"Fellow Daoist Kunpeng, I believe you would do well to give up this seat. That way, we can avoid any unpleasantness."
Taiqing Laozi spoke calmly. Though his tone sounded conciliatory, it carried an unmistakable air of finality. He was using the Three Pure Ones' Might to pressure Kunpeng.
Kunpeng looked around and found that not a single person was speaking up for him. Even Di Jun, who had earlier tried so hard to recruit him into the Sun Star Lineage, had stayed silent. He felt utterly desolate.
Kunpeng was in an extremely difficult position. If it were only Jieyin and Zhunti, he might have held his ground, but now even the Three Pure Ones were against him. He was powerless to resist.
"Hmph! Those born of dampness and hatched from eggs, those covered in fur and bearing horns—what virtue or ability do you have to listen to a Saint's Sermon? And you even want to claim a seat in the front row? You truly have no sense!"
Primordial Heavenly Lord's repeated remarks had enraged the crowd. Nearly half the cultivators in Purple Heaven Palace belonged to the types he had just insulted. Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the other demons were among them. Even Fuxi and Nuwa's true forms—one with a dragon's head and human body, the other with a human head and snake body—could technically be considered egg-born.
Primordial had insulted them all.
"Primordial, you've gone too far!"
Di Jun and Tai Yi glared at him furiously.
It wasn't just the two of them. Nuwa, who was also seated on a cushion, spoke coldly. "Fellow Daoist Primordial, my elder brother and I are also among those you call born of dampness and hatched from eggs. Do you intend to drive us both out of this Saint's Dao Field as