How Could He Be So Strong!

Everyone present froze as they felt the aura radiating from Xu Tong's breakthrough.

Even Di Jun, Dijiang, and the others stopped what they were doing and stared toward Xu Tong in shock.

"Impossible! Tongtian never attended a single sermon. How could his cultivation be so powerful!"

Di Jun's face was filled with disbelief.

At this session in the Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun had explained the quasi-saint dao.

Some of the Primordial World's foremost mighty beings had broken through to the early Quasi-Sage stage.

Di Jun and the Eastern Emperor were among them.

To be precise, aside from the Ancestral Witches, almost everyone present had reached the Quasi-Sage level.

Laozi and Yuanshi, meanwhile, looked thrilled.

Feeling Xu Tong's aura, Yuanshi said excitedly, "Our third brother has broken through! Is he coming out of seclusion? If so, this primordial violet qi is unquestionably his."

Yuanshi held grudges, and he remembered how that birdman Di Jun had dared mock him in front of everyone at the Purple Cloud Palace.

Laozi, however, was secretly thinking about something else.

Our third brother's aura is far too powerful. Even if we reached the peak Quasi-Sage stage, we might not catch up to him. Could he really have forged another path?

At that thought, Laozi could not help feeling a twinge of jealousy.

He was the eldest of the Three Pure Ones. By rights, his cultivation should have been the highest among the three, yet Tongtian had now overtaken both of them by a considerable margin.

Di Jun seemed to have thought of this as well.

He remembered publicly mocking Laozi at the Purple Cloud Palace, declaring that Tongtian's cultivation could not possibly surpass theirs.

Di Jun's face alternated between livid and flushed.

Minghe and the other mighty beings also wore strange expressions.

Had all those years of listening to sermons gone to the dogs?

Just look at Tongtian. He had not attended a single sermon all these years, yet his cultivation had surpassed theirs.

The primordial violet qi seemed to sense Xu Tong's aura and tried to follow it into his hand. But Xu Tong merely waved, swatting the primordial violet qi billions of miles away like a shuttlecock.

Everyone present watched, dumbstruck.

"Holy shit! Isn't that a little too willful? That's primordial violet qi! Do you even know what you're doing, mighty one?"

In fact, Xu Tong knew exactly what he was doing.

And precisely because he knew, he had done it.

To outsiders, this primordial violet qi was the foundation of sainthood.

But in Xu Tong's eyes, it was no foundation of sainthood at all. It was the very root of disaster.

Just now, as Xu Tong broke through, the primordial violet qi had instantly locked onto his aura and tried to attach itself to him.

Fortunately, he had reacted in time and hurriedly severed that trace of connection.

Otherwise, even with the Sage Dao Field acting as a barrier, it might well have slipped through a loophole.

So many people outside were fighting tooth and nail for the primordial violet qi, yet it had shown no response.

But the instant he so much as showed his face, the primordial violet qi grew restless. Only a fool would believe there was nothing wrong with that.

He had now broken through to the late Quasi-Sage stage.

As long as he cultivated the force great dao to major completion, he would have a chance to Prove Dao by Force. Why would he need this primordial violet qi?

With that thought, Xu Tong acted decisively without hesitation, reaching out to knock the primordial violet qi away. It would no longer be able to return to him.

That was how the scene before everyone's eyes had come about.

Besides those present, one other person had witnessed it.

That person was Dao Ancestor Hongjun in the Purple Cloud Palace.

Seeing Tongtian knock the primordial violet qi away, a cold glint flashed through Hongjun's eyes.

But he quickly suppressed it.

That wretch has reached the late Quasi-Sage stage without my noticing, and he hasn't done it through the path of severing the three corpses.

Has he truly obtained some inheritance, then?

Judging by his method of pursuing the Dao, he must intend to Prove Dao by Force. Hmph. A fine idea.

Had he reached this realm during the Dragon-Han Calamity, I might have been somewhat wary. But now, my merger with the Dao is nearly complete. Once the Heavenly Dao seals itself off, trying to Prove Dao by Force will be utterly laughable.

These thoughts ran through Hongjun's mind.

Knowing that Tongtian really was pursuing the path of proving Dao by force actually put him at ease.

Because that path led nowhere.

Once the others attained the Dao and became Sages, while Tongtian's cultivation failed to advance even an inch, Hongjun did not believe Tongtian would remain unruffled.

"Since that is the case, I shall let you run wild a little longer."

With that, Hongjun stopped paying attention.

In the territory of Kunlun Mountain, Di Jun and the others stared at where the primordial violet qi had disappeared.

They exchanged bewildered looks.

In the end, the Ancestral Witches were the first to react.

"Di Jun, you birdman, anyone with eyes can see that this primordial violet qi belonged to Fellow Daoist Tongtian. Yet Fellow Daoist Tongtian discarded it like a worn-out shoe. Fight over it if you wish. We of the Witch Clan cannot afford that humiliation."

"Let's go!"

Without waiting for anyone else to react, Dijiang swept his hand and led the other Ancestral Witches straight away.

Show off and then run-what a thrill.

By the time Di Jun reacted, Dijiang and the others had long since vanished without a trace.

"Damn the Witch Clan."

In the end, Di Jun could only vent his impotent fury with that one remark.

Dijiang's words had sounded magnanimous, but they were nothing more than a pile of empty talk.

And he had taken the opportunity to mock Di Jun along the way.

What do you mean, your Witch Clan can't afford that humiliation? Even if you wanted to humiliate yourselves, you'd have to find the primordial violet qi first!

Xu Tong's palm strike had done more than simply knock the primordial violet qi away.

He had employed some of the force great dao, making it so fast that no one had time to react.

No one knew where the primordial violet qi had been sent flying.

Dijiang had been clever enough to declare outright that he would no longer fight for it.

At that moment, Di Jun had a "motherfucker" simmering inside him, though he did not know whether he should say it aloud.

If anyone ever told him again that the Witch Clan was brainless, he would give them two slaps across the face.

Dijiang might look big and burly, but he was full of schemes.

With the primordial violet qi gone, everyone present looked at one another before finally turning their gazes toward Di Jun.

Clearly, they wanted to see what Di Jun would do next.

Di Jun snorted coldly, then stopped agonizing over it.

Without the primordial violet qi, only a fool would remain here and keep offending the Three Pure Ones.

Tongtian was so powerful now. Who knew whether he would attack Di Jun's people?

Staying here would just be asking for a beating.

Di Jun swept his hand.

"Let's go. We're heading back too."

With Di Jun's departure, Minghe and the others no longer hesitated and left Kunlun Mountain one after another.

Looking at Kunlun Mountain, peaceful once more, Laozi and Yuanshi both wore excited expressions.

"Let's go. Since our third brother has broken through, he presumably has nothing pressing to attend to for now. Why don't we visit him and ask how we should proceed along the Quasi-Sage path?"

"Agreed!"

With that, the two headed for Xu Tong's Dao Field.