"Find out Hong Ru's whereabouts."
"Investigate Hong Ru's relationship and connections with the Marquisate of Tianming." After comprehending his own Battlefield Scroll in the Yizhi Sand Sea, Ye Zhen had silently returned to the North Sea.
"Rest assured, my lord."
Niu Er and Feng Jiumo accepted the order at the same time.
"Report back if you find anything. Go." Ye Zhen said.
Niu Er and Feng Jiumo departed under his orders, while Ye Zhen raised his head to gaze at the ethereal, illusory sky.
The Battlefield Scroll was nearly complete, and Ye Zhen had grasped several strands of its true meaning. He had now thoroughly found the threshold to his own King's Great Dao.
Only then did Ye Zhen fully understand what kind of realm the King's Great Dao—which even Master Lu Li himself had failed to attain—truly was.
Foundation of the Great Dao!
The foundation of the Great Dao for attaining the Dao and becoming an ancestor!
Ye Zhen did not know how Master Lu Li and the Heaven Temple's three Dao Ancestors had forged their respective Foundations of the Great Dao and become Dao Ancestors back then.
But Ye Zhen was certain that the Foundation of the Great Dao he had attained now absolutely surpassed that of Master Lu Li, and even far surpassed those of the Heaven Temple's three Dao Ancestors.
With Ye Zhen's current understanding and comprehension of the Heavenly Dao, when he broke through and forged his Foundation of the Great Dao, the Heaven Temple's three Dao Ancestors, already Dao Ancestors themselves, might very well sense it.
Thus, faced with a breakthrough that was almost within reach, Ye Zhen suddenly held back.
He needed to prepare before making his breakthrough.
And, naturally, he also needed an opportunity!
After Niu Er and Feng Jiumo left, Ye