After the Primordial Violet Qi in the Three Pure Ones' Primordial Spirits had been stripped away and sealed, Pan Xuan did not pause.
He turned his gaze toward the Twelve Ancestral Witches, his voice steady and solemn:
"The marks in our three fellow Daoists' Primordial Spirits and the restrictions within the Primordial Violet Qi have all been cleared away by Father God's power.
"But during the examination just now, I also saw something similar deep within your True Spirits, brothers and sisters.
"A restriction rooted in the very source of your True Spirits, closely linked to the laws of the Heavenly Dao.
"Its purpose is to ensure that the Witch Clan can never develop Primordial Spirits.
"Unless it is severed, even with Law Deities as substitutes, your bodies will never be able to house true Primordial Spirits."
At these words, the expressions of all Twelve Ancestral Witches changed.
Houtu was the only Ancestral Witch with a Primordial Spirit, but its birth had been extraordinarily difficult.
She had relied on the Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light, along with the special condition of having absorbed less fiendish qi herself.
The other eleven Ancestral Witches still had no Primordial Spirits and could only use Law Deities in their place.
They had thought this was the Witch Clan's fate, the inevitable price of having been formed from Essence Blood.
Now Pan Xuan was telling them that this was not fate, but a shackle someone had deliberately planted.
"Brother Pan Xuan."
Di Jiang's voice was low and strained. "You mean the reason we have no Primordial Spirits isn't just the fiendish qi?"
"Fiendish qi is indeed one of the reasons Primordial Spirits are suppressed."
Pan Xuan nodded. "But if it were merely fiendish qi, Sister Houtu would not have been able to develop a Primordial Spirit