Li Qingyun caught that strand of clear radiance and drew it into his body.
Then his body turned into a streak of light and shot skyward. In an instant, he had arrived before a gigantic, silent statue of the Heavenly Venerate.
Beneath the statue's feet, a vast "net," woven from faint Profound Light, spread through the tangible and intangible reaches of the universe in some unimaginable fashion, extending without end beyond the void.
Gazing at the statue's solemn, vast face, Li Qingyun gave a grave salute. "Today, this poor Daoist accepts this position. I will surely revive the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos. Forgive my offense!"
After saying this, he stepped forward. His will-form, wreathed in the blood and qi of humanity, slowly sank into the statue of the Heavenly Venerate.
The next moment, the silent and motionless statue began to emit a faint glow.
Its face shifted, changing from aged majesty into handsome brilliance.
The color of its Daoist robe rapidly changed, becoming sky-blue.
Its eyes, as though containing the universe itself, gained two more traces of human warmth amid their majesty and solemnity...
He was it, and it was him.
The marks left by the previous generation's Heavenly Venerate began to fade, solely to embrace this generation's son of Taiqing Moral Heavenly Venerate.
This time, a descendant of the Human Dao had ascended to this position!
In the Great Dao Contest, the accomplished became Heavenly Venerates!
Even the tiniest ant, if it seized a fleeting thread of opportunity, struggled upstream with all its might, persevered without cease, and possessed a little luck and talent, would have a chance to climb step by step into the clouds and cultivate to the supreme realm—the position of a Saint!
Li Qingyun was naturally still several great realms away from the Saint