However, Fang Xiao did not respond to this directly.
Afterward, he calmed his mind and poured all his energy into tempering and honing himself.
Had he not wished to avoid exposing his Heart Dao methods too early, he would even have wanted to directly use Cause and Effect to speed up the process.
As for Zhang Tiansheng, whether Fang Xiao's talent had dealt him a blow or he had sunk into the helpless sorrow of his impending death, he no longer spoke. He merely maintained his Dao Domain and continued assisting Fang Xiao's cultivation.
Neither of them knew that during this time, the situation in the Spirit Realm had undergone another subtle shift.
Spirit Realm, Big Dipper Seven-Star Domain.
This domain lay in the far north and was considered a rather remote region of the Spirit Realm.
But one should not mistake that for an ordinary domain.
In truth, the Big Dipper Seven-Star Domain was not a single domain, but seven great domains combined. It was the core territory of the Mysterious Secrets Pavilion, one of the Spirit Realm's Mahayana powers.
In terms of prosperity, it could be called the greatest in the Spirit Realm without any exaggeration.
The reason for this was tied to the origins of the Mysterious Secrets Pavilion.
Legend had it that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion could calculate the secrets of heaven, divine the past and future, and its Mahayana legacy had never been severed.
However, this path imposed stringent demands on aptitude, and those who revealed the secrets of heaven often suffered backlash.
Thus, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had few disciples, and few knew which realm it resided in. It was an almost reclusive neutral power.
As for the Mysterious Secrets Pavilion, its founder had, by a fortunate coincidence, obtained part of the Heavenly