Huang Rong’s Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, Houtu Enters the Super God World to Seek Scriptures

Empress Wa Palace.

After the invasion from the other Chaotic Divine Realm, the Six Saints and Houtu gathered to review the battle.

Sun Wukong sat silently to one side, holding a Peach of Immortality without eating it.

Though everyone had suffered severe injuries, none of them were irrecoverable. A few thousand years of recuperation would be enough. The main problem was that the Martial Ancestor’s Dream Dao had been too bizarre and caught them completely off guard.

"Senior Sister Nuwa, you have a good relationship with Master. How about asking Master to intervene? We just broke through, and our realms might fall at any moment." Zhun Ti and Jie Yin looked utterly pitiful.

Among all the fellow disciples, the two of them had suffered the worst injuries this time.

Even their golden-bodied dharma forms had cracked, damaging their Origin.

"Master has already acted and exterminated the enemy. What remains is up to us." Nuwa said.

"Exactly. If you really fall from the Great Dao Realm, doesn’t that make your realm rather watered down?" Master Tongtian said.

"Uh…" Zhun Ti and Jie Yin were speechless.

"Now is not the time to discuss this. The Martial Ancestor’s appearance proves that, apart from Chaos Gods and Demons, there are even more terrifying existences in the chaos. Our world has been peaceful for too long, but that peace has now been shattered. Our highest priority is to quickly increase our strength." Houtu said.

"Junior Sister Houtu is right." Yuanshi Tianzun agreed.

"But cultivation in the Great Dao Realm is not so easy. Having reached this point, every step forward becomes increasingly difficult." Grand Clarity Saint said.

"Yes." Jie Yin and Zhun Ti sighed.

"If Master were to preach the Dao, perhaps we could advance faster." Houtu said.

Their realms had risen rapidly before, allowing them to swiftly complete their cultivation in the Heavenly Dao Realm, because Xu Yi had been there.

After Xu Yi left, their cultivation speed naturally slowed.

"But Master isn’t here. It’s not as though you don’t know that. Unless Master appears on his own, we have no way of finding him." Nuwa said.

"Senior Sister Nuwa, you are being too modest. If you hadn’t cried out so loudly at the end just now, how could Master have acted across endless time and space to wipe out the enemy in one stroke?" Zhun Ti said.

"But Master never appeared. It was merely one of his divine abilities." Nuwa said.

Then Nuwa could not help looking at Sun Wukong, who was eating peaches nearby, her expression thoughtful.

Just as she had suspected, Wukong must have some extraordinary special connection with Master. Master’s ability to act might also have been because of Wukong.

After all, she had previously gone to Master’s world because of Wukong! Having encountered such a powerful enemy, Nuwa felt that the strength of the Great Dao Realm was limited and insufficient. It seemed she needed to improve once more.

"Mother Nuwa, why are you looking at me? This old Sun hasn’t stolen any Peaches of Immortality lately." Sun Wukong said.

"Wukong, I intend to go to Master’s place. You surely have a way, don’t you?" Nuwa smiled faintly.

"No, Sister Nuwa. You went to Master’s world last time. This time, it’s my turn." As if recalling something important, Houtu immediately spoke.

"Little Sister Houtu, whether you go or I go, is there really any difference? So I should go instead." Nuwa smiled gently.

"Senior Sister Nuwa, Senior Sister Houtu, do we have a chance?" Zhun Ti asked.

"No." Nuwa and Houtu answered together.

"Alright." Zhun Ti and Jie Yin silently shut their mouths and said no more.

"Wukong, take me with you this time. When the time comes, I’ll let you immediately break through to the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm." Houtu said.

For Houtu, who was in the Great Dao Realm, helping Sun Wukong advance from a Quasi-Sage to a Saint was effortless.

"Empress Houtu, this old Sun isn’t that kind of monkey. Cultivation should be steady and grounded, one step at a time, so that success comes naturally. Therefore, this old Sun chooses Empress Houtu’s mighty power." Sun Wukong said.

"…" Zhun Ti and Jie Yin were speechless.

"Wukong, whatever Houtu can give you, I can give you as well." Nuwa said.

"Houtu, must you compete with me? We agreed from the beginning, and now that the opportunity has come, you want to compete with me again?" Houtu became angry, releasing a terrifying aura that shook the entire Empress Wa Palace.

"Why can’t they go together?" Tongtian asked.

"Master likes peace and quiet." Nuwa said.

After arguing for a while, perhaps because Nuwa had no real grounds to stand on, she finally compromised and allowed Houtu to go.

