The moment they stepped onto the Lunar Star, a piercing chill swept over them!
Endless billions of miles of towering glaciers stretched across the Lunar Star, surrounded by true lunar water, with the occasional crane's cry echoing in the distance.
The laurel tree soared straight into the sky, sending waves of delicate fragrance drifting across the air, refreshing the mind and spirit.
With Wangshu leading the way, Taichu walked along while marveling inwardly—this truly was a blessed immortal paradise!
Upon entering the immortal cave, Wangshu waved her hand, causing a stone table and two stone stools to appear.
A pot of immortal wine and two cups instantly materialized on the table!
"Please take a seat, Fellow Daoist Taichu."
"Have a taste of my laurel wine and see how you like it!"
"Oh!"
Taichu looked at the immortal wine before him with great interest as a delicate, elegant fragrance wafted toward him.
"Such a wonderful aroma!"
Without further ado, Taichu picked up his cup and downed it in a single gulp.
"Splendid wine!"
Taichu could not help exclaiming in admiration; this was the first time he had ever tasted alcohol.
"I never imagined the world could produce such a fine brew!"
Seeing Taichu finish his cup in one go, the Goddess Wangshu let out a light laugh.
"Fellow Daoist Taichu is truly a man of genuine character. If you like it, just drink your fill! I may not have much else here on the Lunar Star, but I have plenty of laurel wine to spare."
As she spoke, Wangshu picked up her own cup and took a small, gentle sip.
Hearing this, Taichu looked at Wangshu and asked, "May I ask what this laurel wine is brewed from, Fellow Daoist? Is it made from these laurel flowers?"
"Just as you say, Fellow Daoist, it is brewed from these laurel flowers along with several other immortal herbs and blossoms. Drinking it can aid one in achieving sudden enlightenment!"
Taichu glanced at Wangshu: she was at the Early-Stage Da Luo Golden Immortal, yet her foundation was unstable.
"Speaking of enlightenment, I also happen to have a tea. Please try it, Fellow Daoist!"
With a wave of his hand, a pot of tea appeared before them.
Wangshu looked over and saw that the tea faintly radiated a swirling immortal mist, giving off a profoundly abstruse aura.
Taichu made a gesture of invitation.
Wangshu picked up a cup of tea and could not resist drinking it down in one go!
The moment the tea went down, she felt its warmth flow through her limbs and bones, heading straight for her spiritual platform!
In an instant, Wangshu entered a state of enlightenment!
For practitioners, opportunities are the hardest things to come by, and entering a state of enlightenment is rarer still.
Wangshu sat there like that for a full thousand years.
A millennium later, Wangshu slowly opened her eyes. Sensing her own state, she hurriedly stood up and bowed deeply to Taichu.
Taichu sidestepped to dodge the bow. "You mustn't, Fellow Daoist Wangshu!"
Wangshu smiled faintly at Taichu. "It is only right, though you are too polite, Fellow Daoist Taichu."
At that, both of them burst into laughter.
"If not for your help, Fellow Daoist, let alone a thousand years, even after another hundred thousand years I wouldn't have broken through to the Peak Early-Stage Da Luo Golden Immortal!"
Taichu looked at Wangshu in confusion. "Oh? How could that be?"
"You may not know this, Fellow Daoist, but Ancestor Qiankun and I are both reincarnated demon gods. I am the Lunar Demon God, and though I managed to survive the Opening Tribulation by sheer luck, my dao wounds have been exceedingly difficult to heal!"
"From the very beginning of the creation up until now, I have barely managed to cultivate to the early stage of Da Luo Golden Immortal, and even then, my foundation remained unstable."
"As far as I know, there are still quite a few reincarnated demon gods like myself in the Honghuang world today."
"It's just that after our reincarnation, our cultivation realms have all suffered no small suppression. Coupled with the fact that I already had dao wounds, it has been even harder for my cultivation to advance an inch!"
Taichu looked at Wangshu with puzzlement. "That being the case, I know of some demon gods whose cultivation levels are not low at all. How do you explain that?"
"That is precisely what you do not know, Fellow Daoist. Some demon gods were already profound in cultivation back in Chaos, and during that battle in Chaos, they suffered very light injuries. Yet no matter how low their cultivation was, they were still existences at the Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal realm!"
