Hongjun's outrageous maneuver caught not only Bai Yu off guard, but even the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
The Primordial Heavenly Dao had never expected Hongjun to say something like that!
In truth, if it could, the Primordial Heavenly Dao would indeed have liked to bind Bai Yu to the Primordial World and have him shine his light and lend his strength to it.
However, the Primordial Heavenly Dao also knew perfectly well that this was clearly impossible.
To the Primordial Heavenly Dao, Bai Yu was an anomaly—and an uncontrollable one at that.
The current situation, in which it and this anomaly kept to their own sides like well water and river water that never mixed, was already the best possible outcome. Both sides were perfectly content with it.
Thus, the Primordial Heavenly Dao had no desire to upset this balance.
What the Primordial Heavenly Dao had never expected was that Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao Representative it had personally chosen, would actually try to upset that balance.
He truly was an old god of longevity eating arsenic—tired of living.
Unwilling to shoulder the blame, the Primordial Heavenly Dao sent down a bolt of Dutian Divine Thunder.
Dutian Divine Thunder was supreme divine thunder at the level of the Great Dao, known as "the thunder that punished heaven." The Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, renowned in later ages, had evolved from this very thunder.
Against such supreme divine thunder, unleashed personally by the Primordial Heavenly Dao, a Daluo Golden Immortal would have died on contact.
Still, Hongjun had, after all, attained Enlightenment of the Dao and become a sage, and he was also the Heavenly Dao Representative. The Primordial Heavenly Dao merely wanted to teach him a lesson and show him what it meant to bring disaster upon himself with his own mouth.
Thus,