Honghuang: Houtu Came for a Meal and Insists I'm a Saint

Yang Youxuan had transmigrated to the primordial world for fifteen years when he awakened the “Great Dao Hundred Arts System.”

While everyone else absorbed spiritual energy and cultivated their way to immortality, all he could do was cook, farm, smith, and carve.

His cooking was on the verge of achieving unity with the Dao, yet he couldn’t sense even a trace of spiritual energy. Yang Youxuan finally gave up and decided to live out his days in peace at the foot of Buzhou Mountain.

Then Houtu, one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, became a regular at his home.

A pot of stew restored ninety percent of the Dao injury that had plagued Houtu’s origin for tens of thousands of years.

A mountain ginseng root he dug up on a whim turned out to be a primordial spiritual root that outsiders would fight over.

And the kitchen knife, wooden table, and clothesline in his yard left the great powers of the primordial world feeling their scalps prickle.

Houtu: “How can this be a meal? It’s clearly the origin of the Great Dao!”

Yang Youxuan: “It’s just a pot of meat. Is your Wu clan’s food really that bad?”

Even more absurdly, one meal brought Nuwa down from Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

But the moment Nuwa stepped into the yard, the power of a Saint fell silent.

Then she saw the wooden statue of Pangu that Yang Youxuan had carved on a whim, and even the Pangu blood in Houtu’s body began to boil.

From then on, the whole primordial world changed.

Dijiang suspected Yang Youxuan had some connection to Pangu. Eastern Emperor Taiyi came to test him with the Chaos Bell, while Nuwa was convinced he had already transcended the Heavenly Dao.

Yang Youxuan, meanwhile, could only stare in bewilderment at the growing number of primordial-world great powers showing up for free meals.

“I really don’t know how to cultivate!”

Then the Witch-Demon Tribulation drew near. The Ten Suns Across the Sky, Houtu’s transformation into the cycle of reincarnation, and the fated bloodshed between the Wu and Demon clans threatened to engulf the primordial world.

Only then did Yang Youxuan realize that even a casual remark from him could truly change the course of the primordial world.

If that was the case, then whether this tribulation followed the original script was no longer up to the Heavenly Dao.