When Fuxi fell, his companion spiritual treasure, the Fuxi Qin, also vanished without a trace.
At that time, Hong Ze happened to be studying the Dao of the qin under the Great Dao System.
Thus, the Great Dao System had obtained the Fuxi Qin and placed it with Hong Ze for tens of thousands of years.
Naturally, Hong Ze knew the Fuxi Qin's origins and had even deliberately disguised it.
Otherwise, when Yun Xiao had asked him for that ancient zither, he would not have needed to go through the trouble of personally forging one for her.
Now that Fuxi was about to reincarnate into the human race, Hong Ze naturally had to return the Fuxi Qin to its rightful owner. After all, it had never truly belonged to him.
Hong Ze put away the Fuxi Qin, mounted his donkey again, and headed toward the Hua Xu Tribe.
That day, Master Tongtian sat within Biyou Palace. After calculating that Fuxi was about to be born, he summoned Water Fire Boy.
"Water Fire Boy, go at once to your Eldest Senior Brother Hong Ze and tell him to come quickly to Biyou Palace to see your master."
Having received Master Tongtian's order, Water Fire Boy hurried toward the back mountain of Golden Turtle Island.
However, when he arrived at Hong Ze Dao Palace, Xiao Bai and Xiao She told him that Hong Ze had already gone to the Hua Xu Tribe.
They also told Water Fire Boy that Mother Wu Dang, Golden Spirit Mother, and Holy Mother Gui Ling had all gone to the Hua Xu Tribe as well.
Unable to find Hong Ze, Water Fire Boy naturally relayed everything he had learned from Xiao Bai and Xiao She to Master Tongtian.
Master Tongtian was stunned upon hearing this. Why had several of my precious disciples gone to the Hua Xu Tribe?
Although he had summoned Hong Ze because he intended to send someone to the Hua Xu Tribe to take Fuxi as a disciple,
his Direct Disciples had nearly all rushed out before he could even make arrangements.
Left with no choice, he took out the Universe Treasure Mirror and began examining the situation within the Hua Xu Tribe.
The Universe Treasure Mirror possessed a similar marvel to the Haotian Mirror, except it could only observe events currently taking place and could not inspect the past like the Haotian Mirror.
Even so, everything within the Hua Xu Tribe was now fully displayed before Master Tongtian.
When Master Tongtian saw his three disciples gathered around Hua Xu, he understood everything.
A helpless smile appeared on his face. "Sure enough, you seized the initiative.
"But after doing this, how am I supposed to explain it to your two martial uncles?"
It turned out that the Three Pure Ones had long made an agreement: the teachers of the human race's Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors had to come from the Profound Gate Three Sects, and the Western Sect could not be allowed to obtain even one of them.
At the same time, they had agreed that before Fuxi was born, they could not send disciples to the Hua Xu Tribe in advance.
Yet now, without any arrangements from Master Tongtian, his disciples had gone there first.
What puzzled Master Tongtian, however, was that he had not seen Hong Ze at any point.
"Didn't they say Hong Ze had also gone to the Hua Xu Tribe? Why isn't he by Fuxi's mother's side? Could that brat be plotting some new mischief again?"
Master Tongtian understood his eldest disciple better than anyone.
Though Hong Ze's cultivation was not high, he made meticulous plans for everything he did. Acting without purpose was absolutely not in his nature.
Thus, Master Tongtian began searching the area within a hundred li of the Hua Xu Tribe.
Yet from beginning to end, he found no trace of Hong Ze. In the end, Master Tongtian had no choice but to prepare to abandon the search.
After all, Master Tongtian knew better than anyone that if he dared forcibly calculate matters concerning Hong Ze, he would inevitably suffer backlash.
But just as Master Tongtian was about to give up, Hong Ze's figure appeared in his Universe Treasure Mirror.
Hong Ze was teaching the human race how to farm, leaving Master Tongtian momentarily stunned.
As a Saint, Master Tongtian naturally knew that the human race would not learn agriculture until the era of Earth Emperor Yan Di.
Yet his disciple was already teaching the human race how to cultivate crops. Would that not throw the order of Heaven's Dao into chaos?
But in the next moment, a faint smile appeared on Master Tongtian's face.
"An excellent scheme. Truly an excellent scheme."
After saying this, Master Tongtian vanished from Biyou Palace and headed directly for Eight Scenery Palace on Shouyang Mountain.
After all, he had to clean up the mess his disciple had caused, didn't he?
However, when Master Tongtian arrived at Eight Scenery Palace, Grand Master Xuandu informed him that Laozi was not there. He had gone to Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain.
This left Master Tongtian rather puzzled. His eldest martial brother valued governing through inaction and rarely left Eight Scenery Palace under normal circumstances.
Now he had suddenly gone to Jade Void Palace. Could it be because his disciples had gone to the Hua Xu Tribe first?
Were those two old brothers planning to join forces and hold him accountable?
The more Master Tongtian thought about it, the more likely it seemed. He immediately headed for Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain.
Little did he know that Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun were not focused on the human race's Heavenly Sovereign at all.
They were searching throughout the prehistoric world, hoping to find that Child of the Great Dao, for that was their true threat.
Yet even after the two Saints joined hands and searched the entire prehistoric land, they found no one with the potential to become a Child of the Great Dao.
In the end, Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun even investigated the disciples of all three sects from beginning to end.
Unfortunately, they still found nothing. Not a single disciple among the three sects possessed such potential.
In truth, Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun had already investigated Hong Ze, but he had not drawn their attention.
First, Hong Ze's cultivation was merely at the True Immortal realm. It would not be an exaggeration to call him one of the lowest-ranking cultivators in the prehistoric world.
As for why Master Tongtian had accepted such an ordinary human into his sect, Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun both had the same conclusion.
They believed that Master Tongtian had imitated Laozi and accepted a human as the Elucidation Sect's Direct Disciple in order to compete for the human race's fortune.
Unfortunately, Master Tongtian had accepted such a worthless fellow. He was probably regretting it so badly that his intestines had turned green.
Therefore, during their search for the Child of the Great Dao, they had not paid any special attention to Hong Ze.
Furthermore, Hong Ze was shielded from heavenly calculation by the aura of the Nine Saints of the Great Dao. Even if they examined him closely, they could not possibly discover anything.
Now, Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun sat facing one another, utterly at a loss for what to do.
At last, Yuanshi Tianzun said, "Eldest Senior Brother, it seems we can only leave this matter to the disciples under our sects?"
At this point, Laozi had no other options. He could only nod.
"But remember this: no one must learn that the person they are seeking is a Child of the Great Dao."
Yuanshi Tianzun nodded, then ordered White Crane Boy to summon the disciples of the Elucidation Sect into Jade Void Palace.
Before long, Taoist Randeng, the Twelve Golden Immortals, Old Immortal of the South Pole, Yun Zhongzi, and the other disciples of the Elucidation Sect entered Jade Void Palace.
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