In truth, Dijiang was one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, though he was honored as their leader and held authority over the entire Pan Gu Hall.
And yet.
In reality, Dijiang could not fully direct the eleven Ancestral Witches under him.
Especially the proud, untamable Zhurong and Gonggong.
These two Ancestral Witches were as incompatible as fire and water, neither willing to bow to the other, making them even harder to coordinate.
Tens of millions of years ago, Houtu had left Mount Buzhou for the Primordial Southern Continent.
She had entered the region of All-Heaven Divine Peak, a place no living creature had ever been able to enter in person since the Primordial World Creation.
She had stepped into the Chaos Heavenly River.
And within the Chaos Heavenly River, she had found a future path and fruit positions for the Twelve Ancestral Witches that they had never dared imagine in the Primordial World.
Previously, any Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal or peerless mighty being who possessed a unique Chaos Union with the Dao Art could determine their own future and place in history within the Rivers of Time and Fate, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches were no exception.
But the future history they could divine ended after the Dragon-Phoenix First Calamity.
In other words, it broke off before the period when Daoist Hongjun united his body with the Heavenly Dao.
As for the Twelve Ancestral Witches, their individual places in future history, the directions their futures would take, and their ultimate outcomes...
Their future paths had, one might say, been completely severed before Hongjun united with the Dao and became the Heavenly Dao's first sage.
From then on.
During this stretch of time, for all eleven Ancestral Witches...
Their sense of their own place in the Primordial World had, in