The Great Sage Equaling Heaven laughed heartily and said, "This treasure is mine now!" He then tossed a glittering golden lotus seed to Zhunti and laughed, saying, "When the ten suns shone in the sky, Kuafu chased the sun and fell, Yi shot down nine suns, and the nine treasures of Yin and Yang appeared. Who will the flower fall to? Who else but me will take it?"
Sheng Yi smiled and said, "Zhunti, the lotus seeds given by my virtuous brother can be transformed into a twenty-four-petaled golden lotus with the golden lotus of the guide, or they can become a twelve-petaled golden lotus on their own. You can choose whichever you prefer."
Seeing his master leave, Kong Xuan shouted, "Master, wait for me! I'm about to fall!"
Everyone felt a chill.
The Wu tribe was divided into twelve tribes, one in each of the eight directions. The four major tribes on Mount Buzhou were Zhurong, Gonggong, Dijiang, and the former Houtu. Among the four tribes, Zhurong and Gonggong's tribes were adjacent. However, Zhurong and Gonggong were at odds, which caused the two tribes to fight small battles every hundred years and large battles every thousand years. Although countless people died, their tribesmen were also the most powerful.
Legend has it that Zhu Rong, the god of fire, discovered a chaotic crystal atop Buzhou Mountain a thousand years ago. With a thousand years of effort, he finally forged it into a treasure called the Wu Blade. When the blade was completed, the heavens and earth changed color, and thunder roared. Zhu Rong was overjoyed upon seeing it and exclaimed that it was a treasure. He hid it on the Zhu Rong statue in his tribe, where it was worshipped day and night by his people.
One day, Zhu Rong returned home to find his precious sword missing. He was furious and asked his people, "Who dared to steal my precious sword, Zhu Rong?"
One of the clansmen stepped forward and said, "Reporting to the clan leader, we haven't seen any strangers here recently. However, the Ancestral Witch Gonggong came not long ago, perhaps..."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Rong was furious and roared, "You, Gonggong, you asked me to lend you your precious sword to look at, but I refused. You dare to steal my precious sword and use it for yourself. How dare you deceive me like this!" After saying this, he roared and charged towards Gonggong's tribe.
"Gonggong, get out here right now and return my precious sword, or I will forgive and forget. Otherwise, I'll tear down your Ancestral Witch Temple!" Zhurong's roar came from a hundred miles away.
Gonggong, who was resting inside the hall, was furious upon hearing this. He leaped up and roared, "You, Zhurong, how dare you insult me like this! You didn't take good care of your precious sword and now you've lost it and blame me for it. I will never let you get away with this!" With that, he swung his enormous fist and smashed it at Zhurong.
Upon seeing that Gonggong not only refused to return his precious sword but also dared to retaliate, Zhurong roared and charged forward, and the two sat down together in meditation.
Zhu Rong cursed, "Gonggong, you brat! Give me back my precious sword, or I'll tear down your Ancestral Witch Temple!" With that, he used his Heaven and Earth Transformation Divine Power to transform into a thousand-foot-tall figure and smashed Gonggong's Witch Temple to pieces with a single punch.
When Gonggong saw his palace destroyed, he cursed, "You damned Zhurong! You destroyed my palace! You shall die!" After saying this, he revealed his true form as the Ancestral Witch: a man with a shrewd head and a human body, standing on two black dragons, with a large blue python wrapped around his hand, and his whole body covered in black scales. He was none other than Gonggong, the Ancestral Witch of Water.
Gonggong shouted, and a blue wave crashed towards Zhurong, knocking him off balance and making him laugh out loud.
Zhu Rong, slightly careless, was struck by Gong Gong. Her face turned ashen, her skin burning. Seeing Gong Gong still mocking her, she let out a roar that shook the heavens and earth, revealing her true form as an ancestral witch. A monster with a beast's head and a human body, two fire snakes piercing her ears, two fire dragons under her feet, her body covered in fiery red scales, and engulfed in purple flames—this was none other than Zhu Rong, the ancestral witch of fire. Zhu Rong, the god of fire, waved her hand, summoning a wisp of innate, dazzling spiritual fire towards Gong Gong. Gong Gong, greatly alarmed, silently chanted an incantation, also unleashing a torrent of divine water towards Zhu Rong. The innate dazzling spiritual fire and the innate three-light divine water collided and exploded in mid-air with a deafening roar. Both ancestral witches were simultaneously blasted back tens of thousands of miles, both panting heavily…
Zhu Rong looked at Gong Gong and asked, "Gong Gong, return my precious sword and let this matter rest, or we shall meet again in death."
Gonggong was startled and lowered his voice, saying, "Zhurong, it's not that I'm afraid of you, it's just that I really didn't take your treasured sword, and I've never even seen it."
Zhu Rong said, "My people said, 'You were the only one who visited our tribe a few days ago.' Who else could it be but you?"
Gonggong said, "I have never been to your Fire Tribe, but you destroyed my Gonggong Temple. Today I must demand an explanation from you." With that, he took out the precious sword that his tribesmen had given him a few days ago and pounced on the enemy.
Zhu Rong looked at it and shouted, "You little brat Gonggong, you are not worthy of being called a son! You have never been to the Fire Tribe, how could my treasured sword be in your hands? Look at the words 'Wu Sword' engraved on the hilt. How dare you deceive me! Take this!" Instantly, he transformed into the source of fire, and a fireball the size of a human head appeared in the air, dragging a long, fiery red tail as it crashed into Gonggong.
All twelve Ancestral Witches were mid-stage Quasi-Saints, and Zhu Rong was the Ancestral Witch of Fire, possessing innate offensive power superior to the other Ancestral Witches. The moment the source of fire appeared in the world, more than ten million lives were lost to the innate spiritual fire—the Swift Divine Fire—on Mount Buzhou. The vast Mount Buzhou began to crack, and the cracks quickly spread across the land.
Upon seeing this, Gonggong also transformed into a ball of water, which was the primordial spiritual water—the Three Lights Divine Water—and also charged towards the fireball…
With a deafening roar, an immense energy storm spread outwards from the two figures, instantly engulfing the entire Buzhou Mountain. Then, with another deafening boom, Buzhou Mountain collapsed. The Buzhou Mountain formed from Pangu's spine had collapsed. Zhu Rong and Gong Gong, their faces pale, stared at the crumbling Buzhou Mountain and cried out, "Father God, your unfilial sons!" before bursting into tears.
After Pangu separated heaven and earth, his spine transformed into Mount Buzhou to support the heavens and earth. When Mount Buzhou collapsed, the heavens and earth lost their balance, and boundless earth, fire, wind, and water surged from the chaos, sprinkling onto this vast primordial land.
The earth, fire, wind, and water surged and roared across the entire primordial land, followed by screams of agony that echoed across the land.
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