We... hadn't heard that wrong, had we?
All living beings exchanged bewildered looks, staring wide-eyed at one another as the same unreal thought rose in their minds.
Dao Ancestor Hongjun had actually said to leave it at that?
In other words, he and the Elder of Chaos, those two supreme existences, had never intended to act from the very beginning?
They had come together not to pass judgment, but to mediate?
What the hell!
This was simply earth-shattering!
After a brief, deathly silence, everyone understood.
Fear.
It was pure, unadulterated fear of Gu Changqing's unfathomable strength!
It had reached the point where even the Dao Ancestor and the Elder of Chaos dared not act rashly!
Once they understood this, the myriad beings of the Primordial World looked at that swaying, unconventional figure with awe that had reached its absolute peak.
Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos, however, paid no attention to their reactions.
As soon as his words fell, without even waiting for Nuwa to respond, he acted.
Hongjun swept his sleeve, and an irresistible surge of Great Dao power instantly rose.
Laozi and Yuanshi, who were still dumbfounded, the equally gravely injured Jieyin, and the surviving Chan Sect Disciples on Kunlun Mountain were all enveloped by that power.
The next moment.
Light flashed, and they vanished completely from the sky.
They had arrived with tremendous fanfare, their might weighing down upon the universe.
Yet they departed in such haste, with even a hint of disarray.
All they left behind were the devastated ruins of Kunlun and a crowd of utterly stupefied onlookers.
"They... they just left like that?"
A Mighty Expert muttered to himself, still unable to believe what he had seen.
"The Dao Ancestor backed down... against Gu Changqing, the Dao Ancestor actually backed down!"
"That axe... did