Another Transmigrator?

With a wave of his hand, Hongjun made the Phoenix Race and the Qilin Race feel the space around them shift. They were no longer in the Primordial World.

This was a different place. It looked somewhat like the Primordial World, but was countless times more desolate. There was nothing here, only endless barren wasteland.

"Each of your races shall send a hundred billion to guard the Undying Volcano and the auspicious lands of the Primordial World. The rest may live here and are responsible for transforming chaos energy into spiritual energy for the Primordial World."

This was a place Hongjun had just created, at the boundary between chaos and the Primordial World.

He had opened up a world here so the Phoenix Race and the Qilin Race could transform spiritual energy for the Primordial World.

This outcome was pretty good for them. At least their races wouldn't be wiped out.

"Thank you, Sage!"

The two knelt directly on the ground and bowed.

Hongjun was truly a benevolent man. He had actually left their two races a chance to survive.

No, he hadn't even killed a single member of either the Phoenix Race or the Qilin Race. He had only thrown them out here to transform chaos energy. Although those below Great Luo couldn't survive in chaos, the world Hongjun had created was extraordinary.

He had even used a touch of Great Dao Power. The world's embryonic membrane could absorb chaos energy. The powerful members of the Phoenix Race and the Qilin Race only needed to absorb the chaos energy from the membrane and refine it, then send it into the Primordial World from within their own bodies.

They would start by refining and transforming tiny wisps of chaos energy, little by little. Sooner or later, their bodies would adapt to this chaotic power.

A wisp of chaos energy wasn't fatal.

Hongjun nodded and waved his hand. He sent a hundred billion members of each race to the Undying Volcano in the southern part of the Primordial World and to various places across its lands.

From then on, the conflict between the three races came to a complete end.

Hongjun had personally suppressed the Dragon Race, who had tried to lie low and reap the benefits without swearing to withdraw from the struggle for the Primordial World. The elite members of the Phoenix Race and the Qilin Race were also left in chaos to transform chaos energy.

Like the Dragon Race, the two races were left with only a hundred billion members below the Golden Immortal level who could live in the Primordial World.

The Green Xuan Bird and Green Luan led the Phoenix Race back to the Primordial World. The Ink Qilin, who would one day become Wen Zhong's mount, led the Qilin Race.

One would eventually become Nuwa's mount after she attained sainthood (too much controversy, so this is how it's set in this book. This character has a hidden purpose—circle it for the exam), while the other would become the mount of the Grand Tutor of Great Shang.

There would be more plot involving them in the future, so Hongjun brought them back.

By rights, the Great Dao shouldn't be so eager to meddle in the affairs of the world.

For under the Great Dao, all things were predetermined. The past, future, and present were one.

What had already happened, what was happening, and what would happen were all the same to the Great Dao.

If it already knew everything that would happen, how could anything pique its interest?

But Hongjun was different, for two reasons.

First, to put it plainly, Hongjun could be considered a transmigrator too. His divided soul had returned to his original body and taken control of it. In other words, it was basically the same as being a transmigrator.

He was still very young, a "novice Great Dao," so he was extremely interested in the Primordial World. (It was explained in Chapters One and Two. Please read carefully.)

The second reason was transmigrators.

There were a few too many transmigrators in the Primordial World, and a single transmigrator with a system could add enough energy for the world to undergo one more cycle of reincarnation. With so many transmigrators, how could Hongjun not be tempted?

Even if increasing his power wouldn't do him any good, who wouldn't want the world under their control to grow bigger and stronger?

Besides, Hongjun was also curious about a Primordial World with transmigrators. He wanted to see how it would develop.

That was why Hongjun, the Great Dao himself, had decided to act as the representative of the Heavenly Dao: Dao Ancestor Hongjun!

With the matter of the three races settled, it was time for Hongjun to leave.

Next, he would go into chaos and establish Purple Firmament Palace, following the course of the story.

He glanced at the lands of the Primordial World and suddenly felt that something was off.

To just leave like this... wasn't that a little too low-key?

So he spoke:

"High above, I recline upon the clouds, seeking the truth upon my cushion;

Beyond Heaven and Earth, I shall hold the honored seat;

Pangu gave birth to the Supreme Ultimate, from which the Two Modes and Four Forms arose;

Leader of the Mystic Sect, I am Hongjun, formed from a single breath."

Across the Primordial World, the Dao resounded. The minds of the great powers of the Primordial World stirred, and they felt that the Dao resonance within the sound was truly extraordinary.

It was both comprehensible and incomprehensible, profound beyond measure.

After reciting the poem, Hongjun was about to leave, but then he changed his mind.

"I nearly forgot about them."

Hao Tian and Yao Chi.

The next part of the story was the lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, and he still hadn't taken the two of them in as attendants.

Hongjun calculated with his fingers, then swept his thoughts across the Primordial World. His gaze settled on a young man.

"Hmm? Hm!!! Huh???????"

Hongjun froze. To be honest, he was a little startled.

How had Hao Tian taken human form on his own?

Normally, Hao Tian was a stubborn stone, and he and Yao Chi had both taken human form only after Hongjun personally brought them to life.

How had Hao Tian taken human form by himself? Was he another damn transmigrator?

Hongjun frowned slightly. He thought for a moment, then flashed over to the young man.

The young man had been stunned by Hongjun's forceful intervention in the struggle between the three races. This Primordial World wasn't quite like the one he knew, and then, all of a sudden, he saw the giant Hongjun—who had been at the Undying Volcano moments ago—turn into an ordinary old man and appear before him.

He was dumbfounded!

Hongjun had suddenly appeared right in front of him?

It was over! He was done for! He was going to be killed! He was a transmigrator! Hongjun must have found out, right?

He had, hadn't he?

As an outsider, he was sure to be eliminated by a Sage, wasn't he?

[Don't worry, host. Hongjun won't discover that you're a transmigrator.]

A system's voice rang out in the young man's mind.

A system?

As a young shut-in from the twenty-first century, he knew exactly what a system was. He had come to this world and cultivated for tens of thousands of years before the system finally appeared!

"System, do you think Hongjun will discover who I am?"

The young man hurriedly asked the system in his mind.

Why ask in his mind? Because that was how it was done in other novels. Besides, if he spoke to the system out loud, even if Hongjun hadn't realized he was a transmigrator at first, he'd surely think there was something wrong with him for talking to himself, wouldn't he?

[Yes. This system perfectly shields you from the Heavenly Dao's perception. And the Great Dao is impartial, treating all transmigrators equally. It won't manifest because of you.]

The system replied.

"Really? Phew, that's great. I thought I'd die right after taking human form."

The young man breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ahem."

Hongjun gave a light cough to remind him that he was still there.

"This junior pays his respects to the Sage!"

The young man hurriedly bowed to Hongjun and said,

"May I ask why the Sage is looking for me?"

"I intend to establish Purple Firmament Palace, and I am still lacking a pair of male and female attendants. Would you be willing to come serve at my side as one of the Sage's attendants?"

Hongjun said calmly.