"How could this be?"
Bathed in the golden light of merit, Laozi's expression turned exceedingly grim. No matter how he urged his Three Corpses on, he could not unite them.
Not only could they not unite, they even repelled one another. It seemed that the different Great Dao laws contained within his Three Corpses Avatars had rendered them incompatible.
Once, twice, three times... in that short span, Laozi tried everything he could think of to unite his Three Corpses.
But all he received was failure after failure.
Laozi could not accept it. Nuwa had succeeded in Three Corpses Reunification, so why could he not do the same?
And why had Nuwa not encountered this problem when she reunited her Three Corpses?
Every mighty being in the Primordial World witnessed this scene, and none of them could believe their eyes.
Laozi was the foremost of the Pangu Three Pure Ones, the Dao Ancestor's disciple who had occupied the first seat in Zixiao Palace.
Yet he could not even reunite his Three Corpses?
What was going on?
Moreover, everyone readily compared Laozi with Nuwa. Why had Nuwa succeeded while Laozi could not?
What exactly was the problem?
After all, the vast majority of the mighty beings in the Primordial World followed the path of Three-Corpse-Slaying Dao-Proving.
Many of them had only severed their first corpse. Whether they would ever find another opportunity to continue Corpse Severing remained unknown.
Still, they had held on to hope.
They all looked forward to the day when, like Nuwa, they could sever all Three Corpses, reunite them, and attain Hunyuan.
Who could have imagined that Laozi, whom everyone had assumed ought to be the first to prove his Dao, would end up like this?
He had delayed until now before beginning to prove his Dao.
And