"So from now on, when dealing with Jieyin and Zhunti, you need to be more careful. Don't let your guard down, or you might not even realize when they've tricked you."
"Ah..." Houtu froze, looking surprised. "Second Brother, didn't you say that of the future Six Sages of the Heavenly Dao, Jieyin and Zhunti were the ones you approved of most?"
Zhu Jiuyin was at a loss for words. He stepped over to Houtu and tapped her on the head. "You really are so naive!"
"Are the Witch Race and Jieyin and Zhunti on good terms? Never mind that they're destined to become two of the Six Sages of the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun's disciples, which naturally puts them at odds with our Witch Race. Even setting all that aside, who was it that gave our Witch Race its infamous reputation as the 'source of chaos'?
"On those two counts alone, we could never be on good terms with Jieyin and Zhunti.
"If our positions naturally put us at odds, then the more extraordinary our opponents are, the more vigilant we should be!"
Houtu froze for a moment, then suddenly seemed to understand. Her eyes lit up.
"Exactly! Second Brother, you're absolutely right! Our positions naturally put us at odds with Jieyin and Zhunti. If they get the chance, they'll scheme against us without hesitation. So normally, it's best if we don't run into them. But if we do, we should just beat them to a pulp!"
Zhu Jiuyin paused, thinking to himself, Isn't that a little too violent?
But a moment later, Zhu Jiuyin clapped his hands. "That's right. That's exactly what we should do."
"They have astonishing wisdom, and we have astonishing strength.
"In the end, there's only one way to fight: use our strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses, and hit them hard—really hard. Just as that human prodigy of later generations put it: 'You fight your fight, and I'll fight mine!'"
Hahaha...
At that moment, Zhu Jiuyin threw back his head and laughed.
Zhu Jiuyin laughed, and Houtu joined in.
Clearly, she had truly understood what Zhu Jiuyin meant and realized that his solution was the right one.
"But what if our strength can't hold them back?"
Houtu was, after all, the cleverest of the Ancestral Witches. The very next moment, she thought of a fatal flaw in the solution.
"Isn't what we're doing now the best way to deal with that very situation?"
Houtu understood again.
That was right. If there was one greatest enemy facing the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race today, it could only be Hongjun!
And when the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race faced Hongjun, weren't they outmatched in wisdom and strength alike?
So Zhu Jiuyin led all the Ancestral Witches and the entire Witch Race in making a strategic shift—lying low.
Ultimately, wasn't the reason the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race had chosen to lie low based on one principle? If they were destined to lose the game, they simply wouldn't sit down at the table!
Of course, the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race could afford to lie low because of Pangu Hall, whose defenses were unparalleled and which could even connect them to the Will of Pangu from countless eons past.
Besides that, the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race possessed the second-greatest strength in the Primordial World, surpassed only by Hongjun.
If some other Innate Demon God tried to lie low under Hongjun's very nose?
What were they thinking!
He was the Dao Ancestor. Even without saying a word, across the vast Primordial World, there were more than enough creatures and forces eager to do his bidding to form a line from the foot of Mount Buzhou all the way to its peak.
It was precisely because everyone knew the Witch Race's power was formidable and terrifying that things were so peaceful outside the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race.
Conversely, if the Witch Race weren't so powerful, do you think those two shameless fellows from the West would dare to camp outside their ancestral land and block the entrance?
After all, the benefits of winning the Dao Ancestor's favor were enormous. If Hongjun even bestowed a few Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures upon them, it would be an incredible bargain!
So lying low took capital too.
Seeing that Houtu had begun to understand, Zhu Jiuyin smiled in satisfaction.
To be honest, among all the Ancestral Witches, the one Zhu Jiuyin had the highest hopes for was his younger sister, now the Witch Race's Ancestral Witch of Earth, who would one day be revered by the beings of the Primordial World as Empress Houtu Pingxin, take charge of the Earthly Dao, and become its Spokesperson.
That was because Zhu Jiuyin knew very well that, besides mastering the Law of Earth, one of the Five Elements Laws, Houtu also mastered the Law of Land.
The Law of Earth was one of the Five Elements Laws. It was a subordinate law of the Five Elements Laws, as well as a foundational law. But the Law of Land was a high-level law, no weaker than the Five Elements Laws and perhaps even greater.
Once the Law of Land was cultivated to its utmost, she could command an entire continent with a wave of her hand and draw on the boundless energy in its ley lines. As long as she stood upon the land, she would have the natural advantage and be impossible to defeat.
Most importantly, the earth naturally had the power to nurture all things. So in her affinity for the Law of Creation, Houtu was certainly no less than Empress Nuwa, the Holy Mother renowned throughout the Primordial World for the Law of Creation, who would eventually create the Human Race.
It was just that Houtu had no primordial spirit before. No matter how strong her affinity for the Law of Creation was, she couldn't comprehend even a trace of it.
But now, things were different.
Ever since Zhu Jiuyin had led the entire Witch Race to lie low, the Turbid Qi inside all the Ancestral Witches had been completely eliminated through the tempering of Great Dao Merit.
Under these circumstances, it would no longer be difficult for Houtu to form a primordial spirit.
"I really want to see what kind of miracle will happen when the Law of Land and the Law of Creation come together in one person!"
Thinking this, Zhu Jiuyin looked at Houtu once more.
"Someday, Houtu will surely become the supreme deity who commands life and creation!"
"Let Nuwa go to hell!"
Zhu Jiuyin truly didn't like Nuwa much.
Not only because Nuwa was the Empress Wa of the Demon Race, but also because she really wasn't very bright—and because her attitude toward the Human Race made Zhu Jiuyin disdain her and left him deeply displeased.
By contrast, having read more than a million modern books, Zhu Jiuyin had grown increasingly fond of the Human Race.
In Zhu Jiuyin's view, although humans had all kinds of flaws and shortcomings, they seemed to possess the power of creation by nature. Their frail bodies always seemed capable of unleashing a will to remake heaven and earth. Guided by that will, humans could always create new miracles when faced with desperate odds.
Besides that, Zhu Jiuyin had to admit that it was the few Primordial World novels written by humans that had allowed him to glimpse the fate of the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race—and had brought about the changes the Witch Race had undergone.
Whether intentional or not, the Human Race truly had a tremendous karmic bond with the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race.
The Ancestral Witches were never the kind of people who, like Jieyin and Zhunti, would see their karmic debt growing too large and scheme until their counterpart died and vanished from the Dao. If they owed someone, then they owed them; they would repay what they owed.
With that thought, Zhu Jiuyin made up his mind.
"If Nuwa really can't create humans this time, then we'll let our younger sister Houtu do it instead. After all, it won't be long before she forms her primordial spirit."
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