When Qing Xuan left Ancestral Witch Hall, the Twelve Ancestral Witches respectfully escorted him outside the hall. They also promised Qing Xuan that if he ever had trouble, it would be trouble for the Witch Clan.
Qing Xuan did not care much about this. Everything he had done stemmed from the sense of injustice he had felt toward the Witch Clan before he transmigrated.
There was also the opportunity Pangu had given him, something Qing Xuan could never ignore. After all, Qing Xuan had never been a heartless person.
Looking at the Hongmeng Liangtian Ruler in his hand, Qing Xuan sighed and said, "Great God Pangu, this is the limit of what I can do."
"If the Witch Clan can heed my advice and not compete with the Monster Clan, I can try to change the fate of the Twelve Ancestral Witches. Otherwise, there is nothing I can do."
Qing Xuan's words actually caused the entire Buzhou Mountain to tremble slightly, as if it were responding to him.
After seeing Qing Xuan off, the Twelve Ancestral Witches indeed followed his instructions and began using their Ancestral Witch Essence Blood to create Great Witches.
They also sent the Great Witches they created out from Ancestral Witch Hall, having them develop their influence throughout the Primordial Wilderness. This gave the living beings of the Ten Thousand Races, who should originally have belonged to the Monster Clan, another choice.
This inevitably enraged Di Jun and Tai Yi. After all, in their understanding, all the living beings of the Ten Thousand Races in the Primordial Wilderness should belong to the monsters.
The Witch Clan's actions were tantamount to attacking their foundation. This was something Di Jun and Tai Yi could never accept, no matter what.
For a time, the conflict between the Witch Clan and the Monster Clan quietly began ahead of schedule. Although no full-scale war broke out, minor clashes never ceased.
However, this was not something Qing Xuan needed to concern himself with. By then, he had already returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain and begun discussing the Dao with Fu Xi and Nuwa for several thousand years.
All three of them benefited from those several thousand years of discussing the Dao. Fu Xi finally broke through to the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal peak.
Nuwa also finally touched the threshold of the Golden Immortal of the Origin. If she wished, she could even break through at any time by relying directly on the Great Dao Creation Law.
However, Qing Xuan stopped her. He even instructed Nuwa that she had to suppress her cultivation and must not break through in Zixiao Palace, even during this visit to listen to the Dao.
Trusting Qing Xuan, Nuwa agreed without the slightest hesitation. As for why, she did not even ask.
At this point, Qing Xuan had suppressed his cultivation to the extreme. If he wanted to break through, he could advance through several realms in succession at any time.
Even if he could not directly reach the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal peak, reaching the Late-stage Great Luo would absolutely not be a problem.
In the blink of an eye, less than a thousand years remained before Hong Jun's lecture. The three of them once again sealed off the dojo at Phoenix Perch Mountain and went to Zixiao Palace to listen to Hong Jun's second lecture.
When the three arrived outside Zixiao Palace, many cultivators had already gathered there. However, there was none of the commotion from last time. Instead, they were all sitting cross-legged on the steps.
Only after the gates of Zixiao Palace were opened by Haotian and Yaochi did the cultivators enter Zixiao Palace in orderly fashion. After all, the seats had already been assigned, so there was no need to fight over them.
Yet no one had expected that some of the meditation cushions in Zixiao Palace would be empty. There were even dozens of them.
Qing Xuan sat on the first cushion in the right-hand row. With a glance from the corner of his eye, he already understood the reason.
Some of the empty cushions belonged to people like the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who simply could not understand the Dao Hong Jun taught. They had therefore decided not to come and waste their time.
Others had died during those ten thousand years. Naturally, they could no longer come to attend Hong Jun's second lecture.
At the same time, quite a few more cultivators had appeared among those who had originally been seated. They must have broken through to the Zenith Heaven Realm during those ten thousand years and thus qualified to come to Zixiao Palace to listen to the Dao.
However, whether they were people who had failed to obtain seats last time or newcomers to Zixiao Palace this time, no one dared to fight over the empty seats.
Only when Hong Jun appeared in Zixiao Palace did some people take the cushions under his arrangements.
Of course, those who obtained cushions were all attending a lecture in Zixiao Palace for the first time. Hong Yun was assigned to the second row, where he sat beside Zhen Yuanzi.
Since only Houtu had come from the Twelve Ancestral Witches this time, eleven cushions in the second row were left empty. Apart from Hong Yun, ten others obtained seats in that row.
After everyone had taken their seats, Hong Jun finally said, "What I will lecture on this time is the Dao of the Origin."
"The Golden Immortal of the Origin is a crucial realm before the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Therefore, it is also known as the Quasi-Saint Realm."
"To break through from the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm to the Quasi-Saint Realm, bitter cultivation alone is no longer enough. What is needed is insight into the ultimate principles of Heaven and Earth..."
Hong Jun then began expounding the Quasi-Saint's Dao. However, there was very little concerning breakthroughs through comprehending the Great Dao Law. Instead, he mainly taught the Method of Severing Three Corpses.
For most cultivators of the Primordial Wilderness, breaking through by comprehending the Great Dao Law was extraordinarily difficult. By contrast, the Method of Severing Three Corpses was much more convenient and efficient.
For a time, strange phenomena filled the entire Zixiao Palace. Countless law fragments and Dao rhythms shuttled back and forth among the cultivators.
Everyone in Zixiao Palace seemed to have been placed in an independent world. Within that world, they even saw how they should break through.
Of course, not everyone benefited greatly. Some had simply wasted their time. For example, those who had only just reached the Zenith Heaven Realm understood little of such profound Dao teachings.
When the lecture had reached around two thousand years, Qing Yun appeared above Laozi's head, and the Three Flowers bloomed. A Coiling Dragon Flat Crutch lay horizontally above the Human Flower.
The next moment, the Coiling Dragon Flat Crutch transformed into a kind-looking old Daoist. He stepped down from Laozi's Human Flower, and his appearance bore a seventy-to-eighty-percent resemblance to Laozi.
He first bowed respectfully to Laozi, then turned and returned to the Human Flower. This also represented Laozi's breakthrough to the Golden Immortal of the Origin early stage.
Immediately after Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun used the Three Treasures Ruyi to sever his Good Corpse Incarnation, while Tongtian Jiaozhu used the Qingping Sword to sever his Good Corpse Incarnation.
Even the Two Sages of the West each used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and the Jieyin Treasure Banner to sever their Good Corpse Incarnations. In an instant, several Quasi-Saint Great Beings appeared in Zixiao Palace.
Qing Yun also appeared above Nuwa's head, and the Three Flowers gently swayed within it. In the end, however, she did not complete the severing of her corpse.
Of course, this was not because Nuwa was incapable of doing so, nor because she lacked an Innate Spiritual Treasure. She had merely remembered Qing Xuan's instructions and would not break through in Zixiao Palace.
Even if Nuwa chose to break through, she would not take the Path of Severing Three Corpses. Although Hong Jun had taught very little about breakthroughs through laws, Nuwa had still benefited enormously.
Only after Hong Jun had lectured for three thousand years did the Dao voice in Zixiao Palace abruptly cease. He then swept his gaze across everyone in Zixiao Palace.
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