"If that is so."
"Why not have a battle and determine who is superior?"
"Whoever wins goes first!"
"But we cannot fight until we truly lose our tempers."
"How about it?"
Nüwa said this.
Tongtian laughed heartily, his battle intent growing even stronger.
"Of course!"
"If I find that I cannot resolve your Dao techniques."
"I will admit defeat!"
With that said.
The cultivators moved away.
At the center.
Only Nüwa and Tongtian remained.
A terrifyingly immense pressure radiated from the area, frightening the nearby Spirit Beasts into fleeing in all directions.
Even Fuxi and the others who were watching.
Could not help but sigh with emotion.
All they could say was.
He truly deserved to be the first to reach the mountaintop, the first to find the Immortal Mountain, and the first to madly exchange Dao techniques with others.
Their cultivation realms.
Were clearly a step below his!
At this moment.
Tongtian drew his sword and held the Greenping Sword before him.
"I have a sword that can eradicate everything!"
There were no fancy techniques.
Tongtian struck with his sword.
This was no longer a law.
It was the purest Sword Dao!
It could cleave apart the stars.
And annihilate all things!
Seeing this scene, the other cultivators could not help but change color.
Because it was too terrifying.
Although they could block it, they would not do so easily.
And it was obvious.
Tongtian had not used much strength in this strike.
It was simply a casual sword stroke.
Could Nüwa block it?
Not only could she.
It could even be said that she did so with considerable ease.
"Junior Brother Tongtian, your sword can indeed annihilate all things, but you..."
"Can it annihilate creation? Can it annihilate... the Dao?"
Nüwa waved her delicate hand.
A streak of Cyan Profound Light shot out.
In an instant.
It completely enveloped the Sword Light, while evolving the heavens and earth, all things, and everything in the world.
No matter how powerful the Sword Light was.
The Profound Light of Creation had a way to resolve it.
Before even a moment had passed.
The Sword Light vanished, while the Profound Light remained!
In other words.
Tongtian's sword had been dissolved by Nüwa.
And it had been done with ease.
"What a fine technique!"
Tongtian's battle intent did not diminish. Instead, it grew stronger as he spoke.
"That was merely a test."
"Next comes the real thing!"
"I will strike another sword. If it is still dissolved, I will not draw my sword again and will willingly acknowledge my inferiority!"
Tongtian had no intention of battling Nüwa for thousands or tens of thousands of years, or even longer.
After testing her with one sword.
He wanted to strike again and settle everything with that blow.
Nüwa had no objection.
The next instant.
Tongtian seemed to swallow the Cosmos, and rainbow light shone from the Greenping Sword in his hand.
Boundless might.
Also surged from his body toward the surroundings.
Before the sword was even unleashed.
It could already influence the movement of the stars, as if only this sword remained between heaven and earth, with nothing else left.
It even carried the intent to regard heaven, earth, all things, and every Dao technique in the world as opponents.
At once.
Someone cried out in alarm.
"Not only the Sword Dao, but also the Dao of Combat!"
"Hiss~"
"Tongtian actually comprehended two Dao techniques!"
"I'm afraid I won't be able to block this sword! And I'm not even its target. What if I were in the center of this Sword Intent?"
"How truly terrifying!"
With Nüwa locked onto by the Sword Intent, her brows lifted slightly.
Her expression also grew somewhat solemn.
But there was no fear in her eyes.
She formed hand seals with her delicate hands, drawing forth the boundless Profound Light of Creation.
It seemed she was casting a great divine ability.
Only, the Sword Intent was too dense.
It was impossible to see clearly.
Under these circumstances, Tongtian struck another sword, containing two Dao techniques and possessing the might to destroy heaven and earth!
In an instant.
The area around Nüwa was submerged.
Everything nearby was annihilated into nothingness!
For a time.
The hearts of all the cultivators tightened.
So...
Had Tongtian won?
Just as this thought arose, a change came from within the Sword Light's intent of destruction.
Tongtian's pupils suddenly contracted.
He sheathed the Greenping Sword.
And sighed in admiration.
"I have lost!"
"Senior Sister Nüwa..."
"You are indeed one step superior!"
At this moment.
Nüwa's voice rang out.
She said with a smile.
"It is not that I am especially formidable. Rather, the Celestial Venerable's Dao technique is profound and wondrous!"
"This divine ability evolved from the Green Lotus in the Merit Thunder Pool!"
"Junior Brother Tongtian, your defeat was no disgrace!"
As she spoke, a small cyan lotus quietly blossomed in Nüwa's palm.
This was actually the Green Lotus of Creation!
But it was not the one the Three Purities had obtained on Mount Buzhou. Instead, it was...
One that Nüwa had condensed through the Dao of Creation!
This was a Dao technique that had transformed the illusory into reality!
If one day.
Nüwa's comprehension of the Dao of Creation improved further.
She might even use this.
To recreate the Supreme Treasure, the Green Lotus of Creation, from nothing!
However.
She had comprehended this method from the Merit Thunder Pool and the Academy's Jade Tablet.
Its effects were also very obvious.
As soon as the Green Lotus of Creation grew, Tongtian's terrifying Sword Intent collapsed along with it.
Thus.
The order in which the cultivators ranked themselves was settled.
Nüwa was naturally the Eldest Senior Sister.
After her came Tongtian.
Then came Fuxi, Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, Ming He, Queen Mother of the West, Xi He, Houtu, Changxi...
As for which sect the cultivators belonged to.
Nüwa was suddenly struck by inspiration.
She blurted out.
"Dao Sect!"
At this moment.
The Dao Sect was born!
