"Li Xuanxiao, a Shushan Disciple? We knew each other—or perhaps we should have met long ago."
Heaven's Secrets Old Man's calm voice was like a divine decree from above the nine heavens.
It pierced straight through Li Xuanxiao's fragile sea of consciousness barrier and crashed viciously into the depths of his churning heart lake!
"Boom—!"
Li Xuanxiao felt his soul shudder violently.
Every syllable of that voice was like an invisible sledgehammer, striking heavily against his Dao Heart on the verge of shattering.
The already chaotic heart lake instantly heaved with monstrous waves. The faint circulation of energy he had barely maintained within his body suddenly reversed under the impact of that sound wave, flowing backward.
Heaven's Secrets Old Man's gaze was like a river of stars that had pierced through the ages, settling upon the barely breathing Li Xuanxiao below.
Yet beneath that calmness surged stormy waves enough to overturn everything he had believed in throughout his life.
What the Heavenly Dao had revealed... could never be wrong!
A deeply rooted thought, nearly a faith, echoed through the core of his consciousness.
He had clearly sensed the message conveyed by that supreme will.
This child's edge had broken, his fortune had withered; he was like the last candle in the wind, liable to be extinguished at any moment.
This revelation from the Heavenly Dao had been the foundation of every one of his deductions and arrangements.
But now...
Looking at this Li Xuanxiao, who had just brazenly broken through to the Body Integration Realm beneath his very eyes—
Where was there even a trace of a dying candle's decline?
This was clearly a blazing fire that had been ignited in the depths of despair, burning even fiercer, even carrying a frenzied, sinister nature!
Could the Heavenly Dao... make a