Apart from the Yin-Yang Lineage and the Netherworld Reincarnation Lineage, which had not formally established sects, the Earth Immortal Lineage, which depended on the Netherworld Dao, and the nominal Honghuang Orthodoxy, the Heavenly Court, the only major powers in the Primordial World were the Human, Chan, and Jie Sects of the Mystic Gate and the Buddhist Gate, a side path. These three sects and one gate could all be called great sects.
The various Honghuang Holy Sects—or rather, the various major powers—were competitors, vying for Heavenly Dao Merit and Primordial World Destiny. Especially now that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity had begun, they were all secretly plotting against one another, making this competitive relationship even more obvious.
Yet no matter how fiercely they competed, all Honghuang Beings believed that the great sects' upper-level combat power, especially the several Saints, would personally enter the fray.
But this time, the Three Pure Ones acted together and furiously left their mountain. The supreme might of these three Saints of the Pangu Orthodox lineage overwhelmed the Primordial World. Almost every corner and every living being felt the wrath of the Three Pure Ones.
This turn of events made the two Buddhist Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti, feel a constant sense of dread. Even though it was the Heavenly Mandate that these disciples of the Chan and Jie Sects entered the Buddhist Gate, the Buddhist nature within them had been drawn out by the two Saints' Buddhist power. Saying they had been bewitched would not be an exaggeration.
When Randeng and Juliusun had previously left the Chan Sect, the Chan Sect and the Three Pure Ones had been dissatisfied, but they had not been core disciples, so following the Heavenly Mandate had been acceptable. This time, however, Daoist Cihang, Samantabhadra True Person, and Manjushri Guangfa