Houtu No Longer a Witch

Xuan Heng heard Houtu's question and remained silent for a moment before speaking.

"Fellow Daoist Houtu, the fact that you can ask this proves that you already have an answer in your heart, doesn't it?"

Without waiting for Houtu's reply, Xuan Heng continued.

"When we first met, Fellow Daoist Houtu, you said that living beings each had a place to dwell, and that the dead should also have a place."

Houtu's heart trembled when she heard this. Of course she remembered those words, and she had never forgotten them.

"If such a place truly ought to exist, then someone should create it."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Heng knew that Houtu was about to transform herself into reincarnation, and that the Earth Path, one of the Three Paths, was about to awaken.

Xuan Heng fell silent for a moment, then said, "Have you thought this through, Fellow Daoist? Once you take this step, there will be no turning back."

Houtu looked at him and suddenly smiled.

"Fellow Daoist Xuan Heng, I did not come here this time to listen to you persuade me. I only wanted to know whether this path has any meaning."

Xuan Heng looked at her.

"Of course it does. Opening a path of life for all living beings is the highest righteousness."

As Xuan Heng's words fell, the last trace of hesitation in Houtu's eyes vanished.

She rose to her feet and gave Xuan Heng a slight nod.

"I understand."

Houtu turned and left Profound Pure Peak, walking toward the depths of the Primordial World.

At the same time, the decrees of the saints descended one after another upon the Human School, Exposition Sect, and Interception Sect.

Within Shouyang Mountain, Taishang's voice entered Xuandu's ears.

"Disciples of the Human School, remain within your grounds. During the great