Hearing Gu An's words, Xiao Lan felt they made perfect sense, and she would not try to persuade him not to open the Daoist field.
All living beings had to become part of heaven and earth. They worked so hard to cultivate precisely so they could live more free and unfettered within heaven and earth. If it was only to hide from calamity, why cultivate at all? Wouldn't it be simpler to die early and be done with everything?
The Wushi Disciples feared being expelled from the sect, but at the same time, they were also looking forward to the day the Daoist field was opened. They wanted to witness Zhongtian with their own eyes.
It was not only the Wushi Disciples. Xiao Lan held the same expectation too.
The two chatted for a while longer, then Xiao Lan went back to cultivate.
After she left, Shen Zhen, who was sitting in meditation before the Artifact Refining Cauldron, turned to look at Gu An and said, "Demon Emperor Fang Qiu, I can calculate him, but that Taishang Demon God—I can't deduce him at all. Just what is his background?"
"A pitiful Son of Heaven. But he is not worthy of sympathy, because he was the one who planned the cleansing of the Three Thousand Great Worlds," Gu An replied.
Those words stirred Shen Zhen. She asked in surprise, "That Son of Heaven stands so high above all others, so how is he pitiful? Why would he personally become a devil?"
"Precisely because of that, he is pitiful. The him of now cannot act of his own will. There is still a power in the Heavenly Court stronger than him."
Hearing this, Shen Zhen first thought of one existence.
The legendary Heavenly Emperor!
Although she had already heard that the Heavenly