already become a muddled mess.

Legal representative? Core industry?

Xuanzheng no longer gave her time to think and abruptly raised his left hand!

The ancient [Karma Scale] emerged!

"Sister, lend me the karma of your 'transformation into reincarnation'!"

Xuanzheng declared loudly toward the void, his voice seeming to speak to some unseen existence.

"I, Xuanzheng of the Pangu Bloodline and the Witch Clan, now wish to act on behalf of heaven and establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation for the Primordial World, completing the order of heaven and earth!"

"I now mortgage fifty percent of the future revenue rights of the Six Paths of Reincarnation to take out a loan from the Heavenly Dao!"

"Loan—one million portions of Innate Merit! Ten thousand measures of Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi! One thousand loads of Nine Heavens Breathing Soil! Countless pieces of Netherworld Divine Iron!"

"Establish—the Primordial Netherworld Construction Group!"

Rumble—!

At that moment, the entire Primordial World seemed to freeze.

Above the Nine Heavens, the Heavenly Dao Will fluctuated more violently than ever before!

Houtu stared at Xuanzheng in horror. This Thirteenth Brother of hers... he could actually make a deal with the Heavenly Dao? He was even taking out a Heavenly Dao Loan?!

The next instant!

Endless Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi gathered into a golden waterfall vaster than the celestial river, tearing through the sky, ignoring the barriers of Pangu Hall, and pouring with perfect precision before Xuanzheng!

Mountains of innate materials appeared from thin air, nearly filling the vast Pangu Hall completely!

The Heavenly Dao... had agreed!

[Hehehe! It worked! Borrowing a chicken to lay an egg, raising funds with empty promises—the Seed Funding is in hand! Hongjun, you're still playing your Saint script, while I've already begun capital operations!]

Bathed in Merit Golden Light, Xuanzheng turned around and gave the petrified Houtu a brilliant smile.

"Director Houtu, the first meeting of our group's Board of Directors begins now."

He pointed toward the Sea of Blood outside the hall.

"First agenda item: discussion on whether to Establish Project for the 'preliminary Netherworld Sea of Blood purification project' as a pilot project laying the foundation for the 'Six Paths of Reincarnation'!"