Breakthrough and Bad News

The moment those words fell, the lingering Pangu Will swept gently past. That breeze was soft yet unmistakable, brushing over each of the Thirteen Ancestral Witches, then each of the One Hundred and Seven Innate Great Witches.

Dijiang trembled all over. His six legs went weak, and he dropped to his knees with a thud.

The Azure Dragons beneath Jumang's feet crouched low and stayed still. Shock filled his blue-green face.

The flames around Zhurong whipped about beyond his control. The most hot-tempered Ancestral Witch had red-rimmed eyes, and a lump in his throat left him unable to speak.

Tears slipped from the corners of Jiufeng's twelve heads. Her lips trembled as she silently called out to Father God.

Father God! Father God had acknowledged them!

Though they had always been able to sense Father God's lingering will and the essence of his Great Dao clearly on Mount Buzhou, this was the first time he had touched them so distinctly.

Jiufeng felt it most deeply.

She had suspected Father God Pangu had accepted her. Otherwise, how could she have become an Innate Great Witch and later advanced to Ancestral Witch? But she had never been certain.

Now she was.

Then boundless Mysterious Yellow Merit gathered in the sky, forming the Merit Star River. Heavenly Dao Merit poured down like a golden waterfall.

The Thirteen Ancestral Witches received sixty percent between them. Dijiang was the head of the Witch Clan, while Jiufeng had proposed and arranged its founding, so each received a fair bit more Merit than the others.

Of the remaining forty percent, twenty percent was divided unequally among the One Hundred and Seven Innate Great Witches. The eleven Top-Tier Innate Great Witches, twenty-four Elite Innate Great Witches, and seventy-two Ordinary Innate Great Witches each received one-third of it.