Did I Kidnap Nuwa?

Now there were less than nine thousand years left until Hong Jun's sermon. Qing Xuan had already begun considering whether he should go and show his face to get familiar.

After all, in the future, being known as a guest of Zixiao Palace was a decent identity. At the very least, it sounded quite impressive.

But to reach Zixiao Palace, one needed the ability to walk through Chaos, and only a Golden Immortal could move through Chaos unharmed by the Chaos Gale.

Qing Xuan, after all, wasn't his main body taking form; he was a condensed Outer Incarnation, so he only had the cultivation of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

He was still a whole major realm away from the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Breaking through in less than nine thousand years would probably be somewhat difficult.

So for the next period of time, Qing Xuan focused entirely on bitter cultivation. At most, he would discuss Dao with Fu Xi to deepen his understanding of the laws.

As for discussing Dao with Nuwa, forget it. If that girl didn't lead you astray, you could count yourself as having steady mental fortitude.

Yet over two thousand years, Qing Xuan's cultivation still hadn't broken through to Mid Primordial Unity Golden Immortal. At this rate, going to Zixiao Palace would become empty talk.

One day, Qing Xuan woke from cultivation and calculated the time. Less than seven thousand years remained until the sermon at Zixiao Palace.

"If I keep cultivating behind closed doors like this, even with ten thousand years, I won't reach the Zenith Heaven Realm. It seems it's time to go out and take a turn."

"But with my cultivation, if I run into a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, I probably won't even have the strength to protect myself. The only outcome would be someone killing me and taking my treasures."

"Maybe I should bring Nuwa along. With her as my bodyguard, I could probably walk sideways across the Primordial World."

Thinking this, Qing Xuan stood up directly and looked at his main body, the Innate Gourd Vine. He felt it would be safe staying in Phoenix Perch Mountain.

Then Qing Xuan collected some Three Lights Divine Water from the gourd leaves and headed toward Nuwa's dwelling, intending to invite her to travel the Primordial World together.

Nuwa, as always, hated bitter cultivation. Right now, she was lying on a rocking chair Qing Xuan had made for her, basking in the sun.

Seeing Qing Xuan approach, a gleam lit up in Nuwa's eyes, but she quickly concealed it.

Until Qing Xuan reached her side, she didn't even glance at him. It wasn't until Qing Xuan pushed the rocking chair that Nuwa looked his way.

"What made you waste time coming to find me? Aren't you like my elder brother, obsessed with bitter cultivation?"

Qing Xuan could clearly hear the resentment in Nuwa's tone. It was probably because he had neglected her during this time.

So he stood beside Nuwa, gently pushing the rocking chair, and said to her, "Cultivation is important, but you can't just train every day. Otherwise, wouldn't life become unbearably dull?"

"I'm planning to travel the Primordial Great Land and experience the wonderful Primordial World. I'm just wondering if you're interested in coming along with me."

Hearing that Qing Xuan wanted to take her to travel the Primordial World, a spark of brilliance instantly appeared in Nuwa's eyes, and she nodded eagerly at Qing Xuan.

"Great, great, let's go now. Don't let my elder brother find out, or he'll start nagging again."

As she spoke, Nuwa leaped up from the rocking chair. She waved her hand back at it and put it away.

Qing Xuan said helplessly, "Aren't you worried about Fu Xi if you don't say goodbye? And why are you bringing that rocking chair? Can it help you fight people?"

Nuwa rolled her eyes at Qing Xuan and said, "I'll leave a jade slip for my elder brother, telling him we've gone to travel the Primordial World. After all, I can't disturb his cultivation over such a small matter."

With that, she took out a jade slip, formed hand seals, and carved into it for a while. Finally, she whispered a few words into it.

After setting down the jade slip, Nuwa directly grabbed Qing Xuan and headed out of Phoenix Perch Mountain, afraid that if they moved too slowly, Fu Xi would stop them.

This left Qing Xuan with a face full of black lines. He thought to himself, Does this count as me running off with Nuwa?

Qing Xuan remembered that on Buzhou Mountain, besides his own Innate Gourd Vine, there seemed to be another spiritual root called the Innate Banana Tree.

