Thoughts on Reincarnation, a Sudden Opportunity

"Hmm?"

Hongjun looked at Houtu and said, "What do you wish to ask?"

Houtu hurriedly sought guidance. "May I ask, Teacher, the Witch Clan has no Primordial Spirit. How are we to attain the Dao?"

The moment Houtu said this, many great powers in Zixiao Palace were startled and turned their gazes toward her.

What Houtu had said was truly shocking. No Primordial Spirit? Were there actually living beings in this world without a Primordial Spirit?

Without a Primordial Spirit, how could they cultivate or comprehend the Dao?

Yet some great powers wore unsurprised expressions, clearly having long known of the Witch Clan's circumstances.

Hearing this, Hongjun hesitated slightly, seeming to divine the matter himself. At last, he said, "Your Witch Clan will have its own opportunity in the future. There is no need to ask me."

Houtu frowned slightly. She clearly did not understand Hongjun's words, but she still nodded and thanked him.

Hongjun nodded, but said no more. With a flash, his figure vanished from the Dao platform.

Seeing that Hongjun had left, everyone in Zixiao Palace also began to depart.

Yet as they passed Houtu, they could not help but glance at her a few more times.

It was not because Houtu's Dao body was exceptionally beautiful, but because this was the first time they had seen a living being without a Primordial Spirit, and such a powerful one at that. Naturally, they were curious.

Houtu did not linger for long either. After sighing, she walked out of Zixiao Palace as well.

Watching her receding figure from behind, Dao Xuan had a feeling that this Ancestral Witch likely would not return for the next lecture.

Shaking his head, Dao Xuan had nothing much to say about it.

The Witch Clan was like this, but who could they blame? Should they blame Hongjun because his Three Corpses Severing Method could not benefit them?

Or should they blame Great God Pangu for dividing his essence blood and Primordial Spirit into two, allowing the Three Pure Ones formed from his Primordial Spirit to have an utterly smooth path of cultivation?

While the Witch Clan, from top to bottom, could not even cultivate a Primordial Spirit?

As for the opportunity Hongjun had mentioned for the Witch Clan in the future, Dao Xuan figured it was probably Houtu's transformation into Reincarnation.

And what kind of opportunity was that supposed to be?

Of course, Dao Xuan also knew that three parts of the Witch Clan's fate were Heaven's will, while seven parts were brought about by the Witch Clan itself.

If the Witch Clan had stayed in its proper place and not become embroiled in the struggle for supremacy during the Calamity Cycle, how could they have met such an end?

Of course, in many situations, it was not simply a matter of being able to hold back just because one wanted to. But if they had shown a little more restraint, perhaps the outcome would have been different.

Thoughts flashed through Dao Xuan's mind, but he quickly set them aside. After all, he was not a member of the Witch Clan, so there was no point dwelling on such things.

Still, Houtu's transformation into Reincarnation reminded him that his own world was also currently lacking Reincarnation.

The three thousand Great Dao Laws Hongjun had spoken of were, in fact, the three thousand Great Dao Laws of the Primordial World.

Yet the three thousand Great Dao Laws of the Primordial World did not include Reincarnation.

Or rather, the so-called three thousand Great Dao Laws did not truly number only three thousand.

It was merely a figurative expression.

The actual number of Great Dao Laws was simply beyond counting.

Thus, the Primordial World was incomplete, with flaws in its Great Dao Laws and no Reincarnation. Dao Xuan's Inner World, however, was countless times more incomplete than the Primordial World.

Naturally, Dao Xuan's Inner World did not possess the Reincarnation Dao Laws either.

For the Primordial World to establish Reincarnation, Houtu had to sacrifice herself.

What about Dao Xuan's Inner World? Did it also require a similar living being to offer itself up?

Or should Dao Xuan comprehend it himself and complete this Dao?

As Dao Xuan pondered, he had already followed the many great powers out of Zixiao Palace.

The Twelfth-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus rose beneath his feet once more, carrying Dao Xuan away.

Yet Dao Xuan was still thinking.

The most orthodox method of establishing Reincarnation should have been to comprehend the two Great Daos of life and death, then unite them into the Reincarnation Dao of the cycle of life and death!

But Houtu was clearly not such an existence. Looking across the entire Primordial World, there was not a single great power who had attained profound mastery in both the opposing Great Daos of life and death.

In that case, how had Houtu successfully transformed into Reincarnation?

First, Houtu herself was crucial. As one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, she had inherited Great God Pangu's bloodline. The vitality contained within Houtu's Ancestral Witch body was naturally unimaginably powerful.

Second, Houtu chose the Netherworld Blood Sea as the place to transform into Reincarnation. The Netherworld Blood Sea was the place in the entire Primordial World where deathly energy was most concentrated.

Thus, both life and death were present.

At that point, Houtu only needed to go all out. With the Heavenly Dao's assistance, Reincarnation could be born.

This was the great secret behind Houtu's transformation into Reincarnation. The underlying principle was not actually complicated.

But that was founded upon the powerful origin of the Primordial World, where the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao could grant Houtu whatever she needed.

Placed in Dao Xuan's Inner World, however, such a thing was clearly impossible.

"It would be best to wait until after Houtu transforms into Reincarnation, then find an opportunity to directly comprehend the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Once I obtain the Reincarnation Laws, establishing the Six Paths of Reincarnation in my own Inner World will be much easier." Dao Xuan was unwilling to divide his attention to comprehend the Life-and-Death Laws.

Although his Inner World needed to imitate the Primordial World if it was to become complete. Whatever Great Dao Laws the Primordial World possessed, his Inner World had to possess as well.

But at present, Dao Xuan's Inner World had barely given birth to any living beings.

Even if Dao Xuan truly created Reincarnation, how much use would it have?

Of course, if Dao Xuan truly possessed an extremely profound understanding of the Life-and-Death Laws, there naturally would not be so few living beings within his Inner World.

But the issue was that merely allowing Dao Xuan to gain an initial grasp of the Life-and-Death Laws was one thing.

To make him devote himself wholeheartedly to comprehending them, reaching a profound realm in the Life-and-Death Laws, would be extraordinarily difficult.

After all, Dao Xuan's core Great Dao Laws were still the Four Symbols Laws.

And what would allow his Inner World to develop more quickly was still comprehending and perfecting the Four Symbols Laws.

By comprehending the Four Symbols Laws, then branching outward from them to derive all kinds of other laws.

That was the path most suitable for Dao Xuan.

Setting aside the Four Symbols Laws to comprehend the Life-and-Death Laws instead would undoubtedly drag down Dao Xuan's progress considerably.

Dao Xuan naturally would not make such a choice.

"The Six Paths of Reincarnation are still far off. After returning, I should continue comprehending the Four Symbols Laws and let my Inner World keep growing until it transforms into a Middle Thousand World. After all, now that the Three Corpses Severing Method has been passed down, by the next lecture, there will be quite a few Quasi-Saints in Zixiao Palace. My cultivation cannot fall too far behind either."

Dao Xuan finally put aside his thoughts of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Dao Xuan then traveled through the chaos for a long time before finally passing through the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane and returning to the Primordial World.

He flew all the way toward the Eastern Sea.

But just as Dao Xuan entered the skies above the Eastern Sea, his heart suddenly stirred. He sensed a change in the heavenly secrets, and in the unseen depths, it seemed that some opportunity was about to fall upon him.

"What other opportunity could there be in the Eastern Sea?" Dao Xuan flew in the direction indicated by that sense of the heavenly secrets.