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

Inside the Pangu Temple of the Wu Clan, the twelve Ancestral Witches trembled in unison.

Dijiang abruptly stood up, his eyes filled with disbelief: "This...this is Houtu's aura! She...she has become a saint?!"

Zhu Jiuyin took a deep breath, his voice trembling: "The Witch Clan... my Witch Clan has finally produced a sage!"

Gonggong, Zhurong, Rushou, Jumang, Qiangliang, Xizi, Tianwu, Yuezi, Shebishi...

All the ancestral witches, whatever they were doing, stopped at this moment and all looked towards the direction of the Netherworld.

Their eyes were even a little red. The Wu tribe, which was once ridiculed by various tribes in the prehistoric world as "having no primordial spirit and only knowing brute force".

Now, finally, we have a saint of our own!

In an instant, the entire Wu tribe was in an uproar.

The people of the Wu tribe flocked to the Pangu Temple from all directions, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing endlessly towards the Netherworld.

For countless years, although the Wu tribe was physically invincible, they were constrained in every way because they lacked a primordial spirit.

Later, with the help of Pan Xuan, he opened his primordial spirit and deduced martial arts, but he was still just one step away from the very top level.

Today, Houtu has attained sainthood through the earthly path, becoming the first saint in the history of the Wu tribe.

The Wu tribe finally reached the pinnacle in this vast and primordial wilderness.

Within the sea of ​​blood, the Styx Ancestor slowly raised his head.

He gazed at the soaring holy light, then at his own boundless sea of ​​blood, and after a long while, whispered:

"Fellow Daoist Houtu... has attained enlightenment. The Wu Clan has actually traversed that path before my Blood Sea."

In the netherworld, the Wheel of Reincarnation slowly stopped spinning, as if paying homage to its master.

Countless spirits and ghosts, countless souls awaiting reincarnation, prostrated themselves on the ground, shouting, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, on attaining sainthood! Congratulations, Your Majesty, on attaining sainthood!"

Houtu stood before the Wheel of Reincarnation, her body radiating holy light, yet her expression remained serene.

She raised her hand and gently stroked the roulette wheel, as if bidding farewell to an old friend.

After a long while, she raised her eyes, as if piercing through endless darkness, and saw her excited brothers and sisters in the Pangu Palace. She smiled gently: "The Witch Clan has finally found its own saint."

She paused, then looked towards the direction of the Great Luo Heaven, her eyes filled with understanding and anticipation:

"Brother Panxuan, since I have already taken the first step ahead of you... then your path must be nearing completion as well."

The news of Houtu's ascension to sainthood spread like thunder throughout the primordial world.

However, before the gods of the primordial world could even celebrate, another, far more momentous change was already brewing.

That is the ascension of the divine way itself.

Since Pan Xuan established the Divine Path, that system of Divine Path has been like a dormant behemoth, slowly growing on the primordial land.

Mountain gods, water gods, land gods, city gods, layer upon layer, covering mountains and rivers.

The Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, Qilin Clan, and Blood Sea Styx all submitted to the divine path and came under its command.

The Thirty-Three Heavens serve as the core base of the divine path, where the gods condense their authority and manifest avatars to guard each heaven.

The three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity are all aligned with the Divine Path, with the Divine Path serving as the pivot, operating ceaselessly.

Later, when Tu became a saint, he further connected the earthly way with the divine way.

The gods of the underworld are part of the divine system.

The perfection of the earth is also the perfection of the divine way.

The flourishing of humanity is also reflected in the presence of the divine.

The Twelve Zodiac Signs are conferred titles by the gods, the Seven Calabash Brothers are protectors of the gods, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin are recruited by the gods, and the Hundred Schools of Thought also involve the incarnations of the gods spreading their teachings.

After the principle of Heaven became impartial, the various duties that maintained the operation of Heaven were mostly shared by the gods.

It can be said that Pan Xuan's words back then, "Establish the divine way and complete the heavenly way," have now become a complete reality.

Shinto is no longer just an organization or a system.

It is the lifeblood that drives this primordial chaos, the embodiment of all order in this world.

And the creator of all this is the figure standing at the pinnacle of the divine path.

Pan Xuan finally ushered in the opportunity he had been waiting for for countless years.

On this day, Pan Xuan sat alone in the Great Luo Heaven, quietly contemplating.

He was already in the late stage of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, just one step away from the saintly realm of the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.

Yet this kick seemed to be separated by an insurmountable chasm.

He had considered countless possibilities.

Proving the Way through martial arts, proving the Way through literature, proving the Way through the three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man... yet it always feels like something is missing.

He recalled the countless years he had spent on his journey.

Back then, he traveled from the chaos and fell into the primordial world. He was discovered by the Twelve Ancestral Witches and successfully recognized as a relative by virtue of their shared origin, becoming the strategist of the Witch Clan.

At that time, the Wu tribe was weak and isolated, so he proposed to "store up grain, build high walls, and delay declaring himself king".

Leading the Ancestral Witches, they collected corpses and absorbed malevolent energy at the edge of the battlefield, secretly accumulating power.

