Nüwa was stunned as well. She, too, had sensed no imprint of Daochen's Three-Legged Golden Crow appearing in the Heavenly Dao's core origin.
"Teacher, what is happening?"
Nüwa looked at Hongjun, her beautiful eyes filled with bewilderment.
Sages were immortal and indestructible because their Primordial Spirit imprints resided within the Heavenly Dao's origin. Even if their Primordial Spirits were destroyed, they could revive through the imprints lodged within the Heavenly Dao.
Moreover, lodging their Primordial Spirits within the Heavenly Dao's origin brought them into closer harmony with it, considerably accelerating their comprehension of Law Power.
There was a price as well. Breaking free of the Heavenly Dao's origin was exceedingly difficult-essentially impossible.
Even someone as powerful as Hongjun could only merge his spirit with the Heavenly Dao, harnessing its Power of Origin to strengthen himself.
"I do not know."
Hongjun shook his head again and answered with a bitter smile.
Anything involving Daochen always sprouted unforeseen complications.
His attainment of the Dao this time was no exception, nor was the absence of his Primordial Spirit imprint from the Heavenly Dao's origin after he became a Sage.
In truth, not having his Primordial Spirit imprint engraved within the Heavenly Dao's core origin was not necessarily a bad thing.
At least when he someday attempted to transcend the ninth heaven of the Sage realm-the Primordial Unity Great Luo Golden Immortal realm-and enter the Great Dao Realm, his chances of success would be considerably greater than those of Sages whose Primordial Spirit imprints resided within the Heavenly Dao's origin.
Yet throughout all history, only Pangu and perhaps one other had reached the Nine Heavens of the Saint Realm, standing half a step into the Great Dao Realm.
Hongjun himself was still far from that point.
As for Great Immortal Yangmei, he was currently