Myriad Dao Academy, rear mountain forbidden grounds.
This place was no longer an ordinary mountain cliff. Wanhua had folded space and time with supreme divine power, opening an independent "Literary Dao Secret Realm" within the academy's grotto-heaven.
There were no sun, moon, or stars within the secret realm—only a vast Sea of Literary Radiance woven from countless Civilization Light Spots, Moral Chapters, and phantom reflections of the River of History.
Wanhua sat cross-legged atop an ancient lotus platform at the center of the literary sea. His aura resonated with the entire sea; every breath he took stirred the birth, demise, and evolution of hundreds of millions of civilization phantoms.
He had just given Xuanjizi and the other Core Disciples thorough guidance.
He had imparted to them the higher applications of the Literary Heart Sword of Slaying Thoughts, further deductions of the I Ching Principles Penetrating Heaven Method, and strategies for the academy to establish itself and grow in the age of Saints.
At this moment, the disciples had already left the secret realm and departed to carry out their respective orders.
Within the secret realm, only Wanhua remained, along with that boundless Sea of Literary Radiance which bore the Dao Fruit and grand aspirations of his entire life.
"Five Saints in a single day... the strings of the Heavenly Dao have been pulled taut to their limit." Wanhua's eyes were slightly closed, yet his mind was clear as a mirror, reflecting both the drastic upheavals of the outside Primordial World and the minute changes within his own Dao realm.
"Hongjun Unites with Dao and grasps Heavenly Dao Authority, using Saints as chess pieces to regulate the Primordial World. Yet Saints possess wills of their own and cannot be fully controlled.
"Now that five Saints stand side by side, Heavenly Dao