Dijiang's Birth

"Big Brother, we didn't really do anything, so how does this involve all living beings?"

"Did we accidentally help you out, Big Brother?"

"As long as we helped you, that's what matters. It proves Second Brother and I did well."

Yuqing and Shangqing both asked Taiqing in confusion.

They had merely tricked Hongjun—how did that connect to all living beings?

"Second Brother, Third Brother, you don't know this, but when I left back then, I heard the Great Dao Thunder rumbling beyond the Primordial Wilderness."

"At the time, I wondered why the Great Dao Thunder was stirring."

"Now everything makes sense."

"Third Brother, you triggered the Merit of World Creation, and that old thief Hongjun unintentionally touched it with the power of the Heavenly Dao."

"That Great Dao Thunder was sent down precisely to punish the Heavenly Dao."

"The Heavenly Dao must have been gravely wounded beneath the Great Dao Thunder."

Taiqing finally recalled the roar of the Great Dao Thunder when he had left Kunlun.

After that thunderous boom, every move he made afterward seemed to go incredibly smoothly.

Except for being noticed by Old Ancestor Wuxing.

Everything went so smoothly it was abnormal, as if the Heavenly Dao didn't exist at all.

Now, it all made sense.

"Because the Great Dao Thunder heavily injured the Heavenly Dao, I was able to easily go to Buzhou Mountain to pay homage to Father God's will."

"It was precisely because the Heavenly Dao was severely wounded and fell asleep that its suppression over all living beings in the Primordial Wilderness weakened."

"And because the Heavenly Dao was wounded, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans could obtain the authority of heaven and earth and withdraw from the Tribulation at minimal cost."

"It was because the Heavenly Dao was wounded and slumbering that I, your elder brother, could easily reach Penglai Immortal Island."

"Break through to the Golden Immortal of the Origin realm and walk the Law Path to Sainthood."

Everything had gone so smoothly precisely because the Heavenly Dao was gravely wounded by the Great Dao Thunder and fell asleep.

If the Heavenly Dao hadn't slept, Taiqing wouldn't have found it so easy to reach Penglai Immortal Island, break through to Golden Immortal of the Origin, and walk the Law Path to Sainthood.

Even with his three World-Opening Supreme Treasures concealing the heavenly secrets, the Heavenly Dao would have detected him.

The Heavenly Dao controlled the entire Primordial Wilderness. If it couldn't sense a region's secrets, it would surely send that old thief Hongjun to investigate.

By then, whether he could find Penglai Immortal Island smoothly or enter it on time would have been a problem.

So Yuqing and Shangqing had done him—and the three clans—an enormous favor.

The same went for all living beings.

With the Heavenly Dao's suppression weakened, cultivation became easier for everyone.

No wonder Taiqing felt that ever since he set out, every living being he encountered in the Primordial Wilderness seemed to have better cultivation talent.

"Second Brother, Third Brother, don't you think I, your elder brother, and all living beings should thank you?"

Taiqing's heart was light.

The resentment he had felt upon hearing that the Heavenly Dao and old thief Hongjun had moved against his two younger brothers had eased considerably.

"Sss—! Big Brother, we really caused all this?! That's just too unbelievable, isn't it?"

After hearing their elder brother's explanation, Yuqing and Shangqing couldn't believe they had accidentally accomplished something so monumental.

"Hahaha, I told you! We Sanqing are truly the protagonists of heaven and earth. Before even being born, we've already done such a great deed."

"Hahaha, exhilarating, truly exhilarating!"

After hearing this, Shangqing Lingbao burst into hearty laughter, looking every bit like a child smug after receiving praise.

"Ahem, Third Brother, keep a low profile, keep a low profile."

"We Sanqing are the protagonists of heaven and earth. Humility is what we should practice."

"I can't keep it up anymore—hahaha, exhilarating, truly exhilarating! The Heavenly Dao dared to scheme against us Sanqing, and look what happened—punished by the Great Dao Thunder!"

