Seventy-Two-Grade Primordial Violet Lotus!

Three years of waiting, three years of blood-soaked battle—at last, everything was settled in this moment!

Above the Sacred Pool, the hazy Green Light silhouette of the Life Dao Master trembled slightly.

It seemed to have exhausted the last sliver of its strength, becoming as thin as mist.

Slowly, it descended onto the Dao platform not far from Lu Chen.

"It's done..."

The Life Dao Master's cool, ethereal voice rang out, carrying deep exhaustion, yet also a trace of relief and gratification.

Its gaze swept over the three figures in the Sacred Pool, their auras soaring into the heavens.

At last, it landed on Lu Chen's face, which had flushed slightly from excitement and was almost identical to that of the Mortal World.

Deep within the Green Light, that Dao heart frozen in eternal ice seemed to have had a tiny pebble tossed into it, stirring an almost imperceptible ripple.

Lu Chen seemed to sense something and turned to look at the hazy, feeble Green Light silhouette beside him.

He looked at the immense price it had paid to revive the fatty and the others, and at the mysterious jade pendant it had fought to the death to seize for him.

An indescribably complicated emotion surged through his heart.

Gratitude, admiration, and also a trace of...

An ache that he could neither explain nor put into words?

"Senior..."

Lu Chen's voice held unprecedented solemnity as he bowed deeply.

"This kindness... Lu Chen will never forget it for as long as I live!"

The figure within the Life Dao Master's Green Light seemed to pause slightly. Its cool voice carried a faint, imperceptible softness as it rang out.

"No thanks are necessary. Mortal World... no, Lu Chen..."

"Just live... and that will be enough."

As its words fell,

over here,

Lu