Primordial: The Wu Tribe's Dog-Headed Strategist
Chapter 4

Merit Profound Yellow Dharma Aspect

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"Oh?" Di Jiang's faceless, indistinct head turned slightly, his voice carrying a hint of curiosity. "Let's hear it."

Pan Xuan nodded slightly, his dragon body gliding gently through the mass of Profound Yellow energy as he slowly said, "The first divine ability is called the Righteous Vitality Formula."

He paused, golden light flowing through his dragon eyes, his tone carrying a trace of pride:

"This was transformed from my origin, founded upon Father God's righteous vitality. It can suppress all evil entities between heaven and earth and restrain every kind of sinister, poisonous force.

"Once this formula is mastered, unless I die and my Dao is extinguished, my condition will forever remain at its absolute peak, untouched by any negative force.

"Whether curses, toxins, inner demons, or external evils, none can come near me.

"Even should heaven and earth overturn and the sun and moon lose their light, my body will stand like a boulder, forever at the pinnacle."

At those words, all Twelve Ancestral Witches were slightly moved.

"Forever remaining at one's absolute peak?"

Flames leaped across Zhu Rong's beast-headed, human-bodied true form as he asked in surprise.

"Doesn't that mean you will never weaken and can never be diminished? We have never heard of such a divine ability!"

Gong Gong nodded his serpent head. Rarely, he did not refute Zhu Rong. "It truly defies the heavens.

"Though we are Ancestral Witches and command the laws of heaven and earth, if we suffer grievous wounds, our strength will still be greatly reduced.

"But your divine ability... can actually ignore all negative conditions?"

"Precisely." Pan Xuan nodded. "Unless I die, my condition shall forever remain at its peak."

Xuan Ming's ferocious, colossal beast-like true form nodded slightly. A trace of admiration entered her cold voice.

"What a Righteous Vitality Formula. Father God's righteous vitality truly is extraordinary."

Pan Xuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The first divine ability had successfully stunned them.

But he knew that what would truly shock these Ancestral Witches was yet to come.

"The second divine ability." Pan Xuan's voice rose slightly, and the golden light in his dragon eyes flared brightly. "It is called the Merit Profound Yellow Dharma Aspect."

"The Merit Profound Yellow Dharma Aspect?" Houtu's snake tail swayed gently as she asked softly, "The name certainly sounds grand. What is its use?"

Pan Xuan's dragon body slowly glided through the mass of Profound Yellow energy, his tone carrying a trace of pride.

"This was transformed from my foundation, with merit as its source and Profound Yellow as its bones.

"The more merit I possess, the stronger my cultivation and magical power become.

"The more Profound Yellow energy I possess, the stronger my physical body becomes.

"The two complement each other. The denser my merit and Profound Yellow energy, the stronger I become. There is no end, no upper limit."

At those words, the Twelve Ancestral Witches all sucked in a cold breath.

No upper limit?

What kind of concept was that?

Every living being, every cultivation method, and every divine ability in heaven and earth had its limits.

Even the Twelve Ancestral Witches, formed from Pangu's essence blood and commanding the twelve fundamental laws of heaven and earth,

were limited by the foundation of their bloodlines. Upon cultivating to the utmost limit, they would reach the limit of the Heavenly Dao and could go no further.

Yet Pan Xuan's Merit Profound Yellow Dharma Aspect could grow without limit alongside his merit and Profound Yellow energy?

Did that not mean that he might one day surpass the Heavenly Dao and reach the legendary... realm of the Great Dao?

"That's impossible!" Qiangliang was the first to leap out. His tiger-headed, human-bodied true form, with a snake clamped in its mouth, was filled with disbelief.

"Heaven and earth have limits, and all things have an end. How can there be a method capable of endless growth? Brother Pan Xuan, could you have seen it wrongly?"

Xizi also shook his head. "It truly is difficult to believe.

"Even we Ancestral Witches, formed from essence blood, would not dare claim we can grow without limit. Yet your dragon body, whose spiritual intelligence has only just been born, possesses such a heaven-defying divine ability?"

Zhu Rong was even more straightforward. "Brother Pan Xuan, it's not that I don't believe you. It's just... this is too outrageous!

"No upper limit? Doesn't that mean that as long as you accumulate enough merit and Profound Yellow energy, even the Heavenly Dao can be trampled beneath your feet?"