"Houtu, go if you wish. But behave properly and do not offend Master." Nuwa reminded her.

"Senior Sister Nuwa, don’t worry. I’m only going to discuss the Dao of cultivation with Master. It’s not as though I harbor such deeply hidden thoughts as you do, hehe."

Houtu smiled brilliantly, her charm equally radiant, and Nuwa did not feel good about it.

Grand Clarity shook his head. Though they were all beings of the Great Dao Realm, they still possessed attachments—or desires. Even Saints could not truly sever all emotions.

Seeking the Great Dao and standing atop it was itself an obsessive thought, a desire.

Those two junior sisters, Nuwa and Houtu, probably had unclear intentions toward Master. They had rebellious bones and could not possibly be satisfied with merely a master-disciple relationship.

"Terrifying." Sun Wukong shook his head.

Martial arts world, Peach Blossom Island, Peach Blossom Forest.

After Little Huang Rong finished watching the battle between Saints in the Journey to the West World, she also took the chance to watch her own world’s past and future. She matured considerably all at once.

She learned of her own future and the future of the entire world, and her way of thinking began to change as well.

She also learned about Guo Jing, the protagonist of this era’s world, who bore immense fortune and would become the great hero who fought to the death for his country and people at Xiangyang.

Even though she had never met Guo Jing and only knew him through the descriptions in the script, Huang Rong still had a favorable impression of him.

After all, at their first meeting, he gave her a Fur Cloak, valuable gold, and a Blood-Sweating Horse that was one in ten thousand.

What girl would not view such an honest and kind good man differently?

If she had not joined the Chat Group, if she had not seen a broader world, she might have followed this trajectory of fate and lived on, only to die in the battle of Xiangyang.

But things were different now. Huang Rong had a better choice!

Martial arts could no longer save this world. She wanted to cultivate immortality, become a female immortal, see a broader world, and prevent the future tragedy from repeating itself! But there was a problem: how was she supposed to cultivate immortality? She could not just daydream, could she?

"Newcomer Huang Rong, care to learn about the Cultivation Loan?"

As though it had read Huang Rong’s thoughts, Group Niang’s voice suddenly appeared.

"Who? Who’s talking?" Huang Rong asked in surprise, looking around at the empty surroundings.

"I am the Chat Group. You seem confused, so this group has come." Group Niang said.

"The Chat Group? You scared me to death! But what do you mean by Cultivation Loan?" Huang Rong asked.

"Because Chat Group members come from different worlds, every world has different systems and resources. The futures of the members differ as well, and so do the heights they can reach.

"For example, you want to cultivate immortality. But in truth, without a heaven-defying opportunity, you would never step onto the path of immortal cultivation even if you exhausted your entire life." Group Niang explained.

"So the Chat Group can let me cultivate immortality, through this Cultivation Loan?" Huang Rong said.

"Of course. A Cultivation Loan is, as the name implies, a loan of Points. You use the Points to purchase cultivation techniques and pill resources from the Mall, allowing you to easily enter the cultivation stage." Group Niang said.

"Is it that simple?"

Huang Rong was suspicious. Could there really be such a good deal? Clever as she was, she instinctively felt there was a trap she could not see.

"Of course it isn’t simple. The loaned Points require interest upon repayment. A newcomer’s credit limit is roughly ten thousand points, while full repayment requires Twenty Thousand Points." Group Niang explained.

"It doubles? Isn’t this a black-hearted shop?" Huang Rong said.

Hearing this, Group Niang continued explaining, "Newcomer Huang Rong, broaden your perspective. It’s only double the Points. This group is already extremely kind for not making it ten times as much.

"Think about it. The opportunity to cultivate immortality is right before you. Compared to that, what does this little interest matter? You’ll have plenty of time to repay it later. This group will not impose a mandatory deadline for members to repay."

"There’s no time limit? So you’re doing charity?" Huang Rong asked in return.

"Uh… you can understand it that way." Group Niang fell silent for a moment before replying.

"Chat Group, why do I feel like you aren’t very smart? Don’t you think this loan system is extremely unreasonable? What kind of loan has no time limit?" Huang Rong complained.

"Newcomer Huang Rong, your realm is too low. You wouldn’t understand even if I explained." the Chat Group said.

"Fine, you said there was no time limit. Then I’ll borrow the newcomer limit of ten thousand points." Huang Rong said.

"Alright."

Almost in one smooth motion, Huang Rong signed the contract.

Her balance in the backend gained ten thousand points. But when she opened the Points Mall, Huang Rong was dumbfounded. These immortal cultivation techniques started at several thousand Points, and those were only very ordinary techniques. Better ones cost over ten thousand points.

