Houtu Comprehends the Dao! The Seed of Earth!

Houtu's fingertips froze on Lin Shen's hair.

It's only a hair's breadth away.

This tiny difference, however small, separates the birth, death, flourishing, and decay of an entire universe.

Before her eyes, Kunlun Mountain vanished, the Three Pure Ones Nuwa vanished, and the baby munching on He Shou Wu) also vanished.

Her Divine Soul was forcibly pulled into an absolute void by a supreme and warm primordial energy.

In the beginning of Chaos, before all things were born.

Even "existence" itself has not yet been born.

In the very center of this desolate place, a speck of dust quietly gathered.

That is not the mortal realm.

Houtu's consciousness clearly "saw" that within that grain of dust, billions of forms of "soil" were evolving.

At times, it is an indestructible Chaos Divine Gold.

At times, it is the Innate Breathing Soil that nourishes all things.

At other times, it is the Nine Nether Underworld Earth, capable of crushing time and space.

It is changing, evolving, and searching for the most fundamental and perfect form.

Houtu's consciousness involuntarily merged with this speck of dust.

She instantly sensed its "will".

A profound loneliness that originates from the very beginning of existence.

It yearns to bear life, to be firmly trampled upon, to have creatures multiply upon it, and to feel the wind, frost, rain, snow, and scorching sun.

It doesn't want to exist alone.

It wants to be the "home" for all things.

"So that's how it is..."

From the deepest part of Houtu's primordial spirit, a sigh that transcended eras resounded.

She has wielded the Earth Law for countless eons, and boasts that she has already comprehended it to its fullest extent.

She can command mountains and rivers, draw upon the earth's veins, and forge the world's strongest barriers.

But the "earth" she understood was always an object, a tool, a means of fighting and protecting.

Only now did she truly understand its origin.

Earth, not a vessel.

Earth is what bears weight.

It is the origin of life, and also the end of all things.

It is a mother's warm embrace, and a wanderer's eternal home.

Its essence is not solidity, nor heaviness, but... compassion!

Boom!

The moment she realized this, the law imprint belonging to the Ancestral Witch of Houtu deep within Houtu 'Earth Ancestral Witch primordial spirit underwent a dramatic transformation!

The pure earthy yellow exploded, evolving into an endless, thick, and warm Mysterious Yellow Color!

Her Great Dao of Earth has reached its ultimate sublimation at this moment!

From "manipulating" all things, one leaps to the heavens, transforming into the supreme realm of "bearing" all living beings and the end of "reincarnation"!

"Elder sister?"

Lin Shen's childlike voice, like a soft feather, gently awakened Houtu from that boundless realm of Dao.

She opened her eyes and found herself still squatting in front of Lin Shen, her fingertips still hovering in mid-air.

But the world she saw had been turned upside down.

She could "see" that every inch of the land beneath her feet was giving her the most affectionate cheers.

She could "hear" the distant, continuous mountain ranges telling her of millions of years of loneliness and waiting.

She could even clearly "perceive" that deep within the Primordial Land, the endless remnants of souls that had passed away and could not return to heaven and earth were uttering instinctive roars and longings for a "home".

"Sister, what's wrong? There seem to be so many little stars in your eyes." Lin Shen took another bite of the Polygonum multiflorum and tilted her head curiously to look at her.

This new lady is even prettier now.

She exuded a warm and cozy aura, making you want to curl up in her arms and roll around.

Houtu smiled, and in that smile was an unprecedented compassion and clarity.

She finally reached out, her movements gentle and filled with an indescribable reverence, and softly patted Lin Shen's little head.

"Thank you, Little Lin Shen."

Her voice was as gentle as the most peaceful pulse deep within the earth.

"Sister, I had a really, really good dream."

The moment the words fell, a cold, grand, and utterly emotionless mechanical voice exploded in Lin Shen's mind!

[Bite!]

[Detected that the host, with the talent of 'Affinity for All Things Affinity,' assisted Primordial World primordial supreme being 'Houtu' in successfully comprehending the Origin of the Great Dao of their own—'The Earth's Bearing and the Beginning of Reincarnation'!]

[The path of Houtu has undergone a fundamental leap, laying an indispensable foundation for the future establishment of the 'Six Paths of Reincarnation'! This move is of milestone significance to the progress of Primordial World civilization!]

[The Great Way is moved! Rewards are being distributed!]

Boom--!

Lin Shen hadn't figured out whether "Six Paths of Reincarnation" was a delicious pastry.

High above, the Golden Cloud of Merit created by his purification of the Primordial Violet Qi had not yet dissipated.

The realm of the "Great Dao," which is higher, deeper, and more unknowable, is once again violently shaking!

