Teacher Shangqing was certainly peerlessly powerful, with Pangu's legacy protecting him—but if this truly alerted those two supreme beings...
They might be unable to touch Teacher Shangqing, a Heavenly Dao Saint of Pangu's Orthodox Lineage, but to crush Lu Yuan, who was still stuck at Daluo Perfected and "didn't know his place," they had more methods than they could count!
They need only manufacture a slight "accident," causing him to "go mad" during cultivation; or guide a thread of karmic calamity qi to stir and make him "drop dead"; or have him "happen to meet with an accident" while contending for the Ziwei Imperial Throne. Any one of these could doom him beyond all redemption!
More terrifying still, because of this report, Their gazes might truly settle upon him from now on.
He possessed the White Jade Plate, a treasure beyond fate; had seen through the source of the Immeasurable Tribulation, the Other Shore Universe; plotted for the great position of Ziwei Heavenly Emperor; and had even secretly comprehended every secret, including calamity fortune...
Under such all-pervasive scrutiny, nothing could remain hidden! When that time came, his life and death would no longer be his own!
He had to play dumb!
Lu Yuan made his decision in an instant, forcefully crushing that unspeakable terror into the deepest layer of his Dao heart.
Then he wrapped it layer upon layer in the power of his perfected Profound Yellow Dao Fruit, concealing it and disguising it as ordinary "regret" and "self-reflection."
The clear vexation on Lu Yuan's face instantly became even more convincing. Even his aura grew somewhat disordered, as though he truly were merely blaming himself for a flawed decision.
Yet deep in his heart lay a cold, hard resolve!
*"To be wisely foolish... is my only path to survival right