Hongjun's Scheme, Dijun's Shock, His Worldview Overturned

To the Heavenly Dao, anything beyond its control had to be watched warily and eradicated.

"Must I leave the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace and make a trip to the Primordial Continent?"

Sage Hongjun seemed to be speaking to himself.

The fluctuations of the Heavenly Dao's will vanished once more.

As though they had never appeared.

Sage Hongjun looked at the ethereal void, his expression somewhat displeased.

This utterly impersonal Heavenly Dao was truly difficult to use.

It took the initiative to contact him whenever there was danger, yet when asked how it should be handled, it offered no further response.

"Hmph. They are merely two insignificant pawns destined for Death and Dao Annihilation."

"Once this session of preaching at the Purple Cloud Palace is over, I shall personally question them."

"What matters most now is gathering the fortune of the Primordial Wilderness's cultivators."

After considering the matter, Daoist Hongjun still abandoned the thought of returning to the Primordial Continent.

With his current supreme status as a Sage, it was one thing if he remained still. But if he entered the Primordial Continent, there would be no concealing it. The Heavenly Dao would resound in unison, strange phenomena would emerge one after another, and even the Primordial World might not be able to bear the presence of a Sage like him.

If that disrupted the Heavenly Dao's order within the Primordial World and affected the future course of destiny, the Heavenly Dao would ultimately force the karma upon him and make him repay it. The losses would outweigh the gains.

No one wished to do thankless work, and even as a Sage, he was no exception.

Moreover, the Point in time for the first lecture at the Purple Cloud Palace was already near. Daoist Hongjun had even less desire to invite unnecessary complications.

He could not allow anything to affect his plan of using the fortune of the Primordial Wilderness's powerful beings as a guide and merit as a seed to deduce the path for his future advancement.

The prudent course was to first claim the benefits already within his grasp.

So long as those two remained in the Primordial World, they could not escape his control.

"How did those two manage to leave the Primordial World in an instant?"

"If I master this method, perhaps I too can attempt to break free from the Heavenly Dao's shackles..."

A strange glint flashed through Daoist Hongjun's deep, sea-like eyes before he closed them again.

"Everything will become clear after the first lecture at the Purple Cloud Palace."

In his view, Taiyi and Dijun would certainly be unable to resist going to the Chaotic Purple Cloud Palace Beyond the Heavens to hear his teachings.

Besides, this was originally the predetermined destiny set by the Primordial Heavenly Dao.

He did not believe that Taiyi and Dijun, who had not even touched the threshold of the quasi-Sage realm, could escape the restraints and corrections of the Primordial Heavenly Dao's destined path.

The Heavenly Dao had long since secretly arranged every living being's fate with perfect clarity. There was no escaping it.

Even Daoist Hongjun himself was merely carrying out the Heavenly Mandate according to the destiny predetermined by the Primordial Heavenly Dao.

That way, he would occupy the moral high ground and become their nominal master who imparted teachings and guided their Dao. Asking them to do certain "reasonable" things within their capabilities would then be only natural.

The thought flashed through his primordial spirit and disappeared. Hongjun Daozu's figure once again entered that vague, mystical state of merging with the Dao, as if his body had fused with heaven and earth. He sensed all transformations of the Dao, evolving the cosmos, Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.

Just as Sage Hongjun, seated high in the Ninth Heaven, began focusing on the two major figures of the Witch and Demon Cataclysm through the Heavenly Dao's warning,

Taiyi had already communicated with the power of the World Tree—the Jianmu Divine Tree—and brought his elder brother Dijun into the Jianmu Divine Tree's three-dimensional alternate Space-Time Realm.

At that moment, within the cosmic space inside the Chaos Bell, Taiyi's mana enveloped Dijun, and Dijun followed suit by lowering the defenses around his primordial spirit and mana.

Then, Dijun's vision blurred. Heaven and earth turned upside down, and he suddenly found himself in a three-dimensional alternate Space-Time Realm.

After carefully sensing his surroundings, Dijun was shocked to discover that every law and principle of the space-time around him differed entirely from those of the Primordial World.

The endless Dao and principles interwoven throughout the void shone with a splendor and ancient aura unlike that of the Primordial World. They could not be judged by the same standards, yet possessed an unusual beauty and grace—vast, mysterious, and ancient.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

It was as though an earthquake had struck Dijun's heart. He could scarcely believe it.

He did not dare believe it.

He stared in shock at the smiling Taiyi across from him.

"Second Brother, is this your secret?"

"You truly kept your elder brother in the dark."

Seeing the expression on Second Brother Taiyi's face, as though he had expected this all along, Dijun could not help but smile wryly and shake his head with a sigh.

This surprise had truly frightened him. He was so shocked that he could barely contain himself; even his primordial spirit and true soul trembled.

He was both excited and uneasy.

After all, all beings of the Primordial Wilderness shared a fixed understanding: the Primordial World had been created by Great God Pangu when he created the world, sacrificing his own path of cultivation to carve it out from the boundless, raging, terrifying Chaos Sea.

Only one possessing power comparable to Great God Pangu's could create a world similar to the Primordial World within the chaos.

Dijun did not know whether Daoist Hongjun, who had only recently become a Sage in the Primordial World, could accomplish such a feat.

But Dijun knew that although he had already reached the middle stage of the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, he still did not dare speak of creating heaven and earth, evolving the cosmos, inventing all things, or constructing living beings.

Dijun's cultivation was indeed formidable, but only within the domain of the Sun Law.

Beyond that, he knew nothing of the other laws and Great Daos.

The Dao of Yin and Yang Laws, the Dao of Water and Fire Laws, the Dao of Creation Laws, the Dao of Slaughter Laws, the Dao of Immortal Laws, the Dao of Demonic Laws, the Dao of Five Elements Laws, the Dao of Destruction Laws, the Dao of Strength Laws... he knew only their surface, not their essence.

Yet a complete three-dimensional Space-Time Realm contained the mysteries of all the Three Thousand Great Daos mentioned above, along with the laws of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred minor Daos.

Perhaps the Three Thousand Great Dao mysteries and the one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred minor Dao laws in this world possessed by Second Brother were still incomplete and flawed.

But no matter what, this was a complete world!

It was not some minor world or dimensional space like a grotto-heaven or blessed land, dependent upon the Primordial World for existence!

From this, one could see just how astonishing a great fortune this brand-new three-dimensional alternate Space-Time Realm of Second Brother Taiyi's was.

If any of the Primordial Powerhouses learned of it, they would likely turn green with envy and stop at nothing to seize it.

Possessing this three-dimensional alternate Space-Time Realm, separate from the many realms of the Primordial Wilderness, was practically the perfect escape route for killing, looting, and preserving one's own life.

From now on, they would have no fear of any tribulation or slaughter within the Primordial World.

So long as they wished it, they could hide in this world and cultivate in seclusion, diligently studying the Dao and rigorously training their divine abilities. Once their cultivation reached perfection and their divine arts were complete, they could emerge from seclusion, dominate the Primordial Wilderness, cleave through chaos, and ask: who under heaven could be their enemy?

At this thought, Dijun admitted that even he was tempted, his excitement surging.

"With this alternate-dimensional world, we brothers will truly stand undefeated from now on!"

"So what if he is a Sage?"

"Could he turn battle qi into a horse and chase after us?"

Dijun gripped Taiyi's hand and spoke excitedly, barely able to contain himself.

Seeing the impassioned, exhilarated expression on his elder brother's face, Taiyi quietly pulled his hand free.

Brother, that kind of touching is not allowed.