Zhou Ming looked at him, the inexplicable smile on his face growing wider.
"The Saint-Slaying Pill was refined personally by Hongjun, using the rules of the Heavenly Dao as its foundation."
"Its only purpose was to make a Sage fall."
Boom!
That casually spoken sentence was no less than a bolt of Chaos Divine Thunder to Sect Master Tongtian's ears, exploding deep within his Primordial Spirit!
Make a Sage fall?
How was that possible?
A Sage's Primordial Spirit was entrusted to the Heavenly Dao. Sages were immortal, indestructible through countless tribulations—this was an ironclad law of the Primordial Wilderness!
Yet Zhou Ming was saying that there was a pill capable of killing a Sage?
What chilled him even more was that this pill had actually been personally refined by the Dao Ancestor!
An absurd yet bone-chilling thought began to grow wildly in his heart.
"Dao Ancestor... why would he refine such a pill?" Sect Master Tongtian's voice was somewhat hoarse. He could neither understand nor believe it.
"Why?" Zhou Ming let out a soft scoff. "Daoist friend, do you still not understand?"
"You Three Pure Ones were transformed from Father God Pangu's Primordial Spirit. Bearing immense merit from the creation of the world, you were born as the protagonists of this Primordial Wilderness."
"Hongjun unified with the Dao and governs the Primordial Wilderness in place of the Heavenly Dao. Do you think he would ever truly trust you?"
Zhou Ming's words completely tore apart the last shred of his fantasy.
"Once the Tribulation ended, he would bring out this Saint-Slaying Pill and have you take it."
"Once you swallowed this pill, your lives would fall completely under his control, and you would never again be able to resist him in the slightest."
Zhou Ming's words completely shattered Sect Master Tongtian's