Primordial Wilderness: I Am Hong Yun, and at the Start I Traded My Saint Position for a Wife

Still, the reason Maitreya was frightened was simply that he had a guilty conscience.

Apart from suppressing Maitreya with his strength and leaving him completely unable to move,

Hong Yun had only made him cough up blood twice by bearing down on him with his aura.

Come to think of it, he really hadn't done much to Maitreya!

After all, killing Maitreya outright would feel a little like bullying a junior.

A minor punishment to teach him a lesson was fine!

But to truly settle their karmic debt, Hong Yun still had to find Zhun Ti.

As the saying went, he had to take it up with the parents!

That would fit Hong Yun's persona much better.

Still, wouldn't it be far too easy on Maitreya to just let him go like this?

Hong Yun looked at the body Maitreya had left behind, deep in thought.

Maitreya's body was gaunt, nothing like the chubby figure Hong Yun had imagined.

He was very much in keeping with the Western cultivators of this era.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti had yet to establish the Western Sect and become Saints, but its teachings had already begun to take shape.

The two traveled throughout the Western Boundary, repairing its spiritual ley lines and helping its living beings prosper.

Their intentions had been good at first, but things had gradually gone awry.

At present, their goal was to deliver all living beings before attaining enlightenment.

But when they founded their sect and became Saints, borrowing merit from the Heavenly Dao turned the deliverance of all living beings into the burden of repaying a loan.

"I deliver you, but it has nothing to do with you. I'm doing it only to attain enlightenment myself."

The seeds of disaster had been sown right then!

As the teachings developed,