Chapter 5: Father God, Father God, why can't I call you Mother God?

A million years of time passed in a flash.

Yuanyi World.

Gu Zhangqing discovered that the Yuanyi Spirit Pool had actually harvested a drop of Golden Divine Source.

The effect of this thing caught Gu Zhangqing completely by surprise.

After he poured the first portion of Divine Source he had harvested, along with the Water of Life produced by himself, onto the Life Tree in Yuanyi World.

The consciousness fluid of the Life Tree leaves awakened because of this, and spiritual intelligence was thoroughly born.

Regarding this, Gu Zhangqing could not help but feel extremely delighted.

……

Over these years, Gu Zhangqing would occasionally have some pleasant exchanges with his newly born descendants.

"Father God, why won't you let me call you Mother God?"

"Because Father God is male."

"Father God, Father God, then what is the difference between male and female?"

"The biggest difference between males and females is that females can bear offspring, while males cannot!"

"Father God, why are there only males and females between heaven and earth?"

"Because apart from special races, there can only be males and females between heaven and earth!"

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"Father God, why can't Xiaosheng take human form now? Xiaosheng wants to run and fly like those little animals~!"

"Because your cultivation is too low right now; we shall talk about it when you reach the Golden Immortal realm!"

……

"Father God, Xiaosheng has cultivated to the True Immortal realm~!"

"Mm, Xiaosheng is truly amazing!"

……

This day, Xiaosheng suddenly asked: "Father God, why can other trees bloom, but why can't Xiaosheng?"

Regarding Xiaosheng's question, Gu Zhangqing was slightly stunned, then he laughed casually.

"Perhaps it is because Xiaosheng is a Life Tree and is still young, so you cannot bloom or bear fruit yet!" Gu Zhangqing comforted her.

Until one day.

Xiaosheng's consciousness suddenly found Gu Zhangqing and said to him in a tone full of surprise.

"Father God, Yuan'er has bloomed, Yuan'er has bloomed..."

"Stop, whose flowers have bloomed?"

"I have bloomed!" Xiaosheng said seriously once again.

Gu Zhangqing, who had been stunned, felt Xiaosheng's very serious consciousness, and he immediately gave up on his enlightenment and descended his Divine Sense into Yuanyi World.

"This... no way, it just bloomed like this?"

Looking at Xiaosheng's 10,086-zhang-tall body, there were actually thousands of cyan flower buds hanging on her emerald green canopy!

He felt extremely astonished.

"Then why can Xiaosheng bloom, but I haven't bloomed even once in so many years?" Gu Zhangqing thought in bewilderment.

"Could it be that even trees are divided into male and female?"

Gu Zhangqing speculated to himself.

"Father God, how is it? Is Xiaosheng very beautiful today?"

Xiaosheng extended her Divine Sense and showed off to him excitedly like a little child.

"Mm, very beautiful!" Then, Gu Zhangqing asked with concern: "Xiaosheng, tell Father God, how did you make yourself bloom?"

"It's very simple, Xiaosheng wanted to bloom, so I bloomed~!"

Xiaosheng's clear and ethereal voice was full of joy.

"..."

Hearing this, Gu Zhangqing felt extremely speechless.

Ever since he became a Life Tree, he had wondered if he would bloom and bear fruit.

Although he did not know if a Life Tree could bloom, he knew that ninety-nine percent of the trees in the world would bloom and bear fruit.

He had also thought about and looked forward to blooming and bearing fruit.

But over ten million great cosmic cycles passed, and he simply did not bloom, nor did he bear fruit.

Just when he thought he belonged to the type of tree that neither blooms nor bears fruit, someone was now telling him that a Life Tree could bloom and bear fruit!

This made him deeply suspect whether Life Trees were also divided into male and female.

Gu Zhangqing thought about it carefully, but it felt wrong.

If Life Trees really were divided into male and female, then how did Xiaosheng bloom?

Self-pollinating and self-fruiting?

That makes no sense!

