But what Tongtian did not know was that the instant the God-Slaying Spear appeared...
Despite the countless measures he had prepared, the entire Primordial World still rumbled. The Heavenly Dao seemed to have gone mad, roaming across the land as though determined to hunt down the source.
Even Hongjun, seated high in Zixiao Palace, wore a solemn expression as he ceaselessly performed divinations.
But with the Investiture Calamity underway, tribulation aura already filled heaven and earth. Combined with Tongtian's disruption of the heavenly secrets and the countless grand formations he had laid down, this barely kept the Heavenly Dao from finding him.
Otherwise, Tongtian would have had only two choices.
Either destroy the God-Slaying Spear completely or leave the Primordial World.
Yet apart from the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun, only the few sages faintly sensed any of this.
Ordinary people noticed nothing at all.
Tongtian, however, remained entirely unaware. After putting away the God-Slaying Spear, he began receiving the Primordial Chaos Empowerment.
Faced with something a level above even the Great Dao and Primordial Unity, he naturally wanted to test just how much it could help him.
Rumble!
A vast, pure torrent of energy, impossible to describe or explain, thundered into his body from an unknown place.
Then it began transforming Tongtian's body.
Although it lasted only the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Tongtian could still feel changes beginning within his body that even he could not fully perceive.
If asked to explain them in detail, he would not have been able to.
He seemed no different from before, yet there was a faint hint of something new.
The only thing Tongtian could clearly feel was that the Heavenly Dao's restraints on him were no longer as firm as before.
Originally, as a Heavenly Dao Sage,