It wore a foolish, endearing expression, as if it were trying to understand what the three men meant.
Now, everyone on Shouyang Mountain noticed that something was wrong.
"What's going on? Did the words of the three ancestors really make the tribulation lightning stop?"
Someone was stunned.
Others shouted excitedly.
"It must be that the ancestor moved Heaven."
"Not just the ancestor—the Pill Dao and body-refining methods Master Xuan passed down mean Heaven has sensed Master Xuan's achievements!"
Luo Xuan narrowly dodged the giant wolf formed from lightning.
When the giant wolf paused, Luo Xuan finally let out a sigh of relief.
However, Luo Xuan did not lower his guard. He secretly recovered while warily watching the giant wolf.
The Three Ancestors' words had clearly not made the giant wolf pause for long.
The giant wolf turned its head and looked at Luo Xuan again.
The people of the human race on Shouyang Mountain had been celebrating, but when they saw the giant wolf attack again, they instantly became furious.
"Master Xuan's Pill Dao is renowned throughout the Primordial World, yet he still has to suffer a lightning tribulation? Is there any justice?"
"That's right. Everything our human race has today was given to us by Master Xuan. Why should this lightning tribulation strike him whenever it pleases?"
"If you have the guts, strike me!"
"Exactly. Master Xuan even passed down body-refining techniques, making up for the shortcomings in our cultivation methods. We can't let Master Xuan die for nothing beneath the lightning tribulation."
"Laozi refined a thousand-year-old spirit-tortoise demon a few days ago. If you have the guts, strike me!"
On Shouyang Mountain, everyone of the human race spoke of Luo Xuan's past achievements.
The more they spoke, the more indignant they became.
At the foot of the mountain, one woman even handed the child in her arms to a burly man beside her.
"Husband, you must protect Qi'er from now on."
The woman's face was resolute. The burly man stared at her in shock. "What are you planning to do?"
The woman looked up at the giant wolf.
"Master Xuan just abandoned even a supreme treasure to protect our human race."
"If that lightning tribulation falls, won't Qi'er be caught in the crossfire at such a young age?"
"If I can protect Qi'er, I'll have no regrets even if I die taking the lightning tribulation for Master Xuan."
The surrounding humans suddenly understood when they heard the woman's words.
"Master Xuan cares deeply for the human race. His righteousness is immense! I'm willing to take the lightning tribulation for Master Xuan too!"
"That's right, I'm willing too..."
More and more people followed the example of the Three Ancestors.
They were willing to trade their lives for Luo Xuan's.
At first, the voices were small and faint.
They were like scattered sparks.
Yet those sparks rapidly spread like a fire across the wilderness, resounding throughout Shouyang Mountain.
Jin Chu was merely a postnatal member of the human race. He had originally been destined to live an ordinary life.
However, after coming into contact with the Pill Dao, his talent in it revealed itself.
Later, Laozi passed down cultivation methods.
Jin Chu discovered that lightning tribulations carried the risk of death. Thus, when he reached the peak of the Profound Immortal realm, he suppressed his cultivation with all his might, unwilling to break through.
Because of this, the people in his tribe had mocked him countless times.
Then Luo Xuan brought the body-refining methods, giving Jin Chu much more confidence and allowing him to successfully break through to the True Immortal realm.
From that moment on, Jin Chu deeply worshiped Luo Xuan.
But whenever he remembered that he was only a postnatal member of the human race, Jin Chu did not dare speak to Luo Xuan. He merely watched him silently from within the crowd.
When he discovered that the Three Ancestors' words could influence the lightning tribulation, Jin Chu was the first to step forward and respond.
Listening to the voices around him that echoed his own feelings, a heroic spirit he had never felt before surged within Jin Chu's heart.
He sensed that something within his body was faintly rushing into the heavens along with those voices.
Jin Chu could not see it, but the mighty beings were utterly shocked.
Tiny specks of light, like fireflies, drifted out from the people of the human race.
They were the Human Dao Power hidden within the human race.
