Chapter 252: The Heavenly Dao Will Stirred by Tongtian
Gungun's vast and boundless will rushed toward him; in a trance, Tongtian inexplicably felt his own insignificance.
More importantly, within that vast fluctuation, he vaguely sensed a distant, familiar aura.
Father God, it is the aura of the Pangu Great God.
Within this Buzhou Mountain, which was clearly different from the Primordial World, the primitive fluctuations of Father God actually remained.
Pangu performed the Opening of Heaven and his body evolved into all things, but everyone, including the Three Pure Ones and the twelve Ancestral Witches, were already other living beings.
But now, Tongtian felt the purest aura of Father God on the Buzhou Mountain before his eyes.
"This fluctuation?" Tongtian turned his head, looking at Tian Yuan in shock.
Back in the Purple Heaven Palace, the Dao Ancestor said Tian Yuan was an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, and the manifestation of the Heavenly Dao indeed seemed no different.
Could it be that they were all deceived by the Heavenly Dao, and Tian Yuan was not an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon at all, but a contingency left behind by Father God in the Primordial World? Otherwise, how could this Buzhou Mountain emanate the aura of Father God? Thinking about it in his heart, it made sense; if Tian Yuan were truly an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, how could he achieve this level?
Only by being related to Father God could one cultivate so quickly and dredge the Earth Veins of the Primordial World.
This space was clearly left by Father God, so how could it allow an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to be here? Therefore, from beginning to end, Tian Yuan was the contingency left by Pangu on Buzhou Mountain.
It was precisely because Hongjun preached in the Purple Heaven Palace that Tian Yuan was able to emerge.
Thinking of it this way, everything made sense in terms of timing.
Because Hongjun schemed against many Innate Sacreds and needed to trigger the Heavenly Tribulation, it prompted the appearance of Tian Yuan.
Tian Yuan prevented the Witch-Demon Calamity and even passed down the Hunyuan Dao, slowly leading the Primordial World onto the right track.
This was also the fundamental reason why Tian Yuan had been committed to benefiting the Primordial World.
In just this instant, countless thoughts raced through Tongtian's mind, and he seemed to have grasped Tian Yuan's true identity.
Tian Yuan was not an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon at all, but a contingency of Father God triggered because they, the Innate Sacreds, were unreliable.
At this moment, Tian Yuan did not know what Tongtian was thinking.
The moment the other party appeared, dozens of Laws manifested; now, he was less than a dozen away from the completion of the Three Thousand Laws. How could this not make Tian Yuan feel excited inside?
Once the Three Thousand Laws were fully manifested in the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space, it would absolutely be a great joy.
Meeting Tongtian's surprised gaze, Tian Yuan looked at the distant Buzhou Mountain and replied with a smile: "It is the Pangu Heart. The Pangu Heart has merged with Buzhou Mountain, hence this ancient aura emanates."
After the Pangu Heart merged into Buzhou Mountain, nourished by numerous Earth Veins, it was no longer as withered as it once was.
As the Pangu Heart became full, wisps of ancient aura would occasionally ripple out, shrouding the entire Buzhou Mountain.
Now that so much time had passed, Buzhou Mountain had begun to radiate that vast fluctuation.
And it was also because of this fluctuation that Tian Yuan stayed in the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space to cultivate.
Sitting quietly atop the Heavenly Pillar, he could more clearly feel the Laws flowing between heaven and earth, and even those Laws would actively draw close to him.
His cultivation speed was much faster than on the Primordial World.
Moreover, Tian Yuan believed in his heart that as time passed, this fluctuation would surely spread to the Buzhou Mountain on the Primordial World.
At that time, it would also radiate toward the entire Primordial World with Buzhou Mountain as the center.
"Father God's heart?" Tongtian exclaimed, his eyes filled with shock.
The Pangu Heart had always been the greatest secret of the Ancestral Witches, and few in the Primordial World knew of it.
Although the Three Pure Ones had felt an inexplicable aura in the Pangu Temple earlier, they assumed it came from the twelve Ancestral Witches.
