leonardwarren Chapter 35 Xuan Chu Plans a Breakthrough, Hou Tu Takes Control of the Witch Clan
Chapter 35 Xuan Chu Plans a Breakthrough, Hou Tu Takes Control of the Witch Clan
Chapter Thirty-Five: Xuan Chu Plans a Breakthrough, Hou Tu Takes Control of the Witch Clan
After a thousand years, Xuan Chu deduced the martial arts path for humans who lacked the aptitude to cultivate the Golden Core. The humans treasured it like a precious gem, erecting stone tablets inscribed with the martial arts treasure "Martial Canon" in every human tribe. It was welcomed by countless humans. However, those human cultivators who had already embarked on the Golden Core path disdained it. After all, they had already cultivated the Golden Core path of the Heavenly Dao Saint Taiqing Daode Tianzun, so how could they possibly care about the martial arts deduced by an unknown person?
However, only a minority of human cultivators are able to embark on the path of the Golden Core. Most humans do not have the aptitude for it. Therefore, the emergence of martial arts is like a ray of dawn, illuminating the future of countless humans.
In less than a century, the number of people practicing martial arts among the human race has reached tens of millions. However, most of them are still only at the Refining Martial Realm or the Qi Martial Realm. Only about 30% of the human race can break through to the Spirit Martial Realm, and less than 10% can break through to the True Martial Realm. And those who can advance from the True Martial Realm to the Heavenly Martial Realm are even fewer. Nevertheless, the human race's enthusiasm for martial arts has surpassed that for the Golden Core Path.
Sensing the flourishing of martial arts among humanity, Heaven bestowed merit, divided into five parts. The largest portion, approximately 50%, fell into Xuan Chu's hands. Although Xuan Chu wasn't interested in merit, he kept it for future use, thinking it might be too good to pass up. Three portions, each accounting for 10%, went to the three ancestors of humanity, recognizing their role in promoting martial arts. The remaining 20% went to the stone tablet inscribed with the "Martial Canon" that Xuan Chu gave to the three ancestors, instantly transforming it into an acquired merit treasure. The three ancestors named it the Martial Tablet. To thank Xuan Chu for his help to humanity, with the consent of all the innate human race, they named Xuan Chu the Martial Ancestor of humanity, granting him the fortune of humanity. Of course, Xuan Chu was still currently known as Li Changsheng, but that didn't prevent him from enjoying the fortune of humanity.
After the establishment of the Human Religion by the Supreme Lord and the creation of martial arts by the Profound Beginning, the fortune of the human race underwent a significant change. Originally, Nuwa, as the Holy Mother of the Human Race, enjoyed 80% of the human race's fortune at the beginning of its creation. Later, the Three Ancestors of the Human Race emerged and took away 30% of the human race's fortune from Nuwa. In addition, the Profound Beginning, as the guide of the Three Ancestors, also received half a percent of the fortune. After the establishment of the Human Religion, it occupied 20% of the Religion's fortune. These two percent of fortune were taken from Nuwa and from the three thousand innate humans. Therefore, at this time, the Profound Beginning held half a percent of the fortune, the three thousand innate humans held 10%, the Three Ancestors each held 10% of the merit, the Human Religion held 20%, and Nuwa, as the Holy Mother of the Human Race, was left with only 35%.
Now that martial arts are flourishing and have gained the approval of the Heavenly Dao, the fortune of the human race has been redistributed once again. The biggest beneficiary this time is Xuan Chu. Xuan Chu himself already possessed half of the human race's fortune. After the emergence of martial arts, he took half of the fortune from the Human Sect and half of the fortune from Nuwa. Now he occupies a total of 15% of the fortune, more than the three ancestors of the human race and on par with the Human Sect.
At this point, the three ancestors of the human race each held one-tenth of the human race's fortune, the three thousand innate human race members held one-tenth of the fortune, Nuwa held three-tenths of the fortune, and the Human Sect and Xuan Chu each held one and a half-tenths of the fortune.
