Chapter Eighteen

  "In the south of the Great Wilderness, there is a bird called Bo Fu. It has the head of a dragon and the beak of an eagle, with a phoenix crown and beautiful feathers. Its body has brocade patterns, its two wings have claws, and its tail grows five-colored long plumes. When it appears, there will be great wars and calamities, and the ruler of the world will meet with great disaster."

  Zhou Bofu still didn't know that later generations would have some boring good writers write him into books, now he is still the same as before, with Mount Bu Zhou as his base, fighting, cultivating, eating...

  Now in the vast wilderness, he also has a considerable reputation. Ordinary monsters and that witch heard the wind and fled far away. The name "Fierce Bird" was rumored all over the world, and he was very satisfied: "Maybe I'd better change my name to Black Wolf Bird?"

  On this day, Zhou Bofu, as usual, prepared to seize the dragon that Jiao had just hunted. Jiao was unwilling, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle. Suddenly, the entire mountain and sea shook like a boiling pot, with mountains collapsing, trees toppling, and the earth cracking open. Just as they were fighting intensely, a supreme pressure came from between heaven and earth. Both Jiao and Zhou Bofu, despite their ferocity, could not resist it, and were forced to kneel on the ground, bowing their heads towards the endless expanse.

  At this moment, all living beings in the vast wilderness bowed their heads. At this time, a divine thought came forth, resonating throughout the three realms and awakening countless sentient beings.

  "I am Hongjun, now I have attained the Tao. All those who are destined can come to the Purple Mist Palace to listen to the wonderful teachings of the Great Tao."

  As soon as Zhou Bofu heard this, he was overjoyed. He didn't care about the wolf anymore and flapped his wings to strike it flying away. Then, he turned around and flew towards the place where his divine sense was located.

  In that direction, Zhou Bofu began to accelerate his flight, and the shockwave of high-speed flight plowed out a deep ditch on the ground. As he flew higher and higher, he gradually flew over the mountains, over the rivers, and in front of him was the vast ocean. He turned to fly upwards, and the place where the divine thought was located was above the nine heavens above his head. Zhou Bofu had flown to a very high place, when suddenly the sea surface below churned up, and the towering waves rolled up hundreds of miles high, with a huge back floating in the waves, which was thousands of miles long. The back grew higher and higher, and then suddenly transformed into a gigantic bird, soaring upwards, instantly reaching a height of tens of thousands of miles.

  Zhu Bo Yu sighed in his heart: "In the Northern Darkness, there is a fish named Kun. The size of Kun is unknown, it may be several thousand miles long. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of Peng is also unknown, it may be several thousand miles wide; when angry and flying, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. This bird, when the sea moves, will migrate to the Southern Darkness. The Southern Darkness is the Heavenly Pool.

  "Qí Xié" is a recorder of strange things. The words say: "When Peng moves to the Southern Ming, the water strikes three thousand miles, and the swirling waves rise nine million miles, which is six months away. Is it really Kunpeng? I didn't expect that the demon master Kunpeng in the vast wilderness would also appear today, it seems that this place is indeed Beiming."

  Kun Peng indeed lived up to its reputation, with a single flap of its wings it traversed ten thousand miles, Zhou Bofu also transformed into a brilliant light and chased after Kun Peng.

  All the way flying, Zhou Bofu didn't fall behind Kunpeng at all. The five-color light was magnificent and dazzling, pulling out a tens of thousands of miles long light band to fly away. All the way, he flew with Kunpeng side by side until they reached the chaotic outside world. At that time, there was also a fierce and terrifying demonic energy rapidly approaching from behind, which was above Zhou Bofu and Kunpeng at this moment. The two demons slowed down their flight speed at the same time and turned their heads to look back. They saw a ball of golden light flying towards them, and before it even got close, the scorching hot demonic energy had already arrived. Inside the light, one could vaguely see a huge three-legged crow, Zhou Bofu knew that was the Sanzu Jinwu, "I didn't expect to meet both the Demon Emperor and the Demon Master today, I can finally say that my life is fulfilling if we have a fight someday."

  Zhou Bofu accelerated to his maximum speed, but the three demonic birds were already thousands of miles apart. The Kunpeng was flying at an incredible velocity and had already pulled ahead, while the Golden Crow was lagging behind. Zhou Bofu sped up to his limit, but he couldn't break through the speed of light... Suddenly, he felt a pang in his heart and stopped abruptly, allowing the Golden Crow to overtake him. He hovered in the void, ignoring the tearing winds outside, and focused on recapturing the insight he had just gained. Then, he burst out laughing and resumed flying. Now, his five-colored aura was no longer a continuous band of light but rather a series of discrete points appearing in the void. It turned out that he had borrowed knowledge from his past life and combined it with his current cultivation to unlock the ability to perform short-range spatial jumps, although he didn't understand the underlying principles. Zhou Bofu could now perform short-range teleportation, but he couldn't explain why; he could only attribute it to his innate racial abilities.

  After Zhou Bofu acquired the art of jumping, he quickly surpassed the positions of Kunpeng and Jinyu from another direction. Finally, in the endless chaos, he saw a small thatched cottage, surrounded by a circle of fences, with the ground generated from the void below. On the bamboo door in front of the fence, a plaque was hung, inscribed with characters that were unknown, yet somehow, his divine intuition naturally knew the meaning of the inscription on the plaque, which read "Zi Xuan Palace".

  Zhou Bofu nodded to the two little boys at the door, and they saw a strange bird come in and nod to them, which didn't seem unusual. They just made a polite gesture to invite Zhou Bofu in. Zhou Bofu saw that the thatched hut was very small and was afraid he wouldn't be able to fit inside, so he hesitated for a moment. However, he thought about it and burst out laughing: "How could Hong Jun's great ability have a reception place that is just a small thatched hut? There must be some other divine connection inside."

  Without hesitation, he stepped inside. Indeed, after entering, everything changed. Inside, there was a cloud bed, and in front of it were six rush mats. Behind them, there was nothing else. At this time, four people were already seated on the rush mats. The first one was an old man, followed by two middle-aged men, and then a woman with the upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body of a large snake sat cross-legged on the mat. Zhou Boshi knew in his heart that the three people in front must be the Three Pure Ones, and the woman behind them must be Nüwa. Zhou Boshi had long known that Fuxi and Nüwa were both half-human and half-snake, and they were also from the same clan as the demons, so he didn't find it strange at all.

  Zhou Bofu returned the courtesy to the four people in front of him, and Laozi slightly cupped his hands and returned the courtesy. Yuanshi nodded slightly and bowed half of his body to return the courtesy. Tongtian just smiled and nodded his head to return the courtesy. Nüwa was more polite, standing up from her mat, leaning close to Zhou Bofu, and bowing her head slightly to return the courtesy. After the courtesy, all four people were paying attention to Zhou Bofu's appearance. Among the Three Pure Ones, Laozi looked at Zhou Bofu with his eyes for a moment before stopping, Yuanshi didn't even look, Tongtian glanced at him and seemed to have some slight approval, while Nüwa looked at Zhou Bofu's beautiful feathers with a few points of curiosity and envy. None of them spoke out loud, perhaps it was the etiquette of being a guest, Hongjun had not yet appeared, and those who came to listen to the Tao had not arrived yet, so whispering to each other would be unseemly at this time.

  Seeing that there were still two empty meditation mats, Zhou Bofu, having read so many ancient texts, naturally knew that this was an opportunity for the sacred seat of the Hongyuan Gate, and his heart filled with great joy, he stepped forward to sit down.