Chapter 1205: Cast the Saint Down from His Saintly Throne! Ancestor Taishang

Knowing that Ancestor Hongjun deliberately controlled the Saints, the Saint Taishang still dared to rebel against Ancestor Hongjun, indicating that Saint Taishang had already discovered a way to break free from Ancestor Hongjun's control.

The truth was indeed so.

Over these years, Saint Taishang's constant immersion in Dao cultivation was partly due to his inherent nature favoring stillness and non-action, and partly because he sought to unravel the method of escaping Ancestor Hongjun's control.

After cultivating the Dao for so long, Saint Taishang had long since uncovered the method to escape Ancestor Hongjun's control.

He had not yet deployed it because he felt the timing was not yet right.

Otherwise, Saint Taishang would have already broken free from Ancestor Hongjun's control.

This situation now was precisely what Saint Taishang had anticipated—a perfect moment to test the fruits of his countless eons of Dao cultivation.

Shhh!

Boundless Yin-Yang Dao rhythms spread outward, and beneath their envelopment, Saint Taishang's form began to grow hazy.

The next instant, three identical figures flew out from within Saint Taishang's body.

It was his famed divine technique—One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

Saint Taishang's position as the foremost of the Six Saints was largely due to One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

After all, among the Six Saints, only Saint Taishang could manifest three split bodies with nearly identical combat power.

With three split bodies plus his original form, even without relying on primordial supreme treasures, no one could match Saint Taishang.

Yet, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones could not halt Ancestor Hongjun's erosion of Saint Taishang.

Though One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones allowed Saint Taishang to split into three bodies, his true spirit essence remained singular.

Ancestor Hongjun's power acted directly upon the Saint's true spirit essence; no matter how many split bodies he created, they could not prevent Ancestor Hongjun's erosion and control.

Saint Taishang was fully aware of this.

Therefore, the secret technique Saint Taishang used to break free was not One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

Hum!

The Yin-Yang Dao rhythms flowed rapidly.

As the Dao rhythms circulated, black and white colors gradually emerged on Saint Taishang's body.

Moreover, as the Dao rhythms flowed, the black and white became increasingly distinct.

In but a moment, Saint Taishang became half black and half white.

Shhh!

The next instant, the four black-and-white Saint Taishangs split sharply down the middle, becoming eight figures: four black and four white.

The four white figures radiated an extremely intense aura, clearly perceptible to all.

The black figures emitted no aura whatsoever; unless one paid close attention, even if they saw them, they would forget the black figures' existence.

Not only would mortals overlook the black figures, but Heaven's Dao would too.

Thus, the power eroding Saint Taishang was entirely concentrated upon the white Saint Taishangs, while the black Saint Taishangs bore not a trace of Heaven's Dao's presence.

This was Saint Taishang's method of resisting Ancestor Hongjun.

Strictly speaking, it was not Ancestor Hongjun but Heaven's Dao that controlled the Saints.

The Saints were puppets of Heaven's Dao, not puppets of Ancestor Hongjun.

Yet in the Primordial World, Heaven's Dao was equivalent to Ancestor Hongjun.

Thus, puppets of Heaven's Dao were effectively puppets of Ancestor Hongjun.

But being equivalent to puppets of Ancestor Hongjun was not the same as being truly puppets of Ancestor Hongjun.

Puppets of Heaven's Dao and puppets of Ancestor Hongjun were vastly different.

Ancestor Hongjun was a sentient being, possessing wisdom.

Even if Saint Taishang suppressed his presence to the utmost, Ancestor Hongjun would still detect him—given the immense realm gap, Saint Taishang's many techniques could not greatly affect Ancestor Hongjun.

Heaven's Dao was different.

Heaven's Dao possessed only instinctual awareness, not wisdom; it operated solely according to predetermined laws.

Take the erosion and control of Saint Taishang, for example.

The instruction received by Heaven's Dao was to erode and control Saint Taishang.

Since Saint Taishang had left behind four white versions of himself for Heaven's Dao to control,

then, from Heaven's Dao's perspective, it had already fulfilled its command.

As for the other four black Saint Taishangs, their presence had been drastically diminished; without deliberate, full-force investigation, Heaven's Dao could not detect them at all.

Once the command was executed, Heaven's Dao had no reason to conduct a full-force investigation.

Moreover, Heaven's Dao's investigation was extremely mechanical.

The four white split bodies created by Saint Taishang were complete from within to without.

Normally, if one split into bodies, one's true spirit essence would become incomplete, as the split bodies would each divide a portion of the true spirit essence.

The sum of the original body and the split bodies constituted a complete true spirit essence.

This was why, even after using One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, Saint Taishang still struggled to escape Ancestor Hongjun's erosion and control.

But Yin-Yang split bodies were different—they used the reflection technique of the Yin-Yang Dao to manifest a complete copy of oneself.

The split bodies manifested through the Yin-Yang Dao were nearly identical to the original, even down to the true spirit essence.

That is to say, in Heaven's Dao's eyes, the four white Saint Taishangs were the complete Saint Taishang.

Even if Heaven's Dao detected the four black Saint Taishangs, under Saint Taishang's technique of Oblivion, Heaven's Dao would automatically ignore them.

That is to say, as long as Saint Taishang did not actively reveal himself, Heaven's Dao could never detect the four black Saint Taishangs.

This was the method Saint Taishang had prepared over countless Wushuyuan Societies.

To break free from Ancestor Hongjun's control, Saint Taishang had made countless attempts.