Chapter 939: Complete Control of the Dao of Heaven

Therefore, even though Ancestor Hongjun could fully control the Dao of Heaven, the number of Sacred Positions he could bestow was extremely limited.

Moreover, Ancestor Hongjun had not fully mastered the Dao of Heaven.

Compared to Sacred Positions, the Dao of Heaven could grant far more Sub-Sacred Ranks.

As the Primordial World had grown over these years, the number of Sub-Sacred Ranks the Dao of Heaven could bestow had increased significantly.

Now, the Dao of Heaven was nearly entirely under Ancestor Hongjun's control, and all the Luo Fu held by the Dao of Heaven had naturally fallen into Ancestor Hongjun's hands.

Compared to Sacred Positions, Ancestor Hongjun clearly valued Sub-Sacred Ranks more.

Otherwise, over these years, Ancestor Hongjun would not have kept the Sub-Sacred Ranks secret, treating them as his hidden reserve.

The reason for this was that among the six Sacred Ones, except for the Two Western Sacred Ones, the other four could not be fully controlled by Ancestor Hongjun.

Even the Two Western Sacred Ones harbored their own intentions and were not entirely loyal to Ancestor Hongjun.

In fact, the allocation of the six Sacred Ones was not decided by Ancestor Hongjun.

When bestowing the Sacred Positions, Ancestor Hongjun had only just begun to control the Dao of Heaven, and his influence over it was still limited.

He could not fully dictate the Dao of Heaven's will.

Of course, while he could not dictate it, he could still influence it.

Not being able to dictate it meant Ancestor Hongjun could not bestow Sacred Positions upon his close allies.

Unable to guarantee that those who received Sacred Positions would be his allies, Ancestor Hongjun straightforwardly turned the Sacred Positions into traps.

The Three Pure Ones were the most direct victims of this Sacred Position trap.

Given their talent, becoming a Hunyuan Da Luo Jinxian was all but guaranteed—they had no need for a Sacred Position.

For them, the Sacred Position was purely a restraint.

Nüwa and the Two Western Sacred Ones did not fall into any such trap.

Nüwa was granted a Sacred Position because among the six Sacred Ones, one had to be skilled in the Dao of Creation.

Otherwise, the human race could never have come into existence.

In short, Nüwa became a Sacred One solely because Ancestor Hongjun needed a tool skilled in the Dao of Creation.

The Two Western Sacred Ones became Sacred Ones for the same reason: Ancestor Hongjun needed laborers to repay karmic debts and seal and suppress the demonic qi of the Western lands.

This also reveals that Ancestor Hongjun was undoubtedly a master of deep calculation—through his three transmissions of the Dao and the bestowal of Sacred Positions, all the elites of the Primordial World had fallen into his net.

Compared to Sacred Positions, the importance of Sub-Sacred Ranks was considerably weaker.

The Dao of Heaven did not value them as highly.