Hongjun had originally planned to let Yin-Yang Ancestor bring up the subject, then ask why he had come.
Unexpectedly, once Yin-Yang Ancestor finished exchanging flattering remarks, he simply sat there serenely without moving.
He showed no intention whatsoever of asking Hongjun why he had come.
Hongjun could only awkwardly reveal his purpose himself.
His eyes were filled with sincerity. If Old Ancestor Wuxing had not warned Yin-Yang Ancestor beforehand,
Yin-Yang Ancestor truly might have been deceived by Hongjun's earnest expression.
"Well played, Hongjun. You're even setting a trap over the spoils after the battle?
Daoist Friend Wuxing was right. You really do intend to scheme against us, your former friends.
If we don't die in the battle, you still have this trick of dividing the spoils, don't you?
If the spoils are divided unfairly, we'll definitely fight.
Then you, Hongjun, can withdraw cleanly and watch the tigers fight from the mountain.
Once we're both severely wounded from fighting over the spoils, you'll jump out to reap the benefits, won't you?"
Every word Hongjun said was a massive pitfall meant to trap them.
Just his claim that he would not take a single bit of the spoils, leaving all assisting experts free to take what they pleased,
was already an enormous trap. Even if they were fortunate enough not to be schemed to death by Hongjun during the battle,
they would certainly end up mutually destroying each other over an unfair division of the spoils.
At that point, Hongjun would be the final winner.
Not only would he be able to effortlessly eliminate them, his former friends, but he could also claim every last piece of loot.
He even had no intention of sparing the Lingbao on the assisting experts themselves.
Hongjun truly had an excellent scheme in mind.
It had to be said, Old Thief Hongjun's methods of calculation were genuinely formidable.
If Five Elements had not warned him, then with Yin Yang already predisposed to trust Hongjun,
Yin Yang would likely have been schemed to death beyond all hope by Old Thief Hongjun.
"Poor Daoist has heard a little about the battle between Daoist Friend Hongjun and Daoist Friend Luohu.
It is merely that the Heavenly Dao wishes to remedy its own flaws and has chosen one of you two Daoist Friends to become a Dao Integrator.
This is a good thing. Once one integrates with the Heavenly Dao, it is practically ascending to the heavens in a single step.
Perhaps if Daoist Friend achieves final victory, you may even have the Heavenly Dao lessen its suppression of us.
However, which Daoist Friends has Daoist Friend Hongjun invited to assist you in battle?
Which Daoist Friends did you invite before coming to Poor Daoist?
Have you invited Daoist Friend Wuxing?
Poor Daoist will make this clear first: if Daoist Friend Wuxing does not go, then Poor Daoist will not go either.
It is not that Poor Daoist wishes to refuse Daoist Friend Hongjun.
Rather, Daoist Friend Wuxing and I are the closest of friends. If he does not go, then naturally Poor Daoist will not go either."
The moment Yin Yang finished speaking, Old Ancestor Wuxing, who was hiding deep within Yin-Yang Ancestor's Daoist Arena, nearly burst out laughing.
Yin Yang, this fellow truly knew how to be sarcastic.
He directly left Hongjun with the awkward expression of someone badly constipated.
The Dao-Devil War between Hongjun and Luohu was not a secret among the reincarnated experts of the Chaos Demon Gods.
That the Heavenly Dao had flaws and needed to choose a Dao Integrator was no secret to them either.
And these reincarnated experts of the Chaos Demon Gods also knew that the Heavenly Dao suppressed all living beings from cultivating the Law Path.
There was nothing wrong with Yin-Yang Ancestor's words.
What he truly meant was that if Hongjun wanted their help, he had to offer tangible benefits. A mere verbal promise concerning the spoils was not enough.
After integrating with the Heavenly Dao, should he not have the Heavenly Dao reduce its suppression of reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts like them?
Although the Heavenly Dao's suppression could not prevent these reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts from cultivating,
it could greatly slow their cultivation speed.
If not for the Heavenly Dao's suppression, Yin-Yang Ancestor would have long since attained the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
Hongjun could not have been more embarrassed at this moment.
