Does My Disciple Hong Yun Have the Bearing of Pangu?

Strange phenomena arose one after another within Purple Cloud Palace.

Outside the palace, Chaos Qi swept through, filtered by the palace walls built from Primordial Stone and the grand formations engraved upon them into wisps of the purest innate spiritual energy, which the Great Powers listening to the Dao absorbed to fuel their breakthroughs.

For the Primordial Beings, this sermon was undoubtedly the greatest opportunity in history.

Grand Pure One Laozi was the first to break through.

His cultivation had already stood at the peak of the early Primordial Golden Immortal stage, and he had come to Purple Cloud Palace precisely to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough.

He drove his Primordial Spirit at full force, listening to the mysteries of Hongjun's Immortal Dao, then cross-referencing them with the Taiqing Dao Method he had created through Pangu's inheritance. His breakthrough immediately came as naturally as water flowing into a channel.

Before Laozi could even consolidate his cultivation, he sank back into Hongjun's sermon, terrified of missing even a word or half a phrase.

Strangely enough, under Hongjun's sermon, Laozi's foundation grew ever more solid, making him seem nothing like someone who had just broken through.

Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the other Great Powers whose origins were likewise those of top-tier Innate Demon Gods also gained greatly.

Only the Twelve Ancestral Witches, lacking Primordial Spirits, gained something but not all that much.

Ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.

As the last Great Dao rune from Hongjun's mouth vanished into the void, this sermon finally came to a complete end.

Countless Golden Lotuses formed of spiritual energy shattered into specks of golden light and dispersed throughout Purple Cloud Palace.

The three thousand Great Daos surrounding Hongjun once more concealed themselves.

Rings of sound brought about by breakthroughs in cultivation rose without end. Every Dao listener whose cultivation had reached the early Primordial Golden Immortal stage advanced by one Small Realm.

As for the lower-level Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, they broke through two or three Small Realms in succession.

It could be said that Hongjun's sermon had thoroughly laid bare the realm of the Primordial Golden Immortal before everyone.

And this was before they had fully digested their insights. Once they did, it would be enough to elevate the entire cultivation world of the primordial world by another level.

"Just as expected, this poor Daoist's Dao lies within the primordial world. The more prosperous the primordial world becomes, the smoother this poor Daoist's path will be."

Hongjun's gaze was deep as a trace of insight surfaced in his heart.

Having initially fulfilled his mission of spreading the Dao throughout the primordial world, the bottleneck trapping him at the Saint Early Stage showed the slightest sign of loosening.

Hongjun suppressed the insight in his heart and watched the fated ones who had come to listen to the Dao break through one after another, feeling greatly gratified.

Yet when his gaze inadvertently fell upon Hong Yun, he felt dazed.

"What is going on?"

He used his divine sense to inspect Hong Yun's aura once more, only then confirming that he had not seen wrongly.

Hong Yun's Breath Concealment Technique was useless against Hongjun; the latter's cultivation surpassed his by far too much.

"His cultivation has reached Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection! Ten thousand years ago, wasn't he only at the mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal stage? Why has his cultivation risen so swiftly?"

Hongjun carefully sensed Hong Yun's aura and discovered that there was not the slightest flaw in his foundation.

"No, his laws are smooth and unified throughout his body, and he has condensed a Great Dao? A Primordial Golden Immortal?"

Hongjun could not understand it, yet he was utterly shaken!

Hong Yun was not merely at Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection. In terms of realm, he had clearly reached the Primordial Golden Immortal stage.

That was right—laws condensing into a Great Dao was the hallmark of a Primordial Golden Immortal, was it not?

Only a wisp of Great Dao aura lingered within Hong Yun's presence.

Yet what level of cultivation did Hongjun possess? With the Jade Disk of Creation, he had comprehended all three thousand Great Daos.

The moment he focused his divine sense, he immediately saw through Hong Yun's current realm.

"Impossible! The path to becoming a Primordial Golden Immortal was long ago sealed by the Heavenly Dao. Aside from the Body Refining Path, one can now only take the shortcut of learning this poor Daoist's method of using spiritual treasures to Sever Three Corpses in order to attain the Primordial Realm. How exactly did he do it?"

Hongjun was completely numb!

Only after becoming a Saint did Hongjun learn that, when the Heavenly Dao had first been born, he and many friends had battled Rahu and nearly destroyed the western continent of the primordial world.

To prevent cultivators of the primordial world from progressing too quickly and wreaking destruction upon it again, the Heavenly Dao had chosen to seal the path of proving the Dao through laws.

