Primordial Era: The Witch Clan's Dog-Headed Strategist

After Pan Xuan left, Phoenix Perch Mountain returned to its usual tranquility.

The leaves of the sycamore tree swayed gently in the breeze, and the mountain stream continued to flow.

The black and white pieces on the chessboard still retained the original incomplete game, but only Fuxi and Nuwa remained beside the stone platform.

Nuwa gazed in the direction where Panxuan's escape light had disappeared, remaining silent for a long time.

She had a feeling that she couldn't quite explain.

Pan Xuan was open and composed on this trip. He was very sincere when he invited Fuxi to join the divine path. He was not displeased when she refused, but accepted it calmly.

This composure was indeed admirable, but what concerned her even more was Pan Xuan's last meaningful words.

"Brother."

Nuwa turned around and looked at Fuxi,

Pan Xuan's parting words seemed to be specifically meant for you.

The divine network covers the primordial world, with heavenly secrets flowing within it, allowing you to deduce using the Eight Trigrams.

What is he implying?

Fuxi did not answer immediately.

He sat cross-legged back on the stone platform, and the phantom of the Eight Trigrams slowly unfolded in front of him, with the trigrams flowing endlessly in the void.

After a moment, he raised his head, his gaze gentle yet carrying a hint of solemnity:

"He was implying that the Shinto network could help me deduce things that are not usually noticeable."

He didn't specify what it was, but based on my speculation, it's probably related to Master Hongjun.

Nuwa's expression changed slightly, and she was about to say something when Fuxi raised his hand and gently stopped her:

"Sister, there's no need to worry. Pan Xuan is a very tactful person. Since he only hinted at it without saying it outright, it's because he doesn't want to put you in a difficult position."

You are a direct disciple of Master Hongjun, and there are some things he cannot say to your face, but his goodwill is sincere.

Go and continue to comprehend the Great Dao of Creation; I'll stay here.

"Once I've finished my deductions, I'll share any discoveries with you."

Nuwa looked into Fuxi's deep, star-like eyes, remained silent for a moment, and then nodded slightly.

She trusted her brother's judgment.

Fuxi was always meticulous and thorough in his work, and he never drew conclusions lightly.

Since he said he wanted to perform the divination first, then she would let him. She turned and walked towards the cave in the mountains.

After taking a few steps, he turned back to look at Fuxi and said softly, "Brother, whatever you deduce, you must tell me. Don't hide it from me."

Fuxi smiled slightly and nodded: "Go."

After Nuwa's figure disappeared into the depths of the paulownia tree, Fuxi sat alone on the stone platform.

He slowly closed his eyes, and the Bagua-shaped mountain god deity between his brows suddenly lit up.

The phantom of the Eight Trigrams in the pre-heaven arrangement continued to expand and deepen in front of him, with the light of the eight trigrams intertwining together.

This formed a deduction array that was hundreds or thousands of times larger than usual.

At this moment, his mind was completely absorbed into the divine network.

This was the first time he had operated the Primordial Eight Trigrams in his capacity as a divine deity.

The feeling was completely different from before.

Previously, he could only rely on his own cultivation and understanding of the laws of heaven to deduce the secrets of heaven.

Now, the divine network covers the primordial world, with mountain gods and water gods each governing their own regions, controlling the flow of earth veins, the rise and fall of spiritual energy, and the distribution of merit.

All of this information flows and converges within the Shinto network.

He was no longer a single person, but possessed countless eyes scattered throughout the primordial wilderness.

It allows you to see scenes from countless angles simultaneously. The amount of information is many times greater than before.

Countless sounds, images, and information flooded into my consciousness at the same time; anyone else would probably have been dizzy and disoriented by now.

But Fuxi is the ancestor of the Eight Trigrams.

His ability to process information was top-notch in the entire primordial world; in just a short time, he found a way to filter out effective information.

Then the deduction began.

Fuxi's goal was very clear: not to deduce Hongjun himself, but to deduce the things Hongjun did.

The causal relationship between Hongjun himself and the cause and effect is too great.

Hongjun is a sage who has merged with the Dao. Any deduction that directly targets him will touch the core of the Heavenly Dao.

That causal backlash is enough to annihilate any strategist, body and soul.

But what Hongjun did before.

He preached three times in Zixiao Palace and bestowed seven streams of primordial purple energy.

He supported Emperor Jun and Taiyi in establishing the Heavenly Court, appointed the Eastern King Duke and the Western Queen Mother as the heads of male and female immortals, and united with the Dao.

These are facts that have already occurred.

What has already happened, the cause and effect have been settled, and it is much less risky to deduce it.

He didn't need to directly challenge Hongjun's will; he only needed to deduce the causal relationships behind these facts.

Just as you don't need to look directly at the sun, but only need to observe the shadows of everything under the sunlight to deduce the sun's position.

The eight trigrams (Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, Dui) are operating wildly within the divine network.

Each hexagram represents a direction of deduction, and Fuxi simultaneously advanced along eight paths.

We will break down Hongjun's actions one by one and trace them back to their origins.

First, we will deduce the cause and effect of Hongjun's transmission of the Dao.

Hongjun preached three times at Zixiao Palace, extending the immortal cultivation system to the entire prehistoric world.

Each sermon brings more beings into his network of immortal beings.

But Fuxi discovered a strange detail during his deductions.

When Hongjun spread his teachings, he accepted the Three Pure Ones as his personal disciples and Jieyin and Zhunti as his nominal disciples, bestowing upon them the Primordial Purple Qi.

However, the Three Pure Ones were transformed from the primordial spirit of Pangu, and Jieyin and Zhunti are the lords of the West.

These people didn't originally need the Primordial Purple Qi to find their own path to enlightenment.

Why did Hongjun choose them in particular?

