After hearing this, Mother Wu Dang nodded repeatedly and immediately assured Hong Ze.
"Rest assured, Eldest Senior Brother. Without your permission, I will never tell a third person."
Hong Ze nodded, then invited Mother Wu Dang into his Dao Palace and instructed Xiao Bai and Xiao She not to let anyone come within half a step of it.
Once inside the Dao Palace, Hong Ze also had Mother Wu Dang set up a Great Luo Golden Immortal barrier, fearing that others might overhear them.
After everything was prepared, Hong Ze began teaching Mother Wu Dang how to read. This lesson lasted several years.
Mother Wu Dang finally committed every character in the Kangxi Dictionary to memory, even including the annotations and usage of each one.
At the same time, a trace of Law Power unexpectedly appeared within Mother Wu Dang's sea of consciousness.
The law slowly gathered until it finally formed a complete strand of Law Power—the Wisdom Law born from writing.
Having comprehended the Wisdom Law, Mother Wu Dang's cultivation began to rise once more. She actually became the first to reach the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
San Xiao and Zhao Gongming had likewise comprehended Law Power, but they had broken through into the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm because of it.
Thus, they naturally could not compare to Mother Wu Dang, whose foundation was already that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, and they were unable to reach the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm in a single leap.
Now, Mother Wu Dang had not only achieved her wish but had also unexpectedly comprehended Law Power. She could not help but feel extraordinarily excited.
She immediately bowed to Hong Ze and said, "Thank you, Eldest Senior Brother, for the grace of imparting the Dao. Wu Dang will never forget it for all eternity."
Hong Ze had no idea how great a benefit Mother Wu Dang had gained. He merely spoke with an unconcerned expression.
"I only taught you a few characters. Why make such a fuss over it?
By the way, there is something your senior brother does not understand and was just about to ask you.
If I remember correctly, Bai Xi and Teng She should have been by Nüwa Niangniang's side, right?"
When Hong Ze asked about Bai Xi and Teng She, Mother Wu Dang did not conceal anything at all.
She directly said to Hong Ze, "Eldest Senior Brother is correct. Before Nüwa Niangniang proved the Dao and became a Saint, they indeed followed at her side.
But after Nüwa Niangniang proved the Dao and became a Saint, she went to the Thirty-Three Heavens to establish Wa Huang Palace and left them behind on Mount Buzhou.
Later, during the Witch-Demon War, Gonggong crashed his head into Mount Buzhou, causing Bai Xi and Teng She to perish together.
They later entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation and were reborn. Though they were still Bai Xi and Teng She, they were already of the second generation.
Then, by chance, I took them in as disciples and later gave them to Eldest Senior Brother."
Hong Ze nodded after hearing this. That makes sense. Otherwise, how could the children of two ancient exotic beasts possibly have been bullied by that bald donkey Fahai?
After understanding everything, Hong Ze gave Mother Wu Dang an instruction.
"Among all the brothers and sisters of the Jie Sect, your blessings are the deepest. Even if you encounter a Heaven and Earth Tribulation, you will be able to retreat unharmed.
So, there is something I need you to do, because no one else can accomplish it."
Hearing that Hong Ze actually had a task for her, Mother Wu Dang immediately said with a solemn expression.
"As long as this junior sister can do it, even if I am crushed to pieces, I will not shrink from it."
"It is not that serious. I merely need you to remind Master at a critical moment that he absolutely must not casually use the Nameless Fire."
Mother Wu Dang was utterly bewildered now, unable to understand why Hong Ze would give her such an instruction.
Still, she nodded at Hong Ze. "Although I do not think such a day will come, if it truly does, then even if it costs me my life, I will persuade Master not to use the Nameless Fire."
Hong Ze nodded. He felt that with Mother Wu Dang there to persuade Master Tongtian at the critical moment, it would not be so easy for Duobao Daoren to stir up trouble.
Mother Wu Dang then bade Hong Ze farewell, turned, and left Hong Ze Dao Palace for her own cave dwelling.
After returning to her cave dwelling, Mother Wu Dang hurriedly took out a wooden box.
She carefully opened it and removed three books from within.
All three books had been secretly taken by Mother Wu Dang from Hong Ze.
The first had been accidentally brought back when she and Golden Spirit Mother had gone to Hong Ze's place for the first time.
Later, she discovered two more books at Hong Ze's place and simply took them back as well.
Unfortunately, for hundreds of years, she had not been able to understand even a single character, much less know whether the three books were related.
Now that Mother Wu Dang had finally learned to read, she naturally could not wait to see what was written inside.
When Mother Wu Dang opened the first book, the four words Investiture of the Gods were clearly written on its first page.
Naturally, Mother Wu Dang did not know what those four words meant, so she continued reading.
Before Chaos first divided, Pangu came; Taiji, Two Principles, Four Symbols hung in place; heaven emerged in Zi, earth in Chou, man in Yin; You Chao the sage spared men from beasts' harm.
Suiren made fire, ending raw meals; before yin and yang, Fuxi drew trigrams; Shennong ruled the world and tasted herbs; Xuanyuan joined rites, music, and marriage.
Shaohao and the Five Emperors brought abundance; King Yu controlled floods and cleared vast waves; peace endured for four hundred years, until tyrant Jie overturned heaven and earth.
At first, Mother Wu Dang could understand it, since these were all events that had already happened.
But when she came to the line about Fuxi drawing the yin-yang Eight Trigrams, she could not help finding it somewhat strange.
She naturally knew who Fuxi was, but she had never heard that Fuxi had drawn any yin-yang Eight Trigrams.
As for the content that followed, Mother Wu Dang had never heard of it at all.
Yet this made Mother Wu Dang feel that this should be a strange book in which Hong Ze had deduced the future.
She immediately began reading it carefully. The more she read, the more alarmed she became, until she eventually did not even dare continue.
As she closed the book, she sighed and said, "If what is written in this book is true, then what will become of our Jie Sect?"
Mother Wu Dang even felt that she ought to present these books to Master Tongtian.
But on second thought, she felt that she could not do so.
If she could, how could her Eldest Senior Brother possibly have failed to tell Master?
After thinking it over, she abandoned the idea of presenting the books to Master Tongtian.
She even considered destroying the books outright, lest others see them.
Unfortunately, curiosity ultimately overcame everything. Mother Wu Dang opened the Investiture of the Gods in her hands once again.
The nearly six-hundred-thousand-character Investiture of the Gods was read from beginning to end by Mother Wu Dang in just two days.
After closing the Investiture of the Gods, Mother Wu Dang muttered to herself.
"No wonder Eldest Senior Brother said that my blessings are the deepest. So among the myriad immortals of the Jie Sect, I alone escaped the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
But I never expected that Chang Er Ding Guang Xian would dare betray Master, causing our Jie Sect to fall into a state beyond redemption."
Mother Wu Dang had not discerned what Duobao Daoren had done in secret, for the book's description had been quite obscure.
In the end, Mother Wu Dang put all three books into her Cosmos Sack, rose to her feet, and walked out of her cave dwelling toward Hong Ze Dao Palace.
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