He was a Native Lifeform of the Primordial World.
His roots were on this side.
The above was one aspect of Hongjun's current situation.
It was something he could not change.
Even after becoming a player, it remained the same.
This situation
meant that he was bound to remain within the Primordial World for quite a long time.
And according to Hongjun's estimates, the level of a Saint was more or less the upper limit that the Heavenly Dao could tolerate.
If he intended to go any further...
then he would very likely suffer an immediate thunderous strike from it!
After all.
How could one allow another to sleep soundly beside one's bed?
The Heavenly Dao could not possibly allow an existence capable of threatening it to wander freely throughout the Primordial World!
Besides.
There could only be one spot at the pinnacle of the pyramid; any more than that, and there simply would not be room!
Therefore.
If anyone truly sought to advance beyond the level of a Saint and step into a higher realm,
then the malice of the Heavenly Dao would be utterly unavoidable!
And if one tried to open up another path by undertaking Confluence with Dao?
Failure meant dying and vanishing on the spot.
Success meant being controlled by the Heavenly Dao.
No matter how one looked at it, both were exceedingly terrible options...
Even
when Pangu created the world back then, the reason he had exhausted himself to death might not necessarily have been unrelated to the Heavenly Dao secretly sabotaging him.
In such matters,
although it did not possess complete Self-Awareness,
it did possess the most basic instincts!
And eliminating competitors
to monopolize the very peak of the pyramid
was precisely one of the most fundamental instincts of every existence!
Thus,
under the