Before he could dwell on his shock or speculate further.
Su Ye calmly cupped his hands, neither servile nor overbearing:
"Your guess was very accurate, Dao Venerable."
"Barring any surprises, I am indeed the inheritor you spoke of."
The Dao Stone.
It was the guardian treasure of the Nine Extremes Sect!
Because of the earth-shattering battle between the Nine Extremes Saint Venerable and that eerie entity.
The Sacred Star had shattered into countless fragments. Some had been annihilated, while others had become the Suiyin Secret Realm, the Mystic Realm within the Supreme Academy!
And the Dao Stone had broken into three pieces as well.
The Dao Discussion Stone of the Myriad Laws Academy, the Dao Stone of the Nine Saints Sect, and the God Fate Dao Stone of the Supreme Academy.
His voice was calm.
Yet the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable let out a long breath, as though a great weight had been lifted from his heart.
"I waited for endless ages..."
"And at last, you have come."
There was a hint of complexity in his expression, along with relief!
Having received the grace of having his Dao shaped and sustained, he had kept the stone for endless ages. It was finally time to return it to its true inheritor.
The Hundred-Knowing Scholar, meanwhile, was utterly thunderstruck!
If word of this got out, it would shake the heavens!
Whether it was the fraught past of his grandfather, the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable, and his attainment of the Dao.
Or the true owner of this Dao Stone!
"In fact."
"When I condensed my hundredth Fate Law."
"I glimpsed some hazy images connected to the cataclysm."
"Across the entire universe, the Chaos World Barriers separating the Five Great World Seas and over ten thousand Star Domains are thinning at an accelerating rate.