Witch-Demon Era, Shore of the East Sea.
Across an endless plain, a group of people clad in rags appeared one after another.
"Hmm? Where is this?"
The eyes of the man in the lead, previously dull and vacant, suddenly flickered with life.
As far as his eyes could see, the ground was covered in Immortal Flowers and Strange Blossoms radiating intense spiritual energy, while towering Mountains, their peaks hidden by Immortal Mist, stretched into the distance.
"Who is that? It feels like a dream."
Suddenly, a figure as ethereal as a dream caught his eye, leaving Huang Tian unable to suppress his astonishment.
As a fine young man from the 21st Century, he had seen his fair share of women.
Yet, the woman before him, with her sacred aura and peerless beauty, delivered a shock to Huang Tian unlike anything he had ever experienced.
"Why can't I move?"
Subconsciously reaching out to touch the dreamlike woman, Huang Tian was stunned to discover that he was actually made of molded clay.
"I, Nuwa, hereby proclaim to Heaven and Earth!"
"Observing the Prehistoric World where the Ten Thousand Races stand in multitude, where slaughter never ceases and living beings are plunged into misery, I cannot bear it."
"Today, I use the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil as the foundation, the Three Lights Divine Water as the spirit, and supplement it with the Creation Dao Rhyme to mold a race."
"Named—Human!"
Before he could continue his investigation, a gentle yet indisputable female voice rang in Huang Tian's ears.
"Rumble!"
In an instant, the heavens and earth changed color, and the Nine Sounds of Heavenly Thunder echoed—the world's acknowledgment of Nuwa's proclamation.
"Hiss, what is Nuwa doing?"
Sensing the peerless and terrifying Sage's Might, the Great Divine Powers of the Prehistoric World were stirred, casting their gazes toward the Shore of the East Sea.
"Nuwa? Creating humans? Am I one of the three thousand Innate Human Race?"
At this very moment, Huang Tian fully grasped the situation and couldn't help but exclaim.
High above the nine heavens, a figure of peerless grace hovered in the air, possessing a Human Body, Snake Tail. Her robes fluttered as she was wreathed in endless Creation Spiritual Light; her features carried a natural, sacred majesty, yet concealed a hint of compassion.
The Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, mixed with the Three Lights Divine Water, gathered in Nuwa's palm.
"Human Race, emerge!"
With a flick of her jade hands, Nuwa cried out. The spiritual light in her palm exploded, transforming into a sky full of flowing light that descended upon Huang Tian and the other clay figures.
"Whoosh!"
A gale roared as infinite spiritual energy from the firmament converged, forming a storm that poured down, granting every clay human a body of flesh and blood—the Innate Dao Body!
"We offer our thanks to the Holy Mother!"
Without a moment's hesitation, the three thousand Innate Human Race knelt before Nuwa.
"Hum!"
But Nuwa had no mind to pay attention to the three thousand Innate Human Race; instead, she looked toward the distance of the East Sea in surprise.
Across an infinite distance, a Seven-Colored Rosy Cloud pierced the heavens and earth, transforming into a streak of light that flew toward the plain on the Shore of the East Sea.
As far as the eye could see across the vast territory, everything was shrouded in the Seven-Colored Rosy Cloud; strange flowers fell from the sky, and golden lotuses surged from the earth.
"How can this be?"
"This is... a Racial Supreme Treasure?"
Watching the approaching Seven-Colored Rosy Cloud in astonishment, Nuwa's eyes trembled.
She had never expected that the moment the Human Race was born, a corresponding Racial Supreme Treasure would emerge in response to the destiny.
One must know that a Racial Supreme Treasure could suppress the fortune of a race and possessed the potential for continuous growth; it was not impossible for it to evolve into an Innate Supreme Treasure, or even a Chaos Supreme Treasure.
Later, when the Sage Sects initiated the Investiture of the Gods War, it was precisely because Sect Master Tongtian lacked a spiritual treasure to suppress his fortune that he fell a move behind, ending up defeated and imprisoned in the Purple Cloud Palace, even forced to consume the Saint-Slaying Pill.
Reaching out, Nuwa attempted to claim the Human Race's Racial Supreme Treasure.
After all, in Nuwa's view, since the Human Race was created by her, it was only reasonable for her, as the Holy Mother of the Human Race, to hold the Racial Supreme Treasure.
"Hum."
But as Nuwa reached out, an inexplicable aura comparable to the power of the Heavenly Dao erupted, repelling her.
In an instant, the Seven-Colored Rosy Cloud merged into the center of Huang Tian's brow.
"Boom!"
The next moment.
The heavens and earth shook, the winds and clouds shifted, and thunderclouds gathered.
Purple mist surged from the east for hundreds of millions of miles, blanketing the Shore of the East Sea.
Endless Mysterious Yellow Qi converged, transforming into a magnificent Merit Golden Cloud that brimmed with an aura of auspicious peace before sinking into the center of Sage Nuwa's brow.
Nuwa's aura surged violently, her presence becoming increasingly divine; to the eyes of Huang Tian, she appeared shrouded in a hazy veil.
"Is this madness? How could such a massive amount of merit descend?"
"Even the merit Dao Ancestor Hongjun received when he became a saint did not compare to this."
