Preaching Finally Ends, Hongjun Almost Loses His Cool

As Hongjun's Saintly Dao law suppressed the innate solar radiance of the Ten Golden Crows, the temperature within the Purple Heaven Palace dropped significantly.

The assembled Dao cultivators all let out a long sigh of relief and relaxed.

From the moment they were born, these Ten Golden Crows were incredibly mischievous, darting around Purple Heaven Palace and being exceptionally restless.

Everywhere they went, flames blazed, and the Dao cultivators they passed had to scramble to avoid the intense heat.

While listening to Hongjun preach in Xihe's womb, the Ten Golden Crows inherited the powerful physiques of Dijun and Changxi. Upon birth, they had already reached the late stage of Grand Unity Golden Immortal, placing their strength in the upper-middle tier among hundreds of thousands of cultivators.

However, due to the innate solar radiance emanating from them, which was extremely scorching, cultivators with lower cultivation levels couldn't help but tremble upon seeing them.

Even Grand Unity Golden Immortals found themselves parched and sweating profusely under their radiance.

Helpless, Old Ancestor Hongjun had to divide his attention, deploy Primordial Dao Qi, and slightly control the situation, reducing the heat from the Ten Golden Crows.

The ancient spirits within the Ten Golden Crows were too powerful. Even Dao Ancestor Hongjun, while able to suppress the heat and prevent cultivators from perishing or being injured while listening to the sermon in Purple Heaven Palace, could not completely eliminate the Golden Crows' influence.

Dijun and Xihe couldn't even stop the Golden Crows from darting around. Old Ancestor Hongjun could only have his Primordial Dao Qi follow the ten, constantly controlling the spiritual fire damage from the Golden Crows.

"These Ten Golden Crows are too mischievous, they deserve a beating!"

Dijun's heart seethed with anger as he glared at the ten naughty youngsters.

Although he appeared helpless and even furious, he was actually beaming inwardly.

Before the Golden Crows were born, he had many fantasies. Now that these ten sons had arrived, they exceeded his expectations and made him even more satisfied.

Despite their mischievousness, the Ten Golden Crows had excellent physiques; this could not be denied.

"A beating for what? They're just children!"

Xihe had long forgotten Beichen's previous words and looked at the Ten Golden Crows with doting affection.

However, she soon noticed that all the cultivators in Purple Heaven Palace harbored resentment towards the Ten Golden Crows.

Especially Hongjun's three disciples, the Sanqing, who glared at the Ten Golden Crows with intense hatred.

Primordial Lord of Heaven muttered to himself, "Those from the Sun Star and Moon Star are truly detestable. Giving birth in Master's palace and making all of us Dao cultivators sweat and thirst – unforgivable!"

Grand Pure Lord of Morality also found the Ten Golden Crows an eyesore and secretly harbored ill intentions, constantly calculating something.

Although Sect Master Tongtian had spoken kindly to Beichen before, seeing the situation, he couldn't help but side with Old Ancestor Hongjun and developed some reservations about Beichen.

Master was preaching, and it was the final stage of perfecting his Grand Unity Perfection realm. He had to listen intently and couldn't say anything.

But in the unseen realms, the enmity between Beichen and the Sanqing had deepened.

"All of this is because of the Mystic Turtle Beichen. I suspect he did it deliberately, planning ahead to cause trouble!"

Grand Pure Lord of Morality finished his calculations and hit the nail on the head.

Beichen watched the Ten Golden Crows with a smile, making no move to stop them, allowing them to frolic in the Purple Heaven Palace.

"Since you are newborns, I will indulge your willfulness this once. In the future, your father will have to discipline you strictly!"

Beichen brought Xihe and Changxi here with the intention of them listening to the Dao and improving their cultivation.

However, he did not rule out using the birth event to cause some trouble for Hongjun.

While it was a nuisance for Hongjun, it was extremely amusing for Beichen.

"These ten children are truly mischievous."

