Jade Wanderer Palace's main hall.
Tongtian Cult Master looked at Xiao Yun as he entered the hall.
"Congratulations, Master, on attaining the Dao of immortality!" Xiao Yun said in congratulations.
Tongtian Cult Master sighed softly. "Your master cultivated for countless ages, yet only today did I finally understand the mysteries of immortality."
"Master's talent is peerless. If not for being trapped by the Hongmeng Violet Qi, you would likely have attained immortality long ago," Xiao Yun said.
Tongtian Cult Master fell silent at those words. Whenever this matter was mentioned, his heart brimmed with hatred for Hongjun.
For the sake of his own Dao, that old bastard had severed their paths. He was truly detestable.
Had Hongjun not deliberately suppressed them, with the Primordial World's foundations, it would have long since become the strongest great world in the Chaos Realm.
Looking back now at Hongjun's three lectures in Purple Cloud Palace after he became a Saint, he had actually begun laying out his plans even then.
Through his lectures at Purple Cloud Palace, he had drawn all the supreme powerhouses of the Primordial World there.
Then, Hongjun had selected the Three Pure Ones, Nüwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin from among them and accepted the six as disciples. Why them? Because they possessed the greatest talent and the best chance of attaining immortality.
Hongjun did not want them to attain immortality, so he used the Hongmeng Violet Qi to trap them.
At the same time, during his lectures, he had deliberately misled the gathered powerhouses, making them believe that severing obsessions was exceedingly difficult and that obtaining the Hongmeng Violet Qi was the sole opportunity to become a Saint.
If Hongjun had not intentionally misled them, how could those great Primordial World powers have failed to sever their obsessions for so many