That did not mean he would necessarily make enemies of the Witch Clan—or of Houtu.
He planned to act under the banner of the Heavenly Dao. Jiufeng knew the course fate was originally meant to take: even if he did nothing, the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun would intervene. Besides, he and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage were powerful enough.
When that happened, whether the Thirteen Ancestral Witches would resent him or the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun remained to be seen.
And even if the Thirteen Ancestral Witches resented him, or came to hate him, Yuan Yan did not much care.
The Witch Clan had been drawn into the Calamity Cycle. Even if they did not suffer catastrophic losses, the Twelve Ancestral Witches other than Houtu had been tainted by its Murderous Karmic Force. Who knew how long it would take them to attain the Dao as Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortals? They were not worth his attention anytime soon.
Only Houtu was worth taking seriously.
Houtu would one day establish Reincarnation and attain the Dao. She would gain Immeasurable Merit and Fortune, become the master of Reincarnation, and perhaps even the Earthly Dao's representative. Her cultivation would likely be high when she attained the Dao as a Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal, and she would likely advance quickly afterward.
But however high her cultivation was when she attained the Dao, surely she could not immediately reach the Fifth-Layer Hunyuan Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm. And however quickly she advanced, she might not outpace him.
After all, his innate foundation had transformed into that of a Lower-Tier Chaos God and Demon. He also had his Three-Selves Dao Bodies to exchange and share insights into the Great Dao with, numerous Innate Supreme Treasures in his possession, and the Yingzhou Immortal Island Lineage's