Yet the moment that question was asked...
The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable's expression suddenly changed. Even the Hundred-Knowing Scholar beside him, who had inherited his extraordinary bloodline...
Seemed to sense something!
It was some immense terror. Thunder seemed to roar beside their ears, rumbling without end!
"Say no more."
The Divine Mandate Dao Venerable closed his eyes. Only after several breaths did he slowly open them and shake his head.
"It seems this matter involves a profound secret."
"The time... isn't right yet."
It was a warning from the fate law!
Some things were not meant to be known-or rather, not meant to be known yet.
Otherwise, they would bring immense karmic consequences!
"To make even my heart pound with dread..." Recalling the shattered Source Dao Stone, the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable's gaze deepened further.
To the outside world...
He was one of the lofty Seven Great Dao Venerables.
An existence standing at the pinnacle of the universe, he should have been all but divine, free to roam without limits, with nothing capable of confounding him.
Yet it was precisely because he had reached such a realm...
That the Divine Mandate Dao Venerable had begun to dimly perceive certain great terrors and truths that grew more chilling the longer he considered them.
He already had a suspicion.
The shattering of a source object like the Dao Stone, those astonishing inheritances, and this warning from the fate law...
"All of them point toward higher existences. Before us Dao Venerables, was there a glorious era of cultivation that was erased? Without even any information remaining?"
"But... could there truly be existences stronger than us Dao Venerables? So far beyond our reach?"
"Even information about them has become a force that could trigger tremendous upheaval."
The Hundred-Knowing Scholar was also somewhat dazed.
He