Pan Xuan was neither hurried nor angered. He merely looked calmly at the questioning Ancestral Witches.

He knew that if he were in their place, he would also find such words hard to believe.

"My elder brothers, you do not understand." Pan Xuan spoke unhurriedly. Golden light flowed through his dragon eyes, and his voice bore an unquestionable force.

"My origin was formed from the union of Father God's righteous vitality, the merit of creating heaven and earth, and the Profound Yellow energy of heaven and earth.

"Merit and Profound Yellow are originally my foundation, the very basis of my existence.

"When one's foundation is transformed into a divine ability, naturally it has no upper limit.

"Just like Father God creating heaven and earth—how could Father God's power possibly have an upper limit?"

At those words, the questioning Ancestral Witches were all stunned.

Di Jiang fell silent for a moment. His faceless, indistinct head swayed slightly as he said in a deep voice:

"Pan Xuan is right. Father God's power has no upper limit to begin with.

"Since he was formed from Father God's righteous vitality, merit, and Profound Yellow, it is understandable that he possesses such a divine ability."

Zhu Jiuyin also opened those eyes that contained the cycles of time and slowly said:

"Just now, I used the power of time to deduce matters. Though I could not see Pan Xuan's future clearly, I could sense the aura within him... It is indeed vast and boundless, unfathomably deep.

"This divine ability is most likely real."

Houtu nodded as well. "Since Brother Pan Xuan says so, it surely cannot be false. We should not judge a gentleman's heart with petty minds."

Zhu Rong scratched his head, flames crackling around him as he muttered somewhat awkwardly:

"I was only saying it casually... Brother Pan Xuan, don't take it to heart."

Pan Xuan smiled. "Brother Zhu Rong is straightforward by nature. If you have doubts, simply speak them. How could Pan Xuan take offense?"

He paused. The golden light in his dragon eyes grew even more dazzling, and his voice gained greater solemnity and majesty.

"The third divine ability is called Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light."

"Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light?" Jumang's bird-bodied, human-faced true form leaned forward slightly, his eyes filled with curiosity. "The name sounds rather profound. What kind of divine ability is it?"

Pan Xuan did not answer immediately. Instead, he slowly moved his dragon body, his nine claws appearing and disappearing within the Profound Yellow energy as though he were gathering something.

Only after a moment did he speak, his tone carrying an otherworldly quality.

"There are mighty beings in heaven and earth who can enlighten living creatures and open their spiritual intelligence. I presume all of you brothers and sisters know this."

The Ancestral Witches nodded. Though not everyone knew the art of enlightenment, the mighty beings of the Primordial World all understood it to some extent.

Enlightening a stubborn stone or a blade of grass with a casual gesture and allowing it to develop spiritual intelligence was nothing unusual in the Primordial World.

"But my Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light is completely different from ordinary enlightenment arts."

Pan Xuan's voice suddenly rose. Golden light blazed from his dragon eyes like torches, illuminating all of Pangu Hall.

"Ordinary enlightenment merely grants spiritual intelligence to inanimate objects and opens the spiritual apertures of the ignorant.

"But my Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light does not enhance whether one possesses spiritual intelligence. It enhances the level of one's wisdom!"

The Ancestral Witches froze.

Pan Xuan continued, "Though plant and tree spirits may possess spiritual intelligence, they are still incomparably dull. Even after cultivating for tens of millions of years, they may not comprehend a single basic spell.

"Though birds and beasts possess a trace of spirituality, most remain muddleheaded and know not what the Great Dao is.

"Even among races born sacred, their clansmen vary greatly. Some possess peerless intelligence, while others are hopelessly foolish.

"But my Heavenly Enlightenment Wisdom Light can elevate the comprehension and wisdom of any living being!

"The dull can become intelligent, and the intelligent can become supremely brilliant!"

At those words, the Twelve Ancestral Witches were completely dumbfounded.

It did not enlighten spiritual intelligence—it enhanced comprehension?

This was not as simple as turning a stone without spiritual intelligence into a demon.

It meant making a living being that already possessed spiritual intelligence ten or even a hundred times smarter than before!

It meant allowing some dull-witted person, who had cultivated bitterly for tens of millions of years without finding the way in, to attain enlightenment in a single day and directly glimpse the origin of the Great Dao!

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