This was also why Great Powers like Hong Yun, whose origins lay in Innate Demon Gods, found breakthroughs increasingly difficult now.

The Heavenly Dao had chosen Hongjun as its spokesperson because it wished for him to gather the fortune of the Primordial Beings and feed it back to promote the Heavenly Dao's growth.

To that end, it had even had Hongjun pass down the shortcut path of Severing Three Corpses to restrict all beings.

And what happened?

This bastard Hong Yun had actually broken through the Heavenly Dao's seal right under his nose and forcibly attained the Primordial Golden Immortal fruition.

Though Hongjun's gaze seemed to be examining the void, Hong Yun knew that Old Deng was looking at him.

This is bad. My teacher, whom I've already booked in advance, isn't going to change his mind at the last second, is he? No, don't even think about it. I've already claimed one seat. I won that Saint position with my own ability—don't even dream of making this poor Daoist give it back.

Though he thought this, Hong Yun still shamelessly put on a respectful appearance toward Hongjun.

That utterly brazen attitude immediately gave Hongjun a terrible headache.

He could not imagine how many bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder the Heavenly Dao would send down when it learned that this disciple had proven the Dao through laws.

Sigh, sometimes having a disciple who defied the heavens too much was truly troublesome.

Of course, this was a sweet burden.

Hongjun had voiced concern over Hong Yun achieving the Primordial Golden Immortal realm despite the Heavenly Dao's layers upon layers of restrictions, yet deep down, he could not help but feel a trace of pride for him.

In a mere ten thousand years, he had gone from the mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm to glimpsing the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.

Let alone himself—looking across all of Chaos, perhaps only Great God Pangu could compare.

But what kind of talent did Pangu possess? He was known as the "Son of the Great Dao"!

Could it be that his disciple Hong Yun possessed Pangu's potential?

"Never mind. This little fellow respects this poor Daoist so deeply. While the Heavenly Dao has yet to awaken, I'll look for another solution! If it truly comes to it, this old Daoist knows a little something about throwing punches as well. After Merging with the Dao, it will not be so easy for the Heavenly Dao to bypass this old Daoist and send down lightning punishment."

Hongjun secretly made up his mind to play a few more rounds against the Heavenly Dao.

With Hong Yun's talent and such heaven-defying comprehension, Hongjun was determined to protect this disciple.

If Hong Yun knew how fiercely this Old Deng was protecting his own, he would probably kneel down and kowtow, crying, "Foster Father!"

Only after Hongjun shifted his gaze away did Hong Yun let out a sigh of relief.

"Old Deng's thigh and the Saint position are secure!"

Come to think of it, this trip to the Purple Cloud Palace had been the time Hong Yun had fleeced the most wool since taking form.

For the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun, it had gathered the fortune of the entire Primordial Wilderness and promoted the growth of the Heavenly Dao.

But for Hong Yun, he had fleeced the entire Primordial Wilderness once over, and had grown as well.

He silently opened the system panel.

[Host: Hong Yun]

[Origin: Top-tier Innate Demon God]

[Cultivation: Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection (Realm: Primordial Golden Immortal)]

[Merit Techniques and Divine Abilities: Nine Revolutions Heavenly Merit, Void Evasion Technique, Void Hand, Mirror Flower Water Moon, Breath Concealment Technique, Clone Substitution...]

[Magic Treasures and Spiritual Roots: Jade Disk of Creation Shard x1, Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler, Void-Escaping Shuttle, Myriad Manifestations Realm, Enlightenment Tea Tree...]

[System Rewards: Primordial Violet Qi x1, Innate Cloud Qi x1, Pangu Blood Essence x5, Pangu Primordial Spirit Fragment x3, Hongjun Comprehension Fragment x45...]

[System Evaluation: Congratulations, esteemed Host, your cultivation has reached Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Perfection. You possess several spiritual treasures and spiritual roots, as well as many Merit Techniques and divine abilities. You have already fleeced the entire Primordial Wilderness bald; it is time to let the sheep grow another coat.]

Hong Yun felt delighted, and when he saw the quantities of Innate Cloud Qi and Pangu Blood Essence, he became even happier.

These were crucial items for enhancing his origin after refining them.

Every hundred fragments could be fused into a single item. Over all these years, Hong Yun had constantly praised himself and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, only managing to fleece one clump of Innate Cloud Qi and five drops of Pangu Blood Essence.

The system had gone bald again!

This time, it was truly bald—there were no new targets left to praise.

It could only wait until these Great Powers advanced their cultivation once more before the system could refresh again.