"At last. Just in time!"
Looking toward the Pure Land in the distance, Lu Yang remained remarkably calm. He had long since confirmed with True Person Demon-Sweeping that Demon-Queller's original body would prove the Sword Dao.
If it were me, I would definitely do the same.
Because if the True Lords were still in the world, then no matter what I did, I could never do anything to the Pure Land. Only amid the chaos of the True Lords' battle would I have an opening to exploit.
The logic was simple.
Previously, when True Person Demon-Sweeping had gone to the Pure Land to prove the Sword Dao and severed the Unity of Ten Thousand Thoughts by his own strength, he had succeeded only because the True Lords of the world had withdrawn from sight.
This had been what True Person Demon-Sweeping intended to do all along.
Or rather, if I knew there was no hope of survival, I would inevitably choose the same path.
Unless, as in that life of mine, a fellow Daoist gave me a chance to live, allowing me to prove the Sword Dao without dying. Only then might I change my mind.
Everything had unfolded within Lu Yang's expectations.
For this reason, he had specifically used Dispelling Night and Mystic Water, pairing them together to conceal the Karma of Demon-Queller's original body in this life and prevent it from being discovered.
The results were obvious.
No one had expected True Person Demon-Sweeping to prove the Sword Dao this way—using the Pure Land's Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts as proof, turning the Pure Land and the Sword Pavilion into irreversible Dao Enemies!
Under such circumstances, how could Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva continue tangling with Emperor Jiayou?
For the sake of the Unity of Ten Thousand Hearts, he