Hongjun believed he had eavesdropped on the conversation between Li Er and his two brothers, but in truth, Li Er and the Three Brothers had deliberately passed the information on to Hongjun.
Otherwise, with the Three Brothers' methods of concealment, not even the Heavenly Dao in the Great Desolation could have discovered them.
Much less now, when they were in the chaos and their conversation had been overheard by Old Thief Hongjun's Three Corpses.
Yet even Hongjun was immensely shocked upon hearing that Luohu had very likely obtained the Time Long River.
Hongjun himself had long coveted the Time Long River.
It was merely that the Time Long River had always drifted through the chaos.
The Time Long River within the Great Desolation was nothing more than a projected phantom.
No matter how many ideas Hongjun had, he had no way of obtaining the Time Long River.
Who would have thought that Luohu, driven from the Great Desolation by the Heavenly Dao like a homeless cur, would obtain the Time Long River?
If Hongjun were given another chance, he would certainly choose to leave the Great Desolation.
So long as he obtained the Time Long River, taking down the Great Desolation would be effortless.
Compared to Luohu, Hongjun's understanding of the Time Long River was far more comprehensive.
Even without obtaining the Time Long River, Hongjun had long known that its branches connected to countless worlds within the chaos.
So long as he obtained the Time Long River, the worlds connected by those branches would become the foundation for his counterattack on the Great Desolation.
"At the time, Luohu's entire body was annihilated by the Heavenly Dao's Heavenly Punishment. He likely only managed to escape with a few small parts. Those few parts could surely only sustain cultivation at the