That Innate Banana Tree had four banana leaves, each one an Innate Spiritual Treasure, corresponding to the four attributes of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.

So Qing Xuan wasn't in a hurry to leave Buzhou Mountain. Instead, he took Nuwa and began climbing Buzhou Mountain on foot.

Phoenix Perch Mountain was at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, and even the Ancestral Witch Hall was on the lower section of Buzhou Mountain. The middle section was almost the limit cultivators could reach.

But as Hong Jun's sermons spread and Primordial World cultivators began practicing the Path of Severing Three Corpses, the Pangu Pressure on Buzhou Mountain grew thinner and thinner.

By the time Hong Jun's Three Lectures ended, any Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal could reach the summit of Buzhou Mountain. By then, the Pangu Pressure was almost gone.

As for after the Witch-Demon Calamity, Buzhou Mountain was even broken off by Gonggong. At that point, not to mention the Pangu Pressure, even Buzhou Mountain itself became the Sky-Overturning Seal.

Even so, the Sky-Overturning Seal still carried a trace of Pangu Pressure, allowing it, as a Houtian Spiritual Treasure, to clash head-on with Innate Spiritual Treasures without losing.

Now, with the Zixiao Palace sermon yet to begin, Qing Xuan and Nuwa climbing Buzhou Mountain on foot was also a test of their physical bodies.

At first, there wasn't much of a sensation, but as the two reached the middle section of Buzhou Mountain—where the Innate Gourd Vine originally was—

the pressure on the mountain multiplied dramatically. It took a full hundred years to climb just a thousand li or so.

Nuwa, being a Mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, could naturally withstand the immense Pangu Pressure. But Qing Xuan, only a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, keeping pace with Nuwa was something worth pondering.

Nuwa, however, didn't focus on that. Instead, she cheerfully followed Qing Xuan, frantically scavenging across Buzhou Mountain.

Because so few people could climb Buzhou Mountain at this time, it was still very bountiful. Within just a thousand li, Qing Xuan and Nuwa found several Innate Spiritual Roots.

Though most were mid-grade, after the Witch-Demon Calamity, they would become rare treasures fought over by all factions, so Qing Xuan naturally wouldn't let them go.

Anything that caught his eye, he stored in the Purple Gold Gourd. After all, among the seven gourds, only the Purple Gold Gourd contained spatial laws.

In the original Primordial World Trajectory, the Purple Gold Gourd fell into Laozi's hands, and he used it to store the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir.

During the Journey to the West Calamity, the Purple Gold Gourd shone brilliantly. That line, "Sun Wukong, I call your name, do you dare to answer?" became an undefeated legend.

Unfortunately, even if Qing Xuan called those spiritual roots, they couldn't answer. Otherwise, he really wanted to try the thrill of calling someone's name and capturing them.

But aside from the Innate Spiritual Roots, Qing Xuan and Nuwa didn't find a single Innate Spiritual Treasure.

"Logically speaking, Buzhou Mountain was formed from Pangu's spine—it shouldn't be this barren. How could there not be a single Innate Spiritual Treasure?"

Beside him, Nuwa dug up a stalk of lingzhi that was tens of kalpas old and spoke casually to Qing Xuan.

"During the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation, Elder Brother and I had not yet undergone Form Transformation—we had only just awakened our spiritual intelligence. I once saw a Daoist climbing Buzhou Mountain. It's likely he took all the Innate Spiritual Treasures with him."

Hearing Nuwa's words, Qing Xuan couldn't help but think of Hong Jun. "That's right. Hong Jun was able to distribute treasures at the Treasure Distribution Cliff, which means he had an incalculable number of Innate Spiritual Treasures in his possession."

"Where did those Innate Spiritual Treasures come from? Naturally, he scoured the Primordial Wilderness and gathered them in advance. And with his cultivation, climbing Buzhou Mountain would have been no trouble at all."

Having grasped the key point, Qing Xuan lost all interest in climbing Buzhou Mountain. After all, he had no desire to clean up someone else's leftovers.