At the sight of this, Ye Xiwen's feelings were a tangled mess, yet he did not intervene. He knew that, thanks to the care of himself and several other Emperor Lords, Yue Ya'er had lived the most privileged life since childhood. She cultivated the finest Dao scriptures and received the best cultivation resources.
But that came at a price. She had walked ever deeper along the paths of other Emperor Lords, sinking deeper and deeper until she could not pull herself free.
Every Emperor Lord was an Extreme Dao Expert. Only by forging one's own path could one attain the Dao. When the heavenly tribulation's test would end depended on when she could forge her own path.
And among these obstacles blocking her way, her father had influenced Yue Ya'er the most deeply. That was precisely why he had to be the first one she defeated. Only by defeating her former self could Yue Ya'er break free from these shackles, merge several great Dao scriptures, and achieve the supreme Great Dao.
I've become an obstacle in her path too!
The corner of Ye Xiwen's mouth twitched slightly as he thought with a bitter smile.
This was something he could not help with, nor should he help with. It all depended on Yue Ya'er herself.
It depended only on whether Yue Ya'er could break through this impasse herself.
Every Extreme Dao Expert had to walk such a road: shatter convention, shatter the rules and restraints left behind by those before them, and ultimately become their own one-and-only self.
In a sense, a quasi-Emperor's ascension to Emperor Lord was an even greater transformation than an Emperor Lord's ascension to Heavenly Venerable. From the moment one became an Emperor Lord, one became the most unique person between heaven and earth.
There would never