Beyond the Upstream Heavens

"The Three Pure Ones of our sect are supreme. Beneath them are the Four Imperials, Six Divisions, Nine Halls, Ten Capitals, and Hundred Domains Envoys. A Hundred Domains Envoy is the sovereign of a domain, responsible for that domain's sect affairs..."

Li Qingyun instructed him calmly.

Watching Sifeng Dao Lord weep and kowtow, he too was secretly startled by the power of the Three Pure Ones.

Clearly, after Sifeng Dao Lord formally entered his sect, he had gained some extraordinary benefit. Even the originally dim Fruit Realm Clear Light around him had become much purer.

Those who were dimmed were abandoned by Heaven.

To lose one's Commanded title was to lose the favor of the "Heaven" of Wei Zu Great Thousand. The Fruit Realm Clear Light would naturally grow dim, and the marvels of one's Dao Fruit would fall short of those Commanded Dao Lords who "ate the emperor's grain." Furthermore, one's Dao Heart would long be shrouded by that dimness. Over time, the road ahead on the Dao Path would grow ever more distant, and one's cultivation would decline as well.

Sifeng Dao Lord had muddled along in the Time Ruin Mother River for nearly a hundred thousand years. In essence, he had already lost all hope for the Dao Path.

He had merely felt that staying within the Mother River was still better than going out and ending up like the founding ancestor of his lineage, who had been "harmed."

Yet how could he have expected that, having originally turned to the Three Pure Ones only under pressure of circumstance and force, the very moment he kowtowed and entered the sect, the dust-shrouded gloom upon his spiritual platform would be illuminated from afar by an inexplicable clear light, revealing a few traces of its original true color?

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