Xu Xiaoshou's gaze narrowed.
Those words were brimming with ambition, yet crystal clear—discarding the process entirely and heading straight for the outcome.
If it were true, then whether Dao Qiongchang and Dao Peipei were the same person no longer mattered at all.
Dao Qiongchang was greedy! He wanted the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor's Way of Stars, he wanted the Heavenly Origin Emperor Realm, and he wanted the Starry-Sky Dao Turtle too.
If only one could remain, then regardless of how things developed in between, Dao Qiongchang would surely find a way to swallow Dao Peipei in the end.
Conversely, Dao Peipei would do the same.
At its core, this was not much different from Bei Huai's research, though it seemed to go even further in one regard: if Dao Qiongchang and Dao Peipei truly were one person, the implication behind that statement would be far weightier.
There would still be only one left, yet one could not help wondering whether there was some notion of "two becoming one" at work here. And Dao Qiongchang had just said that he did not follow Nuo's "cultivating the self," but sought a new path by other means.
Could Dao Qiongchang swallowing Dao Peipei—or Dao Peipei swallowing Dao Qiongchang—both be parts of their respective plans? Were they each willing, leaving only a contest of whose methods were superior in the end?
"Me..."
This was poles apart from Nuozu's path of "me," leaning toward the opposite extreme.
Yet when Xu Xiaoshou considered Dao Qiongchang's research in the Dao Department, the hidden pieces he had planted beneath Red Robes and White Robes, the missionaries of the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Sect spreading across a region, the tens of millions of Heavenly Mechanism Puppets beyond the starry sky of the Relics of the Gods, and Yan Sheng, this