Zhuzhou were bearers of light, gods who illuminated the world. In the Dao Court's ancient records, the term broadly referred to all holy spirits born of heaven and earth that could not be classified. If one encountered a powerful divine holy spirit that defied classification and seemed to have been born of heaven and earth, one could simply call it a Zhuzhou.
An Jing had heard this name before as well—it was connected to the Dahuang Realm. According to his master Ming Guangchen, the deity worshipped by the great human powers of that world was the "Zhu Zhao, God Venerable of Bright Day." That was the sun of the Dahuang Realm, a form of sun worship, and a sun deity was clearly also a holy spirit of heaven and earth.
When Fuxie heard the name "Zhu Zhao, God Venerable of Bright Day," He had muttered to Himself as well. He said that He had once conversed with the Ancestral Dragon, and the Huaixu Ancestral Dragon had stated that He was "Zhu Zhao"—in other words, a [Zhuzhou]!
[Zhuzhou!]
While An Jing still had the spare attention to feel delighted and recall these details, the Heavenly Demons were utterly dumbfounded. Jiexin and Kuji were better off; though the two were astonished, they did not react much. But Xiuming clearly could not hold it together. It displayed an exceptionally obvious stress response, as though it had once been beaten by a Zhuzhou: [How is that possible? After all these years, wasn't the last Zhuzhou in Da Chen...]
But it was, after all, a Great Heavenly Demon that had endured endless ages. Xiuming swiftly calmed down. [Could it be that the Heavenly Will sword strike from before—the phenomenon that shattered the revival trend of Kuji's true body and brought down sweet dew from the