Xu You looked over the tribal chief's arrangements and nodded in satisfaction.
In the past, he had paid no attention to the Human Clan tribes, only pulling them out of danger in passing.
As for shamans and the like...
Were they even worthy of speaking to him?
It was not that he looked down on the Human Clan, but that they really could offer him no help right now. They had not even developed their own cultivation system.
He had also considered whether he should claim this merit ahead of time.
The Human Clan had many sources of merit, for example: fire, creating writing, tasting the hundred herbs, and developing cultivation methods suited to the Human Clan.
But whenever he wanted to impart the Dao to humans, the will of the Primordial World would warn him.
Good grief, humans really were destined to be the protagonists in the future. This merit would never go to outsiders.
Someone like him could only help in passing and scrape up a little merit.
In the end, he had earned himself the title of "auspicious omen."
But claim it outright?
No chance.
Xu You sighed. Douluo had a cosmic consciousness, and the Primordial World had the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World.
Neither allowed any living thing to transcend its control.
Still, Douluo's cosmic consciousness seemed a little more useless. After all, here in the Primordial World, if it disliked you, it really could strike you with lightning, and even inflict karmic hindrances upon you.
But in the Douluo World, the cosmic consciousness could only watch helplessly like an impotent husband as the Dragon God advanced to God Star. In the end, it had only resolved that enormous problem by influencing the Dragon God's mind and driving him mad.
"No matter what, I really do need to find a way to transcend on my own."
"I hope the Silver Dragon King's godhead can help my cultivation."
Xu You quietly began analyzing the Creation Godhead.
But just then, outside the temple, amid a stretch of green mountains...
As the earth trembled, a figure slowly appeared.
She stood with her hands on her hips, dressed in beast hides, with large swaths of bronze skin exposed.
Every breath she took could stir the movement of the mountains' and rivers' earth Qi.
A Wu!
A Witch Clan expert.
And an old acquaintance at that. Xu You immediately panicked and sealed his abode outright.
At the same time, he hung a spell outside that would transmit a message upon contact.
[Currently in closed-door seclusion until a breakthrough. Do not disturb!]
The woman scoffed and shouted with a fierce, headstrong edge, "Stupid dragon, get out here!"
Her manner seemed no different from Qing's in the Human Clan tribe just now.
The only difference was that Qing was useless, while this Wu before him was someone he could not afford to provoke.
Houtu!
One of the Twelve Ancestral Wu.
She possessed Quasi-Sage strength.
This was absurdly overpowered and utterly unreasonable too. The Twelve Ancestral Wu had been born at Peak Quasi-Saint.
Fortunately, this was innate to them. They did not need to cultivate, but without cultivating, they could not advance any further.
They did not even have primordial spirits.
Even Hongjun could not nurture a Witch Clan Saint.
At this time, the war between the Witch Clan and the Demon Clan had reached a fever pitch.
It was utterly a fight to the death.
The Demon Court was recruiting throughout the Primordial World, gathering demon kings from all quarters.
Meanwhile, the Witch Clan kept hunting the Demon Clan.
One side recruited demons while the other hunted them.
And he had become the unlucky victim.
Even his identity as a true dragon was no use. Demons might show him some respect when they encountered him.
But when he encountered a Wu, who cared what he was?
In the eyes of the Wu, no living beings were nobler than themselves.
After all, they were all descendants of Pangu.
But since Xu You, a true dragon, had been approached by the Demon Court, naturally, the Wu had come knocking to attack him too.
When the Wu had come to his door back then and learned Xu You's identity, she had decided to forget it.
Although the Wu did not care, as one of the few Wu in the Witch Clan with brains, she naturally knew how fiercely the two clans were fighting now.
Although the Dragon Clan's era had ended, its foundations remained.
The Ancestral Dragon was not entirely dead.
The Demon Court had always wanted to subjugate the Dragon Clan, and the Witch Clan did not want to see the Dragon Clan submit to the Demon Court.
But Houtu had still taken an interest in this Dragon Clan member who had stayed in the Primordial World instead of entering the Four Seas.
After all, the Dragon Clan had once been one of the world's protagonists.
Its sudden decline made Houtu feel that it resembled their current Witch and Demon Clans.
Back then, however, it had been a struggle for supremacy between three clans: the Dragon Clan, the Phoenix Clan, and the Qilin Clan.
Theirs was a struggle between two clans.
Perhaps the Dragon Clan had not given up? Perhaps it still had designs on the Primordial World's providence, and that was why it had left a few dragons behind instead of leaving the Primordial World?
Houtu wanted to see which way the wind was blowing. At the very least, she needed to discover the Dragon Clan's current attitude toward the Demon Court.
If the Dragon Clan ascended to join the Demon Court, that would not be good news for her Witch Clan.
And so, through their repeated encounters, they had become acquainted.
Moreover, with her Quasi-Sage cultivation, even though she did not cultivate a primordial spirit, against a mere Taiyi Perfected Immortal, her intuition during conversation alone...
Was no different from mind reading.
So, on that occasion, he had accidentally let slip that the slaughter the two clans were causing now might very well follow in the footsteps of the Dragon-Han Great Calamity.
But the problem was that providence was divided in two.
Each side was food for the other.
They could hardly go hungry, could they?
Especially since demons could eat demons, but Wu could not eat Wu. That left demons as the Wu's only food.
Houtu could hardly make all her clansmen gnaw on grass.
This was a problem that could not be solved at all.
Yet after questioning him that time, she had unexpectedly discovered that he actually had a solution?
Houtu had immediately lost her composure.
Although he was somewhat doubtful-what insights could a mere true dragon at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level possibly have?
But all Houtu lacked was a direction. Using their brains was simply too difficult for the Witch Clan.
She could only act on her instincts.
Even though he had repeatedly urged her clansmen that eating demons was fine, but they should not cause excessive slaughter...
It was still unavoidable.
So, after joining her elder brothers in an attack on the Demon Court, she had come again.
"This hateful fellow actually refuses to see me?"
"Has he forgotten who kept his identity hidden?"
Houtu frowned.
Her temper immediately flared.
What? Houtu was the kindest, softest-hearted of the Twelve Ancestral Wu?
She was a Wu!
Could you call the kindest, softest-hearted woman in Sichuan and Chongqing delicate?
She went straight for the brute-force approach: with enough strength, even bricks would fly.
She intended to force her way inside.
"Stinking dragon, if you don't open up, I'll eat every last one of these humans you're raising!"
That was a lie.
As a Quasi-Sage, humans were little different from ants in her eyes.
But Xu You still felt mentally exhausted.
How had he gotten tangled up with someone like this?
Helplessly, he waved his hand, while Houtu had been about to smash through the restrictions with brute force.
As the door opened, she failed to stop in time and plunged heavily into the ground.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey~"
Amid a cloud of flying dust, Houtu patted herself down and said bluntly,
"I want to create a place where the souls of the dead can rest."
Xu You: ?
She already had the idea of transforming her body into reincarnation this early?
Xu You frowned.
"After you transform your body into reincarnation, what will happen to the Witch Clan?"
Yet the next moment, his wrist was seized, and he found himself looking straight into Houtu's imposing eyes.
"How did you know I wanted to transform my body into reincarnation? I never told you."
Xu You: ???
Oh no, that slipped out.