If he hadn't been forced to, Old Candle Dragon wouldn't have wanted to come to the Heavenly Court and get involved in these matters of power.
After all, he himself didn't covet the fortune and blessings of the Six Emperors.
Unfortunately, he had obtained the method of severing the three corpses from Hongjun in the past, and had switched to cultivating this method, so he had to repay some of the karmic debts.
After all, although this method is wonderful, it is most afraid of karma. Once karma is attached to you, it will be difficult to break free from your obsession.
Zhulong owed Yue Jianshi and Houtu a great debt of karma in the past. Because he cultivated the method of severing the three corpses, he had to gather Houtu Niangniang's primordial spirit to help her reaffirm the Great Dao. Otherwise, this debt of karma would be difficult to repay.
He had long suspected that he might have been tricked by Hongjun Daoren.
The other party had no good intentions at all in passing on the method of severing the three corpses to him.
Not long ago, he only had some vague doubts.
Now, seeing that Hu Le actually succeeded in proving the Dao by force through the method of severing the Dao Fruit, he has been making great progress all the way, and it seems that he has never been troubled by cause and effect.
His suspicions deepened...
However, what's done is done. He has already switched to the Three Corpses Method, and there is no going back unless he is willing to abandon his cultivation and reincarnate to start over.
In order to resolve the karmic ties between him and Houtu, he now has no choice but to make a trip to the Heavenly Court.
Because he himself knew very well that if Houtu Niangniang wanted to reunite her primordial spirit, reincarnate, and reaffirm her Dao, she had to get past Hu Le's test.
Without Hu Le's permission, no matter how many schemes and plans he devised, the matter of Hou Tu would never succeed.
Moreover, in order to settle his karmic debt with Houtu, he was willing to pay a certain price, and he was confident that he could definitely win Hu Le's heart...
Now, seeing that Hu Le was getting impatient and his words were even laced with threats, he had no choice but to unleash his trump card.
"If the Sage is willing to relinquish this position of the Six Emperors to Houtu, this old man is willing to entrust the River of Destiny to the Sage." The old Zhulong simply laid out his intentions, and let's see if Hu Le is tempted.
Not only Hu Le, but also the Three Pure Ones and others in the hall were quite surprised. They never expected that the old Zhulong would go to such lengths for Houtu.
Could this Empress Houtu be his daughter?
In fact, what they didn't know was that Old Zhulong did this out of sheer desperation.
Even without Houtu's involvement, he felt he probably wouldn't be able to hold his position in the river of fate for much longer.
After all, the era of sages will not be long, and which sage would allow another being who can control the fate of all living beings to exist besides them?
Over the years, perhaps out of consideration for their past relationship, Hongjun Laozu has not banished him from the river of fate.
But in reality, it has been secretly eroding his power in the long river of fate.
But he was no match for Hongjun at all.
It is believed that in the near future, his power in the river of fate will inevitably be taken away by Hongjun.
In his view, only a saint can stand against a saint.
Even though he lost the River of Destiny, he didn't want Hongjun to succeed so easily.
Hu Le recently attained the status of a Primordial Saint, which gave him a glimmer of hope to trip up Hongjun.
Since we can no longer retain control over the River of Destiny, let's just bring in Hu Le, this new sage, and let him fight against Hongjun.
In addition, Hu Le was originally a disciple of the Emperor, so he could be considered a true member of the innate divine race.
But once he attained the Hunyuan realm, he immediately established a major Taoist sect.
How is this any different from Hongjun betraying the gods and establishing the Xuanmen?
This alone displeased him.
He also felt a little regretful, realizing that he shouldn't have suggested Hu Le go to the Pangu Temple in the past.
If he hadn't impulsively pointed out the location of the Pangu Temple to Hu Le, how could Hu Le have obtained the secret method of Pangu's physical body?
If Hu Le hadn't achieved Pangu, he probably wouldn't have achieved Hunyuan today.
He never expected that the junior member of the divine race whom he had casually pointed out to out of consideration for Taiyi and his wife would eventually surpass them and complete the great task that the three emperors of heaven, earth and man had failed to accomplish, becoming the first person in the divine race to achieve the Primordial Limitless Dao Fruit.
Originally, this Hunyuan should have been the hope of the innate gods.
However, Hu Le didn't take the so-called innate gods seriously at all.
Having just achieved the status of a Primordial Saint, he immediately established Taoism, creating a new lineage of Taoism.
Moreover, what made Zhulong particularly uncomfortable was that this sage, because he proved the Dao through force, did not care at all about the so-called cause and effect.
He showed absolutely no respect to this senior member of the divine race, the one who had guided him to obtain the creation of Pangu…
Therefore, he wasn't harboring any good intentions in handing over the River of Destiny; he simply wanted to see Hu Le and Hongjun Daoist fight endlessly over it...
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When Hu Le heard that the old Zhulong was actually willing to give up the River of Destiny, he was indeed tempted for a moment.
He pondered countless times, but finally decided to intervene in the river of fate.
Such an opportunity is once in a lifetime. If he doesn't take action, wouldn't he be unworthy of being called a saint?
However, if he wanted to obtain the power over the River of Destiny, why should he need the old Candle Dragon to relinquish it?
"Senior, you are mistaken. This River of Destiny concerns the life, death, fortune, and misfortune of all living beings, and is one of the highest authorities under the Heavenly Dao. How can we privately exchange or receive it?"
In truth, the seniors' wielding of power over destiny over the years has been illegitimate and unjustified.
Today I have become a sage and wield the power of Heaven. I shall set things right for all living beings in the primordial world, stripping my predecessors of their power, so that they will not stray further down the wrong path..."
Upon hearing Hu Le's words, the Three Pure Ones were first taken aback, then secretly chuckled, and all glanced at Old Candle Dragon.
This senior figure probably never imagined that Hu Le, this saint, would be so domineering.
Yuanshi Daoist looked at the old Zhulong and shook his head inwardly, thinking to himself: This senior member of the divine race probably won't last much longer...
Do you not know that the sages and religious leaders are supreme and noble, and what, apart from the Heavenly Dao, can be above them?
Just now, Hu Le kept calling out to Senior Zhulong, but that wasn't out of respect for him; on the contrary, it was diminishing Zhulong's luck and blessings.
If Lao Zhulong had any sense, he should have knelt down and begged Hu Le, the cult leader and saint, to retract that title.
Unexpectedly, it's unclear whether Old Candle Dragon was simply taking advantage of his age.
Hu Le, this so-called cult leader and saint, dared to call him senior, and he actually dared to accept it.
This left Yuanshi Daoist speechless.
If the old Zhulong doesn't last long in the future, he can't blame anyone else; he can only blame himself for lacking self-awareness.
At this moment, Old Zhulong suddenly flew into a rage and jumped up from his seat, "What does the Sage mean by this?"
Although the River of Destiny is conceived by the Heavenly Dao and formed by the destiny of all living beings, since I took charge of the River of Destiny, I have been sorting out the destiny of all living beings and have never made any mistakes.
He could be described as having done nothing wrong, so how come he's now being called a sin by the mouth of a sage!
However, Hu Le had already stopped arguing with him and was now directly confronting the river of fate...
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