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

The hustle and bustle of the Sanqing Temple's opening ceremony and acceptance of disciples gradually subsided, and Buzhou Mountain returned to its usual solemnity and busyness.

The newly initiated disciples began their daily practice under the guidance of their respective masters.

Kong Xuan and Jin Peng, disciples of the Taiqing Sect, were comprehending the profound principles of Yin and Yang in front of the Bagua Furnace.

The twelve direct disciples of the Yuqing Sect are studying the laws and runes in the Yuxu Hall.

The five direct disciples of the Shangqing Sect, along with the six attendant immortals and dozens of outer disciples, comprehended the Sword Heart Clarity at the edge of the Zhuxian Sword Formation.

The entire Buzhou Mountain was filled with a vibrant and upward-looking spirit.

However, in Phoenix Mountain, this vitality was replaced by a deeper, more profound force.

The leaves on the sycamore tree moved swiftly without wind, and the illusory image of the Eight Trigrams of the Primordial Chaos slowly swirled beneath the tree.

The light of the eight trigrams flickered in alternation, each change reflecting a causal thread in the primordial secrets of heaven.

Fuxi sat cross-legged on the stone platform, the Eight Trigrams Heavenly Secrets Divine Laws between his eyebrows shining like a miniature sun.

The vast flow of information in the divine network, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, converged into his divination array. After being filtered, classified, and reorganized by the innate eight trigrams, it transformed into clearly discernible threads of heavenly secrets.

This situation has persisted for an unknown period of time.

Since being conferred the title of the Eight Trigrams Heavenly Secrets God, Fuxi has been doing one thing.

To deduce Hongjun's actions.

This idea initially started as a faint, lingering doubt.

At the beginning of the establishment of the divine system, Fuxi was like most of the great beings of the primordial world.

It is believed that Hongjun's three sermons in Zixiao Palace, the bestowal of primordial purple energy, and the support of the Heavenly Court were all righteous actions taken by the Dao Ancestor to spread the Dharma throughout the world and to complete the Heavenly Way.

But then too many things happened.

The silence of the Three Pure Ones towards Hongjun when they entered the divine path, Panxuan's meaningful reminder in Phoenix Perch Mountain, and Hongjun's reaction to each expansion of the divine system.

Hongjun never directly addressed the rise of the divine system.

He simply preached his doctrines in the Zixiao Palace, supported his Heavenly Court, and bestowed titles upon his male and female immortals, as if everything in the primordial world had nothing to do with him.

But this silence itself is abnormal.

If Hongjun is truly the selfless Dao Ancestor who spreads the Dao, and the divine system completes the order of the primordial world, he should be happy to see it happen.

But he didn't.

He had been secretly plotting to use the Heavenly Court to suppress the divine path, to control the candidates for sainthood with the Primordial Purple Qi, and to seize the power of the divine path with the Investiture of the Gods.

This contradiction aroused deep suspicion in Fuxi.

So he began to deduce, starting with the three earliest sermons given by Hongjun in Zixiao Palace.

Hongjun preached three times at Zixiao Palace, extending the immortal system to the entire prehistoric world. He accepted the Three Pure Ones as his personal disciples and Jieyin and Zhunti as his nominal disciples, bestowing upon them seven strands of primordial purple energy. This is a fact universally acknowledged in the prehistoric world.

However, Fuxi's Eight Trigrams captured a very subtle thread of cause and effect.

The time and place of Hongjun's sermon were exactly after the formation of the Heavenly Dao and the retreat of the Great Dao.

The Primordial Purple Qi he bestowed happened to fall into the hands of all the innate deities who had the potential to attain the Primordial Chaos realm.

His time to achieve enlightenment came precisely after he had finished setting up all his pieces.

This is no coincidence.

Putting all these actions together, it becomes clear that Hongjun's every step precisely tapped into the gaps in the rules of Heaven, and every step served his ultimate goal.

He gathered the primordial fortune, controlled the candidates for sainthood, supported forces that checked and balanced each other, and then merged with the Dao to firmly occupy the core of the Heavenly Dao.

This model is well-organized and interconnected.

Fuxi continued to deduce the seven primordial purple energies. Six of them were given to six innate deities, and the seventh was bestowed upon Di Jun.

The function of the Six Paths Primordial Purple Qi gradually became clear during the deduction.

