As the saying goes, Dijun and Taiyi truly lost more than they bargained for this time. Let alone failing to secure the Hongmeng Purple Qi, they did not even know where the Hongmeng Purple Qi had "traveled" to, and if they wished to obtain it in the future, it would no longer be as "simple" as it was now.
After all, even Sages could not calculate the whereabouts of the Hongmeng Purple Qi. For Dijun and Taiyi, who had yet to achieve Sagehood, to figure out its location required the Heavenly Dao to take a nap, and only then would they have an opportunity.
Before Hongyun died, if one wanted to know the location of the Hongmeng Purple Qi, one only needed to calculate Hongyun's whereabouts. Who told Hongyun not to have comprehended even a sliver of the mysteries of the Hongmeng Purple Qi? As long as one's cultivation was high and proficient in divine calculation, like the Demon Sage Fuxi, calculating Hongyun's whereabouts was always accurate. Now, however, everything could only depend entirely on luck. Just look at what kind of mess they had brought upon themselves.
Furthermore, they had injured themselves during Hongyun's self-detonation. Upon returning, they desperately needed to recuperate properly.
What was even more unfortunate was that the demon soldiers and generals they brought had suffered devastating losses. These were precisely the backbone of the Demon Race, and their All-Heavens Star Formation was the ultimate trump card for the Demon Race to deal with the Witch Clan's Twelve Heavenly Gods Baleful Formation.
Now, this top-tier Primordial Wilderness formation had actually been "crippled" by the self-detonation of a Quasi-Sage's Primordial Spirit, which was truly a rather speechless matter.
Who told them not to activate the formation beforehand? If they had activated the formation, let alone the explosion