Laozi looked utterly heartbroken, bitterly regretting his past choices.
The sight left Yuanshi and the others bewildered, unable to understand what had happened.
As a Sage, Laozi adhered to the cultivation philosophy of "acting through nonaction."
He had always maintained a detached, carefree air, aloof from worldly affairs.
Even when his composure cracked, he could still force down the fury in his heart.
Thus, none of them had ever seen him lose control as he did today.
"Master, why is this?!"
Xuandu asked, filled with unease.
He could not help wondering whether his master had gone mad.
The Human Sect's fortune was already in decline, its prestige no longer what it once had been.
If Laozi, its sect master, went mad, Xuandu would have no way forward at all.
Of course, Xuandu did not voice those thoughts.
Beside him, Yuanshi also spoke:
"Elder Brother Laozi, what exactly happened?!"
"Did Gu Changqing go to Wa Huang Heaven intending to act against us?"
Yuanshi's words carried a faint surge of the Great Dao's mighty power, thunderous enough to rouse the deaf and pierce deep into Laozi's Dao heart.
Sure enough, only upon hearing this did Laozi come back to himself a little.
His face livid, he glanced at Yuanshi, then said gravely:
"Gu Changqing must have gone to Wa Huang Heaven to place the newly born Human Dao under Nuwa's control."
He needed to say no more. They could all hear the maddened hatred he was desperately suppressing in his voice.
His words struck them like lightning, leaving them frozen where they stood.
"What? Place the Human Dao under Junior Uncle Nuwa's control?"
"Is... is that possible?!"
"That's an entire Great Dao! How could Gu Changqing not be tempted?!"
"If that's really true, that brat Gu Changqing must have drunk himself mad."