It not only helps the holder comprehend the laws of the Great Dao and accelerate cultivation breakthroughs, but it is also an invisible thread connecting the holder to the core of the Heavenly Dao.

The moment the holder attains sainthood, this thread will be fully activated, binding the saint's will with Hongjun's will.

Every sage who attains enlightenment through the Primordial Purple Qi will unknowingly become an extension of Hongjun's will.

The six sages, each with their own manifestation in the six realms, meant that even though Hongjun merged with the Dao, he could not personally intervene.

But his will could influence every corner of the primordial world through the hands of the six sages.

This is Hongjun's true plan: not to spread the Dharma throughout the world, not to complete the Heavenly Dao, but to control the Heavenly Dao.

Fuxi then deduced the method of severing the seven emotions and six desires that Hongjun had taught in the Four Lectures at Zixiao Palace.

This method seems to be a supplement to the method of severing the three corpses. It does not require spiritual treasures and only cultivates the self. It has indeed opened up a new path to enlightenment for those rogue cultivators who do not have innate spiritual treasures.

However, after Fuxi deduced using the Eight Trigrams, he discovered that although the Dao heart was clear and bright after severing the seven emotions and six desires, it also lost the attachment and protective heart brought about by the seven emotions and six desires.

A saint without emotions and desires will not have true compassion for all living beings, nor will he truly protect heaven and earth. He is merely an executor of the rules of heaven and a perfect vessel for the will of Hongjun.

This method complements the restrictions of the Primordial Purple Qi.

The Primordial Purple Qi controls the Sage's will, severing the seven emotions and six desires and eliminating the Sage's feelings. With the two combined, the Sage becomes the most perfect puppet in Hongjun's hands.

Having deduced this far, Fuxi slowly closed his eyes.

These deductions weighed heavily on his mind, not because they exceeded his expectations, quite the opposite.

These results perfectly matched his long-held suspicions.

Hongjun was never the selfless Dao Ancestor who spread the Dao.

His method of controlling the Heavenly Way is not direct rule.

Instead, he uses the Primordial Purple Qi and the method of severing the seven emotions and six desires to control those innate deities who have the potential to attain the Primordial Dao, making them extensions of his will after they attain the Dao.

He doesn't even need to directly control all the saints.

Controlling just a few of them would be enough to maintain his influence in the primordial world.

Fuxi opened his eyes and turned his gaze towards the direction where Nuwa was in seclusion deep within the cave.

My younger sister is Hongjun's only female disciple, and there is a wisp of primordial purple energy in her primordial spirit.

This primordial purple energy had existed within her primordial spirit for countless years, intertwined with her Great Dao of Creation.

Although she always based herself on her own Dao of Creation, unlike the Three Pure Ones who deeply comprehended the Primordial Purple Qi.

However, this does not change the fact that as long as that Primordial Purple Qi is still in her body, Hongjun can influence her through it.

The moment one attains sainthood is the moment the restriction is activated.

His younger sister was currently in seclusion, comprehending the Great Dao of Creation, at a crucial moment in her quest to attain enlightenment. Fuxi knew he couldn't wait any longer.

Once she reaches the threshold of enlightenment during her seclusion, the restrictions within the Primordial Purple Qi will be fully activated at her most vulnerable and unprepared moment.

He stood up and stepped into the depths of the cave.

Nuwa sat cross-legged on her cloud bed, the Qiankun Cauldron slowly rotating in front of her, the power of creation flowing endlessly across its surface.

Her aura was even more profound and restrained than before her seclusion. The Great Dao of Creation was condensing and taking shape within her body, and she was getting closer and closer to the threshold of attaining enlightenment.

Fuxi stood before her, remained silent for a moment, and then gently woke her.

He recounted all the results he had deduced to her, without concealing or exaggerating anything.

Nuwa listened quietly and remained silent for a long time.

Her master was Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor she had respected for countless years, who bestowed upon her the Primordial Purple Qi and accepted her as his personal disciple.

She was being used from the very beginning, not as a disciple, but as a pawn.

Fuxi knew the weight of this blow on her.

But Nuwa is Nuwa after all.

Although she was Hongjun's personal disciple, she was also the master of the Great Dao of Creation.

After a moment of silence, she raised her head. Although a trace of undisguised loss and pain remained in her eyes, there was more of a resolute determination after seeing the truth clearly.

"Brother, let's go to Buzhou Mountain."