Daoist Zhunti had fallen, just like that.
Since the creation of heaven and earth, no Saint other than Demon Ancestor Luo Hou had ever fallen.
And Demon Ancestor Luo Hou had fallen because of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
That was why the Saints feared the Dao Ancestor: he had the power to kill them. It was as simple and plain as that.
Apart from the Dao Ancestor, Saints could not kill one another. At most, they could wound an opponent and force them to recuperate for a time.
But now, the sky had come crashing down.
Daoist Zhunti might have been known as the weakest of the Saints, but his death was real.
At that moment, even Dao Ancestor Hongjun had nothing to say.
Death wiped the slate clean.
He had already sensed it: the merit Zhunti owed the Heavenly Dao had now been erased. That proved this Saint had truly fallen. There was no room for doubt.
The Primordial Wilderness was becoming rather hard to fathom. A Hongmeng Great Dao Saint had only just emerged, and he followed the Imperial Emperor Dao, no less. Hongjun's attendant, now the Jade Emperor, had already come to him in tears to complain.
But Dao Ancestor Hongjun could do nothing about it. The man had broken through with absolute strength, using the method by which Chaos Demon Gods attained the rank of Great Dao Saint: breaking through the Dao with sheer power. Drawing upon his attainments in the Imperial Emperor Dao, he had fully comprehended the entire Hongmeng Origin Imperial Emperor Dao and become a Great Dao Saint.
In Pangu's era, he would have been a Chaos Demon God.
"Be calm. Life and death all have their appointed course. Zhunti's death was also his destined part in this Karmic Tribulation. You all know that