After all, the Three Pure Ones were transformed from the Pangu Primordial Spirit, while the Ancestral Witches were evolved from the Essence Blood of Father God.
Of all the living beings in the Primordial World, only they were closest to Father God.
Now, learning from Tian Yuan that Father God actually still had a heart left in the world.
The Pangu Heart should logically have been related to the Ancestral Witches; although he did not know why it appeared here, there was no doubt it had ultimately chosen Tian Yuan.
Being able to gain the recognition of the Pangu Heart, there was no need to say what Tian Yuan's identity was.
Perhaps in the entire world, only Tian Yuan truly cared for the Primordial World, which was why even the violent and crazy Ancestral Witches chose to trust him.
Tian Yuan did not hide it either, saying slowly: "Correct! Taken from the Pangu Temple of the Wu Clan."
Regarding the personality in Tongtian's memories and what he saw at present, Tian Yuan still trusted the other party relatively more.
Moreover, the Pangu Heart had completely merged with Buzhou Mountain, and no one could separate them.
A strange look flashed in Tongtian's eyes, and his gaze began to scan the surroundings.
The first thing he looked at was above his head.
Although the Eastern Land beneath him was strange, it was not as bizarre as the crescent-shaped Sun Star in the sky.
"That is the Sun Star?" The faint aura emanating and the position of the other party could not be wrong.
It was just that the shape of the Sun Star truly left Tongtian puzzled.
Looking from afar, let alone the Lunar Star on the side, even the few small stars circling it could not compare.
And in the sky above, only one area had stars twinkling, while everywhere else was pitch black.
Looking closely, one could vaguely see many strange things swimming about.
Although he had just arrived in this space, Tongtian understood in his heart that there seemed to be many problems in the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space.
"Correct! The Heavenly Dao Will has not yet emerged, so only a small portion has manifested." As he spoke, Tian Yuan looked at Tongtian beside him.
Being eager for Tongtian to enter, besides the manifested Three Thousand Laws, was Tian Yuan's longing for the Heavenly Dao Will.
Humanity and the Earthly Dao had both revived and were gradually growing stronger, but only the Heavenly Dao Will remained.
So much time had passed, and he had made many attempts, even capturing Di Jun, but there was still no reaction; the only thing with any connection was the Fusang Wood beneath the Undying Volcano.
Although the inexplicable will gathered by the Fusang Wood was related to the Heavenly Dao, Tian Yuan did not know the specific situation at the moment.
"Huh!" Tian Yuan, who was thinking in his heart, exclaimed, looking toward the Southern Land with surprise.
At this moment, Tongtian Jiaozhu beside him also turned his head to look in the direction of the Undying Volcano.
"In that direction, I felt a faint response, and the source is somewhat scorching." Tongtian frowned, his brow furrowed with confusion.
It was an aura that was somewhat unfamiliar yet scorching, but it had a strange connection with him.
"It's the Fusang Wood!" Glancing at Tongtian beside him, Tian Yuan also felt strange inside.
The moment Tongtian entered this space, besides sensing the manifested laws, he carefully observed the firmament above.
It was not as he had imagined; Tongtian's appearance did not cause the Consciousness Space to tremble, nor did the Heavenly Dao Will manifest directly.
But in just this short while, Tongtian had actually enticed a reaction from the Fusang Wood beneath the Southern Land, and what caused the resonance between the two was the mysterious aura emitted by the Fusang Wood.
"Fusang Wood? That Supreme Innate Spiritual Root on the Sun Star?" Tongtian turned his head, looking at Tian Yuan with a strange expression.
Tongtian Jiaozhu naturally knew of the Fusang Wood, one of the ten Supreme Innate Spiritual Roots of the Primordial World. It was the number one Spiritual Root of the Primordial Starry Sky, a treasure of the Demon Emperor Di Jun and Taiyi.
How could this Spiritual Root, which had absolutely nothing to do with him, have a resonance with him?
