Save me—
The senior was stirring up trouble again!
Let alone Taiqing.
Even Houtu herself felt her heart suddenly skip a beat, panic flooding her chest.
Houtu feared that if Chen Xuan kept playing like this, she would not be able to take it much longer! (Her poor little heart could not take it, fellow Daoists, do not let your imaginations run wild...)
Oh my, this was far too thrilling!
"Senior Chen Xuan... this? It is not over yet? Then what exactly counts as being over?"
Houtu could not understand and instinctively asked aloud.
"Of course it is not over. Think about it—we went through great trouble to set up the Dutian God-Demon Array. With such a supreme killing weapon in hand, we suppressed all the Sages. The ancestor witch brothers expended quite a bit of blood essence and energy in the process, so we must at least collect a tiny bit of interest, right?"
Chen Xuan replied with a smile.
Houtu nodded in support!
"Houtu, I am already like this—what more do you want?!"
Sure enough, Taiqing was thoroughly enraged. He jumped about in fury on the spot and roared his question in exasperation.
As he spoke, an immense and boundless Hun Yuan pressure erupted like a primordial torrent, sweeping out in every direction.
Terrifying beyond measure!
Even Hongjun could no longer bear to watch, endless killing intent surfacing in his eyes!
Yuanshi glared furiously, overflowing with indignation.
Tongtian, meanwhile, could neither laugh nor cry. He shook his head and sighed, utterly helpless.
"Why are you yelling so loudly? You think you are the only one who can yell? Can't I yell too?!"
"Dutian God-Demon Array!!!..."
Facing Taiqing's cold interrogation, Chen Xuan did not indulge him and likewise roared back.
But before he could finish shouting, Taiqing, having lost his nerve, hurriedly stopped him.
"Forget it, forget it. I am afraid of you, all right? Speak. What other conditions do you have? Can you say them all at once?" (Inner thoughts: Fuck your mother!)
The situation was stronger than he was, and Taiqing had no choice but to bow his head. After flying into a rage, he was only enraged for a moment before he began speaking properly again.
Seeing this, Chen Xuan finally reined in some of his anger and went straight to the point. "Forget everything else for now. Hand over the complete Golden Core Method first, then we can properly discuss what comes next."
He wanted the complete Golden Core Method?!
Hearing this, Taiqing abruptly raised a brow, curiosity stirring within him.
Why did a member of the Witch Clan want a cultivation method exclusive to the Human Clan?
He could not understand it!
Yet amid his confusion, Taiqing Laozi was meticulous and deeply calculating. He always felt that...
This woman seemed to be playing some grand game?
By now, his faith among the Human Clan had already collapsed, so there was no need to keep hiding it.
Though the complete Golden Core Method was profound and mysterious, it was only a cultivation system for the Human Clan. It was utterly useless to the other races of the Primordial World.
To a Hun Yuan Sage, it was even more worthless than chicken ribs.
With that thought.
Taiqing did not begrudge it. With a sweep of his sleeve, he tossed the Golden Core Method scroll to "Houtu."
Once the true Golden Core Method was in hand, Chen Xuan used his divine sense to carefully inspect it again and again. After confirming there was nothing unusual about it—
The next moment, he casually transformed the method into a brilliant streak of light and flung it above the Human Clan's ancestral land. Golden radiance instantly illuminated billions of miles of mountains and rivers.
Then he said solemnly, "The justice the Sage owed the Human Clan has been reclaimed for them by this palace. This is the complete Golden Core Method. May the Human Clan continue striving tirelessly from now on, may every person become a dragon, rise from insignificance, and be reborn from ruin."
The complete Golden Core Method! ⊙∀⊙!
Majestic Dao voices instantly spread throughout the Human Clan's ancestral land, setting off enormous waves. Countless Human Clan cultivators cheered and leapt with joy, their excitement unceasing.
The Three Ancestors of the Human Race were stunned for a moment before quickly recovering. They looked upon Houtu with deep reverence and carefully accepted the Golden Core Method scroll.
Then, in unison, they bowed deeply toward that vast starry sky. They kowtowed once every three steps, pious as believers and overwhelmed with gratitude, answering respectfully, "We thank Great Virtue Empress Houtu for righteously aiding the Human Clan. This kindness... the Human Clan shall remember it forever, though we have no way to repay it!"
After first expressing their sentiments toward "Houtu."
The Three Ancestors of the Human Race exchanged glances, immediately understanding one another. Then, as though by prior agreement, they added in perfect unison, "Unlike someone who is utterly despicable and shameless, falsely calling himself a Sage!"
Upon hearing this.
Taiqing's mouth twitched madly, his face so dark it seemed water could be wrung from it!
No, who were they cursing?!
No matter what, he had created the Golden Core Method!
