The dark clouds and the circle below vanished at almost the same time.
Wang Jixuan had nearly fallen asleep by then.
When he realized that the two Heavenly Dao Wills had retreated simultaneously and that he had suffered no mishap, he immediately sprang up, fully alert.
He wasn't dead.
He wasn't hurt!
The Heavenly Dao had finally spared him!
More than a dozen blasts of heavenly punishment had all been turned into "nourishment" by that white circle and fed into the Strange Soul Puppet and his Dao body.
The puppet received the larger share, while the Dao body received less. His strength had now firmly entered the Mahayana Stage.
Ascension was no longer far away.
Wang Jixuan slowly clenched his fist. Tiny arcs of lightning wrapped around his knuckles, seeming to carry a trace of the Heavenly Dao's essence. Yet that essence was faint, and he had no idea what it was actually useful for.
Did this mean he had essentially been guaranteed a place in the Immortal Realm?
After all, this strange puppet alone was stronger than newly ascended immortals. It could even defeat true immortals in battle.
There was actually some logic behind the Heavenly Dao sending down heavenly punishment.
In the Immortal Restriction Zone, this mundane Lower Realm was not supposed to contain combat units of such strength. That was barely reasonable.
Yet while the Heavenly Dao sent down punishment, it was also protecting him. Not only had it spared him from the punishment, it had even actively fed him and helped raise his cultivation directly...
It really felt as though the Heavenly Dao had split personalities.
The moment Daoist Wang rose to his feet, more than a dozen streaks of light flew over.
Elder Shao and Yin Lin were naturally the fastest. Amina, Wu Man, and