Styx and Houtu exchanged a smile. "Tai Yi's aptitude is indeed extraordinary."
Houtu nodded slightly. "Yes. Compared to Brother and the others, his aptitude is probably not much inferior."
"Not only did he purify his Chaos True Spirit before Taotie, cleansing himself of his Karma,"
"but he also broke through immediately after removing his Karma, advancing toward the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm."
"He truly lives up to his reputation as the number one person beneath the Saints."
Styx nodded in agreement. That was Tai Yi, after all!
If he had not intervened and allowed the Great Wilderness to develop along its original trajectory,
then after Hongjun attained sainthood, apart from the Twelve Ancestor Witches, who lacked Nascent Souls,
Tai Yi would have been the only other member of the Monster Race capable of continuing to cultivate the Path of Primordial Chaos, with his cultivation progressing no slower than that of any great expert.
With the Chaos Bell in hand, Tai Yi had been the undisputed number one person beneath Hongjun before the Six Saints attained Dao.
His strength had been unfathomable. Even against an Ancestral Witch, an existence considered powerful among those of the same level,
he could fight six at once and still hold a slight advantage.
In the final Wu Yao decisive battle, Fuxi held off one Ancestral Witch, while Kunpeng also engaged one Ancestral Witch in a staged battle.
Relying on the River Diagram and Luo Script and the sharpness of the Witch-Slaying Sword, Di Jun intercepted three Ancestral Witches.
The two Empresses, Xi He and Changxi, fought alongside the Ten Great Yao Saints against a group of Great Witches, trading blows evenly with them.
Only Tai Yi, wielding the Chaos Bell, smashed six Ancestral Witches until they could no longer tell north from south.
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