Should he ask Yangmei Laozu one of these days?

Anyway, that old Daoist is also an Innate Spiritual Root, the Space Willow; perhaps he might know something.

Willow trees should be able to bloom, right?

He shook his head and stopped thinking about those messy things.

His consciousness returned to his main body.

Gu Zhangqing took out the Godly Path Supreme Treasure, the Gods' Hall, and the Tablet of Destiny.

Previously, he had only used his Divine Sense to comprehend the laws and patterns of these two Godly Path Supreme Treasures, parsing out the Divine Rice Laws.

Now that he had truly taken them out to look, he had not expected...

Yuanyi World... no, it should be said that even the Primordial World, and even all the subsidiary worlds within the Honghuang Universe, were actually enveloped by a layer of golden light at this moment.

It took a full nine seconds for the golden light to gradually fade from all the worlds.

Perceiving all of this, Gu Zhangqing stared blankly at the strange scene before him.

Only after the golden light faded did he react and want to take back the Gods' Hall and the Tablet of Destiny.

However, just as he retracted them, he sensed a magical force pulling at his Divine Sense.

"Father God, Xiaosheng feels a magical force calling to Xiaosheng!"

At this moment, Xiaosheng, who was to the side, also said with novelty.

After knowing that Xiaosheng also sensed that pulling force.

Gu Zhangqing thought for a moment, and after confirming that the force had no malice, he said: "I will go over and take a look first; Xiaosheng, you stay here and wait, do not act rashly, understand?"

"Mm-hmm, Xiaosheng understands!"

Thus, Gu Zhangqing separated a strand of Divine Sense and followed that pulling force.

In fact, it was not just Gu Zhangqing who was like this.

The living beings of the entire Honghuang Universe were basically shocked by the golden light that had appeared for such a short time.

Afterwards, all the Innate Sacreds of the Honghuang Universe also basically sensed that mysterious pulling force.

Some were curious, and some were shocked.

But after sensing that the force had no malice, they all chose to follow that force, separate a sliver of Divine Sense, and descend.

The west of the Primordial Continent.

The Demon Ancestor Luo Hou, sitting cross-legged on the Twelfth-Grade Destruction Black Lotus, suddenly opened his eyes.

That sharp gaze was filled with arrogance and demonic nature.

"The aura of this force... is truly disgusting!"

Saying this, Luo Hou let out a cold snort.

That faint pulling force immediately disconnected from him.

And just as he chose to completely disconnect from that force, Luo Hou's expression suddenly froze.

Afterwards, he suddenly smiled playfully, "Interesting, the aura belonging to an Innate Sacred on this seat has actually disappeared inexplicably?!"

"However, this has instead made the aura of the Demon Rice Ancestor on this seat even purer! Hahaha~!"

Yujing Mountain.

"Hmm? Why has the Qi Luck belonging to the Divine Rice started to grow again?"

Hongjun could not fathom the reason.

One must know that although the original Divine Rice Qi Luck was also very vast, it had already shown signs of weakness and exhaustion.

Instead, it was the Immortal Rice he had founded ten million epochs ago, and the Demon Rice that Luo Hou had recently founded, that showed great vigor, with a strong trend of gradually surpassing it.

But who would have thought that now, that weak and exhausted Divine Rice Qi Luck would actually seem to be rejuvenated; not only did the Qi Luck greatly increase, but it actually began to show a restless strength, suppressing both the Immortal and Demon Daos.

Seeing this, Hongjun could not help but begin to calculate the origin of that pulling force.

He did not calculate its origin; instead, as he calculated, he discovered.

If he followed that pulling force, his Immortal Rice Qi Luck might collapse instantly!

This result immediately frightened him into hurriedly disconnecting from that pulling force.

Sure enough.

Following his disconnection, the Immortal Rice aura on him became even more refined, while the aura of the Innate Sacred was actually fading.

This scene made him feel extremely wary for a time.

"Divine Rice..." Hongjun looked toward a certain place and whispered a sentence.

(End of this chapter)