When Haotian went to seek Hongjun, if Hongjun had not abandoned Jiejiao, the matter of the Investiture of the Gods List would never have arisen.
But that was not the point. The point was that, when the treasures were distributed at the Treasure-Splitting Rock, Lin Tian had already known that Hongjun had abandoned Tongtian.
He had given both Laozi and Yuanshi Fortune Suppression treasures, and Laozi had even received two of them. Yet Tongtian alone had been given the useless Executioner Immortal Sword Formation Diagram.
The Executioner Immortal Sword Formation Diagram appeared powerful and enjoyed an illustrious reputation, but it was a useless spirit treasure.
It could either serve as Fortune Suppression or deploy its formation; once the formation was deployed, it could no longer serve as Fortune Suppression. What use was a spirit treasure like that?
If Yuanshi came to cut you down with the Pangu Banner, you would not even dare bring out the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation to defend yourself. Was that not useless?
Hongjun's favoritism was plain to see from the distribution of treasures.
Under normal circumstances, Laozi already had his own fortune-suppressing supreme treasure, the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda. Hongjun could easily have bestowed the Four Zhuxian Swords upon him instead. Would it not have been better to give him both offense and defense?
With the Pangu Banner given to Yuanshi and the Taiji Diagram to Tongtian, the fortune of the Three Daoist Schools would have been utterly secure.
Instead, the seeds of Jiejiao's possible collapse in fortune had been planted back then.
"Martial Aunt, the Investiture of the Gods is already behind us. What matters now is finding peace of mind and moving toward the future!"
Having said that, Lin Tian walked over to Yunxiao and patted her shoulder to comfort her.