"Eldest Brother, why can't we leave the mountain and reorganize the Demon Race?"
Not long after they parted ways with Fuxi, Eastern Emperor Taiyi finally could not resist asking.
Compared to Dijun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi had a simpler disposition, and most of his thoughts revolved around cultivation.
This was also why Eastern Emperor Taiyi would later earn the reputation of being invincible beneath the Saints.
"Taiyi, you're talking too much. Eldest Brother naturally has his reasons for doing this."
Dijun frowned and rebuked him outright.
In truth, his curiosity about this matter was no less than Eastern Emperor Taiyi's; it was several times stronger, even.
But out of his longstanding trust in Daochen, he knew Daochen must have his reasons for acting this way.
After all, with Daochen's intellect, playing them in the palm of his hand would have been easy.
"Ah, just do as I say. You'll understand in time."
Daochen sighed softly.
How could he not understand what Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi were thinking?
But there were things he truly could not say!
At least, not yet.
Otherwise, Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao could come charging to his door in a matter of minutes. Would they believe that?
In short, until you had the strength, you absolutely must not jump about making trouble.
The harder you jumped, the faster you died!
He could not speak for other places, but that was certainly how things worked in the Primordial World.
Take Luo Hou, for example!
The Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation was said to require four Saints to break it.
Yet in the end, had Hongjun not joined forces with Daoist Yin-Yang, Daoist Qiankun, and Old Ancestor Yangmei to break it?
Claim the Heavenly Dao had not been pulling strings behind the scenes, and not even a ghost would believe it!
"I spoke out of turn. Please forgive me, Eldest Brother."
Seeing Daochen look somewhat downcast, Eastern Emperor Taiyi realized he might really have done something wrong.
He immediately apologized to Daochen.
"It's fine, it's fine. I know you both have the Demon Race's affairs at heart. But the time has not come yet. Uniting the Demon Race now would only leave us open to others' schemes."
Daochen waved a hand as he spoke.
"I understand and won't presume to do so again," Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun replied.
At the mention of schemes, Eastern Emperor Taiyi's and Dijun's hearts tightened.
Only now did they realize that things were not as simple as they had imagined.
Their admiration for Daochen immediately deepened!
The three continued onward, carefully searching around Mount Buzhou for traces of the Xiantian Gourd Vine.
"Eldest Brother, Eldest Brother, I found it!"
Several months later, Eastern Emperor Taiyi's expression suddenly changed, and wild joy filled his eyes.
"Where?"
Dijun was delighted to hear this as well.
Over the past several months, they had searched through nearly half of Mount Buzhou without finding anything. Now, at last, they had found it.
"Let's hurry over and take a look."
Daochen spoke urgently as well.
The Xiantian Gourd Vine was of tremendous importance.
It could be said that obtaining the Xiantian Gourd Vine was equivalent to seizing the Six Destined Saints by the throat.
That was because the gourd vine was essential for Nüwa to create humans and attain sainthood.
Both the gourd vine itself and the breath soil used to create humans were indispensable to the creation of the Human Race.
What would form the foundation for Jieyin, Zhunti, Nüwa, and the Three Pure Ones to attain sainthood in the future?
The Human Race!
Without the Human Race, no matter how much they jumped about, they would have to lie down obediently before Daochen!
"To the southwest!"
Eastern Emperor Taiyi raised his head and looked toward the southwest of Mount Buzhou.
Dijun and Daochen followed his gaze and indeed discovered an almost imperceptible ray of seven-colored divine light in the far distance.
An intensely concentrated aura of the law of creation flickered within that seven-colored divine light.
It was none other than the supreme law contained within the gourd vine!
"Let's go!"
Daochen gave a low shout, then immediately turned into a streak of light and shot toward the gourd vine.
Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi hurried after him.
Now that they had found traces of the gourd vine, all three exerted their full strength, racing toward its location to reach it as quickly as possible.
Several days later, an open canyon appeared before them.
The canyon brimmed with extraordinary vitality. Supreme xiantian spiritual roots could be seen everywhere within it, several times more than Daochen had encountered throughout his journey.
At the very center of the canyon, a gourd vine radiating seven-colored divine light quietly clung to the cliff walls on either side.
The Xiantian Gourd Vine still looked quite immature. Seven gourds of different colors greedily devoured every wisp of spiritual energy like black holes.
It made the entire canyon seem as though it were swept by vortex after vortex of spiritual energy.
Endless spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged in from every direction and converged, absorbed and transformed by the Xiantian Gourd Vine before flowing into the seven developing gourds.
"What a treasure!"
As Dijun looked at the seven-colored divine light radiating from the Xiantian Gourd Vine, delighted surprise flickered in his eyes.
With Eastern Emperor Taiyi's arrival, the yellow gourd on the vine quivered incessantly, as though it might break free of the vine's restraints and fly into his hand at any moment.
"Is this a supreme xiantian spiritual treasure?"
Sensing the powerful throbbing from within the yellow gourd, Eastern Emperor Taiyi spoke in shock.
The Xiantian Gourd Vine bore seven gourds, and this yellow gourd alone was already a supreme xiantian spiritual treasure.
Did that not mean all seven gourds were supreme xiantian spiritual treasures?
For some reason, Eastern Emperor Taiyi kept feeling that the smallest of the seven, the purple gourd, possessed an inexplicable quality unlike the other six.
It was far from ordinary.
"Seal off the canyon! Use the Chaos Bell to conceal the gourd vine's aura!"
"Hurry!"
Daochen shouted urgently. Mystical light flashed in his hands, and the Apricot Yellow Banner and the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner instantly appeared in them.
With a sweep of his hand, he tossed them up, and the two palm-sized Five Elements Banners transformed into two profoundly mysterious formations above the canyon.
Even after doing all this, Daochen remained somewhat uneasy, so he had Eastern Emperor Taiyi envelop the two Xiantian Formations with the Chaos Bell as well.
The Xiantian Gourd Vine had not yet fully matured. Once it did, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, the Three Pure Ones, Old Ancestor Hongyun, and the others would likely sense it even more strongly.
But with all this done, Daochen no longer worried.
Xiantian supreme treasures could conceal the workings of heaven. With the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner, and the Chaos Bell together, even Hongjun would have difficulty divining the Xiantian Gourd Vine's true location.
"How strange. Why has the sense in my heart vanished?"
Outside Mount Buzhou, amid the endless void, Old Ancestor Hongyun frowned and spoke in puzzlement.
"This is bad. Someone may have already discovered where the opportunity lies!"
The Three Pure Ones, who were hurrying toward Mount Buzhou, also frowned deeply. Just moments ago, the Xiantian Gourd Vine had vanished from their senses!
No matter how they tried to divine its whereabouts, they could find no trace of it!
The only possibility was that someone had discovered the Xiantian Gourd Vine before them!
"Elder Brother, I feel that Daochen may have already found that opportunity."
Within Mount Buzhou, Nüwa, who was still searching, knitted her delicate brows and spoke with a somewhat dejected voice.
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