Then Hongjun would still be the first unlucky one.
Either way, Hongjun was the one who lost out; either way, Hongjun was the one who got hurt.
That was precisely why Hongjun had let out that cold snort at the Heavenly Dao.
"I truly boarded the Heavenly Dao's pirate ship. How did I let its threats force me into becoming a Dao Integrator of the Heavenly Dao back then?
"If I had not become a Dao Integrator of the Heavenly Dao, perhaps I would already have attained the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin, just like Reincarnation Daoist Friend and the others.
"With This Seat's calculations, I might even have surpassed the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin and reached the realm of Boundless Origin.
"If I had not taken the path of a Dao Integrator of the Heavenly Dao and been forced to cultivate this damned method of Severing the Three Corpses, "then This Seat would likely have thoroughly subdued the Heavenly Dao by now."
Hongjun truly found it too late to regret. His face turned color with rage.
Though he felt like a person caught between two sides, Hongjun still immediately led Haotian, Yaochi, and Mituo toward the Southern Continent.
If he did not stop Nuwa from attaining Enlightenment and awakening the Human Dao, Hongjun himself would be the first to suffer.
If Sanqing truly took control of the Human Dao, neither he nor the Heavenly Dao could ever hope to control the Primordial Wilderness again.
He had already fallen far behind Ancestor Reincarnation and the others. If he still wished to catch up to them—or even surpass them—
then the only things he could rely upon now were the Heavenly Dao and the Primordial Wilderness.
Seeing their Teacher's tightly furrowed brow, Haotian, Yaochi, and Mituo did not