"Having suffered light injuries during the Opening Tribulation, it was naturally not too difficult for them to cultivate even with the suppression after reincarnation."
"As far as I know, Ancestor Hongjun is one such example. There are also other demon gods, like Ancestor Qiankun, who practiced dual cultivation of Yin and Yang, thereby making up for their incomplete states to a great extent."
"If that is the case, then according to you, Fellow Daoist Wangshu, you must have participated in that battle in Chaos as well, and suffered very heavy injuries?"
As he spoke, a faint, imperceptible trace of anger began to rise within Taichu.
Although Taichu had accepted all living beings in the present Honghuang world, whenever that battle in Chaos was mentioned—bringing to mind how his elder brother had fallen because of it—he inevitably still felt unsettled.
Hearing Taichu's words, Wangshu gave a bitter smile.
"You are mistaken, Fellow Daoist. I am of the Lunar Constitution; I have always been pure-hearted, detached from desires, and averse to fighting. How could I have taken part in that Great Opening Tribulation? It was simply because I happened to be right in the center of Chaos that I was caught too deeply in the fallout!"
Hearing this, Taichu slowly relaxed.
If Wangshu had truly participated in that battle back then, there was no telling what Taichu's reaction would be now.
At the same time, in the Western ancestral land—Mount Sumeru!
Demon Ancestor Luohou looked at the four great demon kings before him and nodded in satisfaction.
Wuxin, Wuxiang, Wufa, Wutian!
"This Demon Ancestor has guarded you for hundreds of thousands of years, and at last, you have come into the world. Hahahahaha!"
As soon as these four demons were born, they possessed the cultivation of a Peak Early-Stage Taiyi Golden Immortal!
The four demons bowed deeply toward Demon Ancestor Luohou.
"We shall certainly cultivate with single-minded devotion to help the Old Ancestor unify Honghuang!"
"Your cultivation realms are still shallow. For now, go and cultivate properly within this Demon Ancestor's Demon Pagoda. The day you emerge from seclusion shall be the day this Old Ancestor unifies Honghuang!"
With a wave of his large sleeve, he swept the four demons into the Demon Pagoda.
In the Eastern ancestral land—Mount Yujing!
Ancestor Hongjun slowly opened his eyes. At this moment, Ancestor Hongjun's cultivation had already reached the Peak Mid-Stage Da Luo Golden Immortal realm!
"It is time to take a look at the Honghuang continent."
With that, Hongjun walked out through the doors of the Zixiao Palace. Suddenly, he was drawn to two stubborn rocks.
He pinched his fingers in divination and nodded slightly.
"Splendid. Meeting me is your fortune as well!"
With a casual wave, he bestowed sentience upon the two stubborn rocks. Immediately afterwards, a boy and a girl appeared before Hongjun.
"Haotian, Yaochi! Paying respects to master!"
Glancing at them indifferently, Hongjun said, "Go on. This Old Ancestor is going out for a while, the two of you must cultivate diligently!"
"Yes, master!"
With those words, Hongjun vanished from the spot.
In the Extreme North, the Beast Emperor Shenni!
Shenni sat imposingly upon his throne, while the four ferocious beasts stood in a row at the center of the grand hall.
Qiongqi looked respectfully at Shenni.
"My Emperor, after these tens of thousands of years of cultivation, our realms are truly unable to advance an inch, and we remain stalled at the Peak Mid-Stage Taiyi Golden Immortal realm! Our Ferocious Beast clan can only rapidly elevate our realms through slaughter."
Shenni waved his large hand. "How could I not know this? It's just that here in the Extreme North, there are those two old fellows Hunkun and Ancestor Wuji, so your Emperor does have some misgivings. Should they launch a ruthless attack, your lives would be forfeit!"
He cast a glance at Qiongqi and the others.
"However, your Emperor is not far from breaking through either. You shall first skirt around the Extreme North and attack the Western continent. Just don't stir up too huge a commotion and everything will be fine. Once I make my breakthrough, I'll go slaughter those two old fellows first!"
"Understood, we obey your command!"
Meanwhile, Ancestor Wuji and Ancestor Hunkun were quietly plotting a certain matter.