Houtu had merely borrowed flowers to offer to Buddha!
Fuck, what kind of situation was this?!
However...
What left Taiqing even more dumbfounded was...
From that day onward, the Three Ancestors of the Human Race immediately issued orders for all the Human Clan's tribes and clans to dismantle Taiqing's holy statues overnight and replace them with those of "Great Virtue Empress Houtu"!
They would specifically build temples for her, establish incense offerings, and have hundreds of millions of Human Clan members worship her!
Seeing this, Taiqing was driven completely mad inside, yet he could only rage helplessly in secret, feeling utterly stifled.
Ungrateful wretches!
The Human Clan was nothing but a pack of ungrateful wretches that could never be raised properly!
"Houtu, are you satisfied now?"
After a long while, Taiqing silently recited a heart-clearing incantation and calmly chanted spirit-soothing verses. Once he had adjusted his emotions, he looked at "Houtu" and spoke coldly.
"Not yet!"
Chen Xuan said bluntly.
Taiqing's Dao heart, which had only just stabilized, instantly shook again. He nearly exploded with rage—"You... what... more! Do! You! Want!?"
Every sound was piercing, every word ground out through clenched teeth!
"You have repaid your debt to the Human Clan, but the karma of humiliating and offending the Witch Clan has yet to be settled. Emmm... how about this? So long as you Three Pure Ones hand over the Exquisite Pagoda, the Taiji Diagram, the Taiyi Fly Whisk, the Pangu Banner, the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and... the Qingping Sword, we will count it as an apology and compensation. How about it?"
The next moment, Chen Xuan pointed at the treasures suspended amid the starry river, rising and falling without end. Like a general calling the roll of his troops, he put on a reluctant expression and spoke as though it were no big deal.
Rumble!!!
The moment those words came out.
This time, it was not only Taiqing who broke down.
Even Yuanshi and Tongtian, who had been watching the whole spectacle unfold, had their faces fall. Their eyes nearly burst from their sockets!
For a brief moment, the Three Pure Ones even wondered...
Was the wind here too strong, and had they heard wrong?
Or had this woman Houtu lost her mind?!!
No, was this Witch Clan woman insane?
How could she dare make such an outrageous demand?!
One had to know that these supreme treasures were all the Dao-attaining artifacts of the Three Pure Ones!
How could they possibly hand them over?!
Mad! This woman had to be mad!!
She definitely was!
This Witch Clan woman was absolutely sick in the head!
Let alone the Three Pure Ones.
The ancestor witches were also dumbfounded by Chen Xuan's excessive and unreasonable demands.
"Little sister, do you think... this is possible?"
Gazes converged upon her as one ancestor witch asked weakly.
Even Houtu herself was stunned.
So this was what the senior meant by...
A tiny, tiny bit of interest!?
"Senior, that is going too far..."
As her thoughts churned, even Houtu herself felt it was excessive!
This was simply something that could never happen!
Unless the Three Pure Ones were fools!
Then she had nothing to say!
"Fellow Daoist Houtu, stop joking. Be serious."
No one knew how much time had passed before Taiqing Laozi finally calmed his surging emotions. He forced a smile as he spoke.
"Who the hell is joking with you? I am serious! Are you giving them up or not?"
"Besides, among the many treasures held by you Three Pure Ones, half of them originated from the resources of Pangu, Father God of our Witch Clan. For example, the Taiji Diagram and the Pangu Banner were transformed from the Pangu Axe, one of Pangu's three treasures of creation!"
"And the three treasures of creation—the fly whisk, ruyi, and Qingping Sword—were also born after the thirty-sixth-grade Creation Green Lotus, which originated from a lotus seed of the Chaos Green Lotus, shattered and transformed!"
"Our Witch Clan is the remnant lineage of Father God Pangu. Now, in Pangu's name, I demand the return of all these lost items so that they may return to their rightful owner. Is that wrong? Huh?! Tell me! Look me in the eyes and tell me, isn't that the truth?"
Chen Xuan spoke with righteous indignation, solemnly spouting utter nonsense. He cited classics and laid out his reasoning so smoothly and logically that he directly silenced the Three Pure Ones.
Even the Three Pure Ones somehow felt that it made sense!?
They could not refute a single word!
After hearing his words.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi, who had withdrawn to a distant corner beyond the Witch Clan and Demon Clan battlefield, instinctively put away the Chaos Bell above his head.
He hurriedly withdrew the Chaos Bell!
He was terrified that Houtu, that reckless woman, would use Pangu's name to extort his Chaos Bell as well!
Seeing this, Di Jun also hurriedly withdrew the River Diagram and Luo Book, inexplicably gripped by extreme fear.
"Stop hesitating. Just hand them over already. I... ahem, this old lady counts to three!"
"One!"
"Two!"
"..."
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