Pangu World-Opening Map Unsealed Once More

Lu Xuan had indeed received no information from the Pangu World-Opening Map regarding the Way of Incense. It had only mentioned that Hongjun would impart the Way of Incense during his final hundred-year sermon.

However, as a transmigrator, Lu Xuan was no stranger to the Way of Incense. It could even be said that, to people of later generations, no one was unaware of what it was.

Put simply, it meant establishing temples among the Human Race and receiving their offerings. The more people who offered worship, the more flourishing the power of incense became.

But Lu Xuan had no intention of telling the Three Pure Ones any of this. After all, the Way of Incense could not yet display its effects in the present era.

The Primordial World was now abundant in innate spiritual energy. Even ordinary postnatal humans who knew nothing of cultivation could live for several centuries.

The reason for such long lives was the abundant innate spiritual energy, which nourished one's body at every moment.

Under such circumstances, who would give up innate spiritual energy to cultivate the Way of Incense? After all, that thing was nowhere near as direct as innate spiritual energy when it came to raising one's cultivation.

By this point, the Three Pure Ones had finally pieced together the course of events. Primordial Heavenly Venerable slammed a heavy fist onto the stone table and spoke in towering fury.

"He is already the strongest being in the Primordial World. Why must he toy with its living beings like this? Could it be that he fears someone might surpass him and take his place in controlling the Heavenly Dao?"

At this moment, Primordial Heavenly Venerable did not even address him as Master. This alone showed just how enraged Primordial Heavenly Venerable had become.

Tongtian sighed at that moment. "Second Brother, Brother Lu Chen is right. If we had held gratitude in our hearts, then after the treasures were distributed at Treasure-Distribution Cliff, we would have returned to thank Master. How could we have missed those hundred years of sermons?"

Laozi, standing nearby, agreed as well and said, "As the saying goes, all things have cause and effect. Master merely made use of that karma."

"Now that things have come to this, we have already embarked upon the path of Merit-Proven Dao. Even if we learn the true Way of Severing the Three Corpses, we can no longer start over."

Laozi seemed to have accepted the truth by now. The die had been cast, after all. Unless he was willing to cripple his own Sagehood and begin anew.

Then Primordial Heavenly Venerable suddenly thought of something and immediately said to Lu Chen, "Brother Lu Chen, Third Brother said that you once allowed him to witness Father God's grand feat of opening the world. Might you let Eldest Brother and me see it as well?"

Lu Xuan could not help but freeze upon hearing this. Yet what stunned him was not Primordial Heavenly Venerable's request, but the way Primordial Heavenly Venerable addressed him.

Primordial Heavenly Venerable called me brother. Is he still that Primordial Heavenly Venerable who looks down on all living beings in the Primordial World?

Then Lu Xuan remembered the most important matter. How could you forget the real business? You were so busy bragging with the Three Pure Ones.

If I do not seize this chance to obtain Laozi's and Primordial Heavenly Venerable's fingertip blood, I probably will not get another opportunity in the future.

These two were bona fide Sages. If they were unwilling, then even if Lu Xuan possessed a thousand tricks, he would never make a Sage shed even half a drop of blood.

Yet this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Lu Xuan naturally could not let it pass. A troubled look immediately appeared on his face.

Seeing this, Primordial Heavenly Venerable could not help saying, "If Brother Lu Xuan finds it difficult, then treat it as though I never mentioned it."

Lu Xuan directly shook his head at Primordial Heavenly Venerable. "Yuqing Sage, you misunderstand. It is not that I do not wish to let the two Sages witness Pangu's feat of opening the world."

"To recreate Pangu's feat of opening the world, the viewer's fingertip blood is required to activate it. You two are esteemed Heavenly Dao Sages, unlike Brother Tongtian back then. How could I dare ask the two Sages to shed blood so casually?"

Lu Xuan's words were utterly flawless. Even Tongtian could not help nodding repeatedly. Back then, Tongtian had merely been a Quasi-Sage.

Lu Xuan was practically certain that once he said this, Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable would produce their fingertip blood without the slightest hesitation.

And, just as Lu Xuan expected, Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable exchanged a glance. Each pierced his own middle finger, and a golden drop of blood slowly floated up from his fingertip.

This was Sage blood, no longer the red of ordinary people, but gold. If an ordinary person could obtain even a little of it, becoming an immortal on the spot would certainly not be a problem.

People claimed that Flat Peaches and Yellow Central Plums were spirit fruits that accelerated a cultivator's advancement. In truth, neither was as direct as Sage blood, especially a Sage's essence blood.

As Laozi's and Primordial Heavenly Venerable's fingertip blood was absorbed by the Pangu World-Opening Map, the progress bar before Lu Xuan's eyes rose to 16/19.

At the same time, Lu Xuan could clearly sense that two more special abilities of the Pangu World-Opening Map had been unsealed.

At first, the Pangu World-Opening Map had possessed only the abilities to warn of danger and conceal heavenly secrets. Later, Tongtian's fingertip blood had turned the Pangu World-Opening Map into a world of its own, allowing it to assist Lu Xuan in battle.

After that, the fingertip blood of the Twelve Ancestral Witches had unsealed the power of laws within the Pangu World-Opening Map. Now, all manner of laws were continuously being nurtured within it.

Laozi's fingertip blood, meanwhile, had granted the Pangu World-Opening Map a new power of manifestation. So long as something existed within the Pangu World-Opening Map, Lu Xuan could manifest it in the Primordial World to fight for him.

Now that the Pangu World-Opening Map had gathered the fingertip blood of the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, it could even manifest Pangu to fight on Lu Xuan's behalf.

However, with Lu Xuan's current cultivation, the manifested Pangu could unleash only one move before Lu Xuan's cultivation would be completely drained.

Even so, this was tremendous news for Lu Xuan. It could be called an absolute life-saving trump card, even when facing Hongjun.

Primordial Heavenly Venerable, meanwhile, had unsealed the Pangu World-Opening Map's ability to nurture spirit treasures. At this moment, countless Innate Spirit Treasures were quietly being nurtured within the Pangu World-Opening Map.

This delighted Lu Xuan beyond measure, making him look forward even more to the remaining three percent. Yet even now, Lu Xuan could not imagine what beings in the Primordial World could compare to the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Fortunately, the Pangu World-Opening Map would give him a prompt whenever it encountered someone who could unseal it. Otherwise, Lu Xuan would truly have had to seek out the great powers of the Primordial World and try them one by one.

While rejoicing, Lu Xuan did not forget to have the Pangu World-Opening Map manifest Pangu's grand feat of opening the world. After all, he had promised Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

In an instant, the scene within the Pangu World-Opening Map changed drastically, returning to the chaotic world before clear and turbid had separated. It was far earlier than the scene Pangu had seen last time.

The next moment, a green lotus slowly bloomed. When it reached thirty-six petals, a great man appeared atop its lotus platform.

The great man stood bare-chested, with an animal hide wrapped around his waist. A jade pendant hung at his side, emanating waves of the power of laws.

He also held a massive axe in his hand and stared at the chaotic world before him, where clear and turbid remained undivided. Then he sighed and shook his head, as though deeply dissatisfied with this world.

As Pangu once more sat upon the lotus platform, the scene shifted again. Pangu was now on his feet, swinging his axe at the chaos.