More than two thousand Terrestrial Myths and several hundred Supremes were gathered within the barbican.
Qi Yuan sat upright atop the city wall, clad in a blood-red robe.
His gaze was sacred, his voice ethereal as immortal music.
The moment he began expounding the Dao, everyone present was utterly enthralled.
Even Mi Luo Supreme, who harbored sinister intentions, seemed to stand amid an immortal realm and an inferno, the scenes endlessly shifting around him.
Everyone was lost in rapture as time quietly slipped away between their fingers.
Outside No Return City, three terrifying auras lay in ambush.
At their head was Mi Luo Supreme's father, Mi Kong Great Supreme.
A strange expression rested on his face. "Even with the Destiny Stone Slab aiding him, Blood Master's talent is still enough to terrify one."
"The Human-Fiend Path is the path of human nature. One must either understand human nature to the extreme or be obsessed with a single thought to comprehend the origin.
"And to expound the Dao, one must at least... be seasoned in the ways of the world and see through the innate nature of all things beneath heaven. Unfortunately, that also means... muddleheadedness." Another Great Supreme sighed. "Blood Master's madness is not an act. He understands the power of human-fiends too deeply. Even a Great Supreme cannot endure it; going mad is only natural."
All three present were Great Supremes.
They had already inscribed Origin Divine Power upon their bodies and divine souls.
They possessed a deeper understanding of the Human-Fiend Path as well.
This path was truly frenzied and chaotic. The deeper one's realm, the deeper its influence.
Among supreme experts such as the White Emperor and the Esteemed One who still remained in the present world, not a single one was sane.
Otherwise, no one knew