Nine Breaths Assimilation! Timeline Anomaly! Hongjun Has a Problem! Hunyuan Secret Talk

"Is the speed of absorbing and digesting energy not fast enough..."

After a brief moment of thought, a divine ability surfaced in Tang Xuan's mind.

Nine Breaths Assimilation, one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Techniques!

If he remembered correctly, Nine Breaths Assimilation could rapidly digest energy?

In that case, if he used wish origin to evolve it and create Nine Breaths Assimilation, wouldn't that solve the problem?

He still had over a hundred million wish origin left. Even creating another Great Dao-level divine ability would be more than enough.

"I'll use Reverse-Knowing the Future first to look at the state of the future timeline, then settle the plan and layout."

Tang Xuan thought to himself.

Cultivation, divine abilities, or breakthroughs and the like were not important. Wish origin was his foundation.

Although the Dragon-Han Calamity had ended, the Wu-Yao Calamity had yet to begin. Before refining the system, he had not been able to interfere in the Dragon-Han Calamity, but this Wu-Yao Calamity was different.

If he planned properly, the Wu-Yao Calamity could allow him to ascend to the Chaos River. Even setting his ambitions on the River of Time was not necessarily impossible!

"If Hongjun had attained Hunyuan and also held the authority of a Heavenly Dao Saint, that would still be somewhat troublesome. Now that Hongjun has only become a Heavenly Dao Saint, the threat he poses to me is much smaller."

A curve traced across Tang Xuan's lips.

How did that saying go again? Every generation's patch has an overpowered god, and the overpowered god of every patch is Hongjun. Team fights can be lost, but Hongjun must die.

When transmigrating into the Primordial Era, as long as Hongjun was suppressed, everything else would be easy to handle.

With a shift of thought, Tang Xuan activated Reverse-Knowing the Future. In an instant, the future appeared before Tang Xuan's eyes like a condensed miniature, as though any timeline and progression were laid bare for him to pry into.

"Mm?"

"I can actually trace and peer into the future within ten huiyuan?"

Tang Xuan's eyes lit up, and understanding dawned in his heart.

Was it because his rank had risen, so the authority he had when using Reverse-Knowing the Future had also increased greatly? Wasn't this an unexpected delight?

Casting aside all stray thoughts, Tang Xuan carefully examined the contents of the future timeline.

First came a stretch of blurry images. Tang Xuan ignored them. Anything blurry and impossible to see clearly involved himself. Because he was changing at every moment, it was perfectly normal that he could not see it clearly.

His main goal was only to understand the trajectory of the Primordial Era's normal operation as a reference, and that was enough.

Hongjun preaching three times, the Treasure-Dividing Cliff distributing treasures, the Innate Gourd Vine emerging, the Demon Race being established, the Witch Clan appearing...

Scene after scene appeared before Tang Xuan's eyes. At first, Tang Xuan paid it no mind, but as he continued watching, his brows furrowed slightly. He realized something was wrong.

"No. Why has the future timeline... not changed!"

Tang Xuan murmured to himself.

Why had it not changed!

One must not forget that his appearance had already changed the Primordial Era.

Whether it was the Three Tribes, Luohu, or the Three Ancestors, changes had already appeared.

Even the tiny flap of a butterfly's wings could set off a butterfly effect, let alone such a huge difference. The absence of change was the biggest problem of all!

"Something's off."

Tang Xuan's brows furrowed slightly, and he fully operated Reverse-Knowing the Future to carry out deductions.

Very soon, under Tang Xuan's careful inspection, he immediately discovered where the clue lay.

"Hong... jun?"

"Other than Luohu's preaching, which appeared because of the changes I caused, the reason everything else has not changed at all is Hongjun!"

"It is Hongjun who is step by step repeating the trajectory that ought to exist in a Primordial Era genre novel."

"This seems reasonable on the surface, but in truth, it is absolutely not so. With my existence, a deviation has already occurred. How could Hongjun's thoughts possibly still be the same as before?"

"So this can only mean that Hongjun is doing this... deliberately!"

Countless thoughts flashed through Tang Xuan's mind. By the end of it, his gaze instantly sharpened.

