Chapter 144 Aftermath: Old friends and acquaintances are all by my side.

After that earth-shattering, heaven-slaying event, the entire primordial world changed.

At first, the primordial wilderness expanded every day, and when you looked up you could see a gray patch at the edge of the sky, but it would soon turn into blue sky and white clouds under the cover of the laws of heaven.

With that axe stroke, a large area of ​​land was carved out at the edge of the earth, and naturally, someone had to come and manage and develop this unclaimed land.

The Heavenly Court was so busy with this that it summoned the celestial officials from the Investiture of the Gods list, hastily completed the investiture of the gods, and then arranged for people to patrol and govern the edge of the primordial wilderness.

This time, Di Xin, who was besieged by the Zhou army at the gates of Chaoge, did not choose to immolate himself in the palace with Daji. Instead, he selected ministers and common people in the city who were willing to follow him. With the help of the demon race, they came to this unclaimed land and, following the example of their ancestors, established a kingdom where humans and demons coexisted.

This greatly worried Wen Zhong, Bigan, and other ministers of the Shang Dynasty who were listed on the Investiture of the Gods. Without waiting for the Heavenly Court to bestow any rewards, they hurriedly sent them to remote areas as Heavenly Officials. Moreover, they were more diligent and responsible than anyone else, relieving the Heavenly Emperor of a great trouble.

With this, the Zhou army entered Chaoge, and King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa, proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven of Zhou, thus ushering in the Zhou era.

From then on, demons rarely appeared before humans, and both demons and immortals became part of legends.

After the great battle, Nezha, Yang Jian, and others were each rewarded and went to serve in the Heavenly Court.

Only Jiang Ziya remained in the mortal world as the Grand Tutor of the Zhou Dynasty, was enfeoffed in the State of Qi, devoted his life to the Zhou Dynasty, and was finally buried in Qi.

However, fishermen at sea say that Grand Tutor Jiang Ziya did not actually die, but instead became a fisherman in the East China Sea.

Shen Gongbao pulled the man who had fallen into the East Sea and tossed him far away onto another small boat. He stood with his arms crossed, looking at Jiang Ziya, who was still leisurely fishing, with an unfriendly expression: "Jiang Ziya, who gave you permission to come fishing here again?"

After his death in the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, he was appointed as the General of the East Sea Water Dividing on the Investiture of the Gods. This position required him to "observe the sunrise in the morning, turn the Milky Way at dusk, disperse in summer and freeze in winter, repeating the cycle endlessly." However, since it was a place under the jurisdiction of the East Sea, he didn't have to do much and could enjoy a leisurely life.

Unfortunately, there's one downside: the Qi region, where Jiang Ziya was enfeoffed, is located here. This guy, for some reason, keeps coming to the beach for leisurely strolls every day. Now, he's gone even further, leaving behind a cenotaph on the shore and settling down here.

After hearing the legend of Jiang Ziya sailing on the sea, the people of Qi were inevitably curious about this legendary god and followed in his footsteps to this place, adding a lot of trouble for him.

Jiang Ziya still held the straight rod, chuckling, "Isn't this great? Anyway, nothing will happen with you here, and it's a good opportunity to broaden my horizons."

"You bastard, what do you take the East China Sea Eye for? No, what do you take me for?!" Shen Gongbao roared in fury, his fur bristling.

He then threw a pebble into the sea, scattering the fish that were about to bite the hook.

"Fishing, fishing, fishing! You think you can catch anything with this lousy fishing rod without a hook? One day I'll make sure you end up as a fish's belly." Shen Gongbao said angrily, but honestly calmed down the ripples near the sea eye.

The fish quickly returned to the area from the ripples, and one silly fish even bit into the straight line.

Jiang Ziya picked up the small fish, raised his eyebrows, and beckoned to Shen Gongbao: "Junior brother, this is the hundredth fish I've caught. I'll give it to you."

"You've lived almost a hundred years and only caught a hundred fish. You're really useless." Shen Gongbao looked disgusted, but reached out and took the fish. "It's just such an ordinary little fish. You're really good for nothing."

Jiang Ziya laughed heartily, ignoring his awkward junior brother, and cast his line into the sea again: "I'd rather take the direct path than the crooked one!"

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Meanwhile, Buzhou Mountain has a new master.

Pangu looked around at Buzhou Mountain, taking pictures from the left and right, and thought the location was really good.

First, he asked Nuwa for some stones to mend the sky and then repaired the broken section. He then climbed up Buzhou Mountain to the ninth heaven and took some fresh fruit from Zixiao Palace to moisten his mouth.

