Everyone stared at Nuwa in astonishment, unable to make sense of what she had done.
Rumble!
A thunderous roar suddenly rang out in the sky west of Mount Buzhou. Although it was only thunder, with no words spoken, everyone could feel the fury within it. The Heavenly Dao was angry! Yet anger was all it could manage now. During the War of the Two Realms, the two worlds were merging, and both Heavenly Daos had lost their authority over their worlds. They could no longer control even ordinary wind and rain, much less bestow karmic burdens and merit or unleash heavenly punishment! Under normal circumstances, Nuwa would certainly have suffered heavenly punishment for such an act. Now, however furious the Heavenly Dao became, it could do nothing! Besides, she had already joined the Spacetime Realm and become one of its living beings. Even if it wanted to punish her, it had no way to do so! Buzz!
A strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi instantly flew out of Nuwa's body and shot into the sky, disappearing in a flash. Nuwa then fell from her Sage Fruit Position, returning to her cultivation as a corpse-slaying quasi-saint.
However, having spent many years as a Saint, Nuwa retained her cultivation realm and other attainments even after losing her Sage Fruit Position. Not only did she instantly slay another corpse, but her cultivation kept climbing, breaking through to quasi-saint peak! Once she reached quasi-saint peak, approaching quasi-saint perfection, it stopped. She had also stepped into the pit Hongjun had dug: the path of Slaying the Three Corpses through spiritual treasures could never reach quasi-saint perfection and break through to primordial unity.
At the same time, a sudden surge of imposing power swept across the sky east of Mount Buzhou. Like the Primordial Heavenly Dao before