Uniting his body with the Dao was a double-edged sword.
It had granted him supreme authority over the Heavenly Dao Laws, but it had also locked him firmly within the Heavenly Dao Core, leaving his true body unable to act freely.
Were it not for that, he could have acted personally.
He could have strangled the Divine Dao System in its cradle, never allowing Pan Xuan to grow powerful step by step.
Looking back now, perhaps uniting his body with the Dao had been a mistake from the outset.
Or rather, it had been a choice forced upon him by Pangu's Legacy and the Great Dao's blessings.
Had he not united with the Dao, he would still have been the Primordial World's first Sage.
He would still have possessed the strength of a Limitless Primordial Unity Daluo Golden Immortal, still have been free to come and go throughout the Primordial World, and still have been able to contend with the Divine Dao System head-on.
But the circumstances then had left him little choice.
The Witch Clan had established itself, the Great Dao had bestowed its blessings, and the embryonic form of the Divine Dao System had already emerged.
He had to seize the Heavenly Dao Core first to gain the power to suppress the Divine Dao at the level of laws.
He had chosen to unite his body with the Dao, and had chosen to pay with his freedom.
Now, Di Jun's escape from his control had made one thing clear to him:
The Primordial World's chessboard was no longer under his control.
Rather than fight the Divine Dao to the bitter end within the Heavenly Dao, he would be better off exploiting the window before the Chaos Overlords fully understood the Primordial World's true strengths and weaknesses.
He would