As Houtu stepped onto the stone stairs before the Ancestral Witch Hall, a jar of wine came flying toward her.
She caught it, looked up, and saw Gonggong sitting beside the stone table, his other hand resting on two unopened jars of wine.
"You came back at just the right time."
Houtu chuckled, walked over, and sat down.
She broke the clay seal with her palm. The familiar fragrance of wine rose, and she lifted the jar to her lips, only to slowly lower it again.
Di Jiang walked over from the hall entrance and looked at her.
"Is something on your mind, little sister?"
"There's something I want to discuss with my brothers and sisters."
Houtu set the wine jar down securely.
Hearing the gravity in her voice, Di Jiang raised his hand and sent out several streaks of blood-red light.
Only after Xuanming and the others arrived one after another did she tell them where she had gone on this journey.
Purple Tenuity, the Blood Sea, and that shadowy land beyond the Blood Sea.
She explained the returning path for departed souls in just a few sentences.
At the end, Houtu looked at Di Jiang.
"I can try to open that path, but I must transform my Ancestral Witch True Body into part of it, to serve as the foundation of reincarnation."
Gonggong had been about to break the seal on another jar. His raised hand stopped in midair.
Di Jiang stood before her without sitting down.
"Once your true body is transformed, what about you?"
The question came very softly.
Houtu raised her head and saw Di Jiang still standing where he was. Before she could go on, he had bent down, his gaze resting on her face.
"The two Sages have promised to protect my true