Although Yuqing Yuanshi wanted to stay modest, their achievements simply wouldn't allow it.

Like Shangqing Lingbao, Yuqing Yuanshi also laughed heartily.

Infected by his two younger brothers, Taiqing laughed heartily too, shouting in delight.

How could he not feel exhilarated, making the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun pay such a heavy price?

It was from this moment that Taiqing also understood that the Taiji Diagram, the Chaos Bell, and the Pangu Banner were originally their Sanqing's companion spirit treasures.

In his past life, he had known that after Hongjun's three lectures at Zixiao Palace, he bestowed the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner, and that Donghuang Taiyi's companion treasure was the Chaos Bell.

All of that was a scheme by Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.

In his memories, the Sanqing had been sold out and were still counting money for Hongjun.

Especially Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun and Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun.

This caused a rift to grow between them.

Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun harbored resentment because his younger brother Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun had obtained the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Similarly, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun felt bitter because his second brother had received the Pangu Banner.

More importantly, the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, as the supreme killing treasure of the Primordial Wilderness, had been refined by Luohu with calamity energy and fiendish energy.

It was inherently extremely vicious and ominous.

How could Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun use it as a treasure to suppress Destiny without problems arising?

Thus, although the Jie Sect had many cultivators of great attainment, there were even more who corrupted the sect's Destiny.

Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun and Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun quarreled incessantly over this, and in the end, the Sanqing split apart.

From then on, the Sanqing walked the path of being imprisoned in the Purple Cloud Palace by the Heavenly Dao.

But this time, because Taiqing had arrived, bringing the three World-Opening Supreme Treasures to Buzhou Mountain, he unexpectedly broke the schemes of the Heavenly Dao and Old Thief Hongjun.

After sharing information and joy, Taiqing took out the Pangu Marrow stored within the Taiji Diagram.

"Second Brother, Third Brother, this is the Father God Marrow I spoke of.

If you two refine a little, you should be able to be born.

As the saying goes, the first step leads to constant advantage.

Second Brother, Third Brother, refine it quickly. Being born a day earlier means seizing an opportunity ahead of others."

Taiqing sent two pieces of Pangu Marrow to the origins of Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao.

The Pangu Father God Marrow, as vast as a Lesser Thousand World, was almost the same size as the origins of Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao.

"Alright, Big Brother! When Third Brother and I are born, we will surely travel the Primordial Wilderness together with you, the three brothers."

Yuqing Yuanshi did not stand on ceremony and immediately began refining the Pangu Marrow.

Shangqing Lingbao thanked him and likewise started refining the Pangu Marrow.

At that moment, in the distant Buzhou Mountain, the Pangu Hall, hidden within the void, was quietly approaching Buzhou Mountain.

Inside the Pangu Hall, twelve drops of essence blood, brimming with power, continuously absorbed Innate Spiritual Qi and Innate Fiendish Energy.

On those twelve drops of essence blood flickered twelve laws: Space, Time, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Rain, Lightning, Weather.

These twelve drops of essence blood were the Ancestral Witches transformed from the essence blood of Great God Pangu.

Now, the drop of essence blood bearing the Space Law trembled incessantly.

It had already condensed its own form. Because of the Space Law, its figure flickered and shifted continuously within the Pangu Hall.

At a certain moment, the flickering figure completely stopped and solidified.

A being shaped like a yellow sack, red as cinnabar fire, with six legs and four wings, featureless and chaotic—Dijiang the Ancestral Witch appeared in the Pangu Hall.

"Pangu Father God above, today I, Dijiang the Ancestral Witch, am born."

Dijiang bowed toward a massive, constantly trembling heart deep within the Pangu Hall.

He announced to the Primordial Wilderness the birth of the first Ancestral Witch.

With Dijiang's birth, it was as if a mysterious door had been opened.

In the following period, countless Innate Deities who would later make great names for themselves in the Witch-Demon Calamity were born.