Gu Changqing finished speaking.
At once, an uncanny, deathly silence fell over the scene.
Hongjun said nothing, staring at Gu Changqing with a dark gaze.
What an audacious Wine Sword Immortal!
Throughout endless ages, no one had ever dared adopt such an overbearing, threatening stance before Hongjun.
Gu Changqing, meanwhile, still wore a mocking expression.
Had Tongtian been there, merely witnessing this scene would probably have set his heart pounding and his scalp tingling.
That brat Gu Changqing really had no fear of death!
Just then, Gu Changqing spoke again.
"Hehe, the Dao Ancestor should know."
"Junior Uncle Nuwa has now comprehended the Heavenly Mandate and sensed her opportunity to save the world."
"Every moment of delay will bring calamity upon more living beings."
"And in the end, I'm afraid the Dao Ancestor will have to shoulder the karma involved."
Those words only deepened Hongjun's fury!
If his earlier words had merely been a tentative probe,
then now, Gu Changqing had unmistakably torn away all pretense of civility.
He was using the karma of living beings suffering calamity to intimidate the mighty Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao Representative?
In the past, Hongjun would certainly have rebuked him for courting death.
But now, Hongjun's expression was ugly, and he said nothing.
He had not forgotten that Gu Changqing, standing before him, had cultivated a Merit Golden Wheel.
Moreover, the sight of him forcibly controlling karmic burdens and turning them against the Saint's Lineage remained fresh in Hongjun's memory.
Since he could turn them against the Saint's Lineage, perhaps doing the same to Hongjun would be no trouble at all.
In other words, even if the Heavenly Dao's great momentum did not originally dictate such an outcome, Gu Changqing could forcibly wield the Merit Golden Wheel's divine might to gather endless