Chapter 64: Houyi and Xingtian

After Saint Mother Changxi left, Nv'e finally stood up straight and slowly looked at the Golden Pill in her hand.

She saw that the Golden Pill was indeed as the Lady had said; it seemed like a pill yet not a pill, and like a sphere yet divided.

It possessed both the fluorescence and miraculous nature of an immortal pill, as well as the unique effects only an immortal pill could have.

Just as she was about to swallow it, she could not help but think of her husband, Houyi.

And so.

She put the Golden Pill away again, intending to give Houyi a surprise.

That night.

Just like in previous years, Nv'e stood before the courtyard gate and saw Houyi's figure from afar.

She saw Houyi carrying a moose that had already died, striding toward Nv'e.

"E! I'm back!"

As he spoke, Houyi's face was brimming with a warm smile.

When he arrived by Nv'e's side, Nv'e tidied his messy hair for him and checked to see if he had any injuries.

Houyi seemed long accustomed to this and let her fuss over him.

After she finished tidying up, she asked with a reproachful tone: "Why are you back so late today!"

Hearing this, Houyi could not help but reveal a smile, then laughed and said to Nv'e: "Tonight, I found a gift to give you! Quickly guess what it is!"

Houyi put on a deliberately mysterious air.

Hearing this, Nv'e could not help but smile.

It just so happened that she also had a surprise to show Houyi; since Houyi had asked her to guess the gift first, there was no harm in guessing his first.

Thinking of this, she was no longer in a hurry to tell him about her surprise.

And so, she pretended to think and guess.

"Could it be that Yi brought me a beautiful flower?" Nv'e guessed with a puzzled look.

"Haha~! No, guess again!"

Houyi could not help but laugh out loud.

"Hmm~ Could it be a piece of beautiful animal hide?"

Houyi shook his head and smiled without a word.

"Some kind of delicious food?"

Houyi was taken aback, thought for a moment, and finally shook his head.

Seeing this, Nv'e immediately said in distress: "Oh my, Nv'e won't guess anymore, husband, tell me what the gift is!"

"Haha~! I knew you wouldn't be able to guess!"

Looking at the impatient Nv'e, Houyi could not help but laugh joyfully.

However, seeing Nv'e become pouty, he quickly surrendered: "Alright, I'll call your gift out!"

Hearing this, a flash of confusion crossed Nv'e's eyes.

Call the gift out?

Could it be a small animal?

Nv'e thought, her eyes revealing anticipation.

Sure enough, at a whistle from Houyi, Nv'e saw a snow-white little rabbit, with a pair of eyes like rubies, hopping toward the two of them.

Seeing this, Nv'e's heart instantly melted.

"Wow~ What a cute little white rabbit!"

Afterwards, she exclaimed and took it into her arms, gently stroking it.

"How is it, do you like this gift?" Houyi looked at the joyful Nv'e, feeling happy himself, and teased her with the question.

"Mm, Nv'e likes it very much. By the way, husband, how did you think of giving me such a cute white rabbit?"

Nv'e asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Houyi could not help but laugh heartily.

Then he explained.

"Didn't I leave the tribe for over a year some time ago?

Plus, I often go out hunting, and you are all alone at home. It just so happens that this little white rabbit is quite miraculous; it wasn't afraid of me, nor was it afraid of other Demon Beasts, so I thought I'd bring it back to keep you company~"

Hearing this, Nv'e stroked the little white rabbit in her arms, her face full of happiness as she said softly to Houyi: "Mm, Nv'e likes this gift very, very much!"

"Let's go, let's go home, we have moose meat to eat tonight!"

Houyi picked up the moose on the ground and said to Nv'e with a warm smile.

Just as the two of them were about to enter the house to prepare food, they were unexpectedly interrupted.

"Yi~!"

"Yi! Are you home?"

They heard a voice calling out from outside the courtyard gate.

Helpless, Houyi had to put down the moose and walked out with Nv'e.

After exiting the house and arriving in the courtyard, they saw a sturdy man of the Wu Clan looking inside from the gate.

"Luo! Why is it you? Has something happened in the tribe?"

Seeing that the visitor was a young man from his own Dayi Tribe, Houyi asked with great surprise.

"Houtu Zuwu has arrived and specifically named you to go see her~"

The Wu Clan man named Luo said hurriedly.

"What? Houtu has arrived so soon!!" Hearing this, Houyi asked in both shock and joy.

"Mm, hurry up, Yi, do not let Houtu keep waiting."

Luo could not help but urge from the side.

Hearing this, Houyi could not help but look at Nv'e.

Seeing this, Nv'e did not say much, but instead said very gently and softly: "Go, do not keep Houtu Zuwu waiting for long!"

"Mm~"

After speaking, Houyi turned around and transformed into a giant, striding away together with the Wu Clan member Luo toward the Dayi Tribe.

