Human Dao Bestowed Sagehood Merit! The Baffled Races: This Wasn't Right, Was It? Why Wasn't Heavenly Dao Acting?

At Heavenly Dao Hongjun's words, Yuanshi looked dazed as he knelt prostrate.

He unconsciously raised his head and stared in bewilderment at Hongjun on the Dao Platform.

"Master, you aren't going to punish Third Brother?"

Heavenly Dao Hongjun wore an air of solemn righteousness.

"He established the Interception Sect to pluck a thread of opportunity to attain the Dao for all living beings between Heaven and Earth. Why should I punish him?"

Looking at Heavenly Dao Hongjun's righteous expression above him,

Yuanshi briefly wondered whether he was hallucinating.

Was that something his master should be saying?

Hadn't his master already lodged his primordial spirit in Heavenly Dao and become the Heavenly Dao Representative?

Leaving their past grievances aside, Third Brother was helping Human Dao steal Heavenly Dao authority. No matter how he looked at it, that couldn't be acceptable, could it?

Yuanshi instinctively glanced around.

He made certain that he had indeed come to the Purple Cloud Palace.

Yuanshi asked in a trembling voice.

"But isn't teaching all living beings in the Primordial World part of Heavenly Dao authority?"

"If Third Brother establishes the Interception Sect and places it under Human Dao,"

"Wouldn't that allow the Human Race to steal this portion of Heavenly Dao's authority?"

Heavenly Dao Hongjun maintained his righteous expression.

"Teaching the beings of the Primordial World is indeed something Heavenly Dao should do."

"But Heavenly Dao does so only to give all beings of the Primordial World a chance to embark on the immortal path!"

"Doing such a thing brings Heavenly Dao no benefit!"

"If someone else wishes to do it, then let them!"

"Heavenly Dao cares nothing for such nebulous authority!"

Every word of that speech was a brazen, barefaced lie.

Naturally, Heavenly Dao cared deeply about that authority.

Heavenly Dao held that all things