One hundred and nine, heaven and earth change

  After the Honghuang was broken, the saints received the order of Hongjun Daozu to re-refine the Honghuang and repair the heavenly curtain.

  Hong Jun Dao Zu left, Lao Zi spoke: "We respect the teacher's orders, heavily refine Hong Huang. Now that Hong Huang is broken and has injured its foundation, it must be re-refined with great Dharma power; as for the torn heavenly curtain, perhaps it can be mended. We will each act according to our own methods, what do you all think?"

  The rest of the saints chorused: "We'll follow your instructions, Master!"

  Laozi said: "Since that's the case, Nüwa can use her creative powers to repair the heavens. We'll refine and cultivate the primordial chaos. How about it?"

  Everyone said: "Good!"

  At once, Laozi and the other four each bid farewell to Nüwa and left. Only Nüwa and Xun Daozi remained on Mount Zhou.

  Nüwa waited for Laozi and the five others to leave before turning around and saying to Xun Daozi, "We still need a friend's help!"

  "Master, please give your orders!"

  Nüwa smiled slightly and said: "I want to borrow your stove for collecting weak water!"

  Xun Daozi took out the 'Hunyuan Furnace' and presented it to Nüwa, bowing his body and saying: "Master uncle needs to use it, why bother asking for permission, just use it!"

  Nüwa took over the 'Hunyuan Furnace' and examined it carefully, saying: "Good furnace! I originally wanted to borrow Brother Tongtian's 'Qiankun Ding' for use, but Brother Tongtian wants to re-refine the Hongyuan and also needs the 'Qiankun Ding'. It just so happens that I see you using this furnace to collect weak water. Upon closer inspection, it seems to contain many strange fires, which will be of great benefit to me when used to refine stones and repair the heavens. Compared to the 'Qiankun Ding', this is even more suitable! This time, I'm really borrowing your light!"

  Xun Daozi hastily said he didn't dare.

  Nüwa immediately cast a spell to activate the 'Hunyuan Furnace'. With a loud "Boom!", a gigantic three-legged, two-eared furnace with a lid stood firmly on the ground. Amidst the gray mist, its original color of dark black with hints of dark red was revealed. The surface of the furnace was covered in mysterious and profound cloud patterns, with three thick, ancient, and mystical characters in the center: "Hunyuan Furnace". The entire furnace emitted a thick, ancient, and mysterious aura, evoking a sense of shock from the depths of one's heart. Nüwa's eyes also flashed with an otherworldly light.

  Nüwa immediately threw many colored stones into the 'Hunyuan Furnace', using her magical powers to urge on the furnace fire, smelting the colored stones in the furnace.

  This smelting was over in a few years, during which Xun'er carefully observed Nüwa's technique of urging the 'Hunyuan Furnace' with her hands, and the various techniques she came up with were quite beneficial.

  On this day, the woman sitting cross-legged in front of the 'Hunyuan Furnace' suddenly stood up and lifted the 'Hunyuan Furnace', flying towards the sky until she reached the tear in the heavenly curtain. The lid of the 'Hunyuan Furnace' automatically opened, and a colorful light ball flew out of the furnace, sticking to the tear in the heavenly curtain and slowly spreading along the crack. In the flashing light, the opening of the crack was actually healed and disappeared bit by bit.

  After a long time, Nüwa returned to the earth and once again threw the five-colored divine stones into the 'Hunyuan Furnace' for continued smelting.

  After repeated efforts, dozens of years later, Nuwa finally repaired the sky curtain. She had one piece of colorful divine stone left over from refining the Five-Colored Stone to repair the sky, which was now useless. Nuwa casually threw it towards the vast wilderness and returned to the earth's surface.

  Xun Daozi looked at the five-colored divine stone that flew by like a shooting star, but in his heart he thought: That must be the Lingming Stone Monkey.

  Nüwa walked up to Xun Daozi's body, handed over the 'Hunyuan Furnace' in her hand, and said: "Nüwa has achieved great success, thanks to your help with the 'Hunyuan Furnace', Nüwa thanks you!" After finishing speaking, she bowed her head as a courtesy.

  Xun Daozi hastily stepped aside and said: "Master's great method, how dare Xun Daozi take credit for it!"

  Nüwa smiled slightly, illuminating the entire world. She spoke softly: "You don't have to belittle yourself. You possess great fortune and good luck. Your achievements today are just the beginning, and your future is boundless! I already owed you a favor before, and now I owe you another one. From now on, if you need anything, come directly to my palace, and the gates of the Nüwa Palace will be open for you!"

  Xun Daozi hastily bowed and said: "Master Shu's words are heavy, Xun Daozi will definitely seek Master Shu's help when the time comes!"

  As the two were talking, a ripple suddenly appeared in the void, and Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian successively emerged.

  Tongtianyi appeared and laughed: "Female Nuwa is much faster than before!"

  Nüwa bowed her head and said, "Brother Dao's praise is undeserved. Fortunately, I have fellow disciples of the Way to assist me in the 'Hunyuan Furnace', otherwise it would be difficult to complete the teacher's instructions!"

  Yuanshi said beside her, "Nuwa doesn't need to be modest. This feat of mending the sky can only be accomplished by you. Even without the 'Hunyuan Furnace', I believe it won't take much time for you to mend the heavenly curtain!"

  Laozi calmly opened his mouth: "No need to say more, wait for the two Taoist friends from the West to come back, we will go to the Purple Mansion to report to the teacher!"

  At this point, Xun Daozi was finally able to meet Yuan Shi San Ren in person.

  "Don't kneel down, get up quickly!"

  Xun Daozi stood up and attended to one side, Laozi and the three of them, along with Nüwa, each took a rush cushion and sat down, lightly closing their eyes, their spirits wandering outside. Xun Daozi attended to Yuan Shi's back.