Later, he awakened Houtu's primordial spirit, deduced martial arts, and helped the Wu tribe establish itself.

During his preaching at Zixiao Palace, he led the Ancestral Witches to plunder the origins of the stars and create the Star Witch Clan.

He established the divine path, appointed mountain gods, water gods, land gods, and city gods, won over the dragon clan, the qilin clan, and the phoenix clan, opened up the underworld, established the six paths of reincarnation, and brought the underworld into existence.

He helped the Three Pure Ones detach from the Primordial Purple Qi, enabling them to join the divine path and establish a cultivation system.

He instructed Nuwa to create the human race, thus achieving harmony between heaven, earth, and humanity.

He joined forces with Di Jun to suppress the Supreme God of Heaven, forcing Hongjun step by step out of the Heavenly Dao...

These seemingly numerous and complex events are all connected by a single main theme.

That is "order".

What he wanted was never to dominate the primordial world, but to bring about a just order in this primordial world, so that all living beings could live in their proper place and find their rightful place.

The vessel for all this order is the divine way.

"I was wrong."

Pan Xuan opened his eyes, his gaze as calm as a deep pool of water. "I have been thinking about which path to take to become a saint."

But I forgot that my path of Panxuan has always been only one: the path of the gods.

"I established the path of gods not for my own selfish reasons, nor to dominate the primordial world."

Rather, it is to ensure that the way of Heaven is impartial, the way of Earth is orderly, the way of humanity is prosperous, and that all living beings are in their proper place.

The divine way is a net I wove for the primordial world, a net that has captured heaven and earth, captured all living beings, and captured myself.

I am in it, I exist alongside the primordial world; as long as the primordial world exists, my way will not perish!

As soon as he finished speaking, the Daoist aura that had been dormant for so long suddenly trembled.

In the Great Luo Heaven, across the thirty-three heavens, they all resonated in unison.

All the heavens and realms, all the gods, no matter how far apart they were, felt a tremor from the depths of their souls at this moment.

They all looked up at the same time, gazing in the direction of the Great Luo Heaven.

There, the divine being is undergoing an unprecedented transformation.

The divine fortune, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, surged and converged from all directions of the primordial world towards the Great Luo Heaven.

The sheer magnitude of that fortune was almost tangible, enveloping the entire Great Luo Heaven in a dazzling golden light.

Pan Xuan stood in the center of the golden light, slowly opening his arms as if to embrace the entire primordial world.

"Proving the Way through divine means, taking all living beings as the foundation, and the primordial world as the body—"

He spoke in a loud voice, like a resounding bell, piercing through the heavens and the earth, "Today, I, Pan Xuan, become a saint!"

Heaven and earth came to a standstill.

At that moment, everything in the primordial world seemed to freeze.

The wind stopped, the clouds dispersed, the rivers ceased their flow, and the birds and beasts fell silent.

The three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man simultaneously radiated boundless light, like three long rivers converging towards the Great Luo Heaven.

The laws of Heaven descended, the order of Earth descended, and the vitality of Humanity descended, all pouring into the figure standing atop the divine path.

Pan Xuan's body surged with profound light. At this moment, the bottleneck of the late-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm shattered with a resounding crash.

That vast, ocean-like aura rose higher and higher like a tide, breaking through layer after layer of invisible shackles, until the realm of the Primordial Golden Immortal suddenly opened up before him!

He took one step, and the path to sainthood was naturally established.

The thirty-three heavens resound with the cries of all gods.

Countless gods, no matter how far apart they were, at this moment, bowed down towards the Great Luo Heaven, their shouts shaking the primordial world.

"Congratulations to the Divine Lord on attaining sainthood! May the divine way be immortal!"

In the Netherworld, the Goddess Houtu raised her eyes, looked towards the direction of the Great Luo Heaven, and smiled slightly:

"Fellow Daoist Panxuan, you have finally come to this point."

On Shouyang Mountain, Nuwa stood on the clouds, gazing at the holy light soaring into the sky, her eyes filled with emotion:

"The master of the primordial divine path, the linchpin of the three paths of heaven, earth, and humanity."

Pan Xuan, oh Pan Xuan, how magnificent your game of chess was!

Inside the Pangu Palace of the Witch Clan, the twelve Ancestral Witches roared to the sky, their roars piercing the heavens:

"Two sages of the Witch Clan! How prosperous the primordial world was!"

Above the Heavenly Court, Emperor Jun stood in the Ziwei Palace, gazing at the holy light, and slowly nodded:

"Fellow Daoist Panxuan, you have attained sainthood. From this day forward, the position of saint in the primordial world has been filled by another."

Pan Xuan stood atop the Great Luo Heaven, his body radiating holy light, overlooking the vast and primordial wilderness.

The way of martial arts, the way of literature, the way of God, the way of humanity, the way of earth, the way of heaven.

Those roads he had personally laid out, deduced, and pioneered now unfolded beneath his feet, forming an endless expanse of magnificence.

He slowly raised his eyes and gazed into the boundless, chaotic depths.