Finally, beneath Mount Buzhou lies the Netherworld, where twelve ancestral witches, claiming to be descendants of the Father God, descended from the Netherworld one after another, totaling eleven in number.

“Father God, we are great shamans formed from the essence and blood of Father God.”

"We were wrong to speak recklessly in the game in the past. We are willing to serve Father God and do our best."

As Dijiang spoke, the other ancestral witches chimed in with their own opinions. In addition, other primordial beings who had learned that Pangu had settled in Buzhou Mountain also rushed over, turning the once quiet Buzhou Mountain into a bustling marketplace.

Pangu, who originally loved lively places, was also disturbed by this noisy environment.

But at this moment he was in a good mood and did not want to attack these ancient creatures who revered him.

Pangu hung the Heaven-Opening Axe on his waist, stroked his chin, and finally came up with a brilliant idea: "I am the spirit of the 'Miracle Primordial World' formation. You have the wrong person."

What does your search for Pangu have to do with the spirit array in my "Miracle of the Primordial World"?

After speaking, Pangu tore up half of the earth, severing the place where Buzhou Mountain was directly connected to the primordial world.

From then on, Pangu, the father god who resided on Mount Buzhou, became someone many people longed to meet.

Creatures at the foot of Mount Buzhou often claim to have seen Pangu during the day, but no one has ever been able to leave behind an image of him.

But as long as you look up at the sky and see the ever-increasing grayness on the horizon, you know that the Father God Pangu is still in this primordial world.

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If you were to ask where the most bustling place is after a great calamity, it would undoubtedly be Wuzhuang Temple.

The Sage Yuanyi, who had both merged with and severed the Dao, came from this place. After the great battle, not only did the Sage Yuanyi return, but the other sages also visited Wuzhuang Temple.

Even Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Rahu, trapped in the game, came to Wuzhuang Temple from outside the Nine Heavens. It is no exaggeration to say that if you randomly threw a stone into Wuzhuang Temple now, it would hit either a saint or a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

However, surely no one would throw stones in front of a saint?

Nezha tilted his head and squatted down in front of the large lake at Wuzhuang Temple, touching the gifts the villagers had given him. He thought to himself that he had already completed the game, but hadn't triggered the hidden quest that his senior brother Yang Jian had mentioned.

"Then I'll see if this stone can actually create eighteen ripples in the water." Nezha muttered a few words, then used his skillful strength to smash the stone onto the lake surface.

However, since I don't play with stones often, and this stone is just an ordinary stone, it sank to the bottom after only four ripples.

"That's all there is to it." Nezha gazed at the water's surface, noting the spot where the stone had sunk to the bottom, planning to retrieve it from the lake again next time. He had marked the stone, so he certainly wouldn't mistake it.

With so many sages and lords conversing nearby, he couldn't just openly go down into the lake to retrieve stones; he had to wait until there were fewer people around.

Nezha was wandering in the heavens when he felt something sharp poke his lower back. Turning around, he saw Nuwa, the saint, with a flower wreath on her head and colorful jade ornaments around her neck.

Nuwa looked at Nezha with a smile, and with a wave of her hand, the stone with the character "Nezha" engraved on it fell into Nuwa's hand.

"Watch closely, little Nezha, this is how you skip stones."

Nuwa casually tossed a stone, and it flew far across the lake. Nezha, with his sharp eyes, counted more than twenty in one go.

Liu Ergou wasn't lying; this stone really could produce eighteen floats.

Nezha no longer cared whether the sage would see him, and plunged into the water to retrieve the stone that had fallen to the bottom of the pool.

Holding the smooth little stone, Nezha looked at Nuwa with anticipation: "I didn't see you use your magic just now, how did you throw this stone so far?"

Nuwa stood there with a smile: "There's nothing special about it, it's just a matter of practice."

As for why they were so skilled, Nuwa and Nezha both remembered that round, lustrous spirit pearl.

Nezha's hand holding the stone trembled; it turned out that he himself had been the one used to skip stones on the water.

Seeing this, Nuwa leaned against Fuxi and burst into laughter without any restraint.

Meanwhile, under the ginseng fruit tree, Zhen Yuanzi had already instructed Qingfeng and Mingyue to prepare a ginseng fruit feast for the saints, with two round little fruits in front of each saint's table.

Tongtian found it cute, so he first put one into his sleeve, and then put the other one into Yuanyi's plate.

