Night fell.
The world lay in silence, the sky packed with leaden clouds.
Rumble—
Lightning flashed through the clouds, and thunder rolled across the land.
Rain came pouring down.
Nothing could be seen across the earth.
Until, at one moment—
A streak of golden light pierced the darkness, then vanished in an instant.
In the wilderness.
The golden light had already faded away.
Gu Qingshan stood in the mud, letting the fierce wind and torrential rain batter his body.
He looked somewhat weary, with a hint of sorrow mixed in.
Fu Si, the Dragon Ancestor, Godly Concubine, and the others had attacked the Bronze Lord to help him escape.
Their fate had to be unimaginably grim.
And that was only one Bronze Lord. There were still the Bronze Lords of other sequences—Reincarnation, Gloom, Authority, Corruption, and more.
These beings of supreme power had all manipulated the Sequence Holders under their command, sending them into the Six Paths Competition.
There was also the Previous Heavenly Emperor.
And the Eternal Thought-Seizer, who was in the midst of evolving.
There might even be other unknown beings lurking within the Six Paths.
...How could he possibly handle a situation like this?
As he thought, Gu Qingshan drew out the Book of the Seabed.
"You said that if I brought you along to witness the One Person, Ten Thousand Lives Art with your own eyes, you'd tell me what the art really is," Gu Qingshan said.
"Of course. Unfortunately, you didn't actually face the One Person, Ten Thousand Lives Art. What you faced was merely a possession technique," said the Book of the Seabed.
"You couldn't tell at all?" Gu Qingshan asked.
The Book of the Seabed sounded a little frustrated, too. "I didn't see the art at all! If I'd gotten even one look,