When Nüwa spoke the words "Dao Sect."
Between heaven and earth.
A Strange Phenomenon faintly appeared.
More precisely.
It was the entire Primordial Wilderness!
It seemed these two words contained immense power.
And even more boundless profundity.
Otherwise...
How could they trigger a change in the Primordial Wilderness?
For a time.
Not to mention those here—even cultivators in other parts of the Primordial Wilderness could not help feeling astonished and suspicious.
The main issue was that they did not know what had happened.
They only knew that the Primordial Wilderness had changed.
In the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Taiqing and Yuanshi suddenly stopped.
They could not help looking around.
They wanted to know what the change was.
They even performed divinations, but the result was...
They could not determine anything.
"Eldest Brother, the opportunity is important!"
"We cannot deduce this change, so other cultivators certainly cannot either. Let us set it aside for now!"
Yuanshi gave up deducing.
He sighed.
It wasn't that he wanted to do so, but the reason was obvious.
This change.
It wasn't something he could investigate.
Taiqing sighed as well.
The reason for his sigh was that they had already cultivated to such a realm, reaching the peak of Da Luo, yet they still couldn't investigate many of the Primordial Wilderness's secrets...
Unable to investigate?
"Forget it!"
After sighing again, Taiqing quickened his pace.
He hurried toward Mount Buzhou.
There was an opportunity there.
At this moment.
It wasn't only Taiqing and Yuanshi. The other cultivators were more or less the same.
The only exception was...
Lei Jun Palace.
Hongjun abruptly opened his eyes and emerged from seclusion.
His eyes were filled with astonishment.
The other cultivators couldn't sense it.
But he knew.
At this moment.
Hongjun couldn't help murmuring softly, his brows tightly furrowed.
"The Dao Sect?"
"This sect..."
"Is actually even more profound than my Xuan Sect?"
After Hongjun became a sage.
He had also founded a sect, one that was the gateway to profundity.
It was known simply as the Xuan Sect.
Whether it was lecturing on the Dao or gathering providence and the like, he carried it all out through this sect.
It was also, according to the trajectory of Fate,
the Primordial Wilderness's number-one teaching sect.
The Chan and Jie Sects, in a certain sense, were merely parts of it.
But now.
A new teaching sect had emerged out of nowhere!
The Dao!
Just reciting this name silently made Hongjun secretly alarmed.
He couldn't help thinking of another matter.
"So..."
"The reason I couldn't deduce the locations of Nüwa, Tongtian, and the others..."
"Is because they're in this Dao Sect?"
It was a very reasonable deduction.
The more Hongjun thought about it,
the more likely it seemed.
Otherwise,
how could he explain that Nüwa and the others had seemed to vanish over the years?
Because of this,
Hongjun had been worried sick.
He had even postponed the time for his lectures by quite a lot.
Now that Nüwa and the others had appeared, Hongjun couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
No matter what background that Dao Sect had,
it was enough that these cultivators were still around.
Otherwise...
wouldn't the trajectory of Fate be completely altered?
"Since that's the case."
"This old Daoist should adjust this deviated trajectory of Fate back into place!"
"At the very least, I must bring Tongtian and Nüwa to the second lecture!"
As he thought this,
Hongjun formed a Dharma Seal with one hand and waved his Whisk with the other.
He prepared to modify Fate.
But then.
He froze, his eyes widening.
He cried out in shock.
"Peak Hunyuan Golden Immortal?"
For an instant,
Hongjun even thought he had seen it wrong.
He muttered.
The calmness on his face could no longer be maintained.
Only terror remained.
"How is that possible?"
"How long has it been?"
"They actually crossed an entire major realm? From Da Luo Golden Immortal, they broke through to Hunyuan Golden Immortal?"
"And they're only one step away from becoming Hunyuan?"
"This..."
At this moment.
Hongjun's thoughts were incomparably complicated.
Besides shock,
there was also...
"Jealousy."
He had endured countless hardships and had only become the sole spokesperson of the Heavenly Dao after luckily defeating Luo Hou, eventually becoming a sage.
Even reaching the peak of Hunyuan Golden Immortal
had taken him an extremely long time.
The hardships of the process
couldn't be described simply.
In any case, it hadn't been easy.
But how long had it taken Nüwa and the others?
They had already reached the realm he had possessed before becoming a sage?
Precisely because he had thought of this,
Hongjun was unbearably jealous.
What kind of opportunity was this?
What sort of fortune?
That Dao Sect and all...
Could he join it?
There were only two words.
Envy.
Of course.
Hongjun was only thinking about it. Unless the Heavenly Dao allowed it, he couldn't do so even if he wanted to.
Very soon.
Hongjun's thoughts shifted elsewhere, but his brows remained furrowed.
Because...
His attempt to tamper with Fate had actually failed!
Whether it was Nüwa or Tongtian,
or any of the other cultivators,
their futures were unknown, but their pasts were fixed and could no longer be changed.
With Hongjun's might, he was unable to do it.
For a time.
Hongjun was even more horrified.
This Dao Sect...
might be even more terrifying than he had imagined!
On the other side.
At the place where the Immortal Mountain had originally stood.
The cultivators came back to their senses.
Two things had left them stunned.
One was naturally the battle between Nüwa and Tongtian.
It had to be said.
The two truly deserved to be the two beings with the highest cultivation below the Hunyuan realm in the Academy.
Their comprehension of the Dao was even profound beyond compare.
That Tongtian had comprehended two Dao techniques
was something no one had expected.
As for Nüwa...
What Nüwa?
This was the Eldest Senior Sister!
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