Chapter 106: The Mastermind Behind the Great Calamity

On Mount Buzhou, a powerful fluctuation surged upward.

Tian Yuan, who was in deep meditation with his eyes closed, opened his eyes, glanced into the distance, and immediately wore a look of joy.

That direction was where Huluwa practiced.

After such a long period of cultivation, the other party had finally stepped into the Great Luo Golden Immortal Peak.

Filled with joy, Tian Yuan stood up and swept toward that direction.

Amidst the dense rosy light, Huluwa stood proudly, the several types of laws that had shrouded his body fading into his physical form.

Seeing Tian Yuan appear, Huluwa immediately ran forward excitedly, his small face full of smiles.

"Father Mountain! I have broken through!" After such a long time of quiet cultivation, he had finally broken into the Great Luo Golden Immortal Peak.

With this level of cultivation, he could properly help Father Mountain.

"Not bad, not bad! However, this level is still not enough; stepping into the Hunyuan is only the beginning of cultivation."

Huluwa's origin was extraordinary, being an Innate Sacred; the Great Luo Golden Immortal was merely a starting point.

Huluwa agreed with Tian Yuan's words, but immediately said loudly, "Father Mountain, let's go capture some of the Wu Clan; that way, we can purify the Earth Veins as quickly as possible."

A large part of the reason Huluwa worked so hard to cultivate was to help Tian Yuan.

By dredging more Earth Veins, Father Mountain's strength would become even greater.

As he spoke, his gaze turned toward the foot of Mount Buzhou, and he instantly froze in place.

"Father Mountain! That..."

Huluwa pointed into the distance, his small face full of astonishment.

Directly east of Mount Buzhou, blood energy was rolling, and the surging blood mist rose and fell like waves of blood, covering a large area and dyeing the sky blood-red.

Through the wisps of crimson, one could clearly see stone pillars standing tall; that was the tribe of the Wu Clan.

It had only been a short while since they last met, so how had the Wu Clan tribe become like this?

"The Wu Clan has undergone a mutation!" Tian Yuan glanced toward the direction of Pangu Temple and replied softly.

Several hundred years ago, he had already sensed the abnormal movement in Pangu Temple.

Violent, frenzied auras emerged from that valley, and blood mist began to permeate, spreading toward the entire Wu Clan tribe.

Now it had covered the entire tribe, and fluctuations of breakthroughs had been transmitted from time to time over these years.

Tian Yuan had previously gone down the mountain to investigate, but as soon as he approached, countless blood-colored array patterns appeared, isolating him outside.

After several failed attempts to investigate, Tian Yuan could not be bothered to pay attention to it.

Sitting atop Mount Buzhou, he communicated with the Earthly Dao Will, and his strength would only grow stronger.

Dijiang and the others might have other means, but lacking the Pangu Heart, no matter how they cultivated, it would be useless.

Mount Buzhou was Tian Yuan's greatest reliance; as long as Mount Buzhou was unharmed, he remained in an invincible position.

"Then, Father Mountain, are we not going to capture the Wu Clan?" Huluwa looked up and asked in confusion.

Withdrawing his gaze, Tian Yuan said softly, "Let's not mention the Wu Clan for now; let's first go see the changes in the Consciousness Space."

The preaching at Purple Heaven Palace had not yet ended, and it was unknown how long it would take for the Witch-Demon Calamity to erupt completely.

The Ancestral Witches needed time to cultivate, and he needed it as well.

Dredging the three Main Veins of the Eastern Land, the fusion of the Pangu Heart and Mount Buzhou, and the repair of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk all required a significant amount of time.

Even if the Ancestral Witches had opportunities, they could not compare to him.

"Okay!" Huluwa nodded.

During this period of seclusion, he had also felt the changes in Tian Yuan.

Father Mountain's aura was becoming increasingly profound, and more importantly, Tian Yuan was currently shrouded in a layer of mysterious Dao Rhyme.

Huluwa understood in his heart that there might be major changes in the Consciousness Space.

