Chapter Forty-Four

  Hongjun summoned the three Qing to co-sign the God List, and Nüwa and the two Western saints all knew something about it. Nüwa was fine, but Zhunti was so curious that he wanted to know the reason behind it. As expected, just like in ordinary Honghuang books, the three fools didn't understand the meaning of the teacher's God List at all, and the two brothers started arguing. From a slight disagreement, they almost fought, and finally reached an agreement under the mediation of their eldest brother, Lao Yan: "Each will follow his own destiny, and each will follow his own heavenly number." Hongjun heard his three disciples conclude like this and didn't explain the pros and cons to them. He handed the God List to Laozi and told him to keep it, saying: "In the future, there will be someone who will take over the task of sealing the gods, and whoever enters that family's door will be in charge of this matter." After hearing about this, Xitian Zhunti was so angry that he secretly laughed at the incompetence of the three Qing.

  Bo Fu also woke up from his long sleep without dreams at this time. After waking up, he found that his kung fu had been circulating according to the simplest and most basic method in his sleep for many years, but it had thoroughly adjusted the rapid growth of his demon power over the past thousand years. Now his demon power was even more mellow and majestic, and the kind of floating and sharp breath had disappeared.

  Ba Fu's body shook, and he withdrew the Five-Colored World back to the Desolate Expanse. After careful calculation, it turned out that a thousand years had already passed. The small human village outside the mountain gate in the past had long since become a large coastal city, and most of the demon caves in the mountains had also been abandoned. Ba Fu's Five-Colored World was not synchronized with the Desolate Expanse in terms of time, being ten times slower, so he had slept for tens of thousands of years in his own world, and had long since become bored. This time when he woke up, he immediately went to the human city to stroll around.

  At this time, the city was already quite developed, with a population of tens of thousands. Ba Fu sat down in a certain tavern and listened to the idle chatter of the guests next to him. From their conversation, he learned that it was now the reign of King Zhou of Shang, "So the main storyline of Fengshen is about to begin." Ba Fu thought to himself. This time, due to the purification of his demonic powers, his ability to conceal his own strength had become even stronger. He knew that unless a sage deliberately calculated it, no one would know his whereabouts, except for Hong Jun.

  The cloud-like carriage rose slowly and flew northward, along the way seeing that the human tribe had already flourished everywhere, with roads connecting city after city, each with the oracle bone script character "Shang" on its gate. After flying for a long time, a large city appeared before Bo Yu's eyes, with the words "Chao Ge" on its gate, and the city gate was wide open, with a large procession coming out. Bo Yu hid his figure and stood far away to observe carefully. From various flags and banners, he knew that it was King Zhou of Shang who was making an inspection tour. Bo Yu followed King Zhou's entourage from afar, his divine eyes still seeing King Zhou. King Zhou was originally a majestic and handsome man, with many years of imperial life filling him with an air of majesty, followed by a group of old men with white beards and black beards, as well as countless palace maids and guards.

  King Zhou's army soon arrived in front of a temple, and Bo Yi hid himself and entered the temple first. At this time, Bo Yi had already anticipated that this was probably the beginning of the Investiture of the Gods - the Temple of Nüwa. In the temple, he saw the statue of Nüwa, and one of Bo Yi's doubts was also resolved: "It turned out that Nüwa herself used her divine thoughts to enlighten this statue, revealing her own image. No wonder King Zhou would be moved by seeing the statue, it was actually the real appearance of Nüwa."

  Everything happened just like in the Investiture of the Gods, King Zhou recited a lewd poem, and all his ministers were shocked and asked him to stop. Bo Yu was also slightly angry but suppressed it with a thought "What's wrong with me?" Then King Zhou left, and the goddess Nüwa arrived. Bo Yu awkwardly greeted Nüwa, who was furious and stared at Bo Yu fiercely: "You come with me!"

  Bo Yu didn't want to argue with the woman on his head at all, and obediently followed Nüwa to Nüwa Palace. Nüwa ordered Tongzi to take out the Demon-Attracting Flag that was given by the demon tribe's heavenly court when she became a saint. She casually threw the flag into mid-air. The surface of the flag unfolded, and countless demonic energies dispersed towards the vast wilderness.

