Chapter 25: Gu Zhangqing: A Freebie, It

Silently and without a sound, Gu Zhangqing's figure appeared within Nuwa's line of sight.

As for Gu Zhangqing's appearance, Nuwa was stunned at first.

Upon seeing Gu Zhangqing's face, it instantly reminded her of that scene many years ago within the Innate Great Array on Mount Buzhou, where his Divine Will had been overwhelming.

Nuwa's heart tightened immediately.

At the same time, she secretly guessed at Gu Zhangqing's intentions for coming this time.

Gu Zhangqing did not speak first; instead, he restrained his Divine Will and crouched down to examine the hundreds of innate humans on the ground.

Seeing this, Nuwa could not help but say urgently, "Senior, these are the spirits created by Nuwa!"

"This Seat knows!" Looking at the innate humans curled up together, Gu Zhangqing felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart for a moment.

Having been human in a past life, how could he have ever imagined that this Seat would have today's circumstances, and would also look down upon them like those immortals?

"Then, Senior, this is..." Nuwa, seeing Gu Zhangqing's actions, also asked, unable to fathom his intent.

"You are not in the Heavenly Realm contemplating that Three Corpses Rice Proving Method, so you ran down to the Lower Realm just to create this group of little fellows?" Gu Zhangqing glanced at Nuwa and asked calmly.

Hearing this, a look of helplessness appeared on Nuwa's beautiful face.

"Nuwa also intended to use Teacher's Three Corpses Rice Proving Method to prove the Rice, but unfortunately, for ten thousand years, only my own corpse of obsession has remained uncut."

Saying this, she looked at the group of innate beings curled up together on the ground.

She then continued, "I once thought of what Teacher said, that there are three methods to prove the Rice: Rice Proving by Force, Three Corpses Rice Proving, and Rice Proving by Merit. Plus, Teacher also said that Nuwa would have a task of great merit to perform, so I wanted to use the Rice Proving by Merit method to prove the Rice."

Hearing that there were three methods of proving the Rice, Gu Zhangqing could not help but sneer, but he did not go to correct her words.

Gu Zhangqing nodded, and without further ado, he used his divine power to hand the Innate Gourd Vine he had prepared long ago to Nuwa.

Seeing Nuwa take it in confusion, Gu Zhangqing also said, "Feel the restrictions of its Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light well!"

Hearing this, Nuwa submerged her consciousness into the Innate Gourd Vine in her hand.

Very quickly, Nuwa's expression became excited.

"Nuwa thanks Senior for the fulfillment!"

As one of the top ten Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Roots, the Innate Gourd Vine was, besides the seven top-grade Innate Gourds it bore, a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure in its own right.

The seven top-grade Innate Gourds represented the Three Souls and Seven Souls of all spirits.

Each possessed the function of erasing the Three Souls and Seven Souls of all spirits.

And it must be said, the gourds Gu Zhangqing had brought back before were either called the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd (Hongyun Laozu), or the Nine-Nine Soul-Gathering Gourd (Nuwa's Demon-Gathering Banner), or the Nine-Nine Soul-Refining Gourd (Tongtian)...

Whereas the Innate Gourd Vine that nurtured them was the opposite, possessing the ability to bestow the Three Souls and Seven Souls upon all spirits.

And these Three Souls and Seven Souls not only secretly aligned with the Heavenly Rice, but also happened to fit the innate humans created by Nuwa perfectly.

With an Innate Rice Body that secretly aligned with the Great Rice and Three Souls and Seven Souls that secretly aligned with the Heavenly Rice, the innate humans created by this act were even more in line with the favor of the Heavenly Rice.

Perhaps, this kind of action was the great merit that Teacher spoke of?

Nuwa thought with joy in her heart.

Without delay, Nuwa, having received the Innate Gourd Vine, began her grand undertaking of creating humans under Gu Zhangqing's signal.

She was seen throwing the large mass of Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three Brilliance Divine Water in her hands onto the ground.

The Three Brilliance Divine Water that landed turned into a small river, and the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil turned into silt.

They merged together, forming a vibrant long river.

Seeing this, Nuwa lifted the Innate Gourd Vine in her hand, which transformed into a long whip, and lashed it fiercely at the long river.

While swinging it, she did not forget to imbue the long whip with a large amount of Creation Qi.

The long whip struck the silt of the long river, splashing countless clumps of mud.

Under the infection of the Creation Qi, the mud clumps transformed one after another into little people, who, after landing on the ground, immediately and instinctively knelt and bowed to Nuwa.

At the same time, they called out, "Greetings, Saint Mother!"

Saint Mother!

The word "Saint" was not a praise that an ordinary person could bear.

Fortunately, Nuwa had already proven the Quasi-Saint realm for many years, and this time she had the attention and blessing of the Heavenly Rice, so there was nothing improper about it.

On the ground.

As the long river became shorter and thinner, until it disappeared completely, a vast sea of little people appeared on the land.

And at this moment, a great change also occurred in Nuwa.

The sky began to fill with golden clouds, and the Primordial Land began to see auspicious clouds rising everywhere and golden lotuses springing from the ground.

At the same time, the Hongmeng Purple Qi deep within Nuwa's primordial spirit trembled, directly transforming into a mysterious Fruit Position that blessed her primordial spirit.