As they spoke, the two figures disappeared from Mount Buzhou.

"The aura of the Netherworld!" As soon as he appeared in the Consciousness Space, Huluwa exclaimed loudly.

Tian Yuan, listening from the side, had his eyes brighten slightly.

Since arriving in the Primordial World, he had always felt that the relationship between the Innate Gourd Vine and Mount Buzhou was not simple, and now it confirmed what he had thought in his heart.

Being able to sense the existence of the Netherworld so easily, it seemed the Gourd Vine also had a connection to Humanity.

"Father Mountain, what is going on?" Huluwa exclaimed loudly.

Tian Yuan had investigated this Consciousness Space, and Huluwa had also wandered everywhere; he was also aware of the situation beneath the Earth Veins.

In such a short time of cultivation, the Consciousness Space had undergone changes that exceeded his expectations.

"Houtu!" Tian Yuan responded softly, his gaze looking toward the Eastern Land.

As far as the eye could see, the East was no longer as desolate as it had been at the beginning.

The three Main Veins had not changed much, but the vast majority of the one hundred and eight Branch Veins were shining brilliantly, radiating dense golden light.

Only the few most distant Branch Veins remained dim and unclear in their latter halves.

And outside the Earth Veins, four huge light curtains were displayed, surrounding the east of Mount Buzhou.

Within the shrouded rosy light, one could see flowers, grass, and trees, full of vitality, and the gray sky also revealed wisps of light beneath the light curtains.

Compared to the scene at the beginning, the Consciousness Space already had quite a bit of life.

"Houtu?" Huluwa was startled, his eyes carrying a strange look.

Earlier, when Houtu disappeared, Father Mountain had asked him to help keep an eye out, but in the end, there was no news at all.

"Father Mountain, I'm going to look around." Glancing at the Pangu Heart suspended at the peak of Mount Buzhou, Huluwa ran off in a flash. Tian Yuan did not mind and instantly arrived at the foot of Mount Buzhou.

The amount of Tribulation Qi born between heaven and earth was increasing, but before they could fully descend, they dissipated into the air.

Tian Yuan did not know if this change was due to the first great battle between the Witches and Demons, or because Houtu had returned from the Netherworld.

But regardless, it was a good thing for him; at least the transmission of Mount Buzhou's will through the Earth Veins was much easier.

Tian Yuan easily sensed Houtu's aura and instantly arrived at one of the Branch Veins in the far east.

Seeing Houtu in the distance also purifying the Earth Vein, Tian Yuan felt very satisfied inside.

Among the twelve Ancestral Witches, Houtu was indeed extraordinary; one need only look at how Gonggong was still getting beaten up at the foot of Mount Buzhou.

Sensing the fluctuation behind her, Houtu turned around and walked up slowly: "How did you come here, Dao Brother?"

"I have been cultivating for a while, so I thought I would come here to take a look." Glancing at the many figures working hard in the distance, Tian Yuan replied gently.

With the supervision of the Ancestral Witch Houtu, whether it was these members of the Wu Clan or the Demons from the Demon Court, the speed had increased by a lot.

Houtu nodded and then said softly: "It will likely take another two thousand years of time before all the remaining Branch Veins can be cleared; the blockages in the Branch Veins at the end of the Main Vein are truly too severe."

As she spoke, Houtu looked toward the distance with a heavy face.

It wasn't just that the Strange Stones were dense, the key was that each one was incomparably huge, almost blocking the entire Earth Vein.

The golden flowing Spiritual Qi could only flow through the many cracks like water, and it was even being eroded one by one by the numerous miscellaneous stones.

At the end of the Branch Veins, one could not see any golden Innate Spiritual Qi at all.

This scene made Houtu very puzzled.

This world was transformed from the physical body of the Father God, and the many Earth Veins and Spiritual Veins were derived from the meridians and blood vessels of the Father God; how could they have become like this?

Tian Yuan did not know what Houtu was thinking inside, and his face was brimming with a smile.

