138: Hongjun sets his sights on the Three Pure Ones again.

Hongjun couldn't help but set his sights on the Three Pure Ones once more.

Acting on his thoughts, Hongjun disregarded his own injuries and immediately set off toward Kunlun Mountain.

In the current Great Desolation, there were essentially no beings who could rival Hongjun.

There was no need to wait for his injuries to fully heal before plotting against the Three Pure Ones.

“Not a single thing decreed by the Heavenly Dao back then has been accomplished.

Those Fellow Daoists from the Chaos Period did not perish, and the Western Continent was not destroyed.

Even Reincarnation, who was first on the must-kill list, wasn't finished off.

Once the Heavenly Dao awakens, it will surely hand down punishment. It's safer to first take the Three Pure Ones as Disciples.

With the Three Pure Ones in hand, even if the Heavenly Dao metes out punishment, it won't dare to go too far.”

Hongjun's plotting against the Three Pure Ones wasn't just for his own future; he also intended to blackmail the Heavenly Dao.

He hadn't accomplished a single task the Heavenly Dao assigned him.

This made Hongjun seem utterly useless.

Taking the Three Pure Ones as Disciples ahead of time would also allow him to threaten the Heavenly Dao.

Hongjun couldn't help but feel pleased with his own scheme; only he could have come up with such a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

Though the distance between Jade Capital Mountain and Kunlun Mountain was vast, for Hongjun at Quasi-Saint Perfection, it took only a thousand years to arrive.

Following his previous path, Hongjun smoothly reached East Kunlun, the place where the Three Pure Ones were nurtured.

“What’s going on? Why is this Innate Great Formation still here? It looks as if no living beings have been going in or out at all.”

Looking at the Innate Great Formation before him, he couldn't sense the slightest trace of activity from the Three Pure Ones.

Hongjun couldn't help but fall into self-doubt.

“That's not right; the Three Pure Ones should have been born long ago.

These three were supposed to be the first of this batch of Innate Deities to emerge.

Why are there no signs of living beings here?

Even the two Golden Crows on the Sun Star, and the important Innate Deities from the Sea of Blood, the Far North, and other places have already been born.

It's impossible for the Three Pure Ones not to have emerged.

Could it be they are still in secluded Cultivation within the Innate Great Formation, attempting to Breakthrough to a higher Realm?”

Hongjun couldn't help but begin to speculate.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao had not yet awakened.

He also couldn't use the Power of the Heavenly Dao to slip into the Innate Great Formation and check on the Three Pure Ones.

With no other choice, Hongjun could only wait outside the Innate Great Formation.

Of course, with his cultivation and the chaos spirit treasure, the jade disc of creation...

...he could certainly blast through the Innate Great Formation in a short time with a full-power attack.

But that would run counter to his purpose.

He had come to take the Three Pure Ones as his Disciples ahead of time, not to make the Three Pure Ones hostile toward him.

If he attacked the formation, the Three Pure Ones would definitely harbor a grudge against him.

At that point, it would likely backfire; not only would he be unable to take the Three Pure Ones as Disciples early...

...but even when he attained the Dao as a Heavenly Dao Sage, the Three Pure Ones might not go to Zixiao Palace to listen to his teachings.

Hongjun turned himself into something like a stubborn rock and began his wait in East Kunlun.

Meanwhile, in the distant Pangu Hall of the Central Continent, a premonition arose within the hearts of the Three Pure Ones.

“Big Brother, a living being has gone to East Kunlun, to the place where we brothers were nurtured!”

At this moment, the Three Pure Ones gathered together, and Yuqing Yuanshi spoke with a grave expression.

He could sense that the being who had gone to their nurturing place was incredibly powerful.

“It's likely that Old Thief Hongjun has awakened; he must be plotting something against us three brothers again.”

Taiqing guessed it was Hongjun immediately; in this current era...

...the only one who could make the Three Pure Ones feel threatened and who also knew of their nurturing place...

...was that old fellow Hongjun.

As for why they didn't suspect other Reincarnated Experts of Chaos Demon Gods...

...it was because currently, every one of those Reincarnated Experts of Chaos Demon Gods was racing against time in seclusion.