A beam of dark gold, thicker and purer than ever before, tore through space and time, pierced through Chaos, and descended with an irresistible force!

This time, the beam of light did not disperse.

It Houtu Lin Shen and Hou Tu, who had just stood up, with perfect precision!

"This... is another Great Dao Merit?!"

At the Kunlun Mountain Peak, the Three Pure Ones and others, who had just recovered from the cacophony of music from their own Dao Palace, Dao Heart once again overwhelmed by the earth-shaking spectacle.

"No!" Hongjun Daozu's eyes flashed with divine light, and his voice was filled with uncontrollable horror for the first time. "This merit also contains... a trace of the primordial Genesis Origin from when Pangu Father God World Creation?!"

The pillar of primordial yellow light poured down like a celestial river, washing over Lin Shen and Houtu's Dao bodies and true forms.

Houtu felt that her Ancestral Witch True Body was being reshaped and optimized at an unbelievable speed.

Her innate limitation of cultivating only the physical body and not the primordial spirit was actually shattered with a "crack" under the impact of this Genesis Origin!

Within her sea of consciousness, a wisp of Primordial Spirit Fire, extremely faint yet incredibly pure, quietly ignited!

As for Lin Shen, the little boy at the center of the storm, he felt every cell in his body cheering with joy.

It wasn't being soaked; rather, it was being forcibly woven into the very essence of his life by laws of a higher dimension in a domineering manner!

He felt so comfortable that all he wanted to do was shake the ginseng leaves.

[Ding! The infusion of Great Dao Merit and the Genesis Origin has begun!]

[Host's cultivation is being boosted...]

[Breakthrough at the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm!]

[Congratulations, host! Your cultivation has successfully broken through to the early stage of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal!]

The system notification tone ended.

Lin Shen's already flawless Dao body trembled violently!

He no longer simply absorbed spiritual energy, but began to "extract" the supreme rules for constructing his own world directly from the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth with an overbearing and domineering attitude!

A primordial energy far surpassing that of ordinary Quasi-Saint, even more carefree and unrestrained than that of the newly enlightened Qiankun and Yin Yang Saints, surged forth from his small body!

The entire Kunlun Mountain were utterly silent.

At the foot of the mountain, countless creatures stared blankly at the tiny figure in the water mirror, enveloped in endless golden light, its aura rising steadily.

Their minds have completely stopped functioning.

"Another... another breakthrough?"

The Bai Ze Divine Beast muttered to itself, its proud abilities to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, and to predict all things, now seemed like a huge joke.

"Go out for a stroll, nibble on a radish, compliment a sister, and then... you go from Daluo Golden Immortal to Quasi-Saint?"

"Where is Heavenly Principle? Where is the law?!"

"Truly worthy of being the embodiment of the Walking Great Dao! Truly worthy of being the ultimate faith we have pursued throughout our lives!"

After a brief silence, the entire Kunlun Market erupted in a frenzy of cheers and worship, like a landslide and a tsunami!

Countless creatures were so excited that tears streamed down their faces as they frantically kowtowed towards the mountaintop, wishing they could offer their very skulls as a sacrifice to this Little Ancestor.

In their eyes, every breath Lin Shen and every blink he made was an explanation of the supreme truth of "the great way is simple"!

Cultivation? Seclusion? What are those things?

The true way is to eat well, drink well, play well, and have a good mood!

At the Kunlun Mountain Peak, Hongjun, the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the others were completely numb as they watched the little guy whose aura was still surging wildly.

They felt that their millions of years of arduous cultivation were like a farcical performance art.

"I told you, playing is the right way." The Tongtian Jiaozhu muttered to himself, his gaze growing increasingly resolute. His grand blueprint for the "Sky-Severing Amusement Park" was the ultimate truth of the universe.

Yuanshi Tianzun glanced silently at his solemn and unchanging Yuxu Palace, and for the first time, a wavering thought arose in his heart.

Perhaps... making it learn a song like "Little Apple" wouldn't be an insult to the majesty of the Heavenly Venerable?

Just as everyone's minds were in turmoil and their worldviews were being repeatedly reshaped...

Lin Shen's breakthrough gradually subsided.

His cultivation level was firmly established at the early stage of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.

However, due to this tremendous leap, the Origin Qi within him became more active and powerful than ever before.

A wisp of almost imperceptible, multi-million-times finer than a strand of hair, Seven-Colored Qi Stream uncontrollably escaped from the emerald green ginseng leaf above his head.

That wisp of air was light and drifting, seemingly weightless and without a destination.

It drifted towards the closest figures, including the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and Fuxi.