When Daoist Hongjun saw exactly where that Spirit Vine was growing.
Daoist Hongjun immediately trembled with fear!
"To think the Vine Dao Venerable possessed such means! If I forcibly implanted an image of myself, Daoist Hongjun, into Xuan Yuan's memories, then that inescapable thread of karma from the Spirit Vine would attach itself to me within my own sea of consciousness, growing into this Spirit Vine spirit plant. Ultimately, once I had completely altered Xuan Yuan's memories, this Spirit Vine would turn on me."
"What formidable methods. The Vine Dao Venerable truly lived up to his name!"
After realizing this, Hongjun broke into a cold sweat and immediately began erasing the memories he had forcibly brainwashed and reversed within Xuan Yuan's sea of consciousness.
He erased every last image of himself, Daoist Hongjun.
When Daoist Hongjun had erased all the images and memories of himself from Xuan Yuan's mind!
The Spirit Vine that had taken root and sprouted in his sea of consciousness reverted to a seed, then shattered and vanished without a trace.
And at that moment.
Daoist Hongjun sat upright in the center of the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, his loose Daoist robes already soaked with cold sweat.
His slightly opened eyes, glittering with keen light, turned toward the void within the Heaven-Deceiving Formation.
Then he slowly rose, cupped his hands toward the void, and asked, "Your Excellency, Vine Dao Venerable, since you arrived long ago, why not appear before this old Daoist so that we might exchange our insights into Dao arts and laws and order?"
"Hahahahaha!"
Just as Daoist Hongjun suddenly stood and saluted the void, his head drenched in sweat, a burst of hearty laughter rang out from beyond it.
In an instant.
An imposing chaos fierce beast true body, bearing the mighty physiques of the Ancestral