The explanation was quite detailed, yet it silenced Hongjun's suspicions and everyone else's, while taking a swipe at Hongjun, who styled himself the Dao Ancestor!
He could not even recognize Pangu's world-renowned supreme cultivation arts, yet he dared call himself the Dao Ancestor?!
At Xiao Ying's words, everyone turned shining eyes toward Hongjun. The Descended Immortal Gods sought answers, while those of Great Huan watched the legendary Dao Ancestor with complex, indescribable feelings, many of them filled with admiration and reverence!
It had to be admitted that Dao Ancestor Hongjun was actually very low-key in his conduct. He rarely appeared of his own accord and closely resembled a cultivator of nonaction like Immortal Emperor Moral (Laozi). Even Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha, the most senior ancient Buddha in the Pangu World, had only met him a few times; ancient immortals and gods such as Kṣitigarbha King and Maitreya Buddha had never even seen him in person. Still, as the earliest cultivator to appear in the Pangu World and the Dao Ancestor who had spread the teachings of countless sects and arts, Hongjun's identity alone was enough to make countless people look up to him and worship him!
On the other hand, although Hongjun was an outsider rather than one of Pangu's people, he had indeed contributed a great deal to the Pangu World. Most of its countless cultivation arts, especially those of China's Divine Land, had come from Hongjun's teachings. His contributions to enabling the Pangu Human Clan to survive in the primordial world, multiply to this day, and become the foremost of all living beings could not be denied. Calling him the Dao Ancestor was at least defensible. Xiao Ying acknowledged this in his heart, too, and bore Hongjun no great ill will.
Moreover, compared with the savage, brutal dispositions