Inside Wa Huang Palace.
The vast aura unique to Hunyuan Wuji gradually subsided.
Nuwa slowly rose, her eyes flickering.
The image of Sun Wukong on Vulture Peak still seemed to linger in her mind.
"The aura of a Great Dao Demon God..."
She murmured those words once more.
Just now, Nuwa had seen it distinctly and sensed it clearly.
Or, more precisely, it was only today, when Sun Wukong emerged into the world, that Nuwa truly discovered what was strange about him.
He was by no means an ordinary acquired being or a Primordial Divine Spirit.
Within Sun Wukong, Nuwa had clearly sensed an exceedingly ancient aura, one that seemed to transcend the Primordial World itself.
It was precisely the presence of a Great Dao Demon God.
Though faint, though thin, though masked by hundreds of years of nurturing through Buddhist chanting, it had nowhere to hide before her eyes as a hunyuan limitless daluo golden immortal.
"No wonder..."
Nuwa's brows knitted slightly as her thoughts raced.
No wonder Zhunti had begun laying his plans hundreds of years in advance, bringing that Sky-Mending Stone back from the Eastern World to Vulture Peak, nurturing it with a Sage's power, and having Buddhist School Disciples chant sutras and expound the Dao day after day to help it awaken its intelligence and emerge ahead of time.
No wonder Zhunti had taken Sun Wukong as his disciple the instant he emerged, even sharing him as a disciple with Jieyin and solemnly announcing it to the world.
All of this had been for that monkey.
Or rather, for that trace of a Chaos Demon God's aura deep within the monkey's origin.
A glimmer of understanding flashed through Nuwa's eyes, only to give way to solemn concern.
What sort of beings were Chaos Demon Gods?
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