The Witch Race's Happy Days, and the Witch Race Can Now Birth Primordial Spirits

Regardless, the spread and encroachment of this Turbid Qi are still in their nascent stages.

For the vast Primordial World, this is essentially equivalent to casting a handful of sand into the ocean.

However, Turbid Qi is to the Primordial World what the flu is to human society.

Their characteristics are such that, in the initial stages, they might only affect a small portion of people and living beings. But once left to spread and encroach unchecked, it is just like every flu outbreak that inevitably sweeps through the entire human society at a rapid pace; once the Turbid Qi fully develops, its speed of spread and encroachment will far exceed the expectations of all living beings in the Primordial World.

Therefore, for now, after thirty thousand years of development, the influence of Turbid Qi on the Primordial World still seems very subtle.

But the spread and encroachment of Turbid Qi develop exponentially; if one extends the time dimension to three hundred thousand or even one million years, it will inevitably develop into a disaster that sweeps across the Primordial World.

Now, let us turn our perspective to the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race.

One must admit that the essence of living beings is to love ease and hate work, even for the Witch Race, who are accustomed to battling heaven and earth.

Or rather, if one could live well just by lying down, who the hell would want to go out and work?

At the very beginning, the vast majority of the Witch Race, including the Ancestral Witches, were actually quite unaccustomed to it.

There was no helping it; it was like a laborer used to the daily grind suddenly finding themselves with nothing to do.

But after living in this state for a few days, it was simply too wonderful.

The Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race were exactly like this.

And so, from then on, they no longer had to pay attention to the rights and wrongs of the outside world, nor did they have to face the distant and hostile attitudes of non-Witch living beings.

Of course, most importantly, the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race could finally cast off the obligation of absorbing Turbid Qi.

The nature of Turbid Qi meant that whether it was an ordinary Witch or an Ancestral Witch, every time they absorbed it, they faced a pain that penetrated deep into their bones and even their souls.

To alleviate this pain, they could only use the blood and vitality of other living beings to counteract it.

Therefore, in essence, the Witch Race's mass hunting of demon beasts and even the Demon Race occurred because demon beasts, the Demon Race, and even every blade of grass and tree—anything with vitality—represented, to a greater or lesser extent, the life force and creation of heaven and earth.

The essence of the Witch Race hunting these demon beasts and the Demon Race was actually to use this life force and creation bestowed by heaven and earth to resist the Turbid Qi, which represented destruction and ruin.

But now, as the Witch Race abandoned the obligation of absorbing the Turbid Qi of heaven and earth, they naturally no longer had to bear the pain required to absorb it.

Suddenly, from the Ancestral Witches down to the ordinary Witches, there was an unprecedented sense of comfort.

It is pitiful to say, but from their birth until now, including the Ancestral Witches, they had truly never lived a good day.

Perhaps it could be said that from the moment they gained sentience, from the Ancestral Witches down to the ordinary Witches, there was not a single day they had not absorbed the Turbid Qi of heaven and earth, which meant there was not a single day they had not endured that excruciating pain penetrating deep into their bones and souls.

That is why the Witch Race was impulsive, tyrannical, and like brutes; because the pain was so great, living beings naturally had little energy left to think about anything.

That is also why the Witch Race did not fear death, because for a Witch who needed to feel pain daily, death might be a form of relief.

But because absorbing Turbid Qi was an obligation left to the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race by Pangu before he opened the heavens, the Witch Race, who had always executed Pangu's will as a supreme holy decree, had never slacked off for even a single day.

But now, as Zhu Jiuyin had luckily been able to travel to the downstream of the River of Time and, even more fortunately, caught a glimpse of the future of the Witch Race, everything was naturally different.

To repeat the point: why should they?

The greatest hidden danger of the Primordial World was being mitigated by us, the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race, on behalf of the Primordial World, and we were bearing it for the living beings of the Primordial World.

Yet, neither the Primordial World nor the living beings within it seemed to have ever treated the Witch Race kindly.

"Just because it has always been this way, does that make it right?"

This was a sentence Zhu Jiuyin had seen in one of the millions of modern books, and he found it profound.

"And I think if Father God Pangu could see the plight of the Witch Race, he would surely feel heartache. After all, he said the Witch Race are his children, and the most filial ones at that!"

"So, was it actually because Father God could no longer bear it that I had that miracle-like journey through time?"

Seeing that the greatest worry of the Witch Race had vanished and the tragic future seemed to have drifted away, Zhu Jiuyin could not help but mutter to himself in his heart after settling down and thinking deeply.

What Zhu Jiuyin did not know was that after thirty thousand years of a "lying flat" lifestyle, from the Ancestral Witches down to the ordinary Witches, they were all wholeheartedly submissive to him, their new leader.

Being able to lead one's people to a good life possesses natural justice and authority in any world and any form of society.

When the billions of Witches no longer had to bear the obligation of absorbing Turbid Qi, and more importantly, did not have to bear the pain that came with it, their personalities became much more cheerful and lively.

If any outside living beings could see the state of the billions of Witches now, they would definitely be unable to stop themselves from rubbing their eyes.

It was different; everything was different.

When the Witch Race cast off the greatest burden weighing upon them, the Witches, who were once universally considered brainless, began to enjoy thinking.

The Witch Race were the native living beings of the Primordial World closest to the laws; once they were no longer affected by Turbid Qi, their advantage in the perception and mastery of laws finally erupted.

Zhu Jiuyin himself had already discovered that in the past thirty thousand years, the cultivation speed of the Witch Race was no slower than their previous hundred thousand years of cultivation.

By this calculation, that was a cultivation speed exceeding three times the original.

More importantly, this was only the beginning.

Because Zhu Jiuyin discovered that when the Witch Race no longer absorbed the Turbid Qi of heaven and earth, the Turbid Qi originally within their bodies began to be slowly digested by their physical forms.

With less Turbid Qi in their bodies, or rather, as the Turbid Qi slowly merged into their flesh and blood, the Turbid Qi that had originally shrouded and covered the spirits of the Witches was also slowly dissipating.

This discovery not only stunned Zhu Jiuyin but also left Ancestral Witches like Dijiang and Houtu unable to keep their composure.

"Father God above, if this continues, could it be that one day we, the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race, will also be able to give birth to a Primordial Spirit?!"

This was an exclamation from Houtu.

But this exclamation was like a thunderbolt, instantly striking Zhu Jiuyin's spirit and making him suddenly understand many things.

For instance, why in the myths of the Primordial World, after Houtu sacrificed herself to form the cycle of reincarnation, she not only did not die but also gave birth to a Primordial Spirit and was able to achieve the supreme position of the spokesperson for the Earthly Dao!