So ten thousand points could not buy a good technique at all, and Huang Rong certainly did not want to cultivate an ordinary one.

"Chat Group, you never said the techniques were this expensive! Hundreds of thousands, even millions of Points? Are you serious?" Huang Rong said.

"If I had said so, you might not have taken the loan." Group Niang said.

"…" Little Huang Rong was speechless.

"Actually, newcomers all go through this. Just look at the things in the Mall. You couldn’t afford them anyway.

"Why not try the lottery? Test your luck. Maybe you’ll pull an ultimate technique. This is also a shortcut for newcomers to soar. The last one to soar was member Wang Lin. If you don’t believe me, you can ask him." Group Niang said.

"…" Little Huang Rong was speechless.

Though she had only just joined the group, the Chat Group gave her the impression of being a crooked merchant, one face in public and another in private.

"Then let’s try the lottery. But what exactly is a lottery?" Huang Rong asked.

"…" The Chat Group was speechless.

"That isn’t important. You only need to understand that every Thousand Points spent gives you a chance to obtain a mysterious gift."

"Oh."

The cautious Huang Rong decided to spend Three Thousand Points on the lottery first.

Ding! Congratulations to member Little Huang Rong for successfully spending Three Thousand Points. The lottery has begun.

A festive red lottery interface appeared before Huang Rong. Its patterns were gaudy and dazzling. A golden pointer spun wildly, and each time it paused, a mysterious treasure chest appeared before her.

Within a few breaths, three mysterious treasure chests had appeared before her, radiating alluring light.

The treasure chests opened one after another, while messages appeared before Huang Rong’s eyes.

Ding! Lottery successful. Congratulations to member Huang Rong for obtaining Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill ×3. (Note: The Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill allows Qi Refining Stage cultivators to establish their foundations regardless of innate talent, forming Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment aptitude and increasing their potential.)

Ding! Lottery successful. Congratulations to member Huang Rong for obtaining Top-Grade Youth Preservation Pill ×10. (Note: After consuming the Youth Preservation Pill, one can remain forever young and retain the appearance of one's best years.)

Ding! Lottery successful. Congratulations to member Huang Rong for obtaining Tenfold Great Supplement Pill. (Note: Nourishes yin, strengthens the kidneys, fortifies the body, and is the perfect choice for home or travel. You deserve it.)

"Not a loss." The Chat Group’s voice sounded beside Huang Rong’s ear.

Whether it was the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill or the Youth Preservation Pill, both would be frantically fought over in the outside world. Even within the Chat Group, their prices were not low.

"Chat Group, can I sell them to the Mall?" Huang Rong asked gloomily. She did not have any cultivation technique at all.

These pills really were good, but she had not even started cultivating immortality. What use was a Foundation Establishment Pill to her?

The Youth Preservation Pill was not bad, though!

But if she cultivated immortality, there would be little point in having a Youth Preservation Pill.

"Of course not. The Mall’s buyback price is only one Point." the Chat Group said.

"…What if I don’t pull one?" Huang Rong asked gloomily.

"Ahem."

"Newcomer Huang Rong, broaden your perspective. In truth, the value of the Chat Group has never been the Chat Group itself, but the resources of every member within it—the exchange of resources among members. There are many immortal cultivation techniques in the group, and many mighty immortal cultivators as well." Group Niang said, unusually serious for once.

"I know, but why would they teach me a technique for free? And I’m a newcomer who just joined?" Huang Rong said. She had thought of that long ago, but the key was that they were not familiar with one another.

"You had no value before, but now you do. This Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill is extremely useful. You can exchange it with the members. This group believes someone will definitely want it." Group Niang said.

"Who?" Huang Rong asked.

"…Ask them yourself." Group Niang said irritably.

"Oh, just talk nicely. Why are you snapping at me?" Huang Rong said aggrievedly.

"…" Group Niang was speechless.

Chat Group.

Little Huang Rong: "Ahem, is anyone there?"

Ye Hei: "I am, I’ve always been here! Sister Rong…"

Xu Yi: "Ye Fan, why are you wearing Huang’s vest?"

Qian Renxue: "What’s going on!"

Ye Hei: "Group Owner, this was completely an accident."

Xu Yi: "Huang Rong, what are you planning to do?"

Little Huang Rong: "I want to cultivate immortality, but I don’t have a technique, so I wanted to ask."

Ye Hei: "Cultivating immortality is easy. Sister Rong, what do you want to learn? Brother Ye will teach you directly."

