Innate Breathing Soil!

"Do I look like that kind of beast?"

Bai Chen glared angrily at Xuanming, deeply displeased.

He, Great God Bai Chen, treated Xuanming as a friend, yet this was how she saw him. It was simply too much.

"You are!"

Xuanming nodded, confirming it without giving Bai Chen even the slightest bit of face.

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Bai Chen was instantly embarrassed. He then broke free of Xuanming's demonic grasp and sent her a voice transmission:

"Xuanming, I'm telling you, although the Innate Gourd Vine has the potential to attain the Dao, it has no fate to attain the Dao.

The day it attains the Dao will be the day it dies and its Dao dissipates!"

"If you keep it alive, you can observe the process of its failure to attain the Dao and learn from it, summarizing the experience."

Bai Chen was not making this up. The Innate Gourd Vine truly had the potential to attain the Dao, but not the fate to do so.

When the Innate Gourd Vine failed to attain the Dao in later generations, many great powers of the Primordial Era had gathered around to watch, witnessing that scene with their own eyes.

Unfortunately, the Innate Gourd Vine's failure to attain the Dao also served as a warning to the great powers of the Primordial Era, letting them know the consequences of failure.

"How do you know all this?"

Xuanming somewhat doubted Bai Chen's words. After all, this Fat Cat's claims were a little too outrageous.

"Xuanming, I actually possess an Innate Divine Ability. It's called fate appraisal."

Bai Chen could only spout nonsense. Surely he could not expose his identity, right?

"Lazy Cat, just tell me what benefit it gave you."

Xuanming was even more convinced that Bai Chen had chosen to spare it for the sake of some benefit.

"Xuanming, as long as you all stop, I'll give Houtu something good later. It'll help Houtu's origin."

After thinking it over, Bai Chen brought out his sincerity.

As for the loss involved, Bai Chen had no intention of paying for it himself. There was bound to be some sucker who would reimburse him.

"Really?"

Xuanming was somewhat unconvinced. She had known Bai Chen for quite some time. Although this Fat Cat looked plump, he was actually extremely petty and stingy.

"Truer than pearls!"

Bai Chen thumped his chest and guaranteed it. Once he extorted another sum from the sucker that was the Innate Gourd Vine, he would simply give a portion to Houtu.

"Fine!"

Xuanming agreed. She said a few words to the other Ancestral Witches, and Dijiang and the other ten overprotective sisters all stopped simultaneously. They were truly obedient.

The Twelve Ancestor Witches were born and transformed one after another, but when it was Houtu's turn to transform, an accident occurred. Her earth origin was incomplete.

As a result, after Houtu transformed, her strength was somewhat weaker than that of the other Ancestral Witches, and her temperament was gentler.

Now that Bai Chen said he could produce something to nourish Houtu's origin and help her, the other Ancestral Witches cooperated so readily.

"Innate Gourd Vine, I've already made them stop. You should fulfill your promise now."

"As long as you give me the correct location, I'll swear a Great Dao Oath that our grudge ends here. The Twelve Ancestor Witches won't attack you without cause!"

Bai Chen stared at the Innate Gourd Vine and began demanding the location of the Hong Meng Liang Tian Chi.

"Fine!"

The Innate Gourd Vine immediately sent a voice transmission, telling Bai Chen the location of the Secret Realm where the Hong Meng Liang Tian Chi was.

After learning the location of the Hong Meng Liang Tian Chi, Bai Chen's mouth twitched, and he revealed a wicked smile:

"Innate Gourd Vine, by the way, I heard that the Innate Breathing Soil is in your possession?"

The Innate Breathing Soil was also known as the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and the Nine-Colored Breathing Soil. It was the key material Nuwa needed to create humans.

According to what Bai Chen knew, the Innate Breathing Soil had originally been in the hands of the Innate Gourd Vine.

Later, after the Innate Gourd Vine failed to attain the Dao, Nuwa had participated in dismembering it and dug the soil out from its roots and stalk.

Chapter 16: Innate Breathing Soil!

As for the Innate Breathing Soil, Bai Chen was determined to obtain it.

As Great God Bai Chen, Nuwa's close friend, he intended to take the Innate Breathing Soil into his own hands ahead of time and keep it safe for Nuwa, just in case anything went wrong.

Nuwa: Lazy Cat, you unfilial son are trying to steal my opportunity!

"Bai Chen, what do you mean?"

The Innate Gourd Vine's tone turned cold. It did not deny possessing the Innate Breathing Soil, because it knew that since Bai Chen had dared to say it aloud, denying it would be useless.

"Innate Gourd Vine, hand over the Innate Breathing Soil, and we can consider this matter completely settled."

"Otherwise, don't blame me for doing something that will make you unhappy."

Bai Chen laid his cards on the table and threatened the Innate Gourd Vine.

He wanted the location of the Hong Meng Liang Tian Chi, and he wanted the Innate Breathing Soil belonging to the Innate Gourd Vine as well!

