"Originally, I was grateful to them and intended to repay the favor someday. I never expected them to be so despicable."
Upon learning that after her elder brother proved the Dao as the Heavenly Sovereign, he would be imprisoned in Fire Cloud Cave for life and forbidden from leaving, Nüwa Niangniang was utterly enraged.
Seeing Nüwa Niangniang's extreme anger, Hong Ze could not help but secretly rejoice.
He immediately continued, "Holy Mother, they were not actually targeting Great God Fuxi. Great God Fuxi ended up imprisoned for life entirely because of you, Holy Mother."
No matter what, Nüwa Niangniang had never expected Hong Ze to say that Fuxi had been imprisoned in Fire Cloud Cave because of her.
She immediately asked in confusion, "Do not speak nonsense. Fuxi is my elder brother. How could I possibly have him imprisoned in Fire Cloud Cave?"
"If Holy Mother were merely the Demon Saint and not the Holy Mother of the human race, or even if you were the Holy Mother of the human race but did not possess human race fortune, none of this would have happened."
Only then did Nüwa Niangniang understand. After all this, it turned out that the other Sages had become dissatisfied because she possessed the human race's fortune.
She snorted coldly. "If I had not created the human race, how could they have had the chance to prove the Dao and become Sages?
"Yet now, they have become dissatisfied because I possess the human race's fortune and have plotted against me in secret.
"They even refused to spare my elder brother. Since you are unjust, do not blame me for being unrighteous."
Yet Hong Ze shook his head at Nüwa Niangniang, making her feel that something was even more amiss.
"Why are you making that expression? Do you think I cannot change all this?"
Hong Ze shook his head again. "Holy Mother, the Sages have plotted against you more than once.
"Yet even now, Holy Mother, you have never retaliated even once. That is why their arrogance has only grown.
"Even if Holy Mother wishes to retaliate now, I fear you alone cannot reverse the current defeat."
"You say they have plotted against me more than once. Then why did I never discover it?"
"Holy Mother, do you still remember when my Eldest Grand-Uncle founded the Human Sect? That was the first time the Sages plotted against you.
"The human race was created by Holy Mother's own hand. Aside from the fifty percent of human race fortune held by the human race itself, all the rest belonged to Holy Mother.
"Yet when Eldest Grand-Uncle established the Human Sect, he forcibly took ten percent of the fortune from both Holy Mother and the human race.
"But that was merely the beginning. After that, there were even more underhanded moves aimed at Holy Mother.
"First, someone secretly incited the demon race to devour human souls, letting them know that human souls could help them improve their cultivation and could also be used to refine a sacred weapon for slaughtering witches.
"That was why Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi decided to slaughter the human race to forge the Witch Slaughtering Sword, nearly wiping out the human race in one stroke.
"When the human race stood at the brink of life and death, Holy Mother, who created them, did not appear to save them from their misery.
"This caused a crack in the human race's trust in Holy Mother, costing Holy Mother another twenty percent of the human race's fortune.
"Even then, although Holy Mother possessed only twenty percent of the human race's fortune, you still had the demon race's fortune empowering you.
"This still left the other Sages uneasy, so they devised another vicious scheme.
"Daoist Zhunti incited the Ten Golden Crows and tricked them into leaving the Fusang Tree to wreak havoc upon the primordial land.
"It was precisely because the ten suns ravaged the primordial land that the war between witches and demons was completely triggered, causing the Witch and Demon Races to withdraw entirely from the primordial stage.
"The demon race's fortune was completely cut off, and as the Demon Saint, Holy Mother naturally could not remain untouched.
"At that time, aside from twenty percent of the human race's fortune, all Holy Mother possessed was the karma the demon race had accumulated upon the primordial land.
"They should have been satisfied by then. Unfortunately, Holy Mother patched the azure sky with refined stones and received an enormous amount of Heaven-Sent Merit.
"So now, Holy Mother not only possessed twenty percent of the human race's fortune, but also bore more merit than any of the Six Sages.
"This made them dissatisfied once more. They intended to use the next calamity to completely strip Holy Mother of the human race's fortune and make you the most insignificant among the Six Sages."
After hearing Hong Ze's analysis, Nüwa Niangniang's expression became increasingly grim.
If Hong Ze had only spoken of future events, Nüwa Niangniang might not necessarily have believed him.
But after Hong Ze analyzed the events that had already occurred, Nüwa Niangniang could not help but believe him completely.
She immediately said to Hong Ze, "You mean they will continue plotting against me?
"Do you know how they will plot against me, and what my final fate will be?"
Seeing that everything was unfolding according to his expectations, Hong Ze could not help but feel immensely delighted.
However, he revealed a desolate expression and sighed.
"After the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the human race will truly rise and become the rulers of heaven and earth.
"This will make the human race's fortune increasingly prosperous, until it is even on equal footing with Haotian of the Heaven Realm and Ping Xin of the Nine Underworlds.
"This is unacceptable to the Sages, and thus a conspiracy against the human race will emerge.
"They will make the human race completely become believers they raise, ants utterly incapable of resistance.
"To achieve this, the first thing they must do is ensure that the human race no longer has a Human Sovereign, leaving them only with a Son of Heaven who worships the gods of the Heaven Realm.
"And the great war that transforms the Human Sovereign into the Son of Heaven will be personally initiated by Holy Mother.
"Unfortunately, Holy Mother will remain completely unaware, believing that the Human Sovereign of the mortal world is tyrannical, never realizing that Zhunti is plotting in secret.
"Later, my master will feel that what they have done is unfair to Holy Mother and openly turn against the other four Sages.
"He will not hesitate to set up the Immortal Slaughtering Formation and battle the four Sages alone. In the end, he will even gather the strength of the Jie Sect to set up the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.
"Unfortunately, the Jie Sect will ultimately be destroyed, while my master will be trapped in Zixiao Palace.
"As for Holy Mother, you will only be able to enter seclusion within Wa Huang Palace in the Thirty-Three Heavens, unable to involve yourself in any further affairs of the primordial world."
At this moment, Nüwa Niangniang could hardly believe that such would be the final outcome.
Yet Nüwa Niangniang did not doubt Hong Ze, for no one could lie before a Sage.
However, Nüwa Niangniang did not believe that Hong Ze would receive such a severe curse from the Heavenly Dao merely for knowing what would happen in the future.
She immediately asked Hong Ze, "Could it be that merely knowing these things caused the Heavenly Dao to place such a severe curse upon you?"
Hong Ze wore a helpless expression. "Holy Mother is indeed discerning. If that were all, I truly should not have received such a severe curse.
"But Holy Mother, how could I, a human created by your own hand, possibly watch the human race be toyed with and watch Holy Mother be bullied by the other Sages?
"At the same time, as a Jie Sect disciple, having received the grace of my master's teachings, how could I watch the Jie Sect fall into a place of eternal damnation?
"So at the time, I conceived the idea of changing the River of Fate. Unfortunately, I overestimated my own abilities.
"Not only did I fail to change the River of Fate, I instead suffered its backlash.
"As a result, a curse was planted upon me. The difficulty of improving my cultivation became millions upon millions of times greater than it was for others."
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