It was not until this moment that Nuwa's figure spontaneously rose into the air, facing the golden clouds in the sky.

Bang~!

A massive amount of golden light of merit descended from the golden clouds, flying toward Nuwa, the Innate Gourd Vine, and Gu Zhangqing.

Among them, the golden light of merit flying toward Nuwa was the most, accounting for about eighty percent of the total golden light of merit.

While Gu Zhangqing and the Innate Gourd Vine each accounted for ten percent.

As the golden light of merit merged with Nuwa, she instantly felt as if she had peeled away layers of thick fog to see the Great Rice, and layers of insights into the Creation Rice came to her out of thin air.

It was only after raising Nuwa's realm to the Saint Initial Peak that it finally receded.

At the same time, all the various Rice Fruits belonging to Nuwa—past, present, and future, and her other selves across the All Heavens—all transformed into a single entity.

When everything ended, Nuwa slowly awoke from high in the sky.

In an instant, everything between heaven and earth seemed to have awakened, and a feeling of being omniscient and omnipotent arose from within her heart.

"This Seat is Nuwa; today I create a spirit, called: Human. The Human Race is established!"

After she finished speaking, strange phenomena of heaven and earth arose everywhere, and the holy image of Nuwa could not help but appear in the hearts of countless living beings.

Just like when Hongjun attained sainthood in years past, all spirits of the Primordial Land spontaneously knelt and bowed in the direction where Nuwa was.

At the same time, he shouted aloud: "Congratulations to Saint Mother Nuwa on attaining the status of a Saint; may the Saint Mother's grace and blessings be vast!"

Facing the newly sanctified Nuwa, Gu Changqing focused the majority of his energy onto this divine power avatar.

As for the portion of creation merit that belonged to him, he poured it all into that Creation Whip.

He had no interest in using Primordial World Heavenly Rice merit.

At this moment, Nuwa, having successfully attained the Proof of Rice, slowly recovered from her enlightenment and then returned from the sky to the ground.

Having perceived a portion of the Cause and Effect of heaven and earth, she also understood the reason for the Innate Gourd Vine that Gu Changqing had lent her.

"Many thanks to fellow Daoist for lending me the Innate Gourd Vine!" Nuwa said politely with a smile on her face.

As she spoke, she used her magic power to guide the Creation Whip in her hand, returning it to Gu Changqing's side.

"You are too kind!"

After Gu Changqing took back the Innate Gourd Vine, Nuwa secretly sized up the divine power avatar of Gu Changqing before her.

Although it was merely a divine power avatar of the Great Luo Realm, she still sensed a boundless will within it.

This was a power no weaker than her own!

She thought to herself.

Just at this moment, the 129,900-plus Innate Human Race she had created had already gathered at their feet, then immediately knelt on the ground, one after another calling out: "Greetings, Saint Mother!"

Then they knelt toward Gu Changqing and said: "Greetings, Heavenly God!"

Hearing this, Gu Changqing could not help but feel a moment of trance.

Looking at these newly born Innate Human Race before him, his thoughts could not help but return to that blue planet in his previous life.

He had thought that with the passage of time, and the fact that he was no longer of the Human Race in this life, he would naturally forget the time of his previous life.

But he had not expected.

Upon seeing the people of his previous life again, he still had deep memories of the time from that life, and would still recall those short, less than thirty years of time.

Thinking of this.

He gradually understood.

Although his previous life was only a short period of less than thirty years, it was the beginning of his consciousness across two lives.

From being ignorant and unknowing there to being reborn as a god now, it was ultimately still counted as one life of consciousness.

However, all of this had ultimately passed.

Gu Changqing sighed inwardly.

In this life, attaining the Proof of Rice for the Infinite Multiverse, and even becoming the Lord of Chaos and transcending, had become his only goal.

Having thought this through, his gaze gradually cleared, and his Rice heart became increasingly firm.

When he looked at the Human Race again, he no longer felt any agitation in his heart.

Shaking his head, Gu Changqing said to Nuwa: "This matter is now concluded, so I shall take my leave first!"

"Please!"

Subsequently, Gu Changqing's divine power avatar turned into particles of Divine Light and vanished into thin air before Nuwa in an instant.

This left Nuwa, who had been watching him, stunned.

"How is this possible? I actually failed to sense the figure of his departure!!" Nuwa thought with a look of astonishment.

One must know that as one who had attained the Proof of Rice as a Heavenly Rice Saint, she was very clear about the power of a Saint.

In the entire Primordial World, there was basically no one who could hide from them!

Unless this person had already left the Primordial World, otherwise, every flower, every blade of grass, and every movement in this Primordial World would be sensed by them.

Regarding this, Nuwa could only lament: "Truly worthy of being an existence who can address the Teacher as an equal!"

Afterwards, she looked at the weak and helpless Innate Human Race, and suddenly her heart stirred.

Mobilizing Heavenly Rice Power, she proclaimed aloud: "Within ten thousand years, no ten thousand races shall appear in the lands of the Human Race without cause! Those who violate this shall be punished by Heavenly Rice!"

Boom—!

As a rumbling sound echoed, as if responding to Nuwa's words, this made all the ten thousand races of the Primordial World understand immediately.

(End of this chapter)