When Hongjun Truly Became Hongjun

When Hongjun Truly Became Hongjun

"Martial Ancestor...?"

Hongjun raised his head and met Gu Shaoshang's gaze.

Hum—

The two stared at each other.

In an instant, heaven and earth fell still.

The wind stopped, the clouds ceased to drift, even the light froze. Time and space themselves no longer flowed!

Even the battles between the distant Half-Ancestors and Ancestral Gods paused slightly.

In the sky, purple qi surged for a million li. Hongjun stood within the purple river, looking at Gu Shaoshang with a subtle expression. "Martial Ancestor, Gu Shaoshang. As expected, you are a variable beneath the Heavenly Dao."

His gaze was indifferent, yet it was not the indifference of one who had seen through worldly affairs. It was distant and detached, like the apathy of the Heavenly Dao itself.

Even upon seeing Gu Shaoshang, he was not particularly surprised. Instead, he seemed to have finally been waiting for him.

"A variable..."

Gu Shaoshang looked at Hongjun.

He was neither tall nor short, and his features were utterly ordinary. His aura was not especially imposing either; all he possessed was a calm, unhurried composure.

If not for the vaguely discernible Dao essence within that surging river of purple qi, no one would have recognized him as Dao Ancestor Hongjun, renowned throughout this world.

Yet Gu Shaoshang keenly sensed that, from that single glance, the Daoist before him was no longer the Hongjun he had previously detected.

"Speaking of variables... you are the true variable, aren't you?"

Gu Shaoshang looked at Hongjun, a faint light rising in his eyes as solemnity filled his heart. He is not the Hongjun of the Longevity World... He is the Hongjun of the Fengshen world?!

For people at Gu Shaoshang's level, some things could be seen through with a single glance.

Gu Shaoshang did