Tongtian had actually forcibly stripped the Primordial Violet Spirit from Yuanshi's true spirit, then casually erased the source imprint Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor, had left within the Slaughter Banner and claimed it for himself!
This plainly showed that Tongtian's Dao cultivation had climbed to another pinnacle. He had most likely reached the peak of the Ninth Heaven of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
Only at such a realm could one rise above the Heavenly Dao Laws and alter rules at will!
The peak of the Nine Heavens of Primordial Chaos was already a realm equal to the Heavenly Dao itself, one that could ignore all heavenly rules and decrees!
If not, then there was only one possibility: Tongtian had stepped into an even higher realm—the Heavenly Dao Realm!
Even Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor, possessed only the cultivation of the Third Heaven of the Heavenly Dao Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
Yet once one entered the Heavenly Dao Realm, the difference from the Primordial Chaos Realm was as vast as heaven and earth.
People often said, "All beneath Saints are ants," but little did they know that beneath the Heavenly Dao Realm, all were ants as well!
This was not merely the difference between two titles, but an insurmountable abyss stretching between heaven and earth!
Taishang Laojun understood this clearly: this time, the five Saints joining forces would be ten times more brutal than before.
Last time, at worst, they had been repeatedly stripped of their Saintly Positions by Tongtian and reduced to mortals. This time, even their Primordial Violet Spirits might be forcibly torn away, leaving them to perish like Yuanshi, body and soul erased!
Because he saw the danger of this calamity, Taishang had hurriedly invoked Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor, merely to buy the four of them a brief