Earlier, while on the Primordial World, he had not sensed any fluctuations from the Fusang Wood.
"Let's go! Let's go take a look!" Tongtian was puzzled, and Tian Yuan was equally confused.
Yet this sudden resonance gave him a few guesses in his heart. Perhaps the will born from the Fusang Wood was truly the future Heavenly Dao Will, even though it had not appeared on the firmament of the Primordial World.
Tongtian naturally did not refuse; following behind Tian Yuan, he swept toward the Southern Land.
There were clearly many secrets hidden within the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space, and with Tian Yuan, the master, here, he was in no rush.
Duobao Daoren and the others, who had been stunned by the mention of the Pangu Heart by Tian Yuan, also came back to their senses at this moment.
Just as they wanted to follow, before they could even take a step, Tian Yuan and Tongtian Jiaozhu had already disappeared before them.
Standing in the air, the few of them could only look around in a daze.
From the conversation just now, they only knew it had to do with the Fusang Wood, but they had no idea where their master had specifically gone.
"Senior Brother Duobao, what should we do?" Jinling Shengmu withdrew her gaze and looked at Duobao beside her.
Before Duobao Daoren could reply, Bixiao said excitedly: "Master didn't pay us any mind, and Yuan Ancestor didn't give any instructions, so we should naturally be free to move about."
Upon first entering this place, she had developed a deep interest.
The towering Heavenly Pillar, Mount Buzhou, was one thing, but there was actually a Pangu Heart here.
Regarding this Great God who performed the Opening of Heaven, she had only heard of him from distant memories.
Only after slaying three thousand Chaos Demon Gods did the current Primordial World come to be, and many Innate Sacred beings, including their master, were derived from the body of that person.
So many ages had passed, yet the heart of the Pangu Great God was still preserved; how could this not make her curious?
Seeing Bixiao interject, Yunxiao glared at her: "Third Sister!"
It didn't matter between them as siblings, but Duobao was their eldest senior brother after all, so they could not disrupt the order of seniority.
Bixiao carefully swept a glance at Duobao Daoren from the corner of her eye and hurriedly retracted her head.
Duobao didn't mind; meeting the gazes of the others, he said gently: "Junior Sister Bixiao makes sense. How about we go take a look at that Mount Buzhou?"
Standing in the air, looking in all directions felt strange, but where could it compare to the distant Mount Buzhou?
Moreover, the heart of the Pangu Great God was on Mount Buzhou, and Duobao was also very curious.
Jinling Shengmu and the others beside him looked at each other and nodded repeatedly.
The group did not linger; they all leaped up together and swept toward the Mount Buzhou that towered into the sky.
As they drew closer, they felt an inexplicable power descending upon their heads, and the vast aura rushing toward them became even thicker.
When they were within ten thousand zhang, everyone found it difficult to maintain their posture in the air.
"Heavenly Pillar! It truly is the Heavenly Pillar!" Jinling Shengmu sighed in a low voice, her delicate face full of shock and admiration.
Even when facing their master, she had never felt such terrifying might.
The others beside her did not speak, just falling from the air one by one.
Having cultivated for so many ages, they had never imagined that a single mountain could be shrouded in such an exaggerated aura.
The group walked to the foot of the mountain and looked up, all of them involuntarily shrinking their gazes.
"This... this... I seem to see a towering giant standing, and even my gaze is hard to look directly at." Zhao Gongming muttered to himself, his eyes full of disbelief.
After just one look, he immediately withdrew his gaze.
That feeling was as if he were merely a drop in the ocean, a sense of insignificance arising spontaneously from the depths of his Primordial Spirit.
Looking at the others beside him, he found that Duobao and the others had the same expression as him.
The Primordial World was vast, but having been accepted as disciples by a Saint, they were all incomparably proud in their hearts. Even if their cultivation was not high now, they would surely have a place in the world in the future.
Now, at this very moment, they finally understood the narrowness of their own horizons.