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Hehe. Ye Hei, your calculating beads have scattered all over the floor. Sister Rong, this Sword Immortal will teach you!"

Qian Renxue: "Exactly!"

Iron Man: "Sister Rong, you’re in a low-level martial arts world. Even if you can cultivate immortality, you won’t have enough resources. Why not take the technological route? I recently made a few more doses of Superman Serum, more than enough to go around."

Thanos: "Superman Serum!"

Iron Man: "Thanos, don’t even think about it. I won’t give it to you."

Thanos: "…"

Little Huang Rong: "Thank you, everyone, but I think an exchange would be better."

Qian Renxue: "An exchange? Sister Rong, what good things do you have over there?"

Little Huang Rong: "I just pulled three Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pills. This pill can allow someone to advance directly to the Foundation Establishment Stage regardless of innate talent, become a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator, and alter their cultivation aptitude. Oh, and there are also Youth Preservation Pills that can preserve youth forever."

Ye Hei: "Good stuff! Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment! I don’t understand it, but it sounds impressive!"

Han Li: "Uh… I’m about to reach the Nascent Soul stage. Is it still in time for me to take one?"

Wang Lin: "Trade! We must trade! I want them!"

Wang Lin, who had been stuck at Qi Condensation Great Perfection, had bloodshot eyes. Because of his poor innate aptitude, he had been unable to step into the Foundation Establishment Stage.

This Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill was simply timely rain. Not only could it allow him to advance regardless of aptitude, it could also alter his cultivation talent. It was practically made for cultivators with poor talent like him.

Little Huang Rong: "You really want to trade?"

Wang Lin: "Trade! I cultivate the Heaven Devouring Magic Art. If you don’t find this technique too harsh and against heaven’s harmony, I can give it to you directly."

Little Huang Rong: "Heaven Devouring Magic Art? Is it powerful?"

Ye Hei: "It is. It’s the immortal cultivation version of the Heaven Devouring Magic Art. You only need to keep eating and eating to increase your Magical Power—simple and brutal."

Han Li: "That’s right!"

Iron Man: "Jealous!"

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "No, how can someone as adorable as Sister Rong cultivate such a terrifying technique? Come cultivate Three Thousand Golden Cores with me instead. How domineering is that!"

Xu Yi: "It is indeed domineering, but it consumes far too many resources. Even if you sold Huang Rong’s entire world, who knows how many Golden Cores you could condense."

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Hard work pays off. Believe in the light."

Da Gu Member: "The light has always been there!"

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Da Gu Member, I wasn’t calling you. Go fight your little monsters."

Da Gu Member: "…"

Little Huang Rong: "Group Owner brother, what do you think I should cultivate?"

Little Huang Rong was still a novice, while Xu Yi was the Chat Group’s Group Owner, his strength unfathomable and his magical power boundless.

If it was the Group Owner’s advice, it would definitely be very good.

Xu Yi: "Then go with the Heaven Devouring Magic Art! The Three Thousand Golden Core Method has excessively high requirements and a high threshold as well."

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Wuwuwu~ Group Owner, if you modify it, wouldn’t it cultivate on its own? What threshold would there be then?"

Xu Yi: "…"

Han Li: "Fellow Cultivator Rong, Han also wishes to exchange for a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill. Han’s cultivation method is ordinary, but I can give you plenty of Qi Condensation Pills and Essence Nurturing Pills for cultivation. These are essential pills for early-stage cultivation and can greatly increase cultivation speed."

Little Huang Rong: "Okay!"

Xu Yi: "If you can’t understand the cultivation method, you can use the cultivation function’s enhancement to improve your comprehension."

Little Huang Rong: "The cultivation function? I understand, Group Owner brother."

Xu Yi: "You’re welcome."

Martial Arts World.

Peach Blossom Island. Huang Rong exchanged resources with Wang Lin and Han Li through the red packet function.

Besides sending her a cultivation method, Wang Lin also gave her an extra hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones, all of which he had won from the lottery.

One hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones were not to be underestimated. If she absorbed them all, they would be enough to cultivate all the way to the Golden Core Realm.

Han Li, meanwhile, sent over many pills, all of which he had usually refined himself.

Huang Rong opened the Heaven Devouring Magic Art within the red packet. In an instant, an enormous amount of information flooded her mind. For a moment, she even felt as though she might collapse.

Fortunately, she endured it. The cultivation method arranged itself in her mind as though it possessed spirituality. One dark character after another seemed like Black Holes devouring all things! She saw stars upon stars, universes upon universes, and endless living beings swallowed completely.

