The Three Pure Ones Have a Rift, the Great Thousand World Appears

However, Yuanshi was never one to suffer from internal friction.

Furthermore, at his core, Yuanshi harbored a rather severe mentality: he feared his brothers living in hardship, but feared them driving a luxury car even more.

Thus, out of a desire to shift blame and an imbalance in his heart, Yuanshi said bitterly, "If you ask me, it's all the fault of the Ancestral Witches. Showing off the Pangu Hall for no reason, hmph!"

"But Second Brother, isn't this because..."

Tongtian was quite straightforward; he did not believe the problem lay with the Ancestral Witches.

Moreover, Tongtian had actually been vehemently opposed to dismantling the 24th-Grade Creation Green Lotus back then, but Yuanshi had insisted on it, and Laozi had appeared neutral while actually leaning toward Yuanshi's side.

One against two, and facing his two elder brothers, Tongtian had ultimately been forced to grit his teeth and accept it.

Yet now that a problem had arisen, Yuanshi was not reflecting on his own mistakes but instead shifting the blame onto the Ancestral Witches. What kind of logic was that?

"Third Brother, are you suggesting that all of this is my fault!"

Yuanshi was feeling somewhat triggered.

Seeing this, Laozi couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. If this matter were to be pursued further, wouldn't he, as the eldest brother, also bear some responsibility?

"Stop arguing. The matter has already happened. Will continuing to bicker restore the 24th-Grade Creation Green Lotus?"

As soon as Laozi said this, Yuanshi and Tongtian both fell silent.

It was true; the event had already occurred, and their internal squabbling was useless.

Only Yuanshi sensed slightly that in the last few conflicts between him and Tongtian, Laozi had vaguely stood on his side.

This is a good thing, though Tongtian is too rigid and has often disagreed with Eldest Brother's decisions. He doesn't realize that Eldest Brother's personality, while seemingly inactive, is actually quite petty!

Setting aside the infighting among the Three Pure Ones, the True Form of Pangu, controlled by Zhu Jiuyin, had reached a critical moment in opening up the Great Thousand World.

Under the suppression of the Pangu Hall, a nascent Great Thousand World had taken shape, but this was only the beginning; it was far from being a true Great Thousand World.

"Gold, wood, water, fire, earth—origins of the Five Elements, emerge!"

With another roar from the True Form of Pangu, the Five Elements origin laws that constituted the material foundation of the world instantly came into being.

The moment the Five Elements laws were constructed, the previously empty and lifeless Great Thousand World suddenly sprouted countless vitality and creation.

This scene caused the hearts of the countless mighty figures observing the Ancestral Witches to tremble violently.

In an instant, infinite insights began to surge from their hearts.

In fact, this was almost equivalent to a Hunyuan-realm expert demonstrating the process of opening up a Great Thousand World for them. After all, under Zhu Jiuyin's control, the True Form of Pangu was now no less than a powerhouse at the third level of the half-step Hunyuan realm. If one included the condensed, semi-ethereal Pangu Axe, it could even contend with an early-stage third-level Hunyuan powerhouse.

For these mighty figures, such an existence evolving a Great Thousand World and demonstrating various laws and profound mysteries only usable at the Hunyuan realm was no less valuable than a lecture by Hongjun.

However, there was a fatal problem here.

This was the Primordial World, a place that prioritized karma above all else.

When Hongjun lectured, these mighty figures paid their respects as disciples and honored Hongjun as the "Dao Ancestor," thereby repaying the immense benefit of Hongjun establishing his supreme status as the spokesperson for the Heavenly Dao.

But what about the karma they now owed the Ancestral Witches?

How would they repay it?

In the Primordial World, one could owe anything, but it was best not to owe karma.

If it were a case of the strong toward the weak, karma was easy to repay.

But if it were the other way around—the weak toward the strong—then one could only wait.

It was like giving ten thousand dollars to someone starving and destitute as life-saving capital. If, years later, that person became a billionaire while you remained an ordinary person, it would be considered conscientious if they repaid you a few hundred thousand; it would be justifiable in every sense.

But what if you were the richest person in the country?

Could the other party dismiss such a life-saving debt with a mere few hundred thousand?

That was the current situation between the Ancestral Witches and the other mighty figures.

With Zhu Jiuyin's intervention, the heights the Ancestral Witches could reach in this lifetime were far beyond the reach of the ordinary mighty figures of the Primordial World.

In fact, it wasn't just these mighty figures.

If one were to ask who benefited the most from the True Form of Pangu opening the Great Thousand World, no creature could compare to the Twelve Ancestral Witches within the True Form of Pangu itself.

Especially Zhu Jiuyin, the operator of the True Form of Pangu.

While the other mighty figures were merely copying, for the Ancestral Witches, it was as if the True Form of Pangu was personally guiding their hands, demonstrating every law evolution and true intent of the Hunyuan realm.

To put it simply, under the demonstration of the True Form of Pangu, everyone, including Zhu Jiuyin, now understood the path forward to break through from Ancestral Witch to Wu Saint.

Cultivation was like building a road; one didn't fear the difficulty of the construction, only the lack of direction and destination.

Now that the destination had been pointed out by the True Form of Pangu, this kind of fortune was even greater than the Grandmist Violet Qi.

Sigh, Father God had actually arranged everything long ago. But in the myths of the Primordial World, whether it was us Ancestral Witches or the Three Pure Ones, we abandoned the essence to pursue the trivial, shattering the path to the heavens that Father God had already laid out for us.

Thinking of how the Ancestral Witches in the myths were all bellicose and reckless, failing to even grasp the true intent of the Twelve Capital Divine Gods and Demons Formation, acting like brainless brutes...

And then considering how the Three Pure Ones abandoned Pangu to honor the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun, effectively discarding the title of "Pangu's Three Pure Ones"...

In any case, Zhu Jiuyin felt that if he were Father God Pangu, and he truly learned of these deeds by the Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones, he probably wouldn't want to return to the Primordial World either.

How embarrassing.

Zhu Jiuyin suddenly recalled a line he had read in the library of a modern sword academy: it is not the wealthy second-generation heirs who indulge in hedonism that one should fear, but those who are ambitious and insist on meddling with things they do not understand.

In truth, the only reason Zhu Jiuyin still had the leisure to entertain such idle thoughts was that he had discovered he had lost control over the True Form of Pangu as the Great Thousand World was being carved out.

At this moment, the one controlling the True Form of Pangu was likely that lingering trace of the will of Father God Pangu from the great beyond.

Once the origin of the Five Elements had evolved, the material foundation of the world was formed; what followed were the wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, which, under the guidance of the laws of weather, established the world's energy circulation system.

As the saying goes, the Five Elements set the foundation of earth, water, fire, and wind, while the wind, rain, thunder, and lightning carry out the power of the celestial cycle; when the two are combined, they form the complete laws of heaven and earth.

By this stage, the Great Thousand World could be considered essentially complete.