"But..."
Lady Nuwa asked in puzzlement, "Even if the Heavenly Dao Will thinks in simple terms, surely it wouldn't believe you so easily?"
"Naturally."
Lin Zhishui nodded calmly. "First, I had to make the Heavenly Dao Will believe I really was the fusion of Primordial Beginning and Primordial Origin. They were my Primordial Spirits, after all. Once I absorbed them, revealing their auras was effortless."
"You've already absorbed them?" Nuwa asked.
"Of course," Lin Zhishui said. "How else could I have fooled the Heavenly Dao Will?"
Youchan suddenly asked, "That voice calling for help from inside the brush earlier... that was Demon Ancestor Primordial Beginning, wasn't it?"
A faint smile appeared on Lin Zhishui's face. "Correct. Even a brush forged from the Demonic Well of Origin couldn't completely block karmic threads. Primordial Origin had always feared being absorbed by me, so he called for help from you, the person with the deepest karmic connection to him."
He shook his head slightly. "After Demon Ancestor Primordial Beginning converted to the Outer Path, he yearned for an identity of his own and refused to return. I could only scheme a little, using Demon Ancestor Zhutian's karmic assassination to absorb and fuse Primordial Origin's and Primordial Beginning's utterly weakened Primordial Spirits. Only now am I truly Pangu's Primordial Spirit."
"Then... what about my father?" the Golden Crow Girl, Little Eleven, couldn't help asking.
"I told you, didn't I? Little Eleven, I am your father."
Lin Zhishui smiled. "If you're asking about Primordial Beginning... do you remember the voice you heard outside the door before you first met me? That was Primordial Beginning speaking through a karmic thread. But... your father was very much like me. He truly loved the Three Realms, so although he knew long ago that he would have to become