It could be said that under Hongjun's cheat-like lectures, the top Innate Demon Gods, who had already fallen quite a distance behind the Ancestral Witches in terms of strength, had more or less caught up in just three thousand years.
This was the power and terror of the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.
With strength enough, they only needed to pay a small price to instantly shift the balance between the Witch Race and the other great powers and factions of the Primordial World.
Unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun were powerful enough, but the Witch Race was no pushover either.
Especially since Zhu Jiuyin, this variable, had already unknowingly become "The One That Escaped," capable of swaying the grand momentum of the Heavenly Dao.
That was right. The heaven-defying part of The One That Escaped had never been the Grandmist Violet Qi, but rather its special nature of existing beyond the Heavenly Dao.
No matter how powerful a Sage was, they were still within the "four-nine." The one who held the escaped one stood outside the board.
So as long as a being possessed the ability to interfere with and alter fixed fate, karma, and destiny, along with the traits of surviving the tribulation and being hard for the Heavenly Dao to kill, any living creature could become The One That Escaped.
So during the three thousand years of Hongjun's lectures, the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race had not been idle. On the contrary, they had been busy with great deeds the whole time.
And during that brief span of three thousand years, without any of the guests at the Purple Heaven Palace knowing, Hongjun had looked toward the Ancestral Land of the Witch Race more than ten times.
It was because in those three thousand years, the Witch