When the time came and the scheming began...
Zhunti refused to believe that Laozi and Yuanshi would not come courting the two of them.
After all, Tongtian had already fallen out with them.
And Nüwa was plainly someone who wore the same trousers as Daochen.
The only people left for Laozi and Yuanshi to recruit were Jieyin and Zhunti.
After all, their interests aligned to a certain extent.
As long as Laozi and Yuanshi came to Mount Sumeru to court them...
They would naturally have the chance to name their own price.
It had to be said that Jieyin and Zhunti had worked their abacuses to perfection, and things did indeed unfold just as they had anticipated.
Laozi and Yuanshi would never swallow this humiliation.
Yuanshi was simply a hotheaded fool. He knew full well that he was no match for Daochen, yet he still could not swallow his anger.
He was locked in a stubborn struggle with himself.
To put it plainly...
He was making himself miserable.
But this time, Laozi truly wanted to fight for supremacy.
Whether it was Daochen's scheming during his Sagehood Attainment, which had nearly caused him to fail, or this latest struggle over Suirenshi, in which Daochen had once again beaten all three of them in succession and utterly disgraced the Three Pure Ones...
Both had thoroughly ground the pride deep in Laozi's heart into the dirt.
He followed the supreme Way of Nonaction.
But that was founded upon his absolute pride in himself.
Nothing was worthy of his concern.
Thus, he practiced nonaction.
Yet Daochen had ground him into the dirt time and again, naturally stirring the resentment buried in Laozi's heart.
The Three Pure Ones had been born from Pangu's primordial spirit. Who in the entire Primordial World could compare to such