At these words, the Zixiao Palace instantly erupted like a boulder hurled into a pool—
Who was Dao Ancestor Hongjun? He was the eternal paragon who had opened the Zixiao lectures and widely imparted true teachings; the primordial giant who had laid out the Three Thousand Great Daos and created the method of severing the Three Corpses; he was the one who had allowed countless living beings of the Primordial World to break free of the Daluo bottleneck and set foot on the path of the Quasi-Saints. His achievements could be verified by mountains and rivers and illuminated alongside the sun and moon. Yet such an existence, who wielded the authority of the Heavenly Dao, had actually been defeated by one person at the beginning of his path to enlightenment—that person was none other than Great Immortal Yang Mei.
This Great Immortal Yang Mei had been one of the Three Thousand Demon Gods at the beginning of Primordial Chaos. He wielded the Origin of Space, and his true form was an Azure Jade Willow Tree hollow throughout. His seniority was older than Heaven and Earth, his cultivation unfathomably deep, and his methods Heaven-Piercing and Earth-Splitting.
"When I first attained Sainthood, I had just split open the Zixiao Palace in the Deep Chaos. Before I could even examine the palace eaves, Yang Mei broke through the door and entered, speaking arrogantly and regarding no one with respect. Enraged, I attacked and offered several supreme treasures, yet he casually seized every one of them. For a time, I lost all hope and thought my path of cultivation had ended there. Only later did I learn that I had lost to a Chaos Demon God. In that case, it could not be considered an insult to my lineage."
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