After weighing the two options, he chose the two Sages of the Western Land. With their arrangements among the Ten Thousand Races, their influence ran deepest throughout the Primordial World.
Apart from the Human Race and the Demon Emperor, they could be called the Primordial World's third greatest power.
Who had not heard of the Buddhist Sect? Who did not know its name?
The Buddhist Sect had countless powerful cultivators. Whether the two Sages of the Western Land or the Buddhist Scions of its various sacred lands, every one of them possessed terrifying strength.
Now that the Human Race needed to expand, conflict with the Buddhist Sect would come sooner or later. This was another reason he had chosen the two Sages of the Western Land.
They were natural enemies of the Human Race, which made things much simpler.
Zhunti and Jieyin frowned.
How could they fail to understand the reasoning behind this?
Yet they, too, harbored grave misgivings about the Heavenly Dao.
What the Heavenly Dao wanted was obedient dogs. As Sages, how could they possibly be willing to become dogs?
In truth, deep down, the two Sages of the Western Land would rather Daochen win.
After all, however domineering Daochen might be, he had never contemplated controlling everyone.
The Heavenly Dao was different. Within the Primordial World, beneath the Heavenly Dao, everything was governed by rules, and everyone had to obey its will.
That was the gap between them, the difference.
Jieyin looked at Haotian before him. "Boy, the two of us are not so easily fooled. We know your purpose perfectly well. Still, we will accept this task, but we will not act personally. Matters concerning ants should naturally be settled by ants."
They certainly would not act themselves. After all, doing so might draw out the