Chapter 384: Huang Di

Holy shit, they're paying to give it away!

Gao Xiang Hong winced, this year was truly unprecedented—he'd seen crude oil prices turn negative, and now he saw the very task slots that elders had once fought over being sold at a loss.

In the primordial era, the mythic heavens of ancient Babylon.

Emperor Shakra spoke, and the supreme immortals and goddesses gazed with regret.

I thought we'd see the stele now, what a pity—but then again, it's only natural, given it involves Him, to entrust it to Brahma the Supreme.

"I never expected the Shiqu Sect had ties to Him."

One of the supreme beings sighed.

All the supreme beings agreed with his words.

It seemed, to them, that the Shiqu Sect and Him were utterly unrelated—how could there be any connection?

At this moment, Master Cangjie gazed toward the mythic heavens of ancient Babylon:

"In terms of mystery, the Shiqu Sect falls short of Him, but not by much. I heard Huang Di the Supreme say that after transcending time and entering the Supreme Realm, he once spent a period pursuing the traces of the Shiqu Sect."

He wanted to know whether the Shiqu Sect originated from the future or the past.

For there was no evidence the Shiqu Sect was born in the Primordial Age—he merely defined the Ninefold Life Realm and the Ninefold Divine Realm during that era.

Likewise, the Shiqu Sect has always been mysterious.

Huang Di the Supreme sought through time, searching for the Shiqu Sect's traces, yet could only find its footprints left in the flow of time—never seeing the person himself, never knowing his true form.

And every trace the Shiqu Sect left behind was extraordinary.

In the Primordial Age, he appeared for the first time and defined the Ninefold Life Realm and the Ninefold Divine Realm.

His second appearance came a hundred years before the First Sacred Spirit sought to destroy the Primordial Realm, when he founded the Shiqu Sect lineage.

His third appearance came after the First Sacred Spirit destroyed the Primordial Realm—he taught Nüwa how to mend the heavens, how to recreate the destroyed human race, guiding Nüwa onto the Path of Supreme Merit and enabling her to achieve Supreme status.

After that, the Shiqu Sect vanished without a trace.

Even Fuxi the Supreme and Nüwa the Supreme scoured all realms and found nothing—he might as well have never appeared.

To this day, the Shiqu Sect has never reappeared.

But Huang Di the Supreme, having transcended time, journeyed into the future.

He appeared in the future, during the era known as the "Middle Antiquity," and after an immense span of time, the Shiqu Sect reappeared, proving he had not died.

That was his fourth appearance."

At this moment.

The world was stunned beyond words.

Stunned by the terror of the Shiqu Sect, and stunned that Nüwa's mending of the heavens and creation of humanity had been taught by the Shiqu Sect—prompting Nüwa to walk the Path of Merit and achieve Supreme status—but why had he done these things?

No one could answer their questions; they could only continue to observe the conversation among Master Cangjie and the other supreme beings.

"What did the Shiqu Sect do when he appeared in the Middle Antiquity?" Di Shitian asked.

Every time the Shiqu Sect appeared, his traces were extraordinary—his appearance in the Middle Antiquity must have meant he did something significant.

Master Cangjie recalled and replied:

"His fourth appearance was in the Middle Antiquity, when the Shang Dynasty in the Chinese mythic realm fell to the Zhou Dynasty, during the great Shang-Zhou war—he rescued a woman named Su Daji."

At these words.

Master Cangjie sighed, his double pupils filled with complexity.

The gods, demons, immortals, and devils watching closely noticed his expression change—specifically when he mentioned Su Daji.

Upon closer look, his double pupils clearly held regret.

The gods, demons, immortals, and devils were puzzled.

It seemed Master Cangjie knew this Su Daji—and felt regret toward her.

That was strange.

Master Cangjie belonged to the Primordial Age, even if from its late period, the era of Huang Di—but the Middle Antiquity lay beyond the Ancient Age, separated by tens of thousands of years.

How could he possibly know that Su Daji?

"That Su Daji, in fact, has some connection to my Huang Di lineage."

