Those words left the Outsider powerhouses utterly silent.
Because with Ying Huaixu in Hongmeng World now, this was what would happen.
And what Ying Huaixu was doing now truly did strike them as bizarre.
A cultivator as insignificant as an ant always managed to overturn their plans.
They had originally treated Hongmeng World as something they could toy with at will, but Ying Huaixu had now forced them to readjust their plans.
The problem was that they were now in an awkward position.
They could not simply send in their top combatants to crush him.
That would awaken the Heavenly Dao and drive it mad.
In its fury, the Heavenly Dao would directly merge with the Child of Fortune and hand all its authority over to the Person of Great Fortune. Even if the Heavenly Dao ended up an empty shell, even if it had to expend the entire world's fortune and sacrifice every living being in it, it would blow them to pieces.
Then they would gain nothing and suffer devastating casualties.
So they could not let that happen again.
More importantly, this Hongmeng World was a higher-dimensional world unlike any they had ever seen, and it had yet to awaken.
Now, as long as the Heavenly Dao remained asleep, they had to take this world intact.
Paying a price for that would be worthwhile, so long as they could bring it back under their control.
But the Ancient God still had a question.
"But the Person of Heavenly Mandate seems to be Ye Ningshuang!"
The other powerhouses shook their heads at that.
"It doesn't matter. Ye Ningshuang's strength and cultivation certainly fit a Person of Heavenly Mandate, but a Person of Heavenly Mandate like her is nowhere near as threatening as Ying Huaixu."
"Besides, we have plenty of