Yes, deliberately!

Rather than saying he was proceeding according to the normal trajectory, it would be better to say he was deliberately imitating it, deliberately acting according to the original situation!

At this thought, Tang Xuan's expression instantly became subtle.

"It can't be that I've really run into the same plot as that book where someone became Tongtian, right? Is Hongjun a reborn person? A transmigrator? Or did he obtain a transmigrator's memories?"

"The reason he still insists on forcing things to proceed according to the original trajectory is because he knows that following the original path is what benefits him the most, so he wants not to deliberately destroy the plot's development?"

Tang Xuan's expression turned strange, and he subconsciously licked his lips.

He had originally thought this was just an ordinary, traditional Primordial Era world. Now it seemed that it was... not that simple?

If that was really the case, then wouldn't matters become more and more amusing, more and more interesting?

Tang Xuan immediately laughed.

"Then I'll test it out."

A sharp gleam flashed through Tang Xuan's eyes.

If he remembered correctly, Luohu and the others would come looking for him before long?

This was the perfect opportunity!

"Spin a sky-covering lie and make the whole Primordial World dance for me? I was just worrying that I couldn't find an opening, and isn't this... the best opening there is!"

With a soft chuckle, Tang Xuan slowly closed his eyes and used the Wish Origin, evolving it into Comprehension to augment himself as he began deducing Nine Breaths Assimilation.

He would wait for them to come!

Elsewhere, in the Chaos Realm.

Luohu, Qiankun Ancestor, Old Ancestor of Five Elements, and Yin Yang Ancestor had already come visiting together.

Sensing the arrival of Luohu and the others, Ancestral Dragon, Yuan Feng, and Shi Qilin immediately went out to greet them. After an exchange of pleasantries, everyone entered a palace.

"Although this time we ruthlessly stripped Hongjun of face and made his plan come to nothing, Hongjun is sinister and cunning. Neither his methods nor the depth of his schemes can be underestimated."

"Moreover, the Heavenly Dao's relationship with him is extremely close. In the end, we operate within the Primordial World, and to Hongjun, this is his home ground."

"Even though we have already attained the Dao, we still have no choice but to guard against Hongjun. We need a foolproof plan."

"Otherwise, once the Primordial World's Earth, Wind, Water, Fire stabilize, where are we supposed to go from there?"

Qiankun Ancestor said in a deep voice, his gaze grave.

"Hongjun is indeed not simple. After I came to my senses, I pondered it many times. Whether it was the Heaven-Opening battle in the chaos era, or the Fierce Beast Tribulation after the Primordial World was born, and then the tribulation of our Three Tribes, the Dao-Demon conflict—behind all of these, there were Hongjun's handiworks."

"His origins are unfathomably deep."

Ancestral Dragon spoke as if sighing with emotion. As he spoke, Ancestral Dragon said, "Never mind anything else. Do you know exactly which Chaos Demon God Hongjun was in the past? And what is his true body?"

"Isn't his true body a yellow eel?"

"A loach, right?"

"A cricket worm, probably?"

Luohu, Qiankun Ancestor, and the others spoke one after another. After they finished, everyone looked at one another.

That was right. What exactly was Hongjun's true body?

Things like cricket worms sounded as if they were the case, but in reality, that was honestly a little absurd. Every Chaos Demon God's true body was awe-inspiring and domineering, yet when it came to Hongjun, it turned abstract?

That was clearly unrealistic.

Also, what Great Dao did Hongjun control exactly?

There had never been any concrete rumors about that either.

"If my guess is correct, these so-called cricket worm and the like were probably information Hongjun himself released, with the purpose of making others look down on him."

"We won not because of ourselves, but because of the River God."

"It was the River God's arrangement that caught Hongjun off guard, but that does not mean Hongjun's unfathomable depths are watered down."

"No one knows what his thoughts are. We still have to make plans as early as possible, or we can't possibly rest easy forever."

Ancestral Dragon said, his gaze grave.

After he finished, everyone looked at one another, and the answer was already in their eyes.

"Go find the River God!"

Everyone said in unison.