Nuwa, Zhunti and Jieyin, along with Great Virtue Houtu, as well as Fuxi and Buddha Tathagata, who were about to become Sages.
Shouldn't all of them be Sages of the Primordial World?
Could it be that Buddha Tathagata would be unable to become a Sage?
Or was one of the two, Zhunti and Jieyin, about to meet with some mishap?
Fuxi did not consider Houtu and Nuwa as possibilities.
After all, with Xu Tong around, there was absolutely no chance of anything happening to Houtu or Nuwa.
"You don't know this yet, but Nuwa stopped being a Sage of the Primordial World long ago."
Xu Tong laughed. He had already lured Nuwa away long ago.
"So Nuwa is now a Sage of your world?"
Fuxi immediately understood.
Xu Tong nodded.
"However, fellow Daoist, you cannot become a Sage in my world. If I brought you into my world as well, Hongjun might well turn against me."
Xu Tong understood perfectly well that the Primordial World needed Sages to sustain it.
Otherwise, Hongjun would never have agreed so readily to the decision to let Fuxi become a Sage.
Fuxi did not particularly care about such things. The differences between worlds were not something he could understand when he was not even a Sage yet.
Such questions were entirely outside the scope of Fuxi's considerations.
The only thing Fuxi cared about now was when he could truly become a Sage.
As for what would happen after he became a Sage, that could wait until later.
Xu Tong waved his hand and took Nuwa and Fuxi straight back to the Primordial World.
The instant Fuxi returned to the Primordial World, he felt an unusual power gathering around him.
This was the power of the Lord of the Heavenly Court.
While Fuxi had been