"The creditors of those two from the West?"
Zhenyuanzi pondered for a moment, and a familiar face immediately surfaced in his mind.
It was a fair and gentle daoist with red hair and a red beard, always wearing a smiling expression.
Daoist Hongyun!
Yes, besides Heavenly Dao, the Two Sages of the West also had a creditor: Daoist Hongyun.
Back when the Dao Ancestor expounded the Dao, Zhunti and Jieyin arrived late for the first sermon and found that there were no seats left. In full view of everyone, they wept without a trace of the dignity expected of Innate Divine Beings.
Daoist Hongyun had been softhearted and could not bear to see the two in such an awkward position, so he rose and gave up his seat.
Kunpeng had been implicated as well.
Only after the third sermon did all beings learn what the six Prayer Mats before the Dao Ancestor represented.
Saint Positions!
Six Prayer Mats meant six Saint Positions.
Zhunti and Jieyin's Saint Positions had been yielded to them by Daoist Hongyun.
Thus, the two owed Daoist Hongyun the Karma of Attaining the Dao.
In Immortal Ancient times, during the Witch-Demon Calamity, Daoist Hongyun had fallen victim to the Heavenly Court's schemes and perished.
When a person died, their lamp went out, and karma naturally faded away.
Yet Daoist Hongyun had been reincarnated into the Human Race as Jiang Shinian. Through diligent governance, he attained the Earthly Sovereign Fruit Position and comprehended his past and present lives. The severed thread of karma naturally connected once more.
In other words, Zhunti and Jieyin still owed Shennong a great karmic debt.
It would not be wrong to call Shennong the creditor of those two.
"Brother Shennong!?"
"Precisely."
Zhenyuanzi said, "But that is the karma between Brother Shennong and the