In the center of the seating area, a female cultivator with no primordial spirit, a back with seven hands, and hands in front, whose fleshly body was powerful, watched the Ten Golden Crows with affection, murmuring to herself.

"It's a pity that my Witch Clan and the Demon Race are at odds and will inevitably erupt into war. Otherwise, taking these ten little ones as adopted sons would be wonderful!"

This female cultivator was Houtu, one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches, proud and considering themselves Pangu's legitimate descendants. Furthermore, they cultivated their physical bodies, making Hongjun's teachings on primordial spirit cultivation almost useless to them, hence they all remained hidden.

Only Houtu alone braved the dangers to come and listen to the sermon.

Houtu understood nothing of what she heard during this sermon. The birth of the Ten Golden Crows became the most interesting event of her listening experience.

"Eh? What beautiful little girls?"

Houtu suddenly sensed a coolness within the palace, seemingly counteracting the solar radiance. Turning her head, she saw twelve small maidens radiating silver-blue moonlight standing beside Changxi.

These young maidens were each more beautiful than the last, enveloped in an aura of pure immortal fragrance, making them extraordinary.

More commendably, these twelve maidens, unlike the Ten Golden Crows, were not boisterous. Instead, they were exceptionally quiet, all gathered around their mother, Changxi.

Changxi stood in the center, as if surrounded by stars, the green leaves setting off the immortal flowers.

Changxi petted each of the twelve maidens, growing more fond of them the more she looked.

It was just a little regrettable that these twelve Moon Maidens, like the Ten Golden Crows, had listened to the sermon in the womb. Now, they were only at the Golden Immortal Realm, far behind the Ten Golden Crows.

Changxi sighed but did not forget to listen to Hongjun's sermon.

The next moment, she and her sister Xihe both broke through to Grand Unity Golden Immortal Perfection!

Following Xihe and Changxi, Hong Yun, Dijun, Taiyi, Fu Xi, Jieyin, and Zhunti successively entered Grand Unity Perfection, half a step into Quasi-Saint, all with joyful expressions.

However, the emergence of the Moon Maidens caused the Purple Heaven Palace to shimmer with silver-blue light, ethereal and exquisite, forming a beautiful scenic line. Yet, it also disturbed countless people's listening and overshadowed the brilliance of these great cultivators ascending to Grand Unity Perfection!

"What beautiful young ladies, these Moon Maidens are peerlessly beautiful and transcendently elegant!"

Countless cultivators praised him, some sincerely, others with ulterior motives, too many to list.

"Sisters, sisters, let's play together! Come on, let's go play!"

The Ten Golden Crows, attracted by the Twelve Moon Maidens, all ran over to pester them, wanting to take them to play.

They all wanted to leave, but they kept looking at Changxi and Taiyi, not daring to move rashly.

"So well-behaved!"

Beichen felt deeply gratified.

"Go on, go play amongst yourselves, don't disturb the sisters listening to the Dao!" Changxi shooed them away.

"Auntie, Auntie, are you silly? What Dao are the sisters listening to? How can Golden Immortals listen to the Dao of Grand Unity Golden Immortals? The difference is too great!"

"Auntie is silly, Auntie is silly!"

Changxi: "...These brats!"

Whoosh!

Old Ancestor Hongjun suddenly let out a long sigh and stopped preaching, "Rushing and hurrying, this Dao of Grand Unity Golden Immortal has now been fully expounded!"

"This three-thousand-year sermon ends here!"

Hongjun's divine eyes swept across the Purple Cloud Palace. Seeing that those who came to listen had all gained greatly, with at least a one-stage cultivation breakthrough, making immense progress compared to before they arrived, he felt gratified.

"This sermon, I almost broke my defenses!" Hongjun wiped his sweat repeatedly. "Fortunately, although much time was delayed, I managed to finish the sermon. Otherwise, more variables would have emerged, or endless trouble would have been stirred up!"

Then, Hongjun did not leave immediately but looked towards the six people on the cushions in the front row.