Bzz!
A'li transformed into a streak of light and landed atop half of the Heavenly Lord's severed arm, tiny as a bean.
Her Daoist robe fluttered wildly, outlining her lovely figure as her mysterious voice proclaimed to the desolate void, "This realm has a master. It shall be A'li Heaven! Fellow disciples, please seek another place to prove the Dao!"
There were still some surviving mortals, wild beasts, and the like on that half of the Heavenly Lord's severed arm—suitable for A'li to spread the Dao and earn the merit of the Three Pure Ones Sect's enlightenment.
Whoosh!
True Teach Ancestor of the Lingbao Dao appeared again, elegant and unrestrained as he descended into a ruined world as immense as black stone.
After a burst of laughter, he announced to the void, "I wish to establish a Lingbao Sect grotto-heaven here. Fellow disciples, please make way!"
Within that desolate Cosmic Void, streak after streak of profound azure light understood at once upon hearing his voice. They skirted around the ruined worlds already claimed by A'li, True Teach, and the others, turning instead toward the countless natural "grotto-heavens" scattered throughout the void!
Those worlds were naturally devastated beyond recognition, with nearly all life extinguished.
Yet the disciples of the Three Pure Ones were confident that, so long as they sat in command there and breathed in the pure profound qi, given enough time, they could turn wasteland into fertile ground and make it the foundation from which they would ascend to the Vast Heaven.
Li Qingyun had naturally hinted before that every floating "dead land" in this Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos actually contained a trace of the shed remnants of the "Heavenly Dao."
Obtaining it and merging with it would be a tremendous opportunity leading to the Vast Heaven.
Proving