"What has Nuwa done? By what virtue does she deserve such immense merit?"
On Kunlun Mountain, Laozi was stunned, Yuanshi was consumed by jealousy, and Tongtian's fighting spirit flared.
In the thirty-three-layered Demon Court, Demon Emperor Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi were both shocked and overjoyed.
Beside Mount Zhou, within the Endless Abyss of the Pangu Temple, the expressions of the Twelve Ancestral Witches turned grave.
Zhenyuanzi, Minghe, Jieyin, Zhunti, and other top-tier Great Divine Powers who had taken form at the end of the Ancient Era all stared at the Shore of the East Sea in utter shock.
No one could have predicted that among the five direct disciples and two nominal disciples of Xuanmen, Nuwa would become the second Heavenly Dao Saint after Dao Ancestor Hongjun, even surpassing the Sanqing.
"I thought this was the worst possible timeline, but it seems Heaven has not abandoned my human race!"
With a burning gaze, Huang Tian's eyes were filled with firm resolve.
In the Witch-Demon Era, Nuwa created humanity, but a million years later, the human race would face its darkest hour.
The Sage's Barrier would shatter, and the Ten Thousand Races would treat humanity as blood food.
During the first battle of the Witch-Demon Era, the Demon Race, unable to defeat the Witch Clan, would accidentally discover that refining the Witch-Slaying Sword with human flesh and blood could wound the physical bodies of the Ancestral Witches.
Later, trillions upon trillions of humans would be blood-sacrificed by the Demon Race, leaving only a million survivors to linger on the brink of extinction.
Yet, at this time in the Prehistoric World, the Ten Thousand Races were all Innate Beings, and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had not yet degraded.
Thus, the Ten Thousand Races were filled with Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, and only a Quasi-Saint Who Slices the Corpse could be considered a true hegemon.
But the human race had just been born, and the strongest among them, the Three Ancestors of the Human Race, were merely at the Profound Immortal realm.
Even the lowest of the Ten Thousand Races could crush humanity without any resistance.
But now, with the Kongtong Seal acknowledging its master at the start, the fate of the human race had changed!
"Absorb! For! Me!"
With the Kongtong Seal as his, Huang Tian already understood how to wield it.
Between heaven and earth, amidst the purple energy and the Mysterious Yellow, a tiny, insignificant speck of white light shimmered incessantly.
It was Huang Tian, maneuvering the Kongtong Seal to continuously draw in the spiritual qi, purple energy, and Mysterious Yellow Qi from the world.
The commotion of Nuwa becoming a saint was so great that no living being noticed Huang Tian's body shimmering with a lapis lazuli color, his entire being surrounded by a constant flow of profound Dao rhymes.
"So this is the Opportunity to Become a Sage. Merge!"
At this very moment, as the infinite Mysterious Yellow Qi poured into her brow and fused with the Primordial Violet Qi, Nuwa grasped the profound mystery of becoming a saint.
Bolstered by merit, the Primordial Violet Qi transformed into countless Vast Dao Scripts, reflecting upon heaven and earth, merging with Nuwa's spirit and flesh.
Boom!
The Primordial Violet Qi carried a portion of Nuwa's Primordial Spirit, anchoring it to heaven and earth.
In an instant, the world roared, and a massive pressure suddenly erupted, sweeping through every corner of the Prehistoric World and shaking countless living beings.
"We pay homage to the supreme Sage Nuwa!"
Countless beings across the world immediately turned toward the Shore of the East Sea and shouted respectfully.
Only top-tier Great Divine Powers like Laozi, Tongtian, and Minghe, relying on their top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to withstand Nuwa's Sage's Might, managed to avoid falling to their knees in disgrace.
"Damn it!"
Yuanshi's expression was the most unsightly; he prided himself on being Pangu's Orthodox Lineage, yet he had been beaten to sainthood by Nuwa.
"Cree!"
Above the firmament, a Five-Colored Phoenix suddenly cried out.
"Since you and I are fated, you shall be my mount. I name you—Golden Phoenix."
With a faint smile, Nuwa let spiritual light bloom from her fingertips, enlightening the Five-Colored Phoenix.
"Golden Phoenix pays homage to the supreme Sage Nuwa!"
The Five-Colored Phoenix transformed into a breathtakingly beautiful Innate Dao Body clad in five-colored robes, kneeling respectfully before Nuwa.
"Having attained sainthood, I shall open a dojo Beyond the Heavens and preach the Path of a Sage for nine thousand years!"
"The Human Race was created by me; they shall not be molested for a million years, and those who violate this decree shall be executed!"
With a wave of her hand, a Sage's Barrier enveloped the Shore of the East Sea. Nuwa spoke with ease, her celestial voice booming and echoing in the ears of every living being in the Prehistoric World.
"I, Dijun, humbly obey the decree of Sage Nuwa!"
"I, Minghe, humbly obey the decree of Sage Nuwa!"
Following the lead of the top-tier Great Divine Powers, the endless beings of the Prehistoric World all acknowledged the order.
The beings of the Ten Thousand Races who had coveted the human race hurriedly withdrew their gazes.
Seeing this, Huang Tian let out a sigh of relief.
Even with the Kongtong Seal acknowledging him at the start, he still needed time to lead the human race to grow.
A million years of buffer time was enough!
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