Primordial Era: Taking the blame to become a saint, proving one's path through eccentricity!

Soon, Xuan Yin met Zhu Rong, the ancestral witch of fire, who was now in his innate Dao body, playing a celestial zither outside the Pangu Temple, using the wondrous sounds of heaven and earth to expound the profound mysteries of the Great Dao of Fire.

The vast majority of beings who cultivate the Way of Fire tend to be irritable or domineering, which is due to the influence of the Way of Fire.

Xuan Yin simply couldn't reconcile the handsome man playing the zither in his eyes with the irritable Ancestral Witch who chased after the Demon Emperor Jun tens of thousands of years ago.

Tianwu, in his avatar, laughed and said, "My sixth brother, besides the Great Dao of Fire, is most skilled in the Dao of Music, which can soothe the Dao heart!"

"Looking across the entire primordial world, only Fuxi can be compared to him in this realm!"

"He even personally crafted three ancient zithers, and the one he's playing now is the Phoenix Zither, forged from the sacred wood of Yaoshan!"

Xuan Yin nodded immediately.

When Tianwu was introducing the instrument to him, Yanlin also transmitted his voice to him, saying that Zhurong had made three immortal zithers from the wood of Yaoshan Mountain, named Huanglai, Fenglai, and Luanlai respectively. These three immortal zithers, having been with Zhurong for a long time, had developed some faint intelligence.

Zhu Rong also cherished it greatly.

Then, Tianwu himself walked out of the Pangu Temple, and his avatar also turned into a drop of essence blood and merged into his body.

"Young friend, your second brother has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Tianwu patted Xuan Yin on the shoulder, appearing extremely enthusiastic, but Xuan Yin's gaze involuntarily fell upon the Pangu Temple.

Above the Pangu Temple, a vast and chaotic aura was revealed. The patterns on it were all chaotic divine scripts evolved from the laws of the Great Dao. Xuan Yin couldn't help but be captivated by them after just one glance.

"Wind, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, lightning, time, space..."

Most of these chaotic divine scripts are related to the Great Dao governed by the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and some are likely related to some of the great witches of the Witch Clan.

Let's go!

Tianwu reminded him, "After you've met your second brother, you can study these chaotic divine runes as you see fit!"

"good!"

Xuan Yin nodded quickly. On the territory of the Wu tribe, they still needed to be a little more careful.

Before long, Xuan Yin met the Time Ancestral Witch Zhu Jiuyin. Besides him, Xuan Ming and Hou Tu were also in the Pangu Temple.

"I've met several ancestral witches!"

Xuan Yin was about to bow when Zhu Jiuyin stopped him: "We, the Wu Clan, don't engage in such formalities. The reason I had Tian Wu invite you from Kunlun Mountain this time is actually to have you become a member of our Wu Clan!"

"what?"

Xuan Yin froze on the spot, then shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Ancestral Witch, but I am a human created by the Goddess Nuwa!"

"Furthermore, what merit or ability do I, a mere True Immortal, possess to deserve the favor of the Ancestral Witch?"

Before he came, he had thought about why Zhu Jiuyin wanted to find him, but he did not expect that the other party would want him to become a member of the Wu clan right away.

Is that correct?

Zhu Jiuyin remained unmoved and said calmly, "This is not a difficult matter. My Wu Clan has its own methods to help you change your bloodline!"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yin neither agreed nor refused, but instead asked directly, "Is there anything about me that the Ancestral Witch values?"

"I don't know either!"

Zhu Jiuyin shook his head: "However, according to the records of the Pangu Temple, you did not exist in the past twenty cycles of reincarnation!"

"Generally speaking, in each cycle of reincarnation, those who drive the development of the primordial timeline are always the same people. In previous chaotic eras, there might have been Wang Shu's cause and effect, but no one has ever discovered it!"

"Not to mention, delivering this karma into the hands of our Twelve Ancestral Witches!"

Xuan Yin was shocked. He wanted to contact Xuan Shuang and Yan Lin, but he found that he could no longer sense the presence of the Water and Fire Gourd!

The two men told him that only a few sages knew about the cycle of reincarnation, and only a few sages could retain their memories in the cycle of reincarnation.