Dayi Tribe.

When Houyi and Luo arrived back here with long strides, Huangtian Laozu had already arrived outside the Dayi Tribe.

Having been distracted and paying attention to Houyi all along, he naturally also heard the words of the Wu Clan Small Witch, Luo.

Thus, he had arrived at the Dayi Tribe ahead of time.

Although the Wu Clan does not cultivate the Primordial Spirit, Houtu Zuwu is, after all, a Hunyuan-level Ancestral Witch and inevitably has some other ways of sensing, so Huangtian did not use his Divine Sense to probe the situation inside the Dayi Tribe.

He simply stood on the high ground outside the Dayi Tribe, and with his Supreme God vision, watched calmly from a thousand miles away.

He was still very curious as to why the Emperor said that Houtu would be the key to his Proof of Rice.

Under his gaze.

Houtu Zuwu looked no different from an ordinary Wu Clan woman at this moment.

But under his other vision.

Houtu Zuwu's entire body was covered in monstrous baleful aura, almost hundreds of times more than Houyi's, and she was absorbing the baleful aura between heaven and earth at every moment.

And within this baleful aura, he also vaguely sensed a powerful Earth Law Great Rice.

Because he was afraid of alerting Houtu, he only took a hurried glance, but he could still see that this Law Great Rice was no worse than the Earth Law Great Rice of the God Race, or perhaps even stronger.

Even Gaia, the wife of the Chaos God King Chaos, who had cultivated the Earth Law to the highest level, could not compare to this person.

"Sure enough, not a single one of the Wu Clan Ancestral Witches is simple!"

"Even the youngest, Houtu Zuwu, possesses cultivation equivalent to the late stage of a Quasi-Saint. Then, the other Ancestral Witches must not be bad either!"

Huangtian Laozu thought to himself.

Dayi Tribe sacrificial grounds.

After returning to the tribe, Houyi met Houtu Zuwu herself under the statue of Houtu in the sacrificial grounds, along with two unknown Wu Clan warriors.

"Houtu!" Houyi called out respectfully.

Just as she was admiring the appearance of her own statue, she heard Houyi's words and immediately smiled faintly.

"How is it, is your little wife alright?"

"Houtu, Nv'e is very well!" Asked about Nv'e, Houyi could not help but give a simple, honest smile.

Houtu Zuwu nodded, and after understanding the basic situation of the Dayi Tribe, she immediately said.

"Houyi, you are the one hundred and eighth Great Witch under my Houtu command, but there are not many Great Witches with potential, only a few, and you, Houyi, are one of them!"

Hearing this, Houyi immediately smiled embarrassedly: "Haha, Yi's achievements are all thanks to Houtu's cultivation; it is not as good as you say."

Houtu Zuwu suddenly looked Houyi over at this moment and said curiously: "I did not expect that after intermarrying with a Human Race woman, a Wu Clan Great Witch would become so humble."

Houyi was stunned upon hearing this, then gave another simple, honest smile.

Houtu did not dwell on this matter, but instead introduced to Houyi.

"These two behind me are also newly promoted Great Witches under my Houtu command; like you, they are both Great Witches with relatively high potential. You should get to know each other!"

Hearing Houtu Zuwu's words, Houyi could not help but exchange glances with the two new Great Witches behind her.

He saw one of the giants, who was even taller than him, stand out, staring with his large eyes and saying with great momentum.

"I am Xingtian, I became a Great Witch ten years ago!"

Then, the other one also introduced himself: "I am Wuxian, I became a Great Witch six years ago!"

Hearing this, Houyi also introduced himself: "My name is Houyi, I became a Great Witch two years ago!"

After speaking, intense fighting intent lit up in the eyes of all three, especially Xingtian; that sky-piercing fighting intent was felt even by Huangtian Laozu a thousand miles away.

At this time, Houtu Zuwu shook her head and said with amusement: "Alright, there will be plenty of time for you to compete later; for now, all of you restrain yourselves!"

Hearing this, Houyi and the others could not help but slowly restrain their fighting intent, but the fighting intent in each other's eyes could not be diminished at all.

Seeing this, Houtu Zuwu said helplessly.

"The three of you are the Great Witches with the most potential born in my Houtu Tribe in these past ten thousand years. This does not refer to your combat power, but to your respective abilities!"

Houyi and the others exchanged puzzled glances upon hearing this, and then Houyi asked curiously.

"Houtu, then ten thousand years ago, who was the Great Witch with the most potential in the Houtu Tribe?"

"I knew you would ask." Houtu smiled slightly.

Then she introduced to them.

"If you want to talk about who was the most powerful Great Witch in my Houtu Tribe ten thousand years ago, I really do not know, because after they were born, I assigned them to various tribes in the Yellow River Basin."