The answer lies hidden deeper within the causal chain, which Fuxi cannot yet discern.

But he could see a blurry outline: Hongjun was gathering his fortune.

To deduce the causal relationship between Hongjun bestowing the Primordial Purple Qi.

The seven primordial purple energies are each the foundation for attaining enlightenment.

One for each of the Three Pure Ones, one for Nuwa, one for Jieyin and Zhunti, and one for Dijun.

If all seven of them attained sainthood by relying on the Primordial Purple Qi.

Their saintly authority is connected to the core of the Heavenly Dao through the Primordial Purple Qi, and sitting in the core of the Heavenly Dao is none other than Hongjun himself, who has merged with the Dao.

Hongjun publicly stated that he was "spreading the Dao to all living beings and completing the Dao of Heaven."

However, the hexagrams of Fuxi show that the internal structure of the Primordial Purple Qi is far more complex than it appears on the surface.

He could not deduce the specific restrictions inside the Primordial Purple Qi, which were personally set up by Hongjun using fragments of the Creation Jade Disc, and no amount of deduction could penetrate them.

However, he was able to deduce the relationship between the Primordial Purple Qi and the core of the Heavenly Dao.

Those were invisible threads that connected every holder of the Primordial Purple Qi with the will of Hongjun.

Then, the cause and effect of Hongjun supporting Dijun and Taiyi in establishing the Heavenly Court was deduced.

Emperor Jun and Taiyi united all races to establish the Demon Race, gathered the powerful figures of various races with the Investiture of the Gods, and used the Zhou Tian Star Array as the Heavenly Protection Array.

On the surface, this appears to be Di Jun and Tai Yi's own ambition, but Fu Xi's divination indicates that Hong Jun gave them a push from behind.

The bestowal of the Investiture of the Gods and the Primordial Purple Qi upon Di Jun gave him the confidence to establish the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court was established shortly after the Wu tribe established the divine path, which put it in a state of confrontation with the divine path.

This is no coincidence.

The Investiture of the Gods, capable of bestowing titles upon deities, directly competed with the pantheon of the Wu tribe.

Hongjun bestowed the Investiture of the Gods upon Dijun with the aim of making the Heavenly Court a rival to the divine path.

He allowed the Witch Clan and the Heavenly Court to check and balance each other, while he himself remained firmly seated at the core of the Heavenly Dao.

Another aspect is the causal relationship between Hongjun's appointment of the Eastern King Duke and the Western Queen Mother as the heads of male and female immortals.

The Eastern King and Western Queen Mother united the scattered cultivators and established the Pure Yang Immortal Court.

This force was weaker than the Heavenly Court and even weaker than the Divine Path, but it played a delicate balancing role in the prehistoric world.

With a place to belong, the independent cultivators would not flock to the divine path or the Heavenly Court, which ensured that Hongjun's immortal system would not easily lose its influence among the independent cultivators.

Finally, the cause-and-effect relationship of Hongjun's merging with the Dao is deduced.

After merging with the Dao, Hongjun's will was integrated into the core of the Heavenly Dao.

He could no longer arbitrarily interfere in matters of the primordial era; this was a rule he himself had set.

However, Fuxi discovered during his deductions that Hongjun did not truly retire after merging with the Dao.

Although his will was suppressed within the core of the Heavenly Dao by some force, it could not expand.

However, he still maintains absolute control over the core of the Heavenly Dao through some means.

More importantly, the arrangements for the Primordial Purple Qi, the Investiture of the Gods, and the investiture of the Eastern King Duke and the Western Queen Mother were all completed before Hongjun merged with the Dao.

He arranged the chess pieces before he agreed.

He let the chess pieces play their own game in the primordial world, while he quietly awaited the outcome of the game within the core of the Heavenly Dao.

All these projections come together.

A fact that Fuxi could not believe but had to accept gradually emerged in his mind.

Hongjun's preaching and bestowal of the Primordial Purple Qi were not entirely for the purpose of benefiting the primordial world.

He had ulterior motives. When all these arrangements are put together, Hongjun's behavior pattern presents a clear logical chain.

Gather the power and control the candidates for sainthood.

Support forces that check and balance each other, and then merge with the Dao to firmly occupy the core of the Heavenly Dao.

This is not the behavior expected of a selfless preacher.

Rather, it is a chess player setting up a grand and profound chess game.

But what Hongjun was planning was something that Fuxi could not deduce.

His divination results would suddenly dim every time they touched that direction.

All the deductive paths came to an abrupt end there, as if all cause and effect were blocked by an invisible barrier.

On the other side of that barrier lies the sage's core strategy.

It is a secret of heaven obscured by fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation, a level that Fuxi's current cultivation and deductive abilities cannot reach.

He could see Hongjun's strategy, the placement and direction of all the pieces, but he couldn't see the ultimate goal the player wanted to achieve.

This feeling is like standing on the edge of an abyss shrouded in thick fog, knowing the abyss is right beneath your feet, but unable to see just how deep it is.

Fuxi slowly put away the Eight Trigrams of the Primordial Era.

The long period of deduction had left his spirit somewhat exhausted.

But even heavier than the exhaustion is the weight of the deduction results themselves.

"Master Hongjun, what exactly are you plotting?"

Fuxi muttered to himself.

He had no answers, but he had seen enough.

At least one thing is certain.

The Primordial Purple Qi is not merely a gift; it is one of the core pieces in Hongjun's strategic plan.

My younger sister is Hongjun's personal disciple, and the Primordial Purple Qi between her brows has partially merged with her primordial spirit.

If she continues to rely on the Primordial Purple Qi to comprehend the Dao, the consequences will be unimaginable when the hidden tricks within the Primordial Purple Qi are activated.

Fuxi stood up and walked towards his mountain cave. He needed to remind his sister.