"Bai Chen, don't forget the Great Dao Oath you just made."

Bai Chen's blunt demand enraged the Innate Gourd Vine, which used the Great Dao Oath to warn him.

The Innate Gourd Vine had never expected Bai Chen to be so greedy.

No, this was no longer greed. It was insatiable avarice.

"That's right. I did make a Great Dao Oath that the Twelve Ancestor Witches won't attack you."

Bai Chen spread his paws, feigning innocence, then gave a wicked smile.

"But I can tell other people where you are. For example, Ancestor Luohu, Ancestor Hongjun, Ancestor Xingchen, Ancestor Yang Mei... people like that."

"Innate Gourd Vine, others may not know their backgrounds, but as a Chaos Demon God, you should know them, right?"

Great God Bai Chen was an honest and trustworthy good cat, so naturally he would not lie or do anything that violated his oath.

But as for things he had never promised, no one could blame him.

That's right, Bai Chen was playing a word game with the Innate Gourd Vine.

What was wrong with openly exploiting the Great Dao Oath? As long as he had not violated it, everything was fine!

At that moment, the Innate Gourd Vine truly witnessed Bai Chen's shamelessness.

It had cultivated for countless eras in the chaos and countless more eras in the Primordial Era, yet it had never seen someone so shameless.

"Bai Chen, stop trying to scare me. Ancestor Luohu and the others possess exalted identities. How could a mere Innate Divine Beast like you possibly know them?"

However, the Innate Gourd Vine remained skeptical of Bai Chen's words.

It did not believe that an ant as weak as Bai Chen could know beings such as Ancestor Luohu and Ancestor Yang Mei.

To put it bluntly, even at the peak of its strength, it had needed to bow and scrape whenever it met Yang Mei, Hongjun, or Luohu.

And Bai Chen was merely a tiny Innate Divine Beast.

"Innate Gourd Vine, did you sense the disturbance in the Western Primordial Era earlier?

That was the disturbance Ancestor Luohu caused at Mount Sumeru while trying to attain the Dao."

"As for Ancestor Hongjun's Daoist temple, it's at Jade Capital Mountain."

Bai Chen directly revealed the locations of Ancestor Luohu's and Ancestor Hongjun's Daoist temples.

He truly did not know Ancestor Luohu or Ancestor Hongjun, but he knew where the two of them lived.

After Bai Chen said this, the Innate Gourd Vine panicked inwardly.

It had sensed some of the great disturbance that had appeared in the Western Primordial Era earlier from within the Secret Realm.

It had originally guessed that it had been caused by that Chaos Demon God who had not quite died.

Now that Bai Chen had said this, he had essentially confirmed the Innate Gourd Vine's guess about what was happening in the Western Primordial Era.

"Innate Gourd Vine, if they learn your location, they'll probably use you to pave their path to attaining the Dao, or refine you into a spiritual treasure."

Seeing that the Innate Gourd Vine seemed frightened, Bai Chen quickly pressed his advantage.

Bai Chen was not merely trying to scare the Innate Gourd Vine. Innate Spiritual Roots could indeed be refined into treasures.

In later generations, Zhunti and Jieyin had originally been Innate Spiritual Roots that attained the Dao and transformed. When they attained the Dao, they severed their own true bodies and used them as spiritual treasures.

"Bai Chen, are you truly determined to fight me to the death?"

Bai Chen's threat completely ignited the Innate Gourd Vine's fury.

"Innate Gourd Vine, you speak as if you'd let me off. Once you successfully attain the Dao, you'll definitely come looking for trouble with me."

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Facing the Innate Gourd Vine's threat, Bai Chen exposed its hypocrisy and raised his tiny paw, showing his disdain.

"Bai Chen, leave now. I can swear a Great Dao Oath that our grudge ends here. I absolutely won't attack you without cause in the future."

The Innate Breathing Soil was far too important to the Innate Gourd Vine. It had brought it into the Primordial Era from the chaos.

Over all these eras, it had relied on absorbing the power of Buzhou Mountain and the nourishment of the Innate Breathing Soil to recover this much strength.

If it handed over the Innate Breathing Soil, the Innate Gourd Vine estimated that its chances of successfully attaining the Dao would fall by at least twenty percent.

Therefore, the Innate Gourd Vine was unwilling to hand over the Innate Breathing Soil. To protect it, it was willing to swear an oath never to settle accounts with Bai Chen in the future and let him go.

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Bai Chen revealed fierce, triangular eyes and raised his friendly gesture once more, greeting the Innate Gourd Vine:

"I don't need that. Hurry up and give the Innate Breathing Soil to me."

"Innate Gourd Vine, if you successfully attain the Dao, feel free to come settle accounts with me. I'm not afraid of you!"

Bai Chen was not afraid of the Innate Gourd Vine retaliating against him later, because it was fundamentally impossible for the other party to successfully attain the Dao.

With the way it was, even possessing the Innate Breathing Soil had not been enough to let it attain the Dao. In the end, it had only been able to leave behind an intact corpse.