After discussing the Dao and traveling with Ming Xin for a long time, Empress Nuwa had gained much and advanced in Dao cultivation, yet a faint, elusive melancholy and contemplation often lingered between her brows.
One day, the two arrived at a valley beneath Buzhou Mountain.
The valley was beautiful, with a murmuring Spiritual Spring, rare flowers and exotic herbs carpeting the ground, and many gentle spirit beasts dwelling there, playing and frolicking in peaceful harmony.
Yet across the Entire Primordial World, such a tranquil place was truly rare.
Empress Nuwa stopped and gazed at those innocent, carefree spirit beasts, then thought of the slaughter and strife that existed everywhere throughout the Primordial World, where the strong preyed upon the weak.
Whether the Wu Yao clans or the many Ancient Remnant Species, most possessed fierce and violent natures, eager for battle and conflict. They fought endlessly over resources, territory, and Fortune, with Killing Intent filling heaven and earth.
She sighed softly, her voice carrying a Sage's compassion and helplessness. "The Primordial World is vast, and countless races stand within it, yet most are irritable by nature, bloodthirsty and belligerent.
"Even the mighty Wu Yao know only conquest, not harmony. If this continues, Cause and Effect will become entangled and Killing Intent will accumulate. I fear it will bring no blessing to heaven and earth."
The Creation Dao Rhyme around her began to flow unconsciously, revealing a powerful desire. "If there were a race born with Dao Bodies, close to the Dao and keenly perceptive, with Seven Emotions and Six Desires as well,
"Yet one that understood propriety and obeyed laws, knew creation, cultivation, and inheritance rather than mindlessly destroying and contending... perhaps it could bring a new air to this Primordial World, harmonize yin and yang, and ease the Killing Intent..."
Empress Nuwa's words had merely arisen from her feelings, a casual expression of what weighed upon her heart.
Though she governed Creation and had created countless living beings, creating an entirely new race that carried so many of her hopes was unimaginably difficult and required immense opportunity and insight.
Yet though the speaker had not meant much by it, the listener took it to heart!
Ming Xin, who had been quietly listening, felt as though lightning had split apart the fog in his mind upon hearing the phrases "born with Dao Bodies," "close to the Dao and keenly perceptive," "understood propriety and obeyed laws," and "creation and inheritance"!
The system core began to deduce madly at an unprecedented speed, combining the mysteries of Creation he had gained from discussing the Dao with Nuwa.
It combined them with his Three Lives Method insights into the Mortal World, Reincarnation, and Fate, as well as those vague fragments of knowledge from the future...
In an instant, countless clues converged into a single point!
He abruptly raised his head, brilliant light bursting from his eyes as he looked at Empress Nuwa. His voice was slightly hurried with excitement. "Empress! What you said is absolutely right!
"This is no idle fantasy. It is where immense merit and great opportunity lie!"
Nuwa was startled by his sudden reaction and looked at him with questioning beautiful eyes. "Why do you say so, Daoist friend?"
Ming Xin forcefully suppressed his excitement, gathered his thoughts, and spoke in a solemn, clear tone. "Empress, as a Creation Saint, you should know that heaven and earth have flaws. The Great Dao has fifty, Heaven unfolds forty-nine, and humanity escapes as the one!
"Though the countless races of this Primordial World each possess extraordinary traits, none is that 'one which escaped,' and none fully embodies the wonders of Heavenly Dao evolution!"
He raised a hand toward the spirit beasts playing in the valley, then pointed toward the distant direction from which faint sounds of fighting carried over. "They may be strong or weak, fierce or kind.
"Yet all are born bearing Innate Nature and cannot escape their limitations. The new race the Empress envisions should be Acquired Spirit, yet bear the form of Innate Dao Bodies, gathering the spiritual essence of all things and possessing limitless potential!"
"Its form may follow the Dao Body form of Great God Pangu. This is a body close to the Dao!"
"Its materials may be drawn from the essence of the Primordial World: Nine Heavens Breathing Soil for flesh and bone, Three Lights Divine Water for blood, granting it boundless Life Force and Creation!"
"Its soul should draw upon the aura of Heavenly Dao Creation and imbue it with spiritual intelligence, allowing it to know good and evil, right and wrong from birth. Though it too will have desires, it will better understand restraint and creation!"
"Once this race emerges, it will infuse the Primordial World with entirely new vitality, open the path of civilization, and ease the Killing Intent between heaven and earth. This is great merit that follows the Heavenly Dao and fills the Primordial World's deficiency!
"Daoist Nuwa, this will be the foundation of your achievement upon the supreme sacred path!"
Ming Xin's words were like a great bell and mighty chime, every word striking Empress Nuwa's heart and soul!
What had originally been only a vague conception was peeled apart and analyzed layer by layer by Ming Xin, each point sound and well-supported.
He had even directly named key materials and forms such as Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, and Pangu's Dao Body, instantly magnifying the hazy spark of inspiration in her heart until it became incomparably clear!
Boom!
Empress Nuwa felt her primordial spirit tremble violently as it resonated with the Heavenly Dao in an unprecedentedly powerful way!
The Dao Ancestor's teachings on the Great Dao in Purple Cloud Palace, all her insights into the Path of Creation, and the blueprint Ming Xin had described now fused together perfectly!
The laws of Creation between heaven and earth gathered around her with unprecedented activity!
She understood! She understood completely!
This was her path! This was the mission the Heavenly Dao had bestowed upon her!
To create a new race, a race capable of carrying civilization, harmonizing yin and yang, and bringing new life to the Primordial World!
"Born with Dao Bodies... Acquired Spirit... Nine Heavens Breathing Soil... Three Lights Divine Water... merit..." Empress Nuwa murmured, her eyes growing brighter and brighter.
Her saintly might spread uncontrollably from her body, stirring the winds and clouds in all directions. The spirit beasts in the valley all fell prostrate in reverence.
She suddenly looked at Ming Xin, her gaze blazing with gratitude and enlightenment. "Thank you, Daoist friend! Your words have awakened me from a dream! This is the will of heaven, and also the fruit of our discussions of the Dao!"
She no longer hesitated. With a turn of her jade hand, two treasures radiating boundless Creation aura appeared in the air: a mass of incomparably heavy divine soil flashing with nine-colored rosy light—the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil!
And a crystalline jade bottle containing divine water rippling with the essence of sunlight, moonlight, and starlight—the Three Lights Divine Water!
Empress Nuwa took a deep breath, her expression solemn and dignified, and used immense Magic Power to draw forth the soil and divine water.
She blended them together and, following the perfect Dao Body form in her heart, began carefully molding them...
Ming Xin held his breath at her side, his heart surging with towering waves. He was witnessing with his own eyes—and had even personally advanced—the most important moment in Primordial World history: the birth of the Human Race!
And perhaps the vast merit by which Empress Nuwa would create humanity and become a Sage would also contain a share belonging to him because of his guidance!
The light of Creation enveloped the entire valley. A new era was about to slowly begin in the hands of this Creation Saint.
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