Pan Xuan watched the transformation taking place in the Three Pure Ones, a thousand feelings stirring in his heart.
He rose and solemnly cupped his hands toward the Three Pure Ones.
"Fellow Daoists, your Dao hearts are clear, and your paths are now plain. You have my admiration.
Once the three of you recover your cultivation, the Divine Dao's Way of Enlightenment will have a true foundation.
Then the three ways—transmitting the Dao, expounding the Dao, and the Way of Gathering Life—will advance together, benefiting all beings in the Primordial World."
Taiqing Laozi shook his head slightly, a rare sincerity in his voice. "Our escape from these shackles was entirely thanks to your reminder, Fellow Daoist Pan Xuan, and the power of Father God's phantom.
Had you not exposed the flaws in severing the Three Corpses, we would still be in the dark, trudging blindly down the road to the executioner's block that Hong Jun laid for us.
The Three Pure Ones will remember this kindness."
He paused, and a profound gleam suddenly flashed through eyes as still as an ancient well.
"I have a question. Would you be willing to answer it, Fellow Daoist Pan Xuan?
Where are the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Law Deities now?
Earlier, when we used Father God's phantom to probe the Heavenly Dao here in the hall.
I faintly sensed a power of the same origin as the Twelve Ancestral Witches confronting another will at the Heavenly Dao Core.
Thinking back on it now, those must have been the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Law Deities."
Pan Xuan fell silent for a moment, then nodded openly.
He briefly recounted how the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Law Deities had entered the Heavenly Dao, formed the Dutian Divine Fiends Grand Formation, and summoned Father God's Fleshly Body Phantom to hold