After thinking it over, he still felt it wasn't enough, so he took one from each of his two elder brothers' plates. He only stopped when Yuanshi couldn't stand it anymore and tapped Tongtian's hand with his whisk.

Yuan Yi was left looking at the three extra ginseng fruits in front of him, while Tongtian, who was muttering complaints about Yuan Shi's inhumanity, was left speechless, both amused and exasperated.

“I am a ginseng fruit tree, you don’t need to give me so much,” Yuan Yi whispered to Tongtian.

Upon hearing this, Tongtian suddenly became alert, straightened his back, and gripped his sword: "You bore this fruit?"

Upon hearing this, the sages who were sitting upright paused for a moment, and some of them actually began to ponder the connection between the ginseng fruit tree and the ginseng fruit.

Yuan Yi sighed: "I haven't borne fruit yet. Besides, the ginseng fruit is just a fruit that the ginseng fruit tree naturally produces. Once it falls, there is no longer any connection with the tree. There's no need to think about it too much."

Everyone was finally able to relax, but they couldn't eat the ginseng fruit no matter what, so they could only follow Tongtian's example and stuff it into their sleeves.

Zhen Yuanzi was so angry that his face turned ashen. Tongtian had ruined what should have been a wonderful ginseng fruit feast.

Tongtian, who was already feeling guilty, felt even more guilty after being looked at by Zhen Yuanzi. He could only secretly interlock his left hand with Yuanyi's fingers under the cover of his sleeve, and then whispered in Yuanyi's ear as if it were an unintentional thing: "We shouldn't have been discovered, right?"

Yuan Yi pretended to think for a moment and then said, "Now we've been found out."

Then Tongtian simply stopped pretending and openly revealed that the two were holding hands.

Zhen Yuanzi could no longer sit still. He drew his whisk and swung it over: "Tongtian!"

Tongtian didn't move his left hand, but took out the Qingping Sword with his right hand to block the attack. In this way, he fought Zhen Yuanzi with only half a hand.

Yuanshi and Laozi, standing to the side, seemed oblivious to the battlefield just a table away.

Luo Hou, who was standing nearby, came over and squatted down in front of Yuan Yi, asking with great interest and curiosity, "Aren't you going to do anything about it?"

Yuan Yi shook her head. One was her elder brother, and the other was her future Daoist partner. They were both her flesh and blood, so how could she possibly choose between them?

Besides, Yuan Yi gently shook his still-clasped hands at Luo Hou. Pointing his chin at Tongtian, who only dared to resist and not retaliate, wasn't Tongtian asking for it?

Hongjun, who was standing to the side, took a sip of tea. Jieyin and Zhunti pulled Hongyun and invited her to sit in the West for a while. Nuwa, after teasing Nezha, also took Fuxi back to her seat and watched the good show with a smile.

Nezha, practicing skipping stones, accidentally hit Ao Bing, who was slacking off at the bottom of the lake; on the ginseng fruit tree, Kong Xuan and Dapeng transformed into their original forms, with Lu Ya between them, stretching out his feathers.

Yuan Yi took a small sip of tea, exchanged a smile with Hongjun opposite him, and then raised his cup in a toast from afar.

The sun shines brightly today, the breeze is gentle, and old friends are all by my side. This is just perfect.

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Author's Note: Ugh, how come I could still be detected even through the sleeve? It's so hard to guess, isn't it? [Dog head with rose in hand]

In fact, given everyone's cultivation level, they noticed when Tongtian secretly held hands, but Tongtian deliberately pretended to be very careful and said it out loud in front of everyone.

Tongtian: I'm going to show off! I'm going to tell you all that we're in love! Did everyone see that? I'm with the person I love!

And so, Zhen Yuanzi beat him up [doge emoji]

Zhen Yuanzi: I didn't even care that you two were secretly holding hands, and you still dare to provoke me in front of me! (Draws his whisk)

Tsk tsk tsk

Thank you, my little angels, for reading this far. Now I'm going to ask you to add this to your favorites for both the pre-order and the main story.

The story that will definitely be released is "After Becoming the Leader of the Fourth Calamity," a silly yet tender tale of a big sister in red and a mischievous and clever disciple of the Fourth Calamity. [doge head with rose in hand]

A possible story I'll write is titled "Transmigrating into an Otome Game, Braving the Shura Field with My Daughter," where after a long separation, I reunite with my ex-husband and make a powerful comeback with my daughter, but the daughter isn't yours [doge head with a rose in its mouth].

If you're interested, please add this to your favorites! Thank you so much! [Sprinkling flowers]