Only...
At that very moment...
Houtu appeared amid the Netherworld Underworld, which flickered in and out of view within the Netherworld Blood Sea, and the Reincarnation Disk of the Forty-Nine Paths suspended upside down above it.
It was not that Houtu wanted her true body to enter the Netherworld Blood Sea immediately.
Rather, she used this Netherworld Blood Sea as the anchoring point of her Dao coordinates.
Then her true body stepped straight out of Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, became a streak of light, and flew directly toward Mount Buzhou on the Central Continent.
At the entrance to Mount Buzhou...
When Houtu suddenly appeared in the void, riding Auspicious Clouds...
Dijiang had already sensed the waves of fluctuation in the Space Law. Leading the other eleven Ancestral Witches, he appeared within moments...
Before the two Innate Ten-Direction Formations that stood like gateways to Mount Buzhou.
Together, they joyfully welcomed Houtu, whose face still bore pearly tears!
"Little Sister Houtu, your brothers and sisters have waited so long for you. You've finally returned to our Mount Buzhou, to our Witch Clan's ancestral land, and rejoined our ranks! I thought that after you went off with the Vine Dao Venerable, you'd long since stopped caring about the Witch Clan and no longer acknowledged your identity as an Ancestral Witch."
When she heard these earthshaking words...
Houtu, whose heart had been filled with countless grievances and tangled emotions, swiftly calmed down.
She replied coolly to her eldest brother and her other brothers and sisters:
"I've returned because I foresaw a great war involving our Witch Clan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches breaking out in this world. After all, the Witch Clan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches have always advanced and retreated as one. No matter which peerless