There might be very little within a single person, but when so many gathered together, they formed something like a raging torrent.
The Human Dao Power surrounding the Three Ancestors was especially dense.
Boundless Human Dao Power surged turbulently.
It wound tightly around the giant wolf formed from the lightning tribulation.
At the Witch Clan's Pangu Temple.
The Twelve Ancestor Witches gazed into the tribulation clouds.
Zhu Rong clicked his tongue in admiration. "That brat Luo Xuan is truly capable, to withstand so much tribulation lightning."
"But if it were me, everything before the eighth level would be child's play. Luo Xuan is still a little lacking."
"Oh, stop bragging. Without Laozi and Nuwa, you wouldn't even make it through the sixth level." The other ancestor witches looked at him with contempt.
Hou Tu stared intently into the distance and suddenly said, "Let's go help Luo Xuan too."
The other ancestor witches froze and turned toward Hou Tu in unison.
Di Jiang was the first to speak. "Little sister is right."
"The human race has refined so many pills for us. We owe Luo Xuan a great debt of gratitude."
Zhuo Jiuyin nodded as well.
"That's right. The human race's Pill Dao was taught by Luo Xuan. Without him, we wouldn't have any of those pills. Owing him this favor makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it."
"Exactly. Big Brother and Second Brother are right. Let's go now."
"Nuwa has already gone over. Could we ancestor witches really be inferior to a Demon Emperor? We're going. We absolutely have to go!"
The Twelve Ancestor Witches were straightforward by nature.
Having eaten pills from the human race meant they had received Luo Xuan's favor.
Repaying every debt of gratitude had always been their creed.
When they heard Di Jiang and the others, all the ancestor witches voiced their agreement.
Zhu Rong was especially impatient, tugging at the other ancestor witches and urging them to set off immediately.
If Luo Xuan knew what the ancestor witches were thinking at this moment, who knew what he would feel.
However, he would absolutely have been speechless.
Blood flowed steadily from Luo Xuan's nose and mouth, while one arm hung limply at his side.
Three enormous wounds crackling with electric arcs stretched across his chest, from his shoulder all the way to his waist.
The meridians in his legs had been completely shattered.
Though dazed, Luo Xuan still kept his eyes fixed on the giant wolf before him.
At this moment, the giant wolf had been thoroughly bewildered by the Human Dao Power.
It spun in circles where it stood, occasionally glancing toward the humans on Shouyang Mountain.
With its head cocked to the side, it looked rather foolish and endearing. It no longer seemed like a lightning tribulation to be avoided at all costs, but instead like an enormous pet beast.
Such a scene had never occurred since the creation of the world. Yuanshi and Tongtian were both dumbfounded when they saw it.
"Half of the Hunyuan Eagle-Hound Lightning has vanished, yet the remaining half refuses to fall upon Luo Xuan."
"Could the lightning tribulation have changed its nature?"
"The lightning tribulation is condensing without dispersing at the final moment, while the person undergoing it is right beside it. This, this, this..."
"Luo Xuan is creating a miracle."
The two men sighed in amazement.
Although the Heavenly Dao had blocked them, the two were overjoyed when they saw that the lightning tribulation was no longer harming Luo Xuan.
Di Jun's mind was equally blank, and his scalp tingled.
"What's going on? Attack! Isn't striking Luo Xuan to death exactly what a lightning tribulation is supposed to do?"
Di Jun kept muttering to himself.
However, his prayers clearly fell on deaf ears.
The giant wolf continued spinning in circles, as if communicating with something.
After a long time without results, Di Jun was left dispirited.
"How tough is this guy's life? Even Heaven can't take him?"
"Could Luo Xuan be the Son of the Heavenly Dao?"
"In the Primordial World, who else can do anything to Luo Xuan?"
Like Duobao, who had just emerged from secluded cultivation, Di Jun was beginning to question his life as a human... no, a demon.
The giant wolf kept spinning in circles, and it was almost turning into a dog.
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