Seeking the Dao in Purple Cloud Palace!

After hesitating for a moment, Mu Jizi gritted his teeth, left the bamboo house without alerting anyone, and floated up to Purple Cloud Palace alone!

Beside Purple Cloud Palace, Mu Jizi stared at the three large characters above its gates. Without hesitation, he stepped inside!

Purple Cloud Palace remained unchanged since time immemorial. The only difference was that the three thousand prayer mats had vanished!

Upon the high platform, Dao Ancestor Hongjun sat there like a statue. Mu Jizi hurriedly bowed in greeting at the sight of him!

Only then did Hongjun slowly open his eyes. In an instant, boundless profundities turned into a flowing river within his gaze, and waves of pressure that seemed to belong only to heaven and earth descended upon the entire Purple Cloud Palace the moment his eyes opened!

Mu Jizi was greatly startled. He lowered his head, not daring to meet his gaze!

"Sit here!" Hongjun pointed at the ground, and a purple jade prayer mat immediately appeared!

Mu Jizi did not dare delay. He bowed and sat upright upon the purple jade prayer mat!

Once Mu Jizi had settled properly, Hongjun spoke again. "I already know why you have come!"

Hearing this, Mu Jizi was not surprised and continued listening respectfully!

Hongjun nodded and said indifferently, "I was born within Chaos and witnessed Pangu's great feat of opening heaven. Later, I obtained a Creation Divine Artifact, and a great aspiration arose within my heart: to take heaven and earth and all living beings as my Dao!"

"Yet the Grand Dao is long and boundless. The two paths repel one another, and the heart cannot serve two purposes. Thus, I could only abandon all living beings and take heaven and earth as my Dao!"

Mu Jizi was deeply shocked. He had never imagined that