Seeing Nuwa on the verge of going mad, Qing Xuan finally felt a little satisfaction. It was payback for Nuwa stubbornly refusing to stop calling him Little Gourd Vine.
Then Qing Xuan explained the One Qi Incarnation method to everyone present. He wasn't certain whether it differed from the true One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones technique.
After all, Qing Xuan had never encountered Laozi's One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones technique. The cultivation method he had passed on to Nuwa was derived from the Path of Severing Three Corpses.
The so-called severing of Good, Evil, and Self involved severing three kinds of thoughts. In truth, it also meant splitting them from the Nascent Soul, though they made up only a small portion.
After all, whether good, evil, or self, they were all part of a person's Seven Emotions and Six Desires. To sever them was tantamount to cutting off all emotion and desire.
Unfortunately, if even Hong Jun himself couldn't do it, how could anyone else? In the end, it only made one's personality more extreme.
So Qing Xuan had studied Hong Jun's Path of Severing Three Corpses and refined it. He kept the cultivation method but changed the way the corpses were severed.
Instead of removing the attachments to good, evil, and self from the Nascent Soul, he split the Nascent Soul directly. The split Nascent Soul and the main Nascent Soul would both remain whole; they would simply differ in size.
Then he would use Three Lights Divine Water to nourish the Nascent Soul and heal the damage to the main one, restoring it to its complete state. This would produce a clone with one-third of its owner's Nascent Soul.
Once Nuwa understood the procedure, she headed straight for the Three Lights Divine Water Pool and sat cross-legged atop the Three Lights Divine Water Altar.
At that moment, her Nascent Soul slowly floated up from her body, then began to stretch and twist.
The process was painful, but not in the way physical pain was. It came from deep within the soul, an unbearable agony.
Nuwa's face was twisted with pain, and her body trembled uncontrollably. Her purple robes were already soaked through with cold sweat.
The process lasted a full forty-nine years before Nuwa finally separated one-third of her Nascent Soul from the main one.
As the portion split off, Nuwa's main Nascent Soul grew exceedingly dim. But she had no time to worry about that. She took out the Red Embroidered Ball and sent the fragment of her Nascent Soul into it.
Only then did she draw her main Nascent Soul back into her body, then sink into the Three Lights Divine Water Pool with her physical body.
Seeing this, Qing Xuan let out a long breath. He knew Nuwa had succeeded—and that his method worked.
If Nuwa found out Qing Xuan had used her as a test subject, would she go mad and make his life a living hell?
Still, everything had worked out, and now all they needed was time. Given enough time, the Three Lights Divine Water would surely restore Nuwa's Nascent Soul to its perfect state.
"Brother, you don't need to worry about Second Sister anymore. Hurry and stabilize your cultivation so you'll be ready for the next lecture."
Fu Xi smiled and nodded, then said, "You call Little Sister Second Sister when you're talking to me, so why do you stubbornly refuse to call her that when she's around?"
Qing Xuan smiled helplessly and replied perfunctorily, "I'm used to calling her by her name."
What Qing Xuan meant was that, deep down, he accepted Nuwa as his older sister. As for continuing to call her by her name, that was between the two of them.
Fu Xi would only truly entrust Nuwa to Qing Xuan if he believed Qing Xuan sincerely accepted her.
After all, the Primordial First Doting Sister Demon wasn't just a name. Fu Xi was the kind of man who would genuinely die for his sister. How could Qing Xuan not put his mind at ease first?
After he finished speaking, Qing Xuan opened his Folding Fan. The scene of Hong Jun lecturing appeared over Fangzhang Island, drawing Fu Xi, Houtu, and Qing Xuan into it.
This time, the scene lasted long enough that even after they relived Three Thousand Years of Preaching, the image on the fan hadn't turned gray.
Seeing this, Qing Xuan gave Houtu another private lesson, letting her revisit the contents of the first lecture.
Another three thousand years passed before the scene finally vanished. The image of Hong Jun lecturing on the fan also turned gray.
Even now, Qing Xuan still hadn't figured out how the thing recharged. Did it take another lecture from Hong Jun to fill it back up?
Qing Xuan wasn't one to obsess over a problem. Since he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it and headed straight for the Three Lights Divine Water Pool.
First, he looked at the eight koi beneath the Pure World White Lotus. Their cultivation had all advanced to the Taiyi Realm.
Qing Xuan nodded in satisfaction. "Keep up your cultivation. Whether you can break through to Great Luo will be the most important thing from here on."
The eight koi leaped out of the Three Lights Divine Water Pool together and hovered in midair, bowing to Qing Xuan. "Rest assured, Master. With the cultivation method you taught us, we're confident we can break through to the Great Luo Realm."
Qing Xuan nodded with satisfaction, then sent them back beneath the Pure World White Lotus to continue cultivating. He hoped they would break through to the Great Luo Realm as soon as possible.
As it turned out, the first thing Qing Xuan had done after returning from Zixiao Palace was pass on the True Dragon Art he had comprehended during the lecture to the eight koi.
It was thanks to the True Dragon Art that they had made successive breakthroughs over the past six thousand years, reaching the Mid Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage.
After checking on the eight koi, Qing Xuan walked over to Nuwa. She was still beneath the Three Lights Divine Water Altar, restoring her Nascent Soul.
"As expected of the Primordial Wilderness's greatest healing treasure. The Three Lights Divine Water really is incredible at restoring a Nascent Soul. In six thousand years, Nuwa has recovered more than ninety percent."
"At this rate, she'll need no more than two thousand years to restore her Nascent Soul completely."
As Qing Xuan muttered beside the Three Lights Divine Water Pool, he suddenly felt a wave of pressure coming toward him. He turned and saw that Fu Xi was using the Great Dao Deduction Law to break through.
Fu Xi looked moments away from completing his breakthrough, but his surging aura suddenly faded. It slowly dissolved into nothing, and everything returned to calm.
Confused, Qing Xuan stepped forward and asked Fu Xi, "Why did the breakthrough fail? Did something go wrong?"
Fu Xi smiled and shook his head. "The Dao Ancestor may not be paying attention to me, but it's best to be cautious about certain things."
"I've already grasped the key to breaking through. Once the Three Lectures at Zixiao Palace are over, I'll be able to advance naturally. Why worry about a few thousand years?"
Qing Xuan finally understood. Fu Xi hadn't been unable to break through; he was worried that Qing Xuan's method of cultivating laws might be exposed.
Qing Xuan couldn't help thinking, It seems that after all my words and guidance, the Hong Jun Conspiracy Theory has taken root in all of their minds.
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