But now...

How did the witch clan know this?

Seeing Xuan Yin's flustered expression, Zhu Jiuyin immediately explained, "This Pangu Temple can only be entered through consciousness by those who are invited, unless they are of our Wu clan bloodline! Those two fellow Daoists are not among those invited, so naturally you cannot contact them!"

Xuan Yin was greatly alarmed. He had initially been following behind Tian Wu, but at some point, his consciousness had left his physical body.

And he was completely unaware!

But he was certain that Zhu Jiuyin had no intention of harming him, so he immediately asked, "How did the Ancestral Witch know about the cycle of reincarnation?"

Zhu Jiuyin shook his head: "I have no memories of past eras, but this Pangu Temple clearly records everything about the Wu Clan, including their defeat and demise in the first twenty reincarnations!"

"Although these twenty cycles all ended in the decline of the Witch Clan, some of them were different from the previous experiences!"

"Therefore, I suspect that the twelve ancestral witches of past eras also struggled, just like us!"

With a wave of his hand, Xuan Yin's consciousness was placed in a state of chaos, and scenes from past eras gradually appeared around him.

The most unique instance was the seventeenth reincarnation, when all the Ancestral Witches helped Houtu evolve reincarnation, allowing the Underworld to be successfully born. Although this action allowed the Witch Clan to continue, other forces in the Primordial True Realm then extended their reach deep into the Underworld.

The Styx Ancestor evolved four layers of Blood Lake Hell, Nuwa evolved nine layers of Nine Nether Hell, the two Western Saints jointly evolved eighteen layers of Mount Tai Hell, Taiqing Laozi evolved twenty-four layers of Fengdu Hell, Yuanshi Tianzun and Nuqing jointly evolved thirty-six layers of Nuqing Hell, and so on.

Although the Earthly Dao has emerged, its authority is incomplete. Houtu can only be considered an incomplete sage, and is no match for the several Heavenly Dao sages.

The Wu tribe could not escape its eventual decline.

Then came the immeasurable calamity, the eighteenth cycle of reincarnation. The twelve ancestral witches of this cycle learned from the lessons of the previous cycle and joined forces with Styx and Zhen Yuanzi to try to complete the authority of the underground path.

However, due to the lack of ley lines in the west, the plan to complete the tunnels still failed!

The twelve ancestral witches in the nineteenth and twentieth reincarnations also tried their best, but they still could not completely repair the tunnel.

Even creating a complete Daoist saint was impossible, so the cycle of Houtu's evolution could not escape being divided up in the end.

This is the twenty-first cycle!

"The authority over the Earthly Path, besides residing in the Cycle of Reincarnation and the Netherworld, is also crucial in the Netherworld Blood Sea occupied by the Styx River and the Earthly Immortal Dao wielded by Zhen Yuanzi, but it lacks the most important element!"

"That is the Earthly Dao Fruit that evolved when the Primordial Qilin occupied the primordial land!"

"We, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, were born from the Pangu Palace after the Great War of the Three Races. Even if we wanted to obtain the Dao Fruit of the Earthly Origin, we had no chance!"

"But now, in this era, there is an added variable: you, who, by a stroke of luck, have established a connection with the Earthly Dao Fruit of the Primordial Qilin... This may be the only hope for our Wu Clan!"

Zhu Jiuyin's eyes burned with desire as he looked at Xuan Yin as if he were examining a rare treasure, which was why he sought out Xuan Yin.

"Earth Origin Dao Fruit?"

Xuan Yin never expected that the Earthly Dao Fruit of the First Qilin was related to the perfection of the Earthly Dao, but now it belongs to the Heavenly Dao!

Unless one has accumulated enough merit, it is impossible to exchange the Earthly Dao Fruit!

But this is not a simple matter!

Suddenly, Xuan Yin remembered Zhen Yuanzi, Xuan Yuan, Han Shuji, and the others. They had also established a connection with the Earthly Origin Dao Fruit of the First Qilin.

Is there a scheme behind this involving the Twelve Ancestral Witches or the will of the underworld?

Unfortunately……

Nobody has that much merit!