With the emergence of Heavenly Dao Hongjun...
This also meant that the mutual scheming between Old Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao had ultimately ended in the Heavenly Dao's victory.
What Old Ancestor Hongjun did not know was...
The Great Dao was impartial, but the Heavenly Dao was selfish!
While Old Ancestor Hongjun had been scheming against the Heavenly Dao, how could the Heavenly Dao not have been scheming against him as well?
Old Ancestor Hongjun's goal had been to devour and absorb the Heavenly Dao through Unification with the Dao, becoming its true spokesperson...
Thus making full preparations to devour the fortune of the entire Primordial Wilderness and advance to the Great Dao Realm in the future...
And what about the Heavenly Dao?
The Heavenly Dao needed a puppet entirely devoid of selfish desires!
A powerful vessel through which it could act conveniently!
Only then could the Heavenly Dao more conveniently carry out its many subsequent schemes.
It had to destroy the Twelve Ancestral Witches!
Because the Twelve Ancestral Witches carried twelve supreme laws of heaven and earth.
Within the Primordial Wilderness, the deeper a cultivator's comprehension of a law became, the stronger their control over that law would grow...
Which in turn weakened the Heavenly Dao's control over that law!
And looking back, what laws did the Twelve Ancestral Witches possess?
Space, time, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, wind, rain, weather...
These were already the twelve most crucial laws governing the operation of the Primordial Wilderness.
Just imagine it: if the Twelve Ancestral Witches eventually cultivated these twelve laws to their extremes...
It would mean that the Heavenly Dao would lose its authority to control these twelve powers...
As long as the Twelve Ancestral Witches remained in the Primordial Wilderness, the Heavenly Dao would be unable to freely wield the powers of space, time, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, wind, rain, and weather...
Could it still be called the Heavenly Dao then?
This was the most fundamental contradiction between the Witch Tribe and the Heavenly Dao.
It was also the primary reason the Heavenly Dao demanded that Hongjun promote the Witch-Demon War at any cost.
Of course...
Beyond that, the Heavenly Dao had many other selfish motives.
The Primordial Wilderness did not only possess the Heavenly Dao; it also had the Human Path and the Earth Path.
But at this moment, the Human Path and Earth Path had yet to awaken.
The Heavenly Dao had grown accustomed to being the sole dominant force.
Naturally, it did not want the Human Path and Earth Path to awaken or grow stronger.
Its other great selfish motive was to suppress the Human Path and Earth Path, allowing itself to remain above the other two paths forever...
Thus, it also required the assistance of "Heavenly Dao Hongjun."
So rather than saying Hongjun had schemed against the Heavenly Dao, it would be more accurate to say that the Heavenly Dao had schemed against Hongjun.
It had waited for this day for too long.
At this moment, after being reborn...
There was no joy, anger, or any other expression on Heavenly Dao Hongjun's face.
He was numb and expressionless, like a puppet.
Then he merely flicked his finger.
Dense golden light appeared, while streams of Dao Rhyme and Heavenly Dao power spread around him.
Heavenly Dao Hongjun seemed to sense something.
He first looked toward the Witch Tribe, his brows slightly furrowed.
Then he gazed from afar toward the Demon Race, examining the conditions of Xuan Yang, Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, and the others.
He also checked Tongtian's condition at Kunlun Mountain.
Only then did he withdraw his gaze.
But his slightly furrowed brows gradually tightened further.
Heavenly Dao Hongjun pondered for a moment without saying a word.
Then he looked from afar toward the Immortal Court.
At this moment, East King Duke was still cultivating within the Immortal Court.
Before this, East King Duke had already spent many years comprehending the "Hongmeng Purple Qi"...
But he had gained nothing.
East King Duke believed this might have been because his cultivation realm was too low.
Thus, he had spent all these years diligently cultivating in the Immortal Court, intending to first raise his cultivation to the Mid-Slaying the Three Corpses Realm.
"Heavenly Dao Hongjun" had also discovered his intentions.
With a flick of his finger, streams of merit and fortune descended from the sky into the Immortal Court. They merged with the already considerable merit and fortune there, slowly flowing into East King Duke's body.
East King Duke immediately felt as though he had received Nectar Empowerment.
While meditating, many things he had previously been unable to understand suddenly became clear.
"Heavenly Dao Hongjun" remained calm, his emotions unreadable. Yet under his control, East King Duke's cultivation speed far surpassed what it had once been!
In the blink of an eye, another ten thousand years passed.
East King Duke suddenly opened his eyes and shouted, "Evil Corpse, sever!"
As his voice fell, the vast mana within his body directly turned into a butcher's blade, severing another "East King Duke" from his body.
This was East King Duke's Evil Corpse.
East King Duke's second corpse bowed to East King Duke and said, "Greetings, fellow Daoist."
Then East King Duke's aura began surging continuously once more.
From the Early Quasi-Saint Realm, he forcibly rose to the Mid-Quasi-Saint Realm!
The current East King Duke could truly be considered among the top few in the Primordial Wilderness in terms of realm alone.
After all, Di Jun, Taiyi, Xuan Yang, Nuwa, Tongtian, Zhen Yuanzi, and the rest possessed only Early Primordial Golden Immortal cultivation.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of Quasi-Saints in the Primordial Wilderness, including Zhunti and Jieyin, were currently only Early Quasi-Saints.
Only Yuanshi and Laozi had long possessed Mid-Quasi-Saint cultivation.
Other than them, it was East King Duke's turn. Judging by apparent cultivation realms, beneath the Saints, East King Duke now ranked third!
This made East King Duke laugh even more freely.
"Hahahaha! Mid-Quasi-Saint! There are countless living beings in the Primordial Wilderness, yet very few have reached such a realm!"
"I, East King Duke, truly possess the bearing of a Saint!"
"The entire Primordial Wilderness is destined to be ruled by me, East King Duke!"
"What Demon Race? What Witch Tribe? Sooner or later, I will trample them all flat!"
East King Duke was utterly pleased with himself, filled with ambition and delusions.
He longed for his ideal future.
But he also knew that now was not the time to vie for supremacy.
Comprehending the Hongmeng Purple Qi and striving to become a Saint as soon as possible were what mattered most right now!
Thus, he quickly prepared to begin comprehending the "Hongmeng Purple Qi" again.
Within the Purple Sky Palace, "Heavenly Dao Hongjun" had waited for this moment for a long time.
As East King Duke began comprehending the "Hongmeng Purple Qi"...
"Heavenly Dao Hongjun" waved his hand.
That strand of "Hongmeng Purple Qi" instantly reacted, continuously flashing with light and writhing within the void before East King Duke.
East King Duke was beside himself with excitement.
"It reacted! It reacted!"
"I'm going to become a Saint! I'm going to become a Saint!"
"Hahahahahaha!"
He stared fervently at the Hongmeng Purple Qi before him, continuously comprehending it.
Then, a line of large words appeared in East King Duke's mind.
The opportunity to become a Saint lay within the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Three Races!
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