Having said this, she looked at them, then continued.

"But in terms of the most potential, there were two: one was Houdan, and the other was the now-sacrificed Kuafu!"

Hearing that one of them was Kuafu, Houyi and the others could not help but fall silent.

They all knew the name of Kuafu.

Especially Houyi.

You must know that Kuafu and his father Dayi were a pair of good brothers, and the Kuafu Tribe and the Dayi Tribe were neighbors, so he often followed his father Dayi to the Kuafu Tribe to play.

Over time, he became familiar with Kuafu as well.

Yet, the Great Witch Kuafu and his Kuafu Tribe had actually fallen under the claws of the Golden Crow Clan.

Besides the Great Witch Kuafu, they also knew of the other Great Witch, Houdan.

Houdan is one of the oldest Great Witches of the Houtu Tribe; it is said that he belongs to the first batch of Great Witches born to the Wu Clan, and he is a Great Witch who became famous for pioneering the Witch Medicine lineage of the Wu Clan.

Just as Houyi was still reminiscing about the Great Witch Kuafu and his father.

The Great Witch Xingtian asked at this moment: "Lord Houtu, then who among us in the Wu Clan has the most potential?"

Hearing this, Houtu Zuwu could not help but smile and say: "If we are talking about who in our Wu Clan has the most potential, the ones recognized by us Ancestral Witches should be Jiu Feng, Xiangliu, and Wuwen!"

"Jiu Feng and the other two, along with Houdan, are all Great Witches of the first batch; they are outstanding in their respective abilities, and all have made contributions to the Wu Clan!"

As expected!

Houyi and the other two thought to themselves.

After all, these individuals had been famous for a long time, and they had already guessed as much in their hearts.

Seeing this, Houtu Zuwu encouraged them by saying.

"The three of you belong to the third batch of Great Witches of our Wu Clan, and your potential is no worse than that of Jiu Feng and the others, so you must all work hard!"

Hearing this, Wuxian could not help but smile bitterly.

"Lord Houtu, aren't you thinking too highly of us?"

"No! Although you kid cannot compare to them in terms of combat power, there is one point where you are stronger than them! That is education!"

Speaking of this, Houtu praised: "Not only did you and your wife Wumao have over a hundred children, but you also educated them all to be geniuses, especially that child named Chiyou, who is a natural genius at strategy!"

Hearing this, Xingtian and Houyi could not help but cast a strange look at Wuxian.

At this time, Houtu Zuwu looked at Xingtian again and also praised him.

"And you, Xingtian, your tenacious fighting spirit is something that even I, as an Ancestral Witch, have to regard with seriousness!"

Hearing this, Xingtian could not help but proudly puff out his chest.

Houtu smiled faintly, then looked at Houyi again.

"And Houyi, you can be said to have pioneered the first case of a member of the Wu Clan marrying outside the race, and you have surpassed your father Dayi in speed and archery."

Upon hearing this, Houyi could not help but give a low-key, bashful smile.

At this moment, Xingtian patted his shoulder with his tall, sturdy body and praised: "I know you, you're the one who shot down the nine Golden Crow Crown Princes of the Demon Race! Not bad, when you have time, we should spar more!"

Houyi, who was shaken all over by Xingtian's pat, could not help but smile helplessly upon hearing this.

"I don't have the time to spar with you often; once is enough!"

"By the way!" Houtu Zuwu seemed to have remembered something and said to Houyi: "Houyi, the reason I came here this time, besides introducing you all to each other, is to ask you, what are your thoughts regarding the lifespan of your wife Nv'e?"

Houyi was stunned.

Because from the time he was small until now, he had never seen a member of the Wu Clan around him die of old age; even the most inferior Witch Person had never died of old age, only in battle.

Therefore, he had never thought about this aspect.

Moreover, it had been over two hundred years since he and his wife Nv'e first met, knew, and loved each other, and he had never thought about this problem.

Now that Houtu Zuwu asked, he finally remembered.

With the current thousand-year lifespan of the Human Race, one-fifth of Nv'e's life had already passed; in another two or three hundred years, his Nv'e would be old, while he would still be young.

He himself did not mind; no matter what Nv'e looked like, he would remain the same.

But Nv'e would not be able to; based on his understanding of her, Nv'e would absolutely be unable to accept herself as an old woman while he remained young.

Thinking of this, Houyi could not help but feel lost and helpless.

"Alright, this is also the reason I came here!" Houtu Zuwu looked at the bewildered Houyi and could not help but tease with a smile.

"Lord Houtu, could it be..."

Houyi asked with great joy upon hearing this, "Could it be that you have a way to solve the problem of Nv'e's lifespan?"

"Indeed, I came here this time with the intention of helping you solve this matter!"

(End of this chapter)