  Half a day later, another ripple rose in the air, and Jie Yin and Zhun Ti successively stepped out of thin air, appearing before everyone.

  "We have come late and troubled all of you fellow Taoists! Please forgive us!" Zhun Ti also came forward to pay his respects and apologize.

  Laozi and others stood up and returned the courtesy.

  The old man looked at everyone and said: "Since you are all here, we will go to the Purple Mansion to report back to our teacher. Do any of you have any objections?"

  The other five saints all bowed their heads and said: "Good!"

  Yuanshi turned his head and said to Xun Daozi: "You can go back on your own, wait for me to return to the Ziwei Palace before coming to see me again!"

  Xun Daozi personally responded.

  At this time, the sky was flashing with a rosy glow, auspicious clouds were surging, celestial music was lingering, and strange fragrance was filling the air. In the void, vast and boundless merits and virtues of golden and yellow qi emerged. This was because all the saints had heavily refined the primordial chaos, making up for the perfection of the heavenly curtain's merits and virtues, and the heavens and earth of the primordial chaos rewarded merits and virtues.

  The Gong De Xuan Huang Qi in the air is divided into seven parts, one of which is extremely small and insufficient for the remaining layer.

  Those seven portions of Gongde Xuanhuang Qi fell straight down to the ground, among which the smallest one fell directly towards Xun Daozi. This was because Xun Daozi participated in collecting Weak Water and used the 'Hunyuan Furnace' with Nüwa to refine stones to repair the sky. Heaven and Earth also gave a reward, most of which was given to the 'Hunyuan Furnace' for refining stones, but the 'Hunyuan Furnace' was inside Xun Daozi's body, so this Gongde Xuanhuang Qi also fell straight down towards Xun Daozi.

  As soon as the mysterious yellow energy entered his body, it was about to sink into the "Hunyuan Furnace" in his lower abdomen. Unexpectedly, the purple air mass that was slowly rotating in the sea of consciousness suddenly accelerated its rotation, and a strong suction force sucked the mysterious yellow energy into the purple air mass. The air mass then returned to its slow and lazy state, leaving Xún Dào Zǐ speechless.

  All saints retracted their own Xuan Huang Qi and immediately broke through the void and left!

  When all the saints left, Xun Daozi suddenly felt that this vast and wild world was greatly different from before. Previously, he had always been with Nüwa Shengren and hadn't experienced it. At this moment, when all the saints left, Xun Daozi immediately felt the difference in this vast and wild world.

  Xun Daozi immediately sat down with his legs crossed, opened up his mind and concentrated on experiencing it deeply.

  The first thing that was felt was the change in the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. The pre-heavenly spiritual energy that had previously filled the space between heaven and earth had disappeared, replaced by the newly born post-heavenly spiritual energy of this vast and wild world; the other spiritual powers also transformed from pre-heavenly to post-heavenly.

  The witch demon fought, the vast expanse was shattered, and the entire primordial spiritual energy of the vast expanse was exhausted. Even if a small amount remained, it could only be seen in some blessed places with powerful arrays protecting them.

  Secondly, the sky seems much higher and is still rising and expanding.

  Xun Daozi made another investigation, his mind sank into the vast and desolate sky and earth. In the midst of it, he seemed to feel that this vast and desolate sky and earth was extremely excited, full of vitality and energy. It was as if the collapse of Mount Buzhou and the fragmentation of the land were a joyous occasion, the sky was torn apart. It seemed that all of this was what the vast and desolate sky and earth needed most, and in this moment, the vast and desolate sky and earth had great joy.

  Xun Daozi gathered his mind and spirit, but in his heart, he was stunned: This vast and desolate world is broken, the pre-heavenly transformed into the post-heavenly, the vast and desolate land is broken, flying out not a few fragments into the void, the earth should have shrunk by a lot, but how did I feel that the vast and desolate world has great joy? Is it because I felt wrong, to know that I still carry the responsibility of protecting the vast and desolate world? Although I still haven't figured out how to fulfill this responsibility. But it's not like breaking the vast and desolate world would make the world happy, right?

  Xun Daozi was entangled, and his responsibility to protect the Hongyuan was even more bewildering! What exactly did he need to do to protect the Hongyuan? Although up until now, Xun Daozi had not done anything that made him feel like he was protecting the Hongyuan, the Hongyuan world had not caused any trouble either, and it seemed to be taking care of itself. However, this increasingly confusing responsibility really had Xun Daozi entangled, fearing that one day the Hongyuan world would come knocking on his door asking for an explanation, having received many benefits but done nothing in return. If he were to be exposed as a fake, and his decades of cultivation were all for naught, it would be a tragedy!

  Xun Daozi sat beside the original Notzhou Mountain, sitting for several years, recalling the scene when he worshiped Notzhou Mountain in those years, carefully pondering the feeling of the mysterious aura entering his body at that time, hoping to find some clues from it. However, after several years, there was still no trace to be found. Xun Daozi had no choice but to get up and leave this collapsed Notzhou Mountain.

  On the way back to Daoshan, Xun Daozi once again felt the changes in the vast and desolate land after the great calamity of the witch demon. Many spiritual roots and immortal herbs that were originally visible everywhere had disappeared without a trace. Many ferocious beasts also seemed to have lost their original vitality, gradually declining and dying.

  All along the way, although I saw withered and dying spiritual roots and herbs, as well as old and suddenly dead desolate beasts, yet I somehow felt an unprecedented vitality and vigor.

  It's really puzzling for Zixu to be so careful on his way to find Tao.

  After much deliberation and contemplation, the seeker of truth, having gained nothing, quickened his pace and hastened towards Mount Seeking Truth.