Houtu Summons Him

"Great Wu Kuafu, are we still sparring?"

In the side hall.

Shen Gui stood there, looking at Kuafu, who sat on the ground with a dead-eyed expression, and thoughtfully asked.

A group of dumbfounded Great Wus stood around the hall.

Did this even count as sparring?

This was clearly a one-sided beating!

Great Wu Kuafu had been nothing more than a punching bag from start to finish.

Only Xing Tian leaned calmly against the wall, his eyes filled with delight.

Though he had felt thoroughly stifled when he fought Shen Gui himself, watching someone else get beaten really did feel much better.

Thinking of this, Xing Tian could not help sidling up to Hou Yi. "Brother Hou Yi, Brother Kuafu clearly can't go on. Why don't you give it a try? Maybe you can beat Brother Shen Gui."

Among the Houtu Tribe's three top Great Wus, Hou Yi was now the only one Shen Gui had not beaten up.

Hou Yi shot Xing Tian a helpless look.

Kuafu's example was right in front of him. Did Xing Tian take him for an idiot?

In the middle of the side hall, upon hearing Shen Gui speak, Kuafu repeatedly waved his hands. "No more, no more. I can't even break through your defenses. What's the point of fighting?"

As he spoke, Kuafu wore a thoroughly dejected expression.

He finally understood why Xing Tian could not defeat Shen Gui.

With that kind of defense, how the hell was anyone supposed to fight him?

Seeing Kuafu's dispirited appearance, the other Great Wus could not help bursting into laughter.

At that, Kuafu snapped irritably, "What are you laughing at? Whoever laughs again won't get any wine next time!"

Hearing that, many of the Great Wus immediately struggled to hold back their laughter.

Kuafu's wine was one of the Houtu Tribe's greatest specialties.

Even so, several Great Wus still failed to restrain themselves and laughed aloud.

Amid laughter and cheerful chatter, the group left the side hall.

However, they did not know that deep within the side hall, a woman dressed in a pale yellow palace gown had watched the entire scene from beginning to end.

"Mysterious Yellow Qi? What an interesting little fellow."

Watching Shen Gui and the Great Wus leave, the woman murmured to herself.

Perhaps those Great Wus did not understand what the fleeting Mysterious Yellow glow around Shen Gui's body had been when he activated his physical strength, but the woman would not fail to recognize it.

For she was Houtu, one of the Twelve Ancestor Witches formed from Pangu's Essence Blood.

However, Mysterious Yellow Qi was impervious to all laws and indestructible through countless tribulations. It could only appear when merit had accumulated to the utmost extreme. In Houtu's memories and inherited knowledge, as far as she knew, aside from the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda formed when thirty percent of the Heaven Opening Merit gathered during Pangu's opening of Heaven, there had never been another instance of merit condensing into Mysterious Yellow Qi.

Yet traces of Mysterious Yellow Qi had now appeared on Shen Gui's body. There was an eighty or ninety percent chance that it was connected to the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda.

Still, that was as far as Houtu's thoughts went.

Whether Shen Gui was connected to the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, or whether the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda was on him, she had no ulterior intentions.

Since it was related to the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, it was surely connected to Pangu.

As Pangu's descendants, how could they possibly do such a thing?

But...

As though she had thought of something, Houtu frowned slightly.

After considering it, her lips moved as though she were saying something.

Meanwhile, Shen Gui and the Great Wus had already left the side hall, though they had not yet returned to the bonfire.

Aside from Kuafu's dejected state, everyone else smiled at the sight of him.

After all, as one of the Houtu Tribe's three top Great Wus, they had never seen Kuafu so downcast before.

Xing Tian especially had one arm draped around Kuafu's neck as he seemingly consoled him. "Brother Kuafu, don't be so discouraged. Even I couldn't beat Brother Shen Gui, so it's perfectly normal for you to lose."

Even though Kuafu was still feeling down, he could not help glaring at Xing Tian. "Get lost! What do you mean, since even you couldn't beat him, it's normal that I lost? You make it sound as though you could beat me."

Seeing Kuafu and Xing Tian bicker, the other Great Wus recalled how Kuafu had been beaten earlier and could not help laughing again.

Hearing Kuafu say that, Xing Tian had just been about to retort when his expression suddenly changed slightly, his face turning somewhat strange.

When everyone saw Xing Tian suddenly stop walking, they were all taken aback.

Hou Yi asked, "Brother Xing Tian, what is it?"

However, Xing Tian did not answer Hou Yi. Instead, he looked at Shen Gui with an odd expression. "Brother Shen Gui, Ancestor Witch Houtu wishes to see you."

At once, all the Great Wus froze.

Shen Gui even shrank his neck. "Ancestor Witch Houtu wants to see me? Great Wu Xing Tian, you didn't get it wrong, did you? I don't even know Ancestor Witch Houtu. Why would she want to see me for no reason?"

"How would I know?" Xing Tian said. "Ancestor Witch Houtu personally sent me a voice transmission, telling me to bring you to see her. How could that be wrong?"

This time, the other Great Wus all looked at Shen Gui with curiosity.

They also wanted to know what was so special about Brother Shen Gui that Ancestor Witch Houtu, who rarely emerged from seclusion, thought so highly of him that she had specifically summoned him.

One had to know that even they, the Great Wus of the Houtu Tribe, rarely saw Houtu in ordinary times.

Hearing Xing Tian's words, Shen Gui considered it and decided that escaping from the Houtu Tribe did not seem very realistic, so he could only meekly comply.

"Since Ancestor Witch Houtu has summoned me, I'll go with Great Wu Xing Tian."