Houtu Wanted to Entrust Gungun with Everything; the Demon Race Wanted to Invite Ao Yue Back

Doubts kept piling up, giving Houtu the urge to simply lay everything bare and question Gungun, but...

She had not forgotten how, when they were guests in the East Sea, Gungun had answered her question and brought Profound Thunder down from the heavens upon himself. Earlier, she had asked whether the War of the Liches might end with both sides suffering devastating losses only because he had angered her. After spanking him, she had suddenly felt it was a good opportunity to ask and had not had time to think it through. Now that she had calmed down, how could she ask questions so casually again? What if she harmed him?

Besides, her ability to hear his thoughts was a secret. If he found out and became even lazier, refusing even to think to himself, then...

At that thought, Houtu restrained herself and left those two questions unasked. Moreover, she felt that, compared with her own affairs, the Witch-Demon War and how the Witch Race should respond to the possibility of mutual devastation were far more important!

With that in mind, Houtu fell silent for a while. Then she raised her arm, and a flash of divine light revealed a Divine Seal before her.

Taking hold of the Divine Seal, Houtu offered it to Gungun and instructed him, "Gungun, with the Dao Ancestor personally intervening this time, the Demon Race probably won't make any major moves for a while. During this period, I must refine the Demon-Slaying Sword with my elder brothers and sisters. I also need to hasten my comprehension of the Dao and strive to advance beyond quasi-saint to primordial unity. In the meantime, the affairs of the earth cannot go without a deity to manage them, so I have decided to put you in charge of the