Hongjun could not fulfill any of the things Yin-Yang Ancestor had mentioned.
First, having the Heavenly Dao lessen its suppression of reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts
was simply impossible. The Heavenly Dao's goal was to kill every last one of these reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts.
Lessen the suppression? That was pure wishful thinking.
Hongjun himself had only been allowed to exist because he possessed the largest fragment of the Jade of Creation,
cultivated the Path of Three Corpses rather than taking the Law Path to Sainthood, and had practically been preselected by the Heavenly Dao as its Dao Integrator.
As for inviting Old Ancestor Wuxing, that fellow seemed to have taken some strange medicine and adamantly refused every invitation from Hongjun.
Since when had Yin-Yang Ancestor become so close to Old Ancestor Wuxing?
So close that they could practically wear the same pair of pants.
"Uh... well... Daoist Friend Yin Yang, matters after integrating with the Dao should wait until Poor Daoist defeats Luohu.
As for Daoist Friend Wuxing, the first person Poor Daoist thought of inviting was Daoist Friend Yin Yang.
Thus, Poor Daoist has not yet visited Daoist Friend Wuxing.
How about this: Daoist Friend Yin Yang agrees to Poor Daoist's request first.
Afterward, Poor Daoist will invite Daoist Friend Wuxing to assist in battle as well. How does that sound?
The result will be the same.
Once Daoist Friend Yin Yang has agreed, Daoist Friend Wuxing will surely agree as well."
Old Thief Hongjun forcefully explained.
Once he integrated with the Dao, he naturally would not need to care about the Causality of those promises.
By then, all these reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts would have died under the Heavenly Dao's schemes.
Why would there be any need for the Heavenly Dao to lessen its suppression of reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts?
Naturally, Hongjun would no longer need to repay that Causality.
As the saying went, if you could not repay the debt, then simply do not repay it. Killing the creditor amounted to the same thing.
In later generations, there would be two particularly famous figures who acted this way.
They were the shame of the Primordial Wilderness—the two Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti.
Within the Purple Sky Palace, the karmic consequences of Ancestor Hongyun giving up his seat had been far too great.
Jieyin and Zhunti's strategy was that if they could not repay it, they simply would not.
Thus, Jieyin and Zhunti schemed Ancestor Hong Yun to death.
Had they intervened to save Hong Yun when Kunpeng and the others surrounded and attacked him, how could Hong Yun have self-destructed and died?
Returning to the present.
As for Five Elements, as long as Yin-Yang Ancestor agreed, that was enough. Hongjun would not invite Old Ancestor Wuxing at all.
Once Yin-Yang Ancestor went to the Western Continent and participated in the Dao-Devil War, he would have no opportunity to concern himself with anything else.
How could he still care about Old Ancestor Wuxing?
"Daoist Friend Hongjun, before Daoist Friend Wuxing agrees to your request, Poor Daoist will not agree either.
Daoist Friend need not mention this matter again.
Poor Daoist and Daoist Friend Wuxing have an agreement. If Daoist Friend Wuxing does not agree first, Poor Daoist will suffer a great loss.
Daoist Friend Hongjun cannot compensate Poor Daoist for that loss.
Therefore, forgive Poor Daoist for being unable to agree.
Daoist Friend should invite Daoist Friend Wuxing first, or some other Daoist Friend.
Poor Daoist will absolutely not agree before Daoist Friend Wuxing does."
Seeing Old Thief Hongjun's embarrassed and anxious expression, Yin-Yang Ancestor was overjoyed.
So even you, Old Thief Hongjun, have a day like this.
Being frustrated does not feel good, does it?
However, as a seasoned actor, Yin Yang's control over his expression was still impeccable.
He did not reveal any exaggerated expression.
"Daoist Friend Yin Yang, you..."
Hongjun was speechless, utterly speechless.
Why was this fellow so impervious to persuasion? Why did Old Ancestor Wuxing have to agree first?
What, was Old Ancestor Wuxing his father? Why insist on such a demand?
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