The Primordial World was far more vast and mysterious than they had imagined.
None of them spoke, as if they were all digesting that brief encounter.
And at this moment, Tian Yuan had already led Tongtian to the outside of the Southern Undying Volcano.
Glancing at the ten Little Golden Crows below, Tongtian's expression was calm; following closely behind Tian Yuan, he dove into the Undying Volcano.
On the Undying Volcano, black flames were still rising and burning, releasing scorching high temperatures.
Although he had already seen the strangeness of the flames on the Undying Volcano, Tongtian did not ask, his gaze still following Tian Yuan as he looked toward the interior of the Undying Volcano.
The strange resonance was becoming more and more obvious; according to Tian Yuan's words, had that Fusang Wood fallen into the Undying Volcano?
Just as he dove into the mountain, Tongtian's gaze shrank.
A massive, pitch-black giant tree that blotted out the sky stood tall, covering all the space beneath the Undying Volcano.
"This is the Fusang Wood?" Looking at the massive divine tree in front of him, Tongtian was a bit dumbfounded.
A Supreme Innate Spiritual Root was indeed extraordinary, but it was not as if he had never seen one.
It was one thing for the Fusang Wood to be incomparably huge right now, but on many of its thick branches, he actually sensed the aura of Earth Veins.
And at such a close distance, Tongtian also clearly perceived that the inexplicable resonance was the strange will circling the Fusang Wood.
As the two drew closer, Tongtian could vaguely feel that the will was rapidly strengthening.
What on earth had happened to the Supreme Innate Spiritual Root, the Fusang Wood? Tian Yuan, standing on the side, had a smile on his face, his eyes full of excitement.
He also felt the will shrouding the Fusang Wood growing stronger; regardless of whether this will was the Heavenly Dao or not, this was absolutely a great piece of good news.
"Not bad! The branches of the Fusang Wood are evolving the Earth Vein of the south, and that will might be related to the Heavenly Dao." As he spoke, Tian Yuan looked Tongtian Jiaozhu up and down.
Tongtian, one of the Three Pure Ones, indeed had a great role in this space; of course, it might also be related to the Dao that Tongtian possesses.
In order to revive the Heavenly Dao Will, Tian Yuan had made many attempts, but none had any effect.
Now, the resonance between Tongtian and the Fusang Wood seemed to be about to stir up the Heavenly Dao Will.
Tian Yuan guessed in his heart that it was very likely related to Hongjun merging his body with the Dao, because the vast majority of the Heavenly Dao Will had become a part of Hongjun's body, and thus a new will was born in the Primordial World.
And the will slowly awakening within the Fusang Wood was very likely an alternative Heavenly Dao Will.
Of course, this will was not yet strong enough, or perhaps it lacked a certain opportunity, which was why it had not manifested directly.
"The Heavenly Dao?" Tongtian's face darkened, his eyes flashing with a sharp light.
As one of the Three Pure Ones and a Personal Disciple of Hongjun, combined with this mysterious resonance, Tongtian also had his own guesses in his heart.
Thinking this, he turned slightly and spoke solemnly: "If you have any instructions, Fellow Daoist, just give them!"
Hongjun's greatest reliance was merging his body with the Dao, and this Heavenly Dao about to be born might be the strongest means to restrain him.
The Heaven Earth and Man Three Daos are all indispensable to the Primordial World.
Hongjun merging his body with the Dao was perhaps an attempt to erode the Primordial World by means of the Heavenly Dao.
Tongtian's straightforwardness made Tian Yuan overjoyed, and he did not stand on ceremony, saying solemnly: "The Heavenly Dao Will is of the utmost importance; I will have to trouble you a lot in the future, Fellow Daoist."
The Earthly Dao and Humanity had already achieved good results, but only the Heavenly Dao had made no progress.
Now that there was finally a glimmer of a lead, Tian Yuan was also very excited.
The collective manifestation of the Heaven Earth and Man Three Daos would surely make the Consciousness Space and the Primordial World even more closely connected.
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