Edited sentence: " The Thao Hoong Thao Juang is a khmer warrior king from Yonok country (northern thailand).During that time the khmer kingdom reach all the way up to northern thailand.I think David K.If there were a lao ruler then that ruler was under the khmer power or under the viet.In 698 there were no lao kingdom in Xieng khuang.It was not until Piloko(Khun Borom) came in power that the Viet ask Kon Borom for help.Khun Lor killed khun Juang in battle, this was the turning point for the AiLao state of Nanchao and the AiLao people in Muang Then (Dien Bien Phu).Khun juang of yonok country was at war with Dai viet Kingdom fighting for Xieng khuang.Kolofeng then came and took Muang Swa(Loungprabang) from the khmer, causing the khmer to regroup south in Nandaburi(Muang Nan thailand) and Chantaburi(vientiane Laos).Piloko then sent his son Kolofung (Khun Lor) to war with the legendary khun juang(pra huang).The khmer also know him as Pra huang.The oral story was passed on by people and then rewritten in Northern thailand(Lanna) around 1200 AD and then came to northern laos.The story of khun borom creating the world cannot be created in 698 in Xieng khuang because Xieng khuang was Viet territory at the time.What he is talking about is not the story of Khun borom creating the world, but the epic story of "Thao hoong Thao juang.Wyatt maybe mistaken, what was found in Xieng Khuang in 698.Xieng khuang (Puan country) was at that time apart of the vietnamese kingdom