Hard to Escape This Calamity!

He had always done things without leaving a trace, like spring rain nourishing all things—silent and soundless, yet already eating away at your foundations.

"Dao Ancestor Hongjun, now that things have come to this, why keep putting on airs?"

Li Tian's gaze swept over Zhunti, whose expression was twisted and whose lips were twitching.

His tone was mild, carrying a trace of undisguised mockery:

"Everyone knows full well about your pretense.

"The taste of the Heavenly Dao's backlash... must be even worse than swallowing knives, no?"

Seeing Li Tian still dare to mock him at a time like this, a blaze of vicious fury exploded in Hongjun's mind!

He wished he could immediately abandon this incarnation and, even at the cost of his life, grind Li Tian's bones to ash!

But reality did not allow him such recklessness.

His true self, together with the power of the Three Corpses, had long since been poured in full into the seal, all to hold down the origin of the Heavenly Dao's frenzied counterattack—

its momentum was so fierce, so violent, that even the ever-composed Hongjun had not anticipated it!

It was like throwing away its life and ramming headlong into a wall, heedless of everything!

More than once, spiderweb cracks had appeared along the edge of the seal, and the origin of the Heavenly Dao had nearly broken free of its confinement!

Right now, the only thing he could do was squeeze out every last shred of strength to reinforce the restriction.

Once the seal truly collapsed...

the bitter cultivation, waiting, and sacrifices of endless ages would all become a joke.

Hongjun would never allow it!

For this very moment, he had turned down the position of Ruler more times than he could count, forcibly delaying authority that was already within his