Stop It, You Bastard!

Ever since she took form and emerged at Mount Buzhou, she had traveled the vast Primordial Land for countless ages, encountering more Innate Divine Beings, great demons, and titans than she could count.

When those mighty beings interacted, even mortal enemies would typically communicate via divine sense or debate the Dao from afar before ever resorting to violence.

Their words were almost always laced with reverence for the Great Dao and the decorum befitting Innate Divine Beings.

Even the wild beasts that had yet to fully evolve would simply let out roars to assert their dominance when their territory was encroached upon.

But someone hiding behind a thick turtle shell of a barrier, using an array to amplify their voice a thousand times over, and shrieking like a common street thug?

Nuwa swore that this was the first time she had encountered such a thing since her birth.

"Is... is this the existence that triggered the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning?"

Nuwa withdrew her finger, a look of undisguised astonishment appearing on her beautiful face.

The contrast between this and the image she had deduced—a peerless, murderous villain with a heaven-defying amount of karmic debt—was so vast that it made her Dao heart feel a sense of absurdity.

Inside the cave dwelling.

Lu Changsheng stared fixedly at the water mirror.

When he saw Nuwa actually stop her finger from dismantling the array, he felt a slight sense of relief, but his heart immediately leaped back into his throat.

She stopped? Could it be that she was intimidated by my death-defying aura?

No, I can't give her a chance to catch her breath. I have to keep the pressure on and let her know I'm a lunatic who doesn't care about his own life!

The first rule of the Dao of Cowardice:

When facing an invincible enemy, if you cannot run, you must act even crazier and more reckless than they are to increase their sunk costs!

Lu Changsheng rushed back to the Sound Transmission Array Eye and screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Woman outside! Don't think that just because you're pretty, you can do whatever you want!"

"I'm telling you! I have a short temper! If you dare to touch another one of my array disks today, or take even half a step forward, see if I don't detonate the entire spirit vein and drag us both to hell!"

"At worst, we'll both go down in flames! Nobody gets to have a good time!"

Lu Changsheng shouted these words with righteous indignation and murderous intent.

But in reality, the two paws he had pressed against the control console were trembling slightly.

Detonate the spirit vein?

Don't make him laugh. It had taken him three thousand years to perfectly fuse the Earth Dragon Pearl with the ley lines.

This spirit vein was his lifeline now; he would rather be struck by lightning himself than ever dream of blowing this thing up.

Outside.

Listening to the hysterical threats echoing from within the array.

The astonishment on Nuwa's face gradually faded, replaced by a faint, amused sense of helplessness.

She had more or less figured it out.

The person hiding inside was no peerless villain at all.

This was clearly just a miser who lacked any sense of security and guarded this pile of junk arrays as if they were his own life.

Moreover, the other party seemed to have mistaken her for an enemy seeking revenge.

"Fellow Daoist."

Nuwa was not angry. Her red lips parted slightly, and her voice was as clear as a mountain spring. She did not use any amplification arrays.

Yet, that ethereal voice ignored the surrounding violent spiritual energy, piercing through the obstruction of three thousand layers of arrays with perfect clarity, and fell into Lu Changsheng's ears.

"You have misunderstood."

"I am a cultivator wandering the four corners of the world, merely passing through. I stopped only because I sensed the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning had descended here not long ago, with its vast heavenly might and lingering karma, and I was overcome by curiosity."

Nuwa paused, her gaze falling upon the layers of colorful array light curtains, her tone carrying a hint of apology.

"Seeing that the arrays here were... quite unique, I was momentarily struck by a hunter's excitement and wished to deduce the changes within, which is why I rashly probed them."

"If I have caused any damage to your great array, I hope you can forgive me. I bear no malice, and I am certainly not the enemy you speak of."

Nuwa's words were dignified and graceful, showing the poise and cultivation of a future saint.

Had it been any other divine being in the Primordial Land, they would likely have accepted this explanation, felt the pure and gentle aura of creation on Nuwa, and taken the opportunity to resolve the misunderstanding.

But unfortunately, she had encountered Lu Changsheng.

A freak with late-stage persecutory delusion who had "there are always treacherous people trying to harm me" carved into his very bones.

Inside the cave.

After hearing Nuwa's explanation, Lu Changsheng did not relax his guard; instead, he sneered, his expression becoming even more defensive.

"Passing through? Curiosity? Struck by a hunter's excitement?"

Lu Changsheng paced frantically in front of the water mirror, pointing at Nuwa in the image and cursing.

"Do you take me for a three-year-old! This is a desolate mountain range where not even a decent spirit herb can grow. A top-tier powerhouse like you, with nothing better to do, just happens to be passing through?"

"And you claim to be curious about the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning! I see clearly that you're just here for the treasures in my hands!"

In Lu Changsheng's logic.

This woman was definitely an accomplice of that Old Earth Dragon, or perhaps she had sensed the aura of the Earth Dragon Pearl and that half of a Ferocious Beast Broken Horn, and had come knocking specifically to kill him and seize his treasures.

In the Primordial Land, where could there be so many coincidences?

Every seemingly coincidental encounter was, behind the scenes, nothing but a scheme!

"Don't you dare try that hypocritical rhetoric on me!"

Lu Changsheng retorted into the Sound Transmission Array Eye without the slightest bit of politeness.

"No ill intent? You call tearing apart over a hundred layers of my formations with your bare hands 'no ill intent'?"

"Do you have any idea how many years I spent digging through mud pits to scrape together those formation disks? Do you have any idea how many days and nights I stayed up just to repair those formation patterns?"

"You just flap your lips together and think you can gloss over this whole thing with a simple 'I saw something that caught my eye'?"

Lu Changsheng's voice was filled with an unconcealable sense of heartache and fury.

"I'm telling you! This isn't over! Get lost right now! Get out of a ten-thousand-mile radius of here! Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite!"

Outside.

Listening to these accusations coming from within the formation, a look of embarrassment could not help but appear on Nuwa's exquisite face.

She lowered her head to glance at the remnants of the formation disks beneath her feet, which she had reduced to powder.

With her discerning eye, she could naturally tell at a glance just how inferior these materials were.

Common black iron, broken low-grade spirit wood, and even some ordinary jade stones still caked in mud.

In the vicinity of Mount Buzhou, even the minor demons who had just gained sentience wouldn't bother to pick these things up.

The fellow Daoist inside actually treated these as treasures and was heartbroken to this extent?

"Fellow Daoist, please calm your anger."

Nuwa sighed softly. Although she felt the other party was being unreasonable, it was, after all, she who had dismantled his formations first; she was ultimately in the wrong.

"Damaging your formations is indeed my fault."

"How about this? I have some Innate Spirit Materials here that I collected during my travels. While they may not be earth-shattering supreme treasures, they are certainly much sturdier and more durable for setting up formations than these... these materials of yours."

"Consider it an apology from me, how about that?"

As she spoke, Nuwa flipped her jade hand, and several light orbs radiating rich Innate Five Elements Qi appeared in her palm.

There was Essence of Geng Metal, Marrow of Yi Wood, and a few drops of Three Lights Divine Water byproducts radiating intense vitality.

The moment these items were brought out, the parched spiritual energy in the surroundings instantly became active.

Inside the cave dwelling.

Lu Changsheng stared fixedly at the items in Nuwa's hand through the water mirror.

"Gulp."