After feeling the increase in the human race's fortune within him, Xuan Chu was overjoyed. As the future protagonist of heaven and earth, the human race's fortune was long-lasting and blessed. The bottleneck that had troubled Xuan Chu for countless years finally began to loosen. In addition, Xuan Chu was revered as the Witch Ancestor by the Twelve Ancestral Witches, automatically enjoying 20% of the Witch race's fortune. The Witch race was one of the protagonists of the current great calamity, and its fortune far surpassed that of the human race. With the human race's fortune and the Witch race's fortune, Xuan Chu was very confident in returning to the realm of Hunyuan Wuji Da Luo Jinxian.
Xuan Chu hurriedly returned to the Pangu Palace, summoned the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and said, "My cultivation has recently made some progress, and I will break through soon."
"Congratulations, Uncle, on your great progress in cultivation!" Upon hearing that Xuan Chu was about to break through, the Twelve Ancestral Witches were overjoyed. Xuan Chu was their greatest backer, and the stronger Xuan Chu was, the more beneficial it would be for the Witch Clan.
"However, a breakthrough cannot be achieved overnight. I need to go into seclusion for a period of time, and the exact date is yet to be determined. During my absence, you must guard the Witch Clan well and avoid causing any trouble. If you encounter any trouble, go to Jin'ao Island to find Tongtian. Also, you must not let anyone know that I am in seclusion, understand?" Xuan Chu instructed the Twelve Ancestral Witches. He knew that the Twelve Ancestral Witches were not peaceful people. He could control them when he was around, but once he went into seclusion, they would be like wild horses that had broken free of their reins, and who knew what trouble they would cause.
"Uncle, don't worry, Houtu will take good care of my older brothers and sisters." Houtu quickly said. Although Houtu was the youngest of the twelve ancestral witches, since Xuan Chu arranged for her to train human witches and represent the witch clan in contact with the human clan, Houtu's status in the witch clan has become higher and higher. The other ancestral witches all know that Xuan Chu values Houtu very much, so now the witch clan will take Houtu's opinion as the main factor in everything, and will only ask Xuan Chu when they can't solve the problem.
"Hmm!" Xuan Chu nodded and said, "Very good, Hou Tu. You are the one I trust the most. You will keep a close eye on your brothers and sisters and prevent them from causing trouble. This is my companion spirit treasure, the Hunyuan Sword. You will keep it for now. Seeing the sword is like seeing me. Also, during my absence, you must strengthen the connection with the human race. Remember, the human race is the future of the Wu race." After saying that, Xuan Chu handed the Hunyuan Sword to Hou Tu, tacitly agreeing to let Hou Tu temporarily take charge of the Wu race. Although Hou Tu did not have a primordial spirit and could not use spirit treasures, the Hunyuan Sword was not just a simple spirit treasure, but also a top-level divine weapon. With Hou Tu in her hands, she could unleash about 40-50% of its power.
"Yes, Uncle, Houtu understands!" Houtu was excited, her hands trembling as she accepted the Hunyuan Sword, as if she had received a great reward.
"Alright, you may all leave now and await news of my return." Xuan Chu waved his hand, signaling the twelve Ancestral Witches to leave.
After the Twelve Ancestral Witches left, Xuan Chu directly broke through the void and stepped inside. When Xuan Chu reappeared, he was already in the endless chaos. Xuan Chu understood that it was impossible to break through to the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal realm in the Primordial World. After all, in the process of advancing to the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal realm, he needed to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy. The spiritual energy required would not be enough even if the entire Primordial World were drained. Moreover, breaking through in the Primordial World would inevitably attract the obstruction of the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, in order to concentrate on breaking through, Xuan Chu specially came to the chaos.
However, Xuan Chu did not choose to leave the prehistoric world, because if he left too far away, he would not be able to sense the luck of the human race and the luck of the witch race. Therefore, Xuan Chu stayed not far from the prehistoric world, but a little far from Hongjun's Zixiao Palace, mainly to avoid being detected by Hongjun.
After Xuan Chu left the prehistoric world, the four major sects of Humanity, Chan, Jie, and Western Sect also ended their recruitment of disciples.