"You really are clever enough!" Xie Dong said. "The Tianque Daoist Sect rose from the Heavenly Dao, endured through the Heavenly Dao, and would also perish through the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao of that realm was about to collapse; anomalies had long since appeared. The Tianque Daoist Sect sensed it first. Cultivation came to a halt, opportunities ceased, crises sprang up everywhere, and disciples withered away... Master made two arrangements. The first was to divide the Tianque Daoist Sect into eighty-one parts, conceal their identities, and scatter into every trade and profession, hoping to find a way to break the deadlock and mend the deficiency upon these new Dao Paths. The second was to send a great number of Green Lamps into forbidden zones, across wastelands, and over the Heartless Sea. I was one such Green Lamp. I chose the name Green Lamp when Father sent me down the mountain."
"Father? Not Master?"
Xie Dong smiled faintly. "He was Master, but I was used to calling him Father. Because when he picked me up from a heap of corpses all those years ago, he told me something: Don't be afraid. Your father may be gone, but you still have me. I am your father too!"
"Go on!" Lin Su let out a soft breath.
At that moment, he thought of someone.
Li Zexi!
When Dugu Shi had carried Li Zexi back from the ice and snow all those years ago, had he perhaps omitted those very words?
If he had said them, would Li Zexi have needed to hesitate and waver for a thousand years?
Look at Xie Dong. Because the man who had carried him away had given him those words, what had been planted in his heart was no longer Master, but Father! For Father's instructions, he