Master Cangjie said, his expression even more complex.

"How so?" Di Shitian was confused.

The other supreme beings felt the same.

Master Cangjie did not conceal it; he kept walking and sighed:

"Su Daji's original name is lost to time, but Huang Di the Supreme would not mistake her bloodline—her lineage stems from the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox clan, and she is a direct descendant, of pure blood."

"Qingqiu?" The goddess paused, then remembered: "Isn't that where Chiyou died? So that's how it was."

As a supreme being, she naturally understood the great war between Huang Di and Chiyou.

With Master Cangjie revealing this much—even Su Daji's origin—the supreme beings present now understood what had happened.

"I once heard that Huang Di and Chiyou fought for the Mandate of China; ultimately, Chiyou was defeated and perished at Qingqiu. Qingqiu was ravaged by the war, and the three races living there were wiped out—yet I never imagined any bloodline survived."

Di Shitian's expression turned compassionate:

"She must be the last surviving Qingqiu fox bloodline. Amitabha—so this is why the Shiqu Sect saved Su Daji?"

Master Cangjie's recounting of the Shiqu Sect's deeds suggested he was a being of compassion.

Perhaps the Shiqu Sect saved Su Daji during the Shang-Zhou war precisely because she was the last of the Qingqiu bloodline.

Qingqiu was innocent; the Nine-Tailed Fox clan had lived in peace for generations, only destroyed because they were caught in Huang Di and Chiyou's war—how tragic, how cruel the capriciousness of the world.

"Why did my father never tell me about this?"

The goddess suddenly spoke, looking at Master Cangjie in confusion.

Upon hearing this, the world either trembled violently or widened their eyes in shock.

Holy sh*t?!

I didn't hear wrong, did I? That female immortal called the Yellow Emperor what? Father??

The Yellow Emperor's daughter — wouldn't that be… Hanba?!

Hiss!

She is Hanba!

Cangjie shook his head and sighed:

"The Yellow Emperor Supreme has always felt guilt toward the three clans of Qingqiu. He has always blamed himself for insisting on that battle with Chiyou, blamed himself for keeping all his attention on Chiyou, for not noticing Qingqiu, and for not reminding us to be careful not to harm the innocent.

It was just that at the time we were locked in a great battle with Chiyou's subordinates, with no mind for anything else, and in the end it brought about the destruction of Qingqiu.

No matter what reason is given, Qingqiu was ultimately destroyed because of us, perished because of the Yellow Emperor's line. The Yellow Emperor Supreme feels guilt toward the three clans of Qingqiu.

That is why he is unwilling to bring this matter up."

Hanba — ethereal as a wandering immortal, utterly unconnected to the image of a drought god in the heavens — knit her delicate brows:

"If he felt guilty, then why didn't Father take Su Daji in and settle her somewhere? Was it that after Su Daji was rescued by Shiqu, she was taken away?"

Cangjie shook his head in denial.

But he also did not answer why Su Daji had not been taken in.

He only said one sentence.

"I know what you want to ask — why Shiqu didn't take Su Daji away, why the Yellow Emperor Supreme didn't take Su Daji away, or offer compensation, and even why he never told you, his children. You will know the answer to this in the future."

The gods, demons, immortals and devils were all thoroughly confused, yet on Earth's side, very few people were confused.

They knew the reason.

Su Daji resented the Yellow Emperor for destroying her Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox clan — how could she possibly accept the Yellow Emperor Supreme's compensation? Between her and the Yellow Emperor there was only one possibility: a hatred that could never share the same sky.

The Yellow Emperor Supreme didn't tell his children, probably because he was afraid that if they learned of Su Daji, they would take action against her.

In the end, Su Daji was ultimately a threat to the Yellow Emperor, and her talent was not without hope of reaching the Supreme realm — even if she herself could not, there was still her husband King Zhou.

A potential enemy like that — killing her was the best option.

The Yellow Emperor's guilt made him unwilling to harm Su Daji; he might even have been waiting for a chance to atone for that fault…

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