Lu Xuan Saw Through the Essence of Calamities

During this time, the integration of the Witch Race and the Human Race had grown increasingly complete. Countless Human-Witch Hybrids had already been born into the Primordial World.

However, not every one of these descendants belonged to the Witch Race. The chances of being born into either the Witch Race or the Human Race were almost evenly split.

It was still difficult to tell when the infants were born, but as they grew older, the Witch Race's ability to wield the twelve laws would gradually reveal itself.

Those who displayed no law-related traits were Human Race members, though this portion of the Human Race was also exceptionally strong-bodied.

At the same time, those Witch Race members had gained Primordial Spirits. They were no longer the primitive Witch Race that cultivated only the flesh and not the Primordial Spirit. They could cultivate orthodox techniques and wield magical treasures.

This was nothing short of a leap forward for the Witch Race's strength. Not only had it allowed their race to expand rapidly, but their comprehension of the laws far surpassed what it had been before.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches had now divided the Witch Race into twelve major tribes. Each Ancestral Witch oversaw one major tribe, which was then further divided into countless smaller tribes scattered throughout the Primordial World.

Many of these smaller tribes merged with Human Race tribes. While helping the Human Race fend off the Demon Race's harassment, they also developed alongside them.

With the Witch Race's protection, the Human Race's wisdom found greater expression than ever. Many tools began to emerge from human hands.

Originally, the Human Race had needed to guard against harassment from both the Demon Race and the Witch Race every day. One moment of carelessness could lead to their extermination; they had practically lived on the edge of life and death.

Under such circumstances, how could they have had time to consider anything else? Even that had been their greatest luxury. Every moment of every day was spent struggling to survive.

Now, with the Witch Race's aid, the Human Race no longer had to wander along the brink of death. Naturally, they had more time to study new things.

At the same time, the Witch-Demon Clans had not truly been at peace during this period. Though no large-scale war had broken out, small-scale conflicts played out every day.

Although Hongjun had issued a decree that the demons would rule the heavens and the witches would rule the earth, could the Demon Race truly sever itself completely from the Primordial Land? Of course that was unrealistic.

After all, the foundation of Primordial World living beings lay upon the earth, so demons upon the Primordial Land still numbered beyond counting.

On the surface, the Demon Race claimed that these demons were too weak and unable to enter the Heavenly Court. In truth, they were using them to occupy the Primordial Land in preparation for a future war against the Witch Race.

Lu Xuan naturally had nothing to say about this. After all, the great battle between the Witch-Demon Clans was ultimately unavoidable.

But before the war between the Witch-Demon Clans, there was one matter Lu Xuan had never been able to decide upon: the Demon Race massacring the Human Race and using human souls to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword.

Some later generations claimed that the Demon Race's slaughter of the Human Race had been aided by the Heavenly Dao. Through the Demon Race's hands, it would kill all members of the Innate Human Race, thereby weakening the Human Race's Karmic Fortune.

Others said that the Heavenly Dao was using the Demon Race's hands to sift the Human Race like gold from sand, while incidentally making the Demon Race owe the Human Race karmic debt, so that the Demon Race's Karmic Fortune would eventually all return to the Human Race.

In short, opinions differed. But Lu Xuan had to find an accurate answer now, because it concerned whether he should intervene.

If the former was true, Lu Xuan had to act to save the Human Race. Even if he was no longer human now, in the depths of his soul, he had never considered himself anything other than human.

If the latter was true, then Lu Xuan's rash intervention would absolutely not be a good thing for the Human Race. It might even prevent them from fully obtaining the Demon Race's Karmic Fortune.

Since he could not determine it now, there was no need to keep agonizing over it. When the matter actually came to pass, the truth would become clear.

After withdrawing his thoughts, Lu Xuan said to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, "During this time, have you found any more Pangu Jade Marrow?"

Just as Lu Xuan had expected, everyone shook their heads at once. Houtu even spoke directly.

"Brother, you have no idea. Houtu has nearly turned all of Buzhou Mountain upside down, but aside from the drop of Pangu Jade Marrow we found last time, there has not been the slightest further discovery."

"If Brother hadn't told Houtu about this, Houtu would have suspected that there was only that one drop of Pangu Jade Marrow in all of Buzhou Mountain."

In the original course of the Primordial World, among the Twelve Ancestral Witches, only Houtu retained a fragment of her remnant soul. That was why she could sense the Primordial World's lament and ultimately resolutely transform herself into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The other eleven Ancestral Witches had not gained Primordial Spirits, which also meant they had never found the other eleven drops of Pangu Jade Marrow.

Perhaps in the original course of the Primordial World, the Twelve Ancestral Witches had not known about this matter and had never deliberately searched for them. But now Houtu said that she had nearly turned Buzhou Mountain inside out and still failed to find those eleven drops of Pangu Jade Marrow.

That made Lu Xuan think of the worst possibility. He immediately asked Houtu, "Houtu, you said you have nearly searched all of Buzhou Mountain. Have you entered Buzhou Mountain's core?"

Houtu immediately shook her head at Lu Xuan. "Of course I have not gone there, and Houtu would not dare. One careless move could cause Buzhou Mountain to collapse. Houtu does not dare do such a thing."

Houtu's words all but confirmed for Lu Xuan that the eleven drops of Pangu Jade Marrow were within Buzhou Mountain's core.

Moreover, the only way to retrieve those eleven drops of Pangu Jade Marrow was to break Buzhou Mountain. That was why, in the original course of the Primordial World, Gong Gong had rammed Buzhou Mountain with his head.

Lu Xuan could even be certain that Gong Gong's headbutt against Buzhou Mountain had not been of his own will, but rather that he had been controlled by Hongjun.

After all, aside from Pangu Descendants, even Hongjun could not topple Buzhou Mountain. And even if he could, Hongjun would not dare do so, for the karmic consequences were far too great.

Buzhou Mountain was Pangu's legacy to the Primordial World. So long as Buzhou Mountain remained within the Primordial World, Pangu's aura would exist forever.

This was something the Heavenly Dao could not accept, and something Hongjun would not permit. After all, no one could guarantee that one day Pangu would not use Buzhou Mountain to return to the Primordial World.

It could even be said that the entire Witch-Demon Calamity had been born to target Buzhou Mountain. Taking an even broader view, all Heaven-and-Earth Calamities existed to erase Pangu's legacy within the Primordial World.

The Beast Tribulation was when the Heavenly Dao used ferocious beasts to destroy those Blessed Lands and Grotto-Heavens closely tied to Pangu. Thus, the Beast Tribulation was the calamity that inflicted the most devastating destruction upon the Primordial World.

The Dragon-Han Primordial Tribulation was likewise a purge of Pangu Descendants. The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans had respectively been transformed from Pangu's arteries, hair, and fingernails.

Though they were not as pure as the Witch Race and the Three Pure Ones, they were still part of Pangu. Thus, the Heavenly Dao would not permit their existence, and through the Dragon-Han Primordial Tribulation, it utterly exterminated the ancient Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans.

The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans that remained in the Primordial World today no longer possessed ancient bloodlines. They were descendants of the ancient three clans, which was why they had fallen into such a state.

The coming Witch-Demon Calamity and Investiture of the Gods Calamity would target the Witch Race and the Three Pure Ones. And which of them was not an existence intimately connected to Pangu?