What he anticipated was Hongjun's lecture at the Purple Firmament Palace, and what left him hesitant was the same thing.
He knew his own origins very well. He was a transmigrator.
According to the original course of Fate, the seven innate gourds nurtured by the Primordial Gourd Vine should have been divided among numerous great powers, while the Primordial Gourd Vine withered away.
Instead, he had taken form from a section of the Primordial Gourd Vine and used it to derive three Dao bodies, all possessing the roots of peak innate sacred beings.
He also did not know what powers Hongjun, the first Saint of the Primordial World, possessed, or whether he could see through his origins.
And if he could, what attitude would he have toward a transmigrator like him?
Although he believed that repairing the Western Continent's ley lines had earned him, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling immense merit, and that they had bound the repaired ley lines with the Heaven-Earth Origin-Returning Formation, allowing them to self-destruct at any time.
Even if Hongjun harbored ill intent toward them, he would not dare act against them lightly. They had some means of self-preservation.
But no matter what, Hongjun was the first Saint of the Primordial World and the future spokesperson of the Heavenly Dao. If he truly bore them ill will, their future would likely be extremely difficult. The slightest misstep could bring the danger of death.
Given the advantage he, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling held, they should theoretically have had little trouble securing one Saint's seat.
But theory was theory, and reality was reality. He did not dare guarantee that he could definitely seize a Saint's seat.
After all, if Hongjun did not wish to give him one, he only needed to tamper