  At that moment when they were chatting, Bo Yu found an opportunity to say to Nüwa: "If you are really angry, I can go and kill Zi Shou directly."

  Nüwa glared at Bo Fu: "Are you really ignorant or just pretending to be stupid? You still have a lazy attitude in front of the Holy One... it's really... Why did you go and kill Zi Shoude directly? If this could solve the problem, I wouldn't need to do it myself. What am I to you? Hmm? Don't try to flatter me! The emperor of the mortal world has his own destiny, the imperial aura of the Shang Dynasty has not yet dissipated. If a celestial being harms King Zhou, they will inevitably suffer from karmic retribution."

  "Hmph, I've even killed a dragon before, what's this little emperor to me? If you want my opinion, I could just kill him for you and be done with it... Fine, suit yourself. It's not like we're taking advantage of the situation or anything. Alright, alright, I won't make a move."

  "You indeed know the subtlety of this matter, yet you just pretended to be a rough person!" Nüwa said with a humph.

  Two great powers were talking when the first batch of summoned demons arrived. Nüwa immediately put on a dignified and elegant appearance, while Bó Fú also restrained his smiling face and made a serious expression, sitting below Nüwa.

  Soon, a large group of demons arrived at the Nüwa Palace. When they saw Nüwa, they all knelt down to the ground, but when they saw Bó Fú sitting below Nüwa with an air of nonchalance, they were shocked. Bó Fú's body emitted a faint demonic aura, and the demons naturally wouldn't mistake him for anyone else. However, one demon couldn't help but wonder how this demon could be so arrogant in the Nüwa Palace... The demons are rough and rude by nature, and many of them whispered to each other, asking which demon was sitting above them.

  Bo Yu, however, was completely unaware of the private conversations among the demons in the temple. In his heart, he was only thinking: "Isn't it said that there's a guy named Zhun Ti who likes to stir up trouble? Why isn't he here?" But after just a moment, Bo Yu had already come to the conclusion: "It's also possible that he didn't need to take action. Those few saints still have many days of meeting ahead of them, and today they're plotting against Nüwa - in the future, won't they be ashamed? Moreover, this matter is the foundation of a great calamity, and Zhun Ti will surely know how to take advantage of the situation, so why bother with such trivial matters?"

  At this time, the female Wa also retreated most of the demons in the temple, leaving only three demons in Xuan Yuan. The nine-tailed fox, jade stone pipa, and nine-headed pheasant, each with a different beauty, especially the nine-tailed fox, who was the most outstanding among the three demons, her appearance was not inferior to that of the female Wa, and her charm was even more so. This made Bo Fu also take a few more glances, and the nine-tailed fox spirit was also an old demon with extensive experience, she carefully stole a few glances at Bo Fu, and immediately also paid respects, "Little demon has seen King Nan Gong Bo Fu, little demon had the good fortune to see Your Excellency once before, Your Excellency's heroic appearance is unforgettable." Her two sister demons were startled, and quickly bowed their heads in respect. Bo Fu smiled: "I didn't expect that after a thousand years of not leaving the mountain, there would still be little demons who remember me."

  Nüwa ordered the three female demons to go down the mountain and destroy the world of Shang Tang. Bo Fu reminded her out of affection: "Don't do things that will anger Heaven and resent people." The three demons nodded and retreated. Nüwa looked at Bo Fu with deep meaning, and Bo Fu smiled and slipped out of Nüwa's palace on the pretext of having something to attend to.

  He returned to the mountain, and on his way back, he passed by the large city in front of the mountain. There was a flag flying high, with a strange bird on it - dragon head, phoenix neck, turtle shell pattern on its back, crane legs, eagle wings, and long feathers at the end of its tail, extremely magnificent. "Isn't this me? What's going on with this city?" Bo Fu descended to the ground and transformed, asking the idle people in the city. It turned out that this place was under the jurisdiction of a certain vassal state of the Eastern Duke Jiang's family, and this vassal state was named "Zeng". The totem was a huge strange bird seen by their ancestors when they founded the country between the mountains and seas - Bo Fu bird, which was revered as the ancestral god of their tribe due to its ferocity and bravery.