"Reincarnate and cultivate anew?!"
Tongtian and Shengyan were both shaken to the core. Yet to Li Yun's surprise, they merely exchanged a glance before nodding without hesitation.
"We're willing to reincarnate and cultivate anew!" they declared in perfect accord.
"Hm?"
Even Li Yun was taken aback.
"Did you hear what I said?" he asked, hardly believing them. "Reincarnating as True Spirits in the Myriad Gods Realm involves a measure of luck. Your strength and powerful True Spirits won't necessarily grant you the identity of a Child of the Epoch right away."
"If you don't become Children of the Epoch, you may not be able to transcend."
"You'd have to keep passing through the cycle of reincarnation in the Myriad Gods Realm."
Tongtian and Shengyan exchanged a glance—and both smiled.
"Fellow Daoist Li," Heaven-Reaching Dao Venerable explained, "your opportunities have been heaven-shaking. Even before condensing a Great Dao Divine Image, you could easily kill Eclosion, Jin Bujue, and others. That makes it hard for you to truly understand Great Dao Divine Lords like us, who managed to condense only Remnant Images!"
"The truth is, we came from a small place like the Zhoutian Sword Domain. No one guided us before we attained the Dao, and our circumstances were lacking in all sorts of ways. So once we reached the Perfection Realm of the Heavenly Gold Divine Throne, we hastily chose to condense our Great Dao Divine Images. We even thought heaven had favored us."
"It wasn't until we left the Zhoutian Sword Domain, saw the vastness of the Plane World, and witnessed the power of Great Dao Divine Lords who possessed Epoch Divine Power that we realized we had been frogs at the bottom of a well."
"By then, we regretted it bitterly."
"But regret came too late!"
"Our foundations are