Those Reincarnated Experts of Chaos Demon Gods all knew the outcome of the Dao-Demon Conflict.

After spreading the word among themselves, they were all in seclusion.

They were striving to attain the Realm of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal Heavenly Venerable before Old Thief Hongjun attained the Dao as a Heavenly Dao Sage.

If they failed to attain the Dao before Hongjun did, what awaited them would likely be total annihilation.

Furthermore, those Reincarnated Experts of Chaos Demon Gods did not know the nurturing place of the Three Pure Ones.

“That damned Old Thief Hongjun is actually still plotting against us brothers.

We must settle this account with him properly in the future.”

As soon as Shangqing Lingbao heard it was Old Thief Hongjun, his temper flared up instantly.

This old fellow had visited the Three Pure Ones' nurturing place more than once.

“Third Brother, do not be impatient; there will be a day to settle accounts with Old Thief Hongjun.

We are not a match for that Old Thief Hongjun at this moment.

That Hongjun suffered heavy losses in the Great Dao-Demon War.

His going to our East Kunlun now is likely because he wants to seize our Luck.

When he can't find us three brothers in East Kunlun, he will surely come to Pangu Hall to plot for the Ancestral Witches' Luck.

At that time, we can vent our frustrations on Old Thief Hongjun.”

Taiqing guessed Hongjun's goal with a little thought.

It was nothing more than having lost his three corpses during the Dao-Demon Conflict.

In addition, with Luo Hou's self-detonation, his true body was severely injured, and he suffered a massive loss of his Origin.

Also, because they fought in the West, everything on the surface of the entire Western Continent was wiped out.

As the final victor of the Dao-Demon Conflict, he had to bear most of the Karma.

If he didn't resolve it soon, after his union with the Dao, he would inevitably be constrained by the Heavenly Dao for a long time, controlled and manipulated by it.

To clean up the mess he left behind...

...given that the Heavenly Dao was dormant, Hongjun set his sights on the massive Luck of the Three Pure Ones.

“Hehehe, let's do that. When the time comes, we'll give that fellow Hongjun a little shock.”

The three brothers of the Three Pure Ones showed wicked smiles; if Hongjun saw those smiles, he would likely feel a chill through his entire body.

After lying in wait at East Kunlun for tens of thousands of years, grass had even begun to grow on Hongjun.

Yet Hongjun didn't catch a single one of the Three Pure Ones walking out of the Innate Great Formation.

“Damn it, could these Three Pure Ones have gone out to travel the Great Desolation?

The world is so vast; how is this seat supposed to find you?

Forget it. If I can't find the Three Pure Ones, there are other Descendants of Pangu; plotting against the Twelve Ancestral Witches will also do.

I'll go to Mount Buzhou and take a look.

This seat refuses to believe the Twelve Ancestral Witches have all gone out to travel the Great Desolation just like the Three Pure Ones.”

Hongjun originally wanted to perform a divination to find the current location of the Three Pure Ones.

But after his calculations, he gained absolutely nothing, and Hongjun was forced to give up.

How could Hongjun calculate the whereabouts of the Three Pure Ones when they were in Pangu Hall, a place even the Heavenly Dao could not reach?

What's more, the Three Pure Ones were all in the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Realm at this moment.

With heaven-opening supreme treasures masking their information, even if the Three Pure Ones weren't in Pangu Hall, Hongjun would have no way to calculate their situation.

Leaving Kunlun Mountain without hesitation, Hongjun headed toward Mount Buzhou at his top speed.

“Big Brother Taiqing, is there something you need us for?”

At this moment, the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches gathered once again by the Blood Pool.

Di Jiang looked at Taiqing with some confusion.

They were all in seclusion refining pangu marrow essence, yet Taiqing had suddenly called them together.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches all began to wonder if they were about to go travel the Great Desolation.

Since their birth, apart from going to Buzhou Mountain Peak to pay respects to Father God Pangu...

...they had never been anywhere else in the Great Desolation.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches couldn't help but feel expectant, each one looking eager to go.

Seeing the Ancestral Witches' expressions, Taiqing knew the Twelve Ancestral Witches had the wrong idea.