Chapter 383

The moonlight was like water, and Hou Tu stood three steps away from Su Chen.

"Please speak, Ancestral Wu." Su Chen's expression was calm.

"Recently, I have always felt uneasy." Hou Tu looked into the distance, toward the direction of the Netherworld Blood Sea. "Every time the night is deep, I can hear countless wails coming from the depths of the earth. Those are incomplete wandering souls; they are crying, looking for a place to belong."

Hou Tu frowned slightly, her voice carrying a trace of fatigue: "I cultivate the Dao of Earth, and the earth carries all things. But this call is becoming more and more intense, making me unable to sleep at night. Even..."

She paused, seemingly finding the next words difficult to say.

"Even what?" Su Chen asked.

"Even making me feel resistant to the upcoming war between the two clans." Hou Tu lowered her head, her hands clenching slightly. "The Wu Clan fights heaven and earth and never fears death. But as soon as I think of the war starting, there will be more suffering for living beings, and more wandering souls with nowhere to rest, I feel fear. I am not afraid of death; I am afraid that this heaven and earth will completely turn into a dead zone."

Hou Tu raised her head, her eyes full of confusion and struggle: "Big Brother and the others are all preparing for war with all their might. As an Ancestral Wu, I have developed such thoughts of avoiding battle. This is a betrayal of the Wu Clan. Su Chen, tell me, am I sick?"

Su Chen stood where he was, his heart shaking violently.

The karma of the Earthly Dao reincarnation had begun to awaken.

The Heavenly Dao was incomplete, and the Earthly Dao had not yet appeared.

After the creatures of the Primordial World died, their spirits had nowhere to go and could only wander between heaven and earth, eventually dissipating or being eroded by baleful Qi and turning into fierce ghosts.

Hou Tu's compassion was the key to completing this heaven and earth.

He took a deep breath, looked at Hou Tu, and his tone was unprecedentedly solemn.

"The Ancestral Wu is not sick." Su Chen's voice was steady. "This is not weakness, but great compassion."

Hou Tu was stunned.

"The Great God Pangu opened heaven and earth and transformed his body into all things; this is what kind of compassion." Su Chen said slowly. "The Ancestral Wu was born from Pangu's essence blood and cultivates the Dao of Earth. The earth carries life; why can it not carry death? Life has a place of origin, and death, naturally, should also have a place of return."

Hou Tu's delicate body shook, a glimmer of light flashing in her eyes, but it was immediately covered by deep worry.

"But the great calamity is coming." Hou Tu's voice was bitter. "If I go to find that illusory path of return at this time, it is fleeing before the battle. I cannot abandon my brothers and the millions of sons of the Wu Clan."

This was the greatest regret and knot in Hou Tu's heart when she transformed into reincarnation.

She felt she had abandoned the Wu Clan and had lived in the Netherworld ever since, never stepping out of the underworld once.

Su Chen stepped forward, his gaze like a torch.

"The Ancestral Wu is wrong." Su Chen's voice raised. "Being in the game, everyone is an ant. The two clans will fight to the death, and regardless of who wins, the Wu Clan will surely suffer heavy damage."

He stared at Hou Tu and comforted her: "Only by jumping off the chessboard can you protect the chess pieces. If one day you truly find that new path that can accommodate the return of all things, please walk it without hesitation!"

"That is not betrayal," Su Chen said decisively, "that is leaving the last hope for the Wu Clan!"

These two sentences, like a great bell, exploded in Hou Tu's mind.

She stood frozen in place, the Earthly laws around her body overflowing uncontrollably, merging with the moonlight.

From the depths of the earth, a low resonance faintly came.

Su Chen did not speak again.

He knew that words ended here, and the rest could only be realized by Hou Tu herself.

After a long time, the confusion in Hou Tu's eyes mostly dissipated.

She looked at Su Chen and bowed solemnly.

"Thank you." Hou Tu's voice was gentle but carried a firmness.

