Primordial Wilderness: I Am Hong Yun, and at the Start I Traded My Saint Position for a Wife

He looked utterly bewildered.

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't you see me signaling for you to hurry outside?"

Only then did Zhen Yuan Zi understand. He grumbled:

"You could've just said so!"

"I thought you were telling me to stop laughing. Didn't you see how I stopped the moment I caught your eye?"

As he spoke, Zhen Yuan Zi started toward the door, shaking his head as he went.

He muttered:

"Ah, favoring a lover over a friend..."

Hou Tu lightly tapped Hong Yun on the back, her cheeks flushed. With a shy expression, she said:

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Hong Yun chuckled. At any rate, he'd finally managed to get rid of Zhen Yuan Zi, that walking lightbulb.

He hadn't even had a moment to celebrate when a cool voice came from outside.

"Why are you out here? Aren't Sister and Hong Yun inside?"

Hong Yun called irritably toward the door:

"We're here!"

The person who entered was Xuanming. She stepped inside and asked in confusion:

"Then why did Fellow Daoist Zhen Yuan Zi go out?"

"Wasn't he going to discuss when to set off with you?"

Seeing Zhen Yuan Zi follow behind Xuanming with an awkward smile, Hong Yun replied grumpily:

"I was just letting him go find you!"

Zhen Yuan Zi quickly chimed in.

"Exactly. I was just about to call for you, and then you arrived!"

Zhen Yuan Zi turned back and sat down opposite Hong Yun again, smiling at him.

He blinked.

It's not that I didn't give you a chance, bro. Xuanming just showed up at the worst possible time!

With Xuanming there, Hou Tu felt even more embarrassed.

The hand Hong Yun held gave a slight tug, and he sensibly let go.

The four sat facing each other and began discussing the Third Sermon.

At the third sermon in the Zixiao Palace, Hongjun would surely speak about becoming a Saint and bestow the Primordial Violet Qi.

Hong Yun didn't know whether he would receive the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi this time, just as he had in the original timeline.

But he still needed to prepare for it in advance!

"This sermon will be the last one, and it's extremely important!"

"Saint Hongjun will definitely explain how to attain Primordial Unity."

"We all need to go. Ideally, we can get the other Ancestral Shaman brothers to come with us!"

Hong Yun solemnly emphasized the importance of the final sermon.

Hou Tu shook her head helplessly.

"Leaving aside whether our brothers are still allowed into the Zixiao Palace after missing the second sermon, they themselves aren't interested in going!"

"If they wanted to go, they would've come to discuss it with us by now!"

Hearing this, Hong Yun honestly didn't know what to say.

It was like telling your roommate the night before an exam, "We absolutely can't skip class today. The teacher's going to tell us what's important!"

And yet your roommate simply didn't care.

Even Xuanming's frosty face showed a hint of embarrassment.

She said hesitantly:

"To be honest, I... don't think going will do much good either..."

Hong Yun immediately replied:

"Absolutely not! The last leg of a hundred-mile journey accounts for half!"

"We're only one sermon away. It's just three thousand years!"

"Can you really not spare three thousand years?"

Xuanming still hadn't managed to cultivate a primordial spirit, but if she could hear all three sermons, perhaps her fate would change—unlike in the original timeline.

That was why Hong Yun was so insistent on bringing Xuanming along.

Besides, she was the only one among the Ancestral Shamans who could persuade the others.

Hearing Hong Yun's words, Xuanming looked resigned and said dejectedly:

"All right!"

Other than that, Hong Yun and the others didn't have much else to discuss.

They settled on a time, then took the opportunity to compare their progress in cultivation.

He also passed on Zhen Yuan Zi's divine ability to them!

By now, not only Zhen Yuan Zi but even Hou Tu and Xuanming had reached the late stage of Great Luo.

Xuanming was a little weaker, but not by much!

"Is the path of the Innate Gods really that powerful?"

Hong Yun couldn't help asking.

With Hou Tu's help, he had completed the power of the Four Symbols.

Then he'd refined the Profound Origin Water Control Banner and the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, and only then reached the late stage of Great Luo.

How come their cultivation seemed to advance so easily, as if they were just drinking water?

Could they have stumbled upon opportunities of their own, too?

Hearing Hong Yun's strange tone, Hou Tu laughed. Her eyes shimmered as she looked at him and said gently:

"Wasn't this what you told Brother Dijiang?"

"Don't you know how powerful the path of the Innate Gods is?"

Hong Yun had only wanted the Ancestral Shamans to play a greater role in the Primordial Wilderness.

That way, they could increase their fortune and lessen the damage from the coming Witch-Demon War!

And from what he remembered, the Ancestral Shamans were all kinds of innate deities.

How could he have known how much their cultivation would improve?

Xuanming said:

"I really do have to thank you this time!"

"As soon as I took my place as the Winter God, I felt a spark of inspiration descend from heaven and earth. A sliver of my soul was separated and merged with the Law of Ice."

"That created a Winter God incarnation!"

As Xuanming spoke, a trace of the Winter God incarnation's aura appeared at her fingertip.

With a slight inspection, Hong Yun could tell that the incarnation's aura was different from Xuanming's own.

If the Ancestral Shamans were imbued with more baleful energy,

then the incarnation carried the pure aura of the Power of Law.

It was closer to the Heavenly Dao!

In fact, one end of the incarnation was connected to Xuanming, while the other was entrusted to heaven and earth.

Although Xuanming could control it freely and use it to fight others,

its main ability was to regulate the four seasons.

It could be said to be part of the Heavenly Dao, though its connection wasn't that close.

Xuanming still held the reins!

The other Ancestral Shamans were the same.