Ordinarily, if the Three Pure Ones had equal foundations, outstanding talent, and diligently cultivated, there should not have been much difference in their cultivation.
Yet the Three Pure Ones' cultivation had never been a matter of competing with one another. Laozi had always remained a step ahead of Yuanshi and Tongtian.
The Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda had also chosen Laozi among the Three Pure Ones, perhaps for a reason.
Spirit Treasures chose their masters without necessarily following seniority. The Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell, which had fallen upon the Sun Star, had chosen Tai Yi rather than his elder brother Di Jun.
Laozi had not taught One Qi Transforms into Three Purities to Yuanshi and Tongtian because they would not have been able to learn it even if he had.
The supposed need for the Laws of Yin Yang and the Taiji Diagram was merely a smokescreen.
The true key lay in the Three Pure Ones Origin.
Only one who possessed the origins of all Three Pure Ones at once could wield this Great Divine Power.
When he had taken that origin back then, Laozi had not yet developed intelligence. It had not been his intention.
Now, those two strands of origin had already been refined by him, and he had even developed the divine power of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities. There was simply no way to return them.
If he revealed it, how would his Second Brother and Third Brother view him, their eldest brother?
At that thought, Laozi secretly weighed his options.
Rather than let the conflict erupt on the spot, he might as well carry this precarious lie through to the end.
Even if it planted seeds of suspicion, that was still better than falling out outright now.
After all, taking another's