This meant that in two thousand years, he would be able to break through to Hunyuan Golden Immortal; this was just the time it took for a closed-door cultivation.

"Thanks to the Daoist friend's supervision, otherwise how could it be so fast!" Tian Yuan cupped his hands and thanked her softly.

Although the Wu Clan no longer resisted him, having an Ancestral Witch watching from the side still made a big difference.

"Dao Brother, there is no need for this; the clearing of the Earth Veins also helps with the repair of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk," Houtu said with some excitement.

Even if the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk was not completely repaired, at least it needed to be mostly restored before it was possible to open the Reincarnation passage.

Only when the Netherworld truly became the place for the reincarnation of the living beings of the Primordial World could she be considered a Lord of the Earthly Dao, and the cultivation of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk could not do without the help of the will of Mount Buzhou.

"Benefiting the world is a responsibility we all share!"

The will of Mount Buzhou was interacting with the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk every moment, and Tian Yuan also benefited greatly.

Not only did the might of Mount Buzhou increase, but it also accelerated the fusion with the Pangu Heart.

Seeming to have thought of something, Houtu said in a deep voice: "The Wu Clan members captured later have gradually calmed down, but the luck shrouding them seems to have dissipated as well?"

After speaking, Houtu furrowed her brows tightly.

After coming to the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space, she had spent most of her time here.

But this time when she went out, the changes in those Wu Clan members made Houtu very puzzled.

The Primordial World had luck gathering, and it also had Tribulation Qi entering the body. But in this space, as long as the Wu Clan did not rashly absorb the Tribulation Qi in the air, they were not affected.

On the contrary, after staying in the Earth Veins for a long time, the violent aura shrouding the Wu Clan would gradually fade away.

But what was strange was that the luck gathered on them had also disappeared.

Although they had come to the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space, these Wu people were still a part of the Wu Clan.

Because they did not enter the Great Calamity with their bodies, they no longer had luck gathering? That clearly did not make sense.

"Perhaps someone is pushing the Great Calamity!" Tian Yuan replied casually.

Since the preaching at Purple Heaven Palace began, he had discovered that the cultivation of the Wu Clan in the Primordial World had accelerated, and there was luck gathering.

But the Wu Clan members he had captured long ago, although many had breakthroughs, almost all relied on clearing the Earth Veins.

Tian Yuan guessed in his heart that this might be related to Hongyun and Nuwa listening to the preaching at Purple Heaven Palace.

Hongjun's preaching at Purple Heaven Palace was itself a scheme against the Primordial World, and it was also the Heavenly Dao's erosion of the Earthly Dao and Humanity.

"What?"

Houtu exclaimed, her eyes widening as she stared straight at Tian Yuan, then she looked up at the firmament.

Although the Primordial World was incomparably vast, the only one who could have such ability now was that person in Purple Heaven Palace.

Houtu hesitated for a moment, but still could not help asking: "What Dao Brother means is..."

"Whether it is or isn't, we will know when Humanity recovers; the top priority is to purify all the Earth Veins of the Eastern Land." Tian Yuan did not answer directly.

After the Demon-Dao Dispute, the Witch-Demon Calamity and the Investiture of the Gods almost all happened in the East; this was where the Humanity Luck gathered.

Tian Yuan guessed in his heart that the many Earth Veins of the Eastern Land were also closely related to Humanity Luck.

"Hoo!" Houtu took a deep breath.

Although Tian Yuan did not say it explicitly, with her intelligence, how could she not think of the key to it?

No wonder Dao Brother Tian Yuan did not go to Purple Heaven Palace to listen to the preaching at all.

That Hongjun was actually using the power of one person to deceive all the Innate Sacreds of the entire world.

Now even the Three Pure Ones honored the other party as 'Dao Ancestor'.

"What Dao Brother says is very true, Houtu will go get busy!" Cupping her hands toward Tian Yuan, Houtu rushed toward the distance.

Houtu did not know what Hongjun wanted to do, but now she only wanted to purify the Earth Veins, repair the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, and open the Netherworld Prefecture.

(End of this chapter)