Su Chen stepped aside to avoid it: "Ancestral Wu, you are too kind."

Hou Tu turned and merged into the night.

The next day. Early morning.

A red sun leaped out from the horizon, and ten thousand zhang of golden light sprinkled over Mount Wuzhou.

On the square in front of the Pangu Temple, the Twelve Ancestral Wu were all gathered.

Su Chen and Sun Wukong stood in front of everyone.

Su Chen was in a green shirt, his grayish-white chaotic Qi and blood perfectly suppressed within his body, looking like an ordinary worldly scholar of later generations.

But the Ancestral Wu present knew what kind of terrifying power was contained within this seemingly thin body.

"Leaving?" Zhu Rong walked up with large strides, carrying two huge stone vats in his hands.

"Bang!" The stone vats were placed heavily on the ground.

"Monkey, take these two vats of wine!" Zhu Rong grinned widely. "In the future, if you encounter someone you can't beat, report my name, Zhu Rong. Whoever dares to bully you, I'll go and skin them alive!"

Sun Wukong laughed out loud, grabbed the stone vats, and put them into his storage space.

"Brother Zhu Rong, wait until I, Old Sun, become stronger, and I'll come back to fight you again!" Sun Wukong pounded his chest.

"Always ready!" Zhu Rong laughed.

Di Jiang came to Su Chen.

This leader of the Ancestral Wu looked at Su Chen, a trace of complexity flashing in his eyes.

He had thought about Su Chen's words from last night all night.

"The Primordial World is dangerous." Di Jiang spoke, his voice steady. "Once you leave Mount Wuzhou, be careful in everything."

"Thank you, Ancestral Wu Di Jiang." Su Chen cupped his hands.

Hou Tu walked forward.

She opened her palm, and a jade talisman emitting a warm yellow light lay quietly in her palm.

"This jade talisman contains a wisp of my Earthly origin." Hou Tu handed the jade talisman to Su Chen. "If you encounter a life-and-death crisis, crush it, and as long as I am still alive, I will come to help you."

Su Chen did not refuse; he took the jade talisman with both hands and put it away solemnly.

"Everyone, we will meet again." Su Chen looked around and bowed deeply.

"I, Old Sun, am off!" Sun Wukong flipped onto his somersault cloud.

Su Chen stepped into the void and landed on the somersault cloud.

With a flash of golden light, the somersault cloud soared into the sky, turning into a stream of light and disappearing into the horizon instantly.

The Twelve Ancestral Wu stood in front of the Pangu Temple, watching the two leave.

"Big Brother." Zhu Rong looked at the sky. "How much of a splash can this kid make in the Primordial World in the future?"

Di Jiang withdrew his gaze and turned toward the Pangu Temple.

"Perhaps there will be no news of him in the future."

Zhu Jiuyin to the side was thoughtful upon hearing this.

Above the nine heavens, the gale was biting.

The somersault cloud turned into a golden light, tearing through layers of clouds and speeding over the Primordial land.

Having left the Mount Wuzhou territory, the cruelty of the Primordial World was displayed before them without reservation.

The earth was scarred, deep bottomless rift valleys crisscrossed, and pungent toxic miasma gushed out from the broken earth veins.

Friction between the Wu and Demon clans at the borders was intensifying, and the tribulation Qi permeating the air was thick to the extreme.

Su Chen stood on the clouds with his hands behind his back, his green shirt fluttering. He looked down, his expression calm.

"Brother, look over there!" Sun Wukong sat cross-legged on the cloud and suddenly pointed to a desolate valley below.

Su Chen looked in that direction.

In the valley, a tragic slaughter was taking place.

Thousands of primitive humans wearing rough animal skins and holding stone spears and bone clubs were being attacked by a massive Primordial fierce beast.

The fierce beast resembled a giant wolf, with thorns on its back, emitting the fierce aura of an early-stage Earth Immortal.