Chapter 572: Completely controlling the Heavenly Dao

Therefore, even if Dao Ancestor Hongjun could completely control the Heavenly Dao, the Saint positions he could bestow were extremely limited.

What's more, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had not completely mastered the Heavenly Dao.

Compared to Saint positions, the Asia-Saint statuses that the Heavenly Dao could bestow were much more numerous.

With the growth of the Primordial World over these years, the Asia-Saint statuses that the Heavenly Dao could bestow had also increased quite a bit.

The current Heavenly Dao was already about to fall completely into the control of Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and the Luo Fu possessed by the Heavenly Dao naturally all fell into the hands of Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Compared to Saint positions, Dao Ancestor Hongjun clearly valued Asia-Saint statuses even more.

Otherwise, over these years, Dao Ancestor Hongjun would not have kept the Asia-Saint statuses secret and regarded them as his own backhands.

The reason for this was mainly because among the six Saints, except for the two Western Saints, the other four Saints were not ones Dao Ancestor Hongjun could completely control.

Even the two Western Saints had their own little thoughts and did not completely belong to Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

In fact, the distribution of the six Primordial Saints was not decided by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

When bestowing the Saint positions, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had just begun to control the Heavenly Dao, and his influence on the Heavenly Dao was still relatively limited.

He could not completely sway the will of the Heavenly Dao.

Of course, he could not sway it, but he could influence it.

Not being able to sway it meant that Dao Ancestor Hongjun could not bestow the Saint positions on people close to him.

In the case of not being able to guarantee that the recipients of the Saint positions were people close to him, Dao Ancestor Hongjun very simply turned the Saint positions into traps.

The Three Pure Ones were the most direct victims of the Saint position traps.

With their natural talent, wanting to break through to become Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortals was a sure thing; they did not need Saint positions at all.

Saint positions were completely a shackle for them.

Nüwa and the two Western Saints did not fall into any traps.

Bestowing a Saint position on Nüwa was because among the six Saints, there had to be one who was proficient in the Great Dao of Creation.

Otherwise, the human race would not have been able to be born.

To put it bluntly, the reason Nüwa was able to become a Saint was entirely because Dao Ancestor Hongjun needed a tool person proficient in the Great Dao of Creation.

The reason the two Western Saints were able to become Saints was also because Dao Ancestor Hongjun needed a worker to repay karma for him and to seal and suppress the demonic Qi of the Western land.

From this, it could also be seen that Dao Ancestor Hongjun was absolutely a calculating person; three times of preaching, plus bestowing Saint positions, all the elites of the Primordial World fell into his trap.

Compared to Saint positions, the importance of Asia-Saint statuses was much weaker.

The Heavenly Dao's emphasis on them was also not that high.

Most importantly, Asia-Saint statuses were not like Saint positions, which needed to be bestowed as soon as possible to promote the development of the Primordial World.

Since they did not need to be bestowed as soon as possible, Dao Ancestor Hongjun simply shelved all the Asia-Saint statuses and kept them secret.

Consequently, the immortals and gods of the heavens almost rarely knew that below the Saint level, there were still Asia-Saint statuses.

With the passage of time, Dao Ancestor Hongjun's control over the Heavenly Dao became stronger and stronger, and the Asia-Saint statuses, which were not of very high importance, naturally were left for him to take at will.

Therefore, Dao Ancestor Hongjun secretly bestowed all the Asia-Saint statuses on people he could completely control or who were completely loyal to him, and regarded them as his own backhands.

Even among the Saints, not many knew about this matter.

Saint Taishang vaguely sensed it, but could not be 100% sure.

Now that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had actively revealed this backhand, it could be considered to have confirmed Saint Taishang's guess.

To hide such a force, yet never inform anyone, even the Saints did not know.

One could see Dao Ancestor Hongjun's depth of character.

With these more than a dozen Asia-Saints sitting in the Primordial World, Saints were no longer as important as one might imagine.

An Asia-Saint alone might not be a Saint's opponent, but more than a dozen Asia-Saints together could easily contend with several Saints.

That is to say, with just these more than a dozen Asia-Saints.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun did not need to take action personally to be able to suppress several Saints.

Combat power not inferior to a Saint, and far more obedient than a Saint.

Anyone would know how to choose.

This was also the reason Saint Taishang concluded that they were very likely to be deprived of their Saint positions by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Once Dao Ancestor Hongjun completely mastered the Heavenly Dao, he would absolutely not allow people who were not loyal to him to occupy Saint positions.

These more than a dozen secretly accumulated Asia-Saint statuses were the precursor.

"The Taiji is born from the Wuji, the mechanism of movement and stillness, the mother of Yin and Yang, Yin does not leave Yang, Yang does not leave Yin. Yin and Yang complement each other, reaching the level of gods..."

After withdrawing his peeking gaze, Saint Taishang did not continue to pay attention to the Saint Beast White Tiger and the Saint Beast Vermilion Bird, but closed his eyes and re-entered the cultivation state.

Bursts of Dao sounds echoed in the Bajing Palace; with the chanting of the Dao sounds, the shadows on Saint Taishang became clearer and clearer, as if he were truly about to manifest several clones.

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Netherworld.

"The time has come, Xing Tian, get ready, lead the boys to the Western Continent at any time to intercept the Saint Beast White Tiger and the Saint Beast Vermilion Bird."

Seeing the Saint Beast White Tiger and the Saint Beast Vermilion Bird, Mother Pingxin knew that the time had come.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun's cards on the table had all been solved by Luo Fu, so he could only use his backhands.

Since Dao Ancestor Hongjun had already used his backhands, Luo Fu's side naturally had to play their cards too.

Ancestor Minghe and Mother Pingxin were the cards Luo Fu was prepared to play next.

To be precise, it should be Ancestor Minghe and the Wu Clan.

Mother Pingxin's trump card had not yet reached the time to be played.

Just two Asia-Saints, Ancestor Minghe and Xing Tian, were enough to deal with them.

"As you command!"

Soaring battle intent rose from Xing Tian.

The surging battle intent was dozens of times denser than the battle intent Sun Wukong had revealed before.

Not just Xing Tian alone, behind Xing Tian, tens of millions of Wu Clan warriors also erupted with battle intent.

The Wu Clan was naturally warlike; having been trapped in the land of the Six Paths of Reincarnation for so many years, the Wu Clan warriors all had a fire suppressed in their hearts.

Now that they finally had the opportunity to be born again, even if the opponents they faced might be powerful Asia-Saints.

All the Wu Clan warriors had no fear in their hearts, only uncontrollable battle intent.

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Fire Cloud Cave.

"Five Directional Saint Beasts, I didn't expect the Dao Ancestor to have such backhands. I don't know how Luo Fu will deal with it."

Looking at the Saint Beast White Tiger and the Saint Beast Vermilion Bird appearing in the Western Continent, a trace of worry flashed in the eyes of Human Emperor Xuanyuan.

Regarding whether Luo Fu could contend with Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Human Emperor Xuanyuan had always been drumming in his heart.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun had been pressing on the heads of the living beings of the Primordial World for too long.

Even Human Emperor Xuanyuan had fear in his heart for Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

If it were not for the fact that the means Luo Fu displayed were too astonishing, and he had the ancestral blood of the human race on him, Human Emperor Xuanyuan would not believe at all that Luo Fu could contend with Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

"Five Directional Saint Beasts? I'm afraid it's more than that; since the Five Directional Saint Beasts have appeared, the Twelve Yuanchen must also be on standby."