On Chaos Island, Dao Xuan preached the Dao for only eight hundred years before stopping. It was not that he was unwilling to teach, but that eight hundred years of teachings had already reached the limit of what the island's inhabitants could absorb.
Continuing would do them no good. Thus, after eight hundred years, Dao Xuan stopped preaching and announced that he would enter secluded cultivation, leaving all the island's affairs to his two disciples.
Meanwhile, in the Primordial World, although Hongjun had decreed that the demons would rule the heavens and the witches would govern the earth, undercurrents continued to stir beneath the surface.
On Phoenix Perch Mountain lived the siblings Fuxi and Nuwa.
Ever since Hongjun had bestowed Primordial Purple Qi after his third lecture, everyone who received it had been studying it, hoping to comprehend the path to becoming a Saint.
Nuwa was naturally no exception. Besides serving as the foundation for Sainthood, Primordial Purple Qi was also a treasure that aided comprehension of the Dao.
With its help, Nuwa's cultivation deepened by the day, even though she had not joined the Demon Heavenly Court as she originally would have and lacked the support of its fortune.
Fuxi's cultivation had once surpassed Nuwa's, but now she was gradually overtaking him, leaving him further and further behind.
Yet despite her growing cultivation, Nuwa had troubles of her own. When Dao Xuan had befriended the siblings, he had also pointed out the flaws in the Three Corpses Severing Method.
For that reason, Fuxi and Nuwa had both found Innate Spiritual Treasures of a shared origin suited to housing their attachments and severing their corpses.
They had the treasures, but the path of corpse severing remained far from smooth.
Fuxi, for instance, had only severed one corpse so far. Although