Daoist Duobao accepted the decree as though cradling a thousand-ton weight.
He understood the brutal essence of this tribulation, as well as the sole path to survival.
Watching his teacher's figure merge into the Dao charm of chaos, Daoist Duobao solemnly kowtowed once, then abruptly rose to his feet.
"Your disciple accepts the command! I will never fail Teacher's expectations! For the Human Race, for all spirits of the Primordial World..."
Within the Ziwei Imperial Palace, Lu Yuan slowly withdrew his gaze from overlooking the Primordial World.
The celestial chart revolved unhurriedly, reflecting the calamitous black miasma spreading across the earth and the wails of billions upon billions of living beings.
Just moments ago, drawing upon the power of the stars, he had caught sight of Daoist Duobao's golden evasion light shooting toward Shouyang Mountain like an arrow loosed from the bow.
"Human Dao Heavenly Heart Pill... Tears of the Azure Sky..." Lu Yuan murmured, his gaze deep as a star abyss.
This act of pill refinement was not merely refining medicine—it was refining the hearts of men and refining the vitality of heaven and earth!
The dangers and hardships within were beyond imagining.
"A Heavenly Dao trial, with this plague tribulation as the furnace! The Human Dao answers the tribulation, refining the Heavenly Heart Pill... If this calamity is overcome, the Human Race shall stand unchanging for all ages. Only..."
His gaze swept over the stars. Lu Yuan sensed that, deep within the Plague Dao Domain, the Plague Fiends were continuously drawing in filth and growing ever stronger. They had even begun to develop stranger forms and divine abilities. Meanwhile, beneath the stars' surveillance, demonic shadows of the myriad races stirred restlessly in certain remote regions, intending to fish in troubled waters.
"The time left for Human Emperor Shennong