After taking Kong Xuan as his disciple, Xuanyuan and Tongtian stopped traveling through the Southern Great Earth. They brought the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird with them, tore open the void, and returned to the Central Land.
They gave Pan Wang's Gu Worm corpse to Shebishi for study, then asked the Five Five Elements Ancestral Witches—Rushou, Gou Mang, Gonggong, Zhurong, and Houtu—to guide Kong Xuan's cultivation.
Kong Xuan was gifted.
Xuanyuan did not know whether, in the original course of events, Kong Xuan had learned from heaven and earth on his own or entered the tutelage of some mighty cultivator. But after countless years of cultivation, he had traveled far along the path of a Quasi-Saint by the time of the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
In the Great Dao of Metal or the Great Dao of Wood alone, Kong Xuan's talent fell short of Rushou's or Gou Mang's. But his understanding of the Five Elements Great Dao as a whole surpassed theirs.
As the Five Elements Ancestral Witches guided Kong Xuan, they learned from teaching him. All six gained something, and their comprehension of the Five Elements Great Dao advanced faster than it would have if the five witches had cultivated in seclusion.
With the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots Enlightenment Tea Tree and Five Needles Pine, the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Five Elements Pagoda, and the vast reserves of Innate Five Elements Essence Qi on the two immortal islands of Yuanqiao and Dai Yu, the six mighty cultivators progressed by leaps and bounds.
As their understanding of the Five Elements Great Dao deepened and its aspects came together, the Five Elements Ancestral Witches steadily approached the threshold of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
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