She saw a majestic figure, with countless corpses piled beneath its feet. Mountains of corpses and seas of blood stretched everywhere, dyeing heaven and earth crimson! Only that domineering figure endured through eternity, overlooking the ages, supreme and unrivaled! Little Huang Rong’s eyes were filled with longing, but just as Xu Yi had expected, she could not understand this cultivation method at all.

Activate the cultivation function! Huang Rong thought.

"Activating the cultivation function requires one thousand points. Activate?" Group Niang said.

"Yes!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Huang Rong’s expression became resolute.

Changing her fate against heaven and embarking on the path of cultivation all depended on this.

In an instant, Huang Rong’s body was pulled into a mysterious Chaos Space.

The cultivation space was boundless and endless. As far as the eye could see were auroras and hazy clusters of light.

Huang Rong discovered that the Top-Grade Spirit Stones and pills had come here with her.

Very quickly, a sense of enlightenment arose within her. All the principles and knowledge she did not understand, along with the great dao of heaven and earth, flooded into her mind at once. It felt like being born knowing everything; there was no need to comprehend it, as though she had understood it from birth.

With the cultivation function’s enhancement, Huang Rong’s talent reached an unprecedented level. The Heaven Devouring Magic Art, which she had originally been unable to understand, was directly grasped at the introductory level, and she began cultivating it.

Huang Rong sat in the Void, Five Hearts Facing Heaven. She held pills in one hand and Top-Grade Spirit Stones in the other. Behind her, a bottomless Black Hole gradually emerged, violently devouring the power of the spirit stones and pills! First level of Qi Refinement, second level, third level, fourth level…

After several dozen breaths, Huang Rong’s body was filled with Magical Power carrying devouring attributes. Her Dantian was transformed, her meridians widened, and vortexes of devouring qi were born one after another!

Upon reaching the completion of Qi Refinement, Huang Rong unhesitatingly consumed the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill and embarked on the path of perfect Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

Against the Gods World, the back mountain of Wang Family Village.

Also within the cultivation space, Wang Lin was cultivating just like Huang Rong. He had swallowed the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill as well, and with the cultivation function’s aid, his realm advanced by leaps and bounds! After entering the Foundation Establishment stage, he crazily devoured Top-Grade Spirit Stones and quickly reached Foundation Establishment completion. The advantage of Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment appeared at this moment. When he condensed his Golden Core, it directly became the highest-grade Heavenly Dao Golden Core! Feeling the incomparably pure and profound golden Magical Power, Wang Lin could not help letting out a long howl. "Hahahaha, once a Golden Core enters my belly, my fate is mine, not heaven’s!"

"Father, Mother!"

"From today onward, no one can bully our Wang family!"

Mortal World.

"As expected of the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill. Not only did it transform my bones and increase my talent, it directly advanced me to the Nascent Soul Realm as well. Hahaha!"

"Now, Han is also a Nascent Soul mighty expert."

"No, I must not become too complacent over a mere Nascent Soul Realm."

"Han Li, remember that heaven rewards diligence. The path of cultivation is long and arduous."

Southern Heaven Region, within a cave deep in the mountains, Han Li opened his eyes. He was no longer at the Golden Core Realm, but a Nascent Soul mighty expert. Even in the outside world, he would be an ancestor capable of dominating an entire region!

Han Li silently added more restrictions outside his cave abode. Although he knew that his realm already stood at the peak of the Southern Heaven Region, it was better to be cautious. What if some weak sect had a great expert in the Spirit Transformation Realm hidden away? The Cultivation World had a strict hierarchy. Even the gap of a minor realm was difficult to cross.

With that thought, Han Li completely restrained all his aura. The Nascent Soul Realm was merely the baseline; he would strive for the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Supergod World.

Xu Yi took Yunxiao, Yan, and He Xi shopping. In the private channel, a message from Sun Wukong arrived.

Sun Wukong: "Group Owner, Empress Houtu wants to come to your world. This Old Sun is asking, do you agree?"

Xu Yi: "Wukong, what does Houtu want to come for? What is Nuwa doing?"

Sun Wukong: "Lady Nuwa came last time. This time, it is Empress Houtu’s turn."

Xu Yi: "Oh, I see. Is it because of what happened before?"

Sun Wukong: "That’s right, Group Owner. Because there are even more powerful great experts in the Chaos, the Saints want to increase their strength quickly. Mother Nuwa and Empress Houtu both believe that they can raise their realms by your side, so they have come to learn from you."

Xu Yi: "…, alright. But remember to restrain your aura before coming. Don’t blow up my place."

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