"You old bastard, are you about to take that step?"
He stood at the center of the Taiji Diagram's Yin-Yang Two Qi.
But this time, Xu Tong had not come as a fellow practitioner to test his skills.
He had come as an enemy!
"Let it end here. Yuanshi need not take any further part in this."
Taishang Laojun wore an expression of insufferable arrogance.
After all, as far as he himself was concerned,
he had actually only broken through recently.
He had already gained a preliminary grasp of the existence of concepts.
It was just that this particular concept leaned in a rather wrong direction.
"The madness of idle inaction. What do you call this illusory concept you've mastered?"
"The madness of things reversing when pushed to their extremes?"
Xu Tong briefly sensed it.
The aura of rules and concepts now emanating from Taishang Laozi's entire body.
Especially that portion of the Power of Rules that came from illusion.
Yet he sensed something amiss.
There seemed to be a hint of madness in Taishang Laozi's aura.
The information conveyed by Taishang Laozi's power seemed to undergo certain changes at times.
If Taishang Laozi's former aura had been that of an honest man known far and wide,
then a single glance had been enough to see his simple, sincere nature.
It always made people feel neither inclined to draw close to him nor inclined to target him.
He had been closest to Heaven.
That was Taishang Laozi, whose path was to follow Heaven and practice nonaction.
As long as the Heavenly Dao did not target him and no one infringed upon his interests,
Taishang Laozi was actually no different from an ordinary statue, and no one would bother with him or pay him any mind.
But now, Taishang Laozi's aura