By this point, Nan Caiming understood that the Ninth Order cultivator from earlier possessed soul traits that matched the Space Heavenly Dao perfectly.
Those soul traits and a certain quality of the Space Heavenly Dao attracted one another. No matter how Nan Caiming interfered, he could not stop the other cultivator from slowly grasping its authority.
A thousand words could not withstand a single "I like him." That was precisely how the Space Heavenly Dao was behaving now.
Against a cultivator who completely defied all common sense, the only way to stop him from controlling the Space Heavenly Dao was to kill his true body outright.
A quarter of an hour later, all the Ninth Order experts in Nan Caiming's faction stopped lying low as they had before, waiting for the heavenly dao of the Void Return Realm to reveal the Immortal Ascension Path.
Instead, they began working at full tilt. Regardless of whether they shattered the Void Return Realm's current peace, they swore to find the cultivator stealing the Space Heavenly Dao.
Could this affect the appearance of the Immortal Ascension Path later?
If the Space Heavenly Dao's authority was stolen, what right would Nan Caiming have left to seek a chance at immortality? Before the path even appeared, he would already be doomed to failure.
Nan Caiming would never allow that to happen!
The Night Clan's territory in the Tianbo Domain.
Chen Fei opened his eyes inside the great hall. The spiritual energy around him thinned, then returned to normal.
One attempt at the Great Dao Competition had consumed a small portion of Ninth Order spiritual essence, which pained Chen Fei somewhat. Fortunately, it had not been wasted. At least it had